Gates County Index
The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
^Volume 11, No. 52_ Gatesville, N. C„ Wednesday, September 1, i943 (One Week Nearer Victory)
**lan Next Move
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President Franklin D. Roose
velt, Winston Churchill, and the
Earl of Athlone, governor gen
eral, of Canada, at the Quebec
conferences. The presence of T.
V. Soong, Chinese forign minis
ter, Navy Secretary Frank Knox,
and several Pacific military lead
ers coupled with the announce
ment of the Kiska occupation
may indicate greater blows
against Japan in the near future.
2 Catesville Men
Have Reunion In
Hawaiian Islands
■being disappointed on
r occasions when they
|L ,d to meet in Hawaii,
Vance Flemmings, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. B. Flemmings of
Gatesville, and Morris Smith,
son of Mri and Mrs. F. E. Smith
of Gatesville, held a reunion on
the Pacific island August 16.
Flemmings wrote his parents
a letter dated August 17 telling
them that he had seen Morris
Smith on the day before, Flem
mings has been in the islands
for three years; but Smith was
sent there three months ago.
Flemmings wrote “I saw
Morris Smith yesterday. If I
hadn’t been expecting him, I
wouldn’t have recognized him.
If this war doesn’t get over, I
won’t know anyone back home.”
Convict Labor
Not Available
For Farm Work
Because enough convict labor
is not available to work the
public highways in North Car
olina, Harry Caldwell, director
of the Farm Labor Commission
’ >igh, has informed farm
f this section that con
tQk; ir will not be available
v A for harvesting crops.
A recent measure enacted by
the State Legislature made it
possible for farmers to secure
the services of convicts in their
vicinity to help in the harvest
ing of crops.
Decline in the prison popula
tion and in the number of men
employed by the State High
way commission makes it im
possible for the highway de
partment to keep the roads in
shape and farm out convicts to
help , in the fall harvest, Mr.
Caldwell said.
Peanut Growers Told "Next
Time To Request Their Price
”Program is j.
90 Percent9” 1
Editor’s Note: Here is the view
taken by The Grower’s Peanut
Cooperative—opposite to that
taken by producers in the cur
rent question over an increase in
the price of peanuts.
Williamston.—
Explaining in simple terms
the details of the 1943 peanut
program at the annual mem
bership meeting of the Growers
Peanut Cooperative held in Wil
liamston, August 26, W. T. Par
ker, formerly manager of the
GPC, now chief of the peanut
section, oilseeds division of the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
declared that the routine of
grower, to consumer will be no
different this year from any
other year, except that the pro
gram leaves no place for the
speculator.
He assured his listeners that
the CCC had “bent over back
wards in trying to be fair to
everyone concerned” and said
that “everyone in the peanut
industry with the exception of
speculators is taken care of.
Commodity will buy all pea
nuts produced at an average
price of $140.00 per to'n and sell
(Continued on Page 9)
Jail Work
Almost Over
The new Gates county jail is
rapidly being completed with
plumbing and heating work the
largest obstacle to overcome now,
it was reported this week.
Three cells in the jail have
been completed, beds installed,
bed clothes placed and running
water connected.
The two other cells need water
(and sewage connections and in
terior finishing completed before
they will be ready for occupancy.
icceptable to
W. T. Parker
Allen at Work
Maj. Gen. Terry Allen, divis
ional commander in the Ameri
can Seventh army, confers with
a regimental commander just
before an attack in Sicily.
Negro is Jailed,
Vagrancy Count
Edward Walton, Jr., Negro,
is being held in the Gates coun
ty jail on a charge of vagrancy.
Walton is the first prisoner to
be confined to the Gates jail for
any length of time. Several
weks ago a man was placed in
it for about a hour before being
transferred to the Hertford
county jail.
The charge of vagrancy is the
third brought in Gates county.
It is being ibrought by Sheriff
L. R. Trotman following an in
vestigation.
Despite charges made by peanut growers oWSI Car
olina, Virginia and Georgia that the “government is break
ing faith with the farmers with its present system,” growers
were given little hope by the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion for an increase in the price of peanuts ill a hearing
held in Washington'Monday.
The delegation urged an increase from 7 cents per pound
to 8.8 cents, the price which prevailed last year after the
Office of Price Administration rolled back prices from 10
cents.
First Vagrancy
Charge Brought
In County Court
In the first two charges of
vagrancy to be brought in Gates
county since the issuranoe of
Governor Broughton’s work-or
fight order, Mack L. Mullen,
Negro of Corapeake, was found
not guilty and George Cooper,
also a Corapeake Negro, was
declared guilty.
Mullen was found not guilty
when the defense -presented a
certificate from a, doctor stating
that Mullen was physically dis
abled to work. Cooper was as
signed to. \vqrk JUs^ufeljc roads
of North Carolina from six
months.
Other cases were: Claude
Savage, Negro of Gatesville,
guilty of speeding, taxed with
costs; A. D. Pearce of Gates,
guilty of drunken driving, $50
fine and costs, driving license
1 evoked for one year;
L. C. Champion
On Furlough
Gates.—Pvt. Leland C. Cham
pion of Camp McCain, Miss., ar
rived Tuesday, August 24, for a
13-day furlough with his wife,
Mrs. Nellie Whitehurst Cham
pion, and relatives. They are
spending a few days in Hender
son with his mother arid will
visit Mr. and Mrs. Jack White
hurst the later part of next
week.
Gates County Salvage Group
Makes Appeal for Tin Cans
By JOHN ARTZ
The people of Gates County
have not been urged as yet,
through the press to save tin cans
for the war effort. However, be
ginning now the salvage commit
tee, consisting of the home and
farm agents, are requesting every
family to save and prepare their
tin cans as explained elsewhere
in this article. The committee
kindly requests that the prepar
ed cdns be brought to the local
stores in boxes preferably in lots
of from 20-25 pounds.
Tin Needed in War
Tin is a precious metal in our
country today. With about 90 per
cent of our former source of sup
ply cut off by the war in the
Pacific, it has become necessary
to salvage tin coating from tin
cans used in every home in the
country. \
Before the war, Americans
used about seventeen billion tin
containers* every year. Most of
these were a nuisance, and
found their way into the rub
bish heap. The man of the
household gathered up the old
cans and disposed of them.
Now that tin cans are going to
war, it opens one more avenue
for women to do their part in
keeping our armed forces sup
plied with food and medicines,
not to mention gas masks and
vital parts for ships, planes.and
tanks.
The way to start tin cans on
their way to war is to rinse them
carefully, remove or fold in tops
and bottoms, take off paper
labels, and step on the cans firm
ly.
The prepared tin cans you turn
into the war effort are shipped
to big detinning plants where ten
tons of them at one time go into
the solution which removes the
tin. The tin can is in reality a
steel cylinder coated with a thin
layer of tin—about 1 per cent
tin by weight and 99 per cent
steel.
Tin on the average tin can is
about the thickness of one third
of a human hair, but it has so
much resistance to acid and cor
rosion that this thin layer seals
the food away from the steel
and prevents rust, ptomaine
poisoning, or contamination.
The importance of collecting
all the tin cans might be further
impressed upon us- if we stojj to
realize that every ton of tin fans
produces about 20 pounds of pure
tin, as against 1,980 pounds of
steel scrap. ^
Uses of Tin
The real value of tin is in the
fact that there is no satisfactory
substitute for tin in its many
war uses.
Tin is used in the production
of airplane motors, guns, hand
grenades, torpedoes, in war
(Continued on page 10)
Next Yectr”
J. B. Hutson, president of the
CCC, told the group he would
cons *.der t h-e request, but
thought action would be “more
appropriate next year, since
harvesting is already under
way.”
Hutson defended the present
price schedule, contending the
7-cent figure was not a ceiling,
but just a minimum, and denied
CCC had broken faith.
The request presented to Hut
son by the delegation was drawn
up by a committee which in
cluded the following: R. Flake
Shaw, secretary of the North
Carolina farm bureau of
Greensboro; J. N. Vann of
Ahoskie; Sam Clark of T'arboro;
Bart Fearing of Edenton and
Eric Rodgers of Scotland Neck.
Representative Harris (D-Va)
said “The farmers planted more
peanuts in order to produce vi
tally-needed oil, as asked by the
government, and then they were
told of lower prices, despite an
admitted increase in cost of pro
duction.”
Jtiutson answered that the
growers had been adequately
notified and had agreed to the
present price schedules early in
the year.
Lynnwood Wingate, Pelham,
Ga., asserted growers were not
notified “until after the peanuts
were in the ground” and that
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Hobbsville School
Principal Arrives;
One Vacancy Left
Arrival of J. Clyde of Camer
on to take over the principal
ship if Hobbsville schools and
fhe employment of (Mrs. Christ
ine Parker Eure of Roduco as
sixth and seventh grade teacher
in Gatesville reduces the num
ber of vacancies in the Gates
county schools \o one, W. Henry
Overman, school superintendent,
announced Monday. Mr. Kelly
was scheduled to arrive in
Hpbbsville Monday.
Kelly, who will relieve
thd Rev. T. J. Whitehead as
principal, is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina
and has taught school and serv
ed as a principal in North Car
olina for 20 years. He has done
graduate work at Columbia
University in New York City.
Mr. Whitehead will continue
teaching in the ’ Hobbsville
school until a suitable replace
ment can be located, Mr. Over
man said.
The only vacancy remaining
in, the Gates county schools is
at Hobbsville where the home
economic tebcher has resigned,
but is staying on the jab until a
replacement can be found.