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I seven Gates Men 4 -e Accepted In fled Services • Names of seven men in Gates county who have been accepted by the armed forces were re leased this week from the draft board office in Gatesville. They are: Navy—Julian R. Hollo well of Cora peake; Quin ton F. Eure of Roduco; Thomas Warren Mathias of Sunbury; Shirley C. Baines of Gatesville; Roland. C. Greene of Eure and Thomas A. Umphlett of Eure; and Army—Bradford Jones of Drum Hill. Fluoroscopic Examination Set October 20 The Gates county health de partment will hold a fluorosco pic examination in the health department office in Winton on Wednesday, October 20, 1943, at 2. Dr. J. M. Jackson, district health officer, will conduct the clinic. Any person who feels the need of this examination is in vited to be present. Persons who should take advantage of this opportunity are first: those who have the following symptons— run down, easily fatigued, loss of , appetite and weight, and hacking cough; second: those who are living with or come in direct contact with active cases tuberculosis third: those #have tuberculosis or who arrested cases; and fourth: holding public cases. If . ^ fall in any of these four classifications, meet Dr. J. M. Jackson and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Crouse at the Hertford health d e partment office Wednesday, October 20,. 1943, at 2 p. m. Miss L. Franklin Funeral Services Held on Tuesday Friends from all sections of Gates county gathered Tuesday afternoon at Parker’s Methodist church to pay their last respects to Miss Lizzie Franklin, 65, who died at her home in Gatesville Saturday. She succumbed following a short illness. Most of the county officers attended the funeral. Miss Franklin’s sister, Miss Er dine Franklin, was an employee of the welfare department. Funeral services were con ducted by the Rev. J. T. White head who was assisted by the Rev. J. M. Joliff. Burial was made in the church cemetery. Miss Franklin is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. W. Powell of Corapeake and Miss Erdine 'klin of Gatesville; and one er, B. I. Franklin of Cora COTTON GINNING REPORT GIVEN Census report from the De partment of Commerce shows! that 1,106 bales of cotton were ginned in Gates county from the crop of 1943 prior to October 1 as compared with 744 bales for the crop of 1942, according to A. C. Matthews, special agent for the department. QUOTAS ASSIGNED TOWNSHIPS IN UNITED WAR FUND CAMPAIGN Pulpwood, to Paper, to. Victory SECOND of a picture series illustrating the many uses of pulpwood paper and its role in the war. Because the pulpwood fibre containers used by Uncle Sam must have unusual strength and durability under all conditions, workers of the Ammunition Container Corpo ration insert an intermediate tube in an outertube. Glue is then applied to hold it in place and to make each •,~**»otigbt. Registration For Ration Book No, 4 Set October 27-29 Two Gates Youths Found Guilty Of Burning Automobile Two Gates county youths— B. G. Cowper and Ralph Long of Roduco—were found guilty of setting fire to an automobile in Hertford county superior Monday. Judge R. Hunt Parker sen tenced Cowper to one to two years at hard labor in the state prison and fined Long $300 and costs for his participation in the burning of the auto. Gates county citizens have been requested by P. L. Holier, chairman of the Gates county rationing board, to register for War Ration Book No. 4 in al phabetical order on October 27, 28 and 29. Registrations will be held at six school buildings in Gates county. Booths will be located at Gatesville, Sunbury, Hobbs ville, Gates, Eure and Gates trairfing school, from 9:30 a. m. until 4 p. m. during the three day period. Citizen whose last names be gin with the letters A through H will register on Wednesday, (Continued on Page 3) Township quotas and chair men for the Gates County United War Fund drive which will start the week of October 25 have been selected by the execu tive ’committee directing the drive. All solicitors have been asked to start solicitation for the funds to make up the county quota of $2,280 on October 25 and solicit until their township quota has been met or bettered. In a statement to the people of the county this week, Robin Hood, chairman of the commit tee, said: “Gates county boys in the service, especially those on the battlefronts, are looking to you for help NOW. You cannot afford not to make a contribu tion to the United War Fund in order to provide some sort of comfort for Gates county serv i c e men. If you are not ap proached for a contribution, please mail your contribution to Mrs. Amy R. Perry of Gates ville, ti’easurer, or leave it at your local bank.” Executive com mitlee which set the quotas and selected the chairmen was composed of Hood, John Artz, Miss Ona Pat terson and L. C. Hand. Quotas and chairmen are: Hasletts — $250, Mrs. Blackwell Eure and Mrs. C. B. Lee; Hall —$300, T. A. Eure and W. L. Askew; Reynoldson — $300, G. D. Gatling; Hunter’s Mill—$450, W. M. Spivey; Mintonsville— $450, W. J. Rountree; Holly Grove—$550, George B. Morgan and J. M. Byrum; and Gates ville—$550, Cecil Parker. SEEK NEGRO FOR QUESTIONING Gates county officers are seeking a “large Negro’’ who is wanted for questioning. A Negro man of that descrip tion frightened Mrs. Joe Lilley of Reynoldson last Wednesday when she was in her garden. Bloodhounds from Rich Square were placed on the Ne gro’s trail, but the scent was lost in a dry, pine thicket. Manslaughter Charge Dismissed In Highway Death Of June Perry; 15 Speeders Are Fined In Court James Boone, Negro of Co field, was freed of a charge of manslaughter in Gates county recorder’s court in Gatesville last week when Judge A. P. Godwin allowed a motion of the counsel for dismissal of the case because of lack of evidence. Evidence introduced at the hearing showed that a car driv en by Boone struck and killed June Perry of Roduco on the night of October 2 between the time of 8 and 8:30 p. m. Fur ther evidence showed that Boone was passing a bus at the time of the accident, that the lights of the bus blinded him and that Perry was walking on the hard surface on the wrong side of the road for . a pedestrian, under a bond of $500 since the accident. Other cases before Godwin included^ 15 charges of speeding, indicating that highway patrol men and county officers in Gates county are cracking down on the speeding motorists. The following paid costs for speeding: D. A. Goodwin of Franklin; Clarence Brooks, Ne gro, of- Murfreesboro; T. C. Brown of Norfolk; Viola H. Chavis, Negro of Ahoskie; Ber nice: Langford, Negro, of Wood land; Luther J. Morris, of Ne gro, of Rich Square; H. L. Mit chell, Negro, of Gatesville; R. W. Stephenson of Portsmouth; Millard Umphlett of Eure. ", Boone had been at liberty The following paid costs pius a fine for speeding: Lloyd G. White of Edenton, $5; Olga Bog gard of Newport News, Va.,$5; Fleetwood Rawls of Portsmouth, $10; Nehemiah Baker, Negro, of Gates, $5; James T. Lassiter of Eure, $10; Chester Jenkins, Ne gro, of Ahoskie, $5. For driving without a license Franklin Curie of Whaleyville, Va., paid a fine of $10 and costs; and James Daughtery of Gates ville paid a fine of $10 and costs for reckless driving. Cordie Taylor of Gates was fined $25 and costs for reckless driving. ent Causes of “Chess” esnesky Friday Valentine “Chess” Shesnesky, 61, of 5004 Chesapeake street, Norfolk, died late Friday at Nor folk General Hospital where he was admitted Wednesday for treatment of injuries received while doing carpenter work at a Duncan avenue dwelling. Shesnesky, according to a po lice report of the mishap, ac cidentally dislodged a timber with which he was bracing the porch roof, and the timber struck his head. A native of Kiev, Russia, Shesnesky has been a resident of Norfolk since 1916. He was a citizen of the United States. He is survived by his widow, Mary Cabaniss Shesnesky. Lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythi as. He was a member of Charity Funeral services were conduc ted in the James V. Derry Fun* eral Chapel, 1920 Colley avenue, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. W. Hillman, pastor of the No rview Methodist church, officiated. Interment was in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Mr.Shesnesky, known as “ChesS” in Gates county, was the husband of the former Miss Mary Cabaniss, formerly of Gatesville. He helped to build Dr. T. L. Carter’s house and of fice. Alma Lawrence Funeral Rites Held Thursday Funeral services for Alma Adele Lawrence, 20, of Gates ville, and Newport News, Va., were held from the Gatesville Baptist church at 2:30 Thurs day, October 14, with the Rev. T. Sloane Guy officiating, as sisted by the Rev. J. M. Joliff. “Abide With Me” was sung by the church choir and “The Old Rugged Cross” was rendered by Mrs. T. L. Carter. The active pallbearers were Haywood Turner, Winfred By rum, Dick Baines, Leslie Baker, Elmo Lang, Thomas Lilley and Leroy Piland. The honorary pallbearers were friends of the family. The floral bearers were em ployees of the Time Keeper’s Department of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. She is survived by her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lawrence of Gatesville; two sis ters, Bernice Lawrence, Newport News, and Elsie Lawrence, Gates ville; three brothers, Watson Lawrence, U. S. Navy, Douglas Lawrence, Suffolk, Va., and Billy Lawrence, Gatesville. INFORM BOARD OF CHANGES Registrants who do not keep local boards informed of any changes in their status in regard to their draft classification are liable to be classed as delin quents and called into the army, it has been announced. Urging the registrants in the county who have not informed the board of any changes, the draft board this week asked that they do so immediately in order that records may be kept up-to-date.
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