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123 FB Membere •Jgn Up In Week With Raleigh Hobbs of Hobbs ville leading all volunteer work ers with 70 Farm Bureau mem bers to his credit, nine out of 25 solicitors have reported a total of 123 Farm Bureau members secured ^n the first week of a campaign to sign up 300 mem bers in Gates county, Farm Agent John Artz reported Mon day. r Canvassers and the total num ber of members secured by each are: Hobbs 70; Ike Riddick of Hobbsville, 17; Clyde Jones of GatesviUe, 10; J. M. King of Gates, 8; Lee Riddick of Cora peake, 3; Miss Ethel Parker of Gatesville, 3; Robin Hood of Gatesville, 2; B. H. Ward of Sunbury, 5; M. B. Hobbs of Sunbury, 5. Meeting of the Farm Bureau solicitors which was orginally scheduled to be held Friday night in the Agricultural Build ing Auditorium has been moved to December 7 because of the conflict with the AAA elections Friday, Artz announced. Solicitors are requested to meet in the auditorium on Dec ember 7 and make a complete report of the number of mem bers they have secured. The campaign will not close ori that night, Artz pointed out.' The meeting will serve only to give a complete checkup on the number of members secured. g^der Youths . ian Christmas Party on 22nd Committees were named to plan for a Christmas party on December 22 at the Older Youth meeting in Gatesville Friday night, November 26. A group composed of Garris Parker, Timothy Parker, Lillian Parker and Abe Sawyer, Jr., was named program committee. Decoration committee of Irving Taylor and Hazel and Evelyn Piland was selected. Nell Louise Carter, Fred Stallings, Johnnie Baker and Reba Brown were named on the refreshments com mittee. Program for the meeting Fri day night was in charge of Reba Brown, Johnnie Baker and Fred Stallings. Edna Earle Lang of Gatesville won the prize. Twen ty members of the club were present. W. J. Jones Rites Held Funeral services for William Jessie Jones, 80, who died at his "home near here Friday night, conducted Sunday after ^ 'vat 3 o’clock from the Gates Baptist church by the Rev. ioane Guy, Sr., assisted by „ Rev. J. M. Jolliff of the Gatesville Methodist church. Burial was in the fajnily ceme tery. Mr. Jones is survived by one brother, Walter Jones, of Gates ville; six sisters, Mrs. J. B. Nix on of Gatesville, Mrs. J. T. Jes sup of Portsmouth, Va., Mrs. Al mira Hinton and Mrs. C. W. Las siter,. both of Sunbury, Mrs. D. M. Rice of Norfolk, Va., and Miss Jane Jones of Gatesville. ‘Out of the Night’ One of Britain’s night fighters takes part in a soccer game in his time off. The goggles help prepare his eyes so that his vision is ready for night operations. Improved Bus Service Sought For This Area Agitation for better bus serv ice between Elizabeth City, Gatesville, Winton and Ahoskie has again been ignited by the concern of Bundy & Moran, cer tified public accountants, of Elizabeth City. In a letter to L. B. Wicker sham, general manager, Norfolk Southern Bus Corporation, Nor folk, Va., John Moran, member of the concern, points out the discrepancies in the bus sched ule from Elizabeth City to Sun bury which results in a delay of two and one-half hours in Sunbury while waiting for a bus going to Gatesville, Winton and Ahoskie. Mr. Moran points out that the schedule of the 2:10 p. m. bus frohi Elizabeth City misses the Carolina Coach Company bus at Sunbury by 10 to 25 minutes. “If the schedule of the 2:10 p. m. bus from Elizabeth City was advanced only a few min utes, there would be prompt service at Gatesville, Winton and Ahoskie instead of a - lav ov§r of two and one-half hours at Sunbury,” he wrote. RURITANS TO HAVE LADIES NIGHT The Sunbury Ruritan club will observe Ladies Night at its next regular meeting which is to be held in the Sunbury school building on Tuesday night, Dec ember 14, at 7 o’clock. 16-YEAR-OLD KILLS DEER Bill Baines, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baines kill'd a ' 10-prong, 200-pound deer Thursday morning. His brother, Edgar, also ^killed a deer Thurs day morning weighing 100 Ibsi An 18-year-old Gatesville Boy Writes a Letter Home Following is an excerpt from old Gatesville boy to his parents: a letter written by an 18-year Dcar Mother and Dad: >r1Ld°n t kUOW anythi"S to ^nte about, but I have been thinking of you all day long, and just have to drop you a line tonight. Sundays don’t seem the same any more, going to school and you don’t have anything to even remind you that it is Sunday. I was thinking today of the Sundays 1 use to spend at home. I would get up around nine o’clock and go %to church; after church 1 would sit around and read the paper and listen to the radio, waiting for you to fix dinner, mother. After a good meal, I would always find somewhere to go, come home around supper time, and get some of that good old ham. You know 1 always enjoyed those meals we use to eat, all sitting around in the kitchen. After supper 1 would be gone till you all went to bed. I didn’t spend much time at home, and for that 1 am sorry. You know you never find out some things till it is too late. I sure would like to be there with you tonight. I bet you are sitting around that old stove listening to the radio. 1 will be glad when those days can come back, but now we all have a job to do before we can live that life again. )Ve have to make a good job out of it, so we can go ohI hvmg the life ice want to live without being disturbed* by so,lle dirty Jap. J'he way 1 feel about it is—l would like to be with yon, but 1 would rather be here doing my part for you.” ' !_' “Gates County Index” Brings Together Two Men In Pacific i The words, “Gates County In dex,” provided the medium by which two Gates county youths in the Pacific war zone were able to meet and enjoy a homecoming thousands of miles from the familiar fields of Gates county. Story of the reunion was writ j ten to Mrs. W. R. Cowper of Gatesville, mother of Capt. W. j R. Cowper, Jr., U. S. Army Air forces, who wrote of meeting Lt. J. A. Harrell, Jr., of, Sunbury, who has distinguished himself recently in his flying feats. Captain Cowper wrote that he was in his headquarters and heard someone -behind him ask for his “Gates County Index.” Hardly believing that it were possible for a person from his native Gates county to be within hundreds of miles of him, Cap tain Cowper said that he con tinued talking to his friends, j Several minutes later, how [ ever, he wrote his mother, he heard someone say, “Here is your j Gates County Index.” * A reunion between the two j Gates county men followed. I In civilian life neither of the j two knew the other, but their i meeting in the Pacific was like j seeing a life-long friend. Navy Recruiter At Sunbury J. W. Brown, chief petty of ficer in charge of recruiting at the Elizabeth City Naval sta tion, announced this week that he would be in Sunbury on De cember 9 to assist anyone in terested in joining the Navy. White and Negro boys 17 years of age are eligible to enter the Navy, Brown said, provided they can pass the required tests. I ——-— Gates School Bond Contest Ends Monday Students in four out of five classes which are participating in the war .bond contest at the Gates school are 100 percent in the purchase of stamps and bonds, Robin Hood, cashier of the Bank of Gates, sponsor of the contest, announced Monday. A total of 123 students of the enrollment of 134 have pur chased at least a 10c stamp, j Hood said. Teachers and stu- i dents together have purchased! $1,767.40 in stamps and bonds. | This is an average of $13.19 per pupil. Mrs. Doris B. Wiggins’ room! of 25 students has the highest! average per pupil with a total pux-chase of $647.40—an average of $25.89 per student. Although Mrs. Elizabeth Dar ! den’s room of 30 pupils has ac counted for more money, its average falls below that of Mrs. Wiggins’ room. Mrs. Darden's room has $715.35—an average of $23.84—to its credit. The contest closes Monday. CEILING PRICES Ceiling prices on turkeys, hens and broilers were an nounced by Mrs. L. C. Hand, Jr., this week from the Gates county rationing board. Prices on turkeys are: under 18 pounds, 47c; 18 to 22 pounds, 46c; 22 pounds and over, 44c. Prices on chickens are: broil ers, 38c; hens, 34c. All prices are for fowl on foot, Mrs. Hand said. \ Meet ing in community sessions, Gates county farm ers Friday night will elect comm uni ty com mi tteemen who will represent them in operating the War F o o d Program and the Agricul tural Conservation Program of the AAA during 1944, John Artz, county farm agent, an nounced Monday. Each community will elect three regular community com mitteemen and two alternates and a delegate and an alternate delegate to the county conven tion which will be held in the Agricultural Building Auditori um Saturday morning at 10 a. m. in Gatesville. The county AAA | committee will be named at the convention. Any tenant or landlord who j participated in the AAA pro gram during 1943 is eligible to | I f vote in the elections. Elections will be held in the following places: Gatesville community — F. H. Rountree’s store at Eason’s Crossroads; Hall c om munit y— C. E. Sawyer’s store at Eure; Holly Grove—W. M. Rountree’s store at Cora oeake; Hunter’s Mill — B. H. Ward’s store at Bosley; Min tonsville— Ned Rountree’s store near Gates; Sunbury—McCoy’s store at Kellogg’s fork; Zion— W. L. White’s store near Zion church; and Haslett’s — C. B. Lee’s store.? All meetings will be held at 8 p. m. S. P. Cross Is Nominated S. P. Cross of Gatesville is expected -to qualify for the va cancy on the Gates county board of education at a meeting of the •board next Monday, Supt. of Schools W. Henry Overman an nounced this week. Mr. Cross has been nominated for the position by the Demo cratic executive committee. He is to fill the vacancy caused by the de^h t>f R. E. Williams. n Father, Son Hurt in, Wreck t S. R. Rountree of Route 1, i Gatesville, received chest in i juries and his son, Herbert, 10, | suffered a brbken nose, when | a truck Rountree was driving* i ran into the side of a locomotive ! of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt j Line Railway at a railway cross ing in Norfolk at 1:10 o’clock | Saturday afternoon, according to a report filed at police headquar ters in Norfolk. Neither father nor son was ! apparently seriously hurt.
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