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'' '. Gates County Index The Only Newspaper Published in and far Gates County Volume 12, No. 23 ^-Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, February 9, 1 944 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Page Week Dog Vaccination Questions Gomes w o Board Again The old and unpleasant prob lem of dog inspectors vaccinat ing dogs whose owners do not ' live in their townships was brought before the Gates county " board -of commissioners Monday and thoroughly thrashed out be fore the same inspectors were appointed for another year. Appointed for another year by the commissioners were J. D. Baines, Gatesville; Gurnie Eure, Hall; Clarence Powell, Reynold son; E. B. Speight, Hasletts* Gra ham Hobbs, Holly Grove; P. D. Hobbs, Hunter’s Mill; E. A. Min ton, Mintonsville. The commissioners, in appoint ing the inspectors, pointed out that they expected the inspectors to abide by the law and vac cinate dogs owned by people who live in their district. Dog tax for this year will re main the same—$1 for males and $2 for females. Negro Home Agent Plans were presented to the board by which the county may be able to secure the services of a Negro home^ demonstration agent. The Federal government will pay expenses of a home agent, if one can be located, for Gates couqtjy until July 1 if the county will furnish office space and equipment, the commissioners were informed. It was voted to grant $50 to furnish an office. If the home agent proves successful in the unty, the commissioners in Ued that when the next bud Jg? is made up an item of $30 jnthly would be placed in it for the home agent. Gates Delegation Registers First At Farm Meeting Members of the Gates county delegation to the Farm Bureau meeting in Raleigh last week were #the first to register when the registration booth was set up v at the headquarters,. County Farm Agent John Artz said this ’week. Attending the annual meeting from Gates county were W. L. Askew of Eure, president; Robert L. Brown of Hobbsville; J.. A. Hobbsville of Hobbsville; C. E. Lang of Gatesville; John Artz of Gatesville; Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Riddick of Corapeake; and Miss Ethel Parker of Gatesville. Two Forestry Demonstrations lm -e Scheduled mm A. W. Graeber, State College extension forestry, will conduct two forestry demonstrations in Gates county Thursday for both white and Negro farmers, it- was ^ announced. The demonstrations will be held at the home of J. L. Lassi j ter at 10 a. m. Thursday and at l the Mitchell estate near the Le banon church at 2:30 p. m. ■Thursday. PTA Speaker C. W. Phillips C. W. Phillips, state president of the PTA, pictured aoove, will address members of all the PTA’s in Gates county at a county-wide meeting to be held February 16 in the Gatesville high school a'uditorium. All members of the PTA's in all county schools are urged to attend. Mrs. Mayon Parker of Ahoskie, district head, will also attend the meeting and make a short talk. Funds from Polio Drive Increase To $500 in Area Total amount of money real ized from the infantile paralysis fund drive in Gates county has increased to $504.73, according to a report from Miss Clarine Gatling, chairman of the drive. Miss Gatling said that the only expenses connected with the drive was $3.75 for the tags which sold for $116.57 in Sun bury, Gates, Eure, Hobbsville and Gatesville. Net amount of the money raised in the cam paign was $500.93. Contributions were received from: Gates school dance $33. 50; Sunbury school dance $62; Carter’s Home Demonstration Club party $87.57; movie $147. 50; donations collected by How ard Mitchell from the Negro citizens $39.09; donations col lected by Miss Ona Patterson from the home demonstration clubs $18.50. Captain Harrell, Pacific Veteran, Home at Sunbury Captain James A. Harrell, Jr., who for the past three and one half years has been in the U. S. Army Air Forces—much of the time in the Pacific war zone—is spending a 30-day furlough with his father, J. A. Harrell, in Sun bury. Captain Harrell has taken an active part in the aerial fighting in the South Pacific zone and has, to the knowledge of the In dex editor, shot two Japanese planes out of the air. W. J. Rountree Announces For Representative First formal announcement of a political candidate in Gates county was made this week when W. J. Rountree of Hobbsville re vealed he would be a candidate for re-election to the North Car olina General Assembly as coun ty representative. Rountree represented Gates county for the first time in the 1943 session. Mrs. E. Trotman Funeral Rites Held Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Trotman, 83, who died Sunday at 6 a. m. at her home here after a long illness, were conducted Monday after noon from the Gatesville Metho dist church at 3 p. m. by the Rev. J. M. Joliff. 1 Mrs. Trotman was the widow | of the late Quinton H. Trotman, i and had made her home in I Gatesville for the past 55 years, j She is survived by one dau ! ghter, Mrs. Lucy Sessoms; one niece, Mrs. Dan Wilkerson of l Newport News, Va.; two neph ews, L. M. Warren ton of Dri ; vers, Va., who has taken much ! interest and special care of Mrs. | Trotman and her daughter for the past five years; and Burton Warrenton of Drivers, Va. Pallbearers were W. T. Cross, A. P. Godwin, Sr., J. L. Holier, C. M. Lawrence, J. F. Eure, L. T. Lilley. Need Exists~forMorel^J WHAT ARE THE POST-WAmMMS for Grade A Milk in North C^Kna? Enough Grade A Milk to assu^^<^irt for each child and 1 pint for each adult daily. Higher quality ice cream. Higher quality butter and cheese. Plenty of top quality milk for city and rural ■» school lunchrooms. \(5/ Milk exports to low-producing states and £ to foreign nations. "Make North Carolina a Leading Dairy State" North Carolina Grade “A” j milk producers are supplying '.he tables of the Army and Navy camps and the civilians Ln cities and towns with only 204.000 quarts of milk daily—much less than is needed—says John A. Arey, Extension dairyman at State College. The Extension Service, work ing in cooperation with the milk division of the State Department of Health, is trying to get more <North- Carolina farmers . with small herds to produce Grade “A” milk to overcome this ser ious shortage. “In normal times, the 204,000 quarts daily would provide each person in the cities and town, with an average of approximate ly one-half pint of milk daily— far short of the quart per day for each child and the pint-per day for each adult which nutri tionists say is needed for a well balanced diet," Arey said. Today, the combined needs of civilians and the armed forces are such that a shortage of Grade “A” milk has developed. More producers are needed to fill pre sent needs as well as establish Ncirth Carolina as a leading dai ry state. Two County Men Are Wounded in Action ATTENTION; HALL TOWNSHIP FOLKS Farm operators in Hall town ship who have not signed their 1944 farm plans are requested to meet their AAA committee men at C. E. Sawyer’s store Feb ruary 12, John Artz, farm, agent, announced. VISIT RELATIVES Gates.—Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Collins, and son, Raymond, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rice spent Sunday in Portsmouth and Nor folk visiting relatives. Bond Sales Climb To $75,000; Schools Are Credited With $33,000 By ROBIN HOOD (Chairman, War Finance Committee) The reports from the five white schools as of last Friday shows that the children have sold or secured credit for $33,151.25 in the Series E Bonds. Gatesville school still holds the lead but both Hobbsville and Sunbury made substantial gains this week. Hobbsville holds sec ond place and Sunbury has a close third. More interest in the contest is shown by the increase of $13,000 over last week. These children are working hard in asking people to buy bonds and they are getting results. A little boy by the name of Raymond Lee in the Sunbury school said that he had asked 16 people to buy bonds and as a result his room has more bonds to its credit than any other room in the school. If everyone in the (Continued on page 7) War Bond Sales Box Score The results of the school contest is as follows: School Eure .. Gates .. Gatesville Hobbsville Sunbury Students .118 .133 .203 .225 ..301 930 Amt. Sold $ 243.75 1,175.00 12,881.25 8,238.75 10,612.50 $33,151.25 ■ •• 2.06 603 63.45 ,36.62 35.65 I Reports were received this week that two Gates county men have been wounded in ac tion in serving their country. Willie E. Hinton. son of'Mrs. Alice Hinton of Hobbsville and the husband of the former Miss Kathleen Spivey of near Hobbsville, was seriously wounded in action January 17 in Italy. Mrs. Hinton, the young sol dier’s wife, told the Index Monday morning Hinton had been in Italy since about the first of January. Hinton had been in the U. S. Army five months. Hinton has two brothers in the Army and another in the Navy. Jones Injured The second Gates county man to be reported injured in action is Edward Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Riddick Jones of Eason’s Cross Roads. Edward has writen his parents that he is a patient in the Marine hos pital at Staten Island. N. Y. He said he had been slightly in jured at sea. EDUCATION BOARD HOLDS MEETING Gates county board of educa tion met Monday in the office of Superintendent of Schools W. Henry Overman. “Routine busi ness” was discussed, Overman I reported.
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