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•Scarlet Fever Case Reported in Gates County One case of scarlet fever has been reported in Gates county this month.. For the benefit of parents whose children have not had this disease, we are stating some facts about scarlet fever which may be helpful in se curing an early diagnosis of fu ture cases and preventing the spread of this disease. Definition: Scarlet fever is a communicable disease, charact erized' by a sore throat, fever, vomiting, and a diffuse erup tion which appears the second or third day of the fever. Symptons: Onset is usually sudden, beginning with sore throat, vomiting, fever, which is followed in two or three days by a generalized pin-point rash. A well child complains of his throat at 6 p. m., vomits his supper and is found to have a high fever, (100 to 104 degrees) before 9 p. m. After about two days of fever the rash begins to break out on the neck and chest, in the folds of the arms (Continued on page 6) Lenten Services At St. Mary’s Scheduled Here A special Lenten service will be held each Tuesday night in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Gatesville. The Rev. John H. Bonner, Jr., >riest-in-charge, will deliver a series of sermons on the Christ ian Doctrine of Man. The first of these services will be held Tuesday night, February 29 at 8 p. m. The theme for this-ser mon, “Nature, Man and God,” will serve as an introduction to the sermons which are to follow. The subjects to be treated on succeeding Tuesday nights are “Man as Creator”; “Man and the State”; Man and the Family”; “Man, the educator”; “Man and the Church”. The members of all the churches in this com munity are invited to attend and take part in these services. 16 Farm Units Required Now For Draft Deferment Gates county selective service board has received instructions from the National Draft Head quarters to require 16 farming units of a man before he can be deferred from army duty because of his agricultural pursuits, it was announced Monday. Mrs. W. H. Overman, clerk to the board, said Monday, she was unable now to determine how many men this new ruling would effect, but that she expected a good many farmers in the county had better check up on their units and see if they are pro ducing their maximum. It was pointed out that this new ruling—which supercedes the 12-unit-requirement voted by the Gates board—is designed to make every farmer or person en gaged in farming of any type or kind produce the maximum amount of food on his farm or be subject to a draft call. It is believed that strict en forcement of this regulation will result in more balanced farms in Gates county. More livestock will have to be produced, more grain harvested to feed the ani mals and more poultry produced for farmers to raise their units to the required 16. Last year, Mrs. Overman said, the county board required 10 units of a man before deferring him for his agricultural work. This year the board, in line with the actions taken by other boards in the# country, increased the required units to 12. Now the requirement stands at 16. Waste Paper Drive For Gates Comity Uy JOHN ARTZ, Farm Agent The week of February 28 to March 4 has been designated by the S a 1 vage ' Committee as “Waste Paper Week”. During those six days every family is expected to take part in the county-wide drive to collect all available waste paper of any description for its urgent use in shipping and. packing war mat erials. The drive has been on in the state for several weeks but this will be the county's first attempt since 1942, to assemble such material. However, in the spring of 1942 when there was a de mand for waste paper, the Gatesville, Hobbsville and Sun bui'y Scouts collected 25,000 pounds.. Here’s What You Do 1. ' Look around your office or home for corrugated boxes, newspapers and magainzes. 2. Make separate piles of each class if you have enough otherwise make a mixed pile. (Continued on page 6/ Gates Over Quota In War Loan Drive; Short On E Bonds By ROBIN HOOD, Chairman War Finance Committee The school children in the five white schools in the county have gotten real results in their' war bond contest. The county now has enough purchases in the Series E bonds to buy the fighter ilane. Gatesville and Sunbury re still “fighting it out” for first place. Gatesville is leading with an average of $107.59 per student and Sunbury is close behind with and average of $97.39. Hobbs ville comes third with an average of $62.49 and Gates has an aver age of $23.83 and Eure $10.33. The contest will end on the last day of this month at which time all receipts will be checked and the various winners will be an nounced in each of the schools. Sunbury has an average of $10.20 to catch up with the Gatesville school and if they continue to raise their* total, they will have an excellent chance to get the $50.00 prize. Over Quota The official totals from the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich mond shows that ther county has purchased enough bonds to carry it over its overall quota of $132, 000. The total purchases in the county amount to $146,783.25. The total in the Series E bonds is $82,706.25. As we needed only $75,000.00 in this type of bond for our fighter plane, this means that we have an excess of $7, 706.26 for the plane. The county quota for the E bonds was $93, (continue*! on Page 6) Sunbury Juniors To Present Play On Friday Night Sunbury.— The Junior Class of Sunbury high school will pre sent a three act comedy “Beads on a String” in the high school auditorium Friday night, Feb ruary 25, at 8 p. m. The cast of characters is as follows: Bennie Davis and Zezzalee Davis, Vance Byrum; J. H. Da vis, J. T. Barnes; Benjamin Da vis, Clifton Barnes; Harold Beem, J. B. Speight; Ab Dinkier, Woodrow Wilson; Mrs. J. H. Davis, Audrey Jones; Molly Mal lerton, Dorothy Bray; Jeannette Blue, June Jackson; and Cleo patria Oleomargarine Johnson, Thelma Hofler. R. P. Jones Made Ensign Corpus Christi, Texas.— Ro bert Poxyell Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jones, of Sun bury, N. C., was graduated Feb ruary 12 from the Naval An Training Center, Corpus Christi, and was commissioned an en sign in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He received his preliminary flight instruction at the Norman, Okla., reserve air base. Negro Injured In Truck Wreck John Hite, Negro of Gates ville, was slightly injured last Thursday when a trailer-truck he was driving turned over in a swamp near Whaleyville. The truck, owned by J. B. Rountree of Gatesville, was bad ly damaged, a report said. The truck was loaded with 85-foot pilings and was enroute to Norfolk at the time of the accident. Hite said he was pass ing another truck and that his trailer got too near the edge of the dam, causing him to go into the swamp. Brighter Im Seen F or P ean u flu r mer s In Seekiii 97.80 Peanut farmers and Farm Bureau officials, who are working with them to secure an increase in the support prices for the coming year’s crop above the Si50 per ton average announced in the War Food Administration’s tentative production and marketing program, are hope ful of good results trom the conferences held in Washing ton last Wednesday and Thursday with members of con gress, War Food Administration officials, and }. B. Hutson, president of the 'Commodity Credit Corporation. xne conclusion of the con- i f.erences Thursday the delega tions of peanut farmers, around j two hundred of them represent- j ing seven of the major producing; states, had received already de- j finite assurance of favorable ac- ' tion on five points in their four teen-point program offered for them by Congressman Stephen Pace, of Georgia, as the com posite' program sought by the peanut growers. The fourteen point program was arrived at by joint" and unanimous action of the repre sentatives of all states meeting Wednesday night, when all dif ferences of ideas as between various producing sections were resolved into a united stand on the fourteen points'. This pro gram was presented in a day long session Thursday with J. *3. (Continued on page 4) Still Destroyed Near Corapeake A steam kettle still and 500 gallons of mash were destroyed by Sheriff Kirk Overman near Corapeake February 13, it was leported Monday. Sheriff Overman said the still was in operation at the time he, Rufus Eason, constable of Holly Grove township, and an uniden tified fellow jumped it. No arrests could be made by the Gates county officers be cause the still was inside the Virginia line. News Briefs Items of interest—state, na tional and international— compiled in brief form for our "readers. PEARL HARBOR.— Admiral Nimitz expanded the scope of the smashing Pacific victory in Truk with a Navy air raid on Jap bases in Kuriles as Tokyo as tonished the world with an ad mission of a devasting attack upon Truk and with the re moval of. Jap army and navy chiefs of staff. MacArthur revealed the sink ing of nine more Jap ships by Allied bombers as Marines and Army boys near the completion of Eniwetok atoll conquest. LONDON. — Terrific Allied air blows upon Germany so ex haust Nazi fighters that Ameri cans smashed ar; German air craft industry targets again in daylight with smail losses as British blasted Stuttgart with loss of only 10 bombers. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples.—German attacks weak ened in the Anizo beachhead battle as Nazi failed in all-out effort to drive Americans and British forces into the sea. WASHINGTON. — President Roosevelt has decided to veto the $2,315,200,000 tax bill with (Continued on Page 3) Gates County Seeks $4,300 in Red Cross War Fund Campaign The Red Cross War Fund drive will begin on March 1. The purpose of which is to raise a national budget of two million dollars to carry on the work of the Red Cross program during 1944, the Rev. T. Sloane Guy, chairman, said. The quota given Gates county is $4,300.00. This quota has been broken do\vn into seven parts, one for each of the seven townships, and township com mittees are now being selected. Each township will be expected to raise the amount of money apportioned it.” The utmost care has been taken in making these apportionments so that each township would be given a fair share of the total budget to be \ raised by the county,” Guy said. The quota for each township is as follows: Hail, $475; Has letts, $330; Holly Grove, $860; Hunter’s Mill, $650; Gatesville, $860; Mintonsville, $650; and Reynoldson, $475. “It is to be noted that the total of the above quotas a mount to exactly $4,300. So it is highly important that each township raise the amount as signed to it. There has been no over assignment. If any town ship fails, to raise its quota, it will seriously affect the county budget. Surely no township in the county can afford to fail in the light of the splendid service being rendered oy the Red Cross to our armed forces at home and overseas,” Guy added.
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