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™ »vo Local School Board Members Are Disqualified The Gates county school board was informed Monday in a de cision from Harry P. McMullan, attorney general for North Car olina, that two members of the Gatesville district board had been serving although they were ineligible. The mistake came about, how ever, through no fault of the school board or of L. C. Hand and Lyeurgus Howell, members of the Gatesville school board. A constitutional law reads that no man may hold two offices in the United States at the same time. Hand is clerk of court and Howell a notary public. Gates school officials were prone to believe that the inter pretation disqualifying the two was correct, but at the same time expressed amazement at the in terpretation. No action was taken on the ap pointment of men to succeed Hand and Howell. Appointments were continued until the next meeting of the board. Mildred Parker Claimed by Death ss Mildred Parker, daugh f the late Mr. and Mrs. J. barker, died Tuesday morn ing, February 29, at Duke hos pital in Durham following an illness of two months Funeral services were con ducted Thursday at 12 o’clock in the Scotland Neck funeral home by the Rev. C. Fi. Craw ford. Burial was made in the ^Episcopal cemetery at Scotland ??eck. Prior to her death. Miss Par ker was employed as a switch board operator at Lakeview hos pital in Suffolk. "She worked at this position several months last year. Before that she had taught music in the high schools at Hobgood ^and at Gates. Miss Parker was a member of the Reynoldson Baptist church and for several years was church organist. She is survived by two sis ters, Mrs. D. W. Downs of Hob good with whom she had recently made her home, and Mrs. Lu cille Eure of Gates; four broth ers, J. S. Parker of Sumter* S. C., T. B., L. G. and E. A. Park er of Gates. 4-H Meetings e Scheduled schedule of 4-H club meet ings Gates county for March was announced Monday by John Artz, county farm agent. The schedule: Sunbury, March 8; Eure, March 9; Gates, March 10; Hobbsville, March 13; and Gatesville, March }4. The meetings will be held in the morning at the school?. Pro ject work 'and books for 1944 will be discussed. Something New in Marine Equipment —Mta—wiwwn— One of the latest additions to Marine Corps equipment, this jungle 'hammock is being demonstrated by a leatherneck somewhere in the Pacific. Complete with overhead rubber protector, mosquito netting and zipper, the hammock is a comfortable sleeping sack either slung between trees or lowered into an extra deep foxhole. It first ngade its appearance in the Bougainville campaign. State Agricultural Workers \ Fight 16-Unit Requirement A fight against the Selective Service proposal to pull into the service draft-age farmers not producing 16 war units has been launched in this state and in Washington by Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, his assistant D. S. Coltrane, and other officials of the State De partment of Agriculture. In appealing for a reduction in the number of units neces sary for deferment, Scott points out that “the present plan for the drafting of agricultural la bor will seriously curtail the production of important com modities for the prosecution of the war.” N. C. Production He said that North Carolina last year produced six percent of the nation’s cottonseed and lint; 70 percent of the flue cured tobacco; 11 percent of the sweet potatoes; 13 percent of the peanuts; 20 percent of the lespedeza seed; and three per cent of the Irish potatoes. Upon his return from a series of Washington conferences on the agricultural draft situation (Continued on page 8) Funeral Services For Mrs. Lilley Scheduled Today Mrs. Gladys Brinkley Lilley, 39, died Monday morning at 5:30 following a short illness. Funeral services will be con ducted Wednesday afternoon (to day) at 3:30 from the Cypress Chapel Christian church with the Rev. R. E. Brittle officiating. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. She is survived by her hus band, H. E. Lilley; two daugh ters, Mary Frances and Dorothy Ann Lilley; her mother, Mrs. Katie Brinkley of Nansemond county, Va.; four sisters, Mrs. A. A. Ellis of Suffolk, Va., Mrs. Victor Reibaldi of Portsmouth, Va., Mrs. H. V. Beamon of Gates ville, and Mrs. H. T. Holloman of Nansemond county, Va.; four brothers, S/Sgt. Josiah W. Brink ley who is overseas, Pvt. William C. Brinkley of Camp Blanding, Fla., R. T. Brinkley of Ports mouth, Va., and Harry Brinkley of Nansemond county, Va. Increase Is $20 Ton Over Price Last Year * I he base or average support price for peanuts was in creased to Sl(>o per ton wight cents per pound), it was announced in Washington Monday by the War Food Ad ministration, according to information furnished this newspaper from the office of Congressman Herbert C. Bonner. , The increase in support price, although not all that farmers had asked for, represents a sub stantial victory for the effort begun by the Hertford County Farm Bureau last Fall to secure higher support prices for this year’s ‘frop. The Hertford coun ty farmers’ demand for better prices started w”ith a mass meet ing called by the Hertford County Farm Bureau at Mur freesboro last August, was join ed in by peanut growers throughout the country, and through the continued activity of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau and of the National Farm Bureau Federation the increase of $20 per ton (one cent per pound) over last year's prices has been secured. The announcement Monday of the increase of support prices followed a hearing in Washing ton three weeks ago before War Food Administration and Com modity Credit Corporation offi cials in which a large group of peanut farmers, led by R. Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau, from all states producing peanuts presented their case for higher support prices. In their demands, the farmers had tine active support of Congressmen Herbert Bonner and John H. (Continued on page 8) Tazewell Eure Out of Hospital Tazewell Eure of GafesviMe, Gates county register of deeds who underwent an emergency appendix operation in Norfolk General hospital two weeks ago, returned home Sunday. Eure spent a short while at his office in the court house Mon day. However, it will probably be several days before he resumes his regular office hours. Gatesville Wins Bond Contest; Plane Named ' Gates County” Gatesville school students, in [ a war bond contest sponsored by ! the banks in the county, won a | $50 prize for having the highest | percentage per student in bond purchases, according to figures announced Monday by Robin Hood, war finance chairman for Gates county. The contest, lasting through the fourth war loan campaign' was principally responsible for Gates county being one of the 54 counties in North Carolina to exceed both its “E” bond quota and its overall gpal in the cam paign closed last month. A total^of 203 students in the Gatesville school solicited $30# 731.25 in war bonds for a per centage per pupil of $151.38. Sunbury school placed second in the percentages although the students sold $36,993.75 in bonds —a percentage of $122.91. Three hundred and one Sunbury stu dents accounted for the bonds sold. Other -figures for the schools were: Hobbsville, 225 students, $15,950 in bonds, $70.88 aver age; Gates, 133 students, $3, 956.25 in bonds, $29.75 average; Eure, 118 students, $1,145.75 in bonds, $12.23 average. Nine hundred eighty students in the white schools accounted for $89,075 in bonds for a per student average of $90.89. Hood especially complimented Raymond Lee of the Sunoury school for the interest he dis played in the contest. Raymond, teen-aged student, turned in 43 receipts, the most turned in by any student in the county. For selling the highest per cenatge of bonds per students, the Gatesville school vi!*l be pre (Continued on Page 9) Superior Court Jurors Chosen By Commissioners Jurors for the spring term of Gates county superior court which convenes March 27 in Gatesville with Judge Leo Carr of Burlington presiding were chosen at the meeting of the board of commissioners Monday. By townships they are: Gatesville toumship: W. R. Cowper, M. L. Piland, O. E. Eure and G. R. Lassiter. Hunter’s Mill township: C. H. Pierce, W. G. Britt, W. W. Hol ler and Lonnie Spivey. Mintonsville township: Low ther Wright, L. M. Bovce, O. L. Brown and E. A. Blanchard. - Holly Grove township: G. C. Hobbs, Ernest Daniels, Emmett. E. Parker and J. C. Vann. Hasletts township: L. T. Har rell, J. L. Brinkley, E. B. Horton and Marvin E. Baker. Reynoldson: John C. Sawyer, ! James N. Eure, R. E. Eure and L. G. Parker. Hall township: Martin Tink ham, Eugene Mullen, Jesse M. ] Doughtie and Wilbur Eure. Little business With the absence of Tazewell ! Eure, clerk to the board, the I Gates county commissioners had I very little business to come be | fore it. Eure, operated on for ap j pehdicitis two w'eeks ago. came j to the meeting long enough to | read the minutes of the Feb ‘ ruary meeting. i Reports were heard from the i county agents, both Negro and i white. iNegro Child Dies O Result of Burns j Alberta Williams, 5-year-old | NTegro girl, died at Lakeview •rospital at 5:15 p. m. Friday as the result of burns sustained four hours earlier. The child's dress caught fire as she was standing by a heater in the home of her father, Hardy Williams,' near Gates. | An inquest was conducted by I Dr. Edward C. Joyner, Suffolk j coroner. j Funeral services were con | ducted at the home Sunday. I Burial was in a family plot. DANCE SCHEDULED AT GATESVILLE A round and squiare dance is j scheduled at Gatesville gym j nasium Friday night, March 10 j starting at 9 o'clock. The dance is being sponsored t}y the junior class of Gatesville high school. A six-piece orchestra from Ahoskie will play.
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