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GATES COUNTY INDEX _ The 0nh Newspaper Published in and for Gates County .Volume 12, No. 34 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, April 26, 1944 (One Week Nearer Victory) 2 Paces This Wee!i Last Rites Held For Young Man g, illed in Crash Funeral services for Corporal Shirley R. Bunch, 20, were con ducted at Beaulah Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. Herbert Miller. Burial was in the family cemetery near Sandy Cross church. He is survived by his father and mother, Mrs. Cecil G. Bunch; two brothers, Willie C. Bunch of Norfolk, Va., and Ter ry Bunch of Sunbury; two sis ters, Mrs. .Virgie White of Cora peake, and Miss Nellie Bunch of Sunbury. Corporal Bunch was killed in a plane crash on April 19 at Hunter Field, Savannah, Ga. His body arrived at Elizabeth City, on Friday and was taken to the Rountree and Hofler Funeral Home, Gatesville, where it remained until funeral ar rangements were completed. A guard of honor was sent from Fort Story, Va., to per form military rites. Active pall bearers were Roy Bunch, Jack Rountree, Carol Byrum, Wood row Wilson, C. H. Pierce and Frank Rountree. Gates Students To Give Play An operetta will be presented Thursday night, April 27, by the elementary grades of the Gates idol. Ml he operetta, “A Rose Dream,” ^ .1 start at 8:30. The play is divided in two acts. PREACHING SERVICES Rev. Arnold Slater of Holland, Va., will conduct services at the Damascus Christian Church in Sunbury on fifth Sunday morn ing, April 30. at 11 o’clock. Sun day School will be at 10 o’ clock. MacArthur Missives Rep. Arthur L. Miller (R. Neb.) at his desk in Capitol with copies of letters sent to him by General MacArthur. Letters were thought by some to indicate MacArthur has made himself available for Republican presi dential nomination. $202 Received In Cancer Drive The total receipts to date for cancer control amount to $202.57. Carter club sponsored a square dance on Saturday night, April 22, which netted $52.20. Trotville club sold ice cream during the senior play at Hobbs ville school and realized $10 for this cause. Enlistment officers reporting this past week were: Mrs. Her telle Holier for the Carter community; Mrs. E. P. Story, Cool Springs church; Mrs. H. A. Eure, Eureka church; Mrs. R. E. Miller, Ariel club; Mr. W. C. Story* Gatesville Ruritans. Mrs. W. L. Riddick, Hobbsville Baptist church; Mrs.' J. H. Bunch and Mrs. Ruth Spivey, Selwyn community; and Hobbs ville club; Mrs. Walter Harrell, Gatesville club and Mrs. L. C. Fowell, Reynoldson church. Plans Completed for Governor’s Speech At Harrellsville April 27 Plans have been nearly com pleted for Governor J. M. Broughton's speech at the annual meeting of the home demonstra tion clubs of the 16th district in Harrellsville Thursday, April 27. The meeting, under the direc tion of Miss Lydia Dey.ton, home agent for Hertford county, is expected to attract nearly 300 visitors from eight counties in the 16th district. Counties in the district are Gates, Hertford, Perquimans, Chowan, Pasquo tank, Currituck, Camden and Dare. Governor Broughton, who is 1 aking his second official ap earance in the county since Deing in office, will not speak until the afternoon program. He is not expected to arrive in Har rellsville until noon. The morning program will be taken over with reports from the different counties on their activities and other business matters. The program will open at 11 a. m. with the Rev. W. C. Frances, pastor of the Baptist churches in Harrellsville and Christian Harbor, pronouncing Governor Broughton the invocation. The welcome will be spoken by Mrs. E. W. Hutchins, presi dent of the Currituck home de i monstration clubs. Mrs. P. P. Gregory of Shawboro, corres ponding secretary of the State i Federation of Home Demonstra (Continued on page 6) Captain Cowper Is Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster With the 13th AAF in the South Pacific.—By direction of the President the Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of an additional Air Medal was awarded by Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, commanding United States Army Forces in tlie South Pacific Area, on April 3, to Captain William R. Cowper, Jr., of Gatesville as flight lead er from December 4, 1943, to January 21, 1944. Captain Cowper is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cowper of Gatesville. Mrs. G. C. Worrell Heads HD Council Fifty club women attended the annual Spring Council meeting in the Agricultural Building, Gatesville, on Friday afternoon, April 21, at 3 o’clock. New county council officers elected were: president; Mrs. G. C. Worrell, Middle Swamp club; vice-president, Mrs. L. C. Pow ell, Ariel; secretary, Mrs. H. A. Eure, Corapeake and Treasurer, Mrs. G. N. Liiley, Gatesville. These officers will be install ed at the Spring Federation meeting w&jpty .will be held - irj. the Gatesville schoof7 in May. They will. sec^4pr' two years. Mrs. C. H. Carter, of the Car ter club, served as chairman of the nominating committee as sisted by Mrs. Walter Harrell, Gatesville and Mrs. J. H. Bunch, Hobbsville. A demonstration on, “How to Clean and Care for a (Pressure Canner", was given the home agent. Canners brought in to the clinic were returned to owners. Nine R-C Boys Enter Navy Nine boys from the Roanoke Chowan section have volunteer ed and have been accepted for service in the United States in last several days. J. W. Brown, Navy recruiter from the Elizabeth City Navy station, announced this week that he had been detached from the station and would not serve this section in the future as a recruiter. Brown’s new station was not revealed and neither was his successor named. Boys from this area who vol unteered last week were: Jack son Askew Sharp, and Thomas Wade Britt, both of Harrellsville; Morton L. Raynor of Colerain; Spurgeon Lewis Davidson, Jr., and Arthur Dempsey, Jr., both of Aulander; Joe Prelow Majctte of Murfreesboro; and Lorenzo Holler and Alvin David Ballard, both Negroes, both of Gates county. Politics Delegates named to the county Democratic convention will meet in Gatesville at the court house Saturday,'fternoon at 2:30, it was announced nounced Monday. A meeting of the county ex ecutive committee will be held following the county conven tion. Is Member of Unit Cited for Courage Cpl. Clayton Horton, son o~ Mr. and Mrs. Willie Horton of Eure, is a member of a medi cal battalion which has received a citation for “great perservance and courage.” The citation said: “During an extended period of continued and intensive combat activity, Company C success fully treated and evacuated many casualties. Operating a^ far forward as possible and sub jected to severe bombings and enemy artillery and small-arms fire, the men of Company C displayed great perservance and courage. Under the most hazard ous and adverse conditions, lit ter 'bearers performed their duties with speed and efficiency, often manually evacuating wounded soldiers across several miles of rugged terrain under heavy fire.” TO GRADUATE FROM BAPTIST SEMINARY John Rountree Blanchard, son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Blanch ard of Gatesville, will be in the class of 120 men graduating from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louis ville, Ky., on Friday, May 5. Carolina^ Tom Costen, who filed for solicitor cf Gates county, has been declared ineligible to appear on the county ticket in the May 27 Democratic primary, it was learned Monday in Gates ville. Costen, it was learned, gave a “rubber” check in. payment cf a $8 filing fee when he filed for the office with J. A. Eason^ chairman of the board of elec tions. Asked for a ruling on whether Costen had actually entered the race by giving a oaci check, McMullan replied, that his entrance in the racer was not official because Costen did not pay his filing fee before the time expired for filing. Hubert Eason, therefore, since he is the only other man who filed for the position, becomes the Democratic nominee. Index Brings Good Cheer to Sailor With a notice of change ad dress from W. C. Draper, USN, Gates county boy, comes this comment, “Thanks for some grand news from home in the Index. It is really good to me here, as 1 have not been home, or in the USA, since October 1942”. Draper gets his mail through the Fleet Post Office, San Francisco. AT CAMP PEARY Frank Elliott .Fierce of Sun bury and Greenville, who was* recently inducted into the arm ed services, is undergoing train ing at Camp Perry, Williams burg, Va. Two Elisabeth City Men Seek Senatorial Posts In District W. T. Culpepper, above, of Elizabeth City is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for senator from the First North Carolina senatorial district in the May 27 primary. A picture of Jerry J. Hughes,, also of Eliza beth City and a candidate for senator in the North Carolina Legislature, is not available. Pic tures of Charles H. Jenkins and J. B. Fearing, also candidates, appeared last week. When the Index went to press last week, it had been unable to obtain short sketches of the activities oi Jerry J. Hughes and W. T. Culpepper, ootr. oi Eliza beth City, who are candidates lor the Democratic nomination for senator from -the First Sena torial District. Other candidates are Charles H. Jenkins of Au~ lander and J. B. (Bart) Fearing ol Windsor. Their sketches were printed last week. W. T. Culpepper A native of Pasquotank coun ty, W. T. .“Billy” Culpepper was born on route 3, Elizabeth City and lived on a farm until he was 23 years old. He then moved to Elizabeth City where he has held res ponsible positions since. He is married to the former Miss Alice G. Butler of RED, Windsor. Culpepper was one of the or ganizers of the Culpepper Hard ware Company, the Carolina Amusement Company, the Cul pepper Motor Company and the Carolina - Virginia Amusement. Company, all of which He is still connected. As Re presen ta | five for Pasquotank county in ! (Continued on rage 6)
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