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GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County GatesvilIe’ N. C„ Wednesday, June 7, 1944 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week Tftnal Arrangements Are Made For Gates War Loan Campaign Robin (Hood, Gates county chairman for the Fifth War Loan IDrive, will visit all selling agen cies in the county this week to make final arrangements for the drive, which will be conducted June 12 through July 8. Gates county’s quota is $155,000. Tifie Post Offices at Sunbury, Hobbsville, Gatesville, and Gates and the banks at Sunbury, Hobbsville, and Gatesville will serve as selling agencies during the campaign. Application for Series , “E” Bonds will also be taken at the Post 'Offices in Eure and Roduco during the drive. Even though the Fifth War Loan Drive comes at a bad time for farmers, it also comes at a time When the invasion of Europe is in progress and when the home front cannot afford to withhold support from the boys who are in daily danger of los ing their lives on the fighting fronts. Most popular types of Bonds are those of Series “E,” which ature in 10 years. Series * “F” - PaT$ Itff&esrpof about two'Slid one^half per cent. Series “G” tiids also rhature in 12 years | 1 pay two and one-half ’per f ,t, the interest payable every .X m<m tits** Series-Savings (Cofrtmued" (fcfcge V l -4 . Gatesvijle Lady Dies 0tt Friday; 1 Rites Are; held •irftiae, Nottdtl rm|e,, 'Gatesj fsQ^lv^d ; by* ,dbhp G.-SaiVj | ^ Active/ 'Vp ■GgorgeJor^ 2^:$SfcewyjiL Pitted,. arK jG triton S. jsjg of Mr. ana.MC pt ne£r ($a&f|d a leave at ,ii<» fes ft afoiyij l$aw action in pe Marshall. *Ji twa, arid h| ^ei Nayyvlast $&VtEfti0f Funeral services “ ,<fpr* Mrs. Nannie Cle.nnie Lawrerice, '76, who died .in Gatesville earjy Friday morning, were conducted at the graveysidp. in the farpily ■, cemetery at 4 o’clock Sunday “ afternoon. . - * ' *lTJie Rev. 'Tfr$loane Guy, Sr., of,, me Gatesv^i^Bapfist Church i-cijp^lupted . tfi^^Stejrvice. ^was the widow and is sur L. B. Law L. Law <D. *P. Law “ ■ ■ • Nothing Less Than Full Victory” General Dwight Eisenhower’s send-off message to thousands of Allied fighting men is destined to go down in history, His words went-to the Army, the Navy, and the Air Corps. Above is pic tured an invasion craft, similar to the thousands which participated in history’s greatest military operation—the invasion of Fortress Europe. A budget of $13,844 for 1944 45 was approved by the Gates County^ Board, of Education in JnOrithly-, sessions yesterday in Ciates’toiie. f *> Main items listed were s $5,275 for maintenance of plant;, which includes repairs to buildings and grounds and the repair and re-. placement of furniture andv''in structional apparatus; $4,204rfor] instructional service, (ndlucfing salary, travel expenses, s. and bonuses for white ’ and colored agriculture and home. eco nomics ' teachers; '.and , $2^125 for spch fixed charges as insurance, Workman's compensation, and retirement fund. Eight, hundred and forty dol * ' (Continued on Page 4) ■ • 4? • - y"__ Crump Files '-Possibility of a run-off be tween W. O. ’ Crump of Sun bury and W. J. Rountree of S-IIobbsville for county repre y. sentative to the State General &A$&eipbly became a reality ^Monday night at 'll o’clock Crump filed, for a sec [«^fd^inury. Deadline for fil midn^ht^ A~«|tement issued by “After-due con sideratTsiSVand at the request cY many ^pKers of the county, . I. have . rqwfigted the County Board of' Elections for a sec - ond. Justice^ of tfi* jPeace J.* A. Eason, chairma^> the Board of Elections; <«ald tli&tnp other candidates filed office. It was .understood that the primary- 'will' be held ojv June 24. • -*** In the primary pp Ma^ 27, Crump received 431 yofe$->to Jipuntree,. incumbent, and 242 for.Q. R. Eure. •/. Gates Men Hurt In Freak Wreck Of Army Truck r H. P. King of Roduco. and George Morgan of Sunbury were I injured last week in an ac cident on the Sunbury-Edenton Highway. Mr. King and Mr. Morgan were standing' in front of the former’s new car talking, when an Army truck broke loose from a truck it was towing and ran into Mr. King’s automobile, pushing the two men ahead of it down an embankment. Mr. King was taken to Lake view Hospital in Suffolk suifer ing from a sprained ankle, sev eral cuts, and bruises. He was released Friday and is -improv ing at his home. Mr. Morgan suffered eight broken ribs. Fortress of Europe Is J^Hlted In Many Places; Churcl^Kays Initial Thrust Very S^Ksful LONDON. The day the whole^Whas been waiting for has arrived. At 1 a. m. EWT (7 a. m. London time) on Tues day, Allied soldiers were scrambling ashore in France, opening the greatest military operation in the history of the world—the invasion of Europe. Four thousand ships, many thousands of landing craft and over 11,000 planes participated in the huge assault, which first was announced by the ner vous German radio. The report was verified later by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters with a simple statement of fact. Meanwhile, the whole world was tossed into a frenzy of excitement. All over the United States, sirens wailed and whistles blew, arousing Ameri cans from early-morning slumber. in me Miles Inland By mid-morning, reports drift ed in that the Allies had cap tured points nine miles inland. Parachute and air borne troops were dropped behind the enemy “initial success. Huge fleets of Flying Fort resses and fighting planes ac companied the operation's with a rain of destruction. Warships blasted the invasion shores, while the invasion craft went ashore under far less difficulty than had been expected. General Eisenhower sent the thousands of Allied fighting men on their mission with: “We are about to embark upon a great crusade. The eyes of the world are upon you. We will ac cept nothing less than total vic tory.” In his address to the British House of Commons, Prime Minis ter Churchill, in his usual dyna- I mic vernacular, asserted: “The invasion is proceeding! according to plan—and what! plan!” • Though unconfirmed by Allied i headquarters, the German radio persistently reported that land ings were made in Normandy. Allied headquarters in general remained non-commital about locations of landings, accept to (Continued on page 4) Application Sites Are Announced For Getting Extra Canning Sugar The War Price and Rationing Board in Gatesville has announ ced designated places for apply ing for home-canning sugar in the various communities of the county, according to Mrs. Iris Hand, price clerk for the Board. War Ration Book No. 4 is nec essary in making application. Applications for canning su gar may be filed with the fol-' lowing women: Mrs. C. B. Lee, Hazelton; Mrs. Judison Ellenor, Reynoldson* Mrs. T. E. Parker, Gates; Mrs.. James Hudgin, Jr., Zion; Mrs. V?. L.. Riddick, Hobbs ville;,Mrs. G. W. Ward, Sun bury; Mrs. H. L. Barnes, GOra peakej Mrs. ,Y. M. , Parker, Roduco; and Miss Nellie Ruth Green, Eure. j Colored women in charge > of applications are: Miss Evelyn Riddick, Reid’s Grove; Miss Leola Riddick, Mrs. H. L. Mit chell, Mrs. J. T. Boone, Hinton’s Grove; Mrs. A. T. Dildy, Gates; Mrs. L. E; Waithe, Buckland; Mrs. J. D. Boone, Ariel; Mr$. J. A. Jones, Mintonsville; Mrs. J. O. Burke, Trdtville; Mrs. E. R. Coston, Mrs. L». A.. Briggs/Sun bury; Adell Knight Wiggins Cross Roads; Mrs. p. M. Sawyer, Porapeake: #Mrs. Mike Hbffler, Mrs. Sarah Gary, Middle Swamp; Mrs. C. P. Hay^s, Eure; apd- C. ,JI. ;Hobbs, Sandy Cross, Hebbayi^,; A. 'T'* \ Commissioners Okeh Budgets Fur TmrfMtg At |ts meeting in Gatesville. Monday, the Gates County Board ot Commissioners approved budgets for two agencies for the fiscal year of 1944-45. The Board approved the budget of $6,000 as presented by Miss Clarine Gatling, % county welfare superintendent, for the adminis tration of old age assistance and aid to dependent children. This budget carried appropriations of $2,400 a year for the county su perintendent, $1,500 a year for a case worker, $1,200 a year for a stenographer or clerk, and $300 for office expenses. • The budget of the County Board of Education, listing ap (Continued on Page 4) Gates Resident Held Under Bond After Accident William Herbert Askew, Jr.r of Gates, is being held under a $250 bond awaiting his trial be fore Judge N. T. Gray in the Nansemond County Trial Just ice Court in Virginia on June 10. Askew is charged with injurying Nancy Baines, 15-year-old girl from near Whaleyville, Va. The girl and several children were riding with Frank Walters of Suffolk and had just arrived in Whaleyville at 9:30 Thurs day night when she darted across the street and was struck by Askew’s autombbile. She was thrown on the hood of the car, then onto the ground. Her left hip and chest were in jured, and she is also suffering bruises and abrasions of the body.' The girl was taken to the Lakeview Hospital in Suffolk, where she is now under treat ment. Sheriff J. F. Culpepper and O. C. Bradshaw investigated the a.ccideht.
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