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. GATES COUNTY INDEX Pages This Week William Holloman Reported Missing Is Nazi Prisoner Missing in action since D-Day Mien the Allies invaded the wmandy coast of Fiance, Pvt. /illiam H. Holloman, son of pr E. B. Holloman of Colerain, was taken prisoner by the Germans, according to a telegram received Monday morning by his wife, the former Miss Otelia Mesder of Gatesville. v The telegram from J. A. Ulio, the adjutant general, said: “Re port just received through Inter national Red Cross that your husband, Pvt. William H. Hollo man, is a prisoner of war of the German government. Letter of information follows from pro vost marshal.” Pvt. Holloman is 23 years of age and was a paratrooper. Mrs. Holloman who lives in Gatesville with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Meedsr, has heard no thing direct from her husband. The message Monday was the first indication she had that her husband is living since he was rsported missing. She works in .the AAA .office* in Gatesville. Ruritans Hear Halstead, Past State Senator Sunbury.—Former State Sena tor W. I. Halstead of South Mills sooke to members of the Ruritan Tub at their dinner meeting last uesday in the high school lib ary. His address was given in praise of organizations which will help steer America through another crisis. “We have had wars be fore but we have never had such stabilizers as civic organizations to keep America from running amuck, In World War I there were no such bodies as the Ruri tans to steer the way. Therefore, you Ruritans have a deep obliga tion to fulfill, and a heavy re sponsibility in the future to keep harmony and peace among all classes,” he said. Graham Byrum, president, pre sided; J. E.’ Gregory was chair man of the .program and pre sented the speaker, and also Mrs. Margaret C. Riddick who served as accompanist for a song serv ice which was led by Joe Byrum. The dinner was served by the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Philadelphia Metho dist church. ■ | The Hows; Wheres And Whens About [ Basic “A” Books Contraiy to various state ments dl$4he subject, new gaso line rationing “A” books valid f to November 9 at 12:01 a. m. dll not increase the basic allot ment. Per coupon value is great er, according to Norfleet Hofler, chief clerk of the Gates board, but the actual basic allotment over a rationing period is the same. Application forms may be ob tained at any time at the fol lowing places in Gates county: *H. A. Pierce; Old Chapel; Hatha way’s place, Hobbsville; C. T. McCotter, Sandy Cross; A. A. Hurdle, Muddy Cross; Hill Brothers, Suijbury; H. L. Barnes, I See THE HOWS, Page 7 £ LEADS TASK FORCES.— Vice Admiral Marc A. Mits cher, commander of famed U. S. Naval Task Force 58, watches the results of his boys’ great strike against Manila Day. Scored showed 110 Jap planes shot out of the sky the first day. * Grape Vines Set Out in 1908 Paid Off This Season T. J. “Tom” Stallings of the Sandy Cross neighborhood when in the office of John Artz, coun ty agent, recently revealed that he and Mrs. Stallings had sold $525 worth of Muscadine grapes (James variety) from their vines. The arbor, Tom told the county agent, consists of three separate vines covering between two and threa tenths of an acre and was set out in 1908 by his father. These are facts that sound like fiction, but Mr. Artz knows they sre true because they originated with one of “our best known and highly esteemed farmers.” The grapes which all ripened about the same time were picked within three days. Mr. and Mrs. Stallings with the help of a few others put them into baskets furnished by the purchaser and sold them by weight. This is a county record of sales from one arbor in one season, according to Mr.' Artz. Throng Present At PTA Meeting Held at Sunbury Sunbury.—There was a very large attendance at the Sunbury Parent-Teacher Association ♦monthly meeting and Mrs. John Payne, the president* thanked the association for its cooperation. Miss Ethel Britt, teacher of English, gave an address on “The Kingliness of Kindness”. In closing she said: |“It is the task of us who are parents and teachers to show today’s chil dren by our good living that there is nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth”. Mrs. Otis Corbitt was in charge of the program and conducted the devotionals. Joe Byrum, membership chair man, urged those present to at tend the next meeting and bring one new member. A social hour followed wi+h Mrs. Waverly Parker, Mrs. Will Hofler, Mrs. Eugene Kiaaick aim Mr£. Harvey Speight serving as hostesses. The attendance was outstand ing over other meetings. Two Missing; Third infoerman Prison Camp; One is founded Will of Gates County Native Gave $15 to Wife and Children; $4,500 To Housekeeper; Family Protesting Clyde W. Briggs who was born in Gates county in 1889 died September 26 in Philadelphia following a truck accident in the Philadelphia Navy Yard where he had been a civilian employe for 20 years. He wove his attitude toward life into his will, it was revealed recently in Camden, N. J., where an action has been-en tered against the testament of the 53-year-old machinist. The will is being contested by his widow, Mrs. Fannie L. Briggs j of Gloucester, N. J. Written »six weeks before his death, Briggs’ will leaves $5 each to his wife, a son, Clyde, Jr., employed on the West Coast, and a daughter, Mrs. E. Griffin of Norfolk, “so they can’t say they were over looked,” according to a clipping from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The balance of the estate, list ed as $3,500 in real estate and O' $1,000 in cash, is left by the will to Mrs! Margaret L. Holmes, of Philadelphia, described as his housekeeper. Mrs. Holmes also is directed to thke charge of Briggs’ funeral with the injunction: “No flowers. No singing. No clergy. To be buried in working clothes.” And the housekeeper is fur ther enjoined to have a monu ment erected on the machinist’s grave, inscribed: “I was born September 2G, 1889, in Gates County, N. C. “Glad I was born. “Glad I have lived. “Glad I am no more of this wicked world. “Never could understand hu man beings—so-called human beings.” Mrs. Briggs and her children testified today that Briggs had suffered a brain illness before his death. Major Cowper’s P-38 Helps Disable Jap Freighter in Southwest Pacific According to-information from I headquarters of the 13th AAF in the Southwest Pacific, a f^fcatesville fighter pilot, Major William R. Cowper, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cowper, was in the attacking formation when 13th AAF Lightnings knocked out a 6,000-ton Jap freighter recently. Homeward bound after drop ping thousand pound bombs on Namies, enemy stronghold in the Netherlands West Indies, Major Cowper and other members of the outfit sighted the freighter and several smaller ships in an anchorage„'at Ceram Island. The P-38s dived through a heavy flak barrage sent up by the vessels and shore batteries. Explosions rocked the large freighter and fires were started^ on eight cargo barges. “The water was full of Japs trying to' get off that burning freighter,” the pilots reported on their return from the mis sion. Many Japs were believed killed or wounded after the low flying Lightnings raked the anchorage with machine gun fire. Major Cowper’s unit sent to the Southwest Pacific after victories in the Solomon Islands and Rabaul, is harrassing enemy shipping in the net-work of Jap bases east of Ne.w Guinea and south of the Philippines. Finishing at Gatesville high school in 1936, Cowper finished at the University of North Caro lina in 1941 and joined the AAF the same summer. He is 25 and unmarried. DOUGHNUTS AT FRONT. In Red Cross clubmobile, “General Lee”, Barbara Ridge way, New York City, sets out trays of doughnuts before moving to front lines to serve troops fighting in Luxem bourg, Germany.^ Funeral Services Held Wednesday For Mrs. Edwards Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Gatesville Methodist Church for Mrs. Mattie Hinton Edwards, 76, who died Monday afternooh, October 16, at her home in Gatesville following an illness of three and a half years. The Rev. J. M. Jolliff, her pastor, Officiated, assisted ^y the Rev. T. Sloane Guy, pastor of the Gatesville Baptist Church. Burial was in the Gatesville cemetery. Mrs. Edwards was a native of See SERVICES, Page 7 county youths are miJBHBanotJier missing since D-Day has been reported a pri soner of wax,.-and a fourth has been wounded, according to in formation reaching Gatesville in the past Week* Pvt. Willie N. Jones of Corapeake who was wounded in France, treated in England and returned to the front, has been missing in action since September 19. Sgt. Harry A. Liniger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Liniger of Gatesville, waist gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress and recent ly awarded the Air Medal, is missing following a flight over ■> Germany on September 28. Missing since D-Day, Pvt. Wil liam H. Holloman, husband of the former Miss Otelia Meeder of Gatesville, was reported a pri soner of the German government See TWO MJSSING, Page 7 $2,160 Collected In Campaign For United War Fund Four townships have met their quotas in the United. States War Fund drive, according to the Rev. J. M. Joiliff, chairman of the Gates county committee. Holly Grove, Mintonsville, Hunters Mill and Hall townships . have reported to Mr. Joiliff a total of $2160 against the coun ty’s quota of $3500. Partial re ports have been received from two of the three remaining townships and Mr. Joiliff is under the impression that the goal will be reached by the end of the week. The Negro division under Howard • Mitchell, which ac cepted a quota of $500, also has yet to make a final report. Club Hunters Bag Three Big Bucks; Dress 500 Pounds The Gates , county Hunt Club has recently staged another big deer hunt in which 30 members took part, bagging three big bucks from which they dressed more than 500 pounds of deer meat. The lucky huntsmen were Perry Tyler, Curtis Greene and Taldmage Vaughan. Two bucks1 provided other hunters fair targets, but failing to bring them down, the un fortunate hunters lost part of their shirts as is tire custom with hunters who miss fair targets. At Welfare Session Gates county welfare super intendent Miss Clarine Gatling was in Raleigh last week to at tend the sessions of the 25th an nual Public Welfare Institute held at the Sir Walter Hotel. HEALTH OFFICE TO CLOSE The regular Wednesday morn ing venereal disease clinic will not be held November 1 in the Gatesville health department of fice. The office will be closed on that date as the personnel of the department will be attending the health meeting in Raleigh.
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