Infantry Show Here Thursday
GATES COUNTY INDEX
_ 'rfee Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
Volume 13, No. 13 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday', November 29, 1944 (One Week, Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week
C. (1 Spaulding To
^ Speak At Lebanon
In War Bond Rally I
' SPEAKER. —C. C. Spauld
ing, one of the South’s out
standing and most successful
Negroes, will be the featured
speaker at a meeting to be
held Sunday, December 10, at
Lebanon Grove Baptist Church.
Dr: Spaulding is president of
he Mechanics and Farmers
lank of Durham and Raleigh
and of the North Carolina Mut
ual Insurance Company.
GodwinRetiresAs
Judge of County
Recorder’s Court
“I retire with ill will toward
none and good will toward all,”
said Judge A. P. Godwin as he
conducted his last term of Gates
County criminal Court Tuesday.
A. E. S. Ellenor, elected to the
judgeship without opposition in
the May primary, will take of
fice on the first Monday in De
cember. He was formerly coun
ty representative.
Judge Godwin, appointed by
the board of commissioners on
August 5, 1932, has been re
gularly returned to office each
two years by the board until
August, 1944, and then by act
of the General Assembly from
that date until December, 1944.
During his tenure of office,
Mr. Godwin told the present
board of county commissioners,
the August term of Superior
Colirt has been discontinued, and
approximately $20,000 in cash
has been collected in fines and
See RETIRES, Page 7
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IB Examinations
To Be Resumed
Dr. J. M. Jackson, district
health officer, will hold fluoro
scopic examinations at the Win
ton health department, Wednes
day afternoon, November 29, at
3:00.
Those interested in appoint
ments for future clinics should
call the health department. No
examinations are given except
by appointment.
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What is expected to be one of
the biggest Negro meetings ever
staged in Gates county is plan
ned for the afternoon of Sunday,
December 10, at Lebanon Grove:
Baptist Church in the interest of t
the^ Sixth War Loan and for j
better racial relations. Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, one of the South’s
most successful Negroes, will be
the principal speaker. He is pre
sident of the Mechanics and'
Farmers Bank of Durham and <
Raleigh, president of the North'
Carolina Insurance Company and j
takes an active part in inter-!
racial affairs. He is known all
over the United States as a lead
er among the people of his race.
The program at Lebanon will
feature speeches and music and
will be under the direction of
Rev. H. L. Mitchell as master of
ceremonies. J. H. Wheeler, cash
ier of the Mechanics and Farm
ers Bank, of Durham, will ac
company Dr. Spaulding on his
trip to Gates.
Cooperating with other colored
leaders of the county, Mitchell
will introduce all speakers on
the program, and a special musi
cal program has been arranged.
Among those on the program
are the Honorable A. P. God
win, Sr., of Gatesville, Gurney
P. Hood, State Banking Com
missioner, of Raleigh, Robin
Hood, cashier of the Bank of
Gates, Rev. E. W. Griffin of
Corapeake, Rev. M. J. Parker of
Sunbury, Professor T. S. Cooper
of Sunbury, J. M. Lee of the
Gates County Farmers Associa
tion and Rev. H. A. Smith of
Hobbsville. Music will be under
the direction of Nollie S. Mit
chell.
Inasmuch as several white
people have indicated that they
would like to be present to he'_.r
the special music and the speak
er, a place will be provided for
members of the white race who
would like to attend, it has been
announced.
The meeting 'is sponsored by
Robin Hood, chairman of the
Gates County War Finance Com
_
See SPAULDING, Page 3
Two Will Attend
National Farm
Bureau Meeting
R. O. Hobbs of Hobbsville and
Miss Ethel Parker of Gatesville
will attend the Farm Bureau’s
National Convention in Chicago
from December 7 to December
15, John Artz, county agent said
Monday.
Hobbs’ name was drawn in
the Edward A. O’ Neal contest
in Raleigh for securing about
40 new members and he will at
tend the convention as Gates
county’s delegate. Miss Parksr,
State director, will attend the
convention as a State delegate.
On Monday, Gates county was
246 members short of reaching
its goal. Of a 600 quota, only
354 members have signed up.
AT present the membership is
below last year. Mintonsville
>3nd Gatesville are the only
townships in the county report
ing that they have reached the
goals.
Eighty Soldiers T
Thrilling Combat Ex
MACHINE GUN FIRES TRACER BULLETS AT JAPANESE PILL
BOX: Reduction of a Japanese pillbox using deadly assault
weapons of the Infantry is a feature of the show, “Here’s Your
Infantry,” produced by the Army Ground Forces in conjunction
with the War Finance Division of the Treasury Department.
Show is presented all over the country by veterans from The In
fantry School as a part of the Sixth War Loan Drive.
Thirty-nine-man demonstration units will acquaint the people
with the Infantry and its weapons and weapons exhibits will in
clude squad demonstrations of all basic Infantry weapons. The
assault on the Japanese pillbox with flame throwers and other
Infantry weapons is the realistic climax of “Here’s Your J-afantry ”
Official U. S. Army Photo—The Infantry School.*
Pvt. Harrell Badly
Wounded in France
KILLED.—Pvt. William Ed- I
ward Everette, above, was kill- j
ed in action in France on Sep- |
tember 29, according to in- j
formation from the War De- j
partment reaching his mother, !
Mrs. George Wilkins of »near
Gates.
ACA Names Roster
Of Committeemen
For Fiscal Year
The Gates County ACA an
nounces the following community
committeemen for the fiscal year
beginning December 1. , Com
munity committeemen elections
were held last Friaay night. The
first man named is chairman:
the last two in each community
See ACA, Page 8
One of three brothers overseas
in the armed forces, Pvt. Gra
ham R. Harrell of near Gates
ville, has been seriously wound
ed in action in France, according
to information received Saturday
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Harrell, in a telegram from
the War Department.
A letter, not written by him
but dictated by Pvt. Harrell and
received by Mr. and Mrs. Har
rell after the telegram arrived,
said he hopes to be bock home
in the next two months. The
War Department’s message said
he was wounded on October 24.
Pvt. Harrell is 18 years old.
See PVT. HARRELL, Page 6
County Allotted
$500 in War Bonds
By Standard Oil
In line with its policy of al
locating War Bond purchases
among the counties of North
Carolina, the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey has alloted
$500 to Gates county in connec
tion with the Sixth War Loan.
J. A. Buglass, field supervisor
for the company, with head
quarters in Elizabeth City, an
nounced today that the company
has purchased War Bonds on the
amount of $500,000 in North
Carolina in the Sixth War Loan.
Computed in proportion to
each county’s quota, Gates was
alloted $500 toward its Sixth
War Loan drive being sponsored
by the Home Demonstration
clubs of the county.
was in Gatesville
FndHning making final
P1'e^BB lor Army show,
Infantry,” which
will provide the highlight of
Gates county’s Sixth War Loan
drive when it appears on tho
Gatesville school grounds Thurs
day afternoon at 3:30, according
to Robin Hood, chairman’of tho
War Finance Committee.
The show consisting of 80 in
fantrymen from the Infantry
school at Fort Benning, Ga., will
arrive in Gatesville at 10 o’clock
by truck from Fort Monroe, Va ,
and will have lunch as guest;
at the Legion hut. After tho
show they will move on to Ahos
kie for supper and then to Tar
boro to stage a second show on
Friday.
The show will include a 28
piece Army band, Sgt. Snyder,
the “advance man”, said. It will
include exhibits of Infantry wea
pons, man to man combat (one
phase of which is an unarmed
American soldier unarming a
Japanese soldier and killing him
with his own bayonet), and as
a climax, the realistic assault on
an enemy pillbox with machine
guns, flame throwers, bazookas
and grenades.
Robin Hood washes the Index
to emphasize that “Here's Your
Infantry” is not a moving pic
ture, that it is free, and that it is
an out door spectacle which will
be moved indoors if the weather
is unfavorable. Moved indoors,
only the pillbox assault will be
eliminated.
Annual Sale Of
Christmas Seals
Well Underway
Annual sales of Christmas
Seals are now underway in Gates
county and the public is asked
to contribute liberally. The quota
for Gates county is $300.
Mrs. J. T. Sawyer, chairman,
points to one big and specific
reason for buying more Seals
than ever this year. “We must,”
she said, “take care of the i’e
turning soldiers who ai'e victims
of tuberculosis. Already, large
numbers of World War II vet
erans are being sent home with
TB, taxing the capacity of our
institutions.
“These patients are ti'eated and
cai'ed for at government ex
pense as long as they are hos
pital cases, but when they re
turn to civilian life, as so many
will insist on doing even before
they are eui'ed, they will in.
See SALE, Page 3
James Parker. 75,
Is Buried Sunday
James Parker, who died
| ^hurstlay night in Newport
I News, was buried Sunday after
nopn In Gatesviile cemetery. He
was 75 years old. Funeral ser
'deep had been held in Newport
News.
Mr. Parker was a former re
sident of Gates county, moving
away about 30 years ago. He
farmed near Merchants Mill.
He is survived by three daugh
ters and two sons, all of New
port News.