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GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County -■ - ■ ■■ -- • - - Volume 13, No. 21 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, January 24, 1945 i - — (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 pages This Week Langston Is Killed ^Overseas Staff Sergeant Thomas H. Langston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Langston of Gates^was killed in action in France on Dec ember 16, according to word re ceived from the War Depart ment iby his wife, the former Miss Mildred Coble of Greensboro. ' Entering service two years ago, he received early training at Camp McCain, Miss., and Fort Jackson, S. S., later going over seas in October. Besides his wife and parents, he is survived by three brothers, David Langston and Harry Langton, Jr., of Gates, and Rich ard Langston of Norfolk, Va., and two sisters, Miss Maline Langs ton and Mrs. Edward Miller both of Gates. Estate of G. D. Langston Wins $10,865 in Suit Among 22 opinions handed down last Monday by the Vir ginia Supreme Court of Appeals was a decision reversing the Nansemond County Circuit Court on a ruling involving Mills E. Godwin, Jr., and the Camp Manu | cturing Company of Franklin. In reversing the county court’s decision, the Court of Appeals awarded damages in the sum of $10,865 to Mills Godwin, Jr., ad ministrator of the estate of George Dempsey Langston, who was fat ally injured in the collision of his automobile with a railway car at a crossing on the Suffolk Whaleyville highway. Gates Youth Langston was the son of Mrs. M. E. Langston and the late Sher iff Langston. He was 22 years of age at his death four years ago. He was returning from the President’s Birthday Ball in Gatesville to his work in New port News where he was em ployed in the shipyard. The fatal accident occurred at about 2:45 on a Sunday morning early in February. The judgment was against.the Camp Manufacturing Company. The opinion said there was cre ditable evidence to prove there was no one at the scene of the accident to warn the approach ing motorist except two travelers who had previously been stopped. It was testified that employees of the company had left the scene after flagging these two travelers. Wins I^yner Youth Said idissing In Action Pvt. Elbert L. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Williams, of Tyner, has been missing in action since December 20 according to a telegram from the ar Depart ment received by his parents Wednesday. Pvt. Williams had been in serv ice since May 20, 1944 and was serving in an infantry outfit in the Luxembourg area at the time he was reported missing. PENICILLIN FOR DAIRY CATTLE—A doctor holds the penicillin, a type unfit for human use, to be administered to prize bull which is shown in its oxygen tent suffering from pneumonia. This drug has worked wonders with dairy cattle. Collins Explains Methodist ‘Crusade for Christ’ Program NEW HERO UNLIMITED— If ever there was a truly home spun hero, Pfc. Leo J. Powers, limited service soldier from Fort Lawton, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor, qualifies for the title. He is 35, under height and weight, with false teeth. But the citations which he received and the stories told by his few sur viving buddies, prove that he rose to almost superhuman heights on February 1, when, single-handed, he made it pos sible for his battalion to take Hill 175, near Cassino. By Rev. T. A. Collins D-Day has come to the Metho dist front! The task is before us; bathed in prayer and christened in faith, the Crusade for Christ has been launched. Gates county must have a part in this program if Methodism is to succeed. The Crusade for Christ has five major spearheads. They are not disjointed but like the fingers of a hand—each finger with its sep arate function but with a rela tion to the whole hand. The thumb is the Crusade for' A New World Order. This has been known as the ‘'Bishops Crusade” for the past two years in Methodism. It is to continue through the quadrennium and its purpose is to register in Wash ington the opposition of Metho dism to isolationism and our deep desire for machinery of coopera tion among nations in the post See COLLINS, Page 6 Polio Fund Movie “The Kansan-’, starring Rich ard Dix, Jane Wy>att and Albert Dekkar, is the title of the picture which will ibe sponsored by the Gatesville Home Demonstration club for the benefit of the In fantile Paralysis drive. This picture will he shown Tuesday night, January 30, at the Gatesville theatre, Gatesville. The door will open at 7:30, the show starts at 8 o’clock. Treasury Department Commends Newspapers and Bond Ad. Sponsors The Sixth War Loan was the most successful sales promo tional program ever known in the history of the world—War Bond sales totaled $21,621,000,000. , ■ / ■ Your outstanding support, with sponsored War Bond adver tising was a major factor in the success of the drive. All America should give thanks to you, to your newspaper and your sponsoring advertisers. The Treasury is most sincerely appreciative of the job you are doing. These War Bond drives continue to demonstrate again and again the powerful force of newspaper advertising. The greater the sale of War Bonds in your community, the greater will be be your financial backing to help absorb any post-war re verses for your people and your local merchants. Just as the fighting must go on until final victory, so must the war financing program continue. A maximum amount of sponsored War Bond advertising, on a consistent week after week basis, is most essential to this vital program. If we can be6 of any assistance in helping you build up your regular sponsored War Bond advertising lineage, please do not hesitate to let us know. Secretary Morgenthau, Ted Gamble, Frank Tripp and Tom Lane all join me in expressing the most sincere thanks of the Treasury for the excellent support your newspaper and your sponsoring advertisers have given this total war financing effort. Sincerely yours, S. GEORGE LITTLE, Special Consultant War Finance Division. Wartime j OfFarmLe Each Neig Iietings lersFor orhood Eugene Hoffler Home; SawService In Three Zones Lieut, (jg) Eugene Hoffler has arrived here at his home after service for the past several months in the South Pacific. Lieut. Hoffler has been in serv ice 22 months and wears the At lantic War Zone, the European Middle East, the Pacific -and the Combat bars showing active serv ice under heavy bombardment in these areas. The son of J. C. Hoffler and the late Mrs. Pennie Hoffler of Gates ville, and t»he nephew of Mrs. Dixie Smith, he graduated from Gatesville High School and at tended Louisburg College. Rountree Bill To Make Buses Safer Passes Readings Representative W. J. Rountree ol' Gates forwarded the first bill from an Albemarle s.olon to the reading clerk of the house Tues day. Mr. Rountree’s measure is de signed to safeguard Gates coun ty school children from being late to school or getting involved in an accident because of me chanical trouble with the bus. His measure would require the chairman of the Gates County Board of County Commissioners or a member of the board, ap pointed by the chairman, to in spect the school buses 10 days before each term of Superior Court in Gates county. He would have the service of the county mechanic in making his examination of each school bus. After inspection of every bus before the court term the chair man of the board or the com missioner, appointed by him, would make a report to the Su perior Court judges about the condition of the buses. The chairman of the commis sion whom he appointed to make the inspection would be paid his regular per diem as a county commissioner and would also re ceive money for his traveling ex penses to the county’s various schools. The bill will apply only to Gates county. Mr. Rountree’s bill (HB36) was reported favorably by the House on Thursday, passed sec ond and third readings in the House on Friday and on Satur day was received by the Senate and sent to the committee on counties, cities and towns. 284 Vote For Soil District To date a total of 284 favorable ballots have been returned to the county agent’s office for organ izing and including Gates county in the Roanoke-Chowan Soil Con servation District. After Wednes day, today, no more votes will be counted. The county agent feels that the State Soil Conservation Commit tee will approve the total vote as being sufficient to justify being included in the district. All of the 130 leaders in the 34 neighborhoods in Gates coun ty are requested to meet with the home and farm* agents in various communities this week and next week. The date, time, place arid hour of these “informal discus sions” are given below and it is hoped that every man and wom an leader, ^will try to be present even through the time may be in convenient. “The leadership, influence, ad vice and cooperation is needed now more than ever before to help in the various \mar winning activities, such as War Bond drives, salvage collections, vic tory garden^, etc,” according to John Artz, county agent. “The Extension workers feel that they made a mistake last year by not requesting the service of all lead ers in all neighborhoods to assist in the war efforts. A closer as sociation between the leaders and the agents and >a better under standing of the wartime work to be done is anticipated in 1945.” . Leadership Essential Matters .pertaining to the in dividual neighborhood will fob See MEETINGS, Page 6 Wilbur L. Smith Keeps Transports Flying At Miami Nine North Carolinians includ ing Pvt. Wilbur L. Smith of Eure 'are among the hundreds of sol diers making up the skilled main tenance crews that keep the huge transport planes flying out of A A F Transport Command’s Miami Army Air Field. Not many of these nine have been higher off the ground than a double-deck bunk, and their glory comes second-hand. But they form the grounds crews whose industry and ingenuity in the records ATC is setting every day in carrying high priority material and personnel to war theatres all over the world on such runs as-the famed Fireball Express between Miami and In dia. Pvt. Smith, classified as C-54 mechanic, is the son of Willie T. Smith of Eure. Jethro Brinkley Dead at Age 74; Funeral services for Jethro Brinkley, 74, who died at his home near Corapeake Friday morning, were conducted Sunday afternoon at Eureka Baptist Church, the Rev. R. E. Brittle, pastor of Cypress Chapel Christ ian Church near Suffolk, offici ating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Brinkley is survived by five sons, ''V R. Brinkley of Shaw boro, 'Bert r v of Corapeake, and Willis E v ,7 of Corapeake; one dauguter, Eunice Brink ley of Corapeake; one sister, Mrs. Missouri Brinkley of Corapeake; and a half-sister, Mrs. Pennie Asbell of Corapeake. \The body was removed to the Rountree and Hofler funeral home in Gatesville where it re mained until the hour of the funeral. Buried
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