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7 GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County GatesviUe, N. C„ Wednesday, February 21, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week WINS PILOT'S LICENSE. —Dorothy Wiggins, above, daughter of J. S. Wiggins and the late Mrs. Wiggins of Trot Ville, recently earned a com mercial pilot’s license and an instructors rating at Texas fields. Funeral Services For L. C. Carter Funeral services for Lonnie C. Carter, who was born in Car ter’s section on February 7, 1888, were held at Gatesville Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. T. Sloane Guy, pastor, of ficiated, assisted by the Rev. T. A. Collins, pastor of the Metho dist Church of Gatesville. A quartette composed of Mrs. T. Sloane Guy, Mrs. Sallie Hathaway, Charles Blair, and W. M. Spivey sang “Rock of Ages”, “Sometime We’ll Understand”, and “The Christian’s Good Night”. For 43 years he was a consistent member of Gatesville Baptist Church. Pallbearers were W. B. Mann and J. J. Joyce of Norfolk, L. L. Hoggard and S. B. Carter of Suf folk, L. C. Hand, Hertelle Hof ler, W. Henry Overman, and Rob Brown of Gates county. • Mr. Carter, who was associated with the Reliance Fertilizer Company of Norfolk for the past eight years, died of a heart at tack while driving his car near Roanoke Rapids last Saturday af ternoon. ^ He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Naomi Pittman Carter; one daughter, Mrs. L. P. Hinton of Hobbsville; a sister, Mrs. L. C Powell of Portsmouth; two broth ers, C. H. Carter of Hobbsville, and Dr. T. L. Carter of Gates ville. County Red Cross Quota Is $3,500 The annual quota of the Gates County Chapter of the American Red Cross for the year 1945 is $3,500. The drive to secure this amount will begin March 1. The same plan of township organization as was used . last year will be used again this year. The set-up is now being made, and it is expected that it will be completed within the week, s according to T. Sloane Guy, r chairman. Godwin Assistant Transport Officer Recently reporting for duty as assistant transportation officer at the San Antonio (Tex.) Aviation Cadet Center was Second Lieu tenant Edward R. Godwin, of Gatesville. He is, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Godwin, of Gates ville. Lt. Godwin was last stationed at Ellington Field in Texas. Ellenor Imposes Fines on Vagrants In Gates Court Two cases of vagrancy in Gates county Recorder’s Court Tuesday resulted in fines amounting to $75. Ed Walton, Jr., Negro, for a second offense, was fined $50 and costs; George Riddick, colored, was fined $25 and costs. Jasper R. Rountree of Powells ville, and Joe Hayes of Eure, Ne groes, were fined $50 and costs each and were deprived of their driving licenses for . driving drunk. Found guilty by Judge E. S. A. Ellenor of assault with a deadly weapon, Hubert Cullens, colored of Hobbsville, was fined $50 and costs. Charges of assault with a dead ly weapon lodged against James Park, colored of Roducd, were found to be frivolous and the prosecuting witness was taxed with the costs. Wiley Piland of Gatesvilie, paid $10 and costs for speeding. M. F. Capps of Raleigh was fined the same amount for a similiar offense. LawrenceHdd On 4 Forgery Counts P. D. Lawrence of Gatesville, was arrested in Norfolk by Vir ginia police and has been brought back to Gatesville for a hearing Tuesday before Judge E. S. A. Ellenor on four charges of forgery. According to Sheriff L. F. Overman, the alleged forgeries last summer involved sums total ing $150.00. The charge is that Lawrence signed the name of Henry Walton, colored, to four checks and cashed them, or pas sed them in Gates county. Lawrence has been Working in the Naval base at Norfolk and was just located last week, Sheriff Overman said. Program Week Of Prayer Held Sunbury.—Mrs. A. V. Hofler, president of the woman’s so ciety of Damascus Christian Church over the week of Prayer program held at the home of Mrs. Almira Hinton last Friday. Those taking part were Miss Annie Lassiter, Miss Blanche Pierce, Mrs. Walter Hofler, Mrs. E. A. Johnson, Mrs. J. M. Byrum and Mrs. Hinton. Whit Langston Knight Missing Whit and Lucy Knight of Gatesville have received a tele gram from the War Department advising that their son, Cpl. Whit Langston Knight, has been miss ing in action in France since January 29. Knight, Gates county Negro youth, who formerly worked at a Portsmouth service station, had only recently been awarded the Bronze Star medal for heroic achievement in Belgium. He en tered the armed forces in No vember, 1942. LASSITER MADE SERGEANT Notice has been received of the promotion of Waymore Lassiter from corporal to sergeant iri the U. S. Army. He is serving in France. Baines Is Waging To Exterminate f paign cV Cats “February Court Day” Lacks Its Old Excitement “February Court Day” in Gates has lost much of its excitement in the past five years, and on the Monday just passed the only ac tivity marking the traditional third Monday was that of mule trading in front of the court house. February Court Day had its beginning away back before the Civil War when it was known as “February Hiring Day.” Fishermen from the fish land ings that flourished along Gates county rivers came to town to seek help for spring operations, and Gatesville was filled to overflowing with people from miles around. Later it became February Court Day, and in the words of oldtimers, it was a day of trad ing, fighting, drinking, greeting old friends and seeing who could tell the biggest lies. You could get a drink or a fight or almost anything you wanted on the third Monday in Febru ary. Before the February term of Superior Court vwas discon tinued, it was also the opening day “of court and thereby came to be known as “February Court Day.” ’*■ Patent medicine vendors and horse traders added to the ex citement and color. But the day, described in Gates county as “a sort of un official get-together,” has lost most of its color. Except for the mule trader who sold his wares Monday, the day might have pas sed completely unnoticed. DOWNS JAP.—Major Wil liam R. Cowper, above, shot down his first Jap plane re cently. He crippled and part ly accounted for a second one the same day. Maj. W. R. Cowper Gets Nip Plane In Single Burst Headquarters, 13th AAF, Southwest Pacific.—P-38 Light ning fighter pilot, Major William R. Cowper, Jr., of Gatesville, shot down his first Jap plane, a Lily (medium bomber), as he led his 13th AAF Fighter Command’s White Knights unit in an attack See COWPER, Page 5 DATES SERVICE MEN ONLY.—Chief reason for run ning this picture of Anne Sar gent Lincoln, selected as the most glamorous debutante of the 1944 social season, is that she dates service men only, and thereby gets her name and picture in the papers. We don’t know where she lives, boys. Like ‘Being Home Awhile’ To Read Index, Is Said In a letter to the editor dated February 4, Philippine Islands, Phil Godwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Godwin of Gatesville, wrote “First, I will say that Dad has been sending me the paper every week, and when I get it, well, it’s almost like being back home for a while. I look forward to it, and when I get it I read everything, the want-ads in cluded.” To his friends in Gates county, Phil wishes the Index to say for him: “I have received many Christmas cards and letters from many of you, and I wish I had the. time to write each of you a letter of appreciation. I want you all to know that I do appreciate the cards and most of all I ap preciate you remembering me. “I just hope it won’t be too long before I can be back there with you. When I do get back, you won’t be able to drive me away with a gun even.” Pvt. Wiggins I ir Army Hospital Camp Pickett, Va., Feb. 20.— Pvt. Gel on S. Wiggins, husband of Mrs. Kathleen Wiggins of Corapeake, has arrived at the U. S. Army General Hospital, Camp Pickett, Va., from the European theater, where he has seen action with the First Army in the bat tles of France, Belgium, and Ger many. An alumnus of the Hobbs&lle high school, Pvt. Wiggins was engaged in industry with J. S. Wiggins of Trotville, prior to his induction into the armed forces. ■itest Single ace To Young Game, He Asserts Generally regarded as one of the county's foremost sportsmen, John Baines is waging a one-man war against what he terms the greatest single menace to the conservation of wild life in Gates county. The common house cat, reared in the wild state, destroys more game than all hunters com bined, he declared in an inter view Monday. The woods and brush of the county harbors them by the thou sands, he added, and Baines is credited with being about as thoroughly acquainted with Gates county woodslands as any man in this area. It was just *a week or so ago, he said, that his hounds treed near Bennett’s Creek. “I found they had- treed a huge tabby who held a big quail rooster in his teeth,” he went on. “I killed the cat, but even in death, he held the quail clenched tightly.” Woods Full of ’Em Baines • declared they are in the woods actually by the thou sands, and he lists among the game that falls prey to them small' squirrels, rabbits, young turkeys and quail. *T know they kill and eat this game, he said, “because I never saw a wild cat yet that wasn’t sleek and well fed.” “Many fellows think it’s bad luck to kill a cat, but they’re a bigger nuisance than foxes, and I kill every one I find. The man who doesn’t think the woods are See BAINES, Page 5 E.L. Riddick West Point Alternate Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner today announced the ap pointment of Raymond Evans Fearing as principal to West Point. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Fearing of Elizabeth City. Alternates to the principal ap pointment are David Collin Bar nes, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Barnes of Murfreesboro; Wil liam George Jackson, son of Mrs. Elsie B. Jackson of Poplar Branch; and Emmet L. Riddick, son of Mrs. Nellie Riddick of Gatesville. Mr. Bonner stated that this ap pointment was to fill a vacancy paused by the resignation of a former appointee. Fearing is a private in the Army, and is now serving in Ft. Riley, Kansas. Barnes is a pri vate in the Army and is now serving in the Pacific area. Jack , son is at present in school at Fork Union Military Academy, Fork Union, Va., and Riddick is j also serving with the Army. Meeder Visits Old Friend In ’Frisco Since finishing a furlough on December 17, John Meeder, Jr., C. 'Phm. df Gatesv&lle, has been in San Francisco and has had the pleasure . of making frequent visits to the home of John S. Rawls, C. Phm., and his wife. Rawls is also a Gatesville boy. Recently, just before leaving for the fighting zone, Meeder called his parents over long-distance telephone from San Diego.
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