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GATES COUNTY INDEX _The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville, N. C„ Wednesday, March 28, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week John Glenn In Final Training Second Lieutenant John M. Jlenn, 20-yeai’-old son of Mrs. John M. Glenn of Gatesville, is now receiving his final phase of training as navigator of a B-24 Liberator bomber at Walla Walla Army Air Field, a base of the Fourth Air Force in the state of Washington. It is at Walla Walla Army Air Field that combat crews on the mighty Liberator bombers are formed and here that final train ing is given. Before arriving at Walla Walla the men have finish ed a specialist school in prepara tion for their particular job. When they become members of a combat crew their individual talents are coordinated and they become a unified fighting team. Prior to joining the Army Air Forces, Lt. Glenn was a student at North Carolina State College. Gates Schools To Open at 8:30 EWT Beginning Mon. I On Monday morning both ivhite and colored schools in Gates county will begin open ing at 8:30 (EWT) instead of at 9:30, according to an announce ment from W. Henry Overman, county superintendent of schools. A short day schedule will be observed after this week, elimin ating much of the recess periods in order that students may foe released for home, work and chores. Under the new schedule, classes will be dismissed for the day at 2:15 or 2:30, Mr. Over man said. A county wide meeting of white teachers will be held in the auditorium of Gatesville school Wednesday afternoon, April 4 at 3:30. Brothers Meet In Luxembourg With 1258th Engineer Com bat Battalion in Germany.—Pfc. Bennett G. Cowper and brother, Technician Fifth Grade Lyman Cowper, sons of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Cowper of Roduco, were reunited in Luxembourg. The two brothers had not seen each other in over two years. Pfc. Cowper, former service station proprietor is serving with the 1258th Engineer Combat Battalion in Germany and has now been in this theatre for two months. The unit has re cently participated in a com mendation by Lt. Gen George S. Patton, Jr. Technician Fifth Grade Lyman Cowper is serving with a field artillery unit in Germany. Besides Bennett and Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. Cowper are also the parents of Edith, George and Reddick, all of Roduco. Regular Clinic The regular monthly well baby and prenatal clinic will be held in the district health de partment office in Gatesville on the afternoon of April 5 at 3 o’clock, according to an an nouncement. WELCOMES PACIFIC AIR CHIEF—Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general of the U. S. Air Force, was on hand to greet Gen. George Kenney, Pacific air chief, upon his return to the United States. The two are shown at the Miami airport. Legion to Observe Memorial Day By Marking Veterans’ Graves with Flags Gates county Legionnaires of Post 136 and members of the Auxiliary held their first quar terly meeting at the hut Thurs day and made plans for observ ance of Memorial Day with a supper meeting on the evening of May 26. Officers will be elected at that meeting 'and flags will be given to members who will decorate the graves of World War One vets throughout the county on Sunday. Ten Legionnaires and 10 mem bers of the Auxiliary were pre sent. II. C. Eason, Shirley Bain es and J. E. Gregory were named the nominating committee to make' recommendations at the Memorial Day meeting. Shirley Baines, W. C. Story and L. C. Hand and Mrs. John M. Glenn, Mrs. S. E. Spivey and Mrs. L..C. Hand were named the two committees to look after the program and supper meeting for Memorial Day. The Legionnaires took note that C. E. Lang of Gatesville is reported as being ill in the Vet erans Hospital at Kecoughtan, Va. Claude F. Corbitt Upped in Rank Selman Field, Monroe, La.— Claude F. Corbitt of Sunbury, N. C., has been promoted to first lieutenant at Selman Field, where he is serving as a pilot and assistant flight leader in the AAF Training Command Naviga tion School there. A graduate of Sunbury high school and former student at Duke University, Lieuten ant Corbitt was playing professional baseball with the Montreal, Canada, team prior to entering the Army Air Forces in January, 1942. Husband of Gates Girl War Casualty Gates.—Mrs. Eileen Matthews Aheron of Norfolk has been noti fied that her husband, Lieut. Frank R. Aheron, 25, was killed in the European Theatre of Operations on March 11. Mrs. Aheron is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Matthews of Gates. Porcupine Puts Felton On Alert With the 30th Infantry Divi sion.—Pfc. Amos J. Felton, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Felton of Roduco, and a member of Can - non Company, 117th Infantry, 30th division, participated in the recent assault crossing of the Roer river and the subse quent drive to the RhiHe. Pfe. Felton remembers the time he was standing guard in a German town one moonlit night. He heard movement in front of him and called out the challenge. No answer. He called again, when there was still only sil ence he moved forward to in vestigate. He found a porcupine. Stallings Safe In Philippines Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stallings have learned that their son, Pfc. Lindsey M. Stallings, came safely through the recent fighting on Luzon Island in the Philippines. , A graduate of Hobbsville High School, Pfc. Stallings left for the southwest Pacific in October, 1943. He is now serving some where in the Philippines. Walter L. Rites Were Hel Sunday P. M. Funei;gl services for Walter! Lewis Eure, 75, who died at his i home near Gates early Friday morning, were held Sunday af ternoon at the home, the Rev. T. Sloane Guy, Sr., pastor of Gatesville Baptist Church, offi ciating. Burial was in the fam ily cemetery. An active member of the Bap tist Church, Mr. Eure is survived by his wife, Mrs. Maude Sawyer Eure; a son, Ensign W. L. Eure, USNR; and two sisters, Mrs. A. P. Rountree of Gates and Mrs. P. j B. Williams of Suffolk. Pallbearers were E. E. Turner, T. G. Hampton, J. W. Hurst, C. M. Perry, J. A. Russell, M. E. Grimes, R. A. Brown and A. E. Lawrence. Honorary pallbearers were other friends of the fam ily. Music was furnished by the choir of the Gatesville Baptist Church. Sgt. Rountree Is Given Air Medal; On 39 Missions Technical Sergeant Thomas B. Rountree, U. S. A. A. F., hus band of Mrs. Virginia Rountree of Hobbsville. has recently been awarded the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He was cited for “meritorious achievement while participating in aerial j flights” in the Southwest Paci- j I lie area. He took part in sustained j | operational flight missions dur- j | ing which hostile contact was j | probable and expected. These! flights included bombing mis- j sions against enemy installations, j shipping and supply bases, and : aided considerably in the recent ! successes in that theatre. Sgt. Rountree has completed 39 missions as first engineer and gunner on the B-24 Liberator with the 13th Air Force and is j now back in the States for a j leave. ; Five Rountree Measures Ratified In General Assembly Just Ended Hard work and seriousness of purpose were seen by Raleigh columnists as perhaps the dis tinguishing features of the 1945 General Assembly. During the 67 legislative days—as compar ed with 55 days in 1943—1,454 measures were introduced. Representative. W J. Roun tree introduced five of them and all five\ were ratified between January'30 and February 23. A review of Rountree legisla tion and its effect on Gates county would be as follows: HB 36—school bus inspection; mak ing it mandatory for the county bus mechanic and one member each from the county board of commissioners and board of education to inspect the school buses prior to each term of Superior dourt. HB 242—prohibiting Sunday racing in Gates county, horse racing, auto racing, motorcycle! racing. In the measure covered j the whole field of commercial \ racing. HB 374—increasing' the pay of chairmen of the board of■ county commissioners and board of education from $5 to $7.50 per day. HB 375—taking the Recorder’s Court solicitor’s fee out of the bill of costs. HB 405—pertaining to the bonds of mutual burial associa tions. In a bill to authorize the gov erning bodies of counties and municipalities to regulate or pro hibit the sale of wine, the bill was amended in the House to include Gates and Hertford counties among eight others and ratified. The wine bill was not introduced by Rountree. The annual meeting of the W. U. of the Chowan Baptist issociation will convene with e Warwick Swamp Baptist urch on April 3 at 30 o'clock. In addition to the regular pro am, special addresses will bo jven by Miss Kathryn Abee, d Drs. A. L. Gillispie and R. Potts. A large attendance from the sixty churches of the As sociation is expected. Lunch will be served on the grounds. Venire Required; Superior Court Term Underway The spring term of Gates County Superior Court got underwav- Monday with His Honor jnn J. Burney, presid ing. iicitor Chester Morris handle the prosecution. I* ' indicated Monday that a . .al venire of 50 Gates county men would be summoned Tuesday for the trial of John McGee, Negro convict, who is charged with rape on a Negro woman while at large from the Gates County Prison Camp. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit rape on Carrie Winborne, 21, Lonnie Jordan, Negro, motion, was allowed wherein Judge Burney sentenced Jordan to serve two years for assault with a deadly weapon on a female. The prison sentence was sus pended on condition that Jordan is seen in the company of no other women than his wife and that he drinks no alcoholic beverages during the next five years. Seal Sale For Lame Children Reaches Climax The annual Easter Seal cam paign for crippled children will be brought to a climax in the schools of Gates county this week &nd will end Saturday, April 7, according to an an nouncement from Miss Clarine Gatling, chairman of the an nual campaign of the North Carolina League for Crippled Children which opened last week. The goal set for the state is 8100,000 this year. There is no official quota in Gates county, Miss Gatling said, but added that fifty percent of the contribu tions will be retained in Gates county for use by the local chapter of the organization. rs. Hand Ends Price Clerkship Effective April 25, Mrs. Iris Hand has tendered her resigna tion as price clerk of the Gates County War Price and Rationing Board. The daughter of Mrs. M. E. Langston and the late Mr. Langston, former sheriff of Gates County, Mrs. Hand is the wife of Lieut. L. C. Hand, Jr., of the U. S. Navy. Mrs. Hand has served in her present capacity since August, 1943. Her successor has not been i named.
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