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GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County GatesviUe- N. C„ Wednesday, April 4, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week Five-Day Fire Loss Hits $! 10,000 MISSING.—Sgt. ^^ert M. Gatling of Gates, solPdf' Mrs. Nell M. Gatling, has been missing in taction over Ger many since February 16. He was serving in the Army Air Forces as an aerial gunner. War Fund Up Over The Goal Complete returns in the Red Cross War Fund have reached a total of $4,003.93. This is $503. } 93 above the chapter goal set for the chapter by the area head-, quarters, according to the Rev. T. Sloane Guy, Sr., chapter chairman. This is a very fine showing, and speaks in a fine way of the splendid spirit of Gates county people, and the fine way they discharge their duty and meet their obligations,” he said. “Our negro friends also did fine work in overscribing the goal set for them. They raised a total of some $530.00,” he ad ded. The chapter chairman also ex pressed his presonal thanks to all who aided in bringing about the final results. Lawrence Appeals To Supreme Court; $10,000 Bond Set Douglas P. Lawrence appealed to Supreme Court after a Gates county jury found him guilty in Superior Court last week of pas sing a forged check. Three other check charges were continued. Judge John J. Burney, presiding, has fixed Lawrence’s sentence at four to five years in the State’s penitentary at hard labor. Represented by Herbert Leary of Edenton, C. Wallace Jones of Winton, and T. W. Costen of Gatesville, Lawrence’s case had attracted a considerable amount of interest in Gates county. Judge Burney gave him 60 days to perfect his appeal and set his appeal bond at $10,000. Lawrence was still in Gates county jail Monday evening. John McGee, inmate of the prison camp near Gatesville, was See LAWRENCE, Page 3 Seventeenth Gates County Mm Is Killed In Overseas Action uates county mourned its seventeenth son killed in action Saturday when it was learned that Pfc. Bernard E. Hobbs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Hobbs of near Gates, died in the fight ing on I wo Jima. Pfc. Hobbs, U. S. Marine Corps, was wounded on March 1, and died while enroute to a hospital ship, his parents were advised by the War Department. Pfc. Hobbs’ name appears today on the Index Roll of Honor. Twenty years of age, he was in the Fourth Marine Division, and received his training at Par ris Island, S. C., and New River. He entered the service in June, 1944, and arrived in Honolulu on Thanksgiving Day. In addition to his parents, he is survived by three sisters and three brothers, one of whom is in the Pacific with the Maritime Service. Lieut. Roy B. Hall Another casualty related to Gates county, is that of Lieut. Roy LIEUT. HALL KILLED Mrs. Hall was advised by letter from another lieutenant Tuesday morning that Lieut.' Roy B. Hall was killed on the morning of February 11 when his ship was torpedoed en route from New Guinea, the Index learned at press time. B. Hall of Canaan, Vt., husband of the former Miss Eleanor Glenn, daughter of Mrs. John M. See SEVENTEENTH, Page 6 132 Sign Up For Current “Property owners in the coun ty who are without electric lights should be mightily pleased with the announcement in the Index of March 21 by the Virginia Elec tric and Power Company outlin ing its expansion program for rural service when material and labor becomes available,” John Artz said Monday. “It is hoped that the proposed expansion of the V. E. P. along with the extension proposed by the R. E. A. will materialize as planned. The services of these agencies with the coopera tion of the people should enable Gates to be one of the best light ed rural counties in the state. It appears now that electric cur rent in the near future will be available to the majority of our rural homes. It may be a realiza See 132 SIGN, Page 6 In Science Club Mars Hill, (Special) — Miss Lillian Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Parker of Gates, has been selected to membership in the science club, the honor club in science and mathematics, at Mars Hill college. Miss Parker is a second honor roll student and is a member of the Nonpareil Literary society. V*S0 MIGHTIEST CARRIER LAUNCHED—The world's largest warship, the U. S. S. Midway, 45,000-ton aircraft carrier, which was recently launched at the Newport News drydocks. The Midway will be the home of a “1945 model aircraft”, so new it has not yet seen combat action. The combination will not be a pleasant one to be contemplated by the Japanese war lords. Sawney C. Eure On Missing List Pfc. Sawney Cecil Eure of Gates has been missing in ac tion in the German theatre of war since February 24, ac cording to information recent ly received by his parents from the War Department. He had left the United States for over seas duty less than a month earlier. Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Eure of Gates, iPfc. Eure en tered the armed forces in April of 1943. L.C. Hand Commands Destroyer Escort Lieut. L. C. Hand, Jr., of Gatesville, has been promoted to commander of his ship, a destroy er escort operating in the Atlan tic on which he served as exe cutive officer last year. Lieut. Hand has been in ser vice since the fall of 1940, leav ing Wake Forest College at the end of two years and going directly into service. He was home for a short while three weeks ago. Clothing Drive Is Underway The United National Clothing Collection for the destitute peo ple of liberated countries will be conducted in Gates County April 1-30. The home agent and home demonstration county council will take the lead in sponsor ing the drive. Every home dem onstration club member is asked to bring at least one garment and more if possible to the April club meeting where the war service chairman, and clothing leader will receive it and prepare See CLOTHING, Page 3 TO PREACH SUNDAY H. H. Powell of Suffolk will conduct preaching services at Eureka Church Sunday; Sunday School at ill -o’clock and preach ing at noon. The Reverend R. P. Ferguson of Mt. Airy has been extended a call to the field of three churches and will begin the pastorate in June. Flier, Husband of Gates Girl, Dies On Wedding Anniversary Lieut. Frank Ray Aheron, 25, was killed in the European theatre of operations on March 11, according to a War Depart ment message received by his wife, Mrs. Eileen Matthews Aheron of Norfolk, ..daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Matthews of Gates. A native of Spray, he got his Army Air Force wings in April and went overseas in September. Lieut, and Mrs. Aheron had been married exactly one year on the day he was killed as his plane crashed at Cranfieid, Bedford shire, England when he return ed from a mission, according to Mrs. Aheron. Lieut. Harry L. Matthews was her brother and Cpl. Fred D. Matthews was her cousin. Both were killed in plane crashes, and both, Gates county boys, are listed in the Index Roll of Honor. Lieut. Aheron had been award ed the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal by the Eighth AAF See FLIER, Page 6 Dozen Warrants ' To Be Served, Ranger Declares Eighty thousand dollars is the estimated loss in pulp wood, mining timbers, pil ing, saw-logs and young growing trees as the result of a dozen separate fires that swept over more than 4,000 acres of Gates county woods lands during the period from Wednesday through Sunday. As a further result of the fires*, District Ranger B. B. Powell said Monday that at least a dozen warrants will be served on the first rainy day, when the 16 de puty fire wardens in Gates coun ty can spare the time from their fire-fighting activities to furnish proof against those who start ed brusn and ditch fires without permits. Timberlands in Reynoldson, Gatesville, Hunters Mill ami Holly Grove townships were among those the hardest hit by fire. Individual loss in timber property was sustained by Chesapeake Camp Corporation, Ernest Turner, C. E. Lang, W. A. Lassiter, Ed Miller and Mrs. Sal lie Jenkins among others. Few Hours Sleep Powell, who has been pinch hitting for County Warden Faub Taylor during his illness, and at the same time performing his own duties as district ranger, said that few of the 16 regular deputy wardens in addition to 80-odd volunteer fire fighters, have had more than a few hours sleep since the first fires were detected last Wednesday. Only two fires were burning Monday afternoon, however, and these had been surrounded and were under control. Not since April 5, 1943, when See FARE LOSS, Page 7 Opa Price Program Tuesday The government’s new ami far-reaching textile-apparel and house furnishings program and the part the retailer will play in that program will be explain ed to merchants in the Gates county trade territory at a meet ting to be held at the agricul ture building in Gatesville Tues day night at 8 o’clock. This meet ing will be conducted by a Mr. Houston from the OPA Prico Division, Raleigh. All retailers of any item of ap parel, dry goods, shoes, furni ture, bedding, lamps and floor coverings should arrange to at tend this meeting as the provi sions of the new regulation which will have direct bearing on the future conduct of their business, will be discussed and explained in detail. Theodore S. Johnson, District OPA Director at Raleigh haa said that plans for the organiza tion of a merchants’ committee in each locality to help War See OPA, Page 3
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