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GATES COUNTY INDEX _The 0nly Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville, W. C., Wednesday, April 11, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) | - 12 Pages This Week Liotiim Workers % In Action The folkwing clothing and community service chairmen will receive clothing in their com munities for the United National Clothing Collection for the desti tute peoples of war devastated countries. This drive began April 1 and closes April 30. This will be the only nation wide cloth ing collection to be conducted this spring in Gates county. Ariel, Mrs. P. C. Tyler, Mrs. G. L. Gatling; Carter, Mrs. B. V. Brown, Mrs. Stanley Carter; Corapeake, Mrs. H. A. Eure, Mrs. Elton Taylor; Eure, Mrs. T. C. Lawrence, Mrs. Ernest Smith; Gates, Mrs. C. W. Guthrie, Mrs. D. A. Willey. Gatesville, Mrs. Walter Har rell, Mrs. John W. Artz; Hazel ton, Mrs. J. C. Benton, Mrs. J. B. Whitehurst; Hobbsville, Mrs. Oscar Riddick, Mrs. Daisey Spiv ey; Middle Swamp, Mrs. H. C. Brinkley, Mrs. Riddick Jones; Reynoldson, Mrs. J. N. Eure, Mrs. John Langston; Roduco, Mrs. Elijah Felton, Mrs. Odessa White. Sandy Cross, Mrs. T. J. Stal lings, Mrs. Mary Gregory; Sun bury, Mrs. J. S. Pierce, Mrs. A. V. Hofler; Trotville, Mrs. G. T. Riddick, Mrs. E. A. Benton; Zion, Mrs. S. E. Spivey, Mrs. W. M. Spivey. Mrs. T. C. Lawrence and Mrs. Ernest Smith, Eure, request that all articles of clothing in their community be brought to Miss Nellie Ruth Greene’s Store or to the Eure School. Mrs. D. A. Willey and Mrs. C. W. Guthrie, Gates, ask that clothing in Gates be brought to Mrs. C. W. Guth rie’s home (Methodist parsonage) or to the first aid room at the Gates School. Mrs. J. A. Payne, Jr., Succumbs On Sunbury. — Funeral services were held near Culpeper, Va., Saturday afternoon at Lael Bap tist Church for Mrs. Mary Anne Payne, 67, mother of Dr. John A. Payne, 3rd, of Sunbury, who died Thursday morning at the home of her son where she was visiting. She had been ill Jor a week. The Rev. Herman Inge and the Rev. E. V. Peyton officiated. Burial was in the church ceme tery. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Conway Guthrie of Brook neal, Va., Miss Stella M. Payne of La Grange, Va., Mrs. C. P. Hathaway, Jr., and Mrs. Brooks Morgan of Sunbury; two sons, Dr. John A. Payne, 3rd of Sun bury, and Thomas W. Payne of Alexandria, Va.; five grand children, a sister, Mrs. P. H. See MRS. PAYNE, Page 3 Lewis to Preach At Damascus Church Sunbury.—The senior glee club at Sunbury will render a special musical program and the Reverend Dr. Lewis of Ports mouth will deliver the sermon at Damascus Christian Church Sunday night at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to at tend, according to an announce ment. KILLED OVERSEAS. Lieut. Frank Ray Aheron, above, husband of the former Eileen Matthews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A, C. Matthews of Gates, was killed in England on March 11 as his plane crashed on returning from a mission over Europe. His death occur red on the first anniversary of their wedding. ClinicsFor Children Scheduled Pre-school clinics will be held in Gates county beginning in April. Dr. W. P. Jordan, district health officer, and Mrs. Eliza beth H. Crouse, public health I nurse, who will conduct the clinics, urge parents to cooperate by having their children who will begin school next year at the school in their community on dates listed below: Eure, April 18, at school, 1:30; Gates, April 25, at school, 1:30; Sunbury, May 2, at school, 1:30; Hobbsville, May 9, at school, 1:30; Gates Training, May 16, at school, 1:30; Gatesville, May 23, at health department office at 1:30. Immunization against diph theria will be given to all who need it, as well as the smallpox vaccination. All children enter ing school must have both vac cinations. It is important that parents come with the children so that a discussion of defects found may help toward getting corrections made. Bagley in Outfit That Fought Off 1,000 Nazi Planes With the Fifth Army, Italy.— Cpl. Rollache R. Bagley, Jr., of Hobbsville, is a member of the 105th Anti-aircraft Battali o n, whose flak in the skies over the Mediterranean Theater since the invasion of North Africa has driven off 1,000 German planes, shot down 75, probably destroy ed an additional 46 and damaged many others. Now on the Fifth Army front See BAGLEY, Page 7 TOO LATE FOR THIS WEEK Meeting of Eure HD Club held last Thursday. Eure quilting party held last Friday. Shower for Mrs. Felton held Saturday. Gates PTA meeting held last Tuesday night. - Announcement of special serv ices at New Middle Swamp. Sawney C. Eure of j i ates Is Eighteenth CasualtyJ rf War “Drop A Line to A Sailor;” Lonely Seaman Wants to Hear from Friends Out here mail from home and the thought of going home are about all there is for us to look forward to, and going home is almost out of the question at the present time, so how about a line or two for a sailor, friend.” The above is the gist of a let ter to the Index from James R. Butts, seaman, second class, “somewhere in the Philippine Islands.” Those who have the addresses of the following boys are asked to send them to Seaman Butts: Fentress Harrell, of the Army; Thurston Jolliff, of the Army; Hurshell Carter, of the Army. Butts has requested the addres ses of these Gates, county boys and apparently wants to write them. Unless a person has been a long way from most of the people he knows for a long time, he cannot know how important it is to receive mail from the folks back home. Seaman Butts wrote: “I would also appreciate it if you will ask some of my friends —the ones that will—-to drop me a few lines some time. It seems since I got out of school in Gates ville in 1940 I have drifted away from a lot of them, but in person only; my thoughts of them still linger on.” The Index is anxious to carry out Seaman Butts’ request, and hereby asks that his friends write him regularly in the future. The following is his address: James R. Butts, Sl/c, Acorn No. 30, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California. King Arrives In Philippine Islands Drum Hill.—J. J. King, son of Mrs. Eva King, has arrived safe ly in the Philippine Islands, ac cording to a recent letter. Pfc. King had been stationed at Camp Lee, Va., for the past year and a half. He wrote that is get ting along well but that the Philippines do not compare with Gates county. ARRIVAL OF SPRING.— Spring, as represented by Joan Leslie, has arrived in Holly wood. While Washington has been displaying cherry blos soms, California is content with orange blossoms and movie stars to mark the end of winter. SKIPPER. Lieut. L. C. Hand, Jr., of Gatesville, has been promoted to commander on the destroyer escort which he served for a year as executive officer. His ship is operating in the Atlantic. Burning Permits Stopped After a disastrous fire that burned over 60 acres of C. C. Edwards land near Sunbury on Sunday afternoon, and while two more fires continued to rage in the county Monday afternoon, orders went out to deputy forest fire wardens instructing them to issue no more burning permits until after a “good rain.” Laying cause of the Sunbury fire to “carelessness,” B. B. Powell district forest ranger, said Monday that issuance of a permit does relieve the burner of responsibility in connection with damage that may result. After a permit has been issued, the man who intends to start the fire is supposed to notify all pro perty “joiners,” those who own the properties adjoining his. Approximately 65 men were engaged in fighting the Sunday fire. Valuable pulpwood timber again was destroyed. The fire was under control Monday, but according to Mr.^Powell, whose orders came from the State, any fires started before the next big rain—with or without permits— will be illegal fires. Ceiling Fowl "Prices Retail ceiling prices for poultry for April have been announced by the County War Price and Rationing Board as follows: live fryers 40 cents per pound; live hens 36 cents per pound; live old roosters 29 cents per pound. MRS. ALSTON ILL Drum Hill.—Mrs. Oscar Als ton of Drum Hill is ill at this writing and is confined to her bed. .. .*st reported missing in Germany since February 24, Pfc. Sawney Cecil Eure, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Eure of Gates, was killed in action on that date, according to a message received by his par ents from the War Depart ment on Friday. Private Eure was the eighteenth Gates county man killed in action or train ing since the day of Pearl Harbor. Fourteen white men and four Negroes are now on the Index Roll of Honor commemorating those who have given their lives for their country. Graduating from Gates High School in 1940 and from Chowan College in 1942, Private Eure was 20 years of age. He entered the armed forces in April, 1943, and had left the United States for overseas duty less than a month before he was killed. He was a brother of Lieut. Emma Eure Ware, Army Nurses Corps, whom he met and talked with in Germany a short while ago. A brother, Pfc. Edward' Eure, is a patient in the hospi tal at Fort Story, Va. Besides the two named above, he is survived by his parents, five other sisters, Mrs. William Councilman of Craddock, Va., Mrs. Herman Ward of Hobbs ville and Helen, Malene and Musa Eure of Gates; and one other brother, Quinton Eure of Gates. Advocate Carries Collins’ Report On Chureh Work The following report on pro gress of churches in the Gates ville Charge recently appeared in the Christian Advocate. It was prepared by the Rev. Thomas A, Collins, pastor of churches in the Gatesville Methodist Charge. I should like to tell you about our Crusade for Christ, for I feel the people have done splendidly in view of all that is demanded of them this year to bring the See ADVOCATE, Page 7 No Episcopalian Services Sunday There will be no services in the Episcopal churches of the Gates field Sunday, April 15. The priest-in-charge, the Rev. John H. Bonner, Jr., left Monday to begin a one-week preaching mis sion at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Lumberton. Mr. Bon ner expects to be back on April 20. HENRY BRINKLEY DIES AT HOME Trotville—Henry Brinkley, one of the oldest and most highly respected colored citizens of this place, died Tuesday morning at his home here after an illness of several weeks.
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