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Wf' Volume 13, No. 34 GATES COUNTY INDEX _The °nly Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, April 25, 1945 (One Week Nearer Victory) 12 Pages This Week four lined For Violations Of Forest Fire Laws Sunbury.—Four Gates county men have been tried under specifications of the • forest fire laws recently, acording to B. B. Powell, district, ranger. Fines, costs and fire fighting assess ments amounted to a total of $74.80 in the four cases. Vernon Pierce of Corapeake found guilty of burning without a permit, was fined $10 and costs of court amounting to $9. The fine was suspended upon pay ment of the costs of court and on condition that he secures a per mit before burning again. J. P. Blanchard of Gatesville was found guilty on a similiar See FINED, Page 10 Mrs. Sue Hudgins Buried Tuesday; Died in Suffolk Suffolk.—Funeral services for Mrs. Sue B. Hudgins," widow of C. W. Hudgins, who died Satur day night at a local hospital after a long illness, were conducted Monday at the R. W. Baker Fun eral Home by the Rev. F. L. Baker, of Oxford Methodist Church, and the Rev. Thomas Collins of Gatesville, N. C. Burial was in the Gatesville Cemetery. Mrs. Hudgins was a native of Gates county, N. C., the daughter of the late Josiah and Mary Chappell Blanchard. She had |t 'ived in Suffolk for the past 25 V ears and was a member of Ox ford Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, Staff Sergeant William A. Rawles, U. S. Army; a granddaughter, two step-sons, J. W. Hudgins, of Hobbsville, N. C., and G. C. Hud gins, of Suffolk; a brother, Samuel H. Blanchard, of Gates ville, N. C. Pfc. J. W. Hofler Injured Overseas Sunbury. — Pfc. J. Willard Hofler of Sunbury was wounded in action in Germany on Feb ruary 27. He was wounded in his left thigh by shrapnel, and is now in a hospital somewhere in France. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hofler and has been over seas since December, 1944. WOUNDED AGAIN. Pfc. Joseph C. Liles of Sunbury, was slightly wounded for the second time in Germany on March 23. AS MILLIONS PAY LAST HOMAGE — With the Capitol dome an imposing backdrop, the military procession, headed by the caisson bearing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s body, winds its way down Delaware Avenue toward the White House. The sad journey from Union Station was viewed by millions. The Presidential and U. S. flags bring up the rear. Warrant Officer J. E. Hinton Is Killed In Action In France Carters.—Chief Warrant Of-~ ficer James E. Hinton, of the 20th Armored Division’s Finance Section, was killed in action in France on March 3. He died at a base hospital on that day after suffering a bullet wound in the head a few hours earlier, ac cording to messages from friends reaching his wife who lives with her parents in Atlanta. Hinton, son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hinton of the Carter neighborhood, is Gates county’s nineteenth war casualty. The Hintons left Gates coun ty and moved to Andrews ,S. C., in 1931, the same year that James graduated from high school and joined the Army. He attended the Army fina nee school in Washington, D. C., and then was assigned to Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Moultrie, S. C. Later he attended the Army Fin ance school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and was assigned to duty at Camp Campbell, Ky. He went overseas in February and was killed less than a month later in the Normandy sector. His parents moved back to Gates county from South Caro lina several years ago and at present are living in the same vicinity where James was born and spent most of his early years until he entered the armed forces. His wife is the former Dorothy Stewart of Atlanta, where she lives at this time. Garland Bunch Wins Silver Star Hobbsville. — Cpl. Garland J. Bunch, husband of Mary E. Cartwright Bunch of Hobbsville, was awarded the Silver Star for bravery in action against the enemy. He held off an enemy counter attack with a 30 calibre machine gun and at the same time re laying artillary commands. KILLED.—Pfc. Sornie Cecil 'Eure, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Eure of Gates, was killed in Germany on February 24. He had first foeen reported miss ing in action. Seal Sale Drive Amounts to $426 Gatesville.—A total amount of $425.75 was realized in the cam paign for funds for the North Carolina League for Crippled Children recently conducted in Gates county under the guidance of Miss Clarine Gatling. Proceeds from a dance staged at Sunbury early in the cam paign netted $147. White schools in the county sold Easter Seals amounting to $135.35, as follows: Gatesville, $45.64; Sunbury, $35. 50; Hobbsville, $24; Gates $17.10; Eure, $13.11. Sales made direct to indivi duals by Miss Gatling’s office amounted to $38.50. Colored schools in the <;ounty contributed the following amounts: Ballard, $1.25; Beauti ful White Oak, $3.30; Buckland, See SEAL, Page Z Dismal Momp As Nationaworest Urged in Virginia North Carolina’s 1 Help Is Asked Acorn Hill.—Concluding a two-day inspection tour of the Great Dismal Swamp, members of the Virginia State Conservation Commis sion meeting in Norfolk Fri day afternoon agreed to en dorse the effort to have the swamp taken into the Na tional Forest System, and to request the North Carolina Conservation Commission to cooperate in the undertak ing, since almost half of the swamp lies in this State. Accompanying the commis sioners on their tour which be gan with ground inspection Thursday morning and ended with a flight over the area by blimp Friday afternoon, were C. Wiley Grandy and Manager Wil liam S. Harney, representing the Norfolk Association of Com merce, officers of the Norfolk Isaak Walton League, George Dean, Virginia State forester, T. S. Turner, district forest warden, R. M. Evans, northeastern re gional director for the National Forest Service, and Lucius Blanchard, manager of the Gates County Index. Carolinians Invited Members of the North Carolina Conservation Commission had been invited to participate in the tour and discussions, Tout had declined since Governor Cherry has not yet made his appoint ments. The Virginia Commission members voted to (1) recommend See SWAMP, Page 3 G. Gatling Heads Cancer Campaign Gates.—G. D. Gatling is serv ing as chairman of the Cancer Control drive for Gates county. Mrs. G. C. Worrell, county coun cil president of Home Demon stration Clubs, is assisting him. Mr. Gatling is urging a gener ous response to the cause and asks that contributions be sent to Miss Ona Patterson, home agent, Gatesville, who is trea surer for the drive. All organizations in the county will be contacted concerning the cancer control drive. Felton Lands 81 Pound Sailfish < Miami Beach, Fla.—Pfc. Noah E. Felton of Eure, N. C., re cuperating at Miami Beach, re cently became a member of the Miami Beach Sailfish Club. Fish ing from an Army yacht, he caught a white marlin weighing 81 pounds and measuring seven feet, two inches in length. Private Felton sent home the certificate awarded him for safe keeping. He had been fighting in the European theatre before re turning to the States for rest and re-assignment. He is a son of Mr^ and Mrs. E. J. Felton. . i I i EWH | ENTERING WHITE HOUSE. President Harry S. Truman, shown above, entering the White House has recently re ceived a loyalty pledge from Democratic Senators. Thomas Rountree At Miami Beach F orRe-assignment Miami Beach.—T/Sgt. Thomas B. Rountree, 29, of Hobbsville, N. C., has arrived at Army Ait Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassign ment processing after complet ing a tour of duty outside the continental United States. Medical examinations and classification interviews at this post, pioneer of several redistri bution stations operated by the AAF Personnel Distribu t i o n Command for AAF returnee of ficers and enlisted men, will de termine his new assignment. He will remain at the redistribu tion station about two weeks, much of which will be devoted to rest and recreation. As a B-24 Liberator engineer gunner, Technical Ser geant Rountree flew 39 missions in the Southwest Pacific. His wife, Virginia, and his father, T. W. Rountree, live in Hobbsville. Sergeant Rountree entered the Army in September, 1942. WOUNDED1 in action in Ger many, Lieut. John Paul Lentz, former principal of Gates high school, is back in action. Lieut. Lentz is with a field artillery regiment and has been, a ward ed the Purple Heart. The form er principal is a native of Stony Point.
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