GATES COUNTY INDEX
The 0nly Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, May 16, 1945
12 Pages This Week
Board Votes Wage
Increase to Home
Agent; Busy Meet
%
Gatesville.—By vote of three
to two, Gates county commis
'ioners at their latest regular
leeting decided to offer a $300
alary increase to Miss Ona Pat
terson, Gates county home de
monstration agents for the past
five years. The increase does not1
guarantee however that Miss
Patterson will remain in Gates
county, since her activities are
governed largely by the district
supervisor and the head of her
department.
The demonstration depart
ment recommended a yearly sal
ary increase of $400, pointing
out that other counties in the
state have offered salaries as
high as $50 a month more than
(Miss Patterson receives in Gates.
Several counties in the state,
larger than Gates, do not have
demonstration agents and have
put in bids for Miss Patterson’s
services.
Accepting welfare department
and board of education budgets
as presented, the commissioners
left the tax rate unchanged at
$1.25 for the year 1945.
Unpaid tax accounts for 1942
were ordered turned over to the
law firm of Godwin and Godwin
for collection, and the sheriff
was authorized to begin collec
tion of schedule B taxes.
The county board also agreed
to pay two-thirds of the expense
of erecting an air marker for
Gates county. It is understood
that the Town of Gatesville
would bear one-third of the ex
pense, the total amounting to
$75.00.
Mighty Seventh
D )pens; County
Quota $141,000
Gatesville.—When the Seventh
War Loan officially opened
Monday, Gates county people
had already invested $12,660 in
bonds since the Mighty Seventh
counting period began, accord
ing to Robin Hood, chairman of
the county War Finance Com
mittee.
Against the E Bond quota of
$128,000, bonds totaling $11,
512.50 had been bought. The
county’s overall quota is $141,
000. Series G Bonds amount
ing to $1,000, and Series F Bonds
amounting to $148, brought the
total amount of bonds sold in
'the Seventh Loan to $12,660.50,
Hood said.
He added that no shows or en
tertainments have been planned
in the county in connection with
the drive and that victory in
Europe should be an added in
centive to prospective bond
buyers.
$342 Collected
In Cancer Drive
Gatesville.—Miss Ona Patter
son, county treasurer for the
cancer drive, sponsored by the
Ik tome demonstration clubs, re
>ofts a final total of $342.23
turned in, The county quota of
$241.65 has been exceeded a
littll over $100. The county
cancer drive committee, com
posed of Mrs. G. C. Worrell,
Gates; Mr. G. D. Gatling, Gates;
and the home agent, wish to
thank each contributor and each
enlistment officer for making
this drive such a big success.
Mrs. W. P. Lowe, Reynoldson
Club president, has the distinc
tion of securing more contribu
See CANCER DRIVE, Page 12~
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END OF WORLD’S GREATEST WAR—Col. Gen. Gustav
Jodi, German chief of staff, with back to camera, center, is
shown signing the document under which all remaining forces
of the German armies were bound to lay down their arms in
unconditional surrender. The scene is supreme headquarters
of the Allied forces, Rheims, France. Across the table from
Jodi are (left to right) Lt. Gen. Sir Morgan, Gen. Francois
Sevez, Admiral Bummough, and Lt. Gen.' W. B. Smith, chief
of staff to General Eisenhower; Lt. Ivan Sherstaeff, Gen. Ivan
Susloparoff, Gen. C. A. Spaatz, Marshal J. M. Ross, Gen. H. R.
Bull, and Lt. Col. Ivan Zenkovitch.
Eight Teachers Not
To Return Next Year
EARLY CASUALTY of the
present war was Chief Tor
pedoman Walter R. Blanchard
of Eason’s Cross Roads, above,
who was lost in 1941 when the
submarine Shark was sunk off
Manila Bay. He had been in
service since 1919.
Over Two Tons
Clothing In
Gates Collected
*" Gatesville. — A total of 3,170
pounds of used clothing was
given by Gates county citizens to
the United Clothing Drive dur
ing the month of April. This
amount, after being sorted, to
taled by types as follows:
Infants, 94; children, 258;
men’s and boys; 871; women’s
and girls, 1,667; shoes, 197; mis
cellaneous, 83.
The following helped with the
final sorting and packing at the
agricultural building, each wom
an giving a half day’s time:
Mrs. Wesley Parker, Mrs. H.
B. Baines, Mrs. H. B. Lilley,
Mrs. C. C. Parker, Mrs. W. Henry
Overman, Mrs. John Glenn, Mrs.
William Cross, Mrs. Edgar Cross,
Mrs. B. V. Brown.
The Gates county collection
was sent to Norfolk Monday
morning, May 4, on Lycurgus
Howell’s truck. The clothes will
be stored in the Norfolk ware
house until shipment overseas is
made.
Gatesville. — All the white
school teachers in Gates county
were re-elected to teach in the
county next year—1945-46—but
eight of those reelected chose
not to continue their work in
the county’s school another sea
son, with the result that seven
vacancies in the white school
system exist at this time.
! All teachers in the present fa
culty at Gatesville^accepted their
posts for another year. Two va
cancies exist at Eure, including
the position as principal. At
Gates there are also two vacan
cies including the principalship.
Mrs. Rufby Keller Corbitt did
not accept re-election to her post
at Sunbury, but the vacancy has
been filled. At Hobbsville three
vacancies remain to be filled.
Those Accepting
Superintendent W. Henry Over
man said the following mem
bers of Gates county school staffs
have accepted: at Gatesville, C.
B. Blair, principal, Mrs. Shellen
Parker, Mrs. Carolyn B. Eure,
Mrs. Helen K. Blair, Miss Frances
Newsome, Mrs. Margaret F.
Rountree, Mrs. Harry L. Ward,
Mrs. Lucy G. Pollock and Miss
Sarah E. Harding.
At Eure, Mrs. H. T. Downs
and Miss Carrie E. Rawls, Miss
Janice Eggleston, principal of the
school, will not be back, and Mrs.
Jimmie B. Hand did not accept.
At Gates, Mrs. Olia Wise
Greene, Mrs. Gattis L. Gatling,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Darden, Mrs.
Eva P. Ellenor. Principal R. E.
Beasley will not return to the
Gates school and Mrs. Doris B.
Wiggins did not accept her job
See TEACHERS, Page 12
Wins Promotion
U. S. Army Headquarters,
Pacific Area.—Thomas J. Over
man of Hobbsville, N. C., has
been promoted to sergeant in
recognition of battle-proven
courage and ability against the
Japanese.
Sgt. Overman is a member of
the 81st “Wildcat” Infantry Di
vision, which -last fall invaded
the Palau Islands and other
Western Caroline Islands. He is
the son of J. C. Overman of
Route 1, Hobbsville, N. C.
PHILIPPINES EXPORT
MUCH SUGAR
The principal exports of the
Philippines are sugar, cocoanut
products, abaca or manila hemp,
tobacco products and lumber.
Oscar Cmech And j
D. S. Jollson Are j
Sunbury Speakers
Sunoury.—J. Warren GeoiH
principal of Sunoury high schM
has secured the following spelH
ers for the Sunbury high school
graduating exercises:
' The commencement address to
the graduates will be given on
Wednesday evening, May 31, at
8:30 p. m. by D. S. Johnson, prin
cipal of Rocky Mount high school,
Rocky Mount. Mr. Johnson re
ceived his A.B. and M.A. de
grees from Duke University. Af
ter graduating he taught in
Thomasville high school and in
Durham. He served at the Ox
ford Orphange school as prin
cipal prior to his present posi
tion.
The Rev. Oscar Creech, pas
tor of Ahoskie Baptist Church,
will deliver a sermon to the gra
duates on Sunday evening, May
27, at 8:30. Mr. Creech is a gra
duate of Wake Forest College,
receiving his B.A. degree from
that institution. He taught school
for six years, then became su
perintendent of schools in Nash
county for five years. He at
tended the Southern Baptist
Seminary after deciding to en
ter the ministry. He has had
also the pastorate of Ahoskie
Baptist Church for the past
twenty years.
A program of the graduating
f exercises will appear in the next
' issue of the Index.
August 15 Set
As Tentative
School Opening
Gatesville. — August 15 has
been tentatively set as the date
on which all schools in Gates
county—both white and colored
—will open for the 1945-46 sea
son, according' to Superintend
ent W. Henry Overman follow
ing a meeting of the county
board of education last Monday.
No closed school season for
helping with the crop harvest is
anticipated at this time, and the
term should end aroout the first
of May. Schools opened the 1944
45 season on August 4 and there
was a school holiday for crop
harvesting.
Under the eight months plan,
See AUGUST 15, Page 12
TELLS OF WAR’S END.
President Harry S. Truman as
he announced the official un
conditional surrender of the
German army, and the end of
the greatest war in history. He
stated that “our victory is but
half won. The West is free,
but the East is still in bondage
to the treacherous tyranny of
the Japanese.”
ADMIRAL DOENITZ. Grand
Adm. Karl Doenitz, right, who
announced the death of Hitler,
left, and assumed the place of
the Fuehrer. Photo was taken
while Doenitz was leading
submarines.
May 29 Poppy
Day in County;
Plans are Made
Gatesville.—Poppies to honor
I America’s dead warriors of tww
World Wars will be worn in
Gates county on Saturday, May
26th, Mrs. W. C. Story, presi
dent of Gates County unit of th«
American Legion Auxiliary, an
nounced today.
The little r;d flowers will pay
tribute both to those men who
have died for their country in
the present war and to those who
fell 27 years ago in France and
Belgium among the swaying’
poppies. The money that is re
ceived for the Bowers will bo
used to aid the afflicted veter
ans of both wars and their
families.
Extensive preparations for the
observance of Poppy Day are
being made by the county unit,
of the Auxiliary here under the
leadership of Mrs. W. C. Story
and Mrs. L. C. Hand, unit Poppy
chairman. Everyone in the coun
ty will be able to buy the flow
ers of remembrance from the
many volunteer workers from
the Auxiliary.
This year it is expected that
more -Americans than ever be
fore will wish to wear the po
pies as a salute to the dead
soldiers and their bereaved
families, and as a financial aid
to the living but disabled soldiers
and their needy families.
Winfred O.Byrunit
Advanced in Navy
Gates.—Winfred Odell Byrum.
22, Route 2, Gates, has been ad
vanced to. seaman first class, U
S. N. R., while aboard a destroy
er of the Atlantic Fleet.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O
Byrum of Gates, he has a broth
er, Roger, 24, a private first
class, in the Army military
police, and another brother,
Albert, a machinist in the Nor
folk Navy Yard.
Before entering the Navy,
Byrum operated a farm with his
father. He attended Chowan high
school, Tyner.