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Volume 13, No. 42
GATES COUNTY INDEI
The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, June 20, 1945
12 Pages This Week
BROTHER AND SISTER.—Lt. Lester W. Stallings
and Pvt. Ruth K. Stallings are the son and daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Stallings of Hobbsville.
ILt. Stallings, 24, inducted in
(the Army June, 1944, was recent
ly graduated from Officers Can
didate School, Infantry, Fort
Benning, Ga. Lt. Stallings attend
ed N. C. State7College and Lotiis
iburg College and worked for Rust
Engineering Co. before being
inducted in the' Army. He mar
ried the former Miss Alice Co
hill of Winston-Salem. Lt. Stal
lings has been assigned to duty
at Camp Blanding, Fla., and Mrs.
Stallings and children are mak
ing their home with him.
Pvt. Stallings, 22, volunteered
for the WAC also in June, 1944.
‘She received her basic training
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and has
been on duty at Deshon General
Hospital, Butler, Pa. She is now
attending Officers Candidate
School in Physical Therapy at
Lawson General Hospital, At
lanta, Ga. Upon graduation she
will be given a commission in
the Army Medical Corps. Pvt.
Stallings is a graduate of Louis
burg College and East Carolina
Teachers College, holding a B. S.
Degree in home economics and
science. Before joining the WAC,
Pvt. Stallings worked ' in the
Metallurgical Laboratory, Nor
folk Navy Yard.
Ten Gates County
OPA Cases Heard;
* Results Given Here
Raleigh.—Suspensions and set
tlements involving 10 Gates coun
ty firms and individuals charged
ivith violations of Office of Price
Administration regulations were
announced today by Theodore S.
Johnson, Raleigh district direc
tor.
The announcement followed
receipt at headquarters of official
rulings signed by Chief Hearing
Commissioner Daniel Bell of At
lanta. The hearings were con
ducted by Bell in Raleigh.
Johnson explained that the or
ders signed by Chief Bell sus
pended certain firms from buy
ing, selling or delivering meats
for periods as long as one year.
In some cases the suspensions
were ordered effective for only
30 days dqring which*time the
firms cannot deal in the com
modities. The remainder of the
!ime is made inactive provided
See OPA CASES, Page 10
HollyGroveLodge
Meets Wednesday;
Visitors Expected
Holly Grove. — Holly Grove
Lodge No. 12, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, will hold its re
gular communication at 8 o’clock
on Wednesday evening, June 27,
at the lodge Hall in Holly Grove,
according to an announcement.
Several members of Acharee
Lodge No. 14 of Elizabeth City
are expected to visit the Holly
Grove lodge at the meeting. In
addition to regular business, a
short prgoram is planned for the
interest of all who attend.
All members of the local lodge
are urged to be present and
members of other lodges are
cordially invited.
OVERSEAS. — Pfc. Robert
R. Eason, husband of the form
er Joy Ward of Gates vjlle, is
serving with the fifth armored
division of the Ninth Army.
He took his training at Florida,
Texas, Alabama, Tennessee and
New Jersey. He has been in
the Army since September,
1942, and 'been overseas since
January, 1944.
Pfc. Eason has seen action
in France, Holland, Belgium
and Germany. Prior to enter
ing the service he was em
ployed with the Citizens Rapid
Transit Company of Newport
News as bus driver. Pfc. Ea
son is now at Leinfelde, Ger
many. He writes that he is get
ting along fine.
Pfc. R. Eason is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Eason of
Gatesville.
Vacation Bible Schools
Planned For Mont Of July
Payments to Needy and Dependent 3
Increased During Past Year; Welfare!
Unit Reviews 12 Months Activity
vj- a res vine.—As the state and
its counties prepare to go into
another fiscal year next week,
North Carolina public welfare
agencies look forward to even
greater accomplishments in
1945-46 than in the year com
ing to a close on Saturday.
During the past 12 months
Gates county has increased its
average payment monthly to
needy aged persons from $10.25
to $11.30. The state-wide aver
age has gone up from $10.67 to
$12.50, according to Clarine Gat
ling, county welfare superin
tendent.
In this county there were 115
persons receiving old age as
sistance last June as compared
with 105 this month.
Gates county has increased its
monthly average grant to fam
ilies of dependent children from
$18.39 to $22.13 for the 19 fam
ilies now receiving aid. A year
ago there were 18 families re
ceiving this aid. The state aver
age payment to dependent chil
dren is $24.76 for the month of
June, 1945. A year aga it was
$18.29.
Miss Gatling said she had
been advised by the State Board
of Public Welfare of Raleigh
that 3d of the 139 city jalis and
lockups had been inspected dur
ing the year along with all coun
ty homes and county jails.
These, said the local welfare
head, represent only part of the
progress made in public welfare
in North Carolina ia the last 12
months. Plans for the future will
include more service to veterans
and their families along with
expanded work in other lines,
she said.
It’s Rats Again
Gatesville.—Mrs. T. A. Eure
says she recently lost seven
home-hatched baby chicks,
weighing around three-fourths
of a pound each. Mrs. Eure had
placed them in a coop and board
ed up the front she thought in a
secure manner.
But next morning, upon tak
ing away the boards to let the
chicks out for the day, she was
greeted by the “chirp” of one
lonely chick, the puniest one of
all. The other seven were lying
on the floor, victims of a rat
which evidently had squirmed
through a crack between bbards.
Affirmative Wins
Gatesville.—In an impromptu
debate on whether there is more
sport in fishing than hunting,
Tazewell Eure and Leroy Hand
defeated Aaron Lilly and Dr. T.
L. Carter, using the affirmative
side of the question at the Mon
day night meeting of the Gates
ville Ruritan Club.
Two new members added to
the club, and in a string swal
lowing stunt Tazewell Eure de
feated Paul Hofler.
OKINAWA TOONERVILLE.
Marines of the 1st engineer
battalion use this dilapidated
Toonerville-like railroad car
for a dispatcher’s office north
of Naha. Left to right, they are
T/Sgt. Richard D. Monroe,
Baltimore; 1st Lt. Howard F.
Taplett, Tyndall, S. D.; Pfc.
Charles E. Wheat, Louisville;
Cpl. Benton £. Phelps, Jr., Pul
aski, Tenn.; and Cpl. Virg'il L.
Edmisten, Letcher, S. D.
Sunbury Native,
I. 0. Hill Dies In
Suffolk at Age 83
Suffolk.—Isaac Owen Hill, 83,
prominent merchant and bank
er and founder of the I. O. Hill
& Co. Funeral Home here, died
Thursday at his residence, a
short while after suffering a
heart attack.
A native of Gates County,
born and reared near Sunbury,
Mr. Hill was the son of the late
J. R. and Mary Anne Harrell
Hill. He moved to Suffolk in
1889. In 1891 he established the
furniture firm of I. O. Hill & Co.
and a few years later established
the funeral home bearing his
name. He was vice-president,
director and member of the dis
count board of the National
Bank of Suffolk, of which he
also was one of the original
stockholders.
He was an active member of
Main street Methodist Church,
for many years was a member of
its board of stewards and at the
See I. O. HILL, Page 6
Son Bom; Father
Died in S. Pacific
Norfolk.—A son was bom to
Lieut, and Mrs. Roy B. Hall
on June 14 in Norfolk General
Hospital. The infant is also
named Roy Burton Hall, but
the lieutenant never saw his
son. He lost his life enroute
from New Guinea to Luzon on
February 11,1945, when enemy
torpedoes sunk LST-577.
Lieutenant in the United
States Infantry, Hall was a na
tive of Canaan, Vt. Mrs. Hall
is the fdrmer Eleanor Glenn of
Gatesrville. '
Gatesville. — The Methodist
churches have made tentative
olans for the Summer Vacation
3ible Schools. The Rev. John T.
*4aides, a theological student
from Duke Divinity School, will
'assist the Rev. T. A. Collins in
taking charge of the schools for
this summer. Mr. Maides is from
Maysville and has been assisting!
the Rev. C. W. Guthrie at Gates
for the past month since school
was out for the summer. Mr.
Maides will /be on the Gatesville
charge for the month of July.
As scheduled now, unless them
are changes in plans to be an •
nounced later, the Gatesville
Zion Vacation Church School
will be held the first week in
July, beginning Monday, July 2,
and continuing throughout tho
week. The time of meetings will
be from 9:30 a. m. to 12 noon
All children from Gatesville and
Zion community are invited with
the age limits being approxi
mately 4-14.
The Philadelphia Methodist
Church will hold a Vacation
Church School the second week
in July, beginning July 9, and
continuing throughout the week.
All children from Sunbury aru
invited from the Baptist and
Christian churches as well a**
others. As usual it will be in the
nature of a union meeting but*
will be held this year at thn
Methodist church. The same timo
and age limits apply as now
planned.
“Further plans and the teach
ers for the schools will be an
nounced soon, so watch for them
and plan to attend your Vacation
Church School for study, inspira
tion, and entertainment,”, Mr.
Collins said.
Chinch Bugs Had
Their Day; Now
Are Disappearing
Gatesville. — “It appears that
the chinch bug has had his day
for this season at least and is now
disappearing from the four
farms, where two weeks ago, he
was running rampant in a few
fields of corn,” according to John
Artz. However, since then, one
young farmer, Billie Lawrence,
of near Gatesville reported that
he had found infestation on a
few rows of corn but an investi
gation next day disclosed that
only slight damage had been
done and the insects seemed to
be vanishing fast.
L. T. Lilley, dairyman of
Gatesville, also found the chinch
bug in two cuts of corn. No wide
spread damage was done but a
few rows and some scattered
hills had been destroyed.
In all, five farmers had report
ed outbreaks of the insect to the
county agent. However, there
may have been, other farm opera
tors suffering similar damages.
State Extension Specialist in
Entomology (Insects) J. Myron.
Maxwell, was in Gates county
last Thursday upon request and
visited three infested farms.
The specialist said Artz is car
rying out the only practical
means of control which was ac
cording to his advice given pre
viously by letter and by tele
phone, namely: spraying with
nicotine sulphate and soapy
See CHINCH HUGS, Page 7