GATES COUNTY INDEX
The Only Newspaper Published in and /or Gates County
Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, July 11, 1945
12 PaCPR Tihic Woolr
Rain Guage Says
2 Inches in Week;
Too Wet to Work
Gatesville. — Between Satur
day night, June 30, and Tuesday
morning, July. 10, the rain gauge
at Gatesville recorded several
hard showers, a total precipita
tion of two inches. It has been
too wet to work in many fields
and cotton, peanuts and gardens
are calling for help. Weeds and
grass are trying to take over.
The heaviest shower occurred
Saturday night, June 30, between
10 and 12:30 o’clock when slight
ly over an inch of rain fell.
Then, on July 5 between 10
a. m. and 9 p, m., the precipita
tion was three-quarters of an
inch. The last hard shower rec
orded at the time of this writing
(Tuesday morning) fell Sunday,
July 8, around 11 o’clock. It last
ed only 20 minutes during which
time it rained one-fourth inch.
These recordings are official
and are supposed to reflect the
rain fall for the entire county.
A summary of the chart readings
for a year will probably repre
sent the county’s rain fall ac
curately, but the amount of rain
that falls during any one day or
eveir during a week in some other
section of the county, may be
more or less than is actually in
dicated on the gauge at Gates
ville.
Timberwolf Home
Visiting Parents
New York.—Sg't. Harshell W.
Carter is home on furlough, visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. W. Carter who live on route
one, Hobbsville.
Carter is a member of the fam
ous Timberwolf Division and
participated in the Holland, Bel
gium and Germany campaigns.
The 104th Infantry (Timber
wolf) Division was the first to
travel directly from the States
to France. Little more than a
month after landing, the Tim
berwolves, led by Major Gen
eral Terry Allen, went into the
line and remained in continuous
combat for over six months.
The final phase of Timberwolf
combat in Naziland saw the men
of the 104th racing to the Mulde
river where the last remnants of
the Wehrmacht were crushed be
tween the Russians and the
American First Army making
that sector the first in Germany
to be cleared and completely con
quered.
This victorious division which
has never given an inch is in the
United States now. While here,
comibat veterans will be granted
furloughs and will then be given
training to prepare them for
further battles in the Pacific
against the Japanese.
Mrs. Ausbon Fills
School Vacancy
Gatesville.—Mrs. Della L. Aus
bon of Hobgood, graduate, of
East Carolina Teachers College,
will fill the vacancy at Gates
ville High school created by re
signation of Mrs. Roy Parker,
lacording to an announcement
from W. Henry Overman, super
intendent of Gates county
schools.
Mrs. Ausbon, who has been
teaching in public schools for
nine years, will have charge of
the English and French depart
ments.
COMPANY PRESIDENT AT SEVEN—Red-haired, freckle
faced little Kenny Bales is only seven years old, but is owner,
president,'general manager and handyman of the Acme Stool
and Novelty Company, High Point, N. C. He sells from 200 to
600 units a week, directly to furniture jobbers. Started with
$200 loaned by Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Bales, who adopted the lad
in 1942.
Eure Killed By
Lightning Bolt;
Buried Sunday
Roduco.—Funeral services for
Charles E. Eure, age 69, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at
the home. Burial was in the
family plot in the Ahoskie ceme
tery.
The services were conducted
by the Rev. J. Sidney Cobb of
the Reynoldson Baptist Church
assisted by the Rev. J. M. Roberts
of the Eure Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lillie Holland Eure; three
sons, Charles R. Eure, Roduco,
Gordon E. Eure, Roduco, and
Nollie J. Eure with the United
States Army in Europe; one
daughter, Mrs. E. C. Sanderson,
Wallace; one brother, E. D. Eure,
Roduco.
Mr. Eure was a prominent
business man and farmer of
Gates county. He was killed in
stantly Friday afternoon as he
left the field to get out of a rain
storm and was struck by a bolt
I of l^htning as he approached
the yard.
Pallbearers were Clyde Eure,
^John D. ^ure, Jim Sam Eure,
Ernest Brinkley, Wesley Byrd
and Joe Henry Gardner.
Honorary pallebarers were
friends of the family. The body
was removed to the Rountree
and Hofler Funeral Home, Gates
ville, where it remained until 11
o’clock Sunday morning when it
was taken to the home for the
service.
Mr. Farmer, You
Can Win a Prize
Gatesville. — In connection
with—National Farm Safety
Week, set aside for July 22-28
by the National Safety Coun
cil, this newspaper will award
a prize.
Watch next week’s issue to
find out how to win this prize.
Mayfield Here
For New Duties
Camp Butner. — Pvt. David
Mayfield, son of Mrs. Lena May
field of Gatesville, Route two, is
now stationed at the Army
Ground and Service Forces
Redistribution Station here,
where he will spend two weeks
before reporting to his new as
signment in the United States.
Private Mayfield was returned
recently to the United States
after having served 20 months
in the Pacific theatre of opera
tions where he served as gen
eral engineer.
He holds the good conduct rib
bon, American defense ribbon
and the Asiatic-Pacific theatre
ribbon with two campaign stars.
Gates Gl is 1 Farm
And 4,0(|' Acres In
5 Years, (I nsus Says
Washington, D. C.—The num
ber of farms in the county of
Gates, State of North Carolina,
as shown iby the preliminary
count, of returns of the 1945 Cen
sus of Agriculture was 1,309, as
compared with 1,308 in 1940, and
1,395 in 1935. This was announ
ced today by Denton W. Lupton,
supervisor for the 1945 farm
census in the First North Caro
lina Census District with head
quarters at Washington, N. C.
The total land in farms in
Gates county, according to the,
preliminary 1945 census count,
was 106,568 acres, as compared
with 110,348 acres in 1940, and
98,051 acres in 1935. Average
size of farms shown in the pre
liminary 1945 census count for
Gates county was 81.4 acres, as
compared with 84.4 acres in 1940,
and 70.3 acres in 1935.
In announcing the 1945 census
totals of farms and land in farms
in Gates county, Supervisor Lup
ton pointed out that the figures
are preliminary and subject to
correction. Final tabulations of
Gates county farm census re
turns will be made by the Bu
reau of the Census and announ
ced from Washington when com
pleted, Mr. Lupton said.
Mrs. Horton Dies
Of Heart Attack
Eure. — Funeral services for
Mrs. Martha Jane Horton, 69, of
Eure, who died last Wednesday
at 7:30 a. m. of a heart attack,
were held Thursday afternoon
from Cool Spring Baptist Church
by the Rev. John Lanier of Win
ton. Burial was in Cool Spring
church cemetery.
A life-long resident of Gates
County, Mrs. Horton was the
widow of William Horton, and a
daughter of the late William and
Ann Harrell. She was a member
of Cool Spring Baptist Church.
Surviving are two sons, John
W. Horton of Ahoskie and Oscar
L. Horton of Eure; and a brother,
John Harrell of Gates County.
Active pallbearers were W. T.
Umphlett, T. J. Harrell, Claton
Horton, F. F. Harrell, O. R. Har
rell and Lloyd Blades.
It’s A Small World To Vets
Who Have Returned Home
By LUCIUS BLANCHARD
Gatesville. — Three Gatesville
boys—members of the Armed
Forces—met in the Index office
Wednesday after months and
months at stations on far parts of
the earth. Listening to their
travel discussions, I was con
vinced that to these veterans of
the present war, our planet is
a small one indeed.
Major William R. Cowper, Jr.,
Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Hubert
Thurston ' Eason and* Sergeant
Lockwood Sawyer; all Gates
ville boys, they have seen much
of the world since they last saw
each other. Boys together until
war broke out, they are now
men, and they speak of Paris,
Berlin, Borneo, Australia and the
Philippines in much the same
manner and with about the same
familiarity that you and I speak
of Suffolk and Sunbury.
Long distances are slight ones
to an Air Forces major, a sub
marine man and a communica
tions specialist. The major flew
the longest fighter plane mission
on record: 1,900 miles in the
Southwest Pacific. The phar
macist’s mate for 36 months
cruised on and under the for
bidding waters of the wartime
Pacific Ocean from Attu in the
Aleutian Islands to the Philip
pines and beyond.
The sergeant has seen wartime
Paris and the devasted cities of
France, Germany and Czechos
lovakia. He'has seen the evidence
of Nazi atrocities—and “the re
ports are not exaggerated,” he
adds.
They all arrived in Gatesville
at albout the same time, and they
had at least one statement in
common to make: “Just say that
we are g'lad to be home,” they
told me.
Sawyer and Eason last saw each
other at Christmas in 1943 when
they were both home at the same
time. Major Cowper had seen
neither of them since even be
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Twine in Division
Cited Overseas
With the 35th Infantry Divi
sion' in Germany. — The 35th
Signal Company, of which Pfc.
William Twine of Gatesville is
a member, has been awarded the
Meritorious Service Unit Plaque
for superior performance of
duty. It is the first such award
for the division.
Since D-day the 35th Signal
Company has laid more than
10,000 miles of wire in France,
Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland
and Germany. Its radio section
has maintained uninterrupted
radio contact with the regiments
and higher Army commands,
with the exception of brief pe
riods of strategic radio silence.
The radio repair team has
averaged almost 300 repairs a
month in keeping more than 700
radios in operation. The Message
Center has handled almost 100,
000 messages without an error.
The Signal messengers have
jeeped over mined roads, under
blackout conditions, through,
enemy fire, through hub-deep
mud, on icy roads and covered
a total mileage of over 100,000
miles.
The signal wire crews have
worked long and irregular hours'
in forward combat areas, repair
ing lines broken by enemy shell
fire and giving division units
almost uninterrupted telephone
communication.
Pfc. Twine married the former
Miss Pattie Baker of Gatesvilk
and Suffolk.
Mrs. Crouse On
2-Week Vacation
Gatesvjlle.—Mrs. Elizabeth H.
Crouse, public health nurse will
be out of the office from July lt>
through July 28 on her vacation.
However, the office will re
main open and appointments can
be made through Mrs. Joy Easoa.
secretary.
Dr. W. P. Jordan, will hold
clinic hours each Wednesday as
usual.
Collins to Conduct
Revival at Zion
Zion.—The Rev. T. A. Collins
will conduct revival services to
be held at Zion Methodist church
during the week beginning Au
gust 6.
The first service will be held
Monday night at 8:30, and sue
cessive meetings will be held
each week day at 4 p. m. and at
8:30. The closing service will be
held Sunday morning. Everyone
is invited to attend, the an
nouncement said.