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mm* . - - The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Volume 13, No. 47 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, July 25, 1945 THIS IS GECrE. — Fashion’s favorite bathing suit this sum oner is modeled by GeGe Pear son, radio personality. . Antwerp, Belgium.—First Sgt. liufus T. Eason of Sunbury, N. C.„ is now at “Tophat” staging area here awaiting shipment to the United States under the Army redeployment program. Husband of Mrs. Helen Eason of Corapeake, Sgt. -Eason wears the Purple Heart, good < conduct ribbon, Arrowhead, pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon, and the ETO rib bon with /eight stars. Entering the engineers on July 9, 1941, he participated in a number of campaigns in 34 months over seas: the African, Italian, South ern France and Central Eu ropean campaigns. Employed by the Virginia Electric and Power Company be fore entering the armed forces, Sgt. Eason, Sunbury High school graduate, has 123 points under the redeployment program. !. •" Eason Awaiting Shipment From '\>rt of Antwerp Navy Agent To Be In Norfolk Soon Norfolk.—A representative of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selec tion Board, Washington, D. C., will be at the Navy Recruiting Station in Norfolk on July 28 to erview and give qualifying s to applicants> for the Navy’s S program. Successful' seventeen year old applicants will be enlisted im mediately after complete pro cessing and will be assigned to inactive duty until November 1, 1945 when they will be called to active duty and ordered to a Navy V-12 College Unit. Quotas are limited. Applicants should not .delay. Interested men are asked to appear at the Navy Recruiting Station promptly at mraJt 9:00 a. m. Saturday July 28. Openings at Gates Not in Gatesville Gates.—Contrary to a report carried by error in the last is sue of the Index, there are no vacancies in the faculty of the Gatesville school, it has been pointed out. The two vacancies referred to, are in the Gates school faculty where there are open ings for principal and. grade teacher. C. B. Blair is principal of the Gatesville school. R. E. Beas ley was principal at Gates last yean Hobbs Named Soil Supervisor For County of Gates Gatesville.—A total of 103 votes were cast at six voting places during the week of July 16-21 relative to the election of a soil conservation supervisor (leader) for Gates county. Junius A. Hobbs, of Hobbsville, was elected by one vote, having re ceived 39 in all. The second highest man, W. L. (Linwood) Askew, of Eure, re ceived 38, and George P. Kittrell, of Corapeake, was given 27 votes. The vptes received at each of the six balloting places by each of the three candidates are: Kitttrell Askew Hobbs. Corapeake .23 Sunbury .. 2 Gates _ 1 Gatesville ...... 4 ' 3 4 Hobbsville . 33 Eure — 34 Totals.27 38 39 W. H. Lawrence, Farmer, Passes At Age 57 Gatesville. — Funeral services were held at Gatesville Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon for W. Henry Lawrence, 57, pro minent farmer and life-long re sident of Gates county. The Rev. T. Sloane Gfruy, Sr., pastor of Gatesville Baptist Church, of ficiated. Burial was in the family cemetery near Gatesville. Mr. Lawrence, who died Mon day night in the same house in which he was born 57 years ago, was a member and deacon of the Gatesville Baptist Church. Fel low deacons served as pallbear ers. Mr. Lawrence is survived,by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Lawrence; See LAWRENCE, Page 2 Four More County Men Home For Brief Stays With Families RECEIVES BRONZE STAR.—Pfc. Noah G. Harrell of Eure, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Harrell, is shown receiving the Bronze Star from Brig. Gen. Andrew C. Tyson, 100th Infantry Di vision, in Germany.—(Signal Corps Photo.) Noah. Harrell Wins Bronze Star For Communications While Under Fire In Europe Headquarters, luutn lniantry Division.—Noah G. Harrell, pri vate-first class, son of Mr. anti Mrs. L. C. Harrell-of Eure, N. C., has been cited and awarded the Bronze Star Medal “for meritori ous achievement- in action” in France and Germany. The citation said: “Private Harrell discharged the numerous tasks assigned to him in a coura geous and exemplary manner . . . Serving as a wireman in the at tack on St. Remy, he established a comunication line across open terrain while subjected to in tense hostile artillery and mor tar fire which inflicted three casualties in the immediate area. “Three times each night from 19 January to 31 January, he led a patrol under mortar fire to- establish contact with an ad jacent battalion, and for four days he manned an outpost with another enlisted man while sub jected to rifle, machine gun and mortar fire from enemy en trenchments three hundred yards distant.” Private Harrell is shown in a photograph on this page receiv ing the Bronze Star from the as sistant commanding general of the 100th Division at Kircheim, Germany. Gates County Nearly Doubles Quota In Seventh War Loan Gatesville.—Gates county al most doubled its quota in the mighty Seventh War Loan, but failed by 38 percent to reach its quota of purchases in the E Bond class, according to a final re port from Robin Hood, chairman of .the county war finance com mittee. Overall sales of $269,064.50 were recorded against the coun ty’s quota of $141,000, lacking less than $15,000 of doubling the quota, but sales of E. Bonds amounted to only $80,098 against the E Bond quota of $128,000. Few other counties in the im mediate area reached the E Bond quotgs assigned them, while nearly all counties reached ana overcame their overall quotas. Over the nation at large, Americans raised more than 26 billion dollars against a quota of 1^ billion dollars: “an a chievement of which they have every right to be truly proud,” said S. George Little, special consultant, War Finance Divi sion. “Your excellent cooperation helped make the Seventh War Loan the most successful pro gram ever known,” Little wrote the Index. Miss McNeill To Fill Vacancy At Hobbsville School Hobbsville.—Miss Margaret Mc Neill, formerly of Jonesboro, will teach home economics and science in the Hobbsville High school this year, it has been an nounced by W. Henry ‘Overman, superintendent of Gates county schools. Miss McNeill comes to Hobbs ville with one year of teaching experience. She is a graduate of Pfeiffer Junior College and High Point College. Lloyd Stallings Wins Silver Star Gatesville. — Sgt\ Lloyd A. Stallings, son of' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stallings of Belvidere, has been awarded the Silver Star for gallentry in action. Sgt. Stal lings, 357th Infantry Regiment, lived for six years with his sis ter, Mrs. F. G. Wiggins of Hobbs ville, before entering the serv ice a year ago. .* The citation reads: “The courage and disregard for per sonal safety displayed by Sgt. Stallings reflects the highest credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United States.” Wounded on February 6 in Germany, Sgt. Stallings wears the Purple Heart. He went over seas in January, this year. Did You Know That? ■ V ' , • ■ V Gatesville—Gates county has a total of 1,650 passenger cars, trucks, and trailers registered with tire Department of Motor Vehicles. There are 17 other counties in North Carolina that have a less number. uatesvnie.—Four more Gates county boys are "back at home for stays of varying length; three have returned from overseas—• two with purple hearts—and the fourth came from the State of Washington to visit in the coun ty. They are: Lieut. Mills T. Lowe of Gates, Wallace R. Eure of Roduco, Pic. Willard Hoflcr of Sunbury, all from overseas, and William Franklin of Cora peake, U. jS. Coast Guard, from Moclips, Wash. Lieut. Lowe, paratrooper of the 11th Airbone Division who served six months in the Philip pines, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lowe of Gates He was wounded on Luzon April 8 and was evacuated to the States for rest and further treat ment. After a short visit with hi; parents, he will return to North ington General Hospital at Tus caloosa, Ala. Wallace Eure, U. S. Army, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Eure of Roduco, returned to the coun ty Tuesday on a 30-day furlough after ten months overseas. Private Hofler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hofler of Sunbury, is home for 30 days after seven, months overseas. He was wound ed at the Siegfreid Line on February 27 and holds the Purple Heart. William Franklin arrived in. Corapeake Friday to spend two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. I. Franklin. He was join ed there by his wife, the former Margaret Horton of Whaley villc, Va. A radio man, Franklin is headquartered in the state of j Washington. Corapeake Meat Dealer Suspended Raleigh. — Six more eastern North Carolina individuals—in cluding Lurcye C. Brinkley of Corapeake—have been suspend ed from dealing in meat for al leged violations of OFA regula tions, Theodore S. Johnson, Ra leigh OPA district director;, an nounced Monday. The Brinkley case resulted in a 30-day suspension, active, dur ing which time he cannot legal ly buy or sell or negotiate th# purchase or sale of meat, John son said. Johnson said the violations in cluded failure to make required reports, buying and/or Celling meat without exchange of ra tion points, failure to post point value charts and failure to list point values on displayed meat. All the suspensions were ef fected under consent. Hearings were waived. Five Veterans At Ruritan Meeting Gatesville.—Five service men and ex-service men were guests of the Gatesville Ruritan club at the regular monthly meeting Monday rtight. Speaking briei ly of their experiences in the nation’s service were William R. Cowper, Jr., Vance Flemming, Eugene Harrell, Harrell Lee Bundy and Harry Liniger. The August meeting of the club will be “Girls’ Night,” Secretary S. P. Cross told the Index. He said that each mem ber would be expected to bring a girl as guest.
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