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GATES COUNTY INDEX TheOnly Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Volume 13, No. 51 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, August 22, 1945 12 Pages This Week Fishermen i Meet Next i Gatesville.—Hunters and fish * rmen of Gates county are plan ning a get-together at the court house at 8:30 p. m. on August 28th, according to G. D. Gatling, temporary chairman of the local committee. Purpose of the meet ing is to consider formation of a club to join with the hunters’ and fishermen’s clubs of other counties to sponsor more game, fish, and other wildlife. The local committee has ar ranged for Ross O. Stevens, exe cutive secretary of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, Inc., to be present and explain the plans and purposes of the state-wide organization. Already hunters and fishermen have organized in twenty-eight coun ties and organization plans are well along in tw-enty-seven ad ditional counties, according to information received from the state-wide federation. All kinds of hunters and fish ermen, farmers, and all others interested in wildlife resources are urged to attend and take part in this meeting. “If a club is formed in this county,.” said Mr. See SPORTSMEN, Page 6 Enrollment This Year is Lower At Gatesville Gatesville. — Gatesville school began the 1945-46 school year with an enrollment slightly lower than that of last year, according +o a statement from Principal ^ harles Blair who urged parents ' ) send their children to school when it is at all possible to do so. A drop in school attendance at this time may have a serious effect on the school, he added. The first chapel program was conducted by Mr. Blair who gave a brief resume of the war and pointed out the many changes brought about by its end. Mr. Blair enumerated the many ad vantages of an education in the post-war world. On the first two dgys of school half-holidays were observed in keeping with the general cele See ENROLLMENT, Page 6 Negro Is Held For Slaying Of Fellow Worker Gatesville. — Lewis Norman, 51-year-old Negro employe of Richmond Cedar Works, is being held in the jail in Gatesville tor the V-J Day slaying of a fellow worker, John Hayes, 50, follow ing an argument in connection with the change due from a ten dollar bill. Norman, Sheriff L. F. Over man said, admitted the killing but could not produce the wea >on, a .38-calibre pistol. Acting Joroner S. P. Cross found that the bullet passed completely through Hayes’ body just above the hips, causing almost in stantaneous death, according to witnesses, the sheriff said. Following preliminary hearing before Recorder E. S. A. Ellenor ■in Gates County Court House Tuesday, Norman was held in lieu of $5,000 bond for action by the November Grand Jury. Tom Costen, Gatesville lawyer, was retained by Norman who did not testify at the hearing. Both men worked and lived at See SLAYING, Page 6 ind Hunters Tuesday Mrs. Pittman, 67, Died Friday At Daughter’s Home Hobbsvile. — Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Reynoldson Baptist Church for Mrs. M. Lydia Pittman, 67, prominent Gat^s county woman who died unexpectedly Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Naomi Carter, of Hobbs ville. The Rev. T. Sloane Guy, Sr., assisted by the Rev. J. Sid ney Cobb of Whaleyville, Va., officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving her are two sons, Maj. W. T. Pittman, USA, now stationed in Trinidad; Maj.* H. B. Pittman, USA, of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; two daughters, Mrs. Har dy Davenport, of Gastonia, and Mrs. Carter; a brother, H. W. Collins, of Gates; two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Robinson, of Norfolk, and Mrs. Ruth Leggett, of Ocala, Fla.; seven grandchildren and iour great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Fu neral Home of Rountree and Hofler, Gatesville. Pallbearers were T. Everett Pittman, Rob Brown, C. H. Car ter, W. Hertel Hofler, Tony Pitt man and Surry Wiggins. Rountree Clears Up Questions On Poultry Ceilings Gatesville. — In answ'er to I many requests concerning the prices of poultry in Gates coun ty, F. H. Rountree, chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board, today announced the community ceiling prices on the most frequently purchased types of poultry. Live or unplucked: broilers, fryers and roasters, 38 cents per pound; fowl (hen, all weights), 33 cents per pound. Plucked: dressed chickens (head and feet on, entrails in, and plucked 41 cents; broilers, fryers and roasters, (under 3 1/2 pounds), 47 cents per pound; fow'l (hen, all weights), 33 cents per pound. Drawrn: broilers and fryers (under 2 1/2 pounds), 61 cents per pound; fowl, 51 cents per pound. When chickens are sold on a live weight basis, Mr. Rountree explained, 10 cents per chicken may be added by the seller if he plucks and dresses the chicken. No service charge may be added for cutting up. Pfc. Jack Hofler Enroute Home France.—Pfc. John G. (Jack) Hofler who is enroute home from Europe with the S-Star 35th (“Santa Fe”) Division, was formerly a member of the Eighth Armored Division which sup ported the 35th Division in the battle for Rheinberg and other cities in the drive to the west bank of the Rhine River. He is one of a group of Eighth Armored Division men trans ferred into the “Santa Fe” Divi sion to fill vacancies created by the release of highscore men under the point system. Pfc. Hofler is the son of Mrs. J. L. Hofler of Gatesville, N. C. .Nfcw vikw.—For tils Here and abroad—as well as civil ians—here’s a new picture of a favorite pin-up girl. She’s Angeline Orr, radio personal ity Pfc. Umphlette Ends Furlough; Wounded Twice Eure. — Wounded twice with the 101st Paratrooper Battalion overseas, Pfc. Eldon Umphlette, U. S. Army, returned last Tues day to Fort Grubber, Okla., for further assignment with the Third Army after spendnig a 30 day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Ruth Umphlette. Private Umphlette was with an ordnance regiment for a year and half in England before volunteering with the Paratroop ers. He trained in England and jumped hr combat over Holland. Private JJmphlette wears the European Theatre of Operations ribbon with four battle stars and the Purple Heart. For saving a truck loaded with gasoline under enemy fire he won the Bronze Star while with the ordnance division. Truck Damaged In Road Mishap Gates. — A pickup truck be longing to A. M. Fanny was bad ly damaged Saturday in colli sion with an automobile driven by Miss Peggy Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Parker of Whaleyville, Va. The truck ,was driven by Mr. Fanny’s son, Billy Fanny. Neith er driver was injured. Did You Know? Gatesville. — Gates county had 70,000 hens and pullets of laying age as of January 1, 1944, or an average of 54 birds per farm. There were 30 coun ties having a smaller number of hens and pullets than Gates. “This is a good record and in dicates our farmers are poul try, minded,” County Agent John Artz said. ^ Noisy reer of 1100 Bats E\ led in Trap Jesse Wiggin 5 County Nati^ « Drowns in Surf Gatesville.—Jesse Wiggins, 49, of Edenton, formerly of Hobbs ville, drowned at Nags Head Wednesday while bathing in the surf. The body was recovered. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wiggins of Hobbsville and husband of the former- Miss Pauline Hofler of Gatesville. Funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon at the graveside in the family cemetery at Hobbsville. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins in a party of six were spending the week at Nags Head when the accident occurred. No further details were available at press time, though death was thought to be the result of a heart at tack. He is survived by his wife and a son, Emrnett Hofler Wiggins of Edenton; three brothers, Char lie Wiggins of Suffolk, Va., J. S. Wiggins of Trotville, and Nurney Wiggins of Hobbsville; .and two sisters, Mrs. Kate Bush of Tyner, and Mrs. Lula Rountree of Hobbsville. Mr. Wiggins was connected with the operation of tug boats and pulpwood barges for the North Carolina Pulp Company at Plymouth. Riddick Given Year’s Suspension ForOPA Violation Rakigh.—The Raleigh district Office of Price Administration announced today that J. J. Rid dick, of Gatesville, had been giv en a year's suspension, with the first thirty days active and the remainder probatio nary, for dealing in besf without sur rendering or requiring the sur render of ration coupons, Theodore S. Johnson, OPA district director, said the sus pension order against Riddick is effective on all foods under Ra tion Order 16 with the excep tion of canned milk. The order becomes effective August 19, he said. Two Injured By Stuck Windows Corapeake. — Windows stuck by the recent seige of damp weather are held responsible for two freak accidents in the Cora peake neighborhood last week. Floyd Goodwin was the first victim. The stuck window he tried to raise finally yielded, but. the elbow of his left arm went through the glass and an ugly gash resulted. Dr. .T. A. Payne took six stitches to close the wound. Little Doris Amelia Franklin of Norfolk, visiting in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B. I. Franklin, was the sec ond victim, cutting the palm of her left hand by pushing out a window pane. Dr. Payne took five stitches to close the second wound. Gatesville. — Imagine, if you can, living in the same house with more than 1,100 live vigor ous flying bats, the kind that squeak and squeal and sail around the room while father tries to strike them down with a broom before they scare mother and the daughters to death. This actually happened iu Gatesville, according to John Artz, Gates County Agent, who counted, 1,145 live bats trapped by the genius of neighbors of Mrs. Minnie Green, owner and occupant of the house in whicn this record number of bats took up residence. One would never have sus pected that the walls of Mrs. Green’s home were harboring more than a thousand of these weird, witchy little creatures called bats. “But any house af fording an entrance is apt to bo invaded by these detestable See BATS, Page 7 Felton Outland Hurt in Sinking Of Indianapolis Sunbury.—Word has been re j ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Felt mi i Outland of Sunbury that their | son, Felton James Outland, U.S ' N.R., was wounded in action m ! the Pacific area on July 30. Outland was attached to the heavy cruiser “Indianapolis’’ which had just delivered atomic bombs to Guam. The ship wo on its way to join the Fifth Floel when it was sunk. Outland is a graduate oi Sur burv High School. He enlisted in the Navy in July, 1943. He received his boot training at Great Lakes, Hi. Since that time he lias been attached to the "In dianapolis” permanently. He saw action on Tarawa, I wo ami. Okinawa, Guam, Tinian, Saipan, and Caroline Islands. - Largest Bull Of Record Here Has A New Owner Gatesville. — Last week the largest bull of record in Gates county changed owners, accord ing to John Artz, Gates county agent. Three years old. the animal tipped the scales at 1, 832 pounds. “The largest (by weight) that we have any record of was sold last week by Linwood Taylor, well-known farmer and stock man of the Middle Swamp neigh borhood, to Claude Morgan, Corapeake livestock dea 1 e r,’’ Artz said. The bull, a registered, polled Hereford, brought a price in the neighborhood of $22o, Artz said. At the same time, Artz said, Taylor sold a number of white faced calves, though he still has nine Hereford cows, a young bull and three good dairy cows. Of the Taylor pasture, Artz said: “he has acres of good knee deep pasture consisting of wire (Bermuda) grass, Dallas grass, lespedeza, and, as you might suspect—crab grass.” In connection with his pas ture, Taylor said he had sown 800 pounds of home raised lespe deza on the sod last winter which accounted for the abundant growth.
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