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GATES COUNTY INDEX TheOnly Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Volume .14, No. 25 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, February 27, 1946 12 Pages This Week Quota For March Of Dimes Topped * In Gates County Gatesville. — Collections for the 1946 March of Dimes from all sources in Gates county this week reached a total of $830.92, exceeding the county quota of $775 by $55.92, Miss Ethel Park er, 1946 drive chairman, has an nounced. Miss Parker, in announcing the total, expressed her apprecia tion to all who contributed to wards the drive to fight infan tile paralysis, especially-the com munity chairmen, home demons tration clubs, churches, schools, civic organizations, theatres and private individuals. A number of contributors al ready have been listed during the /Drive weeks, Miss Parker said. Following are additional contributors: East Corapeake community chairman, Mrs. Elton Hollowell, $6.33; Reynoldson, Mrs. W. P. Lowe and Mrs. J. N. Eure, $16.58; Parker’s Church, $9.25; Gates community leader, Mrs. Everett Pittman, $36.88; Eureka Church, $16.25; Hcibbsville Horhe Dem onstration Club, $1.38; Gatesville Home Demonstration Club, $1.00; Eure community chairman, Mrs. T. C. Lawrence, $13.00; Cora peake Dime Banks, $2.85; Oak Grove Sunday School, $5.00; United Daughters of the Confed eracy, $2.00; Mrs. Blanch Smith, $1.00; Colored Schools of Gates county through T. S. Cooper, $107.80; Suribury Home Demons ration Club, $3.00; Gatesville luritan Club, $5.00; Corapeake Home Demonstration Club Dance, $31.85; Hazelton Dime Banks, $9.74; Roduco community chairman, Mrs. Charles Eure, $5.50; Carter’s community club, Mrs. B. V. Brown, president, $23.75; Mrs. G. E. Rountree, Sun bury, $13.00. ■Services Held At Gatesville For Mrs. Smith Gatesville. — Funeral services for Mrs. Dixie Hofler Smith, 70, who died Sunday following a long illness, Were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at Gatesville Methodist church. Rev. T. A. Collins officiated; burial was in Gatesville cemetery. Mrs. Smith, wife of W. H. Smith of Gatssville, was the daughter of the late R. M. and Celia Hofler .She was an active member of the Gatesville Metho dist church and Woman’s Mis sionary Society, and a charter member of the Gatesville chan ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is survived by her hus band; one brother, J. C. Hofler vf Gatesville, and the following iieces and nephews: Miss Dixie Hofler, Gatesville; Robert Hofler, Suffolk; Eugene Hofler, Norfolk; John A. Hofler, Washington, D. C.; William L. Hofler, Richmond; Monroe Hofler, Portsmouth; Roy Hofler, U. S. N.; Jack Hofler, U. S. M. S., Martha Hofler, Ports mouth; Dorothy Bass and Lizzie Les Cox, both of Hertford, and Helen Hofler of Newport News. Pallbearers were R. E. Rawls, J. M. Eason, J. W. Brown, J. W. Parker, G. C. Eason and Robin Hood. Honorary pallbearers wire friends of the family. Bank Of Gates Well Represented At Convention Gatesville. — Twenty-six per sons, all representing “the Bank of Gates,” attended the annual district convention of the State Bankers Association in Elizabeth City last weekend. The delegation, headed by Mr. and Mrs. Robin Hood of Gates ville, included: Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Taze well Eure, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Godwin, Jr., Marne Godwin, Miss Frances Newsome, Miss Clarine Gatling, John Vinson, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Daniels, Miss Mary C. Brady of Winton, Gur ney P. Hood, state banking com missioner, of Raleigh, Miss Ona Patterson, Jack Humphrey, and Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Plyler. 4-H Achievement Day Scheduled For Gates Clnhs Gatesville. — More than 400 boys and girls, members of Gates county 4-H clubs, will hold their annual Achievement Day on Sat urday, March 2, from two until four o’clock, at the Gatesville Agricultural Building. Parents and friends of the 4 H members are invited to attend the exercises; all five of Gates county’s white 4-H clubs will take part. Fred Parker, president of the Sunbury club, will preside at the exercises, and a 4-H club mem ber will lead the devotionals. The program will feature the election of 4-H Council officers for 1946. A roll call of each club will be taken, and each club will pre sent its yearly report of activi ties. Project winners from each club and county project winners will be announced. Also schedul ed is the recognition of the best 4-H club boy and girl in Gates county, and the best Gates coun ty club. These winners will be selected on the basis of complet ed records and activities during the club year. Recreation will be under the direction of Miss Ona Patterson and John Artz, county home and farm agents. Legion Post Sets February Meeting Gatesville. — Gatesville Post 136 of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting Thurs day evening, February 28, at the American Legion hut at eight o' clock, L. C. Hand, post com mander, has announced. Ed Williams of Ahoskie, com mander of the Fourth District, American Legion, will be guest speaker at the meeting. The Post has extended an invitation to all veterans of World War Two; whether they are Legion mem here or not, to attend. The Gates ville post now numbers 89, about 30 of whom are World War Two veterans, Hand said. HEADS U. S. AIR FORCE. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, a native of Boyertown, Pa., former commander of the Allred air force in North Africa and later commander of all Ameri can strategic bombing in Eur ope and of Japan, has been appointed by President .Tru man to .be chief of the army air forces succeeding Gen. Henry H. Arnold, who recently retired from the army. Gatesville Man Injured In Bus Truck Accident Roduco.—Stanley Carter, 42, of near Gatesville, suffered pain ful head injuries and a number -of bus passengers were shaken up whea-a-'Saleigh -bound Caro lina Trailways bus ploughed into the rear end of a stoppen truck on the Winton road near Roduco Tuesday evening. The accident occurred in a blinding rainstorm about 7:55 p. m. J. E. Messer, of Alexander Park, Va., drvier of the bus, told State Highway Patrolman Ser geant A. W. Welch, who investi gated the accident, he was pro ceeding about 25 miles an hour because of the rain when he saw the form of the truck partially blocking the highway in front of the bus. Messer, whose state ment was corroborated by sever al of the passengers, said there wei*e no lights showing on Car ter’s truck. Welch said the crash knocked both vehicles off the road, in juring Carter, the owner of the truck, and shaking up the riders See ACCIDENTS, Page 8 Harry Langston Named To Gates Fire Warden Post Gatesville. — Harry Langston, Jr., veteran of World War Two, has been selected by the North Carolina Department of Conser vation and Development to fill the post of chief fire warden for Gates county. Langston, one of three pros pective wardens selected at a recent meeting of the Gates board of County Commissioners, has assumed his duties in Gates ville. Any p:rson desiring a fire permit or any information should' see him there. . The new fire warden succeeds Paul Taylor, to whom the board of commissioners granted a twelve-months’ leave of absence because of ill health. The selec tion of Langston was made last week. The names of Clyde W. Harrell and B. B. Powell were also recommended for the fire warden’s post by the commis sioners. Hofley Is Named To h * id Gates Elect 1 >n Board _* ^ _ Baines Inju « ' In Leap From Highway Tractor Gatesville. — Edgar Baines of Gatesville suffered a fractured right arm last Thursday when he jumped from a tractor he was driving to avoid being hit by a truck. Baines and L. Glenn Perry of Roduco were on the tractor pull ing a road drag for the highway department near Buckam Bridge when, Baines said, a Ford truck hauling1 a load of log piling swung around a curve and forced the tractor to leave the road. Perry was uninjured. Baines said he jumped to avoid being struck by the truck* which narrowly miss ed the tractor and’ drag. Baines said he did not know who was driving the truck. No warrant has been issued in the accident. Former Minister In County Takes New England Post Charleston, S. C. — The Rev. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond, pastor of the Circular Congregational church here for five years, will leave Easter to take a post under the direction of the Congrega tional Board of Pastoral Supply in Boston. Dr. Raymond will serve in in terim appointments as minister to churches temporarily without pastors. Before coming to Charleston, Dr. Raymond served a number of years in Gates county North Carolina. He was minister of the churches in Eure, Oak Grove and Damascus. Dr. Raymond asked to be re leased from the Circular church pastorate at a calk'd meeting following morning worship last week. The church accepted his resignation and appointed com mittees to take action on choos ing a successor. Capt. Williams Due For Discharge Manila, P. I.—Captain George D. Williams, whose wife Mrs. Mary G. Williams resides at Gatesville, North Carolina, has recently been processed thru the Faranaque Replacement and Dis position Center, south of Manila, and is awaiting transportation to the United States for subsequent discharge under the Army’s demobilization system. Captain Williams is the son of Mr6. George D. Williams, Sr., and the late Dr. Gsorge D. Wil liams of Gatesville. PTA SPONSORS PARTY Sunbury.—There will be a card.party in the Sunbury school library Thursday evening, Feb ruary 28, at 8 p. m. Bridge, rook, set back and rummy will .be played. The .public is cordially invited. Gatesville.—Paul L. Hotter of Gatesville was unanimously selected to be recommended for appointment as Chairman ol: Gat as County’s Board of Election, at a special meeting of the Gates County Democratic Executive Committee here February 20. The selection of Hotter was made in compliance to a request for a recommendation from state Democratic Executive Commit tee Chairman William B. Um stead, who formally inform-ad the Gates committee that its former chairman, J. A. Eason, will not be available to fill the post on account of his physical condi tion. Mr. Eason recently r-sach ed his eighty-ninth birthday. The committee also recom mended J. A. Hobbs of Hobbs ville as an associate member of the Board of Elections. In recommending Hofler for the post, the committee endors e?, him as “an outstanding, public spirited young man whose inte grity is unquestioned.” At the same time, it authoriz ed by unanimous resolution that ! its secretary, S. P. Cross, extend ! to Mr. Eason the Gates county Democrats’ “most sincere thanks and heartfelt appreciation for the faithful loyalty and leader ship you have so unstintedly given during the past many i years.” The following are members of the executive committee: Mar vin Kellogg, chairman; Cross, secretary-treasurer; Ethel Par ker, vice-chairman; F. H. Roun tree and Mrs. W. A. Ward, Holly Grove; S. C. Baines and Mrs. William John Hayes, Hunters Mill; W. J. Rountree and Mrs. W. L. Riddick, Mintonsville; Dr. T. L. Carter and Mrs. Elizabeth Wyatt, Gatesville; W. L. Askew and Mrs. T. C. Lawrence, Hall; R. E. Miller and Mrs. G. L. Gat ling, Reynoldson, and C. C. Savage and Mrs. B. M. Eure, Basletts. --- Clothing Drive Is Great Success In Gates County Gatesville. — The Victory Clothing Drive conducted dur ing January and February in. Gates county was an outstanding j success with a total of 3,176 gar ments collected, Miss Ona Pat terson, Gates County Home Dem onstration Agent and chairman of the 1946 drive, announced this week. At the close of the drive, forty one boxes of used clothing were taken by truck to Norfolk by Lycyrgus Howell of White Oak. The following Gatesville wom en helped pack clothing for shipment: Mrs. ‘Wesley Parker, Mrs. H. B. Lilley, Mrs. J. J. Meeder, Mrs. William Cross, Mrs. John Glenn and Miss Patterson. John Artz, county agent, tied all boxes after they had been pack ed. Listed ihelow are the contri butions by the five Gates coun ty schools and the various com munities in the county, drive chairman, and number of gar ments contributed: Sunbury School, Mrs. C. C. Walters and Miss Margaret Mul len, 517. Gatesville School, Miss Fran See CLOTHING, Page 8
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