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COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, March 20, 1946 12 Pages This Week Airplane Crash Near Eure Injures Flyers f®' i'e.—John Byrum Rountree, \ es county lumber man and amateur flyer, was painfully in jured and Tom Doughtie, who was flying as Rountree’s pas senger, was badly shaken up when the Piper Cub airplane piloted by Rountree crashed mar Doughtie’s home Sunday afternoon. The airplane was badly dam aged when it spun into the ground only sixty yards from Doughtie’s home as the two men were flying over the Doughtie farm. No reason for the crash was immediately determined. Rountree’s left leg was broken above the knee and he received cuts about the face. He was treated in Gatesville by Dr. T. L. Carter and was taken to Norfolk Gemral hospital, where it was reported that he was resting comfortably. Doughtie, who was in the rsar seat of the plane at the time of the crash, received bruises when he was thrown forward. Dough tie’s safety belt was snapped off by the force of the crash. The airplane hit upright on the ground and smashed both landing wheels. The right wheel of the plane, which apparently was buckled under the fuselage W the crash, smashed through floorboard and caught Roun s leg. The left wing of the me was torn loose from the fusebge and damaged severely, and the bottom of the fuselage was badly torn and splintered. A badly-dented instrument panel indicated that Rountree, who was flying from the front seat, had hit the panel with his head. Rountree recently purchased the pbne new, and he had been flying it from a field beside the home of Pugh Hayes on the Eure-Gatesville highway. Since he purchased the airplane Roun tree- has made a number of local and cross-country flights and has been using the plane in his lum ber business. Services Held For Mrs. Holland Drum Hill.—Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Etta Holland, 79, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. M. Eure, Fri day afternoon, were conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at Sav ages M. E. Church, by the Rev. C. W. Guthrie assisted by the Rev. J. Sidney Cobb of the Rey noldson Baptist church. Burial was in the family cemetery. Mrs. Holland is survived by ste sons and one daughter by I'Jk'j irmer marriage: B. L. and O. w Collins, Newport News, Va., F. Collins, Portsmouth, Va., and Mrs. E. R. Draper, Drum Hill; by a second marriage she is survived lay one son, Paul Hol land, Raleigh; and two daugn ters, Miss Clara Bell Holland, Raleigh and Mrs. B. M. Eure of Drum Hill; and one sister, Mrs. Lillian March, Raleigh. Active pallbearers were Char lie Mountcastle, Jr., James Mountcastle, Elsworth Draper and Courtney Draper, Elmer Collins and Sam Collins. Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family. Benefit Square Dance Planned For March 29 Corapeake. — The Corapeake Home Demonstration club will sponsor a Square Dance at Holly Grove Friday night, March 29, for the benefit of the 1946 drive to raise funds for Crippled Chil dren. The dance will begin at nine o’clock. Miss Clarine Gatling, Gates county Superintendent of Public Welfare, is chairman of the Crippled Children’s drive in the county this year. Funds for this drive go to the Crippled Chil dren’s League in 'Raleigh, where they are distributed for use in the county and nation. Thirteen Fined On Ten Charges Gatesville. — Ten convictions led to fines against thirteen de fendants in Gates county record er's court here last Tuesday morning. Several of the convic tions carried suspended sen tences. Five men, Willie Butts, Ru dolph Eason, Lester Eason, Hil ton Eason and Dave Eason, Hobbsville Negroes, wqre found guilty of assault with deadly weapons. Each of the five was sentenced to six months on the roads, with sentence suspended upon the payment of fines ol $35 and $1.50 each court, costs. The charges grew out of a free for-all fracas in which knives had been swung freely. On a second charge, simple assault, Lester Eason was con victed and fined $15 and court costs. Wilbur Jessie Lee, Virginia ne gro, was found guilty of speed ing and fined $25 and costs. On another traffic violation charge William E. Taylor, negro, of Tyner was found guilty of driv ing with improper brakes and fined $10 and costs. On charges of driving drunk and driving without a driver’s license Starkey Otis McGlone, negro, of Norfolk was given a six months’ sentence on the roads suspended upon the payment of $60 and costs. Erma Lee Davis, negro, of Roduco was fined $30 and costs on a charge of reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license. The largest fine imposed in Tuesday’s session was $75 and costs against Carlton Evans, Gatesville negro, who was found guilty of the possession of illigal liquor for the purpose of sale. Evans was sentenced to 12 months’ at hard labor, but sen tence was. suspended upon the payment of the fine. On a charge of simple assault Arlington Eason, negro, of Gates ville w3s fined $15 and couit costs. Miles Langston, Gatesville negro, was fined $10 and costs on a charge of aiding and abet ting in assault with a deadly weapon. On a drunk and disor derly charge Rossie Lassiter, Sunbury negro, was giyen a sixty days’ road sentence, suspended upon the payment of $35 and costs. B*R. ELLEN WINSTON of Raleigh, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, who spoke at a meeting of the Gatesville Ruritan Club Monday night. Dr. Winston is making a num ber of talks in the Roanoke Chowan area. State Has Broad Welfare Program, Dr. Winston Says Gatesville. — “North Carolina has the broadest welfare pro gram of any state in the nation,’' Dr. Ellen Winston of Raleigh, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, told members of the Gatesville chapter of the Ruri tan Club and their guests here Monday night. “However^” the Commissionei added, “We can only carry out this program if we have a thor ough understanding of what its purpose is.” Outlining in detail the work of the various departments of the State Welfare organization, she pointed out that North Carolina has a locally administered wel fare system in which each coun See DR. WINSTON, Page 8 Gates County School Clinic Schedule Given Gatesville.—Pre-school clinics, given annually in Gates county, will be started in Sunbury on March 27, it was announced Monday by Mrs. Elizabeth II, Crouse, public health nurse. Dr. W. P. Jordan, district health officer, and Mrs. Crouse, who will conduct the clinics, have urged all parents to co operate by having their child ren who will begin school next year at the school in their com munity on the dates listed be low: Sunbury High school on Wed nesday, March 27; Hobbsville High school, April 3; Gates High school, April 10; Eure school. April 17; Gates Training school, April 24; and at Gatesville Health department offices, May 1. The time for all clinics will be 1:30 p. m. The May 1 clinic will be held for both white and ne gro children. Immunization against diph theria will be given to all who need it and smallpox vaccination will be given. All children who are entering school must have both vaccinations, Mrs. Crouse said. Mrs. Crouse said it is im portant that parents come to the clinics with their children so thal a discussion of defects found may help toward getting cor rections made. Short Docket For Super i r Court Openi s y Monday Gates Count s Teachers WiJ? Elect Officers Gatesville. — A county-wide teacher’s meeting will be held here Wednesday evening at the High School. At this time, the local unit of the North Carolina Education Association will elect local offi cers and will also vote on can didates for NCEA posts. Three delegates from Gates county will be selected to attend the state teachers’ convention in Asheville March 28-30. Plans Are Made | For H-D District Meet At Hertford Hciobsville. — County Council presidents and Home Agents of the Sixteenth District Federa tion of Home Demonstration clubs met in the home of the pre sident, Mrs. C. H. Carter of Hobbsville, on Tuesday, March 12, to formulate plans for the Annual District meeting to be i held in the Hertford high school, Hertford, on Thursday, April 11. Mrs. P. P. Gregory, State vice president of Shawboro, was pre sent and contributed many help ful suggestions. She stressed the importance of correct parliamen | tary procedure and platform de portment in her remarks. Miss | Frances Maness, Home Agent, in j the hostess county for the Dis | trict meeting, outlined her plans ; to which other Home Agents and i County Council presidents add ! ed theirs. Prior to the business meeting i Mrs. Carter entertained the ; group with a delicious butfet j luncheon. The centerpiece for the dining room table consisted of white jonquils Van Houtte spirea j and fern. Each individual table [ had a most attractive center i piece consisting of pansies and j violets grouped around a jon ! quil. Favors were shamrocks. | Mrs. T. C. Perry, district song i leader, led the blessing which was sung to the tune of “Now the Day is Over.” County Council presidents or their representatives attending were: Mrs. G. C. Worrell, Gates; Mrs. C. H. Smith, Dare; Mrs. H. S. Lane, Perquimans; Mrs. W. A. Harrell, Chowan; Mrs. B. C. Cuthrell, Camden; Mrs. A. B. Ethridge, Pasquotank; Mrs. W. R. Lee, Currituck. Home Agents attending were: Miss Ona Patterson, Gates; Miss Grace Draughn, Dare; Miss Frances Maness, Perquimans; Miss Rebecca Colwell, Chowan; Miss Mildred Aycock, Hertford, assistant Miss Mabel Wynn; Mrs. Mamie C. Sawyer, Camden; Mrs. Celeste S. Sawyer, Pasquotank; Mrs. Kathleen Snyder, Currituck; Mrs. T. C. Perry, Belvidere, song leader. Guests included Mrs. Belle W. Parker, Chowan county; Mrs. T. L. Carter, Gatesville; Mrs. L. C. Carter, Hobbsville; Mrs. Pell Hinton, Hobbsville; and Miss Nell Louise Carter, member oi the Chowan high school faculty. Gatesville. — An unusually short criminal docket involving only three defendants was an nounced this week for the open ing of Gates County Superior Court here Monday, March 25. Judge Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of Warsaw will preside. Solicitor Chester R. Morris of Currituck, will serve as Prosecutor. Four criminal cases, involving three Negro defendants, and seven civil actions including four divorces and one annul ment, are scheduled to be heard. Clerk of the Court, L. C. Hand said this week he hopes the dock et will be cleared in one day. The following cases will be heard: Criminal: State vs George Walton on two counts of break ing, entering and larceny; State vs Elsworth Harrison, assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to kill; State vs James Smith, reckless driving and. operating a motor vehicle with out a license. Civil: Arthur Lee Boone vs Bertha Olivia Boone, divorce; Lloyd Q. Pierce vs Mozelle Roun tree Pierce, divorce; James Cal vin Burke vs Elizabeth Doris Peters Burke, divorce; Mary Frances R. Weatherington vs Caleb Woodrow Cofield, annul ment; Mamie Ballard Holland vs James Maxie Holland, divorce; J. S. Wiggins, administrator of Lorenza Hobbs, deceased, vs Milton Hobbs, Marvin Brewer, action for damage; Martin Kel logg, administrator of Matthew Leach, deceased, vs Milton Hobbs and Marvin Brewer, action for damage. Funeral Held For C. E. Felton Eure. — Funeral services for Charlie E. Felton, 77, who died at his home early . Saturday morning were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Eure Christian church. Burial was in tne family cemetery. The Rev. J. M. Roberts conducted the serv ice. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cynthia Green Felton; three sons, Herman Felton, Colerain, Eddie N. Felton, Suffolk, Va., Gladwell J. Felton, Eure; one brother, H. N. Felton, Eure; two sisters, Mrs. Nettie Eure, Eure and Mrs. R. E. Eure, Gates. Active pallbearers were Har vey Fetlon, Richard Felton, Cleamon Felton, Lankford Eure, W. N. Howell, Clyde Eure, Ly man Howell and Mills Felton. Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family. Gatesville Masonic Lodge Meets Thurs. Gatesville. — The regular monthly meeting of the Gates county Masonic Lodge will be held Thursday evening, March 21, at eight o’clock in the Mason ic Hall, it was announced by L. C. Hand.
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