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GATES COUNTY INDEX •■The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Volume 14, No. 29 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, March 27, 1946 12 Pages This Week Three Couples Are Found Guilty Gatesville. —r Three couples charged with fbrnication and adultery were tpld to stay out of North Carolina for two years in last Tuesday’s session of re corder’s court here. The six defendants in the co habitation cases were indicted for living together illegally in a sawmill near Gatesville. All were arraigned on combined charges. Ernest Jones and Irene Blan ton pleaded guilty to the charge and were -given suspended sen tences upon the payment of fines and court costs. Jones was given a 12 months’ suspended sentence and a fine of $50. The girl re ceived a six months’ suspended sentence and a fine of $25. Raymond Jones and Josie Blanton pleaded guilty and were given similar sentences. Edward Mason, negro, and Rosa Darden, negro, who were also occupying the mill at the time of their ar rest, entered guilty pleas .and re ceived sentences suspended upon fine payment. Mason was fined $50 and Rosa Darden was fined $10. All the defendants were placed upon probation to stay out of the state for two years. On a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, Bob Smith, Gates negro, was bound over to the March tsrm of Superior court under a $500 bond after probable cause had been found. In Adultery Case Services Are Held ® Jor J. T. Carter Gates. — Funeral services for James Thomas Carter, 91, who died at his home near Gates Monday morning, -were con ducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Cool Spring Baptist Church by Rev. J. Sidney Cobb, pastor of Reynoldson Baptist Church of which Mr. Carter was .a member. Burial was in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wfie, Mary Mandy Carter, five sons, L. S. Carter, Gatesville, J. R. Car ter, Conway, L. R. Carter, New port News, D. E. Carter, W. J. Carter, High Point and one sister, Mrs. Kitty Felton, Tarboro. Active pallbearers were J. H. King, J. C. Speight, E. B. Speight, C. B. Lee, J. M. King and J. C. Benton. Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family, Easter Seal Sale Begins April 1 I Gatesville.—Miss Clarine Gat ling, chairman of the Gates County League for Crippled children, this week issued a re quest urging that Gates county citizens contribute to the 1946 Saster Seal Drive, which begins April 1 and extends through Easter, April 21. The Society for Crippled Chil dren is a private, charitable or - ganization which cooperates with but does not duplicate the work of other public or private agen cies, Miss Gatling said. It aids the crippled throughout' its area, of all agencies, races and creeds, | whether crippled through birth, disease, or accident. The only ' source of its funds is the con t tributions received annually from the sale of Easter Seals. IRAN RIFLEMEN ON THE MARCH . . . Riflemen of Iran marching through the main gates of the Anglo-Iranian oil company plant on the river Shatt A1 Arab at the head of the Persian gulf. Some observers believe that oil is at the bottom of the Soviet-Iran crisis and that Russia feels she is entitled to a share of Iran’s oil. Kellogg Announces Precinct Meetings Gatesvttte. — democratic Pre cinct meetings will be held throughout Gates County Satur day afternoon, April 20, at two o'clock, it. ..wjas announced this week by Martin man of the county I)emocratic Executive'Committee. Time for the Precinct meet ings was set here Thursday even ing at a special meeting of the Executive Committee, and each chairman present was urged to give notice to his democratic constituents to attend the pre cinct meetings. - At these meetings, delegates will be appointed to attend the County Convention which will be held in Gatesville the follow ing Saturday, April 27, at two o’clock. One item on the County Convention agenda will be to appoint delegates to the State Democratic Convention which meets in Raleigh in May. W. J. Rountree was selected as Gates county delegate to the Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh last Saturday evening, receiving two tickets for the dinner. Gatesville Boy Suffers Broken Leg In Accident Gatesyills.—Elijah Harrell, 11, s<5h of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Har rell of Gatesville was painfully injured here Sunday morning, when he was struck by the tail gate of a truck. The boy’s leg was broken, when the tail gate of the horse and mule truek belonging to Lewis Perkins of Gatesville came loose in some unexplained man ner and fell on his leg. Young Harrell was treated by Dr. T, L. Carter of Gatesville and Dr. M. T. Plyler of Whaley ville. He is now resting com fortably at his hpme here. Legion Post Sets Meeting for March Gatesville. — Gatesville Post 136 of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting Thurs day evening, March 28, at the American Legion hut at eight o’ clock, L. C. Hand, post com mander, has announced. Officers Elected In County-Wide Teachers’ Meeting Gatesviltei—-Principals of three of the county’s schools were elected officers for 1946 for the Gates coynty unit of the North Carolina Education Association in a county-wide meeting of school teachers here last Wed nesday night. W. W. Clark, principal of the Hobbsville high school, was elect ed president of the local unit; Jack P. Humphrey, Gatesville high school principal, vice pre sident, and Mrs. H. T. Downs, Eure principal, secretary-treasu iu*er. Clark and Humphrey, along with J. Warren George, princi pal of Sunbury high school, were chosen to represent Gates coun ty at the NCEA convention in Asheville on March 28, 29 and 30. The delegates were given the right to select an alternate to at tend the convention in case th?y could not attend. Votes were cast m • Wednes day’s county-wide meeting for officers in the state Educational association. Voted upon were C. W. Phillips, the only^pp/ninee ior president; Claude Grigg, super intendent of Albemarle schools, and Miss Cordelia Camp, fa culty member of Western Caro lina Teachers’ College, vice-pre sidential candidates. W. Henry Overman, superin tendent of schools, reported to the meeting on the Leadership conference which he attended in Elizabeth City on March 4, and Humphrey reported on a meet - ing of the Counselling Institute in Elizabeth City on March 7. Please Excuse! In last week’s issue of the Index it was mentioned that a sportsmanship banner was awarded in the recent Gates county basketball tournament to the Eure hoys’ team. This was an error, which we regret. The banner for sportsmanship was awarded to the boys’ team from Gates high school. The Index begs the pardon of Cap tain Sam Guthrie and the oth er members of the Gates team. Stevens Praises Gates i f mntv For Low R & te of Crime Hobbsville (^ up Highly PraisJL By Farm Bureau Gatesville — Members of the Gates County Farm Bureau this week adopted a formal resolution thanking the Farm Bureau Mem bers and ladies of the Hobbsville Community for “a most bounti ful dinner” which they prepared f6r the county bureau’s first quarterly meeting" in Hobbsville March 8. Salt - water trout, Lynhaven oysters, green slaw, cornbr-ead and hot coffee were on the menu, and were prepared and served by the ladies of the Hobbsville Community. The resolution praised the la dies and “their untiring efforts in making this occasion, indeed, one of' the most pleasant and profitable meetings cur bureau has ever had.” The following ladies were mentioned presonally in the re solution: Mesdames Bob Hendrix, Oscar Riddick, J. L. Rountree, P. D. Hobbs, Martha Rountree, Hay wood Bunch, Irvin Hollow:-11, Ruth Spivey, Ned Rountree, W. W. Clar, Forest Wiggins, Alice Hinton, W. L. Riddick, Virgie Winslow, Mattie Hollowell, Ro bert Hendrix, E. L. Eure, R. O. Hobbs, Carry Collins, Misses Iona Rountree, Annie Francis Riddick, Marvis Hobbs and Hol lie Bunch. Gatesville Sets Pre-School Clinic Gatesville. — The pre-school clinic for the Gatesville com munity will be held at 1:30 p. m., Wednesday, May 1, at the Health Office in Gatesville. All parents are urged to bring children who plan to enter school next year. The State Board of Health re quires every pre-school child to be protected against whooping cough, diphtheria and small pox before he enters school, i If a ehild has had either of the three mentioned diseases, then it is not necessary to have him protected by immunization. PARENTS, remember the pre school date in your community and bring your child to the clinic if he is planning to enter school in the fall of 1946. Miss Gatling Will Attend Meeting Gatesville.—Miss Glarine Gat ling, head of the Gates county Welfare department, will attend the Child Welfare meeting in Edenton Friday evening. The meeting, which is the fourth in a series qf such meet ings, will beconducted by Miss Iris Flythe, field social work re presentative for the State Board of\ Public Welfare. ... Miss Gatling said the topic for discussion in Friday’s meeting will be “Supervising the Child Who Has Been Plaocd.” uatesville. — I have found there is less crime in Gates coun ty than in any county in the state,” Judge Henry L». Stevens, Jr., presiding judge for . the March term of Superior Court, told the Grand Jury in his charge here Monday morning. Five hours later the March term was completed, in one of the shortest Superior Court dockets in recent years. 'During the session Stevens dealt out six sentences to five criminal de fendants, granted two divorces and called a mistrial in an an nulment case. Criminal Docket Heaviest sentences were given to Fred and Dan Muse of Elisa beth City, who were each sen tenced to three to five yeais in. the state penitentiary on a charge cf breaking and entering and re ceiving stolen property. Both: men entered a plea of guilty to breaking into the Armstrong grocery near Sunbury in Nov ember, 1944, and carrying away a safe and some $650 in casn and checks. The defendants, who are cer j ently serving sentences for a similar crime in Pasquotank county, appeared before the court in their prison garl’o. Evidence v/as presented to the court that ■ he two had prison records for entering' a laundry in Elizabeth City in 1940 and had just com pleted one-year terms in the Federal prison in Atlanta for transporting a stolen automobile across a state line. Judge btevens, after receiving assurance from the defense at torney that the two would enter pleas of guilty to charges of stealing safes in Chowan and Perquimans counties in coming sessions, pronounced sentence on them. After evidence had been pre sented to the court to the effect that forty silver dollars found in. the Muse home in .Elizabeth City bad not been part of the loot of the Sunbury robbery, Dan Muse’s young daughter was given the money. The child was given into the custody of her grand parents. Ellsworth Harrison, negro, was sentenced to eighteen months at hard labor, after he -had tender ed a plea of guilty to a charge of assault with a deadly weapon See STEVENS, Page 11. Pre-Natal, Baby Clinic April 4 Gatesville. — The regular monthly expectant mother and well-baby clinic will be held in the district health department office in Gatesville on the first Thursday, April 4, at 2:00 p. m. This clinic is for all prenatals, well infants, and pre-school children who are not under the care of a private physician. Vac cinations and inoculations will be given, including whooping cough, diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid, Schick tests, and T. B. tests. All will be given free expect whoop ing cough. Charts of the babies and pre-school children's weight and ages will be kept to deter mine their progress. Problems of feeding and teach ing will be discussed. It is re quested that mothers bring their babies and children.
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