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mmmm The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Volume 14, No. 30 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, April 3, 1946 12 Pages This Week V Council Offers Aid To Gates Vets; Full Information A Uatesville.—Coordinated serv i for Gates County veterans v^as established by the Grates County U. S. D. A. Council at its Organization meeting here last week. The Council made plans to of fer information to returning vet erans on problems of participat ing in various Federal Re-ad justment programs designed to benefit veterans. The following information was released this week by the Coun cil, and should be read by every Gates County veteran interested in applying for any type of vet erans’ aid: Veterans may receive litera ture on readjustment programs at the Register of. Deeds Office when registering his discharge papers. This registering should be done as soon as possible fol lowing discharge. A veteran may file a claim for readjustment allowances at the following address: Claims Taker, U. S. Employment Serv ice, 108 North Martin Street, Elizabeth City, North Carolina. When filing this claim, the vet eran should have his original dis charge papers and be prepared to give statement of his income and expenses for the previous calen dar month. The readjustment claim can be filed only after the veteran has been self employed for one calendar month. This* information is . being furnished by the Council in an effort to help Gates county vet erans avoid loss of time and needless expense in filing-claims fc r readjustment allowances. W Jrther information will be pub lished. Two Are Drowned As Boat Capsizes In Chowan River Winton. — Harvny Edward Lane, 32, and Aubrey Whitley, both of Woodland, were drowned in the Chowan River near Win ton Sunday afternoon yrtien the boat from which they wens fish ing capsized. The double drowning, which occurred at Parker’s Ferry, was witnessed by a 16-year-old boy, son of the ferry operator, who had accompanied the two men in the boat. The youth crawled onto the boat after the capsizing and was rescued later. Whitley, who wps considered an excellent swimmer, attempted ► to aid Lane after the boat over turned and drowned in the ef fort, the boy stated. Lane’s body was recovered near the spot of the capsizing several hours later, but Whitley’s body as still unrecovered late Mon ay afternoon. Funeral services for Lane will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the home at Woodland by the Rev. T. N. Cooper of Rich Square. Inter ment will be in the Lane family cemetery: | Surviving Lane are. his wife, 1$ the former Tulie Mae Outland; four daughters, an infant son; his father, E. Lane of Rich Square; one sister, Mrs. J. W. Gray of Rich Square; and one ther* Clarence Lane of Green GUINEA FIG SHIPS READY FOR ATOM BOMB . . . Photo shows a number of ships of the APA and AKA type, cargo and transport vessels, which will be used as targets in the Opera tion Crossroads, lined up at Pearl Harbor before shoving off on the final voyage. U.S.D.A. Council Lays Out Program of Work Hobbsville Man Badly Injured In Auto Crash Gatesville. — Hinton Rountree of Hobbsville was seriously in jured and his companion, Bern ard Brown of Hobbsville, suffer ed cuts Thursday night when the automobile in which they were riding overturned near the State prison camp. Rountree was taken to Lake View hospital in Suffolk, where it was reported that he was suf fering from spinal injuries and a possible crushed vertebra. He was pronounced Sunday to be out of danger. > According to sheriff “Turk” Overman, who investigated the accident, the tie rod on Brown’s car, a recently-purchased 1938 Ford, parted and the car turned over twice at about 11 p. m. Thursday. The car was demo lished and Brown suffered pain ful cuts on his left arm. Gatesville.—The Gates county U. S. D. A. Council, members of which were appointed by the county War Board in December, 1945, opened its two-fold pro gram in its first meeting here on March 25, The Conucil, which was form ed to replace the War Board and ,to ssrve as a medium of* co ordination of 'activities of the dif ferent agricultural agencies, was *given two' jobs by Ihe President* and the Secretary of Agriculture:1 (1) making information avail able to discharged veterans of Veterans’ Agricultural training programs and on veterans’ read justment alowances pertaining to self-employment * on the farm and (2) giving publicity to Pres ident' Truman’s Famine Relief program during the next four months. Members of the Council are J. S. Liles, J. C. Vann, J. A. Hobbs, J. P. Johnson, Miss Ona Patter son, A. H. Edwards, G. P. Kitt rell and John W. Artz, all of whom were present at the first meeting, and W. L. Askew, L. T. Lilley and C. B. Lee who were unable to attend. Hand Named Cancer Campaign Chairman Gatesville.—The appointment of L. C. Hand as county chair man for the second major fund campaign of the American Can cer Society has just been an nounced by John Kerr, Jr., of Warrenton, State Campaign chairman for the North Carolina Division of the Field Army of the American Cancer Society. The appeal for funds will be made during April, , which has been designated Cancer Control Month by Act of Congress and of the North Carolina General Assem bly. Gates county’s qubta is $4Q0 this year. “Everyone in our community must learn the shocking facts abput cancer”, said Mr. Hand, commenting* on his acceptance of the chairmanship. “I strongly believe that once these facts are known, every man and woman in Gates county will respond generously to this appeal, which may mean life or death to them selves and those they love. “Most of us simply do not know that cancer kills 60 percent more people th&n all contagious and See CAMPAIGN, Page 7 Going Up? Gatesville. — Fish in the Merchant's Mill pond district may soon find that elevators are not for the exclusive use of human beings, but may be used by ambitious fish. A request for a fish-ladder, a type of water elevator, has been sent to John Findlay, head of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, by the Gates county Board of Commissioners. The ladder will be installed beside the spillway of the Merchant’s Mill pond to enable fish to go from the old mill race at the upper end oT Bennett’s Creek into the mill pond. Members of the Board ex pressed the opinion that the installation of such a fish-lad der (a small-scale project sim ilar to the ones at Boulder and Grand Coulee dams) would in crease the number of fish now in the pond and boost Gates county fishing. Commissioners Orde1 Warrants For % tx Evaders 155 p Negro Re | yes Two SentL«;es Within Two Days Gatesville. — Ellsworth Harri son, Gatesville negro, who was sentenced in tbs March term of Superior court to eighteen month’s imprisonment, drew an other six month’s term on the following day on an abandon ment and non-support charge. Harrison, who was' found guilty in last Tuesday’s session of re corder’s court, was given a sen tence to run consecutive to the one imposed . on Monday by Judge Henry Stevens in Super ior Court. In the only other case to be tried on Tuesday’s docket Addi son Parker, Gatesville negro, was sentenced to 60 days on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and being drunk and dis orderly. Sentence was suspend ed upon the payment of a fine of $25 and costs. John J. Riddick Funeral Service Held On Friday Gatesville. — Funeral services for John J. (Jack) Riddick, 68, prominent Gatesville business man who died in a Norfolk hos pital Wednesday afternoon after a short illness, were conducted Friday afternoon in Saint Mary’s Episcopal church here. Services were conducted by the Rev. Worth Wicker, rector, and burial was in the Gatesville cemetery. Mr. Riddick, a lifelong resi dent of Gates county, was a vestryman in Saint Mary’s Epis copal church. The son of R. M. Riddick, Civil War veteran who founded the Riddick mercantile business in Gatesville in 1866, Mr. Riddick was active in the (business from earliest youth until his death. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Varina Frontis Riddick; a son, Frontis Riddick, of Rich mond; two daughters, Mrs. James Edward Weeks and Miss Celeste Riddick, both of Gatesville; three brothers, Dr. W. J. Riddick of New Orleans, La., Dr. C. R. Rid dick of Ayden and R. M. Riddick of Hertford; and one sister, Mrs. Claude Cross of Bristol, Fla. Active pallbearers for the fu neral were Mills Roberts, Wil liam Cowper, Emmett Riddick, Marion Riddick, James L. Hofler, and John Lewis Perry. Masons To Meet Gatesville.—The regular meet ing of the Gates county Masonic Lodge wil be held Thursday evening, April 4, at eight o’ clock’' in the Masonic Hall, it was announced by L. C. Hand. Gatesvill:.;—Acting upon a re commendation made last week by the Grand Jury, the Gates county Board of Commissioners Monday ordered the county tax supervisor and tax list takers to see that warrants are served up on all county residents who have not listed property for 1946 taxa tion. The Commissioners acted upon the matter after being advised of the Grand J ury’s recommenda tion. They were informed that there are approximately forty persons in the county who have failed to list property. Indict ments will be issued for the ar rest of these delinquents and all will be required to show cause for their failure to list. The Board of Commissioners approved the changing of the day for the annual meeting of the Board as a Board of Equaliza tion and Review. It was pointed out in the discussion which led to the approval of the change of oats that most of the counties in the State have their Boards to meet on the third Monday in March of each year, at which time there is no need for sub sequent changes on the tax list ing books. The 1946 sitting of the Board of Equalization and Review will remain on the third Monday in June as it has in the past, this year falling on June 17, but sub sequent sittings will be held on the third Monday in March. After hearing recommenda See WARRANTS, Page 7 Hofler Heads Election Board Gatesville.—Paul L. Hofler of Gatesville was elected chairman of the Gates county Board of Elections when the Board met here Saturday, March 23. H. A. Eure of Corapeake was named Secretary of the Board. Hofler and J. A. Hobbs of Hobbsville served as Democratic members of the Board and Eure is the Republican member. The two Democratic membsrs are serving for the first time, and Eure has served previous terms with the Board. The Board was named by the State Board of Elections, acting on recommendations sent in to Raleigh by the county political parties. Special Easter Services Set Gatesville. — Special Easter programs are being planned for the churches of the Gatesville Methodist charge, as follows: Mrs. Mills Riddick has an nounced a musical program for presentation on Palm Sunday evening, April 14, at eight o’ clock at Philadelphia Methodist church. At this time, the Sun bury High School glee club will sing ,with Miss Peggy Johnson and Mills Riddick as soloists. Choral anthems, ^ quartet, and soloes will be heard at Zion Methodist church Palm Sunday morning. Special music is also being scheduled for the Easter services the following Sunday at Gatesvile in the morning and at Harrell in the afternoon. The public is cordially invited to attend these serveies.
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