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GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, April 24, 1946 8 Pages This Week County Slated To Go In New judicial District * Greensboro. — Reorganization oi North Carolina’s judicial dis tricts, under recommendations of a, special commission appointed by Governor Gregg Cherry, would place Hertford, Berti-e, Northampton and Gates counties in the second district, along with four other counties. If the General Assembly ap proves the reorganization at its 1947 term, these four counties would all undergo a change in districts. At present, Hertford, Bertie and Northampton are in the third district, with Halifax, Warren and Vance, and Gates is in the first district. Halifax, Warren and Vance also would go into the second district as would Granville, which is now in the 10th dis trict. The reorganization would re duce the number of judicial dis tricts in the state from 21 to 19. In addition to this reduction, the commission also wil recommend an increase Jn the salary of soli citors from $5,000 to $7,500. Zion Community Tops Cancer Goal Gatesville.—The . Zion com munity has earned the distinc tion of being the first to over subscribe its quota in the Can cer Control fund campaign in Gates county, according to an announcement from Miss Ona Patterson, campaign treasurer. The Zion community report ed collection of $27.60. Its quota was $25. The campaign in the ♦ community was con ducted through the Sunday school and home demonstra tion club with Mrs. James Hud - gins, Jr., and Willie Spivey in charge. The county' quota is $400 and the campaign will end April 30. Others to report are: Park ers church, Mrs. Elton Taylor, $5.91*, Hazelton home demons tration club, Mrs. T. E. Jack son, $6; Philadelphia Metho dist church, Mrs. W. G. Byrum, $8.09; Eure Christian church, Mrs. J. G. Eure, $10; Gates ville Woman’s club, Mrs. C. C. Parker, $5; and Gatesville UDC, Mrs. E. R. Roberts, $2. Contract Submitted For Highway No. 158 Alternate In Gates County A low contract of $78,542.50 for grading and surfacing a section of road between Roduco and Sunbury in Gates county was submitted to the State Highway and Public. Rites Conducted m^or Mrs. Hayes GatEsville. — Funeral services for Mrs. Etta Hayes were con ducted Wednesday afternoon at the Gatesville Methodist church by the Rev. T. A. Collins, assist ed by ths Rev. T. Sloane Guy, Sr. The following hymns were sung: “Sunrise Tomorrow,” by Mrs. T. Sloane Guy, Sr.; and “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder,” by the choir. Active pallbearers ware: W. R. and G. C. Worrell, D. S. and F. H. Rountree, A. E. Wester, S. C. Baines, Garland Russell and €. , F. Copeland. Burial was in the family cemetsry. Mrs. Hayes died Monday, April 15, after a brief illness. STATE 4-H CLUB LEADER TO VISIT GATES COUNTY Gatesville. — Miss Ruby Pea son, assistant state 4-H club leader from State College Sta tion, will be in Gates county on Friday, April 26, for a confer ence with the home demonstra tion and county farm agents. ^ Works Commission last week. The contract, ’ submitted by Dickerson company of Monroe, was opened at a meeting of the State Highway and Public Works Commission at which bids on numerous other projects were opened. It is likely that the con tracts will be let by the commis sion within a short time. The stretch of road in Gates county to !oe paved is 2.76 miles of highway No. 158, providing a" cutoff that would bypass Gatesville. The new section would branch off from the pre sent No. 158 about two miles northwest of Gatesville and re enter highway No. 158 approxi mately three miles east of Gates ville. The new road would cross highway No. 37 about two miles north of Gatesville. This route is one of the two for which grading1 and paving is sought in Gates county. The other dirt road leaves highway No. 158 just west of Roduco and connects with highway No. 37 between Gates and Drum Hill. This route would reduce by approximately nine miles the distance between Winton^nd Suffolk. The present dirt road is much traveled during good weather. Registration Books Open Saturday; Democratic County Meet Same Day Gatesville.—Registration books ,r voters in Gates county will oe opened at the polling places on Saturday, April 27, P. L. Hof ler, chairman of the county board of ‘Elections, has announced. Registrars will beat the poll ing places for three successive Saturdays froirT 9 a. m., until sunset, according to the an nouncement. Democrats who have not registered previously for either a party primary or general election must register in order to be eligible to vote in the May primary, Hofler said. Challenge day will be on Sat urday, May 18, and the primary will-be held on May 25. Voters may register with the registra tion officials at any time during the three-week registration per iod, but the officials will only be at the polling places on the three Saturdays. Hoffler said1 the list of regist rars had not been completed, but would be announced during the week. Democrats held precinct meet ings last Saturday and will meet this Saturday at 2 o’clock at the Gates county evourthouse in ji county convention, a$ yvhich de leg^es will be named" to the state convention. ■'/ Roanoke-Chowan Baptists Will Attend Meeting A large number of Baptists from the churches in the Roa noke-Chowan area will attend the annual regional Baptist Training Union convention * to be held at Elizabeth City this week end and three of them will con duct conference sessions. The Rev. J, B. Folds of Au lander and Miss Josephine Hair of Ahoskie are scheduled to lead “Christian Living” conferences at the Friday afternoon session. Mrs. R. I*. Councilman of Wind sor will conduct the Methods Conference, scheduled for the Saturday morning session. The convention will be held at the Blackwell Memorial Bap tist church. The opening session will be held at 2:50 o’clock Fri day afternoon. There will be an evening session at 7:50 o’clock and Saturday sessions at 9 o’ clock and 1:30 o’clock. A ban quet will be held at 6-o’clock Friday evening. The regional convention in cludes 121 Baptist churches of the Chowan and West Chowan associations. Dr. F. Orion Mixon of the Tabernacle Baptist church, Ra leigh, will deliver a sermon at the Saturday morning session. Other addresses will be made by Harvey T. Gibson of Raleigh, state training union secretary, and the Rev.' H. L. Arthur of Portsmouth, Va. School Closing Program To Start Gatesville.—Activities in con nection with completion of the current school year begin at the Gatssville school this week, when the music class of Mrs. T. E. Pittman presents a piano re cital on Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. As the school will not have a graduating class this year, due, to inauguration of the 12th grade next fall, there will be no bacca laureate sermon and commence ment program. A religious serv ice will be held at the school on Sunday ,May 5, at 11:15 o’clock, however, with the Rev. Worth Wicker, Episcopal rector, deliver ing the sermon. Students, their parents and friends will attend. On Tuesday, May 7, there will be a closing program at the school at 8 p. m., at which certiz_ ficates will be awarded to tnose advancing to the ninth grade. Other awards also will be made at this time. Those to receive certificates are: Fred Starling, Eris Eure, Edith Cross, Reba Smith, Melba Hobbs, Annie Mary Howell, Edna Mae Harrell, Mary Elizabeth Spivey, Ray Lassiter, Willis Carter, Helen Rountree and Bill Eure. The students who will parti cipate in the piano recital are Kay Brown, Carolyn Hofler, Betty Lou Umphlett, Mary Ann Holler, Katie Askew, Page Lil ley, Erleen Lilley, Mary Spivey, Reba Smith, Melba Hobbs, Edith Cross, Hasseltine Hofler and Anjaryllis Lang. The Sunbury, Gates and Hobbsville schools will complete the current trem on May 7 and the Eure and Gatesville schools close on May 8. All Negro ele mentary schools close on April 30 and the Negro high school closes on May 3. 'Principals of the white schools will meet at the board of educa tion office on Thursday after noon at 4 o’clock to discuss final reports and the closing of the school. Teacher Allotments Give Gc fes Problem Gatesville. — Educatio; presentatives from Ralei^ t last week with the Gates' board of education and m< & of the Gates district schoo £ mittee to discuss the teact1 ^ <L> lotment for the next schoo, In addition to the memh the district school committee, a number of patrons of the Gates school attended. The members of the district committee are J. E. Lilley, L. G. Parker and R. Ed ward Miller. Menribers of the county board of education are H, F. Parker, Mrs. Marian Nixon and S. P. Cross. The meeting, was held at the office of W. Hen ry Overman, superintendent of the county school system. Those attending from Raleigh were Paul A. Rice, controller of the state board of education, J. E. Hunter, director of teacher allotments, and W. F. Credle, di rector of schoolhouse planning. The state officials said that it was going to be necessary to ad her strictly to the attendance system in allotment of teachers lor the next school year, which will mean the loss' of one teach er in the high school at Gates and two teachers in the elemen tary schools of the first district —one at Gatesville and one at Eure school. The Gatesville schooj would gain a high school teacher. With only one high school teacher allotted at Gates, the district committee took under consideration its plans for next year and the possibility of con solidating its high school grades with the Gatesville high school. Teacher allotments for the white schools in Gates county for next year are: District one (Gatesville and Eure), seven elementary and four high school; district two (Gates), four elemen tary and one high school; district three (Sunbury), seven elemen tary and three high school; dis trict four (Hobbsville), five elementary and three high school. The Negro schools will lese a teacher in district three and a teacher in district four. The al lotments are: district one, ten elementary; district two, eight elementary; district three, twelve elementary and five high school; and district four, five elemen tary. PRENATAL AND WELL-BA EY CLINIC ON THURSDAY The regular monthly prenatal and well-baby clinic will be held ire the Gatesville health depart ment office Thursday afternoon, May 2, at 2 o’clock. Eure Girl Competes In Fashion Revise GatesviHe. — Miss Dorothy Lawrence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lawrence of Eure, winner of first prize at Gates* ville high school in the fashion show held there, will go to Raleigh May 4 to enter- the fashion revue at the state fu ture homemakers, rally. Others to attend the rally from Gates county, are Mary -Ann Beamon, president c-f the local Future Homemakers as l sociation, who is a candidate for state office, and Hasseltine Hofler, who has been elected president of the local chapter for the next school term. Legion Post Has Over 100 Members Gatesville- — When the Gates ocunty post of the American Leg ion meets at the Legion Hut on Thursday evening it will have on its rolls more than 100 mem bers. The post passed the 100-mem bership mark recently upon re ceipt of membership by Robert G. Morris of Sunbury. Frank E. Pierce of Sunbury became the 101st member. Th meeting will be held at 8 o'clock and Stephen H. Alfcrd of Elizabeth City, veterans repre sentative t^f the eastern district, will speak. Tiie school awards committee, composed of P. L. HoffJer, F. L. Nixon, Felton Landing and Pell Hinton, will meet during the evening to consider citizenship awards for a boy and girl in the 8th grade in each of the schools oi the county. Miss Brinkley Dies; llative of Gates Suffolk.—Miss Mary A. Brink ley, 66, died in Williamsburg Sunday after a long illness. She was the daughter of the late James and Martha Speight Brinkley of Gates County. She is survived by three broth ers, Juniusers, Junius, Glenwood and James Wilbur Brinkley, of Driver, and a number cf nieces and nephews. Services were conducted at the grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery at 3 p. m., on Tuesday by Dr. 1. W. Johnson, pastor of Berea Christ ian Church. Four Gates Farmer s Enter Litters In Cofield Exchange Pig Contest uatesviiie.—i^ates county wiu be well represented in the iour ^ounty Ton Litter contest spon sored by the Cofield Livestock Mutual Exchange, four farmers already having notified John V7. Artz, farm agent, that they have entered pigs in the event. The litter in the four contest ing counties— Gates, Northamp ton, Bertie and Hertiord—weigh ing the most will win for their owner a $25 war bond. A mini mum of eight pigs are necessary to qualify for entry' in the con test. W. H. Goodman of Gates was the first farmer in the county to enter a litter—10 spotted Poland Chinas farrowed on April 7. Two of these pigs were lost, but Good man still has eight for entry in the contest. T. B. Jackson of the Drum Hill neighborhood has entered 12 pigs iariowed on April 15. His pigs are mixed breeds. Martin Knight of near Cora peake has entered a litter of nine purebred Durocs, farrowed on March 28, and Lycurgus Tink ham of the Tinkham neighbor hood has a litter of eight spotted pigs for his entry. The litter was farrowed several weeks ago. Judging for the contest will be on September 17.
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