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GATES COUNTY The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gate, Volume 14, No. 38 Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, May 29, 1946 INDEX £ nty ■% 8 Pases This Week Zion Club Wins Attendance Cup * 4t Federation Eure.—The Zion home dem onstration club won the silver attendance cup at the annual spring federation meeting of home demonstration clubs in Gates county, held last Tuesday afternoon at the Eure school. The cup is awarded twice yearly, going to the club which has the best attendance at the spring and fall countywide fed eration meetings. Nearly 200 Gates county home demonstra tion club members attended the meeting Tuesday. The recently elected officers were installed. They are: Mrs. W. L. Askew of Eure, president; Mrs. Walter Harrell, Gatesville, vice president; Mrs. P. F. Owens, Reynoldson, secretary; and Mrs. Henry Lawrence, Gatesville, treasurer. The officers will serve for a two-year term. The hostess clubs for the spring federation meeting were Carter, Eure and Roduco. Serving as committee chairman for the meeting were: Mrs. M. L. Piland, Middle Swamp, courtesy; John W. Artz, Gatesville, cup; Mrs. L. F. Overman, Gatesville, time and place. The Eure and Gatesville 4-H club members serving were: Dorothy Lawrence, Rebecca Eure, Phyllis Eure and Eugenia Stallings, registration; Omah Eure, O'Neil Smith, Melba J. Langston and Ruth Sawyer Umphlett, ushers; and Emily Eure and Erma Leigh Doughtie, pages. The Rev. T. A. Collins, Gates •’ille Methodist minister, address- | ■d the federation on the subject,1 ‘•The Home.” He compared a house to a home by asserting'j that the “sun shines on a house ! but the sun shines in a home.” He closed his remarks with a, recipe for an ideal home. Eure Church Groups Hold Regular Meet Eure.—The GA's and RA’s of Eure Baptist church held their monthly meeting Friday night at, the home of Miss Melba J.: Langston. Many members took part in the program. Refreshments were served to James and Luby Wiley, Billy Parker, Howard Dilday, Paul Taylor, Loraine Harrell, Richard Casper, J. C. Felton, Florence Casper, Eugenia Stal lings, Ruth S. Umphlett and Helen Vaughan by Mrs. Langs ton. DR. THOMAS L. CARTER Funeral Services Of Dr. Carter Held Last Friday Gatesville. — Funeral services for Dr. Thomas Leslie Carter, 53, prominent Gatesville physician, were conducted at the Gatesville Baptist church on Friday, May 24, with the Rev. T. Sloane Guy, pastor, and the Rev. Paul For sythe, a former pastor of the church, officiating. Interment followed at the Car ter family burial ground at the Carter family homeplace near Gatesville. Dr. Carter was killed in an automobile accident near Whaleyville, Va., on the after noon of May 21. while enroute to visit a patient. Eye witness ac counts of the accident reported that the left front tire of Dr. Carter's automobile apparently blew out, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. The auto mobile swerved across the high way to the left into a highway drain and then crashed into a concrete culvert, overturning several times. Dr. Carter was thrown from the automobile as it turned over. He was unconsci ous when witnesses to the ac cident reached him and it is be lieved his neck was broken. The automobile was demolished. Surviving are his wife, Juani ta Horner Carter; a son, Thomas Leslie Carter, Jr., Lt. U. S. N., stationed at the Naval Air Sta tion, Corpus Christi, Tex.; a sis ter, Mrs. Daught Carter Powell; and a brother, C. Herman Car ter. His sister and brother are residents of Gates county. Active pallbearers were J. K. Wyatt, A. A. Lilley, L. C. Hand, Tazewell D. Eure, J. Wesley Parker A. Pilston Godwin, Jr., J. Graham Pollock, Claude Bun See DR. CARTER, Page 4 DDT Spraying Mapped For Areas Found To Be Highly Malarious Gatesville. — Mrs. Elizabeth ) Arouse, Gates county public health nurse, has explained that the general public apparently was under the impression that they were requested to make ap plication for the spraying of their homes, which was not the case as areas to be sprayed had been mapped out at headquarters of fice before the project was start ed. She said the sections mapped out for spraying with DDT in clude Gatesville, Buekland, Ro duco, Eure and Story’s and the surrounding territory of Hall township, going westward to the Chowan river on the Hertford county line. Mrs. Crouse said that Gates county had been allotted a quota of 500 houses for the project and that Lt. Edwin Coffin, who was in charge of the work, had said that any home having an active case of malaria in it during the time the work was being done would be sprayed regardless of its location, provided it was re ported by a physician. It is expected that the project will be completed by June 30. Mrs. Crouse stressed the fact that the project had been plan ned for only the ,malarious areas of the county. Hand Reelected Commander Of Legion Post Gatesville.—L. C. Band of Gatesville was re-elected com mander of Gates county post No. 136 of the American Legion at a meeting held at the Legion hut last Thursday night. Other officers elected were: Dalton M. Parker of Sunbury, first vice commander; Durwood Blanchard of Gatesville, second vice commander; Henry W. Hin ton of Hobbsville, sergeant-at arms; Hubert Eason of Gates ville, chaplain; and Jesse S. Liles of Gatesville, adjutant. Four of the six officers are veterans of World War II. They are Parker, Blanchard, Hinton and Liles. Hand, Parker and LiJes were named as delegates to the state convention. Alternate delegates are S. E. Spivey, Willis Hinton and C. E. Lang. The post decided to appoint a member to have charge of and .plan a recreation program lor each meeting. John W. Art? was named to this pest. The 1947 membership cam paign was launched and all 21 members present for the meeting renewed their memberships. Clarence P. Hathaway of Sun bury was received as a new member and W. P. Hill, Jr., of Sunbury transferred his mem bership from the South Nor!oik post. Cool Springs Church Plans Annual Meat Cool Springs — The annual homecoming and memorial serv ices of the Cool Springs Baptist church will be held at the church on Sunday, June 2, at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Victor Harrell ol j Winston-Salem will speak and the Rev. Thomas A. Collins, Gatesville Methodist minister, will deliver the memorial mes sage at 3 o’clock. First Litter Weighs In At 207 Pounds Corapeake.—A litter cf nine purebred Duroc Jersey pigs, owned by Martin Knight of this community, tipped the scales at slightly over 267 pounds, when weighed cn 56 days after being farrowed by John W. Artz, county farm agent. The pigs were weighed for competition in the contest of the Cofield Mutual Livestock association. Artz said the largest pig in the litter weighed 32 pounds and that the total weight for the litter might he considered slightly better than average. Other weighings scheduled are: litter at farm of Lycuxges Tinkham on May 30; litter on farm of W. H. Goodman on June 3; and litter on farm ci T. E. Jackson on June 10. Artz said that local prizes had been donated in addition to the prizes offered in the as sociation’s competition. He said a $25 bond would be given to the Gates county owner of the heaviest litter with feed record on September 17, $10 in cash to the owner of the heaviest litter on September 17, and $10 in cash to the owner cf the heaviest litter at 5G days. The prizes have been donated by George Morgan and Son of Sunbury, L. E. McCoy cf Snn bury and Lycurges Howell cf Roduco, respectively. Priii. ry Draws Light Vote \ Gates County D5mcCrali? ^ rs of Gates county gave Robert Lee uriifcci Ox Greenville a slight margin over Congressman aeifcert C. Bonner in their race last Saturday for the part'* nomination, which the latter won handily with the loss of only the one county. Lnofficial returns from the Gates county registrars gave Humber 337 votes as against the 290 received by Bonner. Unofficial returns for the first ----. congressional district gave Bon ner 18,342 to Humber’s 9,474. This report was for 131 of the .147 precincts in the district. A late count in Humber’s home county of Pitt, gave Bonner 4,651 votes to Humber’s 3,066. Early unofficial returns had given Humber the edge in Pitt county. The race for the two nomina tions for State Senate from the first district was won by Char les H, Jenkins of Aulander and Lorimer Midgett of Elizabeth City and Gates county gave both of these candidates margins over the third contestant in the pri mary, Webb Williams, also ol Elizabeth City. With unofficial returns in from all but one of the Gates county precincts, Hunter’s Mill, the count was reported as follows: Jenkins, 462; Midgett, 284; and Williams, 198. "Voting in Gates county was unusually light due- primarily to two reason's—lack of. a race for any of the county ottices and tire excellent weather, which per mitted the farmers to do much in the way of getting in their crops niter the delay caused by the recent speil of rainy weather. Clubs To Donate Food For Relief Gatesviile. — Gates ebunty heme demonstration club mem bers have been asked to help the famine stricken peoples of Europe and Asia by contributing canned foods during the month of June. The foods will be collected and brought to the office of the home demonstration agent and there packed for shipment. Miss Cna Patterson, county home agent, said that the contributions would be accepted through June 30. She said it was necessary that the foods be canned in tins and urged those women who had foods canned in glass to trade with a neighbor for some in tin cans. Each member has been a-sked to give one can of vege tables, one can of fruit and one can of meat. Miss Patterson said the mem bers had been asked to bring their contributions to the June club meetings. The Reynoldson club received at its Pday meeting contributions of $6.35 in cash for the purchase of canned foods. Gatesville Girl Heads ECTC Club Greenville.—Nell Rose Ellis of Gatesville has been elected j president cf the newly reor | ganized museum club at East ; Carolina Teachers college. Membership in the club is limited to 20 students* special I !y selected because of interest in the project of enlarging and improving present scientific materials in the college museum. 1-11 Members Plan For Camp Gatesville. — A number of Gates county 4-11 club boys and ffmls are planning to attend the annual 4-H ch b camp at James town during the week of June 10-15, according to an announce ment from John W. Artz county farm agent. The camp is operated by the Virginia 4-H clubs, but arrarigc | ments have been made for club J members m Gates, Hertford and | Wilson counties to attend. Arts | said that he and Miss Ona T’at jv.rscn, home demonstration j agent, and several adult leaflets I planned to attend the camp. The county farm agent said the | s'ci vices of a good swimmer and practical muse had been secured tor the camp. Ho said that a num ber of historical places, includ ing Williamsburg, would be isited during the camp week and that, en route to the camp, the group would .‘.top for an hour or so at the Mariners Museum. He said the Gates county group was scheduled to leave the agri cultural budding at Gatesville on Monday, June 10, at 9 o’clock and would travel iby open truck. Approximately 30 will attend from Gates county. Artz said the only requirement for the camp trip was the com pletion of a satisfactory project record book in 1945 or 1944, and. that the campers were on their honor to keep and submit a com plete record this year. ROUNTREE NCW HOME; STALLINGS TRANSFERRED Hobbsville. — Hintron Roun tree, ex-serviceman who was in jured about two months ago in an automobile accident, has been returned to his home for further recuperation, after having been a patient at the Navy hospital, Portsmouth. Roy Stallings, another veteran who was a patient at the Ke coughtan^ hospital, has been transferred to a hospital in Richmond. T ovvnship Gatesville . Hall . Reynoldson .... Haslett ................ Holly Grove . Hunter’s Mill Mintonsville . TOTAL. S. CONGRESS ber Bonner 53 12 21 30 92 37 45 290 FOR U. H u rn I .113 . 68 ... 29 .. 8 . 53 .. 17 . 49 .337 FOR STATE SENATE Jenkins Midgctt William?* 140 77 (58 73 ?6 23 45 28 34 37 15 10 101 78 38 66 50 25 462 284 198
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