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GATES COUNTY INDEX
The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County
Volume 14, No. 49 >- Gatesville, N. C., Wednesday, August 14, 1946 12 Pages This Week
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NEW OPA DECONTROL BOARD . . . Supreme Court Just
ice Hugo Black, in brief ceremony held in Federal Reserve
board offices in Washington, swore in members o# new OPA
decontrol board, who will have control over future price ceil
ings. Left to right: George H. Mead, Dayton, O., Roy L. Thomp
son, New Orleans, Daniel W. Bell, Washington, D. C., Dr. John
• Steelman and Justice Hugo Black. The first three named are
members of the new board.
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Home Club Group
To Attend Course
Gatesville. — Seventeen Qates
county home demonstration club
members have registered for
Farm and Home Week to be held
at State College August 19-23.
They will leave from Sunbury
at 9:30 o’clock, Monday morn
ing, August 19.
Miss Ona Patterson, couhty
home agent, who also will at
tend the program, said classes to
be conducted would include
home management and house
furnishings, family life, cloth
ingj speech, the niceties of every
day living, health, freeze in the
goodness and from rags to rugs.
The Gates county women, reg
istered for the event, are:
Mrs. C. H. Carter} Mrs. J. H.
Bunch, Mrs. A. E. McCotter, Mrs.
E. L Eure, Mrs. Ruth Spivey,
Mrs. Oscar Riddick and Mrs. F.
G. Wig'gins of the Hobbsville
club, Miss Ethel Parker of th&
Gatesville club, Mrs. Otho Rid
dick and Mrs. E. A. Benton of
the Trotville club, Mrs. W. L.
Askew and Mrs. T. C. Lawrence
of the Eure club, Mrs. G. C.
Worrell of the Middle Swamp
club, Mrs. W. T. Council of the
Ariel club, Mrs. W. W. Powell
and Mrs. M. A. Perry of the
Corapeake club and Mrs. A. F.
Stallings of the Sandy Cross
club.
CLINIC ON TUESDAYS
Sunbury. — The Sunbury
clinic, which has been held every
Friday afternoon, will / be
changed to Tuesdays at 2 p. m.
beginning on Tuesday, Septem
ber 3.
Pollock to Organize
Class for Veterans
H ^Gatesville. — After spending
f three and one half years in the
armed service and seven months
in N. C, State college, completing
graduate work for his master de
gree in' agricultural education,
, Graham Pollock has returned to
Gatesville to resume his duties
*, as teacher of agriculture in the
^ Gatesville school.
He plans to organize training
classes for veteran farmers as
soon' as forms arrive from the
.Raleigh office and is anxious for
■interested veterans from Gates
ville and Gates School District to
contact him immediately.
Mrs. Nettie Eure
Buried Last Week
Murfreesboro.—Funeral serv
ices were held Tuesday after- i
noon, August 6, for Mrs. Nettie
Cora Eure, at the Eure Christ
ian church, with the Rev. J. W.
Roberts, pastor of the Christian
church of Windsor, Va., officiat
ing. Interment followed in the
family cemetery near Eure.
Mrs. Eure, 68, died early the
preceding Monday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. M. C. Ben
ton of Ahoskie, route 2. She had
been in ill health for several
months.
Mrs. Eure was the widow of
Nat J. Eure and daughter of the
late Tom Matthews and Mary
Matthews of Gates county. Sur
viving are three daughters, Mrs.
David Umphlett of Eure, Mrs. j
H. R. Felton of Colerain and
Mrs. M. C Benton of Ahoskie,
with whom she had lived for the
past 12 years; four sons, Thomas
Eure, Nat E. Eure and H. L. Eure
of Ahoskie, and Safn H. Eure of
Suffolk, Va.; one brother, Thom
as Matthews of Gates; and a
'half-sister, Mrs. Rose Harrell of
Suffolk, Va.
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
AT ZION CHURCH
Zion. — The fourth Quarterly
conference of the Qatesville
Methodist Charge will be held
at Zion Methodist church Sun
day afternoon, August 25 at 3:30
o’clock. The Rev. J. Herbert
Miller, district superintendent,
will preach and preside.
Two-Year-Old Boy
Swallows Part Comb
Gatesville. — Two-year-old
Larry Williams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Randolph Williams, was
rushed to Norfolk General
hospital last Monday after
swallowing two teeth from a
comb on which he had been
chewing. "
While X-rays failed to lo
cate the bits of plastic, it is
believed that they are lodged
in the child’s lung. The X
rays did reveal a cloudiness of
the lung, which may have been
caused by the teeth.
Larry has been brought
back to the Williams’ residence
.near Eason Cross Roads but,
as yet, the teeth have not been
removed.
Farmers To Get
Pay For Certain
Forestry Work
Eizabeth City.—Gates county
farmers are entitled to reim
bursement for certain forestry
practices, it has been announced
by District Forester James B.
Hubbard.
In 'a memorandum to all coun
ty fire wardens, Hubbard ex
pained that the reimbursement
plan was not carried out last
year due to an oversight by the
AAA office, but that the coun
ties would cooperate this year.
Under the reimbursement
plan, farmers can improve their
land, help to safeguard it from
fire and receive compensation
for it, Hubbard stated.
The projects and the amounts
by which the farmers will be
reimbursed is as follows: Plant
ing^ $4.50 per acre fire line plow
ing, $2.00 per 1,000 feet of seven
foot line, stand improvement,
$ih00 per acre.
The farmer will have to con
tact his county agent or AAA
representative and make appli
cation for reimbursement and
explain his forestry project.
Hubbard went on to say that
while the farmer will benefit
greatly from the program in that
his office charges $6.00 per mile
for fire line construction while
the AAA compensates the farm
er with a, payfhent of approxi
mately $10.00 per mile.
Nine Teacher
Vacancies In
Gates County
Gatesville.—Out of thirty-five
state authorized teaching posi
tions in Gates county, nine posi
tions are vacant^ W. Henry Over
man, superintendent of schools
in this county reported.
With the opening of schools
just three weeks off, the situa
tion is exceedingly grave, Over
man said. Asked what effect the
shortage of teachers would have
on the schools and their opening
date, Overman replied that he
did not know as never before
have so many positions remain
ed unfilled.
Overman appealed to those
persons qualified to teach^ that
are not engaged at present, to
accept the positions or to act as
substitute ' teachers. Those who
will consider teaching should
contact either Overman or the
principal of the school in which
they desire to be employed.
The schools having vacancies
are as follows: One position is
open in Eure elementary school,
two :are open at the Gatesville
high school, a prmcipalship is
vacant at Gates high school, one
high and two grammar grade
positions are open at Sunbury
and one high and one grammar
grade are open at Hobbsville.
SHERIFF OVERMAN
ATTENDS CONVENTION
Gatesville. — Representing
Gatesville at the convention of
North Carolina sheriffs held last
Thursday night was Sheriff L. F.
Overman, accompanied toy his
wife.
On Friday, D. Victor Meekins,
sheriff of Dare county •entertain
ed the delegates and their wives
at a fish fry, a tour of Roanoke
Island and a presentation of the
Lost Colony.
You Can't Keep
A Good Man Down
Eure. — One crash resulting1
in a broken leg hasn’t chanr'd
the mind of John E £ l
Rountree concerning- thd %
vantages of air travel. He
recently purchased ano.
plane and is resuming '
flights.
Rountree’s accident occurrt
last March when his plan
struck a fencepost during ai
emergency landing.
The new plane is of the
same type as the first and
Rountree is using the same
field, near the home of Pugh
Hayes, as his landing place.
In spite of his previous acci
dent, Rountree said he prefers
transportation by air. to high
way travel because it is safer.
Price Control
Office Moved
Gatesville. —. Price control in
Gates county came under the
jurisdiction of the Pasquotank
County Price Board Thursday
with the closing of.the Ahoskie
OPA office, Roland Sawyer, head
of price control in 17 Northeast
ern North Carolina counties has
announced.
Gates and Hertford counties
were formerly under control of
the Ahoskie office. Hertford
county now is under the Wil
liamston office, Sawyer said.
Gates county price files were
moved to Elizabeth City late
Thursday and from now on all
applications and complaints from
Gates should be sent to the Pas
quotank county office, Sawyer
said.
Closing of the Ahoskie office
was part of a state-wide consoli
dation program, he added.
Plan Baptism
In Chowan River
Corapeake. — Revival services
at Eureka church were conclud
ed Sunday. The services had
been in progress for one week
and were conducted by the
church pastor, the Rev. Ralph
Ferguson. There were 24 addi
tions by letter, statement and re
quests of baptism. The candi
dates for baptism from the three
churches in Reverend Ferguson’s
parish will assemble at Cannon’s
Ferry on Sunday, August 18, and
will be baptized in the Chowan
river.
BATTLE TO WIN [PEACE.
. . . Sec. of State James F.
Byrnes, head of U. S. delega
tion to the Paris peace con
ference, is shown in his place
at the long-awaited peace con
ference of -21 victorious na
tions in the palace of Luxem
bourg, Paris.
joint Home Club
And Farm Bureau
Picnic Held
Colerain Beach. — Addressing
some 450 persons at a joint pic
nic held by the home demonstra
tion clubs and the Gates county
Farm Bureau, R. Flake Shaw,
xecutive secretary of the state
, 'rm bureau, warned of the
* istence of pressure groups in
'.shington that are seeking the
ps of those congressmen who*
■>se them in their labor or
ganizations.
Shaw said that the groups’ in
fuence had already reached dan
gerous proportions where farm
ing interests and organizations
were concerned. He stated that
the immediate outlook for farm
ing is good and told his audience
that they held the power to in
crease their position of influence
in governmental affairs.
The secretary reviewed the re
cord of the Farm Bureau in.
North Carolina and explained:
that it has grown from a group
of 2,200 to over 44,000 and that
it should keep right oh growing.
He suggested 100,000 as the
membership goal for the 1946-47
campaign. He stressed the fact
that the more members in the
organization, the greater influ
ence in Washington.
John W. Artz, county farm
agent presiding, thanked Shaw
for his address and assurred him
that Farm Bureau members
woud make special efforts to in
crease their membership during
this campaign.
Both the Farm Bureau and the
home demonstration clubs held,
business meetings at the picnic.
•Swimming, games and stunts
composed the recreation offered,
and many prizes were awarded.
Among those recognized during"
this part of the program were
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Rountree
as the couple who had been mar
ried the longest, Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Stallings of Hobbsville
as the most recently married,
couple. The couple that traveled.
tne greatest number of miles in
ecming to Colerain was Mr. and
Mrs. George C. Daniels of Cora
peake. Mrs. Haywood Bunch was
awarded a prize for having the
largest number of articles in her
pocketbook.
In a clothes hanging contest,
Doris Jean Rountree, hanging
cut men’s clothing, bested Fred
Stallings, who was hanging ladies
garments. The girl’s candy kiss
scramble was won by Catherine
Whitehurst of Gates with Dou
glas R. Turner of Gates the vic
tor in the boy’s candy kiss
scramble.
A handmade quilt was won by
the Farm Bureau secretary. Mr.
and Mrs. Otho Riddick were
awarded prizes for having se
cured the greatest number of
memberships for the farm bu
reau during its last campaign.
Gurnie Eure of Eure was the
winner of the corn shelling con
test. In the weight guessing con
test, Mrs. P. D. Hobbs came
within half a pound of the cor
rect weight of the basket of eggs.
HEALTH NURSE
TO TAKE VACATION
Gatesville.—Mrs. Elizabeth H.
Crouse, public health nurse, wifi,
be on vacation during the last
two weeks of August, and all
persons desiring vaccinations or
other services are urged to re
port to the Health Department
office in Gatesville on Friday
mornings between 11 a. m. and
12 noon.
Dr. W. R. Parker, district
health officer, will be in charge