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' .7 V - ■■ ■ '*•*0 Highway Safety ... is the concern of everyone. The Index is launching a campaign urging you to slow down add. live. Renew your subscription. One »f the Nation'* “GREATER WEEKLIES" GATES COUNTY INDEX # The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County We Proudly Present... the news and editorials each week in the Index, exactly as we see it without being influenced by any one or any group. Be sure to renew your Kuhoerinlion. It's onlv S2.50. Volume 21. No. 32 Gateaville, N. C., Thursday. April 7. 1955 10c per copy Dedicated to Service to Gates; County and Its People 12 Pages—Two Sections Renovation Completed nAt Methodist Church Gatesville.—With the installa tion of new lighting fixtures the Gatesville Methodist Church com pletes the renovation of its build ing. The total cost of the project was estimated at twenty thous and dollars ($20,000.00). This in cludes three additional class rooms, two rest rooms, a new roof, a chancel added to the exist ing sanctuary, new pews and chancel furniture, new lighting fixtures, and a new heating sy stem. These improvements have been made possible by generous gifts from the members and friends of the church. In addition, aid was received from the Duke Endowment and the Board qf Missions and Church Extension of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. The Building Committee of the church took the lead in making plans for the building improve ments. The members of the com mittee were: J. K. Wyatt, chair man, F. P. Smith, J. S. Liles, A. E. Wester, R. E. Rawles, T. W. Costen, Mrs. J. E. R. Perry, Mrs. J. L. Sawyer, Mrs. W. C. Hinton, Mrs. J. B. Hathaway, Mrs. J. W. Brown, Mrs. R. L. Turner, and Mrs. E. V. Willis. The Finance Commission of the church has led the program of financing the project. At the be ginning of the program, the chair man of this commission was F. P. Smith. He has been succeeded by R. L. Turner. Other members of the commission are, Mrs. C. W. Hinton, J. K. Wyatt, Dr. L. C. Hand, Jr., Mrs. C. N. Plyler, T. W. Costen, and Mrs. E. V. Willis. Many of the items going into the church were given as me morials, or gifts. Promotion of this phase of the program was under the leadership of the Com mittee of Memorials with S. P. Cross as chairman. Other mem bers of this committee are Mrs. E. V. Wills and Mrs. C. N. Ply *er. Though the building renova on is now completed, the church under the leadership of the above committees and its pastor, the Rev. Henry A. Bizzell, Jr., con tinues a vigorious campaign to complete payments on the church debt and to provide for futher improvements on the building. Revival Ends At Reynoldson Gates. — Reynoldson Baptist Church, in cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention si multaneous revival, held services each evening last week at 7:45 with the Rev. S. H. Roberts, pas tor of Macedonia Baptist Church, Asheville, doing the preaching. Services closed with the Sun day night 8 o’clock service. There were 12 public decisions and special music was rendered each evening by members of the choir. The Rev. Clarke Wiseman, pastor of the Great Fork Baptist Church, rendered two solos Sat urday night, accompanied by Mrs. P. Owen Parker, choir director and organist of the Great Fork Church. The Rev. Roberts .and the Rev. Oscar S. Edmonds and family were dinner guests in the follow ing homes during the week: Mon day, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. White, Jr.; Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Parker; Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Riddick; Friday, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Taylor; Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Savage; Sun day, Mr. and Mrs. Otho Mizelle. -* Hobbsvilb Gets The New Look Hobbsville.—Hobbsville is real ly taking on “the new look:” Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hobbs have com pletely renovated their kitchen. They have installed hot and cold water, youngstown sink and cabinets, also a complete new bath. Mrs. Mat Hollowell is redec orating her bedroom, hall and dinning room. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Hobbs are building two new rooms on their home. When those are complete their son and family* Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hobbs will move in '•nth them. © •URE SUNRISE SERVICE urc.—There will be a Sunrise ..ervice held at the Eure Baptist Church Easter morning at 5:37 a. m. Dan Page of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, will be guest speaker' Sunday school wilh be held at 40:00 a. m. and preaching service at 11:00 a. m. Dan Pag* will de liver the message. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. f New,Books Now Avanoble at County Library Gatesville.—Listed here are the new books for the Gates County Public Library. Non fiction— adults: Ice Floes and Flaming Water, Freuchen; Treasure-Divlpg Holidays, Crile; John Ruskin, Evans: Sir Walter Scott, Pearson; The Revolutionary War* Street; Down On The Farm, Holbrook; His Very Self and Voice, Byron; The Web of Life, Storen; Georgia, Leckie; The Tumult and the Shouting, Rice. Fiction—adults: Forbidden City. Jernigan; Tomorrow the New Moon, Barker; Louisana Cavalier, Weber; The Well of the Silent Harp, Barke; Money to Burn, Cadell; The Kentuckians, Giles; Blue Hurricane, Mason; The Cornerstone, Oldenbourg; The Measure of the Years, Colver; The Healer, Slaughter; I Take This Man, Loring. Easter Seals Selling Good Gatesville.—The sale of Easterj Seals for crippled children is now going on and will continue j through Easter Sunday, April 10 : Mrs. Sawyer, Seal Sale Chair- j man, states that the response to the sale already is gratifying and she appreciates the cooperation she has received. She says: “We are striving to make useless little arms and legs function; to straighten young bodies and limbs: to give alert minded little cripples a chance to go to school; to provide the training that will eventually help: them make their own way in the ! world. In short the blessings of ‘normalized’ bodies and minds— that is the cause to which the j Society for Crippled Children in I Gates County and throughout the world is dedicated. “The help that has been given ' to crippled children and adults in Gates County has been e£ great value and there is no other fund for such handicapped people rvailable. “While this program is a hu manitarian one, it pays economi- j cally for it costs less to correct a crippled limb in childhood than to support a crippled adult and the earlier help can be given the less the cost. “It is hoped that those who have not already responded will do so right away. Your coopera tion is needed and will be ap preciated,” Mrs. Sawyer said. Rev. Jordan Will Be at Sandy Cross Sandy Cross. — The Rev. Al phonso Jordan of Raleigh will conduct the Easter services at Sandy Cross Baptist Church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. ! There will be special music of which Mrs. Jordan will take part. ! The public is cordially invited to I attend these services. RENQVATtON COMPLETED—The Gatesville Methodist Church has just completed the work of renovation of its building at an estimated cost of $20,000. (Carlton Morris photo.) Churches Hold Group Service Easter Sunday Gatesville. — The Gatesville churches will hold their annual Easter Sunrise service Sunday I morning at 7:30 o’clock in the j Methodist Church, with the Rev. Henry Bizzell in charge. The service will consist of music, scripture, prayer and a brief medi tation. The choir, under the di rection of Mr. Conrad Plyler, will render the anthem, “In Joseph's Lovely Garden"; and Miss Kath ryn Rice, soldist of Sunbury, will sing “Open the Gates.” The brief meditation will be given by the Rev. J. L. Walter Moose. The public has a cordial invi tation to attend. 50th Session WMU to Meet April 12th Elizabeth City.—The 50th an nual session of the Woman’s Mis sionary Union, auxiliary to the Chowan Baptist Association, will meet Tuesday, April 12, at 10 o’clock with the Berea Baptist Church on the Elizabeth City1 Highway No. 158. The theme for the day will be “Go Quickly and Tell.” Mrs. C. Gordon Maddrey, North Carolina Woman’s Missionary Union state president, will speak on the subject. Mrs. W. W. Law ton of Charlotte, a missionary to China and the Philippine Islands, now on furlough, will bring a message on her work with these people. A most iateresting program has been arranged. Each associational officer will bring a brief message on her work in the various de partments. This annual meeting is very important and vital in Woman’s Missionary Union work. Many .from this county are ex pected to attend. Mrs. Walter A. Ward, associa tional superintendent, will pre side over this meeting. The morning session will begin promptly at 10 o’clock. Doors will be closed during the meditations and speaking, mar Phelps Gets 5-7 Years On Manslaughter Charge Gatesville.—Willie Phelps was found guilty of involuntary man slaughter at the March term of Superior court that ended last Friday. Phelps was charged with the death of 3'oung Jimmie Mon des who was struck down by his auto last fall. Judge Clifton Moore sentenced Phelps to not less than five and not more than seven years in prison for the crime, but he noted an appeal to the Superior Court and is out on bond. Sydney Parker, charged with a second offense of manslaughtef got off lighter than Phelps. The state took a nol prosse in his case. Another case charging Phelps and Claude Patterson with the manufactureing. aiding and abet ting and possessing illegal liquor was continued to the November term of court. A liquor case against Willard Daughfery Alien was nol prossed. William Carlton Jordan also got off scott free on a gambling charge. The jury returned a di rected verdict of not guilty due to insufficient evidence. Frances P. Hansen drew a sen tence of six months on the road in another liquor case. She was charged with posessing and trans porting illegal liquor. Her sen tence was suspended upon pay ment of a fine of $50 and court costs. She was placed on proba tion for three years and her driv ing licenses were revoked for 12 months. Luther Harrell Reenlists in Army Corapeake. — Cpl. Luther B. Harrell, Jr., and Mrs. Harrell Have returned to California where Cpl. Harrell has re-enlisted in the U. S. Cpl. Harrell and his wife lived ,in California two years prior to his discharge in January. For the past two months they have been living in Raleigh. Harrell decided army life was for him so back to California he went for his re enlistment. Cpl. Harrell is. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther B. Harrell of Corapeake. Good Friday Services at Kittrell's Gates.—Good Friday services will be held in the Kittrell’s Methodist Church, Gates, Friday at 12:00 noon, with the pastor, the Rev. Frederick J. Duplissey, in charge. The services, following the tra dition of Good Friday, will be based on the Seven Last Words of Jesus, spoken from the Cross. The meditations will be given by the following ministers: the Rev. Henry A. Bizzell, pastor of the Gatesville Charge of the Metho dist Church; the Rev. J. L. Walter Moose, pastor of the Gatesville Baptist Church; the Rev. Oscar S. Edmonds, pastor of the Reynold son Baptist Church; and the Rev. Mr. Duplissey. The public has a cordial invita tion to attend these services. File With Clerk Gatesville.—According to Mayor J. L. Sawyer, all aspirants for of fice in Gatesville should file with the town clerk, R. C. Hawkins, Jr., instead of the mayor as was stated in an ad last week. It has always been the custom to file with the mayor in the past, he said, but now the clerk handles this phase of the election. SUNRISE SERVICE Gates.—Sunrise Services will be held Sunday morning at 5:45 at the Reynoldson Baptist Church jointly with Kittrell’s Methodist Church. Rev. Frederick J, Du plissey of the Kittrell’s Church will deliver the sermon. Everyone is invited to attend this Easter Sunrise Service. THURSDAY SERVICE Gates.—Thursday night at 8 o’clock at the Kittrell’s Metho dist Church there will be a Maundy Thursday Service, with communion and music by the ;»wt ■ . .— MILL DAM GONE—This photo was made moments after the dam at Merchants Mill was blown up by State Highway workers last Friday. Plans now call for a new and higher dam with gates to allow raising or lowering the water level. (Carlton Morris photo.) , HDC District Meeting At Sandy Cross April 14th Rev. Morris ;ster At % h c5r Gati. Elliott Mv of the First Sunday evening formed the churci. members he has acc«_. from the Bull Street Church in Savannah, Ga. He asked that his resignation become effec tive with the last Sunday in April. d .al! | The Bull Street church has a membership of 3,300 a little more ; than double the number in the First Baptist Church here. A native of Sunbury, Mr. Morris i came to Gaffney in 1948. He is a graduate of the Sunbury High \ School and of the Southern Baptist : Theological Seminary in Louis I ville, Ky. He also attended the ; State Teachers College at Green ; ville. . Before coming to Gaffney he i had served pastorates at Winter ! ville and A.vden, N. C„ Newport ' News, Va., and Leigh Street Bap j tist Church in Richmond. Since he came to Gaffney the First Baptist Church has exper : ienced growth in many ways. There has been a steady increase in membership and attendance. A building program has been con ; summated in the erection of a sanctuary, at an approximate cost of $500,000.. . He has devoted a considerable part of his time to evangelistic Mr. Morris has served on the General Board of South Carolina Baptists, having been elected as chairman for 1954. Also he served as chairman of the Com mittee for the Constitution for the Aged, Darlington, S. C. He served on the program committee of the Southern Baptist Conven j tion and in June, 1954, spoke to ! the Pastors Conference of the convention in St. Louis. In 1951, he was speaker of the week for the West Florida Baptist Assem bly in Panama City, Fla. 4-H Meetings Scheduled Gatesville. — April 4-H Club meetings start Tuesday, 12th, with the Sunbury Clubs meeting at 9:40 and 10:45, respectively. Wed nesday, 13th, Hobbsville Clubs at ’ 9^30 and 10:45. The meetings of Gatesville Clubs has been chang , ed from Thursday to another day to be announced later. Both Ex tension agents will be attending a district meeting of Home Dem onstration Clubs at Sandy Cross Church on Thursday, hence the i change. Plans for the annual 4-H Church Sunday services in June will be made at these meetings and members assigned parts on the program. Members having obtained or ders and money for metal name plates are requested to hand them in as no more club meetings are to be held during the school year. The Extension agents are offer ing a prize to the junior and senior boy or girl in each club who turns in the most number of name plates. This is a county wide project to make a little money for the clubs and at the j same time improve the appear ] anee of our roadsides and en trances to farms. Corapeake I Man Dies at 45 Corapeake.—George Ralph Las | silcr, 45, prominent farmer of | Corapeake, died Wednesday at 6:15 a. m., at Obici Memorial i Hospital, after a short illness. He is survived by his parents, | George Solomon and Mary Taylor Lassiter, of Corapeake; a sister, , Mrs. C. Earl Armstrong, also of Corapeake;; tv/o brothers, Taylor Lassiter, of Suffolk, and G S. Lassiter, Jr., of Boykins, and two nieces and two nephews. The body was taken to the I. O. Hill and Company funeral home where services were con Slycted Thursday at 2 p. m. by the Rev. F. J. Duplissey, pastor of Parkers Methodist Church. Burial was in the Lassiter family cemetery in Gates County. Letterheads—get them and all kinds of printing from “Your Home Newspaper." Gates County BRIEFS Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy con fidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Withhold not good from them whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.— Proverbs 2-25:26:27. I find life and exciting business,: and most exciting when lived for i others.—Helen Keller. Dropped in on my old friend ; H. I. Jaffe last week and as usual : found him in a whirl of rushing I around trying to do a half dozen things at the same time. He is busily preparing to leave for Eu rope on April 15 and in between our spasmodic conversation, he would leap up and answer the phone, rush into his inner office to get a book or two that he wanted me to read or a little gift i for my wife. In between rounds, : I talked with Mrs. Marshall who has worked for Henry lo these 1 many years and knows him like a book. She is all excited about be coming a member of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society. 'She is an avid student of N. C. history and would like noth 1 ing better than to retire to his toric Edenton to live out her re maining years. She was also ex cited about Inglife Fletcher’s new book and Mrs. Fletcher usually sends her an autographed copy of each new edition as soon as it ! come off the pres. Henry is always | telling her he is going to buy her a home in Edenton, but he prob ably never will as it is easy to see that he couldn’t operate for a day without here there to do the ! heavy work for him. { Next Monday, April 11 has been named a holiday for all county i employees it was announced by i the Board of County Commis I sioners at their regular meeting ! last Monday. It has been the cus tom to give county employees a : holiday on Easter Monday for the past several years. There is only one thing in the ! world worse than being talked | about and that is not being talked about.—Wilde. We wonder how a fool and his money got together in the first place. Mrs. Jones: “Why are you jealous of your husband's secre Mrs. Bones: “Because I used to be his secretary.” A complete report will be made on the Red Cross fund raising campaign next week. The report was due this week, but some town ships have not turned in their quotas at press time. Most Suffolk merchants will be open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. i next Saturday for the convenience of Easter shoppers. Walter Harrell Now in Air Force San Antonio. Texas — Second Lt. Walter Harrell, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Luther b: Harrell of Cora pceke, is now at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, where he received his flight physi cal examinations. Lt Harrell will leave for Florida : of Georgia in the next two weeks i where his wife will join him. At | the present time Mrs. Harrell is : with her mother in Washington, ! N. C. - -■ -. - - Gatesville.—Gates County will be host to the Home Demonstration Club women from the seven coun- t ties comprising the 25th District Federation of Home Demonstra tion Clubs when they, meet on Thursday, April 14. The meeting will be held at | Sandy Cross Church beginning at \ 10:30 a. m. Registration will start at 10:00 a. m. Mrs. Frank Barnes, President of the Gates County Council will bring the welcome from Gates County Club women. Tazwell Eure, Register of Deeds of Gates County, will welcome the club women to Gates County. Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Correspond ing Secretary of the N. C. Federa tion of Home Demonstration Clubs will bring greetings. Mrs. J. H. Bonner, District Chairman of the Woman’s Club will bring greetings from her district. As a special feature on the morning program Miss Ruth Cur rent, State Home Demonstration Agent, following the theme for the meeting will speak on “Se curity in Family Living.’’ Special music will be brought by the Camden County chorus and the Gates County clubwomen. Every effort is being made by Gates County Club women to make the day an enjoyable one. / As a part of the afternoon pro gram C. Alden Baker, Manager of the WGAI Radio Station, Eliza beth City, will present and an nounce the winners of the District Radio Chorus Contest held last fall. Miss Florence Cox, District Home Agent will install the of ficers for the new year. Special county committee chair men include Mrs. Marvin Wiggins, food; Mrs. Horace Overman, reg istration. Mrs. W. L. Riddick, Mrs. C. H. Carter, Mrs. W, L. Askew and Mrs. B. A. Owens will ar range for flowers and decorations. The program, featuring the Gates County Courthouse and its early history were planned and arranged by the program com mittee composed of Mrs. C. H. jj Carter, Mrs. Walter Moose and ■* Mrs. J. E. R. Perry. Lunch will be served by the County Club women at $1.00 per plate. Mrs. Frank Barnes, County President is urging all club women to attend and is inviting others to join the group for the day’s program. Regional BTU Convention Is Set at Windsor A Windsor. — Annual Regional Training Union Convention, for the training unions of the Baptist Churches in the Chowan and West Chowan Associations will be April 22 at the Cashie Baptist Church in Windsor. A program has been planned by the executive committee in cooperation with the State Train ing Union Department. The en tire program of the convention is being arranged for only two ses sions and with the idea of spon soring the one day as “Family Day.” Every Baptist family is urged to attend. Competent care for children of the younger ages will be provided in the nursery de partment of the Cashie Church, said Norman Earl Godwin of Ahoskie. regional director. Hobbsviile Church Hobbsville—Easter services will be held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the Hobbsville Baptist Church. Special music by the ghurch choir will be rendered. They will sing the anthem, “Lift Up Thine Eyes.” W. V. Brown, pastor, will con duct the services. The public is cordially invited to attend. HILLBILLY BaIRD—Gatesville Methodists say they will come up with a real entertaining program on Saturday night, April 16, when they introduce a show of 30 stars from Central Prison, Raleigh. The show will begin at 8 p. m. in the Gatesville school auditorium and will feature singing, dancing,'comedy and music. Proceeds will go to the,Methodist Church building fund. *»,£ vi
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