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Farmer's Market ... is the place to buy. You don't have to spend your money with a mail order house. Look on the classified ad page of The Index. GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County The Home Folks . . . are featured in every issue of The Index. You can't buy another paper that can make this boast about Gates County. Volume 21. No. 44 One nf the Nation’s "GREATER WEEKLIES'* Gatesville, N. C., Thursday. June 30, 1955 10c per copy 14 Pages—Two Section! Busy Meet Planned For Council Gatesville.—The Gatesville town uncil will hold the next meeting .<n Tuesday, July 5, in the agri culture building. A number of items will come before the council, according to Paul Edmond, mayor. The coun cil will appoint a clerk and ac countant and adopt a budget for the year 1955-1956. The fiscal year runs from July through June 30, he pointed out and the council will also set the tax rate for the coming year. Sidewalks will come in for some attention at the meeting as the alley between the Carter building and the Gatesville barber shop has washed away leaving a high step up on to the walk leading to the cburthouse. The council plans to do something about this dan gerous place. They will also hear the tax collector’s report of delinquent ■ taxes for 1954 and will discuss j 'the town qualifications for the j Powell bill funds. Largely j through this fund, all of the town i streets with the exception of Wes- j ley Avenue have been surfaced. This street has been graded re cently and a black top apron in stalled at the junction of the street and highway 37. Several other matters concern ing the town will be up for dis cussion, says Edmond and anyone interested in the town government is urged to attend. The meeting will be called to order at 8 p. m. Funeral for H. C. Hollowed Held Thursday Hobbsville. — Hoyt C. Hollo well, 57, died suddenly at his ome here Tuesday at noon from ^ heart attack. He was the son the late Willie and Ida Hobbs 1 .lollowell. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ellen Hollowell; one1 brother, Andrew, Hollowell, Holly Ridge, N. C.; and one sister. Miss Lena Hollowell of Hobbsv.ille. Funeral services were con ducted Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at the Hobbsville Baptist Church. The Rev. W. V7. Brown, pastor, ' conducted the service. Burial was in the family cemetery. j The body was taken from the i Rountree and Hofler Funeral Home in Gatesville to the church one hour before the service. Savings Bonds Sales Set Peace Record Gatesville.—P. F. Edmond, U. j S. Saving Bonds Chairman for i Gates County today announced ! that the 1955 upswing of U. S. Savings Bonds sales continued to | set a peace time record for North Carolina. The monthly sales report re- I leased by North Carolina Savings Bonds Director, Walter P. John- j son, showed that for the seventh J consecutive month, U. S. Savings j Bonds for North Carolina have j increased from 17 percent to 35 per cent over the corresponding months of the previous year. The i combined sales of Series E. and | H. Bonds totaled $4,606,054 for I the month of May representing j a 35 per cent increase over the : same month of last year. © The cummulative sales for the 1 first five months of this year j amounts to $24,739,630.75 which is 42 per cent of the 1955 quota and represents a 22 per cent increase over the same months of last year. In this county, sales for May were $10,537.50 and for the first five months of this year, cum "mulative sales were $60,775.00. > Forty-five counties in North j Carolina have acieved 50 per nt, or better, of their annua' ,, les quota. • ' Mecklenburg County leads in total dollar volume with over $2, 500.000 sold so far this year, fol lowed by Buncombe with over $1,500,000, Forsyth with over $1, 383,000, and Guilford .with over $1,207,000. National sales for May show a 19 per cent increase over the same month of 1954 with a 14 per cent increase for the first five months of this year over the same period of last year. Nation wide. sales for the year exceed redemption by over $502,000,000. Americans now own Series E and H Bonds valued at 39.2 billion dollars, a record amount. ■ - ••f.. . wwraa——— DEAN'S LIST—Rebecca Rid dick, (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Riddick of Corapeake, has made dean’s list for the second straight semester at Longwood College, Farmville, Va., where she is pursuing her education towards a B.S. degree in ele mentary education. Farm News Round-Up The County Agent'* New* end Views of the Farm* and Farming Men who don’t pay as they go have a hard time coining back. Just For Fun “He had untold wealth and it ruined him.” "How’s that?” “His wealth was untold in his income tax return.” It's A Fact The presidents of the four Ruri tan Clubs in Gates County Are: Sunbury, Eugene Riddick; Gates, Robert Carroll; Hobbsville, Alfred Stallings, Jr.; Gatesville, J. G. Pollock. Don't Hesitate to Vaccinate To prevent chicken pox (sore head) from getting into the flock of pullets, vaccinate them when they are between 12 to 16 weeks old or at least a month before they begin to lay. This is abso lute insurance against the disease and the cost is so little—less than a cent a bird usually. A flock owner can not afford to take the chance of having this highly in fectious disease because it knocks the pullets out of egg production for weeks, once it gets started. If you have pullets about' frying size get the chicken Pox Vac cine right away and treat each bird. I shall be glad to order the medicine for any one and show how to use it. Just drop a card to me giving your name, address, and number of pullets and young cockerels to be treat ed. The Japanese Beetle Gets Around This pretty metallic green bee tle with six small dashes of white on each side of the under edge of the wings, has started a ramp age on several crops in the coun ty—among them, corn and to bacco, grape vines, peach and apple trees. Raleigh King, school principal at Rich Square, who owns a farm near Willey ton, re ported last Saturday that the Japanese Beetle was on his to bacco and he was thinking about getting the crop dusted by air plane to control the insect. Whether he did or not I don’t know. Another call Saturday or perhaps it was Friday, from R. A. Howell, Middle Swamp, said the beetle was on a field of corn and feared it spread to other fields. Brooks Morgan of Sunbury also reported a tree in his yard was alive with them. The beetles, according to a bulletin on it pub lished by the U. S. D. A. feeds on something like 275 different plants. Control measures are dusting the infested plants with 5% DDT using 15 to 20 pounds per acre or even more. To make a spray mix a wet able powder containing 50% DDT with water as follows: For one gallon of spray' use 1H tablespoonfuls; for ten gallons spray use 3 ounces of 50% DDT, and for 100 gallons use 2 pounds. Do not use an oil solution—it may injure plants. Farmers who have severe out breaks of Japanese beetle on crops too big to treat with tractor equipment should contact an air-j plane crop duster, one of whom is advertised in the last issue of the Index. 5.88 Inches Rain This Month So Far Since last Monday (June 20) the rain guage has recorded 1.54 inches of rain making a total for the month so far of 5.88 inches with three more days to go. Farmers are of the opinion that crops would fare all right now for several days without any overhead irrigation. June, 1954 we had only 1.97 inches rain in See ROUND-UP. Page 4 Supervisor Urges Farm Soil Drainage Gatesville. — That better farm drainage systems would increase the efficiency of many farms in Gates County has already been proved by those farmers who have worked out good form drain age, according to E. F. Morgan, county supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration. Interest in farm drainage and other soil and water conservation measures has heightened among Gates county farmers and farm leaders because of the soil and water conservation loan program now being administered by the Farmers Home Administration. Soil and water conservation loans may be made from insured or appropriated funds to pay the cash costs of making improve ments directly related to soil conservation, water develop ment, conservation and use, for estation, drainage of farm land, and related measures. Parctices for which loans may be made are limited to those in accord with Extension Service and Soil Con servation Service recommenda tions. Practices or installations in clude building or repairing ter races, dikes, ponds and tanks, ditches and canals for irrigation and drainage, waterways, erosion control, sodding, lime and fertili zer for establishing or improving permanent pastures, land level ing, brush removal, tree planting, wells, and the purchase of pumps, sprinkler systems, and other irri gation equipment. The Farmers Home Administra tion can make insured or direct soil and water conservation loans to individual farm owners or op erators who cannot obtain the necessary credit on reasonable terms and conditions from pri vate or cooperative sources. Un der the same conditions, the bor rower may be a nonprofit organ ization or association primarily engaged in extending to its mem bers services directly related to soil conservation, water develop ment, conservation or use, or drainage of farm land. Two Loses Suffered By Small Leagues Gatesville. — Gatesville Little Leaguers dropped a 5-0 decision to Woodland in their early league operation last Thursday. And the Pony League didn’t have any bet ter luck as they went down before the excellent Woodland pitching by a 4-0 score. For the losers in the Pony class, 31isson did the hurling with Ed mond receiving. Reece did the pitching for Woodland with Par ker catching. Lane and Lilley did the hurl ng for the Gatesville half of the i-inning affair with Felton catching. For the winners, Par ker did the pitching with Jen kins doing the receiving. Murfreesboro will meet the two clubs here next Thursday after noon. Health Officer In Hospital Gatesville. — Dr. James A. Fields, health officer for the Gates-Hertford Health Depart ment, was admitted to the Roan oke-Chowan Hospital Sunday night, June 19, following a heart attack. Mrs. Roy Hayes, county health nurse, called Monday morning and inquired about his condition. She was told that he was doing as well as could be expected. He was taken from under the oxygen tent last Thursday, and so far he is doing nicely, she stated. Prisoners Escape From Road Gangs The State Prisons Department Monday reported at least four prisoners escaped from road gangs Friday. Willie (Sambo) Waldon, Negro, of Washington, N. C., serving 6-8 years from Pitt County, ran in Edgecombe. Stancil Cole of Char lotte, serving 5-8 years, from Mecklenburg, ran in Halifax. Everett Ducker of Asheville, serving 4-7 years from Bun combe, ran in Macon. Robert Pino of Pueblo, Colo., serving two years from McDowell County escaped in Gates County. DRAFT BOARD CLOSED Gatesville.—Mrs. Nellie Riddick, clerk, announced Monday that the Gates County Draft Board of fice will be closed all this week. INVENTORS—The three men who worked spare time for five months to make a bunch of kids happy, stand by the little auto that they mads out of scrap parts and a lot of work. Left to right, they are: Wallace Hobbs, J. M. Byrum and Russell Corbitt. Byrum is the president of the Byrum Motor Company in Sunbury and the other two men are mechanics for the company. CAR LOAD OF FUN—Most of the small fry enjoy the little car that J. M. Byrum and his two mechanics built for his grandson. Jimmie, who is holding to the plastic windshield. Fran Wil liams is the careful driver. But no one can get hurt as the car is geared to a slow walk. Sunbury Drops Tight Game In Sixth to Suffolk Nine Sunburv. — The Suffolk Athle tic Club handed the Sunburv nine a 6-2 shellacking last Sunday afternoon before a large number of the homefolks on the Sun bury diamond. Both teams were slugging it out on even terms up to the J fatal sixth frame when Sunbury’? ] vaunted pitcher. Tinky Hollowell began to weaken and the Suf folk team batted around the bat ting order in that frame to break j the tight game wide open. Each team scored once in the opening frame and remained sta tic in the second. In the third, first man up for Suffolk was out on a long fly ball to deep center. Then two men came through with clean hits just inside first base. Sunbury rallied to the cause, however and ended the threat with a quick double play to re tire the side. In their half of the third, first man up for Sunbury walked and Earl Taylor hit a double, but the man on base was held up at third. Bradshaw, the former great, doing the pitching for Suffolk, settled down and whiffed the next three men to retire the side. In the fourth and fifth innings, both teams had three up and out in order. In the .fatal sixth, Suffolk's j first man hit a little pop-up to i the infield and was out. The next man up hit a sizzling grounder to Burton Barnes at third. The ball took a crazy hop and go away from him. He recov ered, but threw too low to first base and the man was safe. T^iird man up for Suffolk was thrown out at first and the fourth man hit another sizzler to Barnes at third and again his throw was too low for the first sacker, R. Hobbs to hold it and two men were on. The fifth man up hit a double to score both men and the sixth batter in the endless1 inning hit safe to score the hard hitting Suffolk man. Sunbury baseballers held a hurried con Terence at the pitcher’s mound and sent in Hobbs to relieve Hol!o\vell. Hobbs had difficulty in finding the plate and walked the first man up, then a wild throw to third by the catcher, brought in another run for Suf folk. Attempting to steal the third man was finally called out by umpire Tom Taylor. In their half of the sixth, first three up for Sunbury struck out. In the seventh, first up for Suffolk was out at second when he tried to stretch a single into a double. The second man up hit safely and the next two were out on a long fly and foul tip respectively. Sunbury brought in one run in their half. No one scored in the eighth 01 nineth, but quite an argument broke out when a cotton topped Suffolk man beat out a short hit I that traveled about 20 foot, then ; stole second and third and at ! tempted to steal home. Suffolk 'catcher. Furgeson was at bat when Taylor, catching for Sun i bury, saw the white headed one | making for home plate. Taylor ; called for one outside and Fur geson stepped across home plate and took a cut at the ball hitting Taylor on the hand. Furgeson claimed interference by the cat cher and took first. Umpire Tom Taylor said he stepped on home plate to get at the ball and called him out. Quite a hassel broke out. but as one spectator yelled from the bleachers: "The limp ain’t chang ed his decision yet." Rams Win Over Sunbury; Double Header July 4th Gatesville.—The Gates County Rams, now using Gatesville as home base are still riding high without a single loss this sea son. In a seven inning quickie which was held up by rain last Saturday, they defeated Sunbury 7-3 behind five innings hurled by Fleetwood Lilley and two by Bill Eure. Lowe who can catch anyone, did the receiving as us ual. They called off the game Sun day with the Portsmouth Jo Bo's due to a wet playing field, but will tangle wtih the Suffolk Ath letic Club next Sunday at Gates ville, if . the weather is willing with game time at 2:30. The home boys are expecting to come up against some tough com petition next weekend for they will meet the Portsmouth club in a double header, Monday, July 4. ‘‘We have won our first 13 starts,” said manager, Tic Felton, “but those town boys will be cocked/and primed for next week end. I am expecting some of the toughest baseball we have had all The first game will get under way next Monday at 10 a. m. and the Gatesville club will be host to the visitors and will serve a barbecue dinner at the ball park. All visitors wanting a barbecue dinner can get it as there will be plenty for anyone with the price, they said. The second game will get under way at about 2 p. m. PRE-NATAL CLINIC Gatesville.—Mrs. Roy Hayes, county health nurse, announced Monday that the well baby 'and pre-natal clinic will be held at the Health Center in Gatesville, Thursday, July 7, at 2 o’clock. Tiny Auto Is Big "uccess With Kids £ ^ates County BRIEFS To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Acts 10:43. Friend Hardy Green, our genial insurance man, says driving in New York, where he recently vsiited, is a lot different from driving in Gates County. People drove too fast for him, he said. Dr. L. C. Hand says that his profession has almost as many hazards as the boxing profession. Examining a young future citizen recently, the doc almost got a black eye when the youngster re marked that he. didn't like the man of medicine, then proceeded to take a poke at him. The doctoT ducked and kept the youngster’s fist out of his eye, but got hit in the face for his trouble. The doctor proved he is a Christian for he didn’t use his biggest needle on the youngster, whom he de scribed as being “six or seven years old.” We heard of a mother whc asked her young daughter to re turn thanks in front of company The gal protested that she didn’t know a blessing. By this time the mother was embarassed to “Just repeat what you have heard me say," she told daughter “OH Lord! why did I have tc have all this company on a ho! day?” prayed the daughter. Sorry folks, but we ran out of papers last week, and had to turn away some good customers. Sold half a hundred before noon 'ast Wednesday and could have sold lots more if we could have had I them. We like to sell ’em, but | that just goes to prbve what we i have been preachin’ all along. A | subscription doesn't cost half a* j much as it does to buy them over j I the counter and the U. S. Mail wil' deliver them to you every week [and you’ll never miss a single [copy We’re going to continue to j pack your paper full of news and i features and pictures about th 2 I i best people in the world, the home j 1 folks. You just can't find another j | paper that does this. We think th" Index is a going and growing j business and after 23 years it i*. here to stay. We think it deserves | the support of every business and i every individual in Gates County for it is devoted to ther promo i tion of this section and there ar<■ people who says it is doing . pretty good job. Recently we have published some letters from readers of your I paper to try to give you some; idea of the esteem in which it is j held by others. This week we are publishing a letter (unsolicited) j from the editor of another weekly i who is anxious to try some of our 1 ideas on his paper. Read these I letters, then sit yourself down and write us your opinions giv ing us permission to print them. You don’t have to agree with us. In fact we welcome deversified opinion. That is the spice of life. And we’ll print them, but re member they must be signed for we have our own opinions of anonymous letter writers. The doctor was on his way to ! visit Rastus’ wife and deliver her twelfth child. Standing beside Rastus was a duck. "Whose duck is that, Rastus?’’ the doctor asked. "Ain't no duck, Doctuh,” sighed Rastus. "At's a stork wif his laigs wore off." The talkative lady was telling her husband about the bad man ners of a recent visitor. “If that woman yawned once, John, while I was talking to her she yawned a dozen times.” “Maybe she wasn’t yawning, dear,” repbed her husband. "May be she was trying to say some thing." COMMUNITY SING Eure.—Those from Eure who attended the communty sing at Middle Swamp Baptist Church Sunday afternoon were Cooper Rountree, J. B. Felton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Overton, Mrs. Henry D. Eure, Linda Faye and Brenda Eure, Mrs. Gumie Eure, John Langston, Truman Greene, Mrs. Lycurgus Howell, Miss Brenda Howell, Mrs. Orian Parker, Mrs. Melvin Harrell, Manley Eure, Ly curgus Tinkham, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Evans and family. Letterheads—get them and aU kinds ol printing from "Your Horna Newspaper." Three Inventors Worked Overtime To Build Car BY CARLTON MORRIS Sunbury. — Few people are willing to use most of their spare time for five months to make ,a group of children happy, but J. M. (Joe) Byrum and two of his mechanics at the Byrum Motor Company in Sunbury did just that. Since the three men are concerned chiefly with autos in their daily work, they spent the most of their spare time recently in constructing a little car that would be safe for children, yet it is still a bonafire auto that runs both forward and backward and its inventors say it is com pletely safe for even the smallest children to operate. Joe Byrum, president of the Byrum Motor Company in Sun bury, first hit on the idea of the kiddie car, after his grand son, Jimmie, was about one year old. Jimmie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Byrum and Joe’s grandson and the apple of his grandad’s eye. He is now about 18 months young. And of course, granddad wanted to build some thing that would make all of lit tle Jimmie’s friends happy also and thus he hit on the idea of the little auto. “When my little grandson, was about a year old,” says Joe, “I got to wondering what little thing I could do to make him happy. I decided on a project that would not only make him happy, but would also be enjoyed by all the other children in the community.” The idea of making the chil dren happy developed into the building of the small auto that would run on its own power and still be safe for the children to operate. "There were many things to be considered,” recalls Joe. “For in stance I had to send to Akron, Ohio for the tires which are 3.00 x 7. I tried every town in this section, but had to finally get them from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. factory.” In fact almost every item in the little auto has a story all its own. Byrum called in two of his mechanics at the Ford Motor Co., Russell Corbitt and Wallace Hobbs and they pitched in and helped out with the work almost every night without a cent of extra pay. They had kids of their own and could easily see how children would enjoy the auto once it was safe for them to use. The three men wanted the little ear to be safe and an exact replica of larger autos, so they settled on a certain size spring which was unavailable. They searched scrap heaps and junked autos high and low and finally found the exact size springs they needed in the woods back of what is known locally as the old Tom Hunter farm. "I knew this car should not be geared faster than a slow walk,” said Byrum, "if it was to be safe enough for children to operate." So he purchased a new Briggs Stratton four cycle engine with a six to one gear reduction. The three men made their own trans mission which has a reverse gear, mostly from old Model T transmission parts. Using the tools and equipment of the Ford Motor Company, the three men worked nightly until their tiny auto was complete from front bumper and chrome grill to the plastic windshield, tiny head lights and streamlined body. It was an immediate smash success. "Wc finally got it finished,” said Byrum, “and the children of the community have thorough ly enjoyed using it. It is not unusual to see Fran Williams driving with six or seven other children having the time of their lives." Fran seems to have accumulat ed the idea of safe driving, and See CAR, Page 4 CpI. Hedgepeth Out of Army Eure. — Corporal and Mrs. Vernon Hedgepeth and their seven month old son, Larry, re cently moved from their home in Columbus, Georgia and at the present are making their home with Mrs. Hedgepeth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hirsey Askew. Corporal Hedgepeth received his disfcharge from the U. S. Army early this month. He had been in the army for the past 22 months and was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia.