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Be Informed .. About county affairs. The Index tells the full story every week and is only $2.50 for 12 full months. It is the only paper in Gates County. One of the Nation’s "GREATER WEEKLIES” GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County Want Results? . . Then use the classified ads in the Index to sell unwanted items. You can't beat 'em for quick results. Advertising doesn't cost. It pays. Volume 22. No. 8 Gatesville. N. C.. Thursday, October 27. 1955 10c per copy indicated to Service to Gatos County and It.** People 12 Pages—Two Sections Polio Vaccine Available Under Federal Program Gatesville.—Polomyelitis vac " is now available in the Gates Jm. tty Health Department, in gd amounts, under the Fed vaccine program. This is me beginning of a new program and a new shipment of vaccine. The first program, ur.der the Na tional Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, was closed October 10 and all vaccine unused was re turned. Gates County’s allotment is 360 cc's or enough to take care of 180 persons, including preg nant women and children. The priority age group has been broadened to include the five to nine years age group, the birth through four years age group, and pregnant women. Vaccine now available, however, will first be used for pregnant women and to complete the five through nine year age group, as it is not known when sufficient vaccine will be available for the second priority birth through 4 years of age. Parental request blanks for the five to nine year group will be distributed to the schools in the near future, for the children tn take home so that a parent may sign and send back to school if he desires the vaccination for a child. There are no charges for the vaccine according to Mrs. Roy Hayes, public health nurse. Sunbury to Hold Big Halloween Sunbury.—The Sunbury Hallo ween Carnival will get under way at 7 o’clock Friday night, October 28, with games, eats and fun for ail. Fish pond, cake walk, balloons, bingo. The Boy Scouts will have hot dogs and drinks for sale. ■'ostumes will be judged and >s given for the “cutest’’ and * ciest." Programs will begin 9 o'clock in the auditorium wHh each grade taking part. Each grade has selected a queen. The beauty queens will be chosen Friday night. 1st grade—Ann Garrett 2nd grade—Anne Byrum 4th grade—Ora Lee Mathias 5th grade—Faye Hollowell 6th grade—Ina Williams 7th grade—Delores Russ Cth grade—Mary Knight 9th grade—Nell Ann Brinkley 10th grade—Nancy Mathias 11 tli grade—Gloria Huffier 12th grade—Blanche Riddick Edgar Cross Funeral to Be Wednesday Gatcsville.—Edgar Cross, 87, died Mo: day at noon after a lin gering illness. He was a life long resident of Gates County and a retired merchant. He was the son of the late Thomas E. and Martha Gatling Cross. Hhe is survived by two sons, E. Hathaway Cross, Raleigh, and Al fred Walton Cross, Gatcsville; three daughters, Misses Sallie Norfleet and Elma Dixon Cross, both of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. A. A. Rohdin, Glenridgc, N. J.: one sister, Mrs. Daisy Cross Mizellc, Washington, D. C., and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the Gatcsville Bap tist Church. The Rev. J. L. Walter Moose, pastor, will conduct the service assisted by the Rev. H. A. Bizzell of the Gatcsville Metho dist Church. Burial will be in the Gatcsville Cemetery. The body will remain at the Rountree and Hofler Funeral Home until taken to the church one hour before the service. V f SUNDAY SERVICE— Jorapeake.—Rev. Alphonso Jor dan of Raleigh will be the min ister at Eureka Baptist Church next Sunday, October 30, it waj announced. Services will begin at 11 a. m. and Mrs. Jordan will bring some special songs. The pub lic is invited to attend. TURKEY SHOOT Gates.—The Gates Ruritan Club will sponsor a turkey shoot on October 19 beginning at 11a. m. The Home Demonstration Club will serve hot meals at the Gates Community building, it was an nounced. Gates County BRIEFS Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weak | ness of God is stronger than men. i Corinthians 1-25. — Gates County hunters didn't do ! so good during the past weekend. ! No bucks were reported as killed though some were chased. And in case anyone is still in | terested, the fish were still biting ; last Saturday. This time they were really hitting at Cape Hat teras. Round heads (sea mullet) a few spots, puppy drum, gray trout and some fish we didn't know the name of, were taken there Saturday. The editor and Bill Johnson, along with youngster David Willi ford, all of Gatesville had a good ' time, with Johnson landing a ; drum weighing about four pounds. : Johnson and the editor pulled a j fish story that no one believes. ' Johnson made a mighty cast and ; his whole line ran off the reel | and kept right on going into the ! Atlantic Ocean, bait hooks, sinker | and line. A few minutes later the | editor hooked the line and reeled ! it in, whereupon Johnson threaded ! it back on his reel and reeled it 1 in, it had a fish on one of the hooks. Young Williford took the ; fish off and he wouldn’t lie for anybody, even if Johnson will. Two ducks walking together: said ore to the other “Quit walk ing like a woman wearing slacks.'' The traveling salesman ran out of gas on a lonely road and asked at the only house in sight, “Can you put me up for the night?" "1 reckon so." replied the farmer, “if you don't mind sharing a room with my young son." '“Good heavens,” gasped the traveling man, “I’m in the wrong joke." Recognition Banquet for 4-H'ers Gatcsvillc.—The Home Demon stration Agent, Miss Lydia Grif fin and the County Agent, John Artz, will accompany eight 4-H members to the arnual banquet to be held this coming Saturday at Edcnton. The member’s name ,.nd his or her county winning i achievement for th!s year is as : follows: Dotty Rea Riddick, I Hobbsville. Clothing, Dairy Foods and Farm and Home Electric: Lo retta Be’ton. Trotvillc, Dress Re vue and Vegetable Use; Ann Overman, Hobbsville, Health Im provement and Dairy Foods, (in dividual); Gwendolyn Eure, Eure, Home Improvement; Gloria Hof ler, Hobbsville, Public Speaking and Dairy Foods (team): Burton Barnes, Corapeake, Farm and Home Electric; and Eugene Gray,1 ; Sunbury, Tractor operator. Glenn Owens, Gates, boy winner in pub lic speaking is entitled to go but is now a Freshman at the Univer sity of NT. C. Mrs. Horace Overman, ; mother of Ann, will also go with the group. The banquet is for ; the purpose of honoring those i county winner in the Albemarle i for their achievements in Club i projects. Trip To Asheville Two of the County’s best 4-H , Club members plan to leave Eden ; ton in a bus early next Sunday i morning for a three-day free trip to Asheville where they will at j tend the annual Farm and Home J Electric Congress sponsored by I the several utility companies in | the stat.e The county winners to represent Gates are Betty Rea Riddick, Hobbsville, daughter of See BANQUET. Page 5 Superior Court Next Monday Gatesville.—Superior Court will will convene in Gatesville next Monday, October 31 with Judge Chester Morris presiding. A large number of both criminal ar.d civil cases will be on docket. Gates County now has three terms of Superior Court each j year. In addition to the Novem | ber term, court will be held dur ! mg the fourth week in March I and a civil court will convene on i the fourth week in May. CHANT OF THE AUCTIONEER—J. G. Pollock in front of the PA system on the Gatesville school steps is busy trying to auc tion off some of the merchandise accumulated by the Gatesville Ruritan Club at their first Harvest Day Festival last Friday. Ruritans wore not too pleased with the results they said, as most people were too busy tivinp to harvest late crops and didn’t have time to attend the event as was expected. Carlton Morris’s Fair Going Complicated by: Three Women, Two Kids and 100-Pound Printing Order By CARLTON MORRIS Agt?*has 'a way of <$fcepinrg up like a thief in the night and about the best way to come to realize vour age is to attend the North Carolina State Fair with two boys, ape three and 12 and three women. That combination will make a man grow old before his I know from whence I speak i' I did just that last Wednesday, but from here on the story be comes rather complicated. As a matter of fact I'm still trying to J. W. Jethro Dies Thursday On Tractor Edenton.—John William Jethro. 59. died while driving a tractor on his farm at Corapeake Thursday at 2:45 p. m. He was a native of Washington County, but farmed in Chowan County until five years ago when he moved to Corapeake, Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Ora E. Jethro: a son, J. W. Jethro. Jr., of Great Lakes. 111.; three daughters, Mrs. Philip Sawyer of Hertford, Mrs. Lindsay Williams of Corapeake, and Miss Elsie Jethro; a brother, Dallas Jethro of Edenton; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Outlaw of Edenton and Mrs. Her bert Jordan of Suffolk, and seven grandchildren. Mr. Jethro was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Yeopim Baptist Church. Fu neral services were conducted Sunday at 2:30 o’clock at the Wil liford Funeral Home. Burial vyas in Beaver'Hill Cemetery. "cl the whole trip to the fair straight, in. my own mind. To start with I had a big batch of printing matter to de liver to the Harrington Manu facturing Company. To com plicate matters further, this company is located in Lewiston as every one knows, but the printing had to be delivered in Raleigh, or to be more spe-* cific, to their fairground dis play of farm machinery. And to complicate matters still more, I didn't know what they were displaying at the fair and didn't have the faintest idea where they were located on the fair grounds. Thereby hangs my tale. Actually it was my tongue that was hanging out before the story was ended. My Better Half and two boys and our neighbor. Mrs. W. J Johnson and her teen-age daugh ter. Peggy, arrived at the fan grounds about 10:30 a. m. on a beautiful clear, crisp autuin day and 1 11 admit that even my old heart got a lift out of the atmos phere that is always associated with a day at lire state fair. Since the printing weighed a hundred pounds or more. I was immediate ly faced with tin- prob lem of both finding Harrington Mfg. Co. and delivering the* ma terial, with a minimum of effort and time on my part. How tlie State Highway Pa trol and the Wake County Sher iffs office got into the situation is still a sort of puzzle to me. Anyway I drove lo one end of the fair grounds and parked in a No Parking zone, got out and ducked through traffic to the other side of busy U. S. Highway 1. approached a High way Patrolman and told him Walter F. Morris Dies At 78; Life Resident Gates.—Falter F. Morris, 78, lacked only a few days of reach ing his 79th birthday when he died at 9:25 Monday evening in the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital after a long illness. He was the son of the late Ephriam Taylor Morris and Sally Speight Morris of Gates County. He was a farmer and life resident of Gates County and he served as deacon and superintendent of the Sunday School at Middle Swamp Baptist Church for many years. He is survvied by his widow, Mrs. Beulah Smith Morris; nine children; Judge Chester Morris of of Coinjock; Rev. W. D. Morris of Scotland Neck; E. Tommy Morris of Barco; J. Corbell Morris of Ahoakie; Gladstone Morris of Gates; Rev. Frank E. Morris of Savannah, Ga.: Mrs. Johnny F. Koren of Ahoskie; Mrs. Levy Dildv of Ahoskie; Thurman L. Morris of Gates; nine grandchil Funcral serveies will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the Middle Swamp Baptist Church. Services will be eondueted by his pastor. Rev. William Kaye, as sisted by Rev. J. L. Walter Moose of the Gatesville Baptist Church and Rev. W. P. Milne of the Ahoskie Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Morris family cemetery on the old origi nal Morris home place near Gates. The body was removed to the Rountree aVid Holler Funeral Home in Gatesville where it will remain until one hour prior to the service. It will then be taken to the church. my troubles. He said that I i would not be able to get inside the fair grounds with my car, but he was quite sure I would find Harrington in the Industri al building and it was back at the other end of the fair. He di rected me to a good rpot to turn my car around then held up traffic until I got across the highway in my lane. Back I drove to the other end of the fairgrounds with my kids get ting impatient indeed. I pulled up in front of a ve hicle .-tale where another patrol than stopped mo. I tol-d him my See FAIR, Page 5 Baby Contest Ends Thursday Gatesville.-—Tlio baby contest is usually a highlight of the an nual Halloween Carnival at the Gatesville School, and this year it will not be necessary tor the babies to be photographed to en ter the contest. Babies in the photos are Bill Winn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Winn: Bobby Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones; Jnn mv Snell, son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. T. Snell, all of Gatesville: and Steve Darden Askew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darden A-kew of Uo Any child between the ages of six months and two years may be registered as a contestant before Thursday noon. October 27. Par ents may register their children at the Theater Grill. All money should be turned m to Mrs Bill Johnson at the Thea ter Grill by 4 p. m. Friday. Octo ber 211. Additional vote's may be taken until 7 p. m. All mono' should be turned in at tins time. All mothers are urged to be m the arid it too uni at 7 p. m . contest closing time. The winner and the runner-up will lie announced at JIMMY SNELL BOBBY JONES BILL WINN STEVE ASKEW Gatesville and Sunbury Without Bus Service Bureau to V Xickoff A Wednesday Gatesville.—The annual Farm Bureau kickoff meeting will be held Wednesday night, October : 26. in the Theatre Grill in Gates- ! ville with A. C. Edwards as guest speaker. This will be the beginning of ' the 1955 membership drive with a goal of 600 members for Gates Ail solicitors arc urged to at- . tend, according to Bradford Jones, Farm Bureau President. Ruritans Clear $325 At Festival Gatesville. — The Gatesville Ruritans held their Auction Sale last Friday clearing around $525.00. Due to the small crowd the morning sale was postponed until 2 p. m. After the barbecue lunch, President Pollock acting as auctioneer started the sale by selling a box of cookies baked by Mrs. George Cockcv to George Williams lor $1.00. Over a hundred items were sold by 4 p m.. some selling above retail price. The Ruritans found they still were only half through. So the auction was halted due to i few buyers and many in the crowd had to leave. President Pollock and the finance ehair . man. B. B. Powell, decided to hol'd the remaining items. On hand tor sale are many items. A ham raffled off by Paul Hof ler, B. B. Powell and P. F. Ed monds brought in $49.00. Willis Taylor reports a good attendance at the dance held Friday by the Ruritans. Mrs. Blanchard Passes Away; Funeral Sat. Sunbury.—Mrs. Ida Blanchard. 77. died at her home here Thurs day afternoon at 4:30 after a 1 in - gering illness. She was the wife of the late Edward W. Blanchard and the daughter of the late John and Martha Eure. She is survived by five sons. Lonnie E.. Hampton. Herbert L . Jersey City, ,\T. J.. Alton E.. Suti bury. Emmett C.. Portsmouth, and Edward C.. Gates; four daughters. Mrs. F. L. Brinkley. Suffolk. Mr.-. F. R. Chappell. Belvidere. Mrs. L. M. Wiggins and Miss Sallie Mae Blanchard. Simbury; one sis ter. Mrs. Annie Atkinson. Suf folk: six grandchildren. Funeral services- were conduct ed Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Beulah Baptist Church. The pastor, the Rev. W. V; Brown, conducted the service, assisted by the Rev. A. J. Eure. Burial was in the Blanchard family cemetery. Active pallbearers were Frank Eure. Edward Eure. D. E. Blan chard. Arthur Collins. W. E. Brown and Clinton Eley. The body was removed from the Fountree and Hotler Funeral Home. Gatcsville. to the church one hour before the service. Gatesville. — Carolina Coach Company won permission for the State Utilities Commission yestef day to discontinue service be tween Roduco, Gatesville and Sunbury. The Commission said there wasn’t enough pasengcr bussines to justify requiring the bus com pany to continue operating over the route at a loss. State Sen A. Pilston Godwin, Jr., told the Commission at a hearing last week that the change would leave Gatesville and Sun bury without bus service. Caro lina Coach representatives brought in figures to show the service is poorly patronized. The run through Gatesville and Sunbury is part of a daily round trip schedule operated between Rich Square and Norfolk. The Company said that the Rich Squarc-Norfolk run costs an aver age of 41 cents a mile and takes in an average of 20 cents a mile in fares. Most of the fares are collected, it said between Norfolk and Portsmouth. The decision was made in a rec ommended order written by Com missioner Ralph Moody. Recom mended orders are subject to re view by the full Commission. “We are not unmindful of the fact,” Moody wrote, “that Gates ville is the county seat and that the abandonment of discontinua tion of the franchise or routes in question would leave Gatesville without passenger bus service, but there is no obligation to serve a county seat unless public de mand. patronage, or in other words, public convenience and necessity require the service, and the same is true with any po tential demand because of the location of a correctional insti tution near Gatesville. “We reach the conclusion, therefore, that the franchise au thorizing the operation of pas senger bu^es over the route should ... be abandoned." Big Carnival At Gatesville High School Gatesville.—Final plans and preparations are under way at Gatesville School for the biggest Halloween Carnival ever to be offered the students and parents of this section. There will be a costume con test with prizes given for the first, second and third best Halloween costumes. The highlight of the Halloween Carnival will be in two phases: The baby popularity contest and the selection of Kings and Queen? of the Halloween Carnival. Prizes will be given to each king and queen from the grammar, primary, and high school grades, with four grades represented in each group. Both elementary and high school buildings will be open for the fun ai d frolic of the Hallo ween Carnival with various Hallo wee activities presented by each The Halloween Carnival will begin at 6:30 p. m. Sandwiches and drinks will be sold in the lunch room until the Halloween Carni val is over. Sub-Di-trict Meeting Gatesville. — The sub-district inciting of the VVSCS will be in Edenton at the Main St. Metho dist Church on October 31, at 10 a. m. with adjoining counties com bined. Everyone is invited to attend. Popularity Contest to Highlight Halloween Gatesville—The Senior class oi Gatesville High School is spon soiing a popularity contest to se lect a king and queen from the Primary, Grammar and High School classes to be crowned on October 29 at the Halloween Carnival. Contestants for each section are as follows: Primary group—first and sec ond grades, Linda Hand and Jim my Eason: first grade. Nelson Harrell and Elizabeth Askew: second grade, Teresa Eure and Edward Lee Moore: third grade. Edna Turner and John Ward; fourth grade. Vernon Cowper and Peggy Carter. Garmmar group—fifth grade. George Williams and Joy Brown; sixth grade, Nellie Yelton and Jimmy Parker; seventh grade. Billie Cox and Welsford Artz; eighth grade, Shirley Eure and jJunie Umphlett, High School — ninth grade, Carol Bazcmorc and Lester Glis scn; 10th grade. Mary Wilson and Bobby Harrell; 11th grade. Mary Gray Cowpcr and Richard Jerni can; 12th grade. Edna Wilson and Clayton Parker. s Everything is expected to be razzling and dazzling at Gates ville High School Friday night, October 29. when their annual Halloween Carnival takes place. Besides the popularity contest there will be game rooms, cake walks, fortune telling and a "girlie" show. The highlight of the evening i will be the fashion show. Some of the ‘"world's" most beautiful > girls will be on hand to model the latest fashions from Paris and i New York, according to Miss Loretta Hill. She urges you to at tend the Carnival and join in the i fun.
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