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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. GATES COUNTY INDEX The Only Newspaper Published in and for Gates County The Weather Outside ... is mighty cold on these long winter evenings, so why not stay inside and read the many heartwarming stories carried every week in The Index. Only $2.50. I >fdi< ated to Service to ^l.itos County aini Its People Volume 22, No. 18 One of the Nation s "OHHATCH WKI:KI.IKS" Gaiesville, N. C., Thursday, January 5, 1956 10c per copy 10 Pages—Two Sections It Happened Last Year Top News of 1955 is 3 Hurricanes Gatesville.—The year 1955 will go down in history as the year of uneasy peace in which world poli tics held the spotlight as nations jockeyed for top positions of power. In Gatos County the year open ed with a special term of Superior Court in Gatesville. This was necessary as the fall term was not held due to the sudden illness of the presiding judge, Q. K. Nimocks, who suffered a heart attack just before court was to convene. In mid-January, Carlton Morris a d family made headlines in a number of papers when they took a Florida vacation at the insistence of friends, Frank E. Kaufman cf Baltimore. L. S. Burton and H. I. Juffe of Suffolk. Early in February, one Negro i school boy was killed and another died later from an auto accident. Officers captured a big liquor still near Carters and later ran down j the operators with bloodhounds from the Gatesville prison camp, i On February 13. Mr. and Mrs. j R. O. Hobbs of Hobbsville cele- j brand their silver wedding anr.i- j versary. During the latter part of February, Marvin Wiggins of j Trotville made headlines with his maternity pen for newborn pigs, | a d Paul Edmond was guest j speaker at a HDC meeting. Sheriff L. F. Overman, his dep- j uty Woodrow White and Patrol man J. J. Carter captured the largest still ever seen in this sec tion on the last Saturday in Feb ruary. Attorneys Huber Eason and W. D. Brown stumbled on the operation while looking over some property and reported it to the Sheriff's office. Two white men were captured. in mia-.\iarcn, me big news was the laying of the cornerstone for the Eure Christian Church. The ceremony was conducted by the Grand Lodge of Masons with 'rand Master, Robert L. Pugh in aarge of proceedings. At the March term of Superior Court, Willie Phelps and Sydney Parker went on trial lor the death of young Jimmie Monds, who was run down by an auto while walking on the highway rear his home. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Benton celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on March 20 with a reception in the base ment id' Sandy ( ro.-:s Baptist Also in March the new book mobile was dedicated i . appropri ate ceremon.es at Gatesville and the Red Cross reported $500 short oits quota. Renov.it on of the Gatesville Methodist Church was completed early in April and Home Demon s'ration Clubs h» Id a district meeting on April 14. Austin Hurl bi in was i anud executive vice president of the Farmers Ba’r.k of Sunbury and public health nurse, Mrs, Roy Hayes, gave little Edith Rae Riddick the very first polio shot from the n -w Salk vaccine. Gatesville school band, which was the first ever organized in that school got off to a good start and gave a concert under the direction of Co .rad Plyier. Also in April, Glenn Owens of Gatesville High School was an nounced a; the white student winning the Rawls Scholarship award. Patricia Rascoe of Buck land High School was the Negro winner of the same award. It was announced that there would be an increase of peanut acreage. In May, Gates County receiv 'd an additional allotment of 553 acres for peanuts, and Mrs. Con rad N. Plyler became the first woman ever elected to the Gates ville Town Council. Walter C. Rawls of St. Louis gave $3,000 to j Buckland High School Library, j In mid-May, officers investigat ed four auto wrecks in one week _jnd. William T. Jones of Scot land Neck became the third traf- j fic fatality in Gates County when j his truck, loaded with lumber, was involved in a wreck with a pickup driven by Nat Felton. The I accident occurred at the inter-1 section of the old Barfield road and Highway 13. In June, little Danny Hurdle! was fatally injured when he was; crushed beneath a pickup truck as he played on the Zion Metho- j aist Churchyard. C. P. Hathaway, prominent Sunbury man who had been ill for some time, passed away; and j a thief broke into the show room 1 of the Towe Motor Co. in Sun bury and made off with a new | car. The newly elected Gatesville | Town Council held its first meet- ! ing. C. M. Lawrence passed away in June, and Glenn Owens re-! ceived a scholarship to the Uni- j versitv of North Carolina. In July a committee survey recommended one high school for | Gates County, and the county J tax rate was lowered by a nickel | per $100 valuation. Work was: started on the Gatcsville »vm I dressing room. Ladies of the Eure Christian Church Missionary So- , ciety instituted a galloping tea | that received wide publicity. Mrs. S. P. Cross died in July and j a number of 4-11 delegates from Gates attended 4-II Club Week j in Raleigh. The temperature! reached 101 degrees on July 23. i At their first meeting in Aug-1 ust, the. Gates County Board of1 Education consolidated Hobbs- j ville High School with Sunbury.! Hubert Eason, county attorney, j took a leave of absence from the job of prosecuting attorney, and W. D. Brown of Sunbury was I named to handle the job. The,! Gatcsville Town Council decla; - ed unrelenting warfare on mo. - uuitoes. County schools opened in August, and Hurricane Connie dumped an untold amount of water on Eastern Nortn Carolina I More than 11 inches of rain f 11 j during August and Hurricane Diane brought the highest water! ever seen in this section. Gatesville was dropped from the Carolina Coach Company lai schedule in September and the county Ruritan clubs held a bog show in Sunbury. Dr. E. V. Wills' was claimed by death at till, and schools closed for the third hur ricane of the season, lone. Anil a Page Eure won a beamy contest at the International Cup Regatta in Elizabeth City, where she won third place. In October the Board of Com missioners annou cod plans for a new office building in Gatesville : and the Gatesville Ruritan Club held a fall festival day at Gates ville school. Joe Hall, Gatesville Negro became the fourth high See NEWS. Page 4 WINTER—A lot of North Carolina people were singing and dreaming of a white Christmas and may have been disappointed, but if they stuck around until last Friday they had plenty of snow as more than two inches fell in a short time. Who can tell us where this photo was made? i THE ORGINAL SUSAN—In the center of this old drawing is the original Susan Constant which brought some of the first colonists to Jamestown. An exact replica of the ship is being built this year and will bo on display at Jamestown early in 1957. At the loft is the Discovery and at far right is the Godspeed which were the other two ships in the convoy of 1607. A KEEL FOR HISTORY—This tree, which is 63 foot in length, will be the keel of the Susan Constant which i- being built ac cord.ng to exact specifications of the original ship that brought the first' colonists to Jamestown in Hi07. J. K. Wyatf ..f Gate ville delivered the tree to a Norfolk Shipyard last wee!; J. K. Wyatt to Aid In Building Ship for Jamestown Festival Gafesvillo.—When the James own Festival opens in 1957, one >f the main attractions will be he good ship, Susan Constant, ■vhieh was one of the original hive that brought the first 105 •ol.onist; to Jamestown Island in 1 *>07, There will he the one slight lifTe’ence, for 1he ship which ,v,ll be viewed in 1957 by people Iront all ov< r the world will be an;It m 1956. And Gates County .vi 11 get into the story, for the tool for the 195(5 version of the Susan Constant is being furnish ed by J. K. Wyatt of Gatesvdle. Wyatt delivered a ptne (50 feet in length hist week which he said wotiKl square 12 \ 12 at the top. He.is also delivering a large amount of oak timber for the ship, which will be built accord ing to the exact specifieations of the Susan. Constant. Festival au thorities. according to Wyatt, will build the ship by hand this year and hope to have it ready and afloat at Jamestown early m 1957. Visitors will bo allowed to- visit it throughout the year. A bronze plaque will bo on display bearing the names of all who have fur nished any part of the Susan Constant and Will include Wyatt's nanip as the man who furnished tin' keel and other material, he said last week. The other two ships tha* took part in that first voya.ee of tiv< months’ duration are the Discov ery and Godspeed. They will not be built in detail like the Susan Tile pine that Wyatt delivered to a shipyard in Norfolk last week is estimated to be 114 yean old and is perfectly straight from one end to the other, lie is also delivering a curved oak far the bow of the ship leading up to the bowsprit. The oak timber lie will deliver is known in the lumber trade as "flinch" and is oak four 4-HCIub News HOBBSVILLE JR. 4-H CLUB By Carolyn Overman The llobbsville Junior 4-H Club held their last meeting of the season in December when the meeting was called to order by. Charles Riddick, After the pledges to flags and motto were given, we sang "Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” Denti tions were given bv Jackie and Clara Mae Bunch, The minutes were read and the roll was called by our secretary. Ann Hollowed. We then took up an offering for a basket for Christmas. After the business part of the meeting, we had our Christmas party for 1955, which was follow ed by Christmas songs and ex changing gifts. It was announced by Mr, Artz that at our first meeting of 1956 the new assistant county agent, A. C. Newsome, would be intro duced. inches 1h'. k and 1 1 w without edging. All work o-i tin ship will he done' by hand tan! with the hull bmm: made iron fir which wiii lainr front tiu Although the sH.p v. . 1 in afloat irnd n luiy. i\.r m .tors' u 1957. i vi ntnal pkin - rail for- 'ak mg the ship ashore where .t. wd be preserved as a mu-man i'ui IOOF Officers Installed Wednesday Corapeake. Jim 11,11 \\ ,11 ht installed as Noble Grand of tin Holly Grove Independent Ordei (if Odd Fellows next \VedlU*sda> night m. regular installation cere Wesley Eure \\ ill be mstalloc as ice Grand. 11. L Brown anc Mack Eason will lie installed a recording secretary and t'.inancra Ail o'. 1, I etl.se 1 s V ;! be ap pointed at the meet in;; and wil be installed along with the elect ed oil ice: s All Odd Fi Hows air request pc to attend titi meeting Wednesday as final plans to attend tin Firs District convention in Swat Quarter wi!i lie completed. Tin convention will be Vie' 1 on Sat urday. January 1 I From Hospital Fairer - Miss I il'lie Eure return ed from Roanoke-Chowan lips pital Friday and is staving witl Mrs. Ioia Parker. Stallings Move Eure,—Mr. and Mrs. Cam Stal lings moved to Eure Saturday ii the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E Felton. School Funds Are Problem for Board 'O bounty : gospel unto yo. .t which I we have preaehCu you, let him be accursed. Galai.uns 1:8. | The Gaiesvilie Volunteer Fire Department announced this week j that .Mr. and Mrs. Conrad N. i Plyler were the winners of the first place prize for the best , Christmas display. This award is j made annually. j Mrs. Frank Pierce of Sur.bury i '■'‘ ‘in a similar prize presented by i the Sunbury Woman's Club. For | the benefit of the Sunbury Woman’s Chub. it is our informa ! 'ion that VEPCO will furnish cash for prizes for that sort of thing. ' So maybe they will look into it and be able to furnish cash as well as ribbon's next Christmas, and without u.ny cost to their line ; organization. I On the sad side, there were i nine deaths in Gatesville during 1955, Almost that many occurred in Sunbury. We have no way of j knowing the exact statistics in i births and deaths tor the county | But . I from heave j i ne i\ow 1 ear weekend passed without incident as far as traffic accidents were concerned. Or at ■ least our friends. Patrolmen Cod .! wm and Carter didn't call us in ■ the middle of the night to photo | graph any fatalities which is good | indeed. "’.till o: e mother kangroo said to another mother kangroQ: "I tone it doesn't rain today; it’s j twin! when the kids have to play f inside." i T vo Englishmen out for a j riig.it on tile town picked up two -tiitis and took them info a dimly pub for a drink. Suddenly, one it the men turned to his friend and whispered: "I say, old boy, would you mmd terribly changing ■ :,v Tire oter replied, "No, t:' w:i , the matter with yours'*'’ 1 he lr.iiiri answered. "Between oe. grog end tile smog, I seem to : ‘ckc.i up an old aunt of Home Ec at Sunbury Gives a Tea Sunbury.--On Wednesday. De cember .114. tile home economies department of- Sunbury school was the scene of lovely Christmas to. tiv.tn when the home eco nomies girls entertained the high '■'hoi ! student body and faculty ’ -'a. Speeitil guests of the de partment were Mrs. J. A. Payne. III. Mr Edward Nixon, and Mr. .mil Mr William Boone. In toy ; receiving line were Dw.ne Hurdle. Mary Ellen Hollo well, and Joyce Byrum. Kathleen ihil.i'os. cue (it the' home eeotioni 1vs -’ Oden! -, presided -over the punch bowl: Servi d w tij tiie fru.t punch were hors d'oeuvres and cookies i■<; 1 iiitiny kinds. For those With a more, exotic taste. Russian tea w:a- - Mil by Treeiia Rountree. All. refre. hnients tor the occa sion ware prepared by. the home A Christmas atmosphere was created by the decorating scheme of silver, red and green. The table, laden with delicacies, was partially covered with holly and ■cedar. Centered On the long ban quet table was a unique dried flow or arrangement. Two rod candles were placed on either side of the original centerpiece. All decorations were made by the girls. Goodbys were said to Joy Hol low'd] and Nancy Rountree. Mrs. Lucy Kittrell, hostess and home economics teacher, is grate ful to each one who helped to make the reception a success. FIRST MEETING Euro.—Tiie Woman's Mission* ! arv Society ol' Eure's Christian ! Church Will hav^ their first meet 1 ing for 1956 or. Friday night, Jun | uary 6, at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Audrey Turner and Mrs, - | Willard Turner will be hostesses. i ! All members are urged to star! . | the missionary year by their pres ence and loyal support. Gatesville.—It has been said a number of times that the schools in North Carolina will be as good as the people of the state want them. According to the Gates County board of Education this i holds true for Gates County j schools. And the board spent all ! day last Monday debating the needs of county schools and how they could best use 1he $257,000 they have on hand from the state : bond issue. j No Board of Education can make changes or improve the schools without the backing, ap proval and full suppoi't of the people they said. The board now has on hand $257,000 to spend for school i building construction. These ! funds came from the 1953 fifty ' million dollars state bond issue. The county board can make plans for the use of these funds, but the State Board of Education has the authority to reject these It was pointed out that the State Board seldom if ever ap proves or permits the expendi tures of state funds at small schools for building contruction ; if consolidation is posible. This j creates a great problem for the Gates County Board of Educa tion as all schools in Gates County are considered small. A look at statistics shows that en rollment in the white high ; schools of the county have con i tinued to decrease for the past j several years. Enrollment in 1954 was 270 while there are | only 239 white high school stu dents this year. The table below shows the value of the school property at 1 the different schools along with the number of students and icacueis anu H'noui population. All these facts have to be taken into consideration when planning a long range school building pro gram, according to the board. The Board is giving the proposed construction a lot of study and consideration. A. J. Eure has resigned as teacher at Sunbury effective January 23, and no replacement has been found at the present Only three members of the five-member school board was present last Monday. They were S. P. Cross, chairman, D. A. Wil lis and Lyman Cowper. Distribution Of Students And School Property In Gates County Membership 1954-1955 Elom. HS Oatcsville 305 102 Hobbsville 114 50 Sunbury 209 102 Ruckland 043 155 T S. Cooper 599 148 Membership 1955-56 Elom. HS Oatcsville 311 105 Hobbsville 112 Sunbury 200 134 Ruckland 020 180 T S. Cooper . 593 144 Value of Number of Si-ho'o 1 Property Teachers Hobbsville S 94,800 14 Gatesville S251.500 10 Sunbury $250,700 14 B tick land $235,500 ' 25 T. S. Cooper $200,000 24 Movement Ended Washington (USD A)— Movement of farmers' stock peanuts from farms, to mills has been practi . rally completed in all areas. De mand and trading for milled pea nuts was light during the past week due in part to usual let ! up in activ ity over holidays. Prices as compared week ago showed little change. New Stamp A new three-rent stamp honor* ng the late Andrew \V. Mellon went on sale at the local post offices last week. The stamp commemorates the ■enteitnial of the birth of Mellon. It is maroon with a reproduction of a portriat of Mellon and is .85 ! by ,t)8 inch. The printing of 119 i million of the stamps has been authorized. EVENING PROGRAM Gates.—Those who participated in the Student Day program at the Sunday evening services at the Kittrells Methodist Church, un der the direction of the Rev. F. J. Duplissey, were Miss Rebecca Riddick of Parker’s Church, Miss Kay Francis Greene, Glenn Owens, and William J. Boone of i Kittrells Church.
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