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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 10' Ser copy 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. Volume 22, No. 22 One of the Nation'll "(THEATER WEEKLIES" Gaiesville, N. C., Thursday, February 2, 1956 I »•'«!I«*cl to Service to ile.v County and Its People 12 Pages—Two Sections Eason Sent to Road On Assault Charge Lratesville.—James Eason, Mid dle Swamp Negro, is already serving time on the roads under the supervision of the State High way and Public Works Commis sion for assaulting officers Fri day, January 20. Sheriff L. F. Overman arrested Eason and he and Patrolman A. S. Godwin brought him to Gates ville. It was while the sheriff was taking Eason from the car to jail that Eason struck the sheriff. Godwin was busy on the police radio reporting in to Elizabeth City and did not know what had happened until he heard the sheriff call for assistance. When Godwin arrived on the scene, the big Negro hud broken loose and fled. A quick radio call brought Pa trolman J. J. Carter Lo the scene and Eason was soon apprehended near the home of J. G. Pollock. The Negro again put up a strug gle, but was soon brought under control and piaced in jail. On two charges of assaulting an officer while in the perform ance of his duties and escaping from the custody of an officer. Eason went before court last Tuesday, January 24. when i convened in Gutisclle. Aftei hearing the evidence. Judge H. V. Beamon sentenced Eason to lfi months to the common jail of Gates County to work the roads under the supervision of tne State Highway and Public Works Com mission. The crimes for which the sher iff arrested Eason, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and bleak ng and oiiiering with intent to commit a f lonv. will be heard in the March term cf Superior Court. H.s appearance bond was set at $fj0O on each Other ea.'Cs to be heard during re corder's Court were: Edrnond Jenkins, failure to stop at slop . ign; pay costs. Walter Vaughan, improper brakes and improper parking; S10 fine ar.d costs. LeRoy McCant. speeding; pay ds. Dorothy C. Patterson, no wind 9 eld wiper, driving on wrong ■do of road; S10 fine and costs. Willie Edward Matthews, reck less driving: $5 fine and costs. John Saunders, speeding; S10 fine and casts. Willie Lankford Boone, operat ing without a license; $25 fine and Golden Gene Burley, improper brakes, improper lights; $20 fine and costs. James Robert Tucker, reckless driving; $10 and costs. Willie Mac Wolfrey, Jr., reck less driving; $10 and costs. Lycurgus Johnson. Jr., drunk and disorderly; pay costs. Willie Wilev Sutton. operating without a license: $25 and costs. Robert F. Corbitt, speeding; pay Sanjucl Odell Riddick, operat ing without a license; $25 and Benjamin Tillman. Jr., speed ing; pay costs.. Clay-born Morrell Mercer, fail ure to stop at stop sign; pay costs. Thomas Carti r Lawrence and John Gilbert Wester, speeding; James William Unit, allowing an unlicensed op; ralor to drive lus car; $25 and co- 's. John Elton Smith, speeding; pay costs. Charlie Raundem, improper brakes: $10 aiiqi costs. Edward Sutton, possession and transporting :.l!r;.*aI-liquor.; 30 days m jail; sentence suspended upon payment of $25 and costs. William W Wiggins, improper passing: $10 and costs. Charlie Hinton, operating after 1'cense suspended; prayer for judgment and continued. Willie Holler, improper brakes, See COURT. Page 4 Gates County BRIEFS Love worketh no ill to his neigh 1 bor; therefore love is the fulfill 1 ing of the law. Romans 13:10. i - Owen Smith, architect, met with I the contractors' at Gatesville school Tuesday, January 31 for ! the final inspection of the new j dressing rooms. i Mrs. Mary G. Cowper of Gates ! ville has been elected science and ! history teacher for Sunbury school. I She is filling the vacancy caused | by the resignation of A. J. Eure and has been teaching at Sunbury j since January 24. First of the year finds a lot of j people moving around and often ! there is a practical side to the j whole thing. Saw a whole truck : load of furniture entering Gates j County last Monday. On top of {he oad was a bright shiny television antenna. Apparently most of the I family was following along in a pickup which was loaded down I with collards. Looked like the folks just pulled ’em by the roots and were planning to reset them it their new home. Had a call from the r.cw Edcn lon radio station last Monday. Wanted to use news from the Index. Funny how they forgot o say anything about paying for t. We do it for fun anyway. Suzanne, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Askew lost her balloon on the street in Gatesville Monday afternoon. A high wind was blow g and her bright red balloon got away and sailed out in he middle of the street. A truck loaded with logs was approaching, l'-:» the driver stopped to keep from running over the balloon which sailed happily across and down the street. The little blonde -•ailed to the editor, who just hap pened to be loafi g and contem plathig the ways of man and the world in general, and asked him to rescue her wind born craft, but the wi d just wafted it away. Mark Brown, who was also loaf :ng. but further down the street, took after the thing and another ear had to stop to keep from run ning it down. But Mark rescued it and returned it to the happy owner, who showed good sense by ot chasing into the street after it. Morgan’s Restaurant is now under new management. Mrs. A. C. Poison and Mrs. R. O. Hobbs. Sr., are operating it and serving home cooking, they said last Fri day. Had a little story about Ruth and Jacob Eason losing their home and all their possessions in a fire at Hobbsville last week. Rev. W. V. Brown says they have received a lot of furniture, but still need some clothing lor themselves, and two brothers who lived with them. George and Walter Hobbs. George is crippled. They also reed some i bedding. Anyone wishing to holy his Negro family can leave the materials at the Quality Shop in Hobbsville and Mrs. Brown will see that they get it right away. A representative of State Civil Defense will visit the Gatesvillc courthouse Friday, February li. to interview applicants for fed- ; eral surplus property. Programs best work and tastest service whon you lot the folk* who publish thi oaper do your printing. Give us you* Herbert Rountree, Sr. / aid to Rest On Friday Sunbury.—G. Herbert Rountree, Sr., 69, died ut his home at two o'clock Friday morning of a heart attack. He is a native of Gates County and the son of the late George and Artimecia Rountree. He was a member of the Phila delphia Methodist Church and a retired oil distributor for the Standard Oil Company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Re becca Manning Rountree; two sons, Master Sargeant G. Herbert Rountree, Jr., U. Si Air Force, Pine Castle, Fla. and Command er Fred Manning Rountree U. S. Navy, Quonset Point, R. I. He is also survived by four grandchil dren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon at two thirty at the Philadelphia Meth odist Church by the Rev. C. A. Turner, Jr., of the Larchmont Methodist Church, Norfolk, Va. Burial was in the Costen Ceme tery. Active pall bearers were G. B. Morgan, C. C. Edwards, T. W. Costen, Wesley Seward, H. C. Rountree, F. H. Rountree, R. W. Long and James Brothers. Th * Adult Men's Bible Class of the Philadelphia Methodist Church Sunday School were the honary pall bearers. Funeral arrangements were from the Rountree and Hofler Funeral Home, Gatesville. DR. BOYCE—Though Gates County has no drug stores, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Boyce shop and sell shelf drugs in tiatesville. Mrs. Boyce is in a hospital suffering from and arm while Boyce carries on alone. He is standing by one of the oldest fount a i Boyce and the fountain will be featured in a trucker's magazine in the near fu'.ui Jeff Wilson, editor of the magazine. operate a soda a fractured leg is in tiie state, e according to Workshops for Congregational Churches The Southern Convention of Congregational Christian Churches has announced a series of "Work shops On Evangelism" to be held in key areas of North Carolina and Virginia in preparation for the Simultaneuos Evangelistic Campaign to be held in North Carolina on March 4-11 and in Virginia on March 18-25. The Workshops are to be held at Bethlehem Congregational Chris tion Church near Harrisonburg. Virginia, on February 6; at Be‘hle hem Congregational Christian Church, near Suffolk, Virgi ia, on February 7; at the Beverly Hills Congregational Christian Church of Burlington. N, C., on February 8; at the Asheboro Congregational Christian Church of Asheboro. N. C.. on February 9; and at the Wake Chattel Congregational Christian Church of Fuquay Springs. N. C., on February loth. Ministers and key laymen of the churches in the vicinity of the Workshops on Evangelism are ex pected to attend the all day ses sions of the Workshops which be gi . at 12 noon with lunch and con tinue throughout the afternoon until supper at 5:45. The evening sessions will begih at 7:30 and eo tinue until 9. The Lay Visita tion Program preceding the Simul taneous Services to be held in local churches will be thoroughly explained and training materials will be available. A mass type meeting is being planned fur the evo ing sessions of the Workshops. Dr. Aaron N. Meckel, an out standing Congregational Chris tian Minister of St. Petersburg Florida, will be the featured speaker. Dr. Meckel is widely known as a preacher, author and an authority ii evangelism. Hi most po uilar book was A NEW DAY FOR EVANGELISM. The Rev. Fred P. Register. Sec retary 6l Stewardship and Evan gelism of the Southern Conven tion of Congregational Christian Churches, and Dr. W. C. Timmons, pastor of the Church oi Wide Fel lowship, Southern Pines, N. C., will be the chief resource leaders of the Workshops on Evangelism during February 6-10. All the Workshops will be similar in nu Refreshments to Be Subject for Homemakers Meet Gatesville.—Party Refreshments will be the topic of the first meet i g held for homemakers by the vocational home economics teach ers of the Gatesville and Sunbury high schools. 1 Mrs. Sylvia Mathews, VEPCO home economist from Elizabeth City will give the demonstration on Party Refreshments on Mon day, February 6, at 3 p. m. in the Gatesville Home Economics De partment, and on Tuesday, Feb ruary 7, at 3 p. m. in the Sun bury Home Economics Depart Anvone interested is invited to attend. Time to Sign Up For Conservation Program Gatesville.—It’s time to sis*', up again in the Agricultural Conser vation Program, sa.vs J. A. Hobbs, chairman of the Gates County ASC Committee. Farmers of Gates County have an opportunity again to cooperate with t!ie tanner, of other Counties . and States i ; strengthening the Nation by im proving the Country's ability to produce food and fiber. Ke said that the following con servation practices have be. : ap proved for Gates County for 195(5: Practice 1 — Pertmanen' pasture or hay; Practice 2—•Additional vegetative cover in crop rotation* Practice (i Permanent pasture or hay improvement: Practice 7 Farm ponds for livestock and Or irrigation, .water: Practice H- For cst improvement; Practice II Open ditch drainage: Practice 12 Tile drainage.. and Practice 14 Winter cover crops. Trie I9.)(i program is open to ail farmers and any farmer of Gates County who would iike to u.-e tire ACP to help him eon- -i n c the. ail on hi.- farm a d improve the oroduc'ivity ot iiis and should contact his local ASC Committee man or call at the Cotin'y ASC Office located at Gates vide. Farmers who eooper.de in the 19afi ACP will be I, doing. : , build up the Nation'- soil re-on .-'ays ■J. A. Hobbs. Not only will they be protecting the N.ditin'.- son .mil water resources agai. s', erosion and waste, but they will be buiiu ing into the soil a resistance to erosion as well as storing up pro duction potential in tile bmu. With the Nation's lain-, j laid o'.v geared to produce ample supplies ol most major foods there s no need for any .urroa-n m '..re at I'eages, o' the importaid cr.-.-i uui cultivated field ere I iat're is :in opportunity m I}?.-(>. the Chairman po: is out. to use tiui An' to s;reilgtiien nur soj' reserves by iriereasiin; the acre ages, of cover and green m:uuiri' erups, pastures and ha\ land; . ad ‘.'I increase the stores of ;:r.e n; phosphate, calcium raid p. •;.. - i i and other i laments. where need- d for plan* growth, The county o: liee is open every day except S.c urdny and Sunday to help form ers with Una Agricultural Con servation Program plans for :.ie coming year. Gates County farmers who make lull use of tlie IPafi Agricultural Conscrvafion Program to control erosion and to stockpile sou -re serves will make a subsiaiu: :al contribution to the Nation’s future security a :d well-being. J. A. Hobbs, Chairman of the Gates County ASC Committee, points out that soils have t > he kept in condition to respond when the need arises. "Land that has been overworked and n. defied is unable to respond when it is needed. "Although there is no need now to increase the acreage of grains and most other field crops, there is a definite need to take advantage of this favorable food situation to 1 continue stockpiling plant food | reserves in the soil. Our farms j then will be ready lo meet ex panded production needs when they come. If we don’t stockpile tin. -e reserves row. there may nmi ’ a jime whin if will he i»u late.” With this in maul. .1. A. Hobbs emphasized that tanners who sign u.i their.farm.- in the 1 Ayneul tural Cpnserva.tion . Program will be entering into a partnership with tile Nation's taxpayers for the I). ’ efit of all! The conker \at ton practices carried out will help to keep the farms in condition to respond when needed. Stockpiles i f soil reserves can help to meet the needs of an ever increasing population m;ik" a possible a more alittndant Jiving, for more By J. MAYON PARKER .North Carolina and Yuumia farmers pii.-enled a strong case la»r an increase in pesnul acrrajic allotm.bdls m the Carolina-Yir area January 2.4 and 2.Y In lore, Officials of: -:tin2 Depar’ ini m of A'. ru ulture in a hearing ;n Washington culled for consul o’ai ion of fill’ possibility of need for an increase m am n:.o this year to provide ail adr iaaio .'lip ply of Virginia ty po p< arn:n . Support in.i; tho (armor'’ 'in tention that present acreage allot ments in till' area air Hot solVi cient to prodiioo tire q turn illy of tifo large typos of peanuts to sup ply tho' demand was to-tiniom from peanut products manufac turers. throughout the nation, wlio static) that tile short a tie at trio present time w. - a op.orb.z.tig tin .r 1 uis no - s and that imports of largo typos of peanuts would lie necessary tit’s year mho-, supplies could bo produced - m Peanut millers in the Caro lina and Virginia area unani mously supported the farmers' peldion for increased allot ments with resolutions and statements pointing out the present critical shortage of the large type of peanuts produced in this area. The manufacturers of peanuts products, particula; l.v tho suitors and roasters of peanuts, declared openly that there was a decided consumer preference for the Vir ginia type peanuts because of size, flavor and quality over the smaller Spanish and Runner types, and that the smaller pea nuts oould not be substituted without damage to the market for peanuts for the present and in the future. Only opposition to the North Carolina and Virginia growers' request for a minimum increase in allotments of 14.6 per cent to k °° 'erandSewerageToBe Tol At Council Meeting Mrs. Coc. v> New President Woman's Club Gatesville. — The Gatesville school cafeteria was the scene of activity and ee.tertainment when the Gatesvillo Woman's Club held their regular meeting there last Monday evening, Jan uary 23. During the business session, Mrs. C. N. Ply lor.' presdient. presiding, the following officers were elected fur the coining year: Mrs. It. G. Cockey, president; Mrs. G. P. Cowper, vice president; Mrs. J. L. Askew, recording sec retary; Mrs. .1. J. Byrum. treasurer: Mrs. L. R. Eure, corresponding secretary: and Mrs. C'. N. Ply lor. pm liarnentarian. P. F. Edinpnd. mayor of Gates ville. appeared before file club and asked the cooperation of the mem bers in distributing questionnaries to iha town property owners con cerning water and sewage. Mrs. J. M. Eason, chairman of the program committee, presented a film entitled, “Within Man's Power." giving the authentic his tory of man's crusade against tuberculosis for fifty years. Following the business session a social hour was t joyed at which tine refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. X. B. Baker and Mrs. C. E. Ellis. County PTA Units Meet in Sunbury hobersonville. Miss Blanche Halos- oi Greensboro, field seere ui'oss oi Parents will address the v :n District 9 be tv and February 3. 1 by Ms. H. T. H'.Ih-! -on\ ille. rii tuck. Dare. Gates, i.in, Pasquotank. Washington count The PTA lin ts Gatesvdle. Hobi afternoon.. Febyu. A coven -d dish s 1 Carolina Co-t ■ean .lanua'ry 31 was announced s com posed of Chowan, Curri Hertlord. Mar Tyrrell and isviiie and Sun joint four-hour on "Edtrention Parenthood" in bool Thursday y 3. at 4 o'clock, oner will divide nnouneed REV. A. J. EURE, JR Rev. A. J. Eure Now Full Time Pastor Roduco.—The Rev. A. J. Eure, Jr., recently resigned his position as teacher at Sunbury High School to resume his work as minister. He is now serving Mt. Zion and Howerstone Baptist Churches of Donbrooke. Ya. He assumed his duties there last week. Rev. Eure attended Wake For est College apd received his B.A. degree in 195T He then attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Fort Worth, Texas, and received his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1935. Rev. Eure is the. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Eure. Sr., of Roduco. lie is married to the former Sally Ann Holler of Sunbury. 10 From County Examined for Induction G.ites\ iHe. Ten young men from Gates County will report January 91 for their pre-inductioh examination, according . to Mrs. E: La Riddick, chairman of the Gate.- County Draft Board. She further stated that tour others would go to Raleigh for induction. Those reporting for induction arc. .Walter Edward Hobbs. Har vey Ray White, Robert Edward Sp.Vey .nil Braxton Thomas Eure. the Spot Report Peanut Hearings mset expected demand tor large type peanuts next year came from growers and rmllers of the small runner type peanuts pro duced in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. l.cri in their opposition by II I.. Wingate. Georgia Farm bureau president, and former Congress man Stepheh 1.. Paco, now legal counsel for the peanut sheUers of tiie- Southeastern; producing area, the Georgians based their argu ment on the eontew.on and threat flint Georgia. Florula am! Ala bama etui Id and would' grow enough Vue.ti.a '\ee • aunts next year to stip'plv any 'shortage that may or may net exist , m the large type peanut-. They also con tended that should any shortage exist tit Virginia type p< a: ut.-. 4-H Meetings Begin February 8 Gntes\iiie Tile Felir.uti.ry 4-H Club meetings'-will begin Wednes day. February 8 when the ,!ti ior Chib in the Hobbe\ rile school meet.-, A 'joint program. >\ ’ L • held with the boys- devote w u. ,ahe to project cxplanatioi mi the g.rls studying dairy food All record books lor the ivt t.iiat ha.ye turned in their ct ill - men; third will be distribun at ‘.lie nielli g. Th.-se eomplt ing their enrollment card at tills n ot ing will, receive their record b oks Kaeli 4-H'cr Flat wants one of the auto tags should bring his money to the meeting. Proceeds from the sale of the tags ivhich cost SI will go to sponsor com munity 4-H projects in Gates Com ty . Over 100 of the signs have already been distributed. The. Gat'esville and Sunbury clubs will meet Februarv 13 and 14 the shorlove could be made up by tiie substitution of' smaller types until Georgia could pet into product mil of the larger types. Michael J. English, president of the Planters Nut and Choco late Company, in his testimony and under direct questioning by Wingate, cut much ground from under the Georgia oppo sition by stating flatly that threats and promises of produc tion of Virginia type peanuts in the Soulheaslern area have been made publicly and pri vately for the past five years but had not been fulfilled. He also stafed that experience had shown that there was a flavor and quality, as well as size, distinctive to the peanuts grown in North Carolina and Virginia which the public appeared to prefer that no samples of Vir ginia type peanuts grown in Georgia had duplicated. Growers and millers of Spanish peanuts from, 'TVxas and other South wester., p es mac ■ no ob joctiqi .to Mu N tli Carolina and Vila c ' request for ad ’ it it a Tli 1 'a • was called for the up o y of gathering facts vd >rr .turn for the guidance t! op rtment of Agriculture. d ai will lie made on the ■ sis the information present i a announced later by. the •ere y of Agriculture. J. 1 Thigpen, director of the .Is ai peanut division, avted as h.airt . u during 'the two-day hearin. Thigpen is a native of Tarbo'i and was formerly head of the tobacco division. The petition and facts sup porting the North Carolina and Virginia farmers' request for additional acreage was present ed by W. V. Rawlings, execu tive vice president of the Vir See HEARINGS. Page 4 Gatesville. — Two important questions will face the Gatesville rown Council at the next regular neeting on February 6, accord ng to Mayor Paul F. Edmond. First, says Edmond, will be the question of a water and sewerage system for the town. Many resi dents have expressed sentiment in favor of a public system for :he town, he said, and the council is hoping that a large number of residents will be present at the meeting next Monday, as it is planned to discuss this matter in some detil. As a matter of fact, the Gates cille Woman's Club has distrib uted a questionnaire to all Gates cille residents and property own ers designed to bring out full public opinion on the proposed water and sewerage system. They plan to have this information ready for the Council by Monday. It was pointed out by Edmond, that the cost of such a system would be considerable, and some residents who have recently in stalled a private system might object to junking it in favor of one operated for the public. He pointed out that the upkeep on a private system would amount to a great deal over a period of a few years. All phases of the ques tion will be discussed at the meet ing next Monday night beginning at 8 p. m. in the agriculture building. The second problem facing the Council next Monday will be the disposal of disaster relief funds applied for by the town after the recent hurricanes. The town ap plied for S10.000 and had approxi mately SO,800 approved with re servations, according to Edmond. He said the town would be ex pected to spend that amount on mosquito control and drainage, and if the Federal disaster relief committee approved the expendi tures. the town would be reim bursed. The Mayor pointed out that if the town had that amount of money to begin with, no applica tion for disaistnr relief would have been made. He is still work ing on the problem, he said, and still has hopes that something can be worked out to the ad vantage of the town. Roy A. Harrell Studying for Evangelism Sunbury.—Roy A. Harrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Harrell of Sunbury. has entered the Bob Juries U iversiiy at Greenville, S. ('., where be w ill study for the ministry. He was in the Army for the past 1 1 years and spent the last three years in Austria. He was dis charged from the Army on Jan uary 17 and entered the South Carolina school on January 30. Mr. and Mrs, Harrell have two girls. Anglea. four years, and Teresa. 19 months. Mrs. Tim Eure Takes First Place At Egg Show GaU sville.- Mr,. Tim Eure and son. Lang, took first place at the' Egg Show held in conjunction with the poultry -meeting at the Agri culture Buildii g Friday afternoon. Thomas B. Morris. Extension Poultry Specialist from State Col lege, brought out the latest im provements on poultry manage ment. Morris pointed ptu the need for buying good.-chicks from reputable hatcheries. He advised poultrymon to purchase Chicks lor layers that had the bred in ability to Jay at least 200 eggs per year. He recom mended the White Rock for broil ers but ot. for layers. He said several strains ol White Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds were very good tor,layers and would be more orofitabU; than most strains of the New Hampshire Reds. Pre-Naial Clinic Gatesville. — The regular pre natal clinic will be held Thurs day, February 2, at 1:30 o’clock in the Gates County Health De partment Building in Gatesville. SATURDAY SUPPER Eure.-Ladies of the Eure Con gregational Christian Church will serve a barbecue and chicken salad supper at the Roduco com munity house Text Saturday even ing beginning at 5:30. Proceeds | from the supper will go to the 1 church building fund.
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