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FOR GREATER PROGRESS OF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES VOL. II; NO. 40 SEASHORE NATIONAL PARK OFFERS CERTAIN OPPORTONITY TO DEVELOP OUTER BANKS PARK SUCCESS MUST BE ASSURED BY NATIVES ANDJTHEIR NEIGHBORS Support That Is To Come From Outside Must First Be Inspired By Attitude of Those Who Live Within the Area and Those Neighbors Who Are to Gain Most By Its Creation The Outer Banks of North Carolina has in the proposed Seashore National Park its only certain opportunity for improvement in the economic sense; a very definite aid real opportunity that has been proven in other sections. The reasons will be given. Because of its nature, the sandy soil, and small areas of the Outer Banks are not suited to profitable agriculture. There can be no development on that score. The commer cial fishing is not what it used to be, this being not only true of the outer banks, but of all sections where wild life has gradually been exterminated. The old contented days of Coast Guard employment are conceded to be no more. The opportunities therefore, for employment from time hon ored sources constantly diminish. What should we do? Allow these people to leave, taking from our region their fine citizenship, while they seek em ployment or locate permanently elsewhere? Or to allow them to remain under adverse economic conditions of the old order? In either case we have not answered the problem, nor have we met the challenge to all of us to make progress as the world moves. We owe a duty to each other, and we owe something to the people of a state and a nation who wish to visit this interesting ar-a. We owe much to those fine stalwart residents who have contributed so much to our county and state, and to those who have invested their life’s earnings in enterprises essential to the liveli hood of the people, and which cannot be taken away or sal vaged at will, as people come and go. Certainly, beside doing something to help the welfare of the common man, there must be something done to protect the enterprise of the business man. As matters now stand, there will be no great increase in the present sources of income. If the park should not materialize and with no increase in need, there are not likely to be any outstanding develop ments, not only in roads, but in other forms if transporta tion. One cannot run boats or trucks without paying cargo. Without transportation there can be no industries de veloped that are essential to the improved income of the people. Without any of these things, the vast expanses of land will never be worth any more than they are now worth per acre. They will ever remain undeveloped, a constant burden from the standpoint of taxes, useful only where they contain firewood, which if destroyed will ultimately result in great damage to all the people. What then, is the advantage of retaining in one’s pos session something that will be of such doubtful value, when the contribution, or sale of it at a reasonable figure, and one not in excess of its true worth will eventually be help ful to the general welfare ? It is true that in most instances, the holdings of natives are rather small, and few are in position to make even this contribution to what is needed for the general welfare. National Park a Solution The National Park Service through the bill that has given utterance to a dream of Lindsay Warren, and other great leaders, offers the one solution and hope for the de velopment of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. In this bill, the National Park service will take over and develop for the public good, the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore Recreational Area, the only Seashore Na tional Park yet approved by American legislation. It is first required that 10,000 acres of land be donated to the Government before this can be undertaken. It is desired that some 60,000 acres in all be acquired between Ocracoke Inlet and the Virginia line, before the full dream will materialize. The value of the minimum requirement of land is between $25,000 and $50,000, and with the nucleus for'this land already established at Cape Hatteras and Ocracoke. it seems desirable that the full 10,000 acres be acquired in this glamorous area. The worth of this land doesn’t exceed the figure above named, because it is not moving even at that price. But there is a satisfaction in owning land that makes for sturdi ness of citizenship, and taking into consideration this factor, the National Park service in its surveys and plans has ex empted the various villages in the area, to provide for homes of those now resident, and for future development, for homes. Before the Park can materialize, this 10 000 acres of land must be donated to the State which in turn will give it to the National Park service. It will be necessary for the citizens to either make donations or be willing to deed their land for no more than it is worth. The success of any undertaking depends on the good will of those who are to be benefited. It is natural always in any public undertaking to find opposition among those who are most benefited. But on the whole, the people of the area, seem interested in obtaining this development. So far as they can. it will be necessary that they make some contribution to its sue- C6SS And while they will benefit primarily and directly from improved conditions, larger incomes, the acquisition of roads, and a wide-spread general betterment, they are not financially able to make any appreciable contribution to the enterprise, for the land is principally owned by non resident sportsmen. (Please turn to Page Four) THE TYRRELL TRIBUNE LOCAL BOARD TO AID EMPLOYMENT OF EX-DRAFTEES With the Army preparing to re lease some men from active duty in the near future, the Selective Sendee system is making plans to render ail possible assistance to such men a« are released in obtain ing re-employment. (According to present plans all selectees, 28 years old or over, who are now in the Army will be re leased upon application for dis charge. In addition, the Army is planning to release an unspecified number of selectees as soon as their veai of service is completed.) Genera' ,T. Van B. Metts, State Director of Selective Service, today pointed out that the Selective Ser vice act imposes the duty of carry ing out its re-employment provi sions upon the Selective Service System as well as upon former emolovees. local boards through out North Carolna will he the fo cal point ; n the program, the di rector said. Appointment The re-employment program provides for the appointment by the State Director of a Re-employ ment Committeeman to be affilia ted with every local board in the state. The committeeman will act as a liason agent between the re turning soldiers and employers. He may be a member of a local board, a member of an advisory board, or a person appointed especially for the purpose. The function of the local board Re-employment Committeeman will be to get in touch with the former employer prior to the release of a soldier, to see if his former job is available to transmit the records of returning soldiers who have no jobs awaiting them to the nearest State Employment office, and gen erally to use every means at his command to assist the soldier in obtaining employment. Director Metts pointed out thai the Selective Service Act provides that every selectee released from active duty shall be given certificate of satisfactory service if he com pletes his training to the satisfac tion of the Army. The act then specifies: “In case of any such person, who in order to perform such training and service, has left or leaves a position, other than a temporary position, in the employ of any em ployer and who (U receives such certificate, (2) Is still qualified to perform the duties of such position, and (3) makes application for re employment within 40 days after he is discharged— “(A) if such position was in the employ of the U. S. government, its territories or possessions, or tho District of Columbia, such person shall be restored to such position or to a position of like seniority, status and pay; “(B) If such position was in the employ of a private employer, such employer shall restore such person to such position or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay un less the employer’s circumstances have so changed as to make it im possible or unreasonable to do so.” Put a Tax on Them! The Pennsylvania Board of Fish Commissioners points out that: “One adult dragon-fly accounts for as many as 40 adult mosquitoes per day. This is not an average but for numerical reasoning, if 1,000 dragon-fly nymphs are pre vented from reaching the adult stage, 40,000 mosquitoes stand a good chance, barring other checks, to carry, on propagation. As each adult female lays from 200 to 400 eggs, think of the countless num bers that are increasing rapidly from day to day. Therefore, we can say that the fisherman who is bothered so much by the mosquito, unwittingly helps increase the number of this pest by using dra gon-fly nymphs for bait.” Put a tax on dragon-fly nymphs, we say. ARMY A small “ormy” of experts, num bering more than 4,Ou(J persons, is conducting the British leave-lend ing buying program n this country. And Now It’s Pills for Minnows! A Minnesota company is market ing oxygen tablets designed to keep minnows alive in your min now bucket. A tablet dropped into water gives off oxygen for a period of about 10 hours, according to the company's advertisements. Good thing if it works. Food has become so scarce in many parts of Greece in recent weeks that foreign observers pre dict manv natives will die of star vation this winter. COLUMBIA, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941 THAD EURE TO HEAD NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ■ Secretary of State Thad Eure j'vho on Friday was elected presi-1 I dent of the National Association of Secretaries of State at the annual ■ .year at Los Angeles, California.' convention which was held this i J T his is the first time the honor has lever been given to a North Caro linian. j 29 PASS TYRRELL RED CROSS SWIMMING TEST! Twenty-nine Tyrrell County boys 1 land girls successfully completed ; the Red Cross sponsored swimming j school held at Colonial Beach for i the past two weeks. j ! Instructor Thurston J. Maim is 'completing the administration of j the Junior Lifesaving course to three boys this week. They are jJ. E. Norris, Jr., Fred Cohoon and' ) Parker Harris. j j Pupils passing the intermediate j swimming course were: Sarah I Liverman, Herbert Liverman, Grif i fin Spruill, Don Reynolds, Edith ! Adams, Warre; Roughton, Lory i Reynolds, R. Spruill, Julia Mae i j Poston, Audrey Alexander, Jessie | IM. Eason, Mary L. Knight, Ruby, j Sawyer, Charles Davenport and | Lancy W. Mayo. | Those completing the beginner’s 'swimming course were: David C. Davenport, Billie Spruill, Howard : Thompson, Harry Roughton. Billie ; Snencer. Malcolm Eason, Emmet | Eason. Maurice Waff. Franklin 'Alexander, Steven Clifton and Helen Brickhouse. | SIDEWALK IS ADDED TO BROAD STREET, i Completion of a sidewalk and l.curbing on Broad street from the Norfolk-Southern depot to the en trance to the Tyrrell County Train , ing school was made this week by | the street forces of the Town of Columbia under Chief of Police Julian Poston and Street Commis sioner Floyd Cohoon. , SCOTT 7 SEES~SHORTAGfT OF FARM IMPLEMENTS i Owing to a present shortage of materials and labor for the manu-, facture of farm machinery, North Carolina farmers are urged by G. T. Scott, Johnton County farmer and chairman of the State AAA 'committee, to plan carefully before placing their orders for 1942 re-, quirements. | j “It is becoming- increasingly ap ' parent,” he said, “that shortages of labor and supplies will occur in many lines of production as the defense program increases its scope. Plans are underwav to in- 1 crease the production of iron, steel, and other raw material, but for the next year we need to econo-! mize on materials used in the j manufacture of farm machinery.” The State AAA committee chair man explained that this means' ! farmers must estimate now their absolute minimum needs for ma-! Ichinerv and rc-nair parts for 1942.1 j To aid in determining require-! ! ments, the secretary of agriculture ! j has requested the County Defense I 'Board, acting as a group, to make J a survey of farmers’ minimum j wants for the coming year. A | ouestionnaire listing all types of ! machinery and implements has been mailed to each county for fill- j ,ing out. | I Scott suggested to all chairmen |of county boards that they check ; with implement dealers, commun- • ity AAA committeemen, business-, 1 men, and farmers before making final estimates of 1942 require ments. I “Farm machinery manufacturers have been given priority rating for, securing necessary materals” Scott j said, “but in view of the present crises farmers should their orders to a discreet minimum.” I MAYOR AND TOWN CLERK SIGN NEW SERIES _OF BONDS Board of Aldermen Plan the Purchase of Land For Fire Station Drive The recently-authorized issue of Town of Columbia refunding, bon is is ready for distribution to the sub scribers, Town Clerk A. W. Houtz J informed the board of aldermen at [their regular meeting Monday night. j Mayor \V. M. Laugh inghouse and j Town Clerk Houtz. made a trip to j Raleigh 'apt week for the purpose !of signing the bonds, just back j from the engravers. They will be ‘ distributed through the Local Gov ernment Commission. In a short and routine meeting, the members of the town board ordered all current bills paid ami heard the monthly reports of Chief of Police Julian Poston and Town Clerk Houtz. After some discussion, the board [appointed a committee to make ar rangements for the purchase of , enough land to make a suitable | drivewav for the town’s two fire i trucks from the nroposed munici pal building which will be con structed from the old nower sta tion on the Norfolk-Southern tracks. A GOOD NEIGHBOR Many years ago a little six-year old girl was takng a ride with her father. They came to a lowly vil lage. The people lived in shanties j that were ugly and dirty. There were no places for children to play. “When I am grown up,” the lit tle girl whispered to her father, “I am going to live in a big house i right next door to poor people, and i the children can play in my yard.” I The little girl was Jane Addams. When she grew up she lived just , as she had said, in a big house in a very poor neighborhood, and the children came and played in her , yard. j When Jane Addams was a young 1 woman, she found a friend, Ellen Starr. Her friend became as in terested in Jane Addams’ plan as she was herself, and the two start ed together. They found an old house that had once been a beau tiful mansion, and rented part of it for thirty dollars a month. It had been built by a man named Hull, and so they called it Hull House. They had the ceilings and | the wails plastered, and they hung | new paper on the walls to make I them interesting. The woodwork was repainted and the floors polish | ed. Pictures were put up, and Hull House began to look like a home. There were many foreigners in the neighborhood, and all were poor. Both the men and the wo -1 men worked in factories. The chil dren played in the streets, for the rooms in the tenement houses were small and few. In places a family of five or six lived in one | small room. j At first the people in the neigh borhood did not visit HuU House 1 when Jane Addams invited them. They could not understand why two women would come to live among them, so they were suspi -1 cious. But some of them the more bold soon came, and then others followed. They were beginning to see that Jane Addams only wanted itobe a good neighbor. Then I mothers brought their babies to he cared for while they worked in the factory. They came for help when they were sick, or in trouble. On cold days the children came to play in the large rooms, and to read the : children’s books Jane Addams had provided. At night s he older folks came to read and talk and study. Jane Addams’ friendly house was known to people in many lands. They called it Hull House, : but the Italian women in the 1 neighborhood bad a better word for it. Thev called it “la easa di ! Dio—The House of God.” ! —Selected. i I RECKLESS DRIVER IS FINED BY RECORDER i I Charley Bateman pled guilty to reckless driving in Tyrrell Re corder’s court last Wednesday and [ was fined the cost of court by Re- I corder W. W. Sawyer. Bateman was charged by Higli , way Patrolman M. B. Stewart with | operating an automobile without i proper brakes or lights. I SAVES The Rural Electrification Au- I thoritv now is making possible in j expensive local storage of fresh meat, eggs and vegetables former ly wasted, as a contrbution to the [national defense ffort. MUSKRATS MIGHT BRING MILLIONS IN CAROLINA AS WELL AS MARYLAND Not Only the Furs, But the Meat of This Lowly Animal Constitutes a Big Industry in Other States; Maryland Muskrats Bring in Two and a Half Millions Annually MENHADEN MAY BE SECRET OF BIG BLUEFISH Old Bluefish Seldom Seen on N. C. Coast Thrive on 1 Diminishing Menhaden What has become of the big t bluefish that used to be found i along the North Carolina coast ? Maybe they have declined for lack of food, according to Dr. R. V. Truett of College Park, Maryland, j who was in Manteo over the week ; end. Dr. Truett is biologist for the (Maryland Department of Research and Education. “Bluefish thrive on menhaden,’' ’ Dr. Truitt says, “And there has ! been a rapid decrease in the num ' her of menhaden, due to the activi ties of the companies taking these fish for fertilizer. Wherever there . are many menhaden, there are apt ‘to he bluefish.” After all, that is the problem confronting most species in the world, the problem of food, Dr. Truitt observes. We in eastern North Carolina realize there is a decline in all species of fish. And until more sane methods for con servation are enforced fish life can j never increase above the inroads I made by modern methods of fish ing. J Dr. Truitt with his wife and chil •dren were here aboard his cabin i cruiser Mahatru. H<* is on the [staff of the University of Mary land. While here he was accom panied to Fort Raleigh for the show, by John E. Ferebee. County j Commissioner, and general booster. I ! BICYCLISTS ARE URGED TO BE VERY CAREFUL ! More bicycle riders were killed ir> North Carolina the first seven months of this year than were kill ed during the entire twelve months ‘of last year, the Highway Safety Division reported this week. Accident records show that 25 ; bicycle riders met with death on I the streets and highways of this , state from January hrough July of this year, an 80 per cent in crease over the 14 cyclists killed the first seven months of 1040 and ; a 25 per cent increase over the to , tal of 20 cyclists killed all last iyoar. A majority of the riders [killed were boys, and most of them | were killed because of violations of the rules of safe riding. I Warning that bicycles are class ed as vehicles under the State law, , and that cyclists must obey the 'same general traffic regulations that apply to motor vehicles, Ronal Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Division, listed the follow ing 12 rules for bicycling with complete safety: 1. Refrain from “cleber” or “stunt” riling. 2. Dismount and walk across 'dangerous intersections. ! 3. Keep to the right and close to the edge of the roadwav. 4. Learners should ride in a park or other safe place. 5. Ride without wobbling; avoid 'sharp turns. I 6. Say “No” to anyone desiring to ride as passenger. | 7. Never hitch onto a moving ! vehicle. | 8. At night, carrv a light in front and either a light or reflector in the rear. 9. Stop for all stop signs. 10. If parcels are carried, strap them to the frame or place in a [basket carrier. i 11. Avoid crowded streets and heavily traveled highways. | 12. Keen vourself and your bike in good condition. “If bicycle riders will obey those |s ; mp'e rule? this business of one bicycle fatality every week will be jstur.ned in North Carolina,” Hocutt I said. i —- COOPERATION o ;rr arette manufacturing com- I names ar P coonerating with the TTnU»d States drive to sell defense honA, bv nrinHng appeals to the rmh'ic on the backs of cigarette packages. The idea of selling muskrat meat probably doesn’t appeal to many North Carolinians who hur riedly strip the skin from the ani mals, and rush the pelts to market at 75 cents to $1.25 apiece. But the carcasses are worth up to 35 cents each, and together, rats, hides an i meat constitute a $2,500,000 indus try annually in the State of Mary land. There isn’t - any particular rea - son why North Carolina people shouldn’t reap an income suffi ciently large to compare with the Maryland industry. There are plenty of rats here, they might be encouraged, they could he de veloped, and there is food for them in our brackish waters. Muskrats like fresh or slightly brackish waters and they like the three-square grasses, bulrushes, cattails, wild reeds and salt grass. The constant practice of burning off marshes, is destructive to the muskrats as well as the food, and thousands of dollars each year are lost in eastern North Carolina through these fires. It is of interest that a muskrat has been know to stav under water for as long as 11 minutes. They live in marshes, and make huts of sticks and straws and turf. Their breeding season extends from March until September, altho young are found through out the 'year. The most of the births take place in May, and the litter runs from an average of three to as high as seven in number. I Water snakes, king snakes, rac coons,-- marsh hawks, owls and foxes are natural enemy of the muskrat. There are verv few forces that tend to denlete the muskrat, and with a little encourgment, the industry, according to good au thorities can he developed into a highly paving industry. The fur is sold as Hudson seal, and is usually in good demand. LEGUME SEED SUPPLY REQUIRES ST RETCH IN G Because weather conditions have barred a plentiful supply of winter legume seed this year, it is neces sary to make available supplies go as far as possible, says E. C. Blair, extension agronomist of N. C. State College. This may be accomplished by re ducing the rate of seeding per acre, but to do this the best possi ble methods of seed bed prepara tion and planting must be followed. Seeding legumes in September has two advantages. First, they do a better job of covering the land during the winter: and sec ond, they are ready to turn under at least 30 days earlier next spring than if planted later. Blair pointed out that a good seed bed should be nreoared ,bv shallow ploying or adequate disc ing, followed by harrowing p"d discing until the soil s thoroughly nulverzed. Soils that have not. been limed in the past four or five years should receive an application of 1.200 tr> 2.000 pounds of orronnrl ’intestine per acre before the last hf» r>, owin«\ Then the crop should be ferti lized with 200 pounds of K, r. r °o per cent superphosphate and 50 pounds of muriate of nor acre. i his will cause the winter legume to make a much better growth and will, in 4 n>'n. bring about a better yield of the follow ing crop. One of thp host wore, of <*OTlf»orv ing seed. the State C oPeo-o <2 ist explained, is though th« of a grain drill. Fifteen round, n f hairv vetch and 20 pounds of Aus trian "-inter r>eas per arre wl" snf_ fine where the seed ar e planted w-'th drills. C riioeon cinder v/pl give excellent rpemHo ~f 15 per acre if the drill is equipped with a snecal attachment. Fox Farming The most spectacular and impor tant fur animal enterprise jn the United States is si) fOY rr*' _ ing. which yielded 6.000 oelts j n | 1923 and increased th e output to '350,000 pelts by 1940. Single Copy 5a
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