TYRRELL
TOR GREATER PROGRESS OF THE LAKE
VOL. I; NO. 9
TYRRELL RED X i
COMMITTEE HEARS
G. H. WILHELM
Chairmen Make Reports on
Post Activities; New com- ,
mittees Named
G. 11. Wilhelm of Salisbury, field
representative of the American Re.i
( ross, was the principal speaker
at a called meeting of the executive
committee of the Tyrrell County
chapter held Thursday afternoon at
the home of the chairman, Mrs.
W. S. Carawan.
Mrs. Caravan presided over the !
meeting and presented the speaker,
who discussed first aid. war relief, 1
disasters and the general work of !
the Red Cross.
During the business period the,
various officers and chairmen made
their reports. A. L. Chaplain, roll
call chairman, reported 133 mem-1
bers from the past roll call. V. H.!
Durrance, treasurer, reported that i
a package of clothes had been se- j
cured by the chapter for a family |
who recently lost their home by
fire.
Plans were also discussed about !
establishing a first aid station at
Gum Neck. A motion was passed
that an intermediate first aid class
be conducted here next fall.
The following chairmen and of
ficials were elected during the;
meeting: A. L. Chardin, war re- ;
lief chairman; Miss "Mary Blanche j
Strickland, heme aid chairman; W.l
T. Crutchfield, first aid chairman;
C. C. Lupton, a member of the ex-1
ecutive committee; and S. P. Deans,
chairman of the colored division. ,
V. H. Durrance, junior roll ca'l
chairman, announced that the Jun
ior Red Gross roll call for 1940
would be held in February.
EXPANDED LUNCH
PROGRAM TO AID
SMALL SCHOOLS
i
Schools With no Hot Lunch'
Rooms Mav Receive Free j
Commodities
Small rural schools having no fa-1
eilities for providing hot lunches to
be given to needy, undernourished!
graded school pupils were brought i
under the. new school lunch pro- !
gram this month when the com-1
rpo'Mty. distribution divis’on o" the |
State Board v' Chari tits and Public
Welfare ma.-ied to school heads ap- I
plication blanks for requests of
fresh fruits and other commoditiesj
that can normally be c nvsumed
without i or king.
Stale Director of Commodity;
Dis'-'ihut.on, A. F. Lang.-ron, called'
attention to the fact the.'; a very ■
definite limit is placed ori the:
amount and kind of commodities)
available each month si-*c- pur- j
chases of the Federal Surplus Com-1
modifies Corporation of excess |
foodstuffs are made only when
the production of a farm product
is in such quantities as to depress
the producer’s return below normal
or fair levels.
Commodities allocated to schools
may not be sold, traded or exchang
ed and must be distributed to the
children daily only in such quanti
ties they may normally be expect
ed to consume, Langston said.
Educational establishments having
facilities to provide hot lunches for
the undernourished children were
not eligible to participate in the ex
panded program, the director said.
North Carolina’s quota of needy,
undernourished children to come
under the 1939-1940 school lunch
room program was set last fall at
150,000 pupils, three times the en
tire number serviced during the
preceding school term.
WASHINGTON PCA
LOANED $375,000
Loans totaling $375, 821 were
made to farmers in Beaufort, Hyde,
Tyrrell, Martin and Washington j
counties last year reports at thej
recent annual stockholders meeting
of the Washington Production
Credit Association revealed.
George L- Griffith of the Pro
duction Credit Association of Co-!
lumbia, S. C., spoke at the meet
ing. .!
W. L. Ausbon and Hoyt R. Da
venport were elected to serve on
the board of directors with J. B.
Patrick, J. W. Jarvis and L. N.
Davenport.
Immediately following the stock
holders meeting the directors met
and named the following o'ficers
for 1940: T w
J. B. Patrick, president; J. vv.
Jarvis of Sw*n Quarter, vice Tires, -
dent; E. T,. Greene, secretary-trea
surer; and Mis-. Frsrmes Paul, as
sistant seorpt n rv-trea q urer.
Greenvil’e —True bills charging
six white non wUh oß'-ncr in bom
in- automobiles *>r tb„ n— of
roileet.in- inmrmm have been re
turned bv *bo G-nfv grand
jury, it h«s been disclosed.
TOMATO GROWERS
INVITED TO MEET
AT GUM NECK
Meeting to Re Held at Lumi
! Cohoon s Store at 8 o’clock |
Friday Night I
A meeting of farmers interested |
iin growing tomatoes on contract!
for delivery .o the Neuse Packing-
Company at Columbia this summer
lias been called to be held at I,um j
Cohoon’s store at Gum Neck Friday !
night at 8 o'clock, according to A. (
1.. .Alexander of Columbia, repre-j
; sentati e of the packing company,
j Carroll Crockett will be at this j
meeting to explain the terms of j
i the contract offered tomato grow- ;
i ers.
| At a similar meeting held in the
agricultural building in Columbia ‘
i Saturday afternoon Mr. Crockett
i spoke and there was much interest
1 on the part of the farmers present i
; in the prospects tor a green pack I
j receiving station and also for a
i canning plant here.
JAILS SOURCE
MUCH VENEREAL
DISEASE NOW I
i
Approximately One out of j
Four Prisoners Are Infect
ed Says Director j
! The approximately 80,000 per-J
sons, not excluding duplications, j
Slocked up in North Carolina county!
jails in the course of a year's time j
.were characterized by W. C. Ezell, 1
! director of the State welfare de
partment’s institutions division,!
this week as a possible greater ■
j source of syphilitic infection than 1
ithe inmates of the State prison
system.
“In 1936 only 16 out of the 100
county jails were following the
. legal requirement of having aii in
carcerated persons given a medical
t examination within 48 hours after
| commitment,” Ezell said.
| 4t may be assumed, he stated, that
ithe percentage of venereal ini’ec
jtion is closely comparable to the
23.3 per cent carrying the disease
1 out o. 9,53" .sentenced prisoners
recently examined in the Slave
i prison system.
j Director Ezeli said that by not
I examining and treating the neces
sary cases in the county jafis,
.North Carolina is missing the focal ,
point of a va.->t source of possible
i infections. He termed lack of ob
servance of the jail health require
|meat “a worse practice because in
all too many cases children under
1 16 years of age are lodged in the
(jails and brought into contact wil?i
, venereal sources.”
“No real control of the disease
ican be effected until it is attacked
lat the roots of infection in the
(county units, ports of entry into
the State prison system,” he said.
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ELECTION DATES ! (
GIVEN FOR 1940
Local politicians are advised to
keep in mind the list of election
dates for 1940. There are more of
them than usual this year, and all
dates have been changed due to
the action of the 1939 General As
sembly in advancing the time of
the primary for the first time in a
gubernatorial year, of advancing
the filling dates.
Here is the calendar of events
bearing on the Democrat and Re
publican primaries this year i n
North Carolina:
March 16—Last day for filing
notice of candidacy for State or
Congressional office, State board'
of elections meets to appoint coun
ty boards.
March 23—County boards of
election meet to determine wheth
er there will be a new registration
of voters or relisting (an option
granted each county under the
11939 registration act.)
| April 6—County boards of elec
tion appoint precinct election of
ficials.
) April 13—Last day to file for
local or district offices,
j April 27 Registration books
open in each precinct, either for
'complete new registration or for
additional registrations in accord
ance with the decisions reached by
the several boards of election on
March the 23.
May 11 Registration books
close.
Mav 18 —Challenge day.
May 25 —First primary.
MRS. M*R V AI EXANDFR
INJURED IN FALL
Mrs. Mary Ann Alexander was
rcriu ullv injured in a fall at her
V- „ —(i«v+* "nndav afternoon. She
was carried to Columbia Hospital
earlv M'm
> dav morning for treatment. Mrs.
. Alexander is in her 94th year, and
has lived to see her great-grand,
children grow up.
COUNTY
PHELPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES
PASSING THE DEED IN A S3OOOOO LAND DEAL
THIS PICTURE shows Special Attorney Frank Ewing, In-ft, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
passing the deed for the Dqre County Timberlands which sold for $300,000, on Friday, January 23. Re
ceiving the deed, on the right, is Phillip S. Cole, President of the Dare Corporation, which bought the
pioperty. In the rear is Attorney John Holbrook, o Dare Corporation counsel, and Chairman A. J.
Daniels, of the Dare County Board ot Commissioners. The transfer took place, high up above the clock,
in the Metropolitan tower in New York City.
FORCED TO DRIVE
476 MILES TO GET
THREE MILES OFF
T
Marooned in Manteo by ice in
Croatar. sound which prevented the
ferry from running a Manns Har
bor party was forced to go 476
miles to get home Sunday, that is
counting the return trip of those
who carried the party. The party
had come into Manteo one day last
week when the ferry was running
and was unable to got back. Sun
day Roy Wescott learned of their
plight and for a lark offered to
take them home. He was accom
panied by G. T> Aiken, superinten
dent at the Times Printing Co.
plant.
Mr. Aiken on hla reiurn Mon
day afternoon reported that they
had left Manteo about 7 o’clock
Sunday night and had gotten to
Manns Harbor—three miles across
the sound —at 3 o’clock Monday
morning after going first to Eliz
abeth City, to Edenton to Columbia
to Fair ield and via Engelhard.
They left Manns Harbor immedi
ately after dropping their passen
gers and returned by Bel haven,
Washington and Plymouth. They
arrived in Manteo about 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon after experien
cing a car fire due to a frozen
carburetor near Belhaven.
YACHT BURNED IN ALLIGATOR RIVER
texaft at W- 4ftp v. :•
aNfllftk I Jr
lew m
wm
- jj ' B *
This is a picture of the yacht Sunsr-r Which burned at Great Shoal,
near Fort Landing Sunday.
T. M. BEASLEYS OBSERVE TWO GREYHOUND BUSES
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY GET LOST IN COLUMBIA
A surprise birthday party was
given last Thursday evening by W.
T. Beasley and Bertha Beasley hon
oring their father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. T. M. Beasley, who ce’e
brated their golden wedd’ng anni
versary on that date. The home
was appropriately carry
ing out the color motif of the gold
en wedding as much as possible.
The honorees were *be recipients
jOf mnnv lovely pi bs.
; A china cup and saucer which
Mr. Beasley presented to Mrs.
Beasley 53 years aero
ou' and d\snlaved + r» + be monv
mnnv friends and relatives present.
Mr. and Mrs. Bessiev hove been
life long residents es Tvrrell Coun
ts. and have resided at the home
( they now occupy for the past 45
•years.
COLUMBIA, N. C., FEBRUARY 1, 1940
iCOLUMBIA FFA LISTS
PROJECTS FOR YEAR
j The projects selected by the 42
| boys who axe receiving instruction
I a bout farming included corn, hogs,
peanuts, soy beans and Irish pota
toes, states V. H. Durrance, vo
j cationul-agricultural instructor at
j Columbia high school chapter of
| Future Farmers of America,
j These hoys have made splendid
(records on their projects in pre
vious years which attests their in
terest in farming,
j At the present time the boys
(are busy making various articles
| for their homes and things which
j will be needed in r. lucring their
I demonstrations.
| SURPRISE BIRTHDAY P UM’V
! A lovely event of last Thursday
[was the surprise birthday party
[given for Mrs. S. C. Chaplin. Much
j merriment was caused when the
I gifts were unwrapped as many
were on the comic side. A cake
bearing six candles was the most
mh’th provoking of all. Daintv re
freshments were served the follow
ing guests: Mesdames F. E. Co
hoon, W. T. Crutchfield, Ira Alex
ander, Mae Pinner, C. Earl Cohoon,
John Alexander, Tom Tarkington,
Russell Bateman, Guy Tompkins,
Edward P. ’Cohoon, Jr. and Miss
■ Helen Tatem.
i
Columbia may be a small town,
but that it is large enough to get
. lost in was proven here Friday
night when two Greyhound buses,
heavily loaded with passengers took
I the wrong turn at Sound bridge and
came to Columbia and on through
i nearly to Fort Landing before
“finding themselves.” The report
: reaching this office did not reveal
names of the drivers.
TAX COLLECTIONS
GOOD IN TYRRELL
Sheriff B. Ray Cohoon expresses
himself as well pleased with tax
collections for the month of Jan
uary. Considering bod roads and
general business conditions the re
sponse so far has been very grati
fying.
YACHT BURNED
CREW ESCAPES
| GREAT SHOAL
i The yacht Sunset, whose owner'
,resides in Miami Florida and which!
i'was valued at $15,000 burned at ■
(Great Shoals on the Alligator river'
' Sunday afternoon. The boat was
i j
jen route by inland waterway from!
Hampton, Va. to Miami, Fla. and
was piloted by Capt. K. A. Kroepsch
(who related a tale of hair raising
adventures from the time he head
ed into North River from Ooinjc.ick,
where be was maroopc J by r-.j tee.
[jam for 30 hours, : irially setting!
‘out in the wake of a large freight-!
|er, th • Emblaine out of Norfolk,!
! which ploughed a path through the i
1 ice.
; Several miles out, the Sunset j
(blew a pei, cock on number six cyi- (
; inder, but did not stop as the crew!
'wanted to keep close behind the:
freighter so as not to become ma- j
1 rooned by ice. Finally the engine j
'stopped altogether and the man on
I duty below reported the boat in :
flames.
The fire spread so rapidly that '
the crew had already donned life
belts preparatory to jumping into
the ice clogged waters when Cap
tian Jackson on the tug boat “Bud
idy” came to their rescue. Nothing
was saved but the brass whistle of
the boat, the men losing all their
clothes and personal belongings. I
They were transferred from the
tug Buddy to the barge Washing
ton, where they spent the night and
were made as comfortable as pos
sible by Captain Mulaney.
The frozen waters made it im
possible for Captain Kroepsch and
his men to be taken ashore and
they walked on the ice which had
frogen during the night for a dis
tance of about four miles, until they
reached Fort Xanding. They walk
ed, rode in a mule cart and finally
on a truck into Columbia, where
the Red Cross rendered necessary,
assistance.
The men appeared much shaken j
by their experience but \therwise
w’ere unharmed. They departed late
Monday afternoon for Miami after
expressing their gratitude forthe 1
• courtesy shown them in Columbia.
j
METHODIST SERVICES
ON COLUMBIA CHARGE
Services on the Columbia charge
| of the Methodist Church for Febru
! ary were announced this week by
the pastor, Rev. A. C. Thompson,
! as follows:
!j First Sunday at 11 and 7:30 Ce-
! 1 dar Grove at Gum Neck,
j Second and fourth Sunday at
' Wesley Memorial Church in Co
j lumbia at 11 A. M. end 7:30 P M.
Third Sundav. Chanel at
' Alligator 11 A.M. and 8 I J . M.
Fou'th Sunday, Holly Grove .at 3
j P. M.
I ■
NEW SUBSCRIBERS T n
TYRRELL CO. TRIBUNE
■!
j The following h n '' r e to tv P
> ever growing m°ilin»r ]i«it of the
: j Tyrrell Tribune: W. M. I,an*rVn«r
--i house. George Snenoer an 4
I 1 Brickhouse. Co’umhri; A. T Go
-jhoon, Calle E. No. 359-Vedado. Pa
- vaivi. Cuba; W. A. Williams, Ra
|leigh; Marvin Blue, Raeford.
TRIBUNE
JOBS FOR 1,000 MEN ON
DARE COUNTY MAINLAND
ARE AN EARLY PROSPECT
Delaware Corporation Takes Over 177,000*
Acres of Timber and Wasteland Represent
ing* Three Fourths County’s Acreage;
velopment to Be Undertaken by New Own
ers, Who Pay Metropolitan $300,000, and
Wouldn’t Take a Million
OUTSTANDING COLUMBIA
MAN FOR LEGISLATURE
i-fe- NptJ
. ''.’ijjjßK 4 ...
■| C. EARL COHOON, well-known
| Columbia businessman, announces
his candidacy as representative of
(Tyrrell County. Foremost in Mr.
jCo boon's platform no doubt will be
,a strong plank for completion of
! route 94 connecting, with Hyde, and
| the bridging of Alligator River and
' Crootan Sound. For Mr. Cohoon
has always been in the forefront of
the battle in behalf of these proj
ects which mean so much to Tyrrell
and its neighbor counties. Mr.
,Cohoon is r.->t. only a successful
basinr.sc n.an, uc.t he brio ni nign
!esteem by people of great influence
!in the adjoining counties, who will
■find him an ex el lent working mote
i His large acquaintance with iriflu
‘ential politicians and other citizens
(in all walks of life across the state
(is the result of a friendly and ex
ceedingly pleasing personality, and
: few citizens of his county could be
[calculated to do as much for Tyrrell
(as he might do, because of the good
will he enjoys with his neighbors,
and with people o’ influence
j throughout the state.
MUCH DAMAGE IN
TYRRELL CAUSED
BY ICE AND SNOW
Fishermen Lose Nets; Lum
-1 ber Mills and Logging
Camps Closed
Columbia and vicinity is feeling
the teeth of one of the worst win
ters here in several years. Several
snows, followed by rain, eleet and
snow and high winds have caused
damage as yet unestimated. The
Fisher Inn Hotel roof was partly
blown off and several windows
broken. Fishermen who did not
foresee the cold spell in time to
take up the nets were probably the
heaviest losers of all, and the dam
jage to nets will run well into the
I thousands. The pipes have been
■frozen in several homes here for
as many as ten days which will
, necessitate costly plumbing service.
! The Scuppernong river was fro
zen Monday morning to a thickness
that would hold a man’s weight,
land the Albemarle Sound was a
solid sheet of ice, cutting off all
water traffic.
Logging camps in the Gum Neck
section reported closed on account
of inclement weather, and business
in general is moving at a slower
, tempo due to the frigid tempera
ture.
CHAIRMEN APPOINTED AT
; WESLEY MEMORIAL CHURCH
; At a business meeting held Sun
[ dav, January 28, at the Wesley
l Memori'd Church the following
were appoin.ed as chairmen of the
various committees: f nance: Wa ,r
--fnl Ye-’rbv; Bov Scouts: C. C.
Luoton; publicity: Mrs. S’e Brick
! house: nrimrs: William McC'eeo
.Julian McClees; collectors: Ton
» Tarkenton, Harry vo’.
i come: Horry McClees: nirior’s a.d
- "knrv; Rev. Alfred CharJin, Flovd
i G-»hoon: evanjrelirm enJ umro+i—--•
- Mrs. Emma Conner: rmnun
- D'’vls, Mrs. SoH : p Connor
- Mrs. H. A. Owens, and Mrs. S nrg
Davenport.
'MANTEO HEADQUARTERS
FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT
Organizing and Surveying to Begin
at Once; Development Renews
Hope Tor Early Construction
of Roads and Bridges
Three fourths of Dare County’s
land area, practically the entire
mainland changed hands last Fri
day. The Dare Corporation, a Dela
ware concern, newly formed for*
this job, paid the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company $300,000 for
the 177,000 acres of wasteland and
timber it has been holding for 20
| years.
I With the property in Dare, gee,-;
|the 30 acre mill site in Elizabeth
| City, on w hich the iold Dare Lum
ber Company had erected a large
saw' mill, it operated several years,
j prior to the f uture of the company.
Jobs for 1,000 working men are
! in prospect, when the company gets
full operations undenvay. and some
400 men may be employed within
the next few months,
j The transfer is, of course, the
largest outright sale of realty ever
to take place at one time affecting
Dare County property. At one time
it was pledged against something
like a million dollars in bonds, and
was taken over by the Metropoli
tan, when it took over the assets
of the Titt -burgh Life & Trust
Company.
The transfer of title in New
York was witnessed by A. J. Dan
iels of Y r a u hose, eh lirman of the
srrty Owl ,f C.ik...
ers, who vas present in the tower
jO f ; ces of V. Metropolitan Life In
surance Co., when the deed was
.handed to Phi lip S. Cole, President
of the Dare ( orporation, by Frank
j Ewing, »Spe* i: 1 Counsel of the Life
ilnsurance Car pony.
The new <>a mrs say they would
|n’t take a pillion dollars for the
property, width they consider has
great {)ossibil : t.os for development.
I They plan to t; ake jobs within a
I short time for 4. >0 men, if they can
get them loea I}, first by cutting
pulpwood and pit props, and later
expect to empty a full thousand
men.
Company J? u Own Captial
The officials of the Dare Corpor
ation are Phillip S. Cole, President,
Frank C. William, Secretary, Roe
Wells, Chairman of the Board, and
Wm. J. Seimon Treasurer. These
rnen, with John M. Blair, constitute
the directors of the corporation,
Company o fices are Room 1386,
One Wall Street, New York.
The full #cope of the ojjgrations
of the new' company which will be
financed entirely by its own capital,
will not be announced until the
J company has completed the surveys
|it expects to make. It is generally
believed that the land is susceptible
jto a high degree of development,
’aside from its pulpwood, and tim
ber.
j Heretofore, it has been Dare
! County’s largest single taxpayer,
(paying as high as SIB,OOO in a
year. At present the taxes run to
more than SIO,OOO based on valua
tions for the past few years.
The Metropolitan, taking it over
with a sawmill si & in Elizabeth
ICity, could not, as an insurance
company, develop the property.
Hence it has taken little timber
[from it. and the property has
grown in value as the timber grew'.
| Many acres are wot covered with
itimber, but with proper drainage
j would be suited to various tyoes <>f
I agriculture, particularly the growth
of cranberries and blueberries,
j Hundreds of acres are suited to
'the grazing o' stock, particularly
hogs and cattle. The entire prop
erty is surrounded bv water, skirt
jiner al' t'ne Dana m.vriand. It be
gins at Long Shoal River, and in
cludes all the mainland between
i RL’p~ and Pamlico and
Sounds, and is bounded on
j*h« «->r*” 4 h h” Albemarle Sound.
t included are those
O'vne i Ivr Pettl'*-
• • —wa nn-i'i-l bv Dare Coun-
* ,T - ‘Vt" r»o.hmnnd Cedar Works, the
TCp-><- Tki’'"' Co.. Durant Island,
land a few ,o+h«r smaller nieces,
t Tr 5 „T„„... oft* leading
fro” 1 CS.fy, TTar
froni
i,, „ practically tra-
f n p 9 21
Single Cupy *x