tor greater progress of the VOL. I; NO. 11 ENTIRE ROAD PROGRAM OF SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE IS ADOPTED BY THE GAA' I Map Recently Made and Adopted bv Greater Albemarle Association Identical With Proj ects Set Forth by Southern Albemarle Asso ciation Whose Activities Brought Them to the Front and Crystallized Public Support and Opinion in Their Behalf Further support and evidence of the wisdom of the road program, adopted by the Southern Albemarle) Association is seen in the recent. 1 adoption of the identical program | by the Greater Albemarle Associa-: tion, comprising 13 counties. The map, now in the hands of j P. D. Midgett, president of the 1 Greater Albemarle, lists the pro jects as follows: Completion of the roads connect ing the county seats of Tyrrell, Pare and Hyde by hard-surface' and bridges; construction of a road, ali around Lake Mattamuskeet; 1 construction of a road to Oregon Inlet. Additional projects on the north 1 side ox Albemarle Sound include j a road from Duck in Dare County, along the beach, and a bridge a eross Currituck Sound to Knotts Island. I In detail the favored projects fol-, low:: First, hardsurfacing of N. C. 91 from Columbia to Swanquarter by way of Fairfield, and from Fair- 1 field to Engelhard. ' Second, extension of the paving of U. S. 64 and U. S. 264 to Manns Harbor with bridges across Alliga- j tor River and Croatan Sound. Third, changing the various State numbers on the highway from j Norfolk to Elizabeth City byway of Moyock and Sligo to a single' Federal number. Fourth, a scenic, seaside high- J wav from Knotty island to Kitty j Hatok junction, tying in with the | Virginia State system from Knotts j Island to Virginia Beach and Nor folk. Fifth, the construction of an all-1 weather road from Oregon Inlet! Junction, N. C. 34, to Oregon Inlet, j Sixth, the construction of a hard | surface highway from Plymouth to • Windsor bv way of Cashie Neck. | —: j EMERGENCY CROP AND \ FEED LOANS AVAILABLE, Emergency crop and feed loans for 1940 are now available to farm ers in Tyrrell County, and appli cations for these loans are now be ing received at Clerk of Court’s, Office by Roy Hearn e, field super visor of the emergency crop and i feed loan section of the farm credit administration. These loans will be made, as in: the past, only to farmers whose j cash requirements are small and who cannot obtain a loan from any other source, including production i credit associations, banks, or .other private concerns or individuals. COLUMBIA BAND INVITED TO FESTIVAL The Columbia high school band has been invited again to the an nual Tulip Festival at Washington, North Carolina to be held in the late spring. This was the first trip the band took last year and was very much enjoyed by all members. At that time the band consisted of about twenty-five members and had only been organized six months. Several members of the Columbia j Band attended the Band re- j hearsal in Edenton Monday night. TYRRELL TRIBUNE INCREASES PERSONNEL The Tyrrell Tribune announces that Miss Sybil Spencer will assist in the circulation department and that J. L. Snell, Jr., will act as local reporter. We ask your co operation and help for the chosen career of this ambitious young woman and young man. The office of the Tribune is located at Fisher Inn. SCHOOLS TO OPEN THURSDAY IN TYRRELL Schools were scheduled to reopen here today after being closed for a week due to inability of buses to get over the bad roads. If the weather continues bad with more rainfhll, schools will remain closed indefinitely. THE SENATOR FEARING OUT FOR HIS SECOND TERM i I H" 4 jp I . | 'SENATOR D. BRADFORD FEAR ’ING of Manteo, this week, an nounced his candidacy to succeed himself in the State Senate from | the Second Dist rict, which com prises the counties of Tyrrell, Hyde, Dare, Washington, Beaufort and Martin. It has been customary for j many years to give the Senator a 'second term, and Mr. Fearing is , the first Senator from Dare in more ) than 30 years. In the forthcoming General Assembly, when reads, fisheries and farming will all de j mand fine capacity and earnest ef |fort, Mr, Fearing’s experience and I contacts in the session of 1939 are ; expected to stand his district in i good stead. ; NYA HOME MAKER | PROJECT OPENS AT ENGELHARD i ■ Rotary Club Provides House ! Others Provide Paint and \ Furnishings For Work t | On January 25 the NY A home , makers project opened at Engel hard with Mrs. J. E. Mann as fore man. Ten girls and Mrs. Mann, Mrs. Gladys Carawan, NYA project .supervisor for Hyde and Beaufort counties, Mrs. J. S. Lawrence, Hyde I superintendent of public welfare, ' and Mrs. Esther Spencer, case aide, met and opened the project with little but a house in sight with j which to work. The house had been provided by the Rotary club of Engelhard. However, in the i two weeks since opening, with the splendid cooperation of interested citizens of Engelhard, the house has been furnished so that it is usable, walls painted and progress in general has been made in strides Mrs. Gladys Carawan, visited the project Tuesday and was delighted with the progress the girls had made. The project has three very in terested and generous friends who had contributed furniture and other odd gifts. The girls and Mrs. Mann and Mrs. J. S. Lawrence want to express their appreciation for these gifts and the splendid coop eration that is making this work possible. , | i NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR TYRRELL TRIBUNE The following have been added 'i to the ever growing mailing list of Tyrrell Tribune subscribers: ’ Miss Etheldvne Ballanee, Rt,. 3, G. [ W. Selby, Rt. 3, Columbia. Gilbert Curies. Amagansette, Long Island, ‘ j New York. A. W. Houtz, Columbia, ; w. S. Sykes, Columbia. Rt. 3 and !! Mrs. W. S. Qarawan, Columbia. ‘ TO HOLD DANCE AT HIGH SCHOOL FRIDAY NIGHT A dance will be held Friday night at the high school auditorium in . Columbia for the purpose of rais ing funds for the local band. The > orchestra playing at the Floating r Theatre, now in town, will furnish i the music. * ■ ■ '■ ' “ “ » Miss Estelle McClees of Green i ville was the week end guest oi Mibs Hortense Boomer. TYRRELL TRIBUNE ™rTIGREW PARK REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIFcFCOR COUNTIES COLUMBIA BAND ! TO APPEAR IN ALL-STAR BAND , Several Members of Lccai j Group to Appear at Wash ington Friday in Parade i Columbia’s crack high school band will participate with bands j frim a dozen or more other schools ! in an all-star band concert at Wash ington tomorrow (Friday). • The band members will assemble at the John Small schoo’ at 9:30 where they will rehearse until 1 , o’clock when a free lunch will be served them. After rehearsals a parade will be staged at 3:30 after which a banquet will be served by the Band F'arents’ association. A* | 8 o’clock the band will render a concert with 100 members partici pating. Members of the Columbia band who will play in the all-star band concert are Patti Combs, drum, Tom Yerby, Nancy Meekins, and Tillie Norris, clarinets, Sally Bate man, comet, and J. L. Snell, bari tone. , The band members from Coluni-! bia will perform under the direct ion of C. L. MeCullers, band direct or. Other school bands participating in the all-star program will he Rocky Mount, Roberson ville. ply-, mouth, Creswell, Pasquotank Coun-j ty, Wendell, Ahoskie, Rich Square, Aulander, Edenton and Washing ton. i INTER-CITY MEET ROTARY HELD AT ! I BELHAVEN FRI. j Engelhard Club Members and, Wives Attend: Interesting j Program Rendered I Rotary-Ann night was observed ; Friday by the Rotary clubs of En- j , gelhard, Washington ami Relhaven; at Bel haven community building! with about 100 Rotarians and Ro- ‘ tary-Anns in attendance. Fred Latham of the Belhaven Rotary club extended the welcome to the ladies and visitiyg Rotarians after which Professor Teague of East Carolina Teachers College, , Greenville, gave the principal ad dress. | Mr. Y'eakel of the J. D. Dawson company entertained the assem blage with a recital of his experi ences when he first visited Hyde County as a salesman with a week being required to cover the county. I Mr. Yeakel’s description of the roads several years ago reminded , the Hvde County delegation of the condition of the roads during the current winter, come of them said. I A bounti ul turkey dinner was served by the ladies of the Belha ven Parent-Teachers association, j Rotarian Murray of Belhaven presided in the absence of Presi dent Otto Walker. ( Representing the Engelhard Ro tary club were Mr. and Mrs. P. D., Midgett, Jr., of Engelhard, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Berry of Swan Quarter,, Dr. Miller and I. H. Moms of En- 1 gelhard 3 GALLONS BEER PER j PERSON CONSUMED N. C. . Raleigh—North Carolina con- ' sumed 301,700 barrels of beer and i ale during 1939 as compared with i 264,025 barrels in 1938. There are 31 gallons to a barrel. > Despite the 12 per cent increase; I in consumption, North Carolina still j I lags in consumption as compared j with other states, according to the! ■ Brewers and North Carolina .Beer > Distributors Committee. The per j ■ capita, consumption in this state is, • not quite three gallons, while the, : nation’s per capita consumption is) ’ twelve and a half gallons—more - than four times the per capita con : sumption in North Carolina. Although North Carolina is way down the list on the basis of per capita, consumption, the beer indus . 1 try pays the state and its vari -ous subdivisions almost $1,500,- 000 annually in taxes and license 1 fees. If this state consumed as t much as the average for the nation, : more than $6,000,000 would be paid • into the state treasury annually. t The past year also witnessed the • rapid expansion of the beer indus • try’s program of active cooperation i with local law enforcement officers to eliminate anti-social conditions wherever they may surround the 1 sale of beer. Edgar H. Bain of r i Goldsboro, state director in charge of the beer industry’s “clean up or t close up” campaign in North Caro n lina announced that the beer li censes of 46 dealers have been re evoked as a result of the commit ar tee’s drive against undesirable beer hi outlets. Misses Orice Winslow and Ka therine Eason are spending the f week with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Worrell. COLUMBIA, N. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1940 ■ CAPT. MIDGETT ENTERS DENIAL TO MR. RUSSELL Mrs. Russell Plans Damage Suit Against Husband Because o? Allegations ('apt. Thos. P. Midgett, 84 of Manteo, has filed with the Clerk of Dare Superior Court, a flat denial jo all allegations made against him j in a $29,000. suit brought by Attor ney D. L. Russell, 65 year old at torney, who alleges that Capt. Mid get! broke up his home and won the '’flections of his wife from him. The case cannot be tried before May Superior Court. (’apt. Midgett, contrary to a ru mor, has entered no counter claims in the amount of SIO,OOO as was expected, nor for an,y sum. Some people believe he considers the advertising value would offset the damages. He is already receiv ing letters from women as far north as New Jersey, who say they must come down to Manteo soon, and learn about him first hand. One woman, reluctantly admits she is 10. but prays the Captain to take nothing off for that, as with her !“life begins at forty,” she says. Mrs. Russell, however, expresses herself as terribly hurt and hu miliated, and brands her husband’s allegations as baseless. She stated this week she expected to bring an action against Mr. Russell herself, ! 'or damages as a result of his al-j ’eged derogatorry statements in the complaint, and is already confer ring with legal counsel. MAPS PREPARED FOR EACH FARM TYRRELL COUNTY Farmers May Secure Map For Own Use by Calling at the County Agent’s Office The Tyi-rell County Agricultural conservation association has pre- j pared a farm map for each farmer: in Tyrrell County. The squares in each farm are numbered and the ■ acreage reading is give for each square in upper left of the map. The acreage figures are considered as final and will be used to check conipiianc with't r f«rm program for the year 194'. These maps a-e drawn exactly as the farm is slaped and will be a great help to all the farmers, for by the use of this map a farmer can stay in line with his allottments and thereby earn the maximum farm payments. These n aps are furnished free to farmers who wiii call for them in person at the coun ty agent’s office. FINNISH RELIEF CHAIRMAN APPOINTED FOR TYRRELL C. W. Tatem has been appointed as Finnish relief chairman for Tyr rell County The appointment was made by State Chairman J. C. B. Erin.ghaus. j NOBODY LOSES BY SUPPORTING AND BOOSTING THE COUNTY PAPER j Nobody is going to lose by sub | scribing to the Tyrrell County ! Tribune. Nobody need fear he will lose his money. We say this be cause there are always those who wish to discourage new ventures, ; and because rumors are circulated to keep people from subscribing,' jwe make this statement. Some j : who won’t subscribe, for fear they; 1 would lose a few cents, beg or borrow' tfce paper of a neighbor who : has had enough faith and interest in the progress of his town to sup- ! 1 port the paper. j Nobody need fear he will lose any of the few cents he spends for the paper. It is operated by (an established printing house which hasn’t short-changed anyone vet. It doesn’t take money away from the community. It spends all it takes in, and more, in the com munity. It seeks to grow and to provide work for local people. Not even half of the three hundred 'dollars a month it costs to run I this paper has come into it from (Tyrrell County, and as it grows, it j will bring far more money into I Tyrrell County than it takes out. I just as has the Dare County Times jin Manteo, and many other weekly j papers. j The Tyrrell Tribune is the only ’■medium that will fight whole i j heartedly for roads and other ‘jthings that Tyrrrell needs. The money sent away from home for - advertising purposes won’t bring ■ this support and prestige. It may ■ satisfy a little of the ego with • which we all are cursed, or blessed. One wonders if the people who buy advertising in mediums away • from home, expect any support for : roads, or relief from other pitiable . conditions with which the people of Tyrrell are oppressed, and for 1 MOTHERS, DADS j ENJOY BANQUET j AT ENGELHARD I i Futura Farmers and Home Ec Girls Entertain at Annual Affair The Engelhard chapter of Future Farmers of America and the Home j Economies department entertained ' at their annual Mother-Daughter !! Father-Son banquet at the Engel ■ hard gymnasium Thursday evening 'i at 7:30. An interesting program, 1 with County Superintendent of ■ Schools P. G. Gallop, as the prin 'jCipal speaker, was arranged for the evening. The program was as ! follows: Song America, Invoca tion by the Rev. F. A. Turner, Opening talks by Vernon Ballanee sand Della Mae Payne, welcome by Talmadge Ballanee, toast to mo thers by Clara Fisher, response by Mrs. J. E. Mann, toast to dads by Lawson Cahoon, response by Lancy ,Wade Gibbs, Special music by Lois Meekins ar.d Lois Litchfield, ob jjectives of vocational home ec. by j Gwen Marshall, objectives of vo cational agriculture by Gilbert Gibbs, Russel Gibbs, Chester Selby, Herbert Gibbs and Lewood Swin dell, how vocational work is help ing me by Mildred White, intro duction of guest by Fred Langford, | address by P. G. Gallop and closing remarks by Vernon Ballanee. The menu consisted of fruit eock ; tail, baked chicken, dressing, green beans, cranberry sauce, vegetable salad, rolls, ice cream, cake, coffee, and mints. i CLUB MEMBERS CONFER WITH WPA, LIBRARY Community Library Sponsor ed by Junior and Senior 1 Clubs in Berry Building j With a conference between rep-! resentatives of the Swan Quarter; Junior and Senior Woman’s clubs) and WPA officials at Williamston j this week, the club members are J now looking forward to the egr'wi opening of the dub-sponsored com munity library in the Berry Build ing. Mrs. M. H. Swindell of the Senior Woman’s Club and Mrs. M. L. Carawan of the Junior Woman’s' Club conferred with'the area super visor at Williamston this week. . j If the WPA approves the change of location from the agricultural j building where they previously j failed to approve because of possi ble disturbances by meetings held there, the club members hope to be ■open by February 21 in the room at the foot of the stairs to the side entrance in the Berry building. If the WPA approves the change a ii-| brarian will be furnished. j A dozen or more new brinks have 1 recently been added to the Swan ■ Quarter library. , which no one would lend an ear. Why didn’t they lend an ear? t There was no medium throrugh l which their voices could be heard.! What great statesman said! ■“Through the voice of the press,! . the needs of our people arel answered” ? i The Tyrrell Tribune reaches the man who is a part of “The back ; bone of the nation,” the farmer. The man who lives in the mud and i toils in the mud, the man who pays 1 ■ taxes, yet sees his children remain 'out of school, or some member of his family in need of medical at tention, all because the battle for. good roads in this county has never. been fought as it should have been.' This same man, due to the hardship of his existence, maybe cannot as-l ford a radio in his home, nor yet l an expensive daily paper, but does find in his little weekly paper a condensed preview of the doings of the world at large, and best of ail, he sees the needs of his county sets ! forth for the worid at- large to j ' know of. He learns also that his opinion is invited and appreciated by this paper. We have learned through various j local civic organizations that they! are interested in having new in dustries located here . . . ';one wonders if these leaders know ! i that when big companies start * j making investigations with the pos ■ sibility of locating in a certain r town that the first inquiry made is, 1 “are any newspapers located here •j In other words, it is desirable to ’ | know first off that there is a r j medium in which to advertise prod r ■ ucts, whatever they may be. The and set-up of a certain r (Please tarn to Page Two) 0. L WILLIAMS SOUNDS WAR CRY FOR JUSTICE IN STATE’S HIGHWAY POLICY Says People of District Should Stand Together as One Man in Demanding Highway Pledges Be Kept; Endorses Albemarle Road Program, and Declares Highway Situation One of Burning Issues of the Day (SWAN QUARTER A TTY j JOINS BATTLE FOR ROAD ::••• SSBBS3f twMflaTOyy’'‘ ■'• ■•! ■ * '•xffi»Oa O. L. WIIjLIAMS of Swan Quarter, makes a strong appeal for “High way Justice - ' this week, in a letter addressed to P, D. Midgett, of En jgelhard, president of the Greater J Albemarle Association. Mr. Wil • Hams, as a member of the Associa tion, who with Solicitor Chester Morris is the legal advisory board of the Association, and is a former | Representative of Hyde County, be ll ieves the road program adopted by j the Association is a fair and just l one. and his enthusiastic support is ja strong boost for the cause. XOJxnTY had no I HIGHWAY DEATH THE PAST YEAR ! i . Hyde and Tyrrell Have Only i Three Other Counties With , Them in Accident Record I j Hyde and Tyrrell Counties carved for themselves an honor roll niche with three other counties in North Carolina during 1939 by virtue of the fact that there were no high way fatalities in these five coun ties during the past year. Other 1 counties sharing the honor were I Alexander, Alleghany and Rowan, all small counties like Hyde and Tyrrell. I This record was revealed in the 'annual report of the highway safe ty division which allowed a total of 943 deaths and 7,190 injuries in North Carolina last year. I Guilford county led the state with 50 highway deaths and was grouped with nine other counties each of which had more than 20 j deaths for an average of nearly 30. A second group of 11 eoun-. ,ties hasl from 15 to 19 deaths and la third group of i 9 counties had I from 10 to 14 deaths. FLty-five counties had from one to nipe deaths while the five counties al ready mentioned had no highway deaths during the year. FUNERAL HELD FOR MRS. W. O. WINFIELD Mrs. W. O. Winfield, 75, of Bath, , died of pneumonia at Fowle Me ,'morial Hospital in Washington Fri day evening at about 5 o’clock. | Mrs. Winfield had been seriously i ill for a week. I Mrs. Win Held was the former . Miss Mary Belle Cox of Middle | town, daughter of th»> late J\ F. -land Mary S. Cox. .She spent all of her life in Hyde until she mar ried 40 years ago. Since that time 'jshe has lived in Beaufort County. , j Surviving are her husband the | i Rev. W. 0. Winfield; two daugh ters Mrs. Edgar Wallace of Bath iand Miss Mildred Winfield of Kar ;:napolis; one son, A. T. W’infield of Bath; two sisters Mrs. Walter -jJones of Middletown and Mrs. Ned ! Harris of Norfolk; and five bno ! there R. F. Cox of Belhaven, Geo. t L. Cox and J. Monroe Cox of Mid dletown, Ben Cox of Columbia, and ( Clyde Cox of Washington. | Funeral services were held Sun ’iday at 3 o’clock at the Christian 5 ! Church in Bath with the Rev. L. jIB. Scarborough officiating. Inter ment was in Oakdale Cemetery. p , Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Jarvis ol Washington, N. C., visited relativei here Sunday. Championing the cause >f Hydes County’s fight to justice at the* hands of the Highway Commission,.> and declaring the time has come,* for the people of the First Con gressional District to stand to gether as one man to fight for their rights, O. L. Williams, welt known Hyde County lawyer, and former Representative this week: endorsed the road program adopted by the Greater Albemarle Associa tion, in a stirring letter to Presi dent P. D. Midgett of Engelhard.’ Mr. Midgett, who is being round ly commended for the prograar adopted, is well pleased with the response that has come to him, and can well expect stout aid in hi.a fight to bring justice to this sec tion, if all his endorsers are as earnest and vigorous as Mr. Wil liams. Deploring the conditions which have made it necessary for oven a hearse in Hyde County to be- I drawn by a tractor, and decLariag ’ the people should stand together as one man to nuke the state rer deem its pledge to Lindsay Warren concerning the Fairfield-Columbia mad, Mr. Williams sums up the i situation in the following letter: j “Dear Mr. Midgett: “This is to express my personal interest in the road program, sh outlined by the Greater Albemarle ; Association. I think it is a wonder ful program and represents sound discretion and judgment. The time ; has come and now is when we must ! consider the road problem as one of the hurninr issuer of th,» jJ-.y j I think you and your lieutenants have given the matter that con sideration which merits commen dation. “This winter, we have come to realize more than ever, the valae of all-weather roads as connecting the several .sections of the Albe marle. The,counties of this section are an integral part of the slat*; and, as such, are entitled to that degree of con icieration by the State Highway and Public Works Commission as will give to this section the kind of roads in keep ing with the me dorn trend of pro gress. “Never before, have we known road conditions in Hyde County to lie so bad as to require a hearse to be drawn by a tractor over Hyde County roads. It Is hoped that this occurrence will never he repeated. We realize the fact that w'e are ' without the natural and industrial resources possessed by many other counties of the state, but although the counties of the Albeofarle are poor in resources, they, too, posses* - those virtues necessary to the" building of strong and useful citi zenship. “Those of us in . the Albemarle ; section, who are interested in good roads, must take an active part in keeping our problems before * L those in whose hands our road des tinies lie. j “For a long time, no road con j nected Hyde with Tyrrell County," 'and the Inland Waterway had made , travel by vehicle between these counties impossible. For a time, it seemed that no bridge would be constructed across the Inland Wa terway near Fairfield in Hyde County, at the point where the In land Waterway bisects State High way 94, leading from Swan Quarter . to Columbia. The appropriation f<>- the construction of the present bridge across the Inland Waterway | at this point, was held up by Mayor LaGuardia of New York for over . a year. He was at that ime a member j of the House of Representatives. It was only after the Honorable E. B. Jeffress, Chairman State ‘ Highway Commission, wrote to the I Honorable Lindsay C. Warren on . November 16, 1931, that the State j Highway Commission was prepawl and would proceed to construct the 'connecting link as soon as the ‘i United States Government provided j a drawbridge across the Inland i Waterway and that the State High _|way (and Public Works Commisa l ion) would place the entire road in ! condition for all-weather traffic. _i Mr. Jeffress’ letter has been pre viously published in the Raleigh News and Obrerver and is worthy j of consideration and, I think, com a ment. When Congressman Warre* I (Please turn to Page 3> Single Copy

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