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FOR GREATER PROGRESS VOL. I: MO. 18 TO ATTEND WASHINGTON WATERWAYS MEET FRIDAY Coast Country Folk Interested in Discussion oi Waterway Problems at Washington, N. C’ 1 Meeting* Called bj r Beaufort Man at Louise Hotel; Hyde, Dare, Tvrrell Folk Urged to Attend Much interest in Coastal North Carolina, centers in a meeting' called for Friday, April 5, at 1 p. in. at the Louise Hotel in Washington, at the request of Ay cock Drown of Beaufort. The purpose is to dis cuss improved waterways, and other things needed in this section, and to form plans for getting them. Os particular interest to every section needing a better harbor, this meeting may result in a strong organization to back up the arm of the Congressman. This is hinted in Mr. Brown’s letter, as follows: ”0n the 14th and 15th of March the undersigned attended the meet ing of the National Rivers and Har bors Congress in Washington, D. C., along with a dozen others from North Carolina. We were dele gates to the convention, appointed by the Governor of our State. *‘l was greatly impressed with the solidarity of the delegates from the other sections of the United States, and while not surprised I was very much impressed with their accomplishments. I was also impressed with the lack of accom plishments within our own border and can attribute it to a lack if solidarity and forcefulness in the matter of pressing our claims for just improvements. Among the North Carolina delegation, it was apparent that each man was repre senting one little section of the State and no other. No one dele gate seemed to know who else was dhere from his own State. The pur pose of our membership was to ad vance the interests of North Caro line. The whole effect was lost as a result of bur piece meal efforts. After the convention was over, several of us managed to bump into other. We decided to have a little caucus of our own and we commenced to express our views. All were agreed that we had ac complished little but that we had learned much. AH were agreed that we could and would do some thing for the future. I was re quested to write this letter and give vent to our feelings, and at the same time initiate steps to perfect an organization looking towards the development of our resources as pertains to waterways and allied improvements. “North Carolina should possess a strong, active association to ad vance the interest of this section in the improvement of our waterways, rivers, and streams. Other sections of the country have organizations and present a solid front in their demands for improvements. While it is true various individuals and local organizations in our State have rendered valuable service in bringing worthwhile projects to the attention of their representatives in Cong Tess and in the Senate, these individuals and their spasmodic ef forts cannot attain the results which can be accomplished by a consolidated association of repre sentatives from all the towns and counties of the eastern section act ing for the entire community and actively engaged and following up inland waterway, flood control and drainage projects. ■‘lt is my belief and the belief of those who met with me in Wash ington that we should have a State organization with one or more rep resentatives from each county in the eastern part of North Carolina, not only on the coastline but from the counties that might stand to be improved through flood control measures on such rivers as the Cape Fear, Neuse, Tar, Roanoke, and others. This organization for the lack* ol a better name at this time might properly be termed the North Carolina Waterways Asso ciation. It should have as its ob jective the improvement of the waterways on the coastline, the improvement of navigable streams, beach erosion and shore protection projects, the drainage of streams to alleviate floods, the improvement or drainage for health conditions such as malaria control, and for other similar projects. These represen tatives should naturally be inter ested in river and harbor improve ments and should be selected from the various communities in which they live. They should be men who are interested in the development of Eastern North Carolina, and who are willing to give some of their time and energy to bring the possibilities of this entire section to natonal attention. There are such men in each community and (Please turn to Page Four) THE _QF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION AND GALLOP NAMES 7 I POINT PLATFORM j FOR THE SEN ATE Hyde Man Outlines Program on Which He Seeks the Nomination i P. G. Gallop, fiyue County .super intendent of schools, who has an nounced his candidacy for one of the two senate seats from the sec |ond district comprising Beaufort. Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyr rell and Washington counties, has announced a seven-point platform lon which he asks the Democratic nomination. i He proposes first, a reorganiza tion of the state highway commis :Sion with a program of equity of 'highway construction, all-weather school bus routes with no diversion of highway funds. j For schools h*: proposes improved school building facilities, a teacher ! retirement plan, and a revision of J salaries for superintendents, prin cipals and teachers. I He favors a balanced farm pro gram, with diversified truck, bet 'ter .marketing of produce and un proved farm to market roads. He favors study and improve ment of the fish and oyster industry with improved conditions for better living for fishermen. On the sales tax question he fa vors a reduction to two per cent with a change in the method of as sessment and collectoin. Rural electrificaiton and beauti fication plans are embodied in his plan ios improved living conditions for country people, i Lastly he >s in favor of an ad vertising program to let the world know of the section’s rich history, fanning possibilities, mild climate and places of recreation and diver sion. ! WELFARE DEALS WITH TYRRELL’S PROBLEMS ! The April meeting of the Tyr rell County welfare board was held Monday night in the courthouse, with all members of the board pres . i i ent. i | Miss Wood, the county health nurse, discussed the sick and needy indigent cases with the board and tasked that transportation be vided to the clinic in Goldsboro for some deformed children. She re ported that a T. B. clinic for school children would be held in Columbia for a week beginning July 15. j The superintendent of welfare j was asked to move immediately the; two Negro consumptives which j were isolated by the welfare de partment about two months ago to houses more suitable, and more sanitary net only for them but also for those living near them. Sev eral appendicitis cases for hospi talization were brought up before the board. There were six more old age assistance casek passed on. | The budget for the incoming year was studied, and it was decided to recommend to the county commis sioners, the state and federal de partment of public welfare, that the tax rate for the welfare work in Tyrrell paid for by the Tyr rell taxpayers, be not to exceed the amount spent last year. This was i .10 on the hundred dollar valuation for the old age assistance, and aid to dependent children; .05 for the poor relief (which includes food, clothing, medicine, pauper burials and hospitalization for indigent cases not receiving OAA and ADC.); .05 for administration (this is spent for the salary and mileage of the superintendent of public wel fare, the clerk’s salary and the of fice expense such as stationery, etc.) i A resolution was passed that the Tyrrell County public welfare de partment apply to the proper au thorities to approve a WPA project for labor to move the old county home back in line with the new county home, to improve and beau ! tify the lawn surrounding the two j buildings and to paint all buildings, j including the roofs, on the county home property. That funds for < paint and' repair material for this i project which the county will have jto furnish be paid for from the | monthly rent reieeved from these buildings. Miss Irene Everton of Jamesville visited friends and relatives in Co lumbia Sunday. TYRRELL REGISTRARS AND ! JUDGES TO BE NAMED SATURDAY County Board of Elections to : Name Precinct Officials For Elections The count:, hoard of elections of this county will meet in the court house here Saturday to name the registrars and judges of elections for the various precincts. The elec tions officials to be named by the board Saturday will serve at both the primary and the general elec tion this year and subsequent pri maries and elections during a period of two years, or until their successors are appointed and quali fied. Registration books wi I be open at the usual place in each precinct Saturday April 27, and on the two | Saturdays following, closing at sun set, May 11. BIG DOCKET IN APRIL TERM SUPERIOR COURT The list of jurors was drawn 1 Monday bv the board of commis- i sinners for the April term of su-1 perior court, beginning April 22. A i heavv docket of both civil and; criminal cases awaits the court. Hon. J. J. Burney, of Wi'mington, will preside over the fourthcoming 1 term of court, while Hon. Cliest*-r Morris, solicitor of the first judicial district of Currituck, will serve as | prosecuting attorney for the crim- 1 in a! docket. The following names were drawn to serve on the jury: Maxie Spen oer. Willie F Spancer. Howard .T. Glass, John R. Flemings, J. L. Snell. Sr., T„ 1,. Combs, A. L. Chao- Ijn. C. F. Kemn, Jesse Spencer, W. J White, A. B. Konkins, Jr., Jos- ( enn Rhodes. Gradv B. Swain, Thomas K. Yerby. G. W. Tarken ton, Claud Gibbs, FI. V. Tweedv, A. l D. Armstrong, J. Abner Harrell. J. B. Holidia, Delaware A. Sawver, B. i M. Voliva, W. A. Mayo, W. S. I Ward, Jr., C. E. I overmen, W. W. Sawver, Sr., W F Godfrey, Cyril Walker W. L. Walker, Romia A. Phelps, C. F. Gibbs, W. B. Noonev, William G. Liverman, Julian H. Swain. T. R. Spencer. Jr , and M. W. Owens. Mary Shollington. Esther Brick house, Ruth Owens, from Greens- j boro C.dlege, are spending the spring rmlidays with.their parentsl in Columbia. OCRACOKE EXCURSIONS TO RUN FOUR MONTHS BEGINNING IST OF MAY Trips on Chartered Boat Planned Two or Three Times a Week Starting at Washing ton and Touching Bay view and Swan Quar ter; Howard Wahab, Capt Bob Burrus and P. G. Gallop on Committee Capt. Bob Burrus was in New York this week arranging for a boat for excursions from Washing ton via Bayview and Swan Quarter to Ocracoke for the summer months beginning about May 1. The ex cursions were decided upon in Bal timore Friday when a group of Hyde County citizens appeared with Stanley Wahab and mapped tenta tive plans for the excursions. The excursions on a chartered boat under the auspices of the Oc racoke-Manteo transportation com pany of which Stanley Wahab, Oc racoke native, is an official, will probably be made two or three times a week with Capt. Bob Bur rus of Swan Quarter as the master of the boat. The boats will carry passengers, light freight and prob ably two or three cars on the trips. I Accommodations will be provided j on board for lounging, dancing and other recreation with arrangements I also being planned to secure the 1 Gaskill hotel for providing rooms] at nominal rates. A committee composed of Wahab Howard of Ocracoke, Capt. Bob Burrus and P. G. Gallop of Swan Quarter will work out the arrange ments for handling the boat, pro viding the entertainment and for operating concessions at Ocracoke. Special excursions to Hatteras and other points can be arranged on the off days through Capt. Bur rus. The excursions are being planned in order to cater to those who in recent years have been attracted by the development of Ocracoke into what has been called “the Ber muda of North Carolina.” In gen eral the excursions will not only benefit Ocracoke but also Washing ton, Bayview and Sw-an Quarter from which parties may start the excursions, it has been pointed out COLUMBIA. N. C. APRIL 4 1940 jCHAS. BOND MANAGER (TYRRELL, HYDE PAPERS ®liM| mb . s m CHARLES BOND, who with Mrs. Bond returned this week to Swan Quarter to de\ ote more time to the Hyde County Herald, will also man lage the Tyrrell Tribune at Colum jbia for the time being, due to Miss j Barksdale’s injuries in an auto | mobile wreck. Mr. Bond has been assisting on the Dare County Times during the past three months. | BIG HEARTED TYRRELL i COUNTY DOCTOR DEAD .Great Tribute Paid to Beloved : Physician Practicing in Eliza bet> City i Dr. Howard J. Combs, a native of Tyrrell County and a prominent Elizabeth City physician, died at his home on blast Main street Saturday at 9:55 a. m. following an illness of t weeks duration. Dr. Combs was stricken with 'pneumonia on March 15, and while his condition was critical from the! .start, it was thought he was im proving when he suffered a relapse ! .from which he did not rally. j I He was a graduate of Warrenton j high school and attended the Uni-) versity of North Carolina and Jes- j ferson Medical College, serving his' internship at the Pennsylvania Genera’ Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr r*nmb? pvact: •: medicine it; J Columbia and New Bern, later go-i ling to Elizabeth City where he re- 1 rnained for the past 18 years. | j He was 4(? years of age and a . son of S. M. Combs of Columbia,, Please turn to Page 41 THIS WEEK’S SAFETY ITEM Intersection Accidents Commenting recently on inter section accidents in North Carolina, Ronald Hocutt, director of the high way safety division, pointed out that this type of accident is becom ing increasingly frequent. “Last year,” he said, “there were 2,300 accidents at street intersec tions and 388 at rural intersections in North Carolina. The drivers in volved in these accidents were guilty, in most cases, of usurping the right of way, crashing a traf fic light, disregarding warning signs or hand signals, or some other infraction of the rules of safe driving, .or of failure to practice common courtesy. “These accidents can be prev< nt ed if motorists will only follow' the three C’s of safe driving—courtesy, caution and commonsense.” by the committee. Tentative plans already cal! for at least four special events at Oc racoke this summer with others expected to be arranged later. The Baltimore Retail Merchants Asso ciation of which Stanley Wahab is the head is to have an excursion from Baltimore to Ocracoke and the Maryland Yacht Club is also to make an excursion from "Baltimore to Ocracoke during the summer. Mr. Wahab will be host to the North Carolina Sheriff’s associa tion at another time and during the latter part of June a large engrav ing company of Texas will conduct a week’s school for its salesmen in the several states. TRIBUNE IN AND ABOUT TYRRELL By MAY CO MOON CARA WAN Proper diet for school children •is essential for good health and I satisfactory work. Different civic ' and political organizations have . been helping in providing school lunches in the- Columbia high school for years. j During the C'WA and ERA pro grams the children were first serv ed lunches in the rooms in which they sat, and the cooking was done in the first aid room of the school. This was not very satisfactory but was better than not having any lunches for the children. The fol lowing year lunches were served jin the hail and the economics class 1 room. There was not adequate space for cooking and serving | there, so the lunch room next was in the old Baptist chruch where around two hundred children were served. This was not a very at tractive place but there was ample room for cooking and serving. For i the past two years lunches have : been served and prepared in a room in the basement of the school. ■ While it is the most attractive j place that has yet been used, there | is not space for the 553 children at j tending the Columbia high school ' this year. 400 of these children come to school on buses, and at noon they need a lunch or soup, or ' a glass of milk or hot drink with 1 the lunch they bring from home. I Funds have been made available (this year for only the new garage j which Is now being constructed. I Let’s hope that the next investment |in any kind of building for the school will provide space in which 1 all children who need lunches may jbe served. | Surplus commodities have been imade available for the Tyrrell j lunch rooms through the N. C, , State board of charities, commodity i distribution division. These com i modi tias are given to the schools | with the understanding that they ; will he given to only the needy, and I providing that the lunches pre pared in whole or in part from the surplus commodities will not be ' sold. i The WPA fun- shes supervisors ;and workers for the lunch rooms (Miss Mary Walter, Windsor, is in I charge of the area commodity dis tribution, and Mrs. S. N. Bateman, Columbia, is in charge of the Tyr jrell County school distribution of i commodities. These are distribu ted from the Tyrrell County home, j Mrs. E"a Murray, Fairfield, su jpervises the work in all the schools j lunch rooms of the county and the IWPA workers are: Columbia high (school, Mrs. Matilda Hathaway and Miss Marv Sample; Gum Neck high school Mrs. Beulah Rose and Miss Martha Patrick; Gum Neck elementary, Miss Adelaide Combs; Gum Neck colored, Miss Selma Basnight; Travis colored, Miss Aline Tatem; and Columbia colored Mrs. Tansy Swain. The Columbia high school and the Gum Neck school have bad a lunch room since October. The Travis colored school was opened in January and the Co lumbia colored school had no lunch room opened until two weeks ago. / The following are statistics for [lunch room work in Tyrrell: No. in No. free • Name of school Schi. Lunches Columbia high 583 100 Gum Neck high 133 75 Gum Neck Ele 19 19 Gum Neck Col 60 60 Travis Col 184 100 Columbia Col 284 100 Fort Landing CoL 50 23 Alligator Col 44 None Those given free lunches this year were decided on by the lunch room supervisors, the teachers and the superintendent of public wel- ; fare. i : i CHARGED WITH CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON Ernest Olds, colored, of Alligator,, w r as arrested Saturday night by Police Officers Julian Poston and Earl Davenport for carrying a con mealed weapon. ] Olds was arrested at Theodore j Swain’s Case in Columbia. I He was turned over to Sheri IT B. I Ray Cohoon and will be tried in I recorder’s court April 10. Red Cross Meeting I The executive committee of the ! Tvrrel! County chapter of the Red Cross, met Tuesday at the office of superintendent of education. Mrs.V. iH. Durrance reported that a Junior J Red Cross drive was now underway in all the schools of the county for i the purpose of raising funds to sup jplement Red Cross funds to supply a chest of bedding and sleeping garments. Mrs. D. M. Sawyer was elected secretary upon the resigna tion of Mrs. Abner Harrell. Plans were completed for a first aid training center to be organized : >in Gum Neck on Monday of this i week. under the direction of W. T. Crutchfield. FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES TYRRELL-HYDE BOYS ESCAPE DEATH TRAP Plunge Through Pond Island Bridge Sunday Morning, Into Deep Water Where John Mirer Lost His Life a Year Ago; Three Boys Injured Slightly; Car Wrecked; Escape Miraculous jTYRRELL COUNTY BOARD MONTHLY MEET ON MONDAY The Tyrrell County board of com missioners met at the courthouse Monday and heard a delegation, composed of residents of Gum Neck ! discuss road conditions. Routine ;matters, such as the hearing of re ports and approving and paying j current bills concluded the meeting | SLADESYILI E TO BEGIN PROJECT ON GYM APRIL 22 Board of Education Passes Refunding Resolution; Abandon Brick Hyde County’s board of education passed a resolution Monday which was concurred in by the board of county commissioners making ap plication for refunding of school notes, subject to the approval of the , Local Government commission, and | authorized work to begin April 22 lon the Sladesville auditorium-gym nasium project. ' An application sometime ago for a loan of $4,000 from the state literary fund was made, which was passed conditionally, and the re funding plan of the county declared operative in the March meeting of the county commissioners ancl the resolutions this week removed the conditions. Due to the fact that no brick ma sons are now on WPA, which will furnish labor for the project, and also because of rising prices since the plans were drawn last fall, the h>ard -f education 'V-crdcd M’.nday to use asbestos shin;i.:s rather than brick veneer as was originally planned. H Y DE~GUINTUPLETS BORN ALL FOOL’S DAY Birth of Quintuplets in Hyde Oount.v was confirmed by Lieut. Hugh McCollum of Go. 424 CCC at New Holland. Though the multiple birth was reported April ! and ac companied by much skepticism due to the date, Mr. McCollom said the five babies and their mother were all doing fine. The mother is said to have sought a vacant bed in the barracks at the CCC camp, a build ing into which she had not been wont to go, and bore her young un attended. Now, however, “Foxy,” the CCC mascot of undetermined pedigree and her five puppies are getting a lot of attention from the CCC boys and staff. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Swain and daughter, Ann, of Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Carter and daughter, Winfield, and Mrs. Lydia Pittman of Gatesville,- Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davenport of Columbia, and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cates of Edenton were Sunday guests of Mrs. M. Q. Davenport. ! Johnny Martin Dail. Johnny Wood, and Clyde Beaslly of Bur lington had several good catches recently fishing in the Scuppemong River. Whiie in Columbia they stayed at Snells Inn. j Several Columbia peopV* motored to Elizabeth City Sunday to at tend the funeral of Dr. Howard J. Combs. ESSO DEALERS GIVE FREE SHOW IN COLUMBIA Esso dealers of Tyrrell and part of Washington County and Floyd E. Cohoon, distributor, were hosts at a free moving picture at the Co lumbia Theatre Wednesday night. The picture featured highway safe ty with comedy and string music and entertainment completing the program. The dealers distributed ,100 prizes of valuable merchandise, i Club Woiru n Go to Greenville Many Members of Tyrrell Coun ty home cl mionstration clubs went to Greenville 'Wednesday. April 3 where t v ey attended the District Federation of .Tome Demonstration women’s meeting. Women from eleven clubs in this county were represented a T d filled a chartered bus and oMier cars for the trip. This district is made up of seven counties. The meeting was held ia the Austin building at Eastern Carolina Teachers College, Green ville. Miss Ruby Lee Parisher spent the week end in Creswell. '■■’inode Coov be Crashing through the Pond Ts j land bridge, on the Roanoke cause*- way, and plunging into the Inlet beneath where John Miller of Eliza beth City mysteriously disappeared over a year ago. two Hyde County boys and one Tyrrell County boy miraculously escaped death by em erging from their car, which was in 15 feet of water, early Sunday morning. Arthur Jennette of Scranton. Bradford Fearing Gibbs of Engel hard, and Lonnie Dodge of Killken ny in Tyrrell County had been out riding on the beach in a 1935 V-8 Ford Jennette had just bought. Re turning to Manteo, they struck the clay holes in the broken pavement east of the bridge; Jennette lost control of the car, it swerved to the right, and tore down thirty feet of the rail. Had water not been be neath, they would have been killed. The pressure of the doors ol the car prevented them opening it, and they broke out the glasses, sustain ing cuts and bruises. Jennette waR recently discharged from the camp when his old car, parked on the road, was nan into by another CCC boy. He had bought another car, and had returned to the camp for a visit. The boys, apparently under 20 years of age, seem to be recovering all right. Since it is apparent the road was the direct cause of the wreck, there was no evidence dis closed of careless driving. Each year, this same spot, because of the dangerous condition of the road and bridge, claims at least one car, and two lives have been lost there. SENTENCED TO 4 MONTHS FOR SELLING GEESE Frank Gibbs of Engelhard was given four months in-federal prison on a charge of selling wild geese when tried in district federal court by Judge I. M, Meek ; ns at Wash ington Monday. Gibbs was alleged to have sold wild geese to visitors from Pennsylvania last winter, in whose car Oscar Chadwick, the game warden was concealed. Another case of merest to the biological survey was a “test case” in which the court sus’alned a tres pass charge against Joe Simmons, caretaker and guide on the George property adjoining the Mattamus keet refuge. Simmon 1 :: was indicted for trespassing when he went on the refuge to retrieve geese he had shot from the ad mining property but which fell on the refuge. A number ox other cases involv ing trapping and hunting or the Mattamuskeet refuge were heard. Education Board Meets The members of the county board of education met Monday for their monthly meeting. After routine matters were disposed of, plans were discussed for the building of a new gymnasium at the Columbia high school. The board in a body visited cur rent proiects now in operation in Tyrrell County. Specialist to Visit Columbia John Harris, extension landscape specialist of North Carolina Stale College will make several home visits with the home demonstration agent Miss Strickland and g : ve ad vice on individual landscape prob lems, He will deliver an illustrated lecture Friday in the auditorium of the agricultural building at 2:30. DAVIS—CHAPLIN A wedding of much interest lo cally was solemnized recently when Miss Christine Chaplin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Chaplin of Columbia became the bride of James Edward Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davis of Columbia. The marriage occurred Saturdav, March 23 and the Rev. Walton B. Guthrie officiated. VOLIVA —PHELPf# Seaton N. Voliva of Columbia was married Saturdav. M*»roh 23 to Mrs. Lydia H. Phelps of Tarlwro by Justice of the Peace W. S. Sykes in Columbia. j COHOON—ALLEN James Thomas Cohaan wa« mar ried to Mrs. Terrell Icelean Allen in Columbia March 20, by Judge W. G. Alexander, Justice of Peace. The bride and groom are from Roper,
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