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FOR GREATER PROGRESS VOL. |; NO. 34 COLUMBIA SEES START OF CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN Mammoth Street Parade On Last Saturday Lrtatly Praised; Two Albemarle Associa tions Sponsor Beautification Drive The Tyrrell County Clean-up' Beautification Campaign was offi cially opened in Columbia Saturday afternoon with a mammoth street parade which traveled down Main, Water, Bridge and Broad streets before disbanding on Bridge street.j The Beautification campaign has ! been started in this county to make | Tyrrell one of the cleanest and most beautiful counties in the Albemar'e. Similar campaigns of this type are expected to be started in other Al bemarle counties. The program is being sponsored through the Great er Albemarle and the Southern Albemarle Associations with Mrs. W. S. Carawan general chairman. Each county is organized in a local county unit with an executive committee. Members of the Tyrrell Committee are F. E. C-ohoon, chair man, W. J. White chairman, Miss Mary Blanche Strickland and Miss Millie Glisson secretaries, H. H. Harris and Mrs. Thomas S. Spruill publicity chairman. The floats and marching units which took part in the parade here Saturday afternoon were very ef fective and were also very attrac tive rarrying out the clean-up and paint-up beautification program. Among the organizations taking part in the parade, with either floats or marching units were, the following: the various churches, American Legion, Woman’s Club, Junior Woman’s Club, WPA, Red Cross, NYA, Health Department, WPA Bookmobile, Parent Teachers Association, Legion Auxiliary, and the Columba Fire Department. The parade was led by Patrolman Gaskins, followed by the Christian, American and Legion post flags. The next unit in the parade was the Columbia High School Band the pride of Columbia, which was led by 'he beautiful drum rhajorette, MiS*, iNan Chaplin. Tne rest of tne parade consisted of the various floats and marching units. Three prizes were awarded with a prize going to the town float for the best float, a prize went to the Junior Woman’s Club who were in charge of the baby parade for the best marching unit, and the third prize went to the for the most impressive part of the parade. The three prizes were donated by the Tyrrell County Hardware Com pany, White's Department Store and the Columbia Bureau of the Daily Advance. The clean-up campaign will come to a close on July 4, 1941, with a special celebration being arranged, at which time several prizes will be awarded to organizatons and people making the most improve ments in their sections, be awarded to organizations and lor, Miss Annie Reice Quinn and C. W. Ewing. FUNERAL MONDAY FOR MRS. MOLLY BENSON Funeral services for Mrs. Molly Benson of near New Holland were held Monday morning- at 10 o’clock in Soule cemetery. The services were conducted by the Rev. R. R. Grant. Mrs. Benson was 82 years old and had been a member of the i Soule M. E. Church for many years. Surviving are three daughters, Miss Hattie Benson of New Holland, and Mrs. H. C. Boomer and Mrs. W. C. Boomer of Swan Quarter. The pallbearers were A. P. Swin dell, J. H. Swindell, W. H. Benson, H. C. Williamson, Edward Bonner, and Murray Bonner. SATURDAY EVENING POST TO BOOST HYDE Hyde County people will be inter ested in reading a story that will appear in the August 3 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, about Ocracoke, Hatteras, and the Outer Banks region, by Ayeock Brown, editor of the Beaufort News. It will be illustrated by two or three pages of colored pictures. The story will be a great boost to Hyde, Dare and the coast country for The Post has a circulation of three mil lion copies. ~W. M. U. MEETS The WMU of the Engelhard Methodist church met recently with Mrs. Ola Spencer, and discussed plans for raising funds for the organization. Interesting papers were given by Mrs. May Watson and Mrs. Ruby Spencer. Mrs. Annie Watson gave the devotional and Mrs. Litchfield rendered two beautiful piano selections. The hostess served delicious iced lemon ade and wafer?. * ... THE OF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PETTIGREW NEW LIFE BOAT UNDERGOES TESTS New All-Steel Self-Righting Life Boat at Oregon Inlet ! With sea wale" under her bot itm for the first time the USCG -5357, otherwise the United States C>>ast Guard’s radically new, steel hulled experimental life boat went through routine tests off Oregon Inlet under the critical eye of the ; testing board and of her designer and departed southward in search of rougher waters that might give her a chance to prove herself worthy of replacin']; the thirty year-old life boat that has brought thousands safely through raging seas. As critical as were the eyes of the testing board, headed by Capt. J. F. Hotteh superintendent of the 'Coast Guard training school at New London, Conn., the board was not half so critical as were the inform al board made up by every veteran surf man who could get away from his own station. There were two tscore of these from up and down the Outer Banks, come to view the new wonder designed by Arthur E. Hansen, chief naval architect of the Coast Guard. ' These veterans who have spent their lives in surf boats and have saved the lives of hundreds from the Graveyard of the Atlantic, watched every move of the USCG -15357 —and wished for an hour of heavy weather that would give her a chance to see what she would do. .The official testing board invited a capacity number of the veterans to make the test runs, and by turns they tried her out. Others followed in the Oregon veteran and ( watched her from a distance. 1 But off the Inlet the sea was •“slick” and there was never a swell to tilt her off an even keel. War rant Officer George Midgett got her side-ways into one small swell and she rode it as smoothly as a loon or a gull—or an old life boat. Everybody agreed that she handled like a boat and wondered if her flat stern would be troublesome coming in before the sort of sea that shipwrecks happen in. Preliminary tests of the new .boat were staged in Chesapeake Bay last week, but it is off these shores that she will be put through tests to determine whether she will replace the older vessel. Designer Hansen and the testing board and ,the old timers are hopeful about I her, but not too hopes ul. She has 'theoretically advantages that have to be tested out before she is ac cepted as replacement for the ves sel designed a generation ago. The new boat is built of welded steel. There is not an ounce of [wood in her. There wai not an 'ounce of steel in the old one. She is 40 feet long, ten feet-two in the beam, draws 3 feet nine inches, and on tests developed a speed of 10.25 miles with her motor at 120 horse power. She is self-righting and self-bailing—but nobody knows yet what would happen to her if her steel bottom got dented, or got a hole in it. If she survives her tests, which she will, she will be exhibited here during the celebration of th» 150th anniversary of the Coast Guard which begins Friday, August 2nd, and continues five days. Members of the testing board in clude Captain Hottel, Commander C. J. Sullivan, and Lieut. M. De- Martino. Assigned as crew to bring her here were Machinist Mate Ist Class Aired A. Hudson, and Truxton Midgett, Jr., and E. M. Gray. Capt. Norman Etheridge, keeper of Oregon Inlet, Oas host to the board, and the informal board, and set out a great dinner, most of it taken from waters ad jacent to his station, even the j oysters. HYDE SUPERINTENDENT ISSUES HANDBOOK P. G. Gallop, superintendent of Hyde County schools, is getting up material for a handbook that is to be edited for the benefit of school teachers and officials. The publi cation will be ready for distribu tion about the middle of August if present plans are carried out. It will be filled with timely informa tion for those interested in public instruction work in the county. The Amur cork tree —introduced from Asia as an ornamental—has proven satisfactory for Killcultpre to prevent erosion in this country. TYRRELL j TO BE MARRIED IN LATE AUGUST I -- -- • ----- - Herman G. Credle of Now Holland announces the engagement of S his daughter, Gretchen, to Joseph P. Woodard, son of Stephen E. Wood ! ard of Kenly. The wedding is to take place in the Swan 5 Quarter Methodist church in late August. U. D. C. SPONSORS PATRIOTIC RALLY Hon. R. O. Everett of Durham Will Speak July 27 in Tribute to Founders of Nation The complete program for the patriotic rally of the North Caro lina Division of the United Daugh ters of Lie Comedei aey, sponsoreu in connection with the 353rd anni versary of the Roanoke Island colonies and the fourth summer of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony held here Saturday, was announced by Mrs. Lewis E. Fisher, president of the division. .Featuring various songs, by in dividuals as well as by the Lost Colony Chorus, greetngs and ad dresses by leading UDC and their supporters, this nrst patriotic rallly at the birthplace of the Nation is in the nature of a tribute to the first founders and their statement and devotion to the democratic ideal as expressed in The Lost Colony. Beginning at 11 o’clock Saturday morning, the rally will get under way with the Lost Colony Chorus [singing “Old North State.” Mrs. [Weaver Mann, president of the N. !C. American Legion Auxiliary, will Tead the entire group in the “Pledge [of Allegiance to the United States [Flag.” Paul Green and President Frank Graham are expected to at tend the rally and be presented to the delegation. The main address of the after noon will be delivered by the Hon. |R. O. Everett, of Durham, who wilt [speak on the subject of “Courage lin Crisis.” Following the address, [the group will visit Wright Me -5 moral and Mother Vineyard. A re iception will be tendered the guests [at the First Colony Inn, and then ’they will see the 155th perform ance of The Lost Colony. Plans for the rally were com pleted by Mrs. Fisher in coopera tion with Mrs. James G. Fearing and Mrs. I. M. Meekins, both of Elizabeth City, and Mrs. Rennie [Williamson, of Manteo, and D. [Bradford Fearing, president of the Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion. j There "will be no gate charge at | Fort Raleigh for those attending l the morning sessions of the rally, [but those who plan to participate will have to arrive before 12 o’clock. Mrs. Fisher said the public is in vited to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy at these ses sons. PORGIES CAUGHT BY GOGGLE FISHERMAN A porgy weighing eight pounds [was caught by Thomas Fearing of 'Manteo, on Sunday, July 22, by the old wrecks at Nags Head. The fish w'hich was an exceptionally large one for this species, was speared at a depth of about 18 or 20 feet. A smaller porgy weighed about two pounds. Fishing with him was M. L. Malco of Norfolk and Manteo. This sport is known as goggle fishing. The equipment required is a pair of goggles for under water use and a spear. The fisherman dives to spear the porgy which is considered an excellent food. COLUMBIA, N. C., JULY 25, 1940 I FISHERMAN CATCHES 200 POUND MOLA MOLA A 200 pound m »la mot?, defined by fishermen as a sufifrsh, w'&s; caught off Oregon Inlet on July 181 by Albert L. Disharoon of. Salis-1 bury, Md., on a boat pile ted by Captain Chester Tillett.' Ur. Dish aroon estimated the timr •’s one hour that it took him to ’and the unusual fish that was soon in clear water and presumably piloted by a small fish that remained near the larger. The fish was rather square shaped with large fins, j Mr. Disharoon, a contractor and j builder, has made five visits to j Roanoke Island since the first of. October. 1939. and he •cess with each visit. On June 17 he alone caught 87 boriita; on July 4 he caught ten drum. He intends to mount the mola mola caught on his last trip. I 1 COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT IN MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL A full and complete commercial department will be established in the Manteo high school in Septem ber for the full eight months school term, according to an announce ment by R. I. Leake, county super intendent. I Graduates of any high school, Those students who did not complete a full high school course and adults are invited to enroll. Also an in vitation is extended to the seniors 'of Manteo high school correlating their high school work with the sub jects in the commercial department. The cost of the tuition will not be less than $2.00 per month nor more 1 than $5.00 per month, the cost de pending on the number enrolling. | The project, which is non-profit, is To be operated- under the super i vision of the State Department of i Education. \ Persons interested in bookkeep ing, typewriting, and shorthand, should write Mr. Leake in Manteo. THE WINNING WIDOW A dramatic comedy, “The Win ning Widow” will be presented Fri day evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Engelhard high school auditorium. [The play, which is under the super vision of Miss Frances Spencer, will be given to help defray the ex penses of the Township Revival. A small admission fee will be charged. FINE There is a SI,OOO fine for the un [ lawful sale of serums used to con trol hog cholera and diseases of other domestic animals. 1 I CHRISTIAN CHURCH SPONSORS PROGRAM The Blue Sky Boys, radio and re ; cording artists of WPTF, will ap pear at the agriculture building i here Monday night, July 29 at 8:30 i o’clock. They will be sponsored by ■ the Swan Quarter Christian church, i The show will feature “Uncle i Josh,” and the Blue Sky Boys, Earl and Bill Bolick and Red Hicks. PARK REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OH!? rATVTTPQ TRIBUNE LOST COLONY CLASSES HELD Purpose Is To Prepare Local Actors For More Import ant Roles, Says Fearing, | Classes for those taking part in the fourth summer production of The Lost Colony are now being held in order to prepare more local ac tors for important roles in forth coming productions of the Paul Green drama, according so D. Brad ford Fearing, president of the Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion. | Most popular of all classes is Ora Mae Davis’ body building—popular-! ly known as “body breaking”—class at the new high school gymnasium. Mrs. Davis, who designed ail the; costumes for The Lost Colony, has also directed some of its dances.' The exercise class, which is open to townspeople as well as to members of the cast, is held on performance days at noon. | . Earl Wynn, who plays both the! , prologue and Governor John White,! teaches speech and voice three i days a week to all actors interested i in improving their speech. Mr. I 'Wynn teaches this subject at the! i University of North Carolina and i for the Carolina Playmakers. He | iis also in charge of radio plays' : which are broadcast over the ! ; Mutual chain. I Voice and singing is taught by Theos Cronk, musical director of :the Lost Colony Chorus. With fif jteen pupils Mr. Cronk’s class is fast growing into something more thar. lit had been planned. James Hart, the organist, teaches this instru ment to a group, and Barry Lynn, of the University of North Caro lina, is teaching art to both actors and townspeople three days a week. There are about eighty persons enrolled in these various courses, land from the daily enrollment, | there ought to be more than a hun idred before the season gets farther | underway. Director Samuel Selden said that he would supervise a class tin acting and directing if enough X>ersons expressed their interest. He could be assisted in this work by Howard Bailey and Harry Davis. CO AST OBSERVED BY GEOGRAPHIC | Leonard Roy Looking Over j Ocracoke and the Entire i Banks This Week ! — i Leonard C. Roy of the editorial stats of the National Geographic Magazine will be on the banks for two or three days, completing a several weeks' survey of North Carolina in preparation for an article on the state to appear in the National Geographic sometime in 1941. i Wednesday Mr. Roy was a visitor to the Lost Colony where Ben Dixon Mac Neill showed him the setting for the play. Roy ex pressed himself as amazed at the record of the play for the past three years. “Especially am I amaz ed at the number of people who have witnessed the drama because of the remoteness of Manteo for the large population centers. It speaks well for the cast and for the organizers of the plav ” Mr. Roy saw the play while at Manteo. This is the first visit of the writer to this part of North Caro lina which, he remarked, is unique among the resort areas he has visit ed along the Atlantic Coast, i Roy is the author of numerous articles in the National Geographic. He wrote “Rambling Around the Roof of Eastern America (Great Smoky Mountains)” and “High lights of the Volunteer State” a story on the state of Tennessee, which anpeared in the magazine in May, 1939. | Publication of North Carolina’s ; wonders in the Geographic means that the highlights of the state will be made known to nearly a million readers in every country, colony and mandated area on every island and in nearly every city, town and village in the United Stated. The Society has more than 1,165,000 members, each of whom receives the magazine. ! J. Baylor Roberts, Geographic photographer who has been in the state several weeks, will also be rin Manteo within a day of two. The article, Roy says, will contain about 50 photographs, about one half of which will be in natural colors. 1 Mr. Roy was well pleased with the cooperation given him by Di rector R. Bruce Etheridge, and Bob Thompson of the N. C. Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment. CORN What is probably the best corn crop in many years is now growing in Lenoir County, says Farm Agent G. M. Swicegood, who also reports that other crops are in excellent condition. FIELD DAY NEAR TYRRELL ON AUGUST 1, A THRILLER Scuppernong* Farms in Washington and Tyr rell to Be Scene of Unusual Events as Annual Field Day on Gigantic Resettlement J roject Is Held, Beginning at 10:30 A. M. BEAUTIFICATION STARTS ! . WITH BANG IN TYRRELL 1 ! j IE (npHH H ■ljffßy ImP i MRS. MAY COHOON CARA WAN is getting much satisfaction out of seeing one of her dreams come true, and that is an active, militant movement to beautify the homes of the Southern Albemarle, a program launched in the Southern Albemarle Association some two years ago, which made her chairman of a com mittee, working to beautify a re gion where beautification will pay big profits. Mrs. Carawan launched this year’s drive in her home town, j Columbia, Saturday, with a mam-! moth parade, and jollification. ISTSiI flow Mis Then meekins M'inteo, it seems has a great op portunity before it, iri tbe growing possibility of becoming a profitable air base for tourists desiring to visit Ocracoke, Hatteras and Lake Mattamuskeet, but having little time can alFord to travel by plane. Long trips on boats with few com-, forts are not in vogue so much these days, and people cannot, or do not wish to endure so much fatigue. But with such splendid airplane facilities as are afforded now by the Roanoke Island flying service, we will do well to show the world it is easy to get to those places, to enjoy them, to mutual profit and satisfaction. ! Friday I flew with Dave Driskill to Ocracoke. We left Manteo after five o’clock. In forty minutes we were at Ocracoke. We went down by Hatteras, observing every vil lage on the way. It was interesting to observe the shoals, the keel marks on the bottom of the sound, a sand bar that is closing New In let, the porpoises and sharks, and red patches of menhaden in the ocean. Bill Duvall and George Aiken went along too. After supper at the famous old Pamlico Inn as the guests of Dave Gaskill we set out at six-thirty directly for Manteo across Pamlico Sound and Long Shoal River. From a height of three thousand feet we could see all of Hatteras Island. We could see Swan Quarter, the whole of Mattamuskeet Lake, all the main land of Hyde and beyond it Alliga tor River, every creek, bay and canal gleaming like silver in the dying sunlight. It was my forty third birthday and I marvelled at the change in travel that had taken place during my life time. In my childhood a week of arduous travel would have been consumed in get ting over a fraction of the region I glimpsed in an hour and a quarter of travel. Here we flew at a hun dred miles an hour, seeing before us the greatest seashore paradise in Eastern America, one which shortly will thrill countless air travellers even more than it wras thrilling us who had seen it before. ! We could see the flashing of the i beacons over many miles of water, the lighthouses at Hatteras and •Bodie Island as we gently descend ed at the landing field in the gath ering dusk. We returned, relaxed, rested, refreshed, having been gone less than three hours, but well filled (Please turn to Page 4) 'aingla Copy 5c 1 An event worth taking in will be | held next Thursday near Cres well {on the shore of Lake Phelps, when | the Scuppernong Farms Project, a j Federal re-settlement project, will ! hold its annua! field day and give visitors an opportunity To observe | the work being carried on. Announcement of this event hag j been made by T. W. Armstrong, | community manager. The events I will center at the Community buiid i ing and grounds approximately six ! and a half miles southwest of Cres ! well, N. C. j The field day program will begin at 10:30 a. m. From 10:30 to 12 noon short talks will be made by various prominent eastern North Carolina citizens and department of agriculture officials, j From t2:oi to 1:30 p. m. has been : reserved for picnic lunch period. ! Those bringing picnic baskets will find ample tables on wheh they may spread their dinners by families or groups. Qthers may purchase I sandwiches, cold drinks, ice cream,, etc., from the ladies’ clubs of the project at a nominal cost. At J :31 p. m. the parade will be gin on the old Somerset Farm Plan tation, make a circle of the com munity grounds and return to the starting point; a distance of ap proximately one mile. The Cres weli, Columbia and Edenton High School Bands, together with the Be!haven String Band, are expected to participate in the parade. I Games and athletic stunts will i begin at 2:30 p. m. and will con tinue through the remainder of the 'afternoon. Within the Coraununity building one historic, * one health and four Ladies’ Clubs’ booths will be of special interest to visitors. Many v prizes will be> awn ’-rf by chants and individuals. The community grounds, compos ed of approximately forty acres, have ample shade, benches, drive ways and parking space. The Com munity building provides good drinking water and rest rooms. The Scuppernong Farms Project is located in Washington and Tyr rell Counties extending from the shores of Lake Phelps to approxi mately three miles north of Cres weil; a total area of approximately eleven thousand acres, of which six thousand acres are being cultivated by unit and cooperative families. Embodied in its area are the Old ■Collins Plantation Mansion; home of the first bishop of North Caro lina, Parson Chas. Pettigrew; the grave and the unique home of Gen eral James Johnston Pettigrew; St. David’s church, one of the first churches in North Carolina and built by Parson Pettigrew on his plantation: and North Carolina’s newest State Park. i NINE CHURCHES UNITE IN TWO-WEEKS REVIVAL The Lake Landing Township re vival in which nine churches are taking part, will begin Monday night, July 29 at the Engelhard high school auditorium and con tinue through August 9, with Dr. Zene Wall of Shelby as the princi pal speaker, and the Rev. Horace Easom of Shelby leading the choir. The services will begin at 8:90 o’clock. According to the Rev. E. R. Stewart of Fairfield, all business houses in Engelhard are expected to close during the services. The choirs of the nine township churches' are expected to unite and form one large one. Everyone who can sing is invited in the choir. The Rev. Mr. Eason, who will lead in the singing, is often called “the Silvertoned Singer of the South.” Dr. Wall and the Rev. Mr. Easom ai-e well-known preachers. They went to Shelby fourteen years ago and took over a church of seven hundred members. Today the church has over two thousand one hundred members. GERALDINE FERVER | ACCEPTS POSITION ! . | Geraldine Forver, for two con secutive years a member of the Lost Colony choir, left Manteo on Wednesday, July 24 to become voice director of Methodist orphanage of Waco, Texas. Besides teaching she (will accompany and direct the group on tours. i Miss Ferver, contralto, is a grad uate of Westminster Choir school jof which the Lost Colony choir is j ; composed. On Tuesday evening she II was entertained by a number of her 1 friends at the Nags Head Beach Club.
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