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VOL. I! SEPTEMBER 11, 1941 NO. 41
ANOTHER YEAR—WHAT?
Seldom have we been approached with more compliment
ary comment about the articles in a single issue of The
mnes tnan we have received concerning tne articles in last
w eeK s edition. Os course we received much praise about
the material in the edition dealing with Cape Hatteras and
the r essenden memorial a tew weens ago, but last week,
our articles about the Lost Colony and the National Sea
snore brought forth many flattering comments.
Ol course it is not praise we aie looking for, but an op
portunity for service to our readers, and the praise we re
ceive shows that we were right down the alley of popular
thinking. However the main point is to do something
constructive, and to keep people thinking right along, so
that something will be done another year to be continually
helpful before the season gets underway; and it then is
usually too late. The time to trim sails is before the wind
shifts.
i
First we might consider the subject of more hotels,
restaurants and rooming houses for the fast growing thou
sands of visitors to come to our seacoast for recreation.
When people find ready and ample accommodations upon
arrival, so that their visit is pleasant, they will wish to stay
longer, enjoy it more and spend more money. If their
visit is not delightful they will want to pull out at daybreak
the next morning, and once a dissatisfied visitor is on the
road and away, he cannot be sold on our further attrac
tions. He will not lack the desire to return, but he will
voice his dissatisfaction to others who might come to see
us, but who would be frightened away by the fear of inade
quate facilities.
So it seems that the present inadequate and often helpless
methods of finding room, and other accommodations should
be improved. There are several important things that
might be done in this direction. First of all, the tourist
homes themselves, should take the lead in this movement.
They should organize, they should properly catalog their
homes and locations, and their facilities. There is no reason
why a person should be confined to charge $1 a night per
person, if he has facilities worth more than $1 a night, and
the customer is anxious to pay for the better acommoda
tions. Most people want baths, and are willing to pay more
for the guarantee of a decent bath that isn’t overcrowded.
But there are many others who are content with more
primitive conveniences, and of course he should be told
where the lower priced places are.
Homeowners who wish overnight guests, should organize.
They should mark their homes, either with their own name,
or some attractive established name that means some
thing. It is silly to copy names that are long since worn
out in other localities. There are many good local names
resounding with the sound of the sea, or symbolic of oui
great history that will do much to popularize any place
that lives up to a good name. A small sign, to mark each
home will cost little, and will be wortli its cost many times
over.
More important still is the need for a central bureau where
visitors will find comfortable room, to sit and rest while
they are being waited on. An entire store is not too much
room for a place of this sort, where there might be good
'furnishings, a courteous staff, and ice water and rest rooms.
. Persons who travel a long way are usually tired. They
want to wash, to refresh themselves, become relaxed while
they are awaiting aid. They do not want to stand crowded
while overworked and harried girls, who do not have room
in which to move around, must rack their brains to keep
from losing their tempers and vainly trying to find rooms
that have long since been taken. They should have at their
finger-tips the information as to homes that are exhausted
as well as those that are not yet sold out.
There should be maps prepared, with complete informa
tion as to the location of every place, and a symbol to show
the price and type of accommodations to be expected. And
certainly the added convenience, and saving in time, money
and worry, should easily warrant each homeowner chipping
in on the expense of this service, which after all is equally
for his own profit.
While this lacks a lot of being all that might be done,
yet in passing we wish to point out another particularly
helpful thing obviously easy to do. Assuming that suc
cessful efforts have been made to make pleasant the visit
ors’ stay, every person on Roanoke Island, for instance,
should spare no pains to tell them that Roanoke Island is
not the only interesting place in the region. Reasonable
effort should be made to interest them in other sections
of our county and neighbor counties. Many visitors, might
be prevailed upon to remain longer in this locality. They
should be told that there is wonderful fishing at Hatteras,
and interesting scenery, delightful people, and a wealth of
history and romantic lore all along the coast —at Kitty
Hawk, at Colington, at Manns Harbor, Stumpy Point, and
other places. Many of these communities have excellent
tourist homes, and the longer the tourists are kept in this
section, the more money they will spend with us, rather
than trotting off to some other place that has much less
to offer. They also might be reminded of the splendid
shooting of various kinds in this section, in Dare, Hyde,
Tyrrell, Currituck and other places at other seasons of the
year, and in this manner many of them might be induced
to either pass the word along to interested friends, or they
might themselves return, in some cases, stopping at the
■eame places and offering new business.
It will cost nothing to do all this —directing folks to in
teresting things in other places, and moreover, it will create
a tremendous amount of good will for Roanoke Island in
ether pa-ts of the county. One cannot live for seif alone
and get far. Helping others gives greatest return, some
times combing back a thousand fold.
\y.o riu3 t remember that one community is too small to
long hold all the business. People just must be on the ■ S°
these days, after a short stay in one place. Whether thej,
cf-.mi be left to go afar and leave us for good, or to be made
interested in other nearby communities, will determine the
degree of profit and satisfaction we are gong to derive from
our efforts. The surface has not been scratched in th
tourist business. There are many more streaks of pay
dirt in the tourist business than we are getting, and we
mustn’t be content with just akmg off the cream. We must
get down to pay dirt. The best way to aid the cause is to
send them on to our neighbors at the first sign of restless
ness.
These are just a few random thoughts. Another is that
many tourists might stay longer were it easier to get food.
Some tourist s homes, the larger ones anyway, might do
veil to furnish meals. People like a place much more if
taey do not have to go far from it in search of food. Com
fort is a requisite of the modern tourist and we who don’t
recognize this fact are not or. our toes.
But the time to start is now—not next summer when a
bunch of tired, dusty, cross and hungry people roll up to
the door to find, perhaps, that somebody is already in the
house and they must start roiling again. Begin organizing
now, and above all, begin preparing to get folks anxious
to go to other places in this section too. Our appeal is so
diversified that most anybody can find something to in
terest them a week or a month. If a single community
enterprise can take in SIOO,OOO at the gates in a season,
with another quarter million dollars spent outside the gates
for service, just close your eyes and imagine the staggering
possibilities open to a whole region that is wide awake and
organized to live and let live.
MAGNANIMOUS APPOINTMENT
The action of Governor Broughton in re-appointing A. J.
Maxwell as Commissioner of Revenue for four years car
ries with it a highly satisfactory approach to the problems
of State. Mr. Maxwell was a candidate against Mr. Brough
ton, and became very ill as a result of the strenuous cam
paign he waged.
\Ve think this appointment is a measure of the stature
of the Governor. While he is a practical politician who
; knows that no politce! entity can survive if it departs al
together the theory “To the victor belongs the spoils,” we
know that he is patriot enough, to desire that the State be
manned by the best possible help available.
In appointing Mr. Maxwell, he appointed the man most
qualified, by reason of experience, knowledge and training
for the post. In these complex times, it is a critical mat
ter, and in appointing Mr. Maxwell the Governor has
thought first of the State’s welfare. The appointment was
wise and magnanimous anu generous as well as patriotic.
We surmise that many other of Mr. Broughton’s appoint
! ments will show equally good reasons, despite the disclaim
ers who are disappointed at seeing their own man lose,
and thereby discredit the fortunate choice.
J On the whole, we don’t see any criticism of Governor
Broughton, for the type of men appointed by him and on
; whom he must rely for aid in administering the huge affairs
of the State during his four years in office.
WE ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES
We are not the only ones who think that the people of
Hyde County are being discriminated against by the new
Federal regulations providing that no person may take
: more than three geese in the aggregate of all kinds during
any 7 consecutive days in their county while neighboring
j ciunties continue to be governed by the 3-a-day ruling,
i Editor Herbert Peele of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance
thinks so, too. This is what he had to say in a recent edi-
I torial entitled “Discrimination Against Hyde:
“The new regulation, just promulgated by the Federal
biological Survey to restrict sharply the bag limit on geese
in Hyde County, poises a serious threat of discrimination
i against Hyde hunting guides.
j Under the ban applied to Hyde County a hunter can shoot
only three geese a week. In neighboring Dare and Curri
tuck the visiting sportsman is allowed to bring down three
! a day from the same flock of geese. Naturally the out-of
i State visitor is tempted to lodges in the county with the
; larger game limit.
Even if the argument of the conservationists that goose
shooting in Hyde County has during past seasons taken
too heavy a toll is to cut the bag quota in that county
j to one-sixth the limit permitted in adjacent counties seems
! a remedy drastic beyond the needs of the situation.”
j While Editor Peeie’s editorial is not as stiffly worded as
jit mght have been, we are grateful that leaders in other
sections recognize the unfairness of the new' ruling to the
I people of Hyde and are willing to speak their mind about it.
i
NO NEED TO FAKE HISTORY
! There is so much of genuinely interesting historv in the
! Southern Albemarle, and other parts of North Carolina,
j that is documented, and a matter of record, that it is not
j necessary for any county to fake or conjure up anything
'that savors of historical consequence.
! Our history is outstanding history, and the kind that
attracts visitors year after year. And there is room a
jlong time to come for the marking of genuine things of
great moment in this section. We will gain nothing by
marking things that are doubtful or maybe considered
fakes elsewhere.
Visitors to our town, will laugh at us, and the worst of
jit, they will doubt the authenticity of the real things we
wish to perpetuate.
HYDE AGAIN STATE’S ORPHAN ANNIE?
After making a trip over Hyde’s muddy roads severai
years ago, the late W. O. Saunders, fearless Elizabeth City
editor, made the statement that Hyde was the State’s Little
Orphan Annie. This because of the deplorable conditions
of the roads as compared with other counties Now with
Hyde “holding the bag” in regards to the hunting business
as a result of the new 7 3-a-week bag limit imposed by the
Fish and Wildlife Service, we wonder if the term is not
appropriate to use again at this time ?
| Other Editors
SGT. CAP MAJOR IS j
A CONFUSING NAME
(From Onslow County News &
VidWs)
Sgt. Cap Major of the 31st Bar- (
rage Balloon battalion is a capable |
and likeable fellow, but that name
of his can create more confusion
than the proverbial bull in the.
china shop. - I
Confusing names come natural
to him though, for his father was
Col. Casper Major, an army offi
cer. For some reason, a man with
the name of Casper is invariably
known as “Cap”. So you can’t
blame Cap Major for being Cap
Major.
But Cap Major didn’t have to go
and earn a sergeantcy. A poor guy
: looking for the sergeant can have !
an awful time if he doesn’t explain t
at great length who he’s after.
And even then he is likely to have
commissioned and non-commission
ed officers tripping over each:
other. j
Ask for Sgt. Major and you’ll
probably get a sergeant-major who
is not Sergeant Major.
Get familiar if you will and call J
for “Cap”, and a captain will an-|
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swer who is not Cap. This cap
tain, by the way, might think you
pretty impertinent for calling hm
| Cap.
' You get that all straightened
out, assuring the captain that
you’re not trying to be wise, and
ask for Major. So a major comes
aiong and says, “Was someone
calling me?”
By this time you are willing to
pay the court costs if this Cap
Major guy will just have his name
changed.
j After about two hours and 17
minutes you find Sergeant Major.
Now you have utterly forgotten
why you were looking for him.
This is all very disheartening and
makes you wonder whether you
might be slipping a little mentally.
But, for all this, Maj. Douglass G.
Pamplin and Capt. John F. Wil
liams are glad s o have him in their
organization, Battery B of the j
1 301st. He ably takes his part in ]
the training program and leads the
'BBTC orchestra.
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ACT OF RAIDED LINER'S CAPTAIN
PREVENTS MAJOR SEA DISASTER
PROMPT action by Captain W.
G. Smith, of the Egyptian liner
Zam Zam, shelled and sunk by a
German raider in the South At
lantic, prevented one of the heavi
est losses of life yet threatened in
the current ocean warfare, ac
cording to Charles A. McCarthy,
one of the American survivors.
McCarthy, a member of the
British American Ambulance
Corps, has arrived in the United
States in advance of other mem
bers of his group held prisoner in
France.
“We were four days from Cape
town,” McCarthy says, “when in
the darkness just before sunrise
the raider attacked us. Without
warning, shells fell about the
ship. Passengers awakened by
the explosions were running
about below and on the decks.
Then the shells began crashing
into the ZamZam, racking her
from stem to stern.
“Captain Smith tried to work
the Morse blinker but a shell had
cut the cable. He ordered the
Egyptian flag unfurled. He also
swung the liner broadside to
show that she had stopped, and
directed that lifeboats be put over
the side. But the shells kept com
ing. A German gunner told us
later that fifty-five were fired.
Nine of them hit the ZamZam.
“Still under shellfire. Captain
Smith sent a crew member below
for a flashlight that he had
bought in New York. Standing in
the wreckage of the bridge, the
skipper signaled in Morse code,
‘Egyptian ship’.
Columbia Personals
1 Miss Virginia Yerby, Miss
Gladys Smith, Jack Barnes, and
Gene Wade of Norfolk were the 1
v eek end guests of Miss Yerby’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Yerby
on Bridge street.
Miss Emma Sue Snell left Mon
day morning for Louisburg to at
tend Louisburg College.
i
J. J. Brickhouse is a patient in
Norfolk General Hospital.
Mrs. Tom Tarkenton is spending
some time in Rocky Mount with
Mr. Tarkenton’s sister.
J. E. Norris, Jr., has gone to!
Louisburg where he will enter
Louisburg College.
Chas. McClees is at home for a ;
few days from Maxwell Field in |
Alabama.
and Mrs. Stirling Brickhouse
ana Mrs. J: J. Brickhouse spent!
Sunday in Norfolk visiting rela- j
tives.
, . I
1 Miss Eana Ray Yerby spent the [
week pnd ■with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Yerby.
j
j George Kelley of Norfolk was.
| LAKE LANDING NEWS !
i !
1 Mr. and Mrs. Heber Windley and
News, Va., spent the week end
with Miss Helen Lavender,
i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams 1
arid little son, Richard, are spend
ing some time at Newport, N. C.,
where Mr. Williams is working.
Mr. and Mrs. Heber Wndley and
Heber, Jr., returned to their home
in Jonesboro, N. C.. last week.
1 Mrs. Lee Boomer, Eunice Mid
gett, Annie Credle and son, and
Miss Lucy Sadler were the guests
of Mrs. Bettie Bridgman Monday,
i Sam Dudley and Wesley Bal
ance of Fort Bragg, N. C., spent
:the week end at their respective
homes.
I Miss Carrie Mae Mann left Wed
nesday for Franklinton, N. C.,
! where she will teach this winter,
j Miss Katrena Baum of Swan
Quarter was the guest of Mrs.
.Willie Dudley Saturday night.
I Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bonner
and children were the guests of
,Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Mann last week.
! Thurston Mann of Columbia
spent the week end at home.
l ; SWAN QUARTER NEWS
11
I Miss Mildred Spencer spent the
l week end at Washington.
' i Miss Ella Dill Gibbs left Friday
l for Roanoke Rapids where she will
1 he a teacher in the school there.
Mrs. Preston Hodges and little
daughter, Mary Ann of Norfolk
- are visiting Mrs. Hodges’ father,
1 A. B. Berry.
1 J Miss Lola Watson left Friday
i to spend the week end in Washing
ton and from there she will go to
Goldsboro where she will be a
.teacher in the Belfast school.
1 Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Tunnel! and
little daughter, Betty, returned
Sunday from a visit at Roanoke
i Ranids.
1 Mrs. A. B. Berry, a natient at
Tayloe hospital in Washington, is
.reDorted some improved.
I Miss Lona Bonner returned home
(Saturday after a visit at Newport
News, and Richmond. Va.
Horace Gutherie of Norfolk spent
tho week end here.
Miss Marforie William* left Sun
day for S , eabe'>rd whero she will be
a in the school.
Carlton Cahoon of New Bern
spent the week end here.
Miss Rebecca Grant of G*rve
burtr. teacher in the S. Q. H. S. ar
rived Saturday.
Charles A. McCarthy
“The sharp beam of the flash
light, which had been loaded with
fresh batteries, was seen and at
once the firing ceased.”
Crew members and 330 pas
sengers, some badly wounded,
were transferred to the raider.
Jammed below decks, the surviv
ors floated about the Atlantic tor
thirty-three days before being
landed on the coast of France.-
Twenty-one other members of
McCarthy's ambulance group
have now been released.
MRS. E. J. BRICKHOI SE
in town Sunday.
i Davis Coffield of Tarboro spent
the week end here with his grand
mother, Mrs. Sadie Davis.
Little Susan High of Lucoma is
visiting her grandmother Mrs.
Minnie Spruill.
I Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Weather
ly of Norfolk were in Columbia
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Jimmie Alexander and son,
Raymond, visited relatives here
last week.
|
! B. F. Spencer went to Norfolk
Tuesday to bring Mrs. Spencer
. home. She has been a patient in
| St. Vincent’s Hospital.
j Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brickhouse
of Saint Brides, Va., have been
visiting relatives in the county.
Mrs. H. A. Owens has returned
jhome from a visit to her son and
(daughter in Goldsboro and La
j Grange.
! Miss Cathrine Snyder drove to
Greensboro Friday afternoon.
Miss Myrtle Tarkenton spent |
Sunday at her home near Markup. l
! Mr. and Mrs. Evan Mclver of
i Durham are registeed at Ray’s
hotel, being here on a fishing trip.
Rouse Lupton, Jr., of Fort Bragg
spent the week end here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rouse Lup
ton.
Holland Pavne of the U.S. Navy
j spent the week end here with his
mother, Mrs. Ronald Payne.
If we sit down at set of sun
And count the things that we
have done,
And counting, find
One self-denying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who
heard—
One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it
went—
Then we may count the day well
spent.
But if through all the lifelong day
We’ve eased no heart by yea or
nay;
If through it all
We’ve nothing that we can trace
Has brought the sunshine to a
face—
No act most small
That helped any soul and nothing
cost—
Then count that day as worse
than lost.
—Anonymous.
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N. MILLER, Skyco, Manteo, North Carolina
Thursday, September 11, 1941
THE SAILOR BOY
He rose at dawn, and fired with
hope.
Shot o’er the seething harbor
bar,
And reached the ship and caught
the rope
And whistled to the morning
star.
And while he whistled loud and
long.
He heard a fierce mermaiden cry,
“Oh! boy, the’ thou are young and
proud,
I see the place where thou wilt
lie.
“The sands and yeasty surges mix
In caves about the dreary bay,
And on thy ribs the limpet sticks,
And in thy heart the scrawl shad
play.
“Fool,” he answered, ‘death is sure
To those that stay and those that
roam,
But I will never more endure
To sit with empty hands at home.
‘Mv mother clings about niv neck,
My sister crying 'stay for
shame,’
My father raves of death and
wreck—
They are all to blame, they are
all to blame.
“God help me! Save I take my part
Os dansrer on the roaring sea,
A. devil rises in my heart
Far wo’-se than any death to
me.”
—Alfred Tennyson.
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I NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
UNDER DEED OF TRUST
I By virtue of the authority vested
in the undersigned substitute trus
jtee, by a certain deed of trust ex
| ecuted by W. F. Morris and wife,
j Vinnie Morris, dated March 23rd,
1029, and recorded in the office of
(the register of deeds of Tyrrell
j County, in book 82. page 191, and
'by a certain instrument appointing
him substitute trustee, which in
strument is also recorded in said
| office, default being made in the
1 payment of the indebtedness se
cured thereby, the said substitute
trustee, will offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash at the
(courthouse door in Columbia, ori
I Monday, October fith. 1941, at 12:00
o’clock. Noon, the following de
scribed real estate:
{ Bounded on the north by the
■public road leading from D. C.
[Sawyer’s to Paul Jones store; on
the east by the Georgia Road. On
the south by the lands of Jim Mc-
Clees. On tne west by Big Island
and Peter Selbv, being a part of
the tract of land called Sadler
Field. .And being in Gum Neck
Township.
Ths September 4th, 1941.
J. ERNEST NORRIS.
lTr9-11-4t Substitute Trustee
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