THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
VOL. V; NO. 14
MANTEO, N. C., OCTOBER 6, 1939
Single Copy 5c
MANDAMUS SUIT AGAINST
SHPWC CONSIDERED BY
HYDE-TYRRELL COUNTIES
ISLAND IS STILL
POPULAR WITH
CAMERA MEN
3KYCO COUPLE HAS
THREE ANNIVERSARIES
Four Jam Handy Represen
tative'; Here With Movie
Camera
Shots of Fort Raleigh, the Alli
gator River at Kilkenny, and Nags
! Head woods will form part of a
Resolutions Passed Agreeing Share Expense
Of Mandamus Suit to Show Cause Why Co- feature length moving picture, de
lumbia-Swan Quarter Road Should Not Be
Completed; Mass Meeting Set For 25th at
Fairfield; Other Business at Meeting
Resolutions setting forth their 1
intentions to enter a mandamus
Suit against the State Highway
®nd Public Works Commission re
quiring the commission to show
cause why it should not complete
■an all-weather road between Co
lumbia and Swan Quarter were
Passed by the Hyde County Board
uf Commissioners in session at
Swan Quarter Monday and Tuesday
this week. >
The resolutions set forth the be-
Raf that on or about the 16th of
November, 1931, the State High
way and Public Works Commission
^und itself by letter addressed to
Hon. Lindsay C. Warren, member
of Congress, to construct an all-
"'eather road connecting the coun
ty seat of Hyde with the County
®eat of Tyrrell in consideration of
E. F. WILLIAMS
MADE PRESIDENT
COMMERCE GROUP
Swan Quarter Man Takes
Chair; Group to Meet With
Hyde-Tyrrell Com’rs
Ephron F. Williams, prominent
merchant of Swan Quarter, was
elected to the presidency of the
Hyde County Chamber of Com
merce succeeding P. G. Gallop, re
signed, at the quarterly meeting of
the body held at Fairfield M'onday
night. Mr. Williams accepted the
post and presided over the remain
der of the meeting following his
election.
Regrets were conveyed to the
^■he Federal government agreeing to meeting from Judge I. M. Meekins
■^“^struct a bridge across the Island of Elizabeth City who was unable
to accept an invitation to address
Waterway Canal along the route
hear Fairfield. The Federal gov
ernment, the resolutions continued,
has carried out its part of said
Contract by having co'mpleted the
’Construction of said bridge more
than four years ago.
The resolutions followed the
Wording of similar resolutions
passed recently by the Tyrrell
'County board of commissioners,
''’ith each board agreeing to as
sume half of the expenses of such
a suit including attorney’s fees,
providing that any bills in connec
tion with the suit shall first be ap
proved by the respective boards.
The resolutions further ordered
that a joint meeting of the Hyde
and Tyrrell County boards of com-
hiissioners together with the Hyde
County Chamber of Commerce and
the group.
The association agreed to have
representatives present at a joint
meeting of the boards of county
commissioners of Hyde and Tyrrell
counties scheduled to be held in
Fairfield Wednesday, October 25.
At the meeting it Is expected that
steps will be taken to put pressure
on the State of North Carolina to
enforce fulfilment of a contract be
tween the State and the Federal
Government and to vindicate Con
gressman Lindsay C. Warren of
picting the development of Amer
ican civilization and sponsored byi
General Motors. I
Four men from the Jam Handy
Organization, Detroit, Michigan,
left Wednesday after spending
several days in this section taking
the shots. Their company, ranking |
■with Hollywood companies in the i
amount of film used, was commis-1
sLoned to do the job. The four are '
Gordon Avil, cinematographic di
rector, L. E. Raupp, assistant di
rector, A1 O’Dea, general techni
cian, and Bernard Haugh, assistant
cameraman.
Local Men Guides
Their work began in August in
Cumberland, Maryland, and from
there they went south to Williams
burg to photograph the colonial re
construction. While in Dare and
Tyrrell counties they were assisted
by Bob O’Neal, Ben Dixon Mac-
Neill, and A. C. Stratton who gave
them information about this section
and served as guides.
Ldaving here they plan to go
back to Williamsburg and into
Pennsylvania. When they reach
New York City they will take pic
tures of General Motors’ display at
the World’s Fair which shows the
■world as it is expected to be in
1960. These pictures will be a
part of the film which will show
America’s development from early
settlement until an imaginary 1960.
The film will be impressionistic
SUPERIOR COURT
IN DARE COUNTY
ON OCTOBER 23
Commissioners Draw Jury
List; Foreclosures of 1936
Taxes Ordered
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Midgett of; taxes due.
Skyco, on September 29, observed
three anniversaries with one big
celebration. Mrs. Midgett was 76
years of age September 25 and her
husband was 81 on the 29th. Sep
tember 27 was their fifty-fourth
wedding anniversary.
The Board of Commissioners this
week after considering various rou
tine matters drew the jury list for
the term of Superior Court begin
ning October 23rd, made adjust
ment of several 1938 taxes, and ex
pressed themselves as being op
posed to making additional expen
ditures, requested of them.
The county is now faced with a
demand from several proptrty
holders to wipe 'Off the 1939
taxes on many thousands of dollars
worth of property lost in the Man-
teo fire on September 10th. This
problem may be settled at an early
meeting.
Tightening up of tax collections
was recommended in order to take
■care of the losses occasioned from
other sources, and many who have
not paid their taxes up to date will
get a shaking up, Martin Kellogg,
Jr., County Attorney, was instruct
ed to start at once on foreclosure
of 1936 taxes.
In the meantime, the Sheriff is
preparing a list of people o\vning
trucks, cars, skiffs, boats and nets
who are delinquent in taxes and
these will be taken, stored, and sold
for taxes. The county officials do
not wish that some shall pay, and
others escape paying their part of
STATE’S NEEDY AGED PAID
OVER 3 MILLION A YEAR;
OTHER COSTS OF RELIEF
A Review of the Relief Picture in North Caro
lina as Seen by the Director of Publicity For
the State Board; Numerous Groups Now
Must Lean Heavily Upon Public Funds For
Support
J. K. WILSON TO
HEAD BAR OF
FIRST DISTRICT
O. L. Williams and George T.
Davis of Swan Quarter
Named to Offices
BURIAL ASSOCIATION
WILL MEET MONDAY
WOODROW PRICE ROES ^
WITH RALEIGH TIMES
giving a general idea of changes
aiid developments. A special kind
of lens and a new technique will
aid in the impression of time pass
ing, bringing scenes from a dis
tance to close range.
Will Go West
From New York the four cam-
3ny other interested citizens or|j.g„ pledging for the State to build
Sroups be held in the school audi-1 all-weather road from Swan
rorium at Fairfield at 7 o’clock I Quarter to Columbia upon the
«ie night of October 25 or at such J,completion of the bridging of the
other date as would suit the con- i inland Waterway at Fairfield by
^nience of the Tyrrell board to Federal government.
Sw In this connection resolutions
outline future action to be taken.
Hyde County commissioners | ^gnimissioners of both counties cit-
ut their meeting this week also jjng the letter as a contract and
Woodrow Price, well-known
newspaper correspondent and rep
resentative in Manteo for the past
six years for the Daily Advance of
Elizabeth City is being congratu-
the first cogressional district withjeramen will go west and hope tO|iuted this v^k upon his new posi-
whom the contract was made in complete the work by December l-.I’on at the State capital \vith the
Tlreir most interesting material * Raleigh Times aUernoon daily. Mr.
thus far has been, according to di-| Price is noted for his honesty, sm-
reetor Avil, the turpentine farm-'ferity, and capacity, and is popu-
ing near Cordele, Georgia. They lar with Manteo people,
had hoped to get pictures of Cape
Hatteras before leaving here but
dull weather prevented this.
This area has recently become a _
popular photographic subject. [ Elizabeth City. Keith
William Eckenberger of the Times I - nother Elizabeth Citv
1931 by E. B. Jeffrees, then c'hair-
man of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission. Refer
ence is made to a letter written by
I Mr. Jeffrees to Congressman War
J»_„ 4--.
While re
gretting 'the departure of so good
a citizen, his -friends congratulate
him for his new opportunity in a
larger field. He is a native of
Saunders,
boy has
u^ccepted a contract with the State ■
of
„ Agriculture ,ior|^.^yQ counties against the State
“ung s disease eradication work in i Highway and Public Works Com-
-Hyde Countv with the countv or,ri
b
Heparment
Bang
County with the county
agreeing to provide a helper for
Ibe veterinarian sent here by the
state.
W. J, Lupton, county accountant,
Was authorized to list the suits in
stigated for taxes in behalf of the
^ounty and to ask a non suit in
those cases w-here full payment has
been made and no judgment en
tered.
A resolution was passed pe
titioning the state department of 1
Agriculture to refrain from using January
allowing to be used in Hyde
County any hog cholera virus,'
Since, the resolution pointed out,
disease or diseases prevalent in
Hyde County have not been def
initely determined to be hog chol
era and since the movement of
bogs in Hyde County is largely ex
port rather than import.
Settlement was made by Tax
Collector S. O. Jones for the 1938
laxes and the 1939 books were
burned over to him.
The Engelhard Banking & Trust
Co., at Swan Quarter was desig
nated as the official county deposi-
bony for another year.
The county agreed to sponsor a
WPA project' for a community
building at Ponzer at no expense
bo the county other than $500 pre
viously appropriated for that pur
pose.
. A request of the board of educa-
bion for permission to borrow
?4,000 from the state to be counted
'u the 1940-41 budget fcfc the pur
pose of installing sanitary toilets
At the Swan Quarter, Fairfield and
Engelhard schools was continued
nntil the next meeting.
proposing a joint civil suit by the
mission to enforce fulfilment and
vindication to Congressman War
ren to whom the letter (contract)
was written.
The 75 or more members and
guests were entertained at a
sumptuous chicken dinner prepared
by the Fairfield Woman’s Club
under the direction of Mrs. H. C.
Jones, president.
The next quarterly meeting will
be held at Engelhard the first Mon-
NAGS HEAD LAD HURT
IN AUTOMOBILE MISHAP
Jimmy Culpepper, 7, Struck
Gatesville Young Woman
at Naigs Head
by
Wide World Pictures and a staff,been on the Raleigh Times
photographer from “Life” maga- j bhe first of the year.
zine were here in July, along with|
a host of tourist amateur snap-1
shooters. The end of the Lost j
Colony season on Labor Day did j
not stop the interest. The fire;
September 11 brought newspaper
men to Manteo to photograph the
destruction, and only last week the
Photographic Section of the Army
Air Corps made aerial pictures of
the Hatteras National Seashore,
Diamond Shoals, Roanoke Island
and Collington.
The annual meeting of the Man-
teo Burial Association is set for
next Monday night, October 9, at
eight o’clock in the court house.
The meeting was originally sehed-
tiled tot last Monday but so few
members attended, that the busi
ness of the organization, including
the election of new officers, could
not be taken care of.
The group has a large member-
shi^'and they are urged to make
every effort to attend next Mon
day’s meeting.
FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE
AT MANNS HARBOR SUNDAY
Two attorneys of Hyde County
were honored at the meeting of the
first district bar associaion in
Washington Friday, O. L. Williams
being named vice president of t
association and George Thomas
Davis being named to the executive
committee representing Hyde
County.
The meeting attended by fifty at
torneys from the 10 counties, was
addressed by Associate Justice A.
A. F. Seawell of the Supreme
Court. Mr, Seawell expressed ap
proval of the proposal to change
the form of court procedure to
eliminate oral argument and also
of the proposed trend that all ap
peals to the State’s Supreme judi
cial body should not be entertained.
Congressman Lindsay C. Warren,
special guest of the bar, spoke
briefly previous to. the business
session when officer? were elected.
“I Enow of no one at the present
time,” he said, who is connected
with the government in an official
capacity^from the president on
down—who does not think thi.s
country must and shall keep Out of cml casting coins from his automo
By A. LAURANCE AYDLETT
What is relief costing North Car
olina ? The question frequently
pops into the minds of county offi
cials and private citizens in North
Carolina. But relief as it used to
be known is vastly different from
the assistance programs now in ef
fect in continental United States
and its insular possession in that
the modem ideas of aid represent
an attempt to give an assistance
that will be permanent and con
tinuing rather than something
merely to relieve the suffering of
the moment.
Care of the poor that for cen
turies past develoned entirely on
the locality itself with wastefu
methods of parceling out the com
munity’s surplus resources in vary
ing amounts to whoever might on
occasion be considered needy in the
lack of any set standards of meas
urement of poverty, was Relief.
But what did it serve in the long
run to alleviate? Certainly not the
basic conditions of the unfortunate.
The bounty of kings and emperors
scattered with random over the city
Streets in the wake of royal pro
cessions, the feasts on holiday oc
casions in the palace courtyards,
served to relieve nothing but the
conscience of despotic rulers or the
day’s pangs of hunger among the
populace. ^
People would laugh today at the
thought of a North Carolina offi-
the European war . . . Frankly
I believe from the bottom of my
heart that the neutrality law ks it
bile as it passed along the high-
ways, or at a Superior court judge
who threw open the gates of his
now exists is much more liable to!back yard and inviting any hungry
bring us into war than the proposed j people within four blocks to a fish
bill now pending debate on the Sen- '.try or barbecue. They wouldn’t
Fire completely destroyed a,
fiouse located in Manns Harbofl
Sunday afternoon about one o'clock |
when a fire starting in the kitchen
where cooking was being done
could not be checked. The house
was occupied by Negro employees
of C. D. Mann, and was not insured.
ate floor.”
J. K. Wilson of
Elizabeth City
have the money.
Years ago taxes
went to the
REV. WALSTON TO PREACH
NEXT SUNDAY AT WANCHESE
JUDITH WESCOTT IS
SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
h
The general condition of Judith
Wescott, two-year-old child ill of
infantile paralysis, is somewhat
improved, according to Dr. W. W.
Johnston, attending physicion.
Judith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Nevin Wescott of Manteo, became
paralyzed from the neck down last
Week. None of the paralysis has
mft her but she is able to eat and
IiAi’ general condition seems better.
While running across the road
to his home Saturday afternoon,
little Jimmy Culpepper, 7 years old,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Culpep
per, was struck by a Plymouth se
dan driven by Mrs. Alvis Jordan
of Gatesville and seriously injured.
He was taken to St. 'Vincent’s Hos
pital to Norfolk, where he is being
treated. He was picked up on the
fender of the car, and the blow
crushed in a part of the ho^od and
radiator, with no broken bones, but
a slight fracture of the skull. It
was miraculous how he escaped
death.
According to Mrs. Jordan, who is
the wife of the Superintendent of
the road widening project on the
beach, she was driving toward
Blanteo, following her husband,
when suddenly sbe saw the little
boy in front of her car. She said
she blew the horn, got frightened,
and lost control of the car. In her
effort to avoid running over the
boy she drove her car off the road,
and it went more than 30 yards
when the boy fell off her car onto
the hard road.
An investigation is being made
into the case as to the question of
determining cause if any for prose
cution. The driver and owner of
the car reported the accident
Rev. R. E. Walston of Tyner,
district director of young people,
will preach at 7:30 Sunday night
at the Wanchese Methodist church.
He plans to organize a Dare Coun
ty Union of young people, folio-w
ing the services, and all Methodist
churches of Dare County are in
vited to send representatives.
Rev. Walston has had consider
able success in leading young peo
ple according to Rev. James W.
Sneeden of the Wanchese church,
and Rev. Sneeden is confident that
in this county too, the young people
will respond to the organization
plan.
MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY
TO RENEW MEETINGS IN THE
CHURCH THAT GOD MOVED
Old Church Used 38 Years and Replaced by
Brick Structure Made Annex After 25 Years
as Humble Barn; Moved by Tide and Wind
300 Yards to Site Desired But Which the
Owner Refused Until Then to Sell; Public
Invited to Service
was chosen to succeed retiring • U'® king’s personal
President W. B. Rodman, Jr., of i Pi’operty, and it was the king who
Washington, O. L. Williams I^e government of the land.
Swan Quarter Was elected vice j ater political changes placed the
president, John Graham of Edenton ® ruler in the position of a
was reelected secretary-treasurer, standard about
The three-vear term of District the loyalties of an empire
Counselor ‘ Junius D. Grimes of I could rally. Only in the last few
Washington will not expire until, years hag the social lag begun to
next year. | catch up with changing economic
The district executive committee, i^ad political conditions,
composed of one representative at-1 . Modern democratic concepts have
lOrney from each county, was nam- l&iven the tax receipts to the Cov
ed as follows: Sam Blount, Beau- ernment and have said that the gov-
fort; W. S. Privott, Chowan; T. W. ernment is the People. So it is to-
Coster, Jr., Gates; Granbery Tuck
er, Perquimans; George T. Davis,
day that it is the Government that
has the money and not the Official;
Hyde; J. C. Meekins, Jr., Tyrrell; land that is why the government is
John H. Hall, Pasquotank; W. T. .beginning to look after the unfor-
Balstead, Camden; A. M. Scales,
Currituck; and Martin Kellogg, Jr.,
Dare.
ROANOKE ISLAND MUSIC
. CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
By CHARLES BOND ^ paint and other materials were
All Methodists of Hyde County ^ donated or purchased and donated
have been invited by the Rev. R. Z. j by members as memorials to some
Newton, pastor of several churches of the good brethren and sisters
in Hyde County, to attend a me- | who had had a hand in founding the
morial service Sunday evening at j church in 1874 and who had carried
7:30 o’clock in the church in Swan j on the church affairs after Provi-
Quarter which over a half century I dence had intervened to provide
ago “was moved by the hand of the site which the congregation
God” to the site the good people | had desired, an act which caused
had selected but which the owner i the name of the church to be
had refused to sell. | changed from the Swan Quarter
About 25 years ago the historic; Methodist church to Providence
church was sold for a bam and a Methodist church. Still others
mew modem brick edifice built in'went around an hour or so a day
The jury list is as follows;'the stead. But during all those | and helped the pastor with the la-
Manteo; J. B. O’Neal, Benjamin years when the old church was a.bor. All the materials and the ser-
barn, the gO'Od Methodists of Swan j vice were considered memorials to
Quarter and surrounding territory,. the good souls of former days. The
who considered its use as a bam | annex isn’t complete yet by far.
almost a sacrilege, began to de-jThe addition of several Sunday
a renewed sentiment for the j school rooms, and a kitchenette' is
“holy” church and at the same .still planned along with other Im-
JURY LIST
W. O’Neal, W. R. Knight and Ray
W. Jones; Wanchese, Preston
Daniels, O. H. Daniels, Van B.
Gray, Andrew Tillett; Manns Har
bor, B. F. .Twiford, Gaston Mann; velop
Stumpy Point, J. M. Midgett, T. M.
Wise, M. V. Hooper; Mashoes, F.
O. Basnight; East Lake, Ben Cain,
V. O. Creef; Waves, W. W. Mid
gett, Rodanthe, Lewis W. Midgett;
Salvo, L. Douglas; Buxton, M. E.
Farrow, C. T. Miller; Avon, C. A.
Morgan, J. A. Farrow; Frisco,
Hobson Willis, Emmett Bollinson;
Hatteras, Oscar Burrus, C. S. Sty-
ron, Zack Austin; Kitty Hawk,
Zene Perry, Silas Guard, Adam
Dough; Duck, Jackson Curies; Col
lington, Walter Williams, U. S.
Meekins; Kill Devil Hill, Reuben
Haskett.
time they were growing in religious
fervor and in numbers.
Replaced by Brick
provements, but the opening ser
vice in the reconstructed church
wjll be held Sunday evening as a
Mrs. M. L. Johnson recently re
ceived word that her brother, Riley
Midgett of Engelhard, is improv-
promptly to the officials, after ren- ing. Mr. Midgett had a hemor
dering assistance to the child. rhage of the brain last week.
SO'On the modern brick edifice, memorial, and then the work of
was becoming crowded and there | completing .and furnishing the
wasn’t room fur all the Sunday j building adjacent to the brick
School classes to meet separately, j building will continue, still as a
The sentiment for the old church j memorial to the church pioneers
began to brew along with the in-1 who built and made possible this
creasing realization of the need for | old church.
an annex. And so, .many hearts | ^bg story would not be com-
Alexander Mathis was elected
vice president and program chair
man, and Mrs. Rennie Williamson
was elected secretary of the Roan
oke Island Music Club when the
group met Tuesday night at 8:30
at the Manteo Methodist church.
Mrs. James Hollowell, president,
and Mrs. E. L. Bell, treasurer, will
continue in their offices.
Mrs. Williamson was appointed
chairman of the club’s delegation
to Windsor, where the N. C. Fed
eration of Music clubs will .meet
October 21.
“Discovering Music” is the text
being used this year by the group,
and Alexander Mathis discussed the
first two chapters, presenting a
musical program to illustrate their
■content. Idyllic nature was repre
sented by his violin number, “Sun
rise” from Greig’s “Peer^ Gynt
Suite,” and happy home life was
depicted In Mozart’s “Serenade in
Four Movements.” Mrs. William
son accompanied him at the piano
and played as a solo a military
Polanaise from Chopin to illustrate
color in music.
Mrs. Victor Meekins will be hos
tess to the group at their next
tunate in a three-fold program of
national, state and local interest
and responsibility.
In this newer light, the question
is not “what is relief costing North
Carolina?” but rather is a question
of to what extent what proportion
of the needy population in North
Carolina is being aided by all avail
able resources in bettering its un
fortunate conditions.
And the answer to that is that
an average of 48,424 cases a month
received only $121.00 each in as
sistance of some sort on the part
of the government during fiscal
1939. Total expenditures from all
siources for assistance in the form
of cash payments for last year
amounted to $6,041,625.93 distrib
uted under various phases of the'
general program and not including
aid tiy distributing surplus food
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CITIZENS OF HYDE CO.
URGE FIRE PREVENTION
, meeting on the first
November.
Tuesday in
were made glad a few weeks ago
when the old church, for 25 years
a mere humble barn, was secured
again for church purposes. A lot
piete without a recounting of the
incident when “the hand of God”
moved the church.
. About 1874 when a meeting place
of work was necessary to convert 1-1 considerable concern to
into a Sunday school .annex but the growing number of Methodists
pastor and the members of the con
gregation went about the task with
an almost unknown enthusiasm.
The windows and doors as well a^
in and around Swan Quarter, all
the good brethren and sisters
(Please turn to page eight)
GETS NICE DEER ON
BANKS OF ALLIGATOR
Carroll Cartwright and his fa
ther, Steve Cartwright, showed to
motorists passing the Alligator
river bridge near Fairfield Tues-
dav morning an 125-30 pound buck
which Carroll .had shot that day
along the banks of the Alligator
river.
Number ef Business and Profes
sional Men Sponsoring Ad in
Connection Fire Prevention
Citizens of Hyde County are co
operating generally and whole
heartedly with National Fire Pre
vention week October 8-14. A
number of business , and profes
sional men of Swan Quarter and
vertisement in this issue ef the
Engelhard are sponsoring an ad-
paper in which is set out some ad
vice and cautions to the people in
general to help curb the large an
nual fire loss.
The recent disaster at Manteo in
the neighboring county has caused
Hyde County citizens to fee! more
keenly the need for caution in re
gard to fire, hence the good re
sponse and cooperation in cionnec-
tion with National Fire Prevention
Week.
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