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THE HYDE The news of the richest AGRICULTURAX. county in the foremost historical and recreational area of north CAROLINA Vo^l; NO. 17 I'UBLIC RELATIONS COUNTY AGENT Meet in hyde is! to help get lime , W ell received ! TO HYDE FARMS' SWAN QUARTER, N. C... DECEMBER 21, 1939 Ralph McDor.ald Declares:To be Furnished Farmers Object Should be Better with Deductions Being Schools and Not Cheaper Made From Soil Checks ■What was described by P. G. Two car loads of ground lime- gallop, Hyde County superiaten-' stone were ordered this week by of schools, as one of the most County Agent J. P. Woodard for Successful meetings held in the' a number of Hyde County farm- '^uunty was the public relations' ers who are cooperating to secure •heeting of some 80 school folk of the limestone as grants of aid Beaufort and Hyde counties at the form^the government. Mr. Wood- agricultural building in Swan ard says he hopes to place several *^uarter last week. j car loads of the lime in Hyde After the invocation by the Rev. county and states that he will be glad to work with any farmers de- I siring to combine to order one car R. Stewart Mr. Gallop pre- ®E'nted the toastmaster, P. D. Mid- ^®tt, Jr., of Engelhard, president or more. the Greater Albemarle Associa- Applications are now being tak- '^ion. The welcome was extended en for the lime which will be de- Robert Edward Tunnell after livered as soon as possible. The ^l>;ch the toastmaster recognized .lime for Hyde county will come in '^U5' Phillips of UNC, secretary of cars to Belhaven and farmers are state school board association, ^ urged to remove same as quickly as ^ho invited Hyde county to organ- possible from the cars. *2e a unit in the association and “The amount which can be fur- ®xplained the procedure. He stat- nished any particular farm will be that the association would chal- determined in the same manner as '®nge the next legislature for more last year,” he said, “that is, 90 per the tax dollar for schools. Charlie Phillips, of the Woman’s College at Greensboro, was also Tecognized for a few remarks. cent of the maximum soil-build ing payment (not the total pay ment) may be taken up in lime stone.” According to information recent- r. Ralph McDonald, director of, provided by the State office, the public relations at the University, his keynote address stated that state was trying to operate '^heap schools when the object should be as good schools as pos sible. Others recognized for brief re- •harks were Claude Teague, busi- T'ess manager at the Woman’s Col- 'sge, J. E, Miller, principal of the ■^uhn H. Small high school and amount to be deducted from the 1 payment for each ton of lime is | $2.80, acording to Mr. Woodard,, who pointed out that the rate of deduction will be higher if the limestone is not applied in a man ner which will receive credit as a soil-building practice under the program. Soil-building payments for the majority of farms in this county are so small that it is necessary | TU'esident of the northeastern dis ^ict NCEA, Prank Edmundson, f groups of farmers to get to- aufort county supermtendent, ,, j reone.st carloads ioint- S. John.son, Washington City superintendent and district chair- of the public relations com mittee, Frank Ruble, principal of fee Washington high school and ■ ' Cars will be placed at the nearest ^mals association of the NCEA .B^ihaven) and transpor- school principals, president, gether and request carloads joint- | ly, Mr. Woodard said. However, j he stated there is little difficulty I in this plan, as the car can be stak- | ed off and each farmer given his I the NCEA unit of Beaufort 'bounty, the county commissioners Hyde county, two of the board m education members of Hyde ^uunty, several school committee man and other community leaders. Hegrets were sent from school ^ mficials of Dare County at their j " ‘uaoility to attend. I Special music was rendered by fee Sladesville string band and by fee Engelhard glee club under the fefection of Miss Caroline Spen- cer. ^tiss Mary Ward, state supervisor m home economics, complimented Cou,ity Accountant Calls At- fee Swan Quarter home econo-' mics girls who served the dinner '^Uder the direction of Miss Viola ■^ipin, teacher. sponsibility of those receiving the lime. The farm agent said his office was in better posihon this year to receive requests for the lime than it was last year, and applications : will be taken now for lime to be TAX LISTING TO BE IN JANUARY FOR UIRST TIME tention to Now Provision Made by Last Legislature Single Copy 5c COMPLETION 264 AND 94 PLEDGED SUPPORT G. A, A. DIRECTORS^ HERTFORD Road Committee Appointed and Authorized to Prepare Tentative Map of Present and Future Hig’hway Needs of Albemarle Area; Rep. Roy Davis, C. H. Pruden and L. S. Blades, Jr., on Comi>Jttee COMMUNITY TREE PROGRAM TO BE HELD DEC. 23RD To Sing Carols and Distribute ' Gifts to Needy at Court house Saturday The steering committee of the Swan Quarter community Christ mas tree club met at the agri cultural building Thursday night and planned the annual commun ity Christmas tree. The tree and program will be at the side of the courthouse December 23, with lo cal ministers conducting the de- votionals and with everybody in vited to participate in the sing ing of Christmas carols. Santa Claus will be on hand to distribute baskets and Christmas gifts to 33 needy families. These gifts will be provided by the spon soring organizations, the Cham ber of Commerce, the Odd piel- lows, the Masons, the Junior and ! Senior Woman’s Clubs, the I churches and the Parent-Teach- |ers association. I — GARNER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT Attention is called to the fact that the list takers appointed by the board of commissioners at their last meeting will begin their task of listing property for taxes on CHRISTMAS DAY j January 1, 1940. I Tax listing for the first time is '’’'me Off Varies in Most Of-'®®*^ ..Me UTT varies m most UT completed during the OFFICES IN HYDE To CLOSE FOR fices; Herald Office Closed Saturday and Monday Hyde County is preparing to ob- ^rve Christmas in a quiet way this ear with many people taking ad- antage of the occasion to visit Natives or to hold family reun- .fes by their own firesides. The month of January, says the tax supervisor. This change from April 1, the former starting time for re-j turning property for taxation, was provided under an act of the last General ’Assembly. Listers for each township have been appointed and arrangements „ .. and the postoffice will be being made to get the work 'osed all day except the window ®t^ted promptly it was ei^plained *«tvice at the post office which should bear y- be provided for a few minutes' ^^at January and not April ®tter the receipt of incoming mails. ® rural free deliveries will be •^ade. The county commissioners, ac- hstomed to meeting first Mon eys and Tuesdays, will not start tieir session until Tuesday, the after Christmas. The office J the county agent will be closed toin Friday noon through Tues- December 26. The office of is the time for listing. FAIRFIELD SCHOOL IS DAMAGED BY FIRE , superintendent of schools will closed from the 21st through “C 25th, inclusive. The offices t the register of deeds and the *®rk of court will be closed Christ- j®^s Day only with the WPA and “6 Welfare offices taking Satur- ^y and Monday. The Hyde County Herald office "1 be closed Saturday and Mon- ^y in order that the editor can himself of the only vacation bring the year. The next issue J the paper will come out on hursday as usual but because the ’’feting force will have several bys off for Christmas, the news . btent of the issue is not likely be up to par. SYRUP Experiments have shown that ■'’"bp prepared from sweet potato . ^’’ch is comparable in appearance b flavor to cornstarch syrup pre yed under similar conditions. Damage estimated at approxi mately $50 was done to the audi torium in the second story of the Fairfield school Friday morning when the flooring caught from the stove. The, high school boys un der the direction of the principal succeeded in extinguishing the fire after th« other students had been evacuated from the building. County Superintandent P. G. Gallop stated this week that he had been advised by the insurance company representative to secure the best carpenter available to make the repairs and to send the bill to the company. HUNTING GUIDES OF HYDE CALLED TO MEET DEC. 29 IN THE PUBLIC EYE A brief .sketch each week con cerning some official or prominent citizen of Hyde County. J Rupsrt West and Bill Sharpe To Address Guides on Sportsmen’s Problems All hunting and fishing guides in Hyde County have been invited to a meeting to be held at the agri cultural building in Swan Quarter at 7 :.30, December 29. This meet ing which is being held at the close of the duck and geese hunting sea son is being sponsored by the Hyde County Chamber of Commerce. Rupert West, district game pro tector, will conduct an open forum on the game situation and the out- of-state sportsmen’s problems. All guides are urged to be present and to participate in the open forum discussions. Bill Sharpe, director of the news bureau of the North Carolina de partment of conservation and de velopment, will deliver the address o" the evening. COMMITTEES NAMED AT DINNER MEETING SWAN QUARTER FIRM INSTALLS MEAT CASE Gaboon and Wahab, newest gro cery firm in Swan Quarter, an nounces the installation of a War ren meat counter which is modern and sanitary in every respect. The new counter which enables them to carry fresh meats of all kinds in season has been added at consider able expense as .an added conveni ence to the housewives of Swan Quarter, Messrs. Gaboon and Wa hab stated this w’eek. THE PIC’TURE, made by Victor Meekins shows Vice President John N. Garner while fishing at Oregon Inlet in Dare County in 1936 as the guest of Congressman Lindsay C. Warren, a close personal frieno. The Vice President captured ilTD friendship of Dare County people who met him. In fact, he has a strong following in North Carolina, second only to that of the Presi dent, who also visited Dare County in 1937. Mr. Garner on Saturday announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Presi dent of the United States. Speaking on the front porch of his rambling Uvalde, Texas, home. Garner dictated a 44-word state- ’ ment to Bascom Timmons, a Texas newspaperman and Garner inti- j mate. The statement said: j “I will accept the nomination for! President. I will make no effort to: control any delegates. The people should decide. A candidate should be selected at primaries and con ventions as provided by law, and I sincerely trust that all Democrats wall participate in them.” Two facts stood out: Garner’s as sertion that he is in the 1940 po litical race for himself and not as a stalking horse to attract dele gates who might be used to throw the nomination to another candi date. The implication that Gamer’s name will be placed before voters at state primaries and preferential balloting during the "Winter and Spring. The announcement made Gamer the first unequivocal Democratic candidate for the 1940 nomination. NEW SUBSCRIBERS TO HYDE COUNTY HERALD J. P. Woodard, Swan Quarter; Howard Blake, Wilson; Mrs. E. V. Fites, Steeleville; Ill.; Miss Ruby Jones, Chicago, Ill.; R. E. Dunning, Plymouth; Dr. B. L. Field, Salis bury; Mrs. E. L. Silgerthome, Elizabeth City; J. D. Swindell, Bal timore, Md.; K. R. Burrus; Quarter; Mrs. A- Bonner, Caho Farrow, Mrs. Planch Willis, Swan Quarter; N. M. C. Gaskins, D. X,. Mackey, "S. M. Mackey, Scranton; W. C. Bateman, Ponzer; Mrs. Wil lie O’Neal, Fairfield; Miss _EUa Gibbs, Roanoke Rapids; R. G. Wolf, Philadelphia. YOUNG PEOPLE MEET The Engelhard Methodist church will be host to the Hyde County Young People’s Union Sunday, at 7:30 n. m. The program topic will be God Among Men with Swan Quarter and Soule churches pro viding the speakers and the Wat son Chapel providing the special music all members are invited. A county recreational committee in addition to the regular stand ing committee was named at a dinner meeting of the officers and directors of the , Hyde County Chamber of Commerce at the O’Neal Hotel last week. The com mittee composed of P. D. Midgett, Jr., R. L. Patrick and W. H. Cox of Engelhard and H. C. Jones, Dallas Cuthrell and Linwood Rob erts of Fairfield was asked to con fer with the county commissioners about becoming legal sponsor for the Bell Island recreation project in cooperation with the Biological Survey. ’The committee was named after Jimmy E. L. Wade, of the Wil mington Chamber of Comerce and commisioner of public works had revealed the number of projects in which the City of Wilmington had shared in WPA money and co operation. When H. C. Jones suggested that the primary road project to re ceive the attention and backing of the organization should be the road from Columbia to Hyde County, P. D. Midgett revealed that he had a resolution already drafted to put before the direc tors of the Greater Albemarle As sociation for endorsement. The resolutoin to make the completion of the road from. Columbia to Fairfield and then to extend to N. C. 264 the No. 1 road project for the Greater Albemarle Asocia- tion, received the unanimous en dorsement of the Hyde County meeting. This Week:.. REV. E. G. CO WAR' ^ The subject of this sketch this I week is perhaps a stranger to many 'people in Hyde County, for he has 'just eome to Swan Quarter where he is pastor of the Providence .Methodist church, Souie and P.air- ' field churches. To residents o Ocracoke he is more familiar for he was pastor there before coming to Swan Quarter. Ernest Gales Co wan was born at Mount Mourne in Iredell County March 9, 1886, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Cowan. He was educated at Mount Mourne high school, Mooresville high school, and Westminster The- 'ological Seminary at Westminster, Maryland. Mr. Cowan served for nine years as statistical secretary of the Methodist Protestant conference and for three years was engaged in Christian Endeavor work. He is a member of the Methodist church of the North Carolina conference. I Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows and is transferring his mem bership to the Bayview lodge at Swan Quarter. He is also a me,m- ber of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He has been financial and recording secretary in both lodges, has been a Vice Noble Grand in the Odd Fellows and dis trict Councillor and Deputy State Councillor in the Junior Order. He is also a Past Councillor. Mr. Cowan was married April 3, 1908, in Greensboro to Miss Myrtle |Effie Kirkman. They are the par ents of two living children, Robert F. Cowan of Washington, D. C., and Ernest Gales Cowan, Jr., who is boatswain’s mate, first'class, on the U. S. S. Milwaukee stationed at I San Diego, California. Besides his main hobby and main object in life—preaching the gospel and winning souls to Christ—Mr. Cowan enjoys fishing, pitching hdi'se shoes, gardening, raising chickens and baseball. He also de lights in working with young people. ' Convincing evidence of the re gional consciousness of the officers, and directors of the Greater Albe marle Association was asserted at the December meeting of the asso ciation at the Hotel Hertford, in Hert. ord, Thursday night. . A resolution w’as offered pledg ing the support of the association in two highway projects; N. C. 94 from Columbia bo Fairfield and connecting with N. C. 264 and Che completion of N. C. 264 from En gelhard to Manns Harbor. The resolution was referred Co a committee named by President D. Midgett, which committee is au thorized to prepare a tentative map of the present and future highway needs of the Albemarle, with a view to adopting a road and bridge pro gram on which the Albemarle can solidly unite. The directors of eack county organization in the associa tion will be consulted in preparing the proposed map, which map is to be submitted to the directors from all the counties in the association for their approval be ore its adop tion. Members chosen to the com mittee are Representative Roy Da vis of Manteo, Dare County, C. H. Pruden of Windsor, Bertie County', and L. S. Blades, Jr., of Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, Mr. Mid gett as president and W. 0. Saun ders as secretary of the Greater Albemarle Association will afso serve the committee. W. O. Saunders, executive sec retary of the association, was di rected to take immealate steps to assemble information for the pro posed map, and Mr. Saunders was instructed to give the' fullest pos sible publicity to the proposed map and the work of the map-making committee. Commenting upon the action of the association at Hert ord Mr. Saunders said: “Fears that this .as sociation will go off half-cocked on any highway program to be spon sored by this body should have beeii dispelled by the actfon taken last Thursday night. If any section of the Albemarle is not satisfied with the highway program which will be adopted by this association, it will be because of the inertia of that county or locality and its lack of interest in the regional aims and objects of the association.” MULE STABLES OPEN IN SWAN QUARTER The old Ford garage opposite the post office in Swan Quarter has been converted into a livery stable where farmers may secure work stock. The firm, owned by R. W. Lee, an experienced mule dealer, has employed Evans C. Harris of Swan Quarter as sales man. Mr. Harris stated this week that shipments of mules and horses would be received about every two weeks and urges his friends to see him fifst for their work stock. HYDE CCC QUOTA NINE IN JANUARY j Nine applicants, 7 white and 2 .colored, has been set as the COC quota for Hyde Countv in January according to Mrs. Elizabeth G. Lawrence, county superintendent of public welfaite. More colored ap plications than the quota of re cruits are already on file, Mrs. Lawrence said. White applicants, however, are wanted and these should register at the welfare of fice in the Berrv buildina in Swan Quarter, Mrs. Lawrence said. Following are the requ,,ements: A citizen of the United States betw'een the ages of 17 and 23; un married; unemployed and in need of employment; not under convic tion for crime nor .on probation or parole, willing to make an allot ment if he has dependents, agreea ble to serve at least one full term of 6 months, physically and mental ly fit and able to do vigorous woHi; with stability o' purpose and char acter, plus a desire for work ex- jperience and self-improvement. I Mrs. Lawrence emphasizes the I fact that an enrollee who is more I than twenty-three and one-half '■years of age .on the date of accept ance is not eligible for enrollment; that no applicant who has not been I unconditionally released from pno- ib''tion or parole is eligible, and that preference is given to those in the 18 to 23 year age bracket. 'The dp.te of birth .of those applicants in the 17 year group must be substan tiated by documentary evidence. SHOWS JUNGLE PICTURES Students of the Belhaven schools were treated recently by the Lion.s Club and the Rotary club to a showing of jungle pictures in technicolor by Col. A. J. Macnafe, retired army officer of New York City, who took the pictures while exploring in Africa. Included in the pictures was that of the only white giraffe known.
The Hyde County Herald (Swan Quarter, N.C.)
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