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■ ,i J n THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD SE news of the richest agricultural ( ounty in the foremost historical and recreational area op north carol II; NO. 36 SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941 Quarter commence- Pal p*'°8Tam, anounced by prin- ly B. Britton, will begin Sun- at 8 o’clock with the it]) ^^Leate sermon and close te- • I'® senior class graduation cloc^ ® Tuesday evening at 8 School closes Wednesday. ill'K Aureate sermon, which eshi®,f«livered by the Rev. Z. N. j ‘®lds of the Engelhard Chris- itiooi will be held in the high t S , Auditorium Sunday evening c,; clock. .an quarter r^HOOL FINALS be NEXT WEEK INA Single Copy 5c Pen > \With Sermon by Rev. The Oeshields Sunday Evening GIANT DREDGE DIVIDING WATERS OF STATE’S LARGEST LAKE—MATTAMUSKEET ’5- id' f H ■4 ’A '■* ia *> J 4. p.,-' Ji »,v t i* 1.. , „ „ i ‘■f . k'lpff 'V. n , -i . a-, /'i, >.% ;4 i''/, ^ oj J k'- •" ‘kl If."A ’ '/-W . '>> ^. A' •4 'a - uight exercises will be held ’Cain School auditorium Monday Pla-^ At 8 o’clock. At that time * r ■,'f I -5 J ant'. pageant, “Education Trium- Thl will be .presented. *'adu c>f the senior class f-en; Awon will be held Tuesday ^Ash'^ with E, Frank Ruble of f Agton as the principal speak- of the graduating class I'illi^'l'^w Alcox, James Berry, d Berry, Lynwood Harris, A*>a Spencer, Hal Swindell, Blake, Imagene Cowan, telo., ^."’An, Mary H. Flowers, HYDE EXPECTS MANY VISITORS MAY 30-JUNE1 FOR FIRST HOMECOMING Less T^n a Month Remains Until Celebration Which Is To Be May 30-June 1; Expected To Be Bigg’est Get-to-Gether of Recent Times; Held in Commemoration of 230 Years of Progress Less than a month remains untiL the Hyde County Homecoming ...Is:. COTTON GROWERS A/T A V 1 OA 1 celebration, which will be held May iVlAI iVEi^ril V Hi Iso-June 1, when hundreds of peo- PARITY PAYMENTS j pie from all parts of the country expected to converge on the Must Plant Within Their 1941 Allotment to Do So h(k ^’Bbs, Ada Martha Harris, j li,]-, ^An-is, Verna Jarvis, Grace law Marjorie O’Neal, Carolyn Nancy Swindell, Emest- {{h *\A'Ppson’ and Ada Williams, t A. Jarvis is valedictorian Hut ‘^Iass, and Vema L. Janus ^Atorian. I The 7 cubic yard dragline of the Merritt Dredging Company dumps its load on the five-mile-long base for the Fairfield-New Holland road across the middle of Mattamuskeet Lake in Hyde County. The boom of the dragline is 135 feet long. In the background is the hydraulic dredge now in use on the $350,000 project. The road base, now little more than half completed, is 230 feet wide from water line to waterline. A BRIDGE MADE OF EARTH The Highway Commission Spans Mattamuskeet (Reprinted by Courtesy State Highway and Construction Journal) CHAIRMAN AND MEMBER OF HIGHWAY BODY ^\IHPIELD and ENGELHARD TO Have commencement same time 'Si’„7F,=‘:1h"?Two"''‘'GEORGIA STONES Schools Con i)i,.?A'*encement exercises of the and Engelhard high Oig ik"''" Be held at the same Jr,)) ‘Ais year. The baccalaureate lied schools are sched rradi,''A Sunday, May 4 and th ’ Action Project number 1520 of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission is unique. For project number 1520 is the construction of a road across the middle of the largest lake in the south—Matta muskeet. Planned by H. E. Winslow, hy drographic engineer of the Com- mission, the road, seven and one- The Saturday Evening Post ^Alf l^g, is being constmct- Article Reviewed By Dredging Com pany of Charleston, South ON LOST COLONY TERMED A FAKE , -• exercises are Ar Wednesday, May 7. !uan, AenJiol'lnkifJJi! ^r^dn^W! purporting tkhave been carved by! The road, in itself, rather a pe- ^ ' Eleanor Dare, ends with the word , culiar undertaking, is further in- in the school ludiJrium It I ^^^E in capital letters. Nell Bat- ; teresting because of the nature of Engelhard’sgrad-!«« - Vd^he R. R. Grant of Fair- deliver their baccalaureate * ^ * evening in the school Jere 'vill be unique in that Sac], ^*1 Be no principal speaker, nil m ''i”’ ** graduating faji) a short talk in a pro- around the theme, oday„And Its Place in the World A corking exposure of the colos- Fairfeld-New Holland ro^.^now a appointed Chairman of the TIDEWATER ANGLERS TO HEAD UP AT ROANOKE ‘^oi, at u a m • #tu„lsal hoax of the so-called “Dare third class highway on which trav school”" stones’’ sponsored by the Doctors el is difficult in inclement weather, PVm. A school, which will be held p^sident and vice presi-1 the new road required its engineers dent of Brenau College, Georgia, j to depart from conventional raeth- is the leading article of the current ods of surveying. About five miles issue of The Saturday Evening: wide at the point of the road, the Newly Post. It is entitled “Writ on Rocke’’, lake is about two and one-half feet and is by Boyden Sparkes. Don’t; deep all the way across. Thus, miss it, for it is a knockout. It j while all ordinary land methods blows the whole gigantic fake into | could not be used, surveyors could ! smithereens, makes the historians set their transits on the lake floor. The 'Peak are ck*" I ance of the evidence points to the boats, as is necessary in much 'k®' valeifk • Tnez birti- )j^l^g,)Gcity of the stones’’ look highway work of this nature. k^Atorian:” I 'l’'® and the sponsors of, -We were very fortunate,’’ Mr. (fi'A'ArshiD ’ anH Q h 1 ’ I ridiculous rocks, particularly , Winslow raid, “in that Mattamus- Blake A Rov”a Fnti.^’ younger Pearce, look like some- keet does not have a mud bottom. Cuthre’n ri/J ^ worse. Some of i waded across the lake myself H 'D'^ncqueline’ McKenzie Youth ' l^icff follow ' 1 And did ^alufA’nocracy; Betty Berry, The j , ® „ ' "" C A College ELcation; Al-' , I" December, 1940. Dr. Haywood ' Payne, Why Every School J/fferson Pearce, Jr professor of Jk i Ginl in America Should American Histery at Emory Um- kvt 'Washington D C ■ Fdna versity. and also vice president of RS^;5ass 1>oet Vuth and ^^-nAU, of which his father, H. J. ''AdUi Th, atioti . What? . , ktu ^l-Ay was packed with sightseeing of the''"t-e“y"‘S fhT fort"v-eight “DareiS”'’ fr'Th "" ^A^dug'britself Se ^used i oTof the annual Tra^k Meets ^at: bolt'^TheJ t,. 'hard co\er> or rne lorty eignt ware thereafter the contract was siirned oj,g the canals dug some years I were started at_ the Lake Lanckng j to Fairfield, Sunday April will be held in he^^Ard school juie nf® auditorium at the same those Th, and the sched- Rev. E. Raleigh Writer Boyden Sparkes’ article Saturday Evening Post I with what many believe Caro lina, which bid as the Atlantic in the Dredging and Construction Corn- dealing PAuy- Bid for the project to in- a great elude grading and, structures but hoax, namely, the Georgia stones! not surfacing was p4 766.10. tie Lewis, the able writer of the the problems encountered in its News and Observer has construction, use and preservation. Post I Designed to cut some eight orl^^-g ten miles from the north-south are expected to converge on county in what is believed will be the biggest get-together to be held in Hyde in recent years. 1941 Cotton Parity • Payments The celebration, which is being will be made to all cotton growers sponsored by the County Teachers’ in Hyde County who plant within their 1941 allotment of cotton, ac cording to an announcement just made by County j^ent J. P. Wood ard. The payment will be based on the normal yield of each producer’s acreage allotment at the rate of 1.38 cents per pound. This pay ment will be made from the $212,- i000,000 fund provided by the 1941 Association, local Parents and Teachers Associations, and the County School Board, was original ly planned for May 8-11, but was recently postponed in order that Ambassador Josephus Daniels might be able to attend and take part in the program. A county executive committee composed of P. B. Britton, P. G. L. a (BEN) PRINCE By way of introducing two offi cials particularly important to the Southern Albemarle country, and whose appointment has been re ceived with approval throughout section. Mr. Prince, well I known lawyer of Hendersonville Fonmed Fishing Club Norfolk Men May Establish Lodge Here of ^ ® "1'° reported that “the preponder-; and wade across, rather than use The newly formed Tidewater Anglers Club, a group of some 75 Norfolk men, is contemplating es- it in much less time than would have been required to row across.” While at work the surveyors worked in bathing suits, and park ed their clothes and lunches on poles in the 30-inch deep lake. Af- ®*^Acy); Grace Smith After P®Arce, Sr., is the head, submitted ^gj. .^^orking on the project for The Saturday Evening Fost a, months, they completed ance of only 90,000 yards reported. 'Some time ago the company de cided the dragline was needed on a project in South Carolina, and made arrangements to bring in one of the dredges to complete the job. Here came up probably the most interesting .problem of the whole project: how to get the dredge to the lake. It had no pontoons, and could not walk to its job as dragline. It finally came up the Fairfield canal, and went thence to Matta- ED G. FLANAGAN State Highway and Public Works Commission, and Mr. Flanagan, banktr, and businessman of Green ville is on the Commission from the division in which these coun ties are located. tablishing a fishing lodge at Ro anoke Island for the benefit of those members who wish to take advantage of the fine hunting and fishing at Roanoke Island, accord ing to C. R. Meintire, well known Norfolk engineer, and one of the organizers. The club seeks 400 members at Department of Agriculture Appro-1 Gallop, Bob Simmons, W. C. Langs- priation Act. It is estimated that ton, Lindsay Midgette, Cecil Wins- the 1941 Parity Pavment will be lead, and Thos. E. Spencer waa- approximately $88,000,000. Hyde named by the Coilnty Teachers County should receive about $16,-1 Association Saturday to carry on 000. [the celebration in the absence of a According to present plans it is number of school principals who expected that the Parity Payments . originally composed this committee- on cotton will be computed on the | The celebfation is being’ held in same application form as is used commemoration of two hundred for the 1941 Agricultural Conserva- ! ^nd thirty years of progress, de- tion Program, and that the Parity velopment and change of life in Payment and the Conservation ^Be county. It will be the first af- Payment will be issued to the pro- Tuir of its kind attempted in the ducer in one check. If such pro- county since it was organized as a cedure is followed the Parity Pav- Part of the Carolina Colony back ments will not be received until 1711. October, November, and later 1 The festivities for the three day dates; whereas, in previous years Homecoming will open at Engel- the Cotton Parity Payments have hard. Friday evening. May 30, at been made in August, September, 8 p. m. with a giant musical pro- and October. j gram. This is expected to give the ' The proposal to combine the Cot- celebration a send off that will ton Parity Payment application , carry it through three days of en- with the Conservation Program ap- tertainment packed with enjoyment- plication will result in saving of \ Tec Ihe visitors who come to the expenses, and will also be of great j county to take nart in the 230th benefit to the producers since they, celebration, will have to sign only one applica-1 Although there is no program tion where in .previous years it was , plunn^ for Ocracoke, ^ Homecom- necessary to sign two. visitors will be given an op- The total payment on cotton, i„. * to visit the island Sat- cluding both Parity price and the '^’^Ay. Boats will be scheduled to Agriculture Conservation, wilt be 2.75 cents per pound in 1941. To carry those who want to make th« trip. 1 A banquet will be held at the Rladesvitle Community building Saturday evening at 6 o’clock with I the Hon., Josephus Daniels as the principal speaker. Mr. Daniels’ mother was bom and raised near ■ Slades Creek. I At 8:30, following the banquet j at Sladesville, there will be a • speaking program at the Fairfield jhigh school. This part of the . 1 frA incitri in oTi irxe-M-re> I Homecoming will be dedicated to-' Begin Friday Morning. FAIRFIELD STUDENTS i great Hyde Countisns, liyiog and at 9:00 O’clock SEE NATIONAL CAPITOL' dead. Brigadier General Samuel T. Ansell will be the principal the rate of $2 a year for dues. Each party will take care of its own expenses. Dr. T. C. Anderson is president; M. C. Hopkins, yice president, and Jimmy Tyler, secretary. FIFTH ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT DAY TO BE AT SWAN QUARTER The Juniors and Seniors of the: speaker. Fairfield high school visited the' Sunday, June 1. ynll be celebrat- nation’s capitol from April 10 gd Bv religious servicos in local through April 13. ,, , churches throue-hout the countv. The pupils motored to Norfolk ^nth a couhtyw'icle senuce at Swan county-wide Achievement Day forl^”*! went by boat to Washington. Quarter during the evening. The ,h. .Chcs ,Th. ■■ most interestuigr' , School students and citizens from all sections of Hyde County will converge on Swan Quarter to- morrow (Friday) for the fifth! covery of the forty-eight Dare ^^ereafter the contract was signed stones’^ and telhn^g me story of^the j.j)e dredging company, provi sion being that the work on the fate of the Lost Colonists which they purport to give and with which the readers of this column already are familiar. Their first J. -v-oc at Fairfield. Dr. ''^A’’> dean of Wake Forest "’*'1 deliver the address. Also Grace Watson favorable opinion of the stones ex- addresses, pressed by Dr. S. E. Morison, of Ian, Mary E. Midgette skepticism somewhat modified by a UllltsI 1 i ei V&SCU UL. O. Vi. iTAiii iii. h ®Aventh A rendered by Harvard, the editors of The Post ileliver '^Allop decided to buy the Pearce manu- ^I^Oiber ” diplomas. script and sent it to Mr. Sparkes .Alitig 1 ® tBe Engelhard grad- with an invitation to check the ma- i^dirudp^j^ Are; Mildred Mason, I terial in it. And did he do a noble 'Aper Melba Neal, Sarah, job? I’ll say- Taking with him , Avis 'p ® *A Hooker, Dorothy I his son-in-law, an alumnus of the ' ^Anal, and walked on its scovv^s ‘libs’I „*^A®e Watson, Margaret ■ University of North Carolina and . P"® ^'^f’^aining distance to the job. ett.'^'iuise Berry, Mary E. Mid-1 a graduate of its law school, he' ^n interesting method of drying '^fshall J'’' Hodges, Charlotte I doughtily set forth and unearthed "’A® employed here by the Merritt «tte tU ' erna Gibbs P D Mid- • nleutv - I company with great success. Small roadway—official length 7.67 miles with 5.5 miles across water—be completed in 200 working days. Work on the five structures, each of which with five 5x5 bells, was begun immediately, and pro vision was made to ship in a drag line. The drag line came down the Alligator-Pungo Cana! (part of the inland waterway) to a point near Fairfield, thence up the Fairfield ago across the lake by the com- j high school back in 1931. pany which undertook to drain the j This year a very interesting pro lake for agricultural purposes. This gram has been arranged, and many canal, however, was filled with silt i are expected to attend. The pro- and sand, and the dredge again had gram will be divided in three parts, to dig its way to its job. All told j consisting of an elementary field the dredge traversed 5 miles of self, meet, an indoor program, and dug canal. ' high school field meet. The day’s For a while the two machines activities will begin at 9 o’clock worked together, but the hydraulic and close at 4. dredge is now working alone. It is I The first thing scheduled is the doing surprisingly well, almost I choosing of the healthiest boy and | Betty Berry, Alvenus Payne, Ira III, Mid-1 plenty. Among the cer Barber, Mary Kit, Among the facts brought to , *1*^®® parallel with the edge of the Aboon ’ nu®®' Midgette, Elizabeth! light by this veritable Sherlock | *'®Ad were built all along the route, 'd Bnstine Fulford, Lee- Holmes of a reporter is the pro And cross dvkes were built about Gibbp I^I‘®®I'®r Selby, Gil-1 posal of an unnamed man. who Elizabeth City, Roanoke Island The cla^’ a^'I Sunshine Harris, j some years before had left Norfolk iP^filharH ^ exercises of the I deeply in debt,, to create for Brad- iw**^®®®' "'‘I* I*® I*®!^! i Fearing, of tim'p At 8 o’clock. At I president of the PlAy “'pi,®® seniors will present. Association, a bogus stone relic of ^ I^'Arplvn Road,” directed i the Lost Colony for publicity’s '’Aslon w'li Music for the sake. Mr. Sparkes quotes Mr. ®o. Litckfi 1^® directed by Mrs. Fearing in substantiation of this The and cross dykes were built 1000 feet apart. The water sur rounded by these dikes was then pumped out, and the sandy soil dried rapidly. Thus when the dragline lifted the soil to the road way, it was already dry. Despite this method of drying, however, and the fortunate nature of the soil on the lake floor, work J. And dancing by proposal, which was made in 19371 has not proceeded as rapidly as school is havi exercises. during the first season of Paul ing no Green’s drama on the Island and not long before the first Pearce stone turned up. About the same “St reino V aiunv up. VkUV/Ut me abide ^“AAber the Golden Rule time a stranger appeared and of- ‘ you Urn ‘Anto others fered to sell Mr. Fearing a stone lu.o PId have others -do unto relic of Virginia^ Dare which he (Please tvim Page Three) was hoped. The dragline with a boom 135 feet long, lifted 7 cubic yards, and by working on a 24- equalling the speed of the dragline, I girl in the county by doctors and Cutrell, Delbert though the soil it brings up must | nurses of the health department, be allowed to dry. g.gq j^j^e elementary field Specifications cal! for th® rm'd' bgig the boys and itself to be a 30 foot one with a 20 g^Hs of the grammar grades com- to 1 side slo'pe. The road is 5 feet p0ting in various types of running above the surface, making a 100 gj)jj jum.ping ' about' '^Aler’s edge. The i g,,) ^.j))gi) about rise therefore, is virtually imper- the high school audi- ceptible. I j.gj.jum, will be called to order at Estimated total cost on the proj- j ^2-^0 oclock. It will consist of the ect is $.350,000, which, in addition i crowning of the healthiest boy and to saving motorists appreciable ^ jg ^he county by Dr. S. V. mileage, will save the Commission Lewis, district health officer, and some quarter of a million dollars pgj,jQ).].gggggg jjy ^j^e band, over paving roads around the lake. g ^ Branch, director of Windbreaking action is expected' Hygiene for the State Board from the causeway since it is of, ^ principal the same type as that used on the g(j)jj.ggg o’clock, snd the p'-pivvo- sev,-j..p at the Swan Quarter high school auditorium will be at 7:45. Community Homecoming com mittees as named bv the County Teachers Association Saturdev are: Swan Quarter—Rev. E. G. Cowan, chsivman. Mrs. W. C. I.ergston, J. C Williams. Miss T.oP Wai^sr.n and Miss Li’^zie Mae Cred'e. FeirfieM —Rev. E. R. Stewart, chairraau, Mrs. A. B. Harris, R. L. H''v- ris. Mrs. C. M. Carfi-vight and George P. Cari-or Ev,o-o!. hard—Rev. Z N. Deshields ehal-- man. Mrs! Juanita Miller. P°v, .j. . R. Regan, Miss Margavette Si'-av. I-'Ald’cll) Jackie thome, and Mrs. Clara U.:v,hs. McKenzie, Clayton Doughtie, Bon- Sladesville IM^s. ”1® Armstrong, Faye Harris, Jen- chairman, Mesdames Jeff Grpdia, nie Simmons, Elliot Brown Stewart,. Pg^rest Raavs. Mrs. Ha-'a-oT- Cred'e 13. The visit gave Some of them a privilege that may never come again. Those who W'ent on the trip were: Nelson Camp, Mary Alice Spencer, Allie Proctor Roebuck, A Joseph Cutrell, Evy Lee Spencer, Clifton Mooney, Jr., Florine Gibbs, Frances Williams, Marie Daniels, R. W. Jones, Jr., Edna Sexton, Maxwell Blake, Inez Simmons, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Littrell. | jyjgg r Lupton and Mrs. Lin- AVERAGE ACREAGE . OF FARIVfS HIGHER wood McKinney. LAST’ RI'Tptl Ht"! r> POP RILEY MIDGETTE SUNDAY North Carolina’s average farm ! in 1940 was 67.7 acres, or 3.2 acres I Funeral services for Rilev above the 1930 average, based on Midgette. 57, of Engelhard M. road at Wrightsville, a remarkably, efficient construction. In connec- i tion with this action members of hour shift the contractors e.xpected the biological survey are taking a to lift from 175,000 to 200,000 cu- leaf from the Highway Oommis- bic yards monthly. Actual per- sion, in that they are planning to formance, however, fell far short build numerous short dikes of this mark, with a peak perform- (Please turn to .Page Four) At 2:15 the high school field meet will begin. It will consist of various types of running and jumping, etc. The program will end at 4 o’clock with announcement of the ^ _ , were T. L. Stuart, junior statistician of held at his home Thur-zda-- ad'-'-v- the United States census, reports ' goon. Interment was in the Gul- the State Department of Agricul- . rock cemetery-. I-i^de. ^ I Mr. Midgette died Wednesday “Land in farms last year totaled j morning w-h'le working at the 18,845,338 acres in North Carolina, Elizabeth Citv ship vards appar- or about four per cent more than | gntlv from a heart attack.’ reoorted in the 1930 census,’ he ad-1 Mr. Midgette had Uved most of ded. “The average value per farm his life at Engelhard. He was a was S2,647 last year compared with $3,018 in 1930. “The average value per acre for 1940 decreased during the'JO-year ter. Marv, Midgette of Eno-elhard. scores, and awarding of a trophy neriod from $46.75 in 1930 to and two sons, Leslie and Beamon to the winning school. , $39.09 in 1940.” pf Norfolk, Va. member of the Methodist ehurah. Surviving are his avife Mrs. I/ifia Satterthwaite Midgette. a dangh- S ■»«% -f 1* »
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