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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD IE NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTORAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLIN4 V: : NO. 27 SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1944 Single Copy 5 Cents Lost colony brings OYER THREE MILLION DOLLARS TO COASTLAND Hundred Thousand People Pay $322,000 In Five Seasons To Witness Paul Green’s J^atchless Drama; North Carolina Collects v60,000 In Gas Taxes. CHERRY URGES PLANS NOW FOR POST WAR JOBS MELVIN DANIELS STEPS INTO FEAniNC’S SHOES N. C. STATE FARM OFFICIALS FIGHT DRAFT ORDER Every Local Community In State Can Do Much For Itself Now Th ' I stir ■ Colony, Paul Green’s I |the''p^ drama of the attempts of | Uog ^''8'iish to plant a colony on I lion Island brought three mil- Ilo/ dollars in new money to the Island, Dare County and Tyr of Hyde, Currituck, i *'®11> and other counties | t), and other wdiich the tourists travel-j Its '’each the show. ii) . Patrons in five seasons, paid \vij;^^^2,000 in gate admission. Peo 1 '^'I’oates that some 400,000 Ihat 1^0 see it, considering, (if ^ large number were chil- tr; ®aw the show at reduced TOceg^ I the short period of July 19^, G^S'Ost each season including Har I-'*' I'l'® State of North j some $60,000 in gasoline Ih ^ Stat ®!® figures are evident from revealed Monday of this an,) ’,.."’1'®'' Author ^ Oiri ted Paul Green, -- Sam Selden confer- citizens of Roanoke Is- of o ®°l^it>g toward the reopening ^Itow at the earliest oppor- diati^ °t> a scale more stupendous LANGSTON APPOINTED CHIEF OBSERVER AT « SWAN QUARTER POST W. H. Langston has been ap pointed chief observer of the Swan Quarter aircraft warning service to relieve sheriff Pratt Williamson it was announced last Friday by S-Sgt Charles Lehner of the Norfolk Wing of the First Fighter Command. Said Sergeant Lehner, “Mr. Langston promises to get busy and put the post back on its feet and Mrs. W. G. Credle and Mrs. E. K. Mann promise to help keep the post going Wednesday afternoons.” Sgt. Lehner said that he hop ed the fcitizens of Swan Quarter would give their very best coop eration to Mr. Langston and that the Swan Quarter post would operate regularly on Wednesday afternoons. ®'’er before and RED CROSS HAS and advanced improv'e-1 MANY VOLUNTEER not dreamed of with such e-1 ■ '"'mb, the th® dynamic leadership of: More Than 30.000 Help War Saunders projected 1 WORKERS IN N. C. 5®a hack in 19.30 Winston - Salem, March 5.— Warning that North Carolina will face numerous re-employment and reconversion problems after thr war, as well as a possible retur- of unemployment in some measure Major R. Gregg Cherry, candidate for governor, told the Men’s Civic Club of Winston-Salem in an acl dress tonight thab “every local community in the State should re- serve a large space in the blue print of its postwar plans for the setting up of machinery for re-ad- justment of returning veterans to peacetime economy', re-employ- ^ raent of returning local workers MELVIN R. DANIELS, popular now in the war industry centers. Register .of Deeds of Dare county, .and absorbing the supply of labor and the official orator of the coun- which will be released from war ty was chosen by his neighbors to iroduction jobs when the hostiH-i be chairman of the Roanoke Is ‘ies end. Senator D. B. Fearing, the ®®°P^® of Roanoke Island and tbg "'’founding countrv rallied to sho\y'"'’i®®!'. Beginning in 19.37 the ®Iosp continuously until its aa Labor day 1941. War “Shting and travel restric- Effort In One Way Or Another time Orig More than 30,000 volunteer wor kers in North Carolina are contri buting their time and their work Prevented the and it cannot be shown the varied program of the Amer...- itions permit, Cross, accoraing to D. L. whose place gg^ry-, chairman of the Hyde Se: reopening of to the nation’s war effort through ind it cam Pntil war conditions permit. Major Cherrv declared “the fa- '■ilities of the State Employment service will be of inestimable value in the post-war period in placement of workers and will be of prime im port'* nee in aiding in the necessary re-adjustments.” But he pointed out “the principa’ province of the employment ser vice is the placing of workers in existent jobs and the creation of jubs must be largely the task of industry and business. “No employment service, how ever efficient, can place workers in jobs unless there are jobs for them. Every local community should have definite plans worked out, as best they may be worked orjt at this time, for postwar un dertakings which can be inaugu rated as soon as the war is over. Such definite local planning will See Production Curtailed Se riously By Drastic Ruling A fight against the Sele''t’’ Service proposal to pull into o ’.’ice draft-age farmers not p ,. ' ing 16 war units has been laur"’ - in this state and in Washingto" ’ , Commissioner of Agriculture ^ ’ Kerr Scott, his assistant D. S G ’ trane, and other officials of State Department of Agriculture. In appealing for a reduction in the number of units necessary for deferment, Scott points out t'^ot “the present plan for the drafting of agricultural labor will serious ly curtail the production of import ant commodities for the prosecu tion of the war.” He said that North Carolina last year produced six per cent of the nation’s cottonseed and lint; 70 per cent of the flue-cured tobacco; HYDE COMMISSIONERS HEAR DISCUSSION ON ADVERTLING NOTICES war hostili- i chairman of the land Lost Colony committee, tak- .n « . 4.U J J- c 11 per cent of the sweet potatoes: mg over in this way, the duties of the late Senator Fearing, his long time friend. Mr. Daniels will at tend to the business of the now dormant Lost 'Colony show, and will head a group of citizens to 13 per cent of the peanuts; 20 per cent of the lespedeza seed; and three per cent of the Irish pota toes. . Upon his rfeturn from a series of meet with Governor Broughton Washington conferences on the ag- soon, to plan for the organization ricultural draft situation recently, of a group to produce a bigger and Coltrane sent to all members of the better show when war ends. North Carolina Congressional del egation various facts and figures regarding this State’s participa tion in the war effort. Coltrane declared that “on the TOR TXT RATP'TOTT basis of» recent estimates regard- JU1> UN KALLILH number of farms meeting the 16-unit plan, 45.900 persons now classified as 2-C and 3-C would no longer be eligible for de ferment.” ' PONDER LEAVES TO TAKE BIGGER Mrs. Spencer Will Head Wei fare Dept. Until Succes sor Is Named enable those State agencies which j lyionths leaves his post in Swan must aid in dealing with these pro blems to coordinate their programs c -.Lji. Scott and Coltrane said a large Hyde County foi ^his State because the small years and eight selves to operation by farm ma- of Welfare in the past two Quarter today, Thursday, March cjii^erv 9th to take over a larger job with with a minimum of wasted effort.” ^he State Department of Welfare According to figures compiled ■ I in Raleigh. Mr. Ponder will work ^be Statistics division of the in 10 counties as social represen tative of the state welfare office. FUNERAL HELD FOR I MRS. ROBT. ATKINSON! Mi’s.' ■"ator Fearing, the V,‘ 4- —^ ±5erry, c'.nairniaii oi uie n^uc ^''hib' ol the pageant is so County Chapter of the Red Cross, the i . died in 1943. During Ve^f" .'’'’sning two and a half Ts o' “"ice the show closed, there These workers gave 993,0.10 hours of sendee in the mr.nv acti vities of i.he Volunteer Special Ser tho ^ terrible denreciation in . ^ ii. a • let>'''^®n buildings at Fort Ra- ’^;'^'® the Ah'e«can Red Stac-P ' Cross uurmg the six monU- pe riod, July 1- I “If the.se December 31, 1943. statistics for the last six months of 1913 mean anything. it is that the American women ip atiij equipment, costumes, disif,. ^®®®'’sories have greatly We Thieves and vandals tie- carried away line ''h'hgs. Erosion of the shore . , . ,, „„„ ! ®'tenappc. Ai. if i u -u .this and in everv other state can tigo '’"tees the waterfront build- i, , . . ‘ a f Used for dressimr and storae-p depended upon to work—and ""tis, ^ ^ ^ work hard—in the interest of vic- Ote , „ . . „ tory,” Nat C. Wilson, manager of bp V . thousand dollars Southeastern Area with head- ’'® quarters in Atlanta, Ga., said re- a^nd t ®^°":.^°;cently. ® Puhli ii,^° make it inviting | “Xhis new year,” he continued, tiofg ” -■ - " to n ’'■'f .^"d to make it inviting Prossn ! “there must be no decline in enthu the i of the effort by which civ- lo par wAil ii, brought, women, through the ^*'® show American Red Cross, are respond- '^*'® old T T ' '"S to the needs of a nation at '’Uslv f ® Colony cost van-j ” a season to Carolina Red Cross pro- 1""*^ ®P0UffV,^^ ' '"iduction, during the six months’ pe- ^®"ses, ji oney to Puy ex-1 maintained the level attained for pLfp'"^ M In the preceding fiscal year, Mrs. F" and broilWf pointed out. During the ways xtp ™ T Tr f '"'half year the state’s 122 Chapters a” ®®at twl ®^ Lort Colony I garments and 56,791 ,® Peeds of the m' ° "tniscellaneous articles. Much of this J ‘his monevZ^^p I ' Production has gone to aid men in ■will be needed to ^ j • 4. 4.U,, assiif hands, actors, and other'‘h® '"-'u®d forces and into the Red All through its five j Wd3\^..had.the benefit of large p-f.^^AF^": North Carolina chapters made "epefif federal aid. It had the; „ i j • v,- ■ CC carpenters and other 6.57 surgical dresings, whicn by material furnished p o the Armv and Navy, and ^.- "lost f projects. It had the al- ‘h® preceding fiscal year, Mr. services of a hundred B^F^P^I^bed^ut th® - I embarkation. Also during this peri od, canteen workers served 114,822 meals, mostly to servicemen. The state now has 442 volunteer nurse’s aides and during the last half of the year chapters awarded 1,597 nurse’s aide certificates. This 1 - theiZ' hud local people ‘"•6 upft '■®udy and anxious to It y,;]| ,^Pd help a new cause. Wt sp„ have none of these things ®®''Ple Ai^nh'.hjot even the local ""'eh ip- ho in the old days had be time on their hands, *"''lony Tif '‘h rnuch for Lost the c 'World is now attuned ^^'"8' rni ^^®ci' of money. Every- Costs f ‘'h paid for ihgher 11 v- ‘b® old V,qi c® everybody; most of ""d are ■ P®r® have finished school hob affnyjh S'ainful jobs they can- But th^ bo leave. h'oi'e, y,jfi V®"^ show while costing h'®hy roo b® expected to bring in i ^"be of toL'^'h'bors. Instead of a ^ year, $160,000 to ;hstea(} p, h® easily expected, bpr the hi .*^’®bl0,000 in five years “o"’ ten /'he®® people of this sec- h'®y be oJ* fifteen million dollars, h®d orw»„.P®cb®d. And the contin- 'HTarry Swin’iLetTs' '^'Motli^ Dies; Former Hyde Resident ,| ^Mr. I^ndef ,cainf4;o Hyde Coun- Funeral services for Mrs. Robert .4tkinson, 84, who died Monday at Department, the farms of North Carolina are divided into 296,620 tracts of land, each of which aver ages'27:3' acres of-cropland. “The relatively small acres of cropland and the relatively small ty July 1, 1941, to succeed Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence. The depart ment grew under his able direction. , A graduate of the University of h"™*'.®'' "f’'vestock in the State re-, Carolina, had done social ® large percentage of the! „ rnAovp-f unii T ph^iV niAiiAi. ^urms having less than 16 war North ., — j work in Carteret and Lenoir coun- . ,, + j r* li the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. | ties before coming to Hyde. He did u'”ba> asserted Coltrane. Harry Swindell, were conducted i post-graduate study at the Social A samnle survey just comnleted Wednesday morning at the Swin-' School of the state university, dell home by the Rev. C. W. Guth rie, assisted by the Rev. J. T. Len non, officiating. Interment was in Soule cemetery. ' ‘^'-’.hool of the state university. ^v the Statistics division indicates No successor has been named. . farms Mrs. Essie Spencer will act until this State earned 16 units dur- a qualified persons is appointed by the Hyde Welfare Board from the , study showed that while in “When I Get to the End of the 1'■e^®b®'’ of bhe N. C. Merit System. ‘'‘'® Wav ” “Beautiful Isle of Some I Mr- and Mrs. Ponder had made ®f Ifi-un'b farms was approximate- a„“ in Swaa Quarter and ‘I' were sung by a quartette composed . Hyd® County, of Mrs. Metrah Swindell, Mrs. El mo Swindell, Mr. J. C. Williams, and Mrs. B. W. Williams accom panied by Mrs. Willie C. Harris. Mrs. Atkinson was the former Lucinda Luce, daughter of the late Jacob C. and Mary Ann Russell Luce of Vose, Pa. She became a member of the Methodist church in early girlhood. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Swindell, Mrs. J .Milton Colie of Florence, S. C., and Mrs. Joy- ure dronned to only three per cen in the Mountain section. The per- County Attorney And Editor Were Principal Parties In The Talk, With Spencer Pleading The Case Of Newspaper Advertising And The Attorney The Case For Posting; Banker Mann Rebukes County Paper. ATTORNEY DEFENDS j The Hyde County Board of POSTING NOTICES.County Commissioners heard dis cussion of advertising land sales Tuesday morning with attorney 0. L. Williams and editor Tom Spenc er, the principal parties in the talk. The meeting was the result of a request by Mr. Spencer to pre sent the side of newspaper publi cation to the commissioners. The question of how to legally and advantageously advertise land sales and other notices in Hyde County has been a topic of hot de bate for many years and the dis cussion Tuesday was a part o£ . this long dispute. The whole question arises because of con- fl'cting views on whether or not a local law of 1931 is repealed by a state law of 1939. Attorney 'V\'il- liams presented a letter from the State Attorney General which said it anpeared that it was not. The young newsman attempted to show the value of advertising HON. ORVILLE L. WILLI.4jVIS, a benefit to the county as it , , , .. , , benefits private business, but Mr. county attorney and widely-known williams contended that publica- lawyer, who delivered a strong tion costs were not justified by speech before the Hyde County sales and that the county is not re- Board of Commissioners Tuesday l''*'^®d by law to inform the citi- morning in favor of posting land ^®as through their county paper, sale notices instead of advertising faying that they could obtain the them in a newspaper. At the "'t'"’'''ation from posting notices, same time he charged the editor of "j^^® attorney contended that The The Hyde County Herald with not II®''aId did not give good news giving good coverage to county af- ®®''’®'’age of the courthouse and faij-s. I-bat the county had to pay for all Mr. Williams said his stand on I-b® information it put before the the issue was a “rededication of Pabl'c m the paper. Mr. Spencer my services to Hyde County.” replied that often counties paid His speech was the result pf ^^^®''" Procedures pub- charges by the young Hyde news- ’®''®d- He also stated that the man that'Hyde County officials Published items it were not taking advantage of the .ought to be news, admitting that county paper to inform the public "'.'ght sometimes fall down on and that the sale of land without ^"® newspaper might be illegal. The editor told the commission ers that he did not intend the news item (about'this meeting) in the last issue of The Herald as being directed at any person or parties. Home Club Members to Raise ^he attorney took the view that ENGELHARD WOMEN PLAN CHICKEN STEW Needed Money Selling Din ners Friday Evening The Engelhard Home club made the story was directed at Mrs. Maude Jones because it stated that the advertising question flared up because Mrs. Maude Jones, tax commissioner in certain forclosuie •'Will ^^® Ixjst Colony ’’®«ded >,A®®P®ti’uction of badly of und other taxoF-'"!'"®®®’ a'* of which will « ®'''ihtieR ‘‘'® treasuries of the i year, the Red Cross handled 81,868 cases dealing with the problems of training of volunteer women to serve as skilled laymen in hospitals and of housewives to render pri mary nursing care in the home is part of Red Cross efforts to com pensate for the shortage of doc tors and registered nurses at home. In 1943, North Carolina sent 283 nurses to the Army and the Navy, recruited by the American Red Cross. During the last half of the year, more than 410 nutrition cer tificates were issued in the State; 1,818 life saving certifi cates and 1,616 swimming certifi cates. Highlighting alt of its activities during 1943 was the American Red Cross program of Services to the Armed Forces. In North Carolina ' during the last four months of the FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY centage of 16-unit farms in the FOR MRS. ANNA CREDLE Piedniont counties was 41. “As of December 31, 1943, there Beloved Lake Landing Woman were approximately 34.771 dr?ft- Passes Away At Her Home ^8® farm workers classified at 2-C, Wednesday Morning with 43,086 classified as 8-C. In each case approximately two- Funeral services for Mrs. Anna thirds a,;-e white and one-third col- Credle, 68, were held Friday morn- '"'cd- This renresents a total of ing at 11 o’clock at the Amity Me- 77,857 deferred because of farm oc- thodist church with the Rev. S. E. cupations. This is anproximately Davis officiating. Interment was in o"® person for every four tracts of the church cemetery. land. ner Wallace of Charleston, S. C.; j Mrs. Credle passed away at her' If these men become no Icnger one brother, D. A. Luce of Tunk-1 home at Lake Landing early Wed- eligible for deferment a large num- hannock. Pa.; 10 grandchildren and | nesday morning following illness her of the 296,620 tracts of land 15 great-grandchildren. I of several years. She became cri- this State cannot be farmed this Pallbearers were: John H. Swin-1 tically ill a few days before her year>” declared Coltrane. dell, Jr., Russell A. Swindell, How- death. | North Carolina’s crop goals fo- ard Wallace, Joyner Wallace, Jr., j Mrs. Credle was the daughter of this year call for approxim'^te'" J. Milton Thomas, and Edward j the late Mr. and Mrs. Morgan 342,500 additional acres, most o^ Bonner. l Fisher of Lake Landing, a promi- which is scheduled to be devoted nent Hyde County family. She to increased production of soy- AGED NEGRO LOSES married the late Hugh Credle, beans, peanuts and hay crops. well - known land owner, and Governor Broughton said tha+ member of a well-to-do family. the Farm Labor Commission will Before being confined to her function again this summer “if home several years ago, Mrs. Cre- the farm labor situation demands die was a leader in church and 't.” community affairs. She was loved i by many friends and neighbors for "When National Selective Ser%'- SAVINGS IN FIRE Philip Selby, aged Negro of the Lhst Chance section of Lake Land ing township, lost five hundred dol lars when his home burned to the ground last Tuesday. Uncle Philip had his money hid in a trunk in the house. The house caught fire Tuesday afternoon ^bout three o’clock. The room where the money was hidden was ablaze when the fire was dis covered. Uncle Philip lost much of his household furniture along with the money . . . which would have been safe in the bank. But reports reaching this newspaper said the old Negro didn’t want anyone to know how many “greenbacks” he had. plans at their monthly meeting gyj^-g g^jj without advertising Tuesday afternoon to have a chic- in the county paper, ken stew dinner in the -Town Ha ^he attorney contended that the Friday evening, March 10, and sell ^aitor did not present a fair issue pa es o raise unds to cairj o*' because he did not say in the story the many activities of the orgam- ^hat a tax commissioner, accord- '®''' ing to a ruling of the Superior The women held an enjoyabU court in 1942, could use either post meeting Tuesday afternoon and ing or newspaper space. The edi- report®d on a number of club ac- tor had said that “the courts have tivities which showed that much, not ruled directly in the matter, al- vvork was being accomplished, though when the county tried to Each member that was present do- stop publication in 1942 they nated a 10c war savings stamp to failed.” the club album and the club made Spencer contended at the meet- a contribution to the Jane S. Me- ing that he was right in making Kimmon’s Loan Fund. the statement because the law of The club members reported 10 1931 says that it is absolutely not lap robes made for use of sick ser- necessary to use publication in vice men. Five were turned in at land sales. If it is not necessarv the meeting last week. to do this in Hyde County the court Cleg. Grei /p^®" Was accompanied to: servicemen and servicewomen and "tinned on page 4) their families. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jones Jr., of Newport News, 'Va., a son, at Columbia hospital, Feb. 24th. I Mrs. Jones was formerly Miss her gentle disposition and lovable '®e headquarters announced recent- character. i ly its new national policy of Surviving are four daughters,' “crack'"8 do-wn” on deferment of Miss Carmer Credle of Lake Land-, f"™®"®. officials of the State Be ing, Miss Lucille Credle, Nashville; Payment of Agriculture began to Mrs. Gus Gaylord of Belhaven “sample” North Carolina farms to and Mrs. Cleon Roper of Newport see how many would meet Select- News; one sister, Mrs. L. J. Wes- 'v® Service qualifications for fat ten and one brother, S. M. Fisher, '''®'' deferment, both of Lake Landing. | National Selective Service head- Pallbearers were: L. A. and Wil- quarters said that a farmer must lie Dudley, T. A. Jennette, Cole- produce annually 16 units to be man Davis, Harry Swindell and eligible for draft deferment. Sanford Long. | The State Department of Agri- I culture sampled 299 farms in the TIRE.S ■western area of the State and ^ farmer adverti'ip'' in ’liR week- found that only 10 would qualify ly newspaper, “O'-nnr of truck with 16 units of production per would like to cor''ognr,r,,^ with wi- 'uan. In the Piedmont section, 512 dow who o'wns tires, Oh’ect matri- farms were sampled, and only 213 mony. Send picture of tires.” were found to qualify. A total of 227 farms of the 320 samnled in Mrs. J. M. Long, president, pre- would not have made the county sided. The devotion was by Mrs. J. pay for the costs of publication. H. Jarvds. Miss Iberia Roach, home The county attorney said he was agent, gave the demonstration. wrong in this view. At the close of the chief part of the discussion between Mr. MTl- liams and Mr. Spencer, Ernest K. Mann, cashier of the Engelhard Bank & Trust Co., at Swan Quar ter made a short talk urging the method pointed out by Mr. Wil liams. Mr. Mann delivered a re- 1 buke to The Herald. He stated VISITS PARENTS that it was not a peper devoted to Sgt. Seth Harris, Jr., of Scott Hyde County and inferred that Field, Ill and Mrs. Harris of Eliz- Publisher Victor Meekins had sel- abeth City recently visited Sgt. fish motives in operating it and Harris parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth that the editor was biased in his Harris at their hope at Swan | writings. Quarter. . “Spencer challenged the banker to show wherein he had at any NEWS OF OUR MENwWOMEN IN UNIFORM HOME ON LEAVE Maxwell Cox, U. S. Navy, sta tioned at Gainbridge, Md., is visit ing his family and parents at Mid dletown. Mr. Cox was employed in High Point before he was inducted into the Navy recently. VISITS WIFE Pvt. E. C. Miller, Jr., of Fort Bragg visited his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Miller at Mid time showed partiality between' factions in Hyde County. As for the appearance of Dare County items in the paper, the young newsman said that these were sometimes used to fill space, but more often to build up a comaiun- ity of interest between the two great coastal counties. Said Spen cer, “It is selfish not to want to know how our neighbors get along. Hyde County will never grow and Seventy million pounds of extra I'll® Coastal area and 71 of the 139 poultry meat was ssved last year farms sampled in the Tidewater in the H. S. because farmers re- area were found to qualify. duced their poultry losses by three Elizabeth Fisher of Lake Landing, per cent. Buy War Bonds and Stamps. dletown early this week. He re-' progress until it awakens to work turned to camp Wednesday. Miller with its neighbors.” ’ " ’ Mann’s charge that Mr. Meek has just completed a special train ing course* at a southern army camp. He is now stationed at Fort Bragg. ins established the paper to get ad vertising in Hyde County was met (Please turn to page 4) I fit 'A ' JI
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