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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
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; NUMBER 29
SWAN QUARTER, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944
Single Copy 5 Cents
PLANTING
delayed by
Wet weather
MOST YOUNG FARMERS
WILL BE CALLED SOON
t^farmers Like To Start
atting Seed In Ground
About Now
Hyde County farm officials said
this week that it appeared that
few young farmers between the
ages of 18 and 26 would be de-
]ferred. Only those who show that
they are essential to the operation
lost tr , ^ of a farm and are producing 16
I Plant County farmers like ^,jj] have a chance of defer-
if(.u , about this time in ^ad it was not definite that
|rn M this would be sufficient.
I, Monday not a single farmer status of those over 26 was
Planted any corn this year, g(.;ii joubt it was said. .4s far
CHSNA
JAPAN
iTOKYO-
'Very few had their land g^g jg ^nown they must produce 16
ted ready for putting the u^its.
Ren
It t? earth. The rains have Recent announcements out of!
Ln farmers behind in their, Washington indicates that few i
r and the downpours of Sun- physically qualified men under 26)
Monday further delayed would escane induction into the j
ISo i services.
Pie famers planted Irish pota- j _— —
I POSTAL RATES
P been able to do this yet. | ttttt t ty'ti
i"® are many who had planned | WILL BE M.ORE
potatoes this year, ' AFTER MAR. 26 i
Vus changed their plans be-
'apti getting late for this
* CHUNGKING
^fokmoia:
POLITICAL FRONT
IS QUIET IN HYDE
The political pot has not yet
begun to boil in Hyde County. Not
a single candidate has announced.
* Offices up for election this year
are members of the Board of Com
missioners, County Representative,
Members of the Board of Educa
tion, and the Recorder Judge.
An inquiring reporter around
NEARLY TWO MILLIONS
PLANNED FOR IMPROVING
AIR STATION AT MANTEO
0
ilj growers are in the same
^gnt of the potato farmers about
oat their seeds and plants.
® plants were put out last
I’gjj crops will be late this
.“ccause of the late start in
on the potato farmer.
Pilce many times bring low
gij, ® compared with early dig-
’§S,
I^Hother thing that has caused
oaring down of farm onerations
ar. County is the uncertainty
farrJI* situation. Most young
don’t know what to do and
iititii tu doing nothing
defi^i^oy learn something more
in stated by farm officials
Quarter Monday that no-
Hioff ,^®d slowed up farm work
drafj the uncertainty of the
in ^ Officials in charge of this
®^hmgton haye poorly man-
iV'ait; P^^^ their work by
'ii'lill planting to change
^^‘^tions.
farmers have seed and fer-
caujg ’ ^i^t fear to start a crop be-
bnfuj, don’t know how long
colof® he called to the
Mrs. SwinHell of Swan Quar
ter Office Reminds Pa
trons of Change
a Qj, ‘ ^T^ce they g^et started in
they can carry on
he])) ,®lves, there is no getting
iRin il"- They don’t feel like
a chance and locing
oftejj haye invested, which is
have ^he savings that they
MOR;
® town and CITY
Gardens are needed
and "^^fcia! vegetable growers
tot j^^PPlng plants will probably
Se^.g^ ^hle to produce and con-
last h i^uch food this year as
Tlig ®®^use of the labor shortage,
criti- I allien will become more
dtan . additional men are
Colig^®*d;s are reaching the State
tiany , ^*f®f*sion Service that
^hitki people are
this V ^ growing a garden
then 1 because of the dry wea-
they summer and the fact that
tabigg ^hle to get all the vege-
Di /hey needed.
Against *" G- Schaub warns
statgg tif'*®h false reasoning ' and
but . hat it is not only patriotic
sity u matter of vital neces-
Piom ^ garden. “Last year
Vegg^aj.^ one-half of our fresh
Sardg^ were grown in home
is fgj, ^ ^ud the need this year
and not f more gardens
tor fewer gardens,’’ the Direc-
hhat last year all
her gf "’ere broken in the num-
anioyj^t ^■®*'ilens grown and the
h’ortii *'.h® food produced. In
ted t-L G^^olina alone it
’'hat thefe
Postmaster Mrs. Louella Swin
dell of Swan Quarter announces
that effective on or after Sundav.
March 26, 1944, alt first class mail
for local delivery will require 3
cents an ounce or fraction there
of.
This means, pointed out Post
master Swindell that letters mail
ed in' Swan Quarter for delivery in
Swan Quarter, or likewise anv
other town, beginning March 26,
must carry three stamps instead
of two as heretofore.
Mrs. Swindell also calls atten
tion to one other change in postal
rates that will go into effect on
that date. Air mail for United
States and Alaska will require a
postage rate of 8 cents an ounce
instead of the former 6 cents.
There will be no change in Air
Mail rates of 6 cents for one-half
ounce or fraction thereof to be
sent to or by members of the arm
ed services overseas.
Other postal changes wdll in
clude an increased rate on insured
parcels, registrations, collect-op-
delivery and money order fees,
Mrs. Swindell pointed out.
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the courthouse Monday receiveii New Proposal Would Expend $1,500,000 In
Addition to Recent Grant of $400,000 For
Early Expenditure Plans Indicate Long-
Time Program Is Contemplated For Pro
ject; May Mean Great Development of
Other Facilities On Coast.
answers to his question that
vealed little light on the situation.,
Present office holders questioned I
had not made up their own minds
as to what they were going to do.
JUNIOR - SENIOR
BANQUET HELD
THURS. EVENING
Swan Quarter Juniors
tertain Seniors At
Annual Banquet
En-
With Japan’s Pacific bases reeling under the surprise blows of U. S.
forces, the maintenance of her supply lines to these areas becomes a
difficult problem. It is the opinion of some AUled military ex^^^ ^ banquet hall treated as
The Junior class of Swan Quar
ter High School entertained the
seniors at the annual junior-seni
or banquet in the home economics
building, Thursday evening,
March 16.
The St. Patrick’s Day motif was
carried out in the menu decora
tions using a color scheme of
green and white. White narcissus,
white carnations, ivy and white
candles were used as table decora
WE CANNOT M^E “".rlffS
PLANS NOW tOK I Committee to provide an addition-
WILD SPENDING jj;;™ “J,4 “j*
' ■ air station indicates that this pro-
Cherry Says /'□’^^^ ject is considered a valuable one
Spending ^hould JN^Ot Be among the series of stations that
Fixed on Basis of War
time Income
those troops she is sending to reinforce garrisons are commg
Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies. It is possible that our overall strat-
egy aims at the seveiauce of this Rne. ^-ni»riili"iniifT iitr->rt«tewi»ajHaaSiigai3
FUNERAL TUESDAY FOR SWAN QUARTER PTA
YOUNG GULROCK MAN URGES PATRONS OUT
Funeral services' for Calvin I The Swan Quarter Parent-Tea-
Coolidge Midgette, 19, of Gurlock cher Association held Rs r^lar
were held from the home Tuesday meeting Monday evening March
afternoon at 3 o’clock with the 6. J. M. Worrell, Presi^ded. The
Rev J. T. Brown of the Engelhard minutes were read by Mrs. Maysel
Christian church officiating. Inter- Sawyer.
ment was in the Gulrock cemetery.! Reports were given by the pubh-
The young man died at the city, budget and finance commit-
Fowle Memorial hospital in Wash-j tees. It was reported that $67 was
ington Sunday morning. He was - made at a pie supper held recently
rushed to the hospital with appen-.at the school.
dicitis. He never recovered. The following program was
Calvin was employed on an oys-'rendered: Reading, “How Well
ter boat. Like most of the men Do You Know America , by Mrs.
folk of his community he took to W. G. Harris; song, Anmrica,
OAV UOMF the water to make his living. He group; devotional by Rev. C. W.
ROSE BAY HOME Engelhard high Guthrie; piano solo by Pratt Wil-
CLUB MET FRIDAY lliamson, Jr.; duet, Sunbonnet Sally
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.'and Orvell Jim by Sudie Midyette
Clyde Midgette; two brothers, | and Georgian Ann Credle.
Dan P. Midgette of Gurlock andj. Supt. N. W. Shelton made a
The Rose Bay Home Demonstra.
tiop club met at the home of Mrs.
St. Patrick’s garden. Favors were
in the form of shamrock and St.
Patrick’s hat.
A three-course dinner consist
ing of grapefruit cocktail, boiled
ham, string beans, potato salad,
glazed apples, hot biscuits, ice
cream and cake, and coffee, was
served. The menu was planned and
supervised by Mrs. Alice R. Wil
liamson and served by the ninth
grade girls.
The program conducted by the
toastmistress, Blandina Credle, in
cluded :
The Invocation, Wilbur Wheeler;
to the Shamrocks, N.elda Roy Wil
liams; to the Irish Lads and Col
leens, Maxine Gibbs; the arp of
St. Patrick, Lucile Sadler; ah Ir
ish Medley.
After the toasts to the faculty
and seniors a series of toasts was
given as fallows, to Henry Spen
cer, Our Ladies' Man; to Rachel
Equil, who gets what she wants
when she wants it; to Dottie Wil-
radiate from the great Naval air
center at Norfolk. It has been only
7 a few days since news came that
“It would be foolish now to plan Navy would spend more than
for wild spending on the basis of $400,000 on improving the barracks
warUrne economy,’’ R. Gregg Cher- and other buildings at this base,
ry, candidate for Governor is More than one and a half mil-
telling North Carolina audiences lion dollars has been spent on this
this week. Mr. Cherry’s common- base, for in the beginning the Civil
sense views are based upon actual Aeronautics authority spent over
knowledge of the state’s economy, $400,000 building the airport for
long experience, and the realistic the county on land owned by the'
view that if taxes are to be reduc- public. The project has paid for
ed within the power of our people itself, in that no levy has been
to pay after the war, we must con- made upon the taxpayers for the
sider our people will not have in- $20,00,0 worth of property ftfrnish-
comes as large as now. | ed by the county. And it has
Mr Cherry advocates making' brought a huge business to the
jobs for our people who will be out county since its construction in
of jobs in the various essential that jihe Navy took it over at the
projects for roads and other things /art of the war, invested a million
in the state, and he favors being dollars or more, and local business
prepared with money enough to men, landlords, mechanics and la-
aid the returning soldiers and sail
ors. It is apparently not common-
sense now to say exactly how, nor
how much money we can spend,
when no one actually knows.
“Business and financial condi
tions are bound to be materially
changed the minute the war is
over,
that
borers have reaped huge benefits
from the business it has brought
here.
Such projects as this, adjacent to
the great farming interests of
Hyde, Tyrrell and Currituck, and
the fisheries of Dare, will mean the
development of greater markets
Mr. Cherry says. “And for producers of vegetables, poul-
reason long range plans try^ eggs, and fruits, and /her
Hams, the quietest girl; to Seth
Carrol Gibbs, Friday afternoon,; Midgette of Norfolk; four|sh*ort talk on the work of the Red I Credle, Jr., and Marjorie 'Wheeler,
sisters Mrs. 'Velma Ballance, Sa-I Cross and urged everyone
rah and Sylvia Midgette and Mrs. I could to contribute freely.
March 17, for its regular monthly
meeting. An interesting program
’was presented and a number of
business matters attended to at
the meeting.
The group opened the meeting
by singing “The Star Spangled
Banner”. Devotional was by Mrs.
Carrol Gibbs.
Minutes of the last meeting
were read and the roll call made.
Collection taken for kit equipment
was $9, a splendid sum for this
small club. The members decided
to meet some afternoon and work
on the 12 kits which the club has! Workers in all forest industries
promised to make. j are being urged to produce these
A contribution of $1.50 ""^as. essential war products to
who
Mabel Qiudley of Gulrock.
LUMBER SITUATION
STILL SERIOUS
The War Production Board still
considers military needs for lum
ber to be sufficiently serious to
preclude the possibility of relax
ing present restrictions on con
struction for civilian purposes.
1943 production fell short of ac-
The Swan Quarter P. T. A. meets
the first Monday night of each
month. All patrons are urged to
attend. The cooperation of every
one is needed.
HYDE SENT TWO NEGROES
INTO SERVICE FEBRUARY
848
is estima-
g , --- were at least 544,-
•>iateiv producing approxi-
foo(j_ *68>118,500.00 worth of
Scbai,},
''He ijj ® recommends that every-
towns and cities make
evej, j?*'’" to produce some food,
small plot,
"'here gardens be enlarged
need exists? He also
Cfopg ^ succession of
to gd ^^^iited in the garden so
food ^ continuous supply of
the fg]] the summer and into
gg ■ p® suggests that farmers
tra food 1 ^ l^rge amount of ex-
taken up for the Jane McKimmon
fund. Names were drawn for
writing letters to men in service.
Mrs. E. E. Hodges read an
article on poultry. Miss Iberia
Roach tqjked on “How to Stretch
Your Meat Supply.” After this
members took part in a food quiz.
The Club will hold its April
meeting with Mrs. E. E. Hodges.
FAIRFIELD HAS A
THREE ACT PLAY
The Hyde County Selective Ser-
\"ice Board sent two men into ser
vice in February. Both of them
tual needs by 4 billion board feet, were Negroes. They were Charlie
Randall Moore, Scranton, and Da
vis Julian Bryant, Engelhard.
Both of them were accepted for
Naval service and reported for
duty February 21.
the limit. Farmers may earn a
part of their deferment units by
producing sawlogs or pulpwood. I
Timber owners can supply the ! ENGELHARD BOY RATED
the captains ef the basketball
teams; and to Grady Max O’Neal,
the president of the class of ’44.
Singing and song stunts led by
should not be now fixed on the /f/f //s. / well as seafoods of
basis of a war economy.”
A war-generated surplus
all kind. It will maintain a steady
labor market whereby satisfactory
r wages will be paid people close at
•North Carolina state funds will not , -ii u • u •
, , t Home. It will bring new business
s/ve the financial /oblems of the /
state, Mr. Cherry has pointed ou centime resorts.
in his discussion of the financial ttt- i i - , -
,, jyxui-i. 4. niay look forward* for an in-
structure of the state g^ovemment. t , . . !
, , , , , ,, creased clamor for roads along
The general fund surplus should the coast and for new bridges and
^ . be considered as “a trust fund pavements in the Southern Albe-
Mrs. Harris were enjoyed during,for the people of North Carolina, j^arle counties, for vast numbers
the dinner. Jthe candidate said. He added that tourists will come to the
The guests were the juniors and j it may be possible to bring about ^^ast through Hvde and other
seniors, the faculty, Mrs. N. 'W.isome tax reductions safely, and counties. Hyde Count'- as well as
Shelton, Mr. and^ Mrs. C.J.Ca- that the state may also be able/o Tyrrell and Dare will' find much
profit in the new travel business
that will come this way.
boon, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin expand “services properly de-
Swindell. manded of it, but it is obvious that
The feature entertainment for the future fiscal policies of the
the evening was the dance which: state must in a large measure be V/^TTrriTj /"^ty /^/NTTTVTrriAT-
followed the banquet. Piano music determined in the days ahead.” I V J U I Ji wlj V./0 iJ JN 1 Y
was furnished by oleen Harris j “The state may face a problem INVITED TO J 0 IN
and string music by Bill Carawaii, j^f unemployment in the postwar y-kt j-ilt-ut.■.. ..
Maxton Midyette, and Cecil Flow-1 he added. i1* OOD CONTEST
He is telling his audiences of
required trees without resorting
to destructive practices. Only
mature, crowded or defective
trees need to be cut now. This
MARKSMAN WITH CARBINE
eir by planting gardens in
■ ® ha-
th,
plant beds after the
ave been pulled.
, Ben^a/.^^TILERY SCHOOL
Bin J* ^ibbs, son of Mr. and
at the F-*'i j'^^bbs, of Leechville, is
'^I'ainin ^rtillerv Replacement
'vhere if Fort Sill, Okla.,
b?-' ue -
“asic Z" receive his 17 weeks
Gibbs has
^attaliop ^®'^ to Battery B., 29th
'ivas •’ J’'b Training Regiment.
^®rt 'PaPeted into the Arhiy at
to indn/?^ ®P February 18. Prior
’'be Bell, be was a student in
®‘baven High School.
Pfc. Israel Gibbs, son of Mr.
Harvey W. Gibbs of Engelhard
will insure an adequate supply of j and now stationed at Pope Field
timber for peace-time needs. Full j Army Air Base, where ‘ he is as-
details may be obtained from any ' signed to the First Troop Carrier
County Agent, State or Federal , Command, has recently qualified
Forester. ' as Marksman with the Carbine.
wanted—A SERMON
EACH WEEK FOR
THIS NEWSPAPER.
I the expansion of the state’s budget Nationwide Vegetable Production
and Marketing Competition for
$6,000 in Scholarships
Announced
'from $3,500,000 to $60,000,000,!
I and outlining where the money |
! comes from and where it is spent. |
As a regular feature each week H® advocates settin’g aside sur-
in the columns of this newspaper, ^o pay the state’s
we would like to have a sermon of indebtedness. He also recommends between the ages of 14 and 20 and
about 1,200 to 1,500 words from /I! with two years’experience in vege-
some pastor of a church in this
county, or a church ini
near the county.
North Carolina boys and girls,
North Carolina’s ser\'ice men
^mediately women when they come home ‘^ble gardening, are eligible to
from war.
“You’re the Doctor”! A farce in
three acts was presented by the
members of Fairfield High School
at the auditorium, Friday evening,
March 17.
Mrs. E. C. IVatson, principal of
the school, directed the play. The
cast of characters were as follows;
lows:
Bob Morrison, in search of
trouble—Billy Cuthrell.
Sniffy, who supplies it—Curtis
Blake.
Officer Dugan, on the trail of
the culprits—Theo Brickhouse.
Dr. Thorpe, himself—Macon
Sexton.
Moe Rosenberg, his lawyer—
Gene Midyette.
Professor Sockum. phvsical cul
ture instructor—^G. L. Roberts.
Dr. Tbeophilus Peck, who as-
nires to write—Garland Berry.
Archie Landis, Bob’s friend-—
Dennis Simmons.
■Velma Matthews, owner of the
Sanitorium—Doris Cuthroil.
Clementina, a permanent nsti-
ent-^-Garolyn Blake
Melindv, the colored cnoV—El- |
vira Hudson. |
Rita Harhorough, a mo-vie star j
—^Marcelline Smith. |
Katrina Dumnelmever, a ladv
from Vienna—^Selma Blake.
Bianca Bachagaluna. looking for
a rich husband—Evelyn Clark.
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■We invite all the pastors to sub
mit us for publication a sermon
that is suited to local conditions
so far as possib/. Since we are in-
viting sermons from pastors ol all
PONDER WORKING
10 COUNTY FIELD
compete in the $6,000 wartime food
pdoruction and marketing contest
of the National Junior Vegetable
Growers’ Association, it has been
announced.
L. R. Harrill, state 4-H Club lea-
faiths, we request that controver
sial sectarian issues be avoided.
In brief we
former Sunt, _ _
re in Hyde County, who joined with Earle Parsons, Jr.,
recently resigned to take a la.rger (Mass.) president of the associa-
want the type of Po/ has been made fidd tion, in inviting farm and’
.>1 worker with 10 counties and his
town
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sermon that leads to stimulating " ar/ir Qrorn/bor/!
thought, that inspires a desire for nual contest immediateh-. Addi-
better living, and at the same time Allegheny Ashe Casv/ell Forsvth ^formation may be obtained
it should impress the reader with GuHford RockiSm Ss '
the advantage of his or her church Surry, MHlkes and Yad/in. writing Hamll at North Caro-
as a militant, inspiring force for successor has yet been nam- 1 Una State College in Raleigh,
progress in the community. to take his place in Hyde Coun-1 Contestants from this county
We hope this feature -w-ill be ty. Mrs. Essie Spencer, case work-' "’iH compete for a $500 national
made use of by the various minis- gr.ig acting as head of the depart-j ®®l^olnrship. a Southern regional
ters to help others and at the same nient until a qualified person on award of $200 or for one of the
time make their own church and the merit system list is picked. Uen sectional awards of $100 from
its works better known. Sermons ^^ j a scholarship fund provided for the
association by the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company, Parsons
said. In addition two $25 war
bonds are offered to other out
standing contestants from the
state.
“Our association feels that by
enocuragfing bovs and girls to
study and utilize more efficient
methods of producing and market
ing vegetables we are helping con
sent manpower in a year in
■will be published shortly after re-|
ceipt, each taking its turn. A'
short biographical sketch of the
minister contributing will also be
acceptable. Address the Editor of
this newspaper. |
NEW PORT NEWS, VA.
HOME FOR FEW DAYS
Mr. and Mrs. Hallett T. Bridg-
man of Newport Ne-w-s, Va., an-
Pvt. Onslow Gib^s, U. S. Army, nounce the birth of a daughter at
stationed at Camp Stewart, Ga., is Elizabeth Bvixton hospital. Wed-
spending a few days in Swan Quar- nesday, March 8. Mr. and Mrs.
ter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bridgman were formerly of Scran-1 which every pound of food is need-
! Clifton Gibbs.
ton.
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VISITING WIFE
GREENVILLE
Kenneth Mason, U. S. Navy is Bom to Mr .and Mrs. Gilbert
visiting his -wife and other Richards, Wednesday, March 15,
relatives at Swan Quarter. 1944, a daughter in Greenville.
ed,” Parsons said. “In this con
test it is not how big a vegetable
grower you are, but how good a
grower.”
A First-Class Investment for the
future—^Buy War Bonds.