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Page Two THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD, SWAN QUARTER, N. C. Thursday, April HYDE COUNTY HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT SWAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA, BY TIMES PRINTING CO., Inc. THOS. E. SPENCER Editor Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Swan Quarter. N. C. Subscription Rates: One Year $3.; Six Months $1; Three Months 60c. Vol. V Swan Quarter, N. C., Thursday, April 6, 1944 No. 31 MRS. BECKWITH LOVED HYDE COUNTY. Few natives have more love for Hyde County than had Mrs. Stuart J. Beckwith, who passed away last Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Moore, in Washing ton. Mrs. Beckwith lived in in Hyde all of her married life, which Was the greater part of her 86 years. While she was not bom here and had not lived here since 1927, she always kept in close contact with life in the county and often visited her old home. Mrs. Beckwith is remembered best for teaching at Lake Landing where she operated a private school for a number of years. Many who were growing up three or four decades ago will remember her as the one from whom they received all their schooling. She was known by all the children as "Miss Lulu.” Many people until her death thought of her by that name. Death took away one who loved Hyde when it took Miss Lulu. She was indeed devoted to the community life of her adopted county and the home land of her husband who passed away in 1927. Mr. Beckwith was a school man and at one time was superintendent of Hyde County schools. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith were one of the Hyde County families that gave a son in the last war. Like many fam ilies of today they carried the burden without complaining over the loss of their loved one in the continuous struggle for freedom. The floral tributes which came from Washington showed that she was beloved there also. She had lived with her daughter in Washingtonfor the past 17 years. The flowers in many beautiful designs covered the grave and the area surrounding it. Hyde County has found great help and love from its adopted ones. Many have come from other places to live in the county and have made fine citizens. Some of these like Mrs. Beckwith, have contributed much to better living and progress. Often-times these adopted ones have been missed when taken by death more than native sons and daughters. Many Hyde County people have gone elsewhere to live and have helped make living better where they made their homes. But others have come here and contributed toward making this a better place. Among these were Miss Lulu. Surely Hyde County lost one who loved her when Mrs. Beckwith passed on. Her many friends will miss her. QUADitUrLi: IS m wiTKoyvs CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS An Authentic Series of Thriliing Stories of the Heroism of Men of the Old Life Saving Service Along the Coast of the Sixth District, From Cape Henry to Cape Fear, as Furnished Through the Courtesy of A. W. Drinkwater, Veteran Telegrapher of Manteo. N. C. ->s Jorf No. 60—A SERIES OF SHIPWRECKS IN 1890-1891 OTHER EDITORS NORTH CAROLINA WAS SIXTH once, twice or three times a day (State Port Pilot) Allison James, Associate Mana ger of the War Finance Commit tee, has advised R. F. Plaxco, Brunswick county chairman, that High-pressure promotion genius es are letting their imaginations run riot on vitamins. . . As a result partly of the ener getic efforts of these advertising HAVE THE WILL TO LEARN. , (N. C. Christian Advocate.) It is good not only for youth in school but for one and all to maintain the capacity and inclination to learn, and the DIasonic World suggests the following: “Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medi cine. When you smile or laugh, your brain for the moment is freed from the load that it ordinarily carries. Learn to tell a helpful story. A well-told story is as wholesome and as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room. Learn to keep your troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to linger over your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in the world, keep the bad to yourself. Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered with any of yours.” Misrt,-!,, ANOTHER SPRING The long-awaited spring of 1944—the season which many have predicted would be the beginning of the end of the war in Europe—has finally arrived. As we wait impatiently but fearfully for news from those battles which will be the turning point of the war, we feel the sharp contrast be tween this glorious season and the work of destruction .which occupies most of the world. The earth is full again with promise; the rains and sun gently contribute to her bearing season. And the awe we h^man beings feel at this rebirth is in nowise lessened by its repetition or by circumstances. Each year is like a sepa rate life to all of us, embodying the periods of a real hfe- time, and in the experience of the current one we forget ■the intensity of the years that have gone before, so that each new season is experienced as if for the first time. Even in this world of war and destruction we cannot help the feeling of joy which comes over us at this new spring season, and we should not. For it is a positive expe rience, a renewing of the life forces, and it should be Uved to the full. Spring will still come when the pain and sad ness of this time in our lives have long faded into the past. It gives strength to. us to know that spring will always come to erase the hardships of winter from the earth and from our hearts. North Carolina stands sixth in the geniuses .... the rnanufacture of list of states which went over the synthetic vitamins has been run top in the Fourth War Loan Drive. jli^ring the last five years from Equally interesting is that the f^tiny area^^rug_production^in- Army at home and abroad is to be ^ a $200,000,000-a-year indus- informed of the ten states in which n c iu the sales of E. F and G, bonds ^ during March exceeded establish- J°hns Hopkins Medical Center in ed quotas by the widest possible Baltimore a pioneer in vitamin margins research, last month lashed out at This means that soon after the the commercial ballyhoo of synth- final tally is in, a few days after Not all the ships succored by surfmen along the North Carolina coast in the old days were ocean going vessels from distant coun tries. The little trading vessels along the coast, and the small schooners in the sounds and rivers, some that had a crew of only twc men and were known as “Fried Meat” boats got into trouble ir shoal waters, or faced disaster ii storm. Their owners, and usualh the owners were skippers as well depended on these boats for a live lihood for their families, and their families at home anxiously awaited their return. Here are a number of instances of assistance rendered which oc curred during the stormy seasons of 1890 and 1891: Jan. 3, 1891. At Cross Shoals, 2 miles north-northwest of station. Little Kinnakeet, the sloop, Edith B., of Hatteras, N. C., from Eliza beth City bound for Hatteras, with a cargo of coal valued at $35 (ships value $165), totaling $9,200, estimated value saved, $200, with 2 persons aboard, both of whom were saved. Aug. 12, 1890, 4 miles west-north west of station, Currituck Inlet, a sloop from Currituck Inlet, N. C. -From Currituck Inlet to Knotts I Island, N. C., valued at $50. Value I saved—$50. One man crew also saved. Sept. 9, 1890. At Point of Cape Fear, at Cape Fear Station, St. y. Mignon of Newark, N. J., master of ship was Pugh, with tonnage of 77 from Morehead City, N. C., to Savannah, Ga. Value $6,500, value saved $375, value lost $6,125, 5 men crew saved. 5 persons succored at station for 11 days. Sept. 29, 1890. 1 mile s.s.e. of station Cape Henry, schooner Hat tie Perry of New Bedford, Mass. the close of March, the Special Ser vice Branch of the War Depart ment will send this select list by radio and cable to all service pub lications overseas and will distri bute it also to service publications in this country. The plans to in clude this information in news dispatches arose out of the enthu siastic reaction of troops in the front Hines to reports of Fourth I the disgraceful plane of the old patent-medicine days” when coun try-store almanacs were used as guides to diagnosis and treatment. “The descendants of the old pat ent-medicine hawkers,’ the eminent scientist said, “are trying now to find a market for train-loads of synthetic vitamins on the same plane. “We can no longer teach a sales in their home house-wife how to feed her family properly on a simple plan of pre- War Bond states. Natrually, there is general grati- senting the few ..ecessaries and ad- fication that North Carolina made that ‘after eating so much of the showing that it did, standing t^ese, eat anything else you want.’ sixth in the list of states. There is' . “If ^e make a reasonably intel- also gratification that the War De-' lig^nt selection of foods, wo don’t partment plans as above. By far ”eed any synthetic vitamins.” . . . and above the best course to fol-' The overselling of. vitamins is low in letting the men at the front harmful in another respect. It know how their people at home are! I®"*!® I® hypochrondriacs of Backing the Attack is to tell them Americans by scaring them how their home states bought war bonds. DEATH—BY MISTAKE Although the purpose of the home medicine chest is to keep on hand emergency preparations for the protection of life, every day it proves to be the source of death in some American family. Accident statistics show that hundreds of children as well as hundreds of adults continue to die each year by using the wrong medicine bottle, by mistaking sweet- coated strychnine pills for candy or by taking overdoses of remedies which are harmless when administered in accordance with directions. Although there has been no increase in such accidental deaths since the war, a number of these deaths are attrib uted to wartime. There have been several cases where people have taken a poison by mistake during a blackout as well as a number of instances where insecticides, be cause they now come in paper bags instead of metal con tainers, have been mistaken for sugar. We don’t recommend getting rid of the medicine chest —which perhaps is more important now than at any time in history because of the shortage of doctors—^but we do think it is important to warn our readers, once again, that such accidents still take place in some homes every day and tLat precautions should be taken continually to see to it that they don’t happen in yours. VITAMIN QUACKERY (Christian Science Monitor) For the past year, the Federal Trade Commission has been busy issuing “cease-and-desist” orders against the sellers and advertisers of chemical, or synthetid^ vitamins because of the extravagant claims made in their behalf. Some vend ors had been representing that their product would prevent a long list of diseases, insure good teeth, prevent hair turning gray, improve eyesight, and cure sleep lessness and nenmus troubles. One cosmetic manufacturer even advertised that her skin cream, “so faithful in combatting age,” contained vitamins which the skin would absorb. Little of this Federal curbing of the vitamin campaigners was given much newspaper publicity. But now the New York newspaper, PM, ha^’ published a double-page expose which debunks the “vitamin craze” in three ways: (1) It attacks the into thinking something is wrong with them. It also tends to make some people forget that the main element in nutrition is genuine, 100 per cent farm-grown food, not syn thetic vitamins packaged in pills or capsules. . . . The vendors of vitamins should be made to hew closer to the lines of truth.—The newspaper PM. untruthful MONKEY WRENCH MEN (N. C. Christian Advocate) Someone has observed: “A wo man should have five husbands— an intellectual companion, a mus cular toiler, a financial genius, a practical plumber and electrician, and at least one romantic playboy.” To get all these in one man, save in the most limited way, would be out of the question. The sugges tion, however, implies that one husband should be interested in more than one line of human under standings; provided, the wife is a woman capable of appreciating such a husband. Such a combina tion would certainlv provide the variety which is the spice of sp. Acuba of Sundenland, England, Bound from Aurora, N. C., ^ master: Steele, 1,845 tons. Prom ' more. Philadelphia to Newport News, j Jan. 18, 1891., Currituck Va. $90,000 value, saved. 20-man , N. C., Jan. 18, 1891. ^ crew saved, 9 of whom succored at station 9 days. Jan. 24, 1891. Pamlico Sound, 1 mi. N. N. W. of station Big Kin nakeet, Sc. F. M. Isabella of Eden- ton, N. C., master: Scarborough. 6 tons, from N. Y. C., to Wilming ton, cargo of Guano valued at $4,- 000. Ships value $6,000, total: $10- 000 all lost. 5-man crew saved. 3 of whom succored 6 days at sta tion. Jan. 25, 1891 at Chicamicomico, 1 mi. N. N. W. station Gull Shoal, Chicamicomico and New Inlet Sta tions, Sc. River Queen of Chicami comico, N. C., dragged anchors and stranded. $400 value of vessel saved. Feb. 5, 1891. 3 miles west of station Little Kinnakeet. Sc. Willie T., of New Bern, N. C., master: O’Neal, 5 tons. From Elizabeth City to Kinnakeet, N. C., cargo of wood, corn, and meal, valued at $24. Ships value $800, total: $825, saved 3-man crew saved. Feb. 23, 1891. 6 miles N. W. of station, Durrants, Sc. S. C. Wilson, of Washington, N. C., master; Simpson, 60 tons .From Washing ton to Hatteras, value $1,500, sav ed. 4-man crew saved. Feb. 26, 1891. Olivers Reef, 6 miles W. N. W. of station Durants. Sc. Enterprise of Wilmington, Del. Master: Oden. 35 tons from Wash ington to Hatteras with cargo of lumber valued at $400. Vessel’s value $1,500, totaling $1,900, saved. 4-man crew saved. Mar. 2, 1891. 400 yrds east of station—Wash Woods—SI. Hope, valued $200, $100 saved and $100 lost. Mar 15, 1891. 2 1-2 miles west Masters name. Chase, 1/4 Ions, station—Oregon Inlet, sailboat from Philadelphia to New Bedford, | Manteo. N. C. Value with cargo of coal. Vessel valued at $5,000, cargo at $650, totaling $5,650. Total loss. 7 n.en ir. citw saved and succored at station for 14 days. Oct. 3, 1890. 3-4 mile n.w. of Cape Lookout station, sp. Rhiwid- erin, of Cardiff, Wales, tonnage 1,- $200, $100 lost and $100 saved. Mar 27, 1891. 3 miles southwest of station—Ocracoke—St. sp.« Bo- rinquen, Bilboa, Spain. Master: De- Borica. Tonnage: 1,262 from Gal veston, Texas to Liverpool, Eng. Cargo of cotton and oil-seed cake valued at $118,000. Ship’s value Dear Sir: I beg to state vessel, the Norwegian J Banan, stranded on the “j about two miles south of rituck lighthouse in very .f * rnlllW weather and a heavy sea at 8 o’clock northeast morning. The vessel had working full speed astern about two minutes before and continued doing so for * . half an hour after, but when n seen to be of no avail, and was breaking heavily, we distress signals at a few ser^'T interval, to call for help. after 9 o’clock, when the coast^jj^^ discerned from the vessel, th« - ... boat was there ready to be ed. About 9:30 the boat ' alongside and took off my and some of the seamen. Abo" l hour later the boat came out , ^ and took off a few more, on board both mates, chief neer, steward, five sailors, and j self, who did not want to vessel. I find it a pleasure I" .ilf that Captain Scarborough crew worked with the utmost patch, and, considering the " ^ breakers, handled their boat j mirably and took all that landed ashore without any ’’’’5jr, tune. I have also heard today my wife and the part of the that were on shore during if" night, that they have been tre"‘ very kindly in every respect. i these services I hereby offeL in their name and in my own, r sincere thanks. ^ THO. HANSEN, Master of Ste^-mship Bans" A. Scarborough, Esfu. , Keeper Currituck Inlet LifC'®* ing Service. STATE COLEGE HINTS TO FARM HOMEMAK^ By Ruth Current N. C. State College Sharpen knives often. A jl ed steel rod, oil stone, or stone can be used. See that the c j ting edge always leads when I pening. if To keep knives sharp, cut 156. From Key West, Fla. to New-, 547^000, total $165,000. Saved castle, England: Cargo of Phos-, $121,260 and lost $43,740. 28- phate rock. Value of ship $100,000. man crew saved. , . of cargo $8,400, total, $108,400. All I Apr. 14, 1891. 1 mile east-bv-ion wooden cutting board "'ll lost. 19 men in crew saved. south of station—Cape Henry-—Bk.! on a metallic or enameled surf"^, 1 Oct. 29, 1890. At Kings Point. Strathome, Maitland, Nova Scotia. ^ Avoid leaving knives in hot ", Pamlico Sound: Creeds Hill and Master: Urquhart. 1,098 tons, from | ter. Store in a wooden rack. N®', Cape Hatteras Stations, sloop Echos de Afuera,,Peru to Hampton, store knives loose in a drawer Alice, of Elizabeth City, N. C., Roads, Va. Cargo of guano valued the edges become dulled, from Elizabeth City to Trent, N. at $75,000. Ship yalued at $25,000, C., value of ship $150, $115 saved, totaling $100,000, saved. 14-man and $35 lost. Crew of 2 men sav- crew saved. ed. Dec. 1, 1890. A mile off shore at Oregon Inlet station, yawl belong ing to sc. Mollie J. Saunders of N. Y. C., $25 value saved. 8 man- crew saved and succored at station 32 days. Dec. 13, 1890. At Gull Shoal Reef, Gull Shoal Station, si. Eliza Ellen, of New Bern, N. C., master: May 25, 1891. Bodies Island beach, 3 miles south-southwest of Nags Head Station—Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, and Bodies Island stations. St. sp Hudson, N. Y. C., Master: Remble, 1,873 tons. From N. Y. C., to New Orleans, La. Gen eral cargo valued at $150,000, ves sel at $250,000, totaling $400,00. $393,500 of which was saved and O’Neal, 10 tons, from Fort Landing 1 $6,500 lost. 96-man crew saved, to Little Kinnakeet, N. C., cargo, June 23, 1891. 7 miles northwest of wood valued at $50. Ship valued ! of station—Durants, sc H. K. Price at $400, total value .$450, all saved.) of Baltimore, master: Patience.53 2-man crew saved. tons of lumber, valued at $400, Jan. 29, 1891. 1 1-2 mi. north-'ship valued at .$2,500, totaling $2.- west of station at Cape Henry. St. 900, saved. 4-man crew To prevent dents store them in an place so they can without moving others. Make in uterisi’j easy-to-i^" be ren,_J, for storing pots, lids, pie P"" thin baking sheets, and trays s,l Early cut hay is more palatal .bl«' more digestible and contains lOt^l protein than late cut hay, says V- J. O. Halverson animal nutriti", 1 ist with the Agricultural ■ ment Station at State Colleg®’ A new sorgo came from Ethio"'* may have possibilities for S"?*j production, say USDA official"- will be tested in the South" saved. States and in the Canal Zone. Calvary, 1944 _ life. REMINDER or abnormally magni-^ fied claims made for the products;: (2) it charges that the public is I paying grossly high prices, which ' the OPA already has ordered re-' Meats, Fats—Red stamps AS duced; (3) it reveals the danger, through J8 are good indefinitely, which lies in hypnotizing the pub- ' Waste kitchen fats exchanged for lie into believing the advertisers’ two points and four cents a pound, claims and “doctoring themselves”. Processed Fruits, Vegetables — with the pills. ' Blue stamps A8 and K8 are good A brief excerpt from PM’s indefinitely, thorough presentation of March 16! Sugar—Sugar stamps 30 and 31 is reproduced below. It would be good for five pounds indefini- well if much publicity were given tely. Sugar stamp 40 is good for to the exposure of this “carnival I*'’® pounds of canning sugar of quackery.” The Truth About Vitamins The vitamin - conscious Ameri can consumer is being subjected to a barrage of bunk and ballyhoo that beats anything since the days | 21. through February 28, next year. Gasoline—In 17 East Coast States, A-9 coupons are good through May 8. n other States A- 11 coupons are good through June F. L. VOLIVA HARDWARE CO. Belhaven, N. C. of Dr. Hokum’s Indian Tonic, gu arnteed to cure every ailment of man from flat feet to scalp-itch. Radio and press blurbs, drug store window displays and mail ads daily scare him out of his wits Tire Inspection Deadlines—A- coupon holders, September 30; C- coupon holders. May 31; B-cou- pon holders, June 30. Fuel Oil—Periods 4 and 5 cou pons aer good through September with dire warnings of all the ‘hid- 30. den ills” he may be suffering and i Shoes—Stamp 18 in 'Book One how he could get rid of them all Rood through April 30. Air- immediately and enjoy buoyant | P'-i”® Stamp 1 in Book Three is health, popularity and forever more by ir.g a vitamin-packed iii,,pill ■'■•u,,cod soon. / UUUyailL I ^ xo -jCx appeal 1800d indefinitely. Another .stamp, s- ” '---igrood beginning May 1, will be an-
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