.THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
News of the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical an D recreational area of north CAROLINA
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FOREMAN
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SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944
Single Copy 5 Cents
GIBBS FAMILY I
, OF ENGELHARD |
Hyde county i gets bad news
I
Putting Her Red Cross Knowledge Into Practice
Fell
. Meeting Many Folk Telegram Received Wednes-
t ^ A..J day Advising That Son
Missing Over Europe
Swan Quarter And
Engelhard
JOHN M. MURTAUGH
Setting type and advertise-
By
in
for
'otjieg f ^ newspaper, one be-
tid pg with many places
ath, come m
® ^®nrns, in this manner
3ms prob-
ever people, but he is
f tlip^° ® set a clear picture
Vhat '?1' What they look like ?
;hey )- think about? What
Itrue i" He can, it is mission over the continent of Eu- *
karg much of the different rope. Apparently his plane did not
many people, return.
tever * knows them he can j The young’ Air Force gunner
comnnf^*'.^ clear picture of the was 24 years old. He was fondly
k’hat which they live or known by his pals in serv’ice as
"Gibby.” He was only
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gibbs |
of Engelhard receiv- i
ed a telegram from the War |
Department Wednesday morning.
he seldom" has the advising them that their son. Tech.
'contact Sgt. F. B. Gibbs is missing in ac
tion over Europe. Young Gibbs
was a gunner on one of the big
bombers based in Italy. |
Information obtained by this I
newspaper Wednesday a. m. was,
\Yith the Army. Mrs. Mason, for-1
■■
' "'Till
^M Aml^lS^RBOR HYDE GOES OYER TOP
IS INADEQUATE
FISHING IS GOOD, ON
LAKE MATTAMUSKEET
Fishing is good at Lake Matta-
-y really are like. j “Gibby.” He was only recently
half nearly a year and a awarded the Distinguished Merit,
iiig s making up, sett- Badge for outstanding perform- ’
Vety of the type and the ad- ance of duty in action on. the fam- ’
lly(jg®^®nts and printing The ous Ploesti Rumania oil refinery
Work '’'°nnty Herald, doing job raid, the story of which was car-!
iiig^ f commercial print- j ried in The Herald last week. I
CojiQc ? great many business: Gibbs was raised in Princess
»eve/?® ^n Hyde County, yet had Ann County, Virginia, where his
iti the good fortune to be parents, natives of Hyde county,'
lize people rea- lived for more than 30 years, be- ■
'''ork ^ vast amount of hard fore returning some years ago to muskeet this season and many an-
printing of the ^ live at Engelhard. ; glers are making good catches.
biail. they get in the i | White perch and bass are biting
Bous ^ ^^-kes hard and conscien- CREDLE PROMOTED especially good. Oscar Chadwick,
a soi,^^ i CORNELL FACULTY State game protecto
itta^j. .J*® foundation, to maintain- jl99 fishing permits
“J*®" itj Alexander B. Credle, a native ^for fishing on the lake last week,
to’ Quarter, has been promo- There were almost 100 fishermen
!®'aitoj-v ®'^®^ community in its ted from assistant professor of el- on the lake Sunday.
1 ® PeoTi’i ■ ^'ad inform | ectrical engineering at Cornell
of p territory to the University to associate professor, BAPTIST TO MEET IN
^Bility. This takes jt was announced last week by SWAN QUARTER SUNDAY
Mrs. Virginia Osguud and daughter, "Jenny Lind,” known as the
“Home Nursing Baby” in Hyde County, N. C. She was born the day
after Mrs. Osgood completed the Home Nursing Course, A Home
Nursing student accompanied her on the 50 mile drive to the hospital,
and when she returned, neighbors who had taken the Red Cross train
ing took care of mother and baby. Photo by: American Red Cross
^ Washingifc, D. C.
Local Interests Anxious Toj
Get Extra Trip To Re- i
lieve Handicap i
13TH HOME CLUB
ORGANIZED HYDE
COUNTY APRIL 18
HERALD CAUq
CrS TC
:s TWO
CHUM UP
Hyde Servicemen Like The Herald
Which Is Getting.^round
These Days
The Hyde County
reports that two boys in uniform
were issued two boys that had nevdr s^en one
t 'rald caused
ijchum up—
The travel situation is begia-'
ning to get serious between R.ia-
noke Island and Manns Harbor,
due to the congestion on the fer
ry. The Dare County Board fi
Commissioners and the Manteo
Rotary club are taking steps se^'k-
ing relief of the situation. The'
matter has long since been under
discussion by the Board of Com
missioners and Monday night of
this week, the Rotary club moved
to ask the State Highway Com
mission to provide two more trips
after 6 p. m. daily. i
The growing mercantile activity [yijgs Roach Organizes Club
on the mainland and the beginning! The Pleasant Grove
of the tourist trade have made the! Community
situation critical. The boat can'
carry only seven automobiles and [ The 13th Home Demonstration
makes eight round trips a day. j duh was organized in Hyde coun-
On certain days of the week, par- j ty last Tuesday, April 12, in the
ticularly Sundays, cars must line j pigasant Grove community, at the
up ahead of time for the better; home of Mrs. William Mooney,
part of an hour, and it is often i There were 10 members present,
the case that some of these are | Miss Iberia, Roach, home agent,
left. On Sunday afternoon last,; gave the aims of a home demon-
Dve cars were left behind on the, gfnation club and a brief history
Dare County mainland at the lastj^f work in North Carolina,
trip. It so happened that a mo-1 following officers were el-
tonst bound for Engelhard paid! g^ted: Mrs. Lonie T. G. Gibbs,
the Ferry man $15 to return to
Manns Harbor so that he could
' continue his journey but by that
i time the cars had dispersed.
$2,260.50 IS RAISED
Final Reports Not In From Ponzer Or The
Neg^ro Division; Fairfield Record Showed
Largest Individual Donations, Averaging
About $4.00 Per Family That Contributed.
' Worlf ^kility. wcio aiiiiuuiiceu lasL w
Effort. ’ constant, ceaseless president Edmund E. Day.
have ’ ' ^ Mrs. Etta
County was like and
another before. Here is how it hap- i HYDE FSA WOMEN PLAN
pened according to the story reach : FOR CANNING SEASON
ing us. I
Rouse Lupton, Jr., was sitting j
in camp reading The Herald. An
other soldier was walking by and
saw the masthead on the paper. He
The fifth Sunday meeting of the From
and the late Geo, Hyde county Baptist churches will ^ ® ^ '
'’'“unty was like and meet Veal Credle of Norfolk, and a be held at the Swan Quarter Bap-
the 0°*^ people and last week grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. tist church next Sunday, April 30.
^est f came. As the A. Berry of Swan Quarter, holds The Rev. W. B. Harrington and
Byde'n® ^oug wanted to see what Berry Credle
Yes,” Lupton re
plied, “Why?” “Well,” said the
other guy, “I knew a boy down at
camp at Memphis, Tenn., by the
Or Qj Thomas E. Spencer, edit-| the followinug degrees conferred the Rev. J. R. Byerly of Elizabeth
Ho i^® Hyde County Herald, by Cornell University: E.E., 1930;, City will be the guest speakers.
^detid^® ^ very good M.E.E., 1931; and Ph.D., 1939. He The program will begin at 10
day mine, I left Manteo Fri-; has had practical experience in o’clock with the regular Sunday
ferry' We crossed the the field of electri-cal engineering school hour. Service will be held
'^nd between Roanoke Is-, and served as an assistant profes- at 11 o’clock, with the Rev. Mr.
inf Manr - ' . . - . _ - - ...
Py\M
We Engelhard.
Dinner will be
church lawn.
but at-: and promoted to assistant nrofes- The Rev. J. T. Lennon invites
Thirty-five FSA group leaders
in Hyde county received training
in cleaning and taking care of
their pressure cookers under the
direction of Mrs. Madeline
president; Mrs. Rbbie Gibbs, vice
president and Mrs. Jim Mooney,
secretary - treasurer.
The year book was given out
and explained. The club will meet
in various homes each month.
MRS. BERRY HEARS FROM
SON IN JAP PRISON
The Hyde County Red Cross
War Fund drive is over the top it
was announced this week from
campaign headquarters in Swan
Quarter. $2,26,0.50 had been re
ported through Monday and final
reports had not been received
from Ponzer or the Negro divis
ion. The quota was $2,200.
Reports from the various school
districts showed the amounts col
lected from the various sections of
the county. They were as follows:
Swan Quarter, $510.84; Slades-ville
$138.05; Fairfield, $432; Engel
hard, $569.19; Ocracoke, $281;
Ponzer, $25.50; and the Negro di-
■vision $304.
It was stated that the success of
the drive was due to the hard work
of the volunteer workers through
out the county. A list of solicitors-
will be carried in The Herald soon.
District chairmen were Mrs.
Grady Credle, Swan Quarter; Mrs.
S. S. Jennette, Sladesville, Mrs.
R. F. Baynes, Fairfield; Miss
Blanch Tuten, Engelhard; Mrs.
Tom Howard, Engelhard; Mrs. E.
J. Clayton, Ponzer; Negro divis
ion, 0. A. Peay.
Ocracoke was the first district
The conversation was going nice
ly. Lupton was glad to see this
fellow who knew Tom. Tom is a
cousin of Rouses.’ They 'Bhgart'to
chum up. And this other guy, we
couldn’t learn his name.
Mrs. R. M. Berry of Engelhard , . ,
last week received the following! ^P® county to report going over
E. telegram from the government j community quota, with Fair-
Smith, associate FSA supervisor, ^ Bryan, a war pris-1 Held coming in the for second
who has recently attended a pres- Japan | P'^®® "’Hh the first final re-
sure cooker clinic at Washington, j Following shortwave broadcast I Po^:. Figure? show that individual
These women will help service the Japan has been Toteccepted i donations were on an average lar-
175 cookers owned by PSA worn- Q^g^e, I am in good health and ' S®^ i" ^^P® Fairfield district than
en in Hyde county. I
and Manns Harbor, and leav-i sor at Qemson college for six Harrington doing the Preaching, ferent vegetables planted in their ^nd best wishes, Brvan
ing little fishing vil-, years. The Rev. Mr. Byerly will deliver j^e came to read The Herald He .®P® ®ays, and by success- ph^^macist mate Bryan Webster
the road through Stum-1 The Hyde county^ man was first the sermon at the afternoon ses- seemed to like the pap;r and f® every two weeks they perry, USN Unquote. This broad-
people whom the editor and cor- cast supplements previous official
served on the respondents write about.
All this reminds us of the lots
and lots of letters we get from
servicemen telling us how much
they like to get the paper. Just
Saturday we had a letter from
I Herman Carawan, who hails from
® conned all-weather roads mgton, D. C., and Mrs. E. D. Her- SWAN QUARTER BOYS DO Ke enjoys getting the paper way
thi? ^’^® co"^m™ities bert, Norfolk. | GOOD JUDGING LIVESTOCK | out there in the Pacific — just
roaHo ^P® — - . I nothing like it, he says. Somehow
link all this ^ 4-H CLUBS^IN REGULAR I The Swan Quarter
g —o—appointed as an assistant in phy- sion.
Vast h through some of the sics at Cornell in 1931, instructor
atiojj ® of The Dare Corpor- in electrical engineering in 1938
tempt t not help but at-, and promoted to assistant profes- The Rev. J. T. Lennon
'"^is te ■ what much of sor in 1942. the public to these services. He
^•kiirgPc PPc in thej Dr. Credle has two brothers and states that the Baptists are fortu-
Pemopv .. B. Gregg Cherry,' one sister. They are Geo. Veal nate in getting the guest speakers
tior, if, ^Hc candidate for Gover-
^Peaking in Manteo, stress
ed
the
Credle, Jr., attorney, Norfolk; for the meeting Sunday.
Joseph Credle, U. S. Navy, Wash-
ap,j of North Carolina
^°vth' r ''^® completion of the
Seash Cape Hatteras
hrii
National Park
MEETING THURSDAY livestock judging team which rep-
j resented the agriculture depart-
The Fairfield and Engelhard 4- ment at Wenojia in a district con-
high school, Herman’s been getting two papers.
would H clubs held their regular meeting test made a good showing winning
1 feel 'th'V" capital in and , Thursday morning, April 20. 1 first place in judging hogs and
'Vopi^ h ^'ich of this capital I Both clubs held joint meeting at ’ third places judging dairy cattle
Of the 1 developing much | which time a health skit “The Sev- and beef cattle.
down through Dare en Champions of Health” was pre-1 The team was composed of Carl
• bounties, clearing and sented. Miss Iberia Roach, home Gaboon, Lindsey Sadler, Pete
opening it for agent, was narrator and as each of Griffin, Grady Max O’Neal and
I coulH ' • ' seven groups was explained, William Wheeler. Gaboon and Sad-
dott much of this giving their importance in the ler tied for first place in hog jud-
^’'dustr' farms, homes and; diets of growing boys and girls; a ging.
les and ! gjfjjj rnember uncovered a chart
and told how a 4-H club member
could supply those items. The
The following Engelhard 4-H
club members took part on pro
gram: Joe Davis, Mitzi Watson,
Coast towns along the
^unities. ^®^lthy’ growing com-
in Engelhard I found a
^^® strongest and most
ihe stat ^ Banks in this section of
COMPLETING STORY
a~"v’ ^ and light comp- T. J. Mann, III, Jimmie Spencer,
®®nifortable hotel and Billie Davis, Justin Patrick, and
iiie surprised us, due to June Long. A reading “Mr. Smith | fice until it was called to our at-
cti thg stock they carried and Mr. Brown” was given by; tention Saturday by Mr. Williams,
g"" shelves. Perhaps we J Jane Credle. Mrs. T. J. Etheridge,' Mr. B. F. Mason, chairman of the
vprised at this because we local 4-H club leader, was present I county election board, did not
Our story last week telling of
those who filed for office failed
to list O. L. Williams as filing for
county solicitor. We were not
aware that this was an elective of-
through an error in the mailing
department. He thought it would
save paper and mailing space if
the error was corrected, and we
certainly agree.
Yes, sir. The Herald is getting
around these days. It goes to Eng
land, North Africa, Italy, the Solo
mons and many other distant
points. Servicemen from Hyde like
it and we try to make it interest
ing for them.
GETS BALLOTS FROM
PRINTERS THIS WEEK
hope you and family are also. I ™ other section of Hyde coun-
Eyery Farm Secroity family is ^^ink of you all very often. I re- -
getting ready for the canning sea- ceived your letters. They take! Names of individual contribu-
•uv wc ^"’Bh reports. Already ^bout nine months. Try sending a| tors are being run in this new.sna-
became , ®^ radio message. How is Robert? per. Donators can compare their
donations with those of their nei
ghbors. Watch for this feature
which will appear for the next
^ I several weeks.
the year and enough extra to can report received from international j Hyde county had a quota of $1,-
from 80 to 100 quarts per mem- Fed Cross Stop Gullion Provost 300 last year. It raised $1,644. The
her in spite of the rainy season. ^ Marshall General. i increase this year was due to war
According to Mrs. Smith, Hyde xhe Engelhard youth was cap- needs.
J T®™®® ennned 42,176 quarts t^j-gd by the Japs with the fall of A large part of the money rais-
of fruits, vegetabl®s and meats, Guam shortly after the outbreak ed remains in the county for em-
and aie planning to double that qj j.j^g vvar. His reference to Rob- ergency use and to take care of
for 1944. To make this possible jj, ^^j^g Broadcast was in re-1 exnenses of the local chapter han-
they are planting their gardens ^ards to Robert Burrus, a home i dling such jobs as checking on
with extra vegetables, seeding pal. Burrus is taking officers ! needs of soldiers at home and as-
cane for molasses, planting Irish training in the Navy at the Uni- sisting them in manv other wa^’s.
potatoes and bedding sweet pota- yersity of Louisiana.
toes to store next fall. Scarcity
of food on the market will find
FSA women with their shelves full
of canned goods, meats, syrup, i
flour and potatoes, stored to carry
them through the shortage period.
FUNERAL HELD SATURDAY
FOR SLADESVILLE WOMAN
FINDING IT H.ARD TO GET
REGISTRAR AT OCRACOKI
FSA FARMERS IN HYDE
TO GET AW ARDS THURS
Funeral sendees for Mrs. Alon-
za Sawyer were held at the home
' near Slavesville Saturday morning
at 10 o’clock with the Rev. Ci W.
Guthrie officiating. Interment was
Twenty three Hyde countv FSA ®®’^’® ®®™®tery.
*' - _ * _ . A/I I'd VoTiTTriai* T\ocC
be awarded “Merit Mrs Sa^Ter passed away Thurs-
meeting Wednesday “
ere
acc *l"^‘®®® this because we local 4-H club leader, was present, county
ages J '^®^®'^ed to so many short- for the meeting. ! mention this when we contacted
We ®® things. • I The following Fairfield 4-H him for the names of those who
‘ Piet
m
following Fairfield
hospitably j members participated: Rex. Guth-, filed.
Among the people rie, Joyce Ballance, Dennis Sim-1 According to Mr. W'illiams there
Neal a **' ^P^elhard were Sam S. |
W. ®Ble merchant;,
Piany ,, °'’®’ retired now after'
Piet the 1*"* ® farmer; we also
for tj-af enforcement officer
Person tBe county in the
tlavig Ju P®P'ity sheriff Claud
and apn*^'' ® likable fellow
®Pd aki ®®® Be a conscientious
®^able officer.
Piet ®'^®r to Middletown we
^eepej. ’'?® B. Cox, veteran store
Pte ip’ip ® keeps up to the min-.
Prday ,„®® P®ws and politics. Sat-
tBe we drove over to
nions, Theo Brickhouse, Gene Mid-' has never been any coAipetition
yette, Evelyn Clarke, and Dorothy for this office. Both Mr. Williams
Nixon. Tommy Jones gave a read- and Geo. Davis have served in
ing “Mr. Smith and Mr. Brown.” this capacity.
Mrs. Franklin Midyette, local | We regret that we failed to
4-M club leader, made an inspiring complete our story last week, and
pep talk to the boys and girls. ' are glad to finish it now.
RATION
REMINDER
HOTEL
‘FINE” MONEY
GOES TO RED CROSS
A money bank kept on the din
ing table in the O’Neal Hotel at
I Swan Quarter to hold money ob-
Co ’“““8 we arove over to i Meats, Fats — Red stamps A8 from “fines” on boarders
The seat at Swan Quarter.', through Q8, good indefinitely. j and guests being late to meals and
and pv, J the way looks rich | Processed Foods — Blue stamps talking business while at the din-
a great h'^^''’®’ we noted that, A8 through K8, good indefinitely, jng table was found to hold $2.66
and to 1 ®^ "'^s unplowed i Sugar—Sugar stamps 30 and 31, when it was recently opened. The
Plain p appearances would re- each good for five pounds indefin- j rnonev was given to the Red Cross
readin„^£^°''^®‘J- We knew by itely. Sugar stamp, 40, good for 5 i -War Fund.
that th ^^® County Herald pounds of canning sugar through j
er short^^ ^ serious manpow-February, next year. | Good, volunteer stands of lespe-
ao-o „ , Gounty and | Gasoline — A9 coupons, good deza should be kept by all means
'''® N\'ere^?® ®^^®
this year because of a shortage of
seed- for hay crops, says County
Agent W. C. Boyce of the State
2 , College Extension Service.
iiicr'''Bat with the'through May 8.,
8Pain cr ®®®*®8 need for food and i Fuel Oil—Periods 4 and 5 cou-
"Bich ®®Bton and com, all of pons, good through September 30.
^®®By produces in' Shoes—Stamps No. 1 and^ 2
govepf,^®®’ that in spite of all the' Airplane in Book Three, good i
8ro\vip ®®' propaganda about definitely.
®''®Pt ar,'®®*^® ^^P®’ Bhe govern-
Pears to be doing nothing The worlds best investment is We^ Thej^ contain Vitamin A, Bl-
in-
Cook collards, and like other
greens, in as little water as possi-
Chairman B. F. Mason of the
Hvde County Election Board re
ceived absentee ballots listing
county and district office seekers
from the printers this week. He
had already received the state bal
lots from state election officials.
Applications have alreadv been re
ceived bv the chairman for a num
ber of ballots.
farmers will
Awards” at a
evening. May 2, at 8 o’clock in the
agricultural building in Swan
Quarter. There will be several
speakers on hand and the public
is invited to attend.
The certificates will be awarded
the farmers for food production in
1943. They will represent those
Tarboro. She had been confined to
the institution for 11 months.
Mrs. Sawyer was bom and rais
ed near Swan Quarter. She was
twice married.
Surviving are her husband; 3
sons, J. E. McKinnev, Tarboro. J.
R. McKinney, New Bern, and For
rest Sawyer, Norfhlk; two daugh-
FSA clients who did the best job ters, Mrs. Lizzie Swindell of En-
producing food and feed crops.
No benefit is so small that a no-
litical orator will not magnify it.
gelhard and Mrs. Effie Byrd
Portsmouth, Va.
of
B.F. Mason, chairman of the-
Hyde County Board of Elections,
is having difficulty getting a reg
istrar and .iudsres to serve in Oc
racoke township. He has writte-a
se-'mral letters to Ocracoke Is
land residents, but through Mon-
dav he had been unsuccessful in
securing anyone.
Arrangements were made Mon
day for Rouse Lupton of Swan
Quarter to take the books to Oc
racoke sometime this week and
personally contact citizens for the
elect'on hoard and attemnt lo so.
cure help in this important task in
dorriocratm government. Registra
tion be.gins Saturday.
Crimea Becomes Nazi Dunkirk
BUXTON BOY REPORTED
DEAD BY U. S. NAVY
VETERINARIAN TO RE
IN HYDE COUNTY MAY 2
CRIMEA
Shadkovsk
Kurmgn
•.•:^VIaclislgvoka,
Sarabui
Mrs. William Midgett of Buxton
has been notified by the l^vy De
partment that her son, Darius
Thomas Midgett,' fireman
class, USN, has been classified as
dead. j
Midgett was listed as a prisoner*,
of war on the Navy Department’s I
Prisoner of War List Number One
on May 14, 1943.
J. M. Worrell, agricultural tea
cher at Swan Quarter, announced
this week that Dr. J. W. Wood
would be in Hyde County, May 2
f®r the purpose of vaccinating
fVrst Borses. Those interested should see
Mr. Worrell.
SWAN QUARTER
Born to Mr. and Mrs. N. W.
Shelton, a daughter, Mary Jane,
! CORN
I With good rotations and fertili-
. zer, about as much com can be in Fowle Memorial hospital, Fri-
produced in one year as in three • day, April 21.
years of continuous com on the;
same land, tests of the Agricultu
ral Experiment Station at State
College show.
ROTENONE
Victory gardeners should use
rotenone only when absolutely ne-' merlv Miss Marv Hopkins of Ho-
cessary bccause of limited_supplies,! boken is making her home with
NEW BERN
CpI. and Mrs. Jack N. Mason
announce the birth of a son. Jack
Nicholson, Jr., April 12 in the
New Bern hospital. Cpl. Mason is
with hte Army. Mrs. Mason, for-
,(Ple;
^se turn to Page Three) War Bonds—^buy them today.
B-2 and C.
The Crimea again occupies the historical spotlight as Red forces
push the Nazis into a pocket at Sevastopol. This close-up reveals how
German and Rumanian armies were trapped (1) when Reds reached
Dzhankoi and (2) cut eommimications link. Meanwhile amphibious forces
took over Kerch f3) and moved rapidly tovrard Feodosiya and
Simferopol. Nazis made desperate attempt to evacuate by boat as
Russ moved swiftly to check this means of escape.
savs J. Mvron Maxwell, Extension
entomogolist at State College. Try
cryolite or nicotine sulphate on in
sects.
her parents in New Bern.
TRUCKS
It is doubtful if agriculture will
„ „ . 8et more than 25 to 35 thousand
Seig'e dggs often in omelets, new trucks this year, less than
scrambled with tomatoes, scallop- twenty per cent of its anticipated
ed with macaroni, baked, or in an- needs, if production schedules are
gel food or sponge cake. met, say Government reports.
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