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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
news of the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical an D recreational area of north CAROLINA
'^ORE HUNTERS FOR
HYDE THIS SEASON
IL iran Quarter, N. C., Thursday, Sept. 7, 1944
Launch Two Cruisers and Carrier
Single Copy 5 Cents
IS THE PREDICTION
Uft
V of Ban on Sale of Ammunition to Hunters;
v^^^^gthening of Hunting Season for Migratory
Largest Crop of Game in Years Reasons
Optimism
lor jjyjj are in prospect CONFER ON PLANS
Mnce the'wTbeganj FOR LOST COLONY
is because of the |
of the ban on sale
«nin„'^,^'^ition to hunters; length.
^rati
SUMMER OF 1945
Raleigh Wednesday to Con
fer With Governor
hunting season’for mi- Officials of Pageant Go to
Of and the large crop
deer and other birds
especially ducks and
Production Board’s
ban on the sale of am- | ""7 cu
. atutioo ^ . , • confer with Governor Broughton,
/^asetj tho I and representatives of the Nation-
7^ters Ai ® more | Service regarding plans
merchants for the probable resumption of
^*''^hthev V !^'itbe Lost Colony drama in July,
!>tites fMelvin R. Daniels. Vice-
Several people from Manteo
were in Raleigh Thursday, to
® chairman, C. S. Meekins, Treasur-
I- P- Davis, Secretary, and
Of Martin Kellogg, Counsel, accom-
...
ivto aiiioe many
aivgy bunted in peace time, are
^he i,-. , Paul Green’s famous symphonic
WHO’S FAULT WAS IT.
THAT NEEDLESS TERM
OF COURT WAS HELD?
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'%^fi®'"lPanied by M. K. Fearing, left
„ ,quate since many of those Wednesday afternoon.
There seems little doubt that
lpr,„+uc i. -'Paul Green’s famous symphonic
lengthening of the hunting ^ost Colony/’ will
tor migratory birds natur-„„
PHILADELPHIA, P.A.—Soundphoto—This is a general view of the crqwd, a part of the fifty thou
sand persons that witnessed the christening of two cruisers and an aircraft carrier at the Navy Yard
here. Shown in the background is the new aircraft carrier U. S. S. Antietam.
Hyde County Commissioners Disclaim Any Respon
sibility and Give 1943 Law As Their Reason;
Clerk of Court and Sheriff Renounce Any Claims
For Services; Other Business of Board Meeting
CAPT. HAMILTON
INVENTOR OF
WELDING SCREEN
Farmer Army Sgt. With CCC
At Belle’s Island; Married
Swan Quarter Girl
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I be revived as soon as conditions
permit, perhaps next summer.
Author Green has been revis
ing the script and music. Gov. J.
M. Broughton has suggested that
the state itself back the play. He
told the Roanoke Island Histori
cal Association, sponsor of the
production, that the next legis-
huqtgthe chance for more
de(j 7®' f'sn days have been ad-
Soq ° fbe open season. The sea-
encjg basins November 2nd and
are o ^uuary 20th. The prospects
for an “early fall” which
cotqg^ that the wildfowl will
ij,, ®outh earlier than usual.
ge^p^l I future undoubtedly would be
‘fe Servin the Fish an i - ggj^gjj j.q provide state support.
e say that the increase Green and Producer Samuel
la
ablg bio species have been not-
and ’ .®®P®oially mallards, pintails,
Perq.-'f^'fs^ons. Hunters will be
laaiu’ ,'f ®ii additional bag of 5
I b}ali
widgeons and pintails,
ditiop '^be aggregate, in ad-
limif general daily bag
of 10 ducks.
the bi^e reported so thick in
farJ^bbnty as to be a menace to
Good news for deer
aters
W the announcement
tneq*®ek by the State Depart-
opq^ ''t Conservation and Devel-
aiap^b*' that the recent changes
15 jj'bg the deer hunting season
ed shorter had been rescind-
sapjb't the season will remain the
clqjj^^Cctober 1 to January 1, in-
coqqbh are plentiful in the
the
Selden of the University of North
Carolina estimate that $100,000
would be needed to revive the
pageant, which is a story of the
founding of Sir Walter Raleigh’s
ill-fated colony on the shores of
Roanoke Island 357 years ago.
It never was conceived as a
commercial undertaking, al
though in the five summers it was
produced before wartime restric
tions interfered, it grossed $330,-
000 in admissions.
The production also has
brought considerable other re
turn to Torth Carolina. The Gov
ernor estimates that the people
who came to see “The Lost Col
ony” spent $3,000,000 in the state.
The state, he figures, got not less
than $60,000 in gasoline taxes
PARKER FAMILY HAS
SECOND FIRE DISASTER
FAVORS POSTWAR
ATHLETIC TRAINING
BATTLE ON FERRY BOAT
FOLLOWS COURT TRIAL
Garage and Equipment Destroy
ed Several Months After Home
Is Lost By Fire; M. C. Mit
chell Loses ckr
Russell Jordan and Thurston Gray
Use Knives, Bottles
and Clubs
The pageant was presented in
State ^7 '■broughout: visitors,
able Nimrods have not been
them So immense amphitheater ad-
shorta^ because of | (.j^g restored village on
^oomir, shells. i the north end of Roanoke Island,
/ Iwhere the colony-33 years be-
fr)rp Pivmniith Nock —was found-
aiusijp !^^'^§'^°ming Matta-
Hec
®®i area^ this year.
Duck Shooting
fore Plymouth Nock—was found
ed and mysteriously vanished.
There are some 200 actors in
the pageant. The minor roles are
Marvin Parker, young Wanchese
man, has been the victim of a fire
disaster for the second time in
less than a year. On Friday af
ternoon of last week, Parker’s ga.
rage at Wanchese, together with'
all his tools and equipment, was
destroyed when fire in the garage
spread quickly and got beyond
control.
Parker was welding underneath
a car belonging to policeman M.
C. Mitchell when the flames from
the gas jet caught through the
floor of the car and ate into the
upholstering. Mitchell’s car was ~ “
a total loss, as was the garage HON. JOSEPHUS DANELS,
and all equipment. It is under- statesman and editor, in a speech
stood that neither Parker nor Mit- to the fourth graduating class of
chell had insurance on their prop- the year at the University of
erty which was destroyed. North Carolina last Wednesday,
Several months ago the home Proposed a compulsory athletic
in which Mr. Parker and his fam- training program rather than mil-
Following a trial at Manteo in
Recorder’s Court Tuesday, Thurs
ton Gray and Russell Jordan, now
living at Stumpy Point, engaged
in an affray and general ,cussing
scrape while returning to Manns
Harbor on the ferry Tuesday af
ternoon. During the melee, Hen
ry Jordan, half-brother of Thurs
ton, and uncle of Russell Jordan
got cut while acting as peacemak
er. Knives, bottles, and clubs
were used and several windows j
and sash were broken out of the|
pilot house of the ferry boat byj
an iron bar wielded by the party, i . , . . ,
The language was sulphurous,! record; with the
and McDonald Clark, engineer oL Artillery originally for eight
.i_- _ and a half years, he entrede the
Captain Harold D. Hampton,
former Army sergeant with the
CCC at Belle’s Island, Hyde Coun
ty, who married a .Swan Quarter
girl. Miss lola Mae Lee, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lee, is in
ventor of the welding screen for
which Ordnance personnel the
world over are indebted, reports
the Ordnance Observer, camp
paper at Jackson, Miss., where
Capt. Hampton is stationed.
Thewelding screen which Capt.
Hamtopn invented at Reardon
Arsenal, N. J., in 1939 keeps down
the glare of welding and yet is |
light and compact for traveling, j
It provides complete vision pro- |
tection for personnel working in;
the vicinity, according to the |
camp newspaper. j
Other improvements on Ord
nance materiel made by Capt.
Hampton include changes on the
Army’s Equilibrator Assembly
Jig, used for assembling and dis
sembling the equilibrator found;
on artillery carriages. |
The Ordnance officer served as i
technical advisor on two Signal I
Corps films pertaining to Aircraft
Cannon produced in Hollywood
while on detached service from
Camp Santa Anita, Calif. The
pictures were released in Jan
uary.
The officer-inventor has a 16
the ferry, was threatened with,
assault, and roundly cursed.
ordinance Department in 1937.
He later went to Aberdeen Prov-
i-ji- i.i.u ling Grounds where as one of 20
had brought charges against Mrs.' „ . • ■
nT n 11 • u V. J non-coms, he assisted in setting
Matilda Payne, alleging she had .. . ■ • ^
aiiu Ills j-am- — ... . „amhUno in tVi fiirna ’^P *'b® training Center of Ord-
ily were living was destroyed by itary training which he denoun- P^ttea gamming m tne tiuin
ced as an “encroachment upon lormeriy operatea received his commis-
individual liberty ” depending on Russell
Said Mr. DaAiels, “Already I «^Phew, to testify for
while fighting is in progress there i 7® P'''°secution. But Jordan did- ' hawk with
is propaganda to put all the " ” Inni, l^IDLS HEN HAWK WITH
a fire which swept through
large section of Wanchese.
sion as an officer in 1942.
AeopvNi J' ^ Liie pagcdiii. i. iic iiiiiiux luica dxc
basj V regarding pj^ygij Roanoke Islanders. The
Sfirr, ducks have puz- , j-gle is . that of Eleanor i
Dare, daughter of John White,
vnii answers that wi governor o fthe colony, and mo- ;
understand them. Virginia Dare, the first |
white child of English parentage j
born in tne Tew World.
jj^^^dlife Service,
^Uck daily bag limit on
remain at 10?
aq except that you may take
lajjj “^itional bag only of 5 mal-
any
widgeons, or pintails, or
UNITED WAR FUND
WORKERS TO MEET MON.
Hyde County volunteers who
^*rds mation of these three help raise $1,200 for the Un-
But . J 1 ! ited War Fund this fall will meet
'''®re Monday afternoon, September 11,
5 more ^ mallards—Can I shoot j^^igg a. Little, District !
Ves A I Chairman, and T. J. Collier, Field!
answer would be Representative discuss the pro-
‘gram, announces Miss Iberia
Roach, county chairman.
Says “Gold Mine” Exists
Along Carolina Coast youth in uniform. There are not
wanting those who approve the
“Not gold in the metalic sense Mussolini and Hitler plan of in-
only, although gold in the metalic troducing military training in the
sense does exist in sea water, but elementary schools. Others would
a more profitable form of gold ex- confine it to those in the high
ists in the sea weed which is pequ- schools. The argument is that it
liar to the North Carolina coast, makes for physical strength and
including the counties of Beau- disciplines youth. True, but it
fort, Hyde, Cartaret and a good was on the athletic fields of Rug-
many ohters,” declares Senator compulsory drilling
E A. Daniels who has just been that won the Battle of Waterloo.
over the industrial plants and When all youths receive athletic
laboratories owned by the United training, as they should, they
States Government and the State will be fit and ready for duties
of North Carolina. peace and war.
rr,, TT .. J o. . . Mr. Daniels said it would be
The United States Government , , u . .i. .
_ . . t T . • u unpopular to combat the un-Am-
in its Department of Interior has ... * „
, , . .... .. TT .. J erican idea of military training
employed scientists in the United ^
States in the person of Dr. H. F.
after the war but added, “Fight
tail/®”'® if you asked about pin-
or Widgeons.
if > / i kill 5 more black ducks
kave a bag limit oS. 10?
tqgj, ■ black duck is not a
although often erron-
60Usl.
Wh
1)0,1. ^ ike extra bag on these
^kcular ducks?
y Called a black mallard.
tkey are now the most' ^ight. Mrs. Ralph O’Neal led a
species. They are the very interesting program and Mrs.
CHURCH MEETTNGS
AT STUMPY POINT
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service met at the home of
Mrs. Glen Twiford Monday
Prytherch, Area Cooordinator' of ^^ainst it and all other encroach-
„ ,, , , . ments upon individual liberty.
Fisheries for Maryland, Virginia,
and North Carolina. Dr. Pry
therch has been located .at Beau
fort some good many years and
has been engaged in a great deal
of research work. He has worked
IVnDDLETOW'N HOME OWNERS
make improvements
n’t come across, having a long
court record himself, probably
concluded discretion was the bet_
ter part of v§lor. The case against
Mrs. Payne was dismissed by
Judge Baum. Before leaving
Manteo, Jordan almost got mixed
up in an affray but was shooed
out of town by the police.
WING SPREAD 414 FEET
Rattler with 10 Rattles Also Kill
ed Swimming in Manteo Bay
by Coast Guardsman
A chicken hawk, with a wing
spread of four and a half feet
was shot afid killed by J. C. Croce
The court imposed a penalty of Manteo Wednesday morning
$30 on Allen Hopkins to be paid ’^ke old hawk, which was power,
to his former employer, D. d. I®"®'®''*’ majestic looking, is
Whitson of Manteo. Hopkins
tained some money from Mr.' chickens in the Sun-
Whitson and spent it, beside tak- '^^f^.^ section where he has been
ing the Federal gas stamp from
Mr. Whitson’s car. | ^kout the same time, a huge
Edith Barber, colored woman, ”” seen swimming
who got drunk on the bus bound Hay, and was kill-
for Norfolk, and resisted arrest;® y Malc^d Scorborough, col-
was fined $15 and costs. Guardsman of Manteo
Guy Best, whose hogs at Stum- ' f ® ® coming to town in his
py Point have been giving trou- The snake had ten rattles. |
having' I
ble for several months.
A number of home owners at
in coooperation with the State De- Middletown have made repairs or
partment of Conservation and De- »nprovements recently. Claud
1 X o +uic Burrus, who recently bought the
velopment and as a result of this ^ ’ , % . ^ i j
work a„ oy,..r form was located
in Cartaret county. The work of
it painted; Archie Spencer has
this farm is to study the improve- just shijigled his kitchen; and W
®Peci(
®f '^ost often concerned with Galvin Payne conducted the bus-
is Hear in mind this
a temporary relaxation,
the po^ssession limit on
20
Posse in addition you may
to mallards, widgeons or
^ ks, singly or in combination.
Th ^'^kkt goose limits?
yggj,®”® is no change from last
The rt*'- *“®kada geese and brant,
liq^u^iiy limit is 2, possession
igq ’■ These may be all Canad-
bin J.®®®®’ ®il brant, or any com-
”ation of the two..
tP^e ®k®d and -100 worth of
Bhi-u^®^® Save R. E. Ward of
housp 7’ ^°kte 1, a good laying
ing K hens and a loun g-
for his cattle.
iness session.
The hostess, assisted by Maxine
I Quidley, served delicious refresh,
ments.
The young people held their
regulEir meeting at the church
Wednesday night. Officers were
elected for the coming year.
SHOWING BIG APPLE
County Agent J. P. Woodard
was showing a big 15 ounce ap
ple to friends and visitors in
Swan Quarter Friday afternoon.
It was grown on the Jolly farm
at Gulrock.
Thoroughly dry early-picked
cotton before carrying it to the
gin and save about $7 a bale.
ment and development of the oys- J- ^wHord is puttin^g a new coat
ter. The Department would like. '^kite paint on his house,
to seee the North Carolina oyster
sell as high as the Chesapeake
Bay oyster, and there is no logi
cal reason why it should not. The
flavor of the North Carolina oys
ter is an improvement, and the
Chesapeake Bay oyster is usually
a North Carolina oyster planted
in those waters.
The greatest work, however,
came as a result of the work of
the Department of Conservation!
and Development, when war! Lane, Monday, September 4, a
was declared on Japan the sour-j baby boy, Roberi Harold. Mrs.
ces of Argo, v/hich was a product ^ Lane was formerly Miss Hazel
of Japan, ceased to exist. Argo; Asby of Swan Quarter,
is the substance from which pab-
Swan Quarter
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Dunbar a son, David Jay, August
29th, 1944. Mother and baby are
getting along fine.
Tampa, Fla.
Born to Capt. and Mrs. Rowell
lum, a baby food, is made, vita
mins are made, and it has petrol-
Many farmers in Mecklenburg
County are using purple top tur-
eum possibilities. It is very | nips to provide extra feed for
highly used in plastic surgery by their livestock during the win
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pleaded guilty and was
with the costs of court.
The case against Lathan Mann
HYDE HOME CLUBS TO BE '
taxed represented AT RALEIGH
'^^® Dyde County Federation of
of Nags Hea^d, alleged to have ^°ki® Demonstration Clubs will
driven a car while drunk along b^epresented at the State Coun-
the beach at Nags Head, for the Raleigh, Septem-
sport of making the bathers hop, !^®” ^^^Ist, announces Miss Iberia
was continued until next week.; ‘77 ’ 7”®®. ®®''t
Two companions, brother, Louis *
The following women will at-
Mann, and Ira Partridge are said' ^®®7
to be involved in this and other Pf®'‘^®"‘ ‘h® County Council,
of Engelhard; Mrs. W. E. Noble,
cases having to do with drunk
enness and disorderly conduct.
BOY FATALLY HURT
vice-president, of Scranton; Mrs.
Margaret Gibbs, secretary, Ne
braska club; Mrs. E. A. Williams,
vice-president Tiny Oak Club;
and Miss Iberia Roach, home a-
Robert Francis Zabawa, 14, son^®"®^'
of Mr. and Mrs. Lois Zabawa of Among those scheduled to ap-
Ida, Mich., died recently from in- i P^^r on the program at the State
juries received when an automo-1 r>i6eting are Governor Brough-
bile struck the bike he was rid-; Dr. I. O. Schaub, Director of
ing, according to information re- Extension Service, Dr. Jane S.
ceved by Engelhard friends. A McKimmon, Assistant Director
young brother riding with him 7 7® Extension Service; and Col.
was slightly injured.
iJ. W. Harrelson, Dean of State
Young Zabawa’s mother was ; College,
formerly Miss Mae Nixon of En- 1
gelhard. The family lived in Kale is proving one of the best
Hyde County at one time. ; garden greens, both from the
! standpoint of taste and hardiness,
says John Harris of State Col-
Buy War Bonds And Stamps lege.
Who’s fault was it that Judge
Q. 'I Nimocks, Jr., came to Hyde
County Monday, August 21st, and
held a court term that was not
needed? That is a question of in
terest this week. The blame had
been placed on the Coqnty Com
missioners in talk around the
courthouse and in a local news re
lease, but they disclaim the re
sponsibility in a resolution passed
Tuesday afternoon.
The resolution pa.ssed unani
mously by the Board read ia part
as follows: “ . . this Board is of the
opinion that said Chapter 364,
Public Laws of 1943, repeals the
provisions of Chapter 367, Pub
lic Laws of 1941, insofar as the
same places upon the County
Commissioners the bu”den to can
cel any term of court.”
Chapter 367, Public Laws of
1941 provide for a special term
of court to be held on the 3rd
Monday in August of each year
and continue for one week for
trial of civil cases an dthat if in
the opinion of the Board of Com
missioners of Hyde County it is
not advisable or necessary to hold
said additional term of court, and
such fact is so stated in a resolu
tion duly adopted by a majority
on or before the 2nd Monday in
July that the Court can be called
off.
Said the Board in its resolution
disclaiming responsibility for the
court, “ . . this board hera and
now disclaims any responsibility
fo trhe appearance o rattendance
of Judge J. Q. Nimocks, Jr., for
the purpose of opening and hold
ing the August Term Hyde Su
perior Court as provided in the
acts of 1935 and 1941.”
The Board says in its resolu
tion, published in full as an ad
vertisement elsewhere in this is
sue, that Chapter 348 entitled
“An Act to Provide for the Can
cellation of Terms of the Super
ior Court” repeals the provisions
of Chapter 367, Public Laws of
1941. This law reads as follows:
“The Governor is hereby au
thorized and empowered, upon a
finding by him that any term of
Superior Court for any of the
counties of the State are not ne
cessary due to the lack of suffi
cient official business to be trans
acted, to cancel any term of Su
perior Court scheduled to be lield
in any of the counties of the State.
“That upon the cancellation of
any term of Superior Court the
Judge scheduled to hold said term
shall be available for assignment
by the Governor to hold Superior
Court in any County in the State.
“Cancellation not to affect sub
sequent terms. The cancellation
of any term of Court by the Gov
ernor as provided in this act, shall
dispense with holding of the term
of court during the year for which
it is cancelled, but it shall not af
fect the terms of court provided
for the county during succeeding
years.
“That all laws and clauses of
laws in conflict with this Act are
hereby repealed.
“That this Act shall be in full
force and effect from and after its
ratification.”
Except that the mistake, who’s
ever it was, could have cost Hyde
County $150 in payment for ser
vices for the Clerk of Court and
Sheriff, the Court term called by
Judge Nimocks and quickly ad
journed because the jury had not
been summoned; no witnesses
subpoenaed; and no cases calen
dared, was a joke in courthouse
circles, as well as in conversation
throughout the county. Now that
Mr. Roper, Court Clerk, and Mr.
Williamson, Sheriff, have renoun
ced any compensation that might
be due them for services, the
whole thing doesn’t matter a
whole lots.
Nevertheless there is specula
tion as to just who is to blame for
the slip-up that caused the Judge
to have to make a trip down here
to the county seat. The question
is one of interest.
Among the other business trans
acted by the Boafd at their reg
ular monthly session Monday and
Tuesday was the drawing of the
jury for the October term of Su
perior Court. They are as fol-
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