THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
News of the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical and recreational area of north Carolina
Sfcan l^uarter, N. C., Thursday, Sept. 14, 1944
Single Copy 5 Cents
Faculties for white
Schools announced by
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
Quarter and Ocracoke Have Full Staffs; En-
^^Ihard, Fairfield and Sladesville Each Need One
*cher; Hvde and Tyrrell Principals Met in Fair-
Tuesday
All-Charlotte, N. C., Surgical Team Performs Medical Miracles In Italy
STORM THAT STRUCK
SECTION THIS MORNING
DOES EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
'^Udrtef
® Will
and Ocracoke ; WINDMILLS
ave full facu1..e« ATTRACT
th
rti far classes Mon-
announces N. W.
jj ' ®'^Perintandent of schools
®Hg9[L ® County, who states that
Vilig g Fairfield and Slades-
Ji!]have one vacancy to
Mr was also announced
Qiiap|, ' Shelton that the Swan
g*"- Engelhard schools
a teacher over recent
‘ He^v
Cements a.s the results of
c( by the State Board
Th
teachers tor each of
Sw follows:
Quarter—Mrs. Carolyn
Saw ' P^'iucipal; Mrs.
J Jifgj.,® T. Harris, Mrs. Marietta
Mts Miss Lona Bonner,
Tola °cge Makely, and Miss
Watson,
Claude
J. Baum,
-
FOLKS TO HYDE '
Charles H. Scarbareugb, For
mer Resident, Favors Ke-
coustiructi.on o£ Them
mi
IPPfsi
iiiilSi
s
Martin, prin-
p. Carson, Mrs. Jes-
Wj* ' ^oye and Miss Lilly Mae
If
-Mrs. Ellen C. Wat-
A reeo)i,sti:uc':i.)n of tlic pic- j
turasque old rnill.'i which u.sed t& I
spread their broad sails to Die j
win in Hyde County v,'Ould he I
ideal for tourist,attractions after j
the war, in the opnion of Charles |
H. Scarborough, former represen
tative of Dare County who is now
in the furniture business in
Hampton, V.a. Mr. Scarborough
tells why these old windmills us- ;
ed for grinding grain and pump
ing water, have ,so;3trong an ap
peal to athe visitor:
To the Editor;
I was very much interested m
an article in your paper concern
ing post war plans of the people
TogctCier for the past feuiteen months, these Army medical officers end technicians from Charlotte, North,
Carolina, perform a difficult operation near the bottle front in Itoly. Left to rigirt: Second Lieutenant Sara Moran.,
an Army nurse, Maior Henry Munrao. Coptain John C. Montgomerj,', ^aptoin Ouncan 0. Colder. Jr., pad Sergeont,
Claroncs 0. Kuestsr. Jr. .j ' ‘ ““ —
tell Mits. Edna C. Cuth-| of Engelhard in Hyde County for
Itfj Gladys B. Midyette, \ reconversion after the war. Thi.s
Slu' -®^lhred Guthrie, and Miss, recalls to mind trips to this
ua T _
Wit
- Mrs,
We
Principal;
Mary E.
Mrs. Eunice
W Elizabeth Baum, Mrs.
%l6-“' Patrick, Mrs. Juanita Y.
Wa p i^lsae S. Mann, Mrs.
Cartn Manning, and Miss
Oo-t Credle.
br
Priaj.
®—MLss Helen J. Tay-
hs r^'■‘^‘Pal; Miss Ruby Amstin,
Bragg,
® Miss Brightsie Sav-
Ta
t'ji'j ^'^bers will go on the job
liie "1 before students go to
ers '■ools for study. All teach-
Quaft ' report to the Swan
Say '^Igh school today (Thurs-
Vof’i^^^Pl. 14th) for a two-day
^“Pference ds.signed to
W u '''ork when classes begin
Miss Lelo
ftg —mg and discussing rou-
r3c3pj®^P'lPi'Strative programs,
Wuct’- reports, supplies and
pT Hyde and Tyrrell
rnet with the county su-
aa(j ^®Phents of the two counties
'iplia Wetherington, rep-
FOREST FIRE CONTROL
PROGRAM HAS ALREADY
SAVED MORE THAN COST
FLANS' MAPPED
TO LAUNCH WAR
FUND DRIVE OCT. 16
Hyde County Crop Losses 75 Per Cent Farmers Re
port; Nebraska Methodist Church Blown Down;
Telephone Lines Cut and Electric Power Off;
Other Damages
JAPS ARE POOR
SHOOTERS SAYS
HYDE veteran!
The storm which struck through-
I out this .section this iTiiui sday)
I morning ilid extensive d.image to
crops and buildings. Fsrmer.s es
timate croo lo,3.ies in Hyde Coun
ty at 75 per cent.
yVinu's ^,£ gale proportioiis began
blowing :n the early hoar,-, of the
morning and reached a peak a—
^ bout 10 0 cln.nc
I Rasident.s had been v.'ai'ned
•J rn ,0— r— , 'that the hurricane was commg,
.said T/Sgt. George Thomas G),bb,'3, _ - _ , , . , f
W rr la D. L. B-."'-y, chairman or the Hvde
County Chap, rr of the American
Middletown Boy Home After
Two and One Half Years
In Pacific
“Th.e Japs are poor shooter.s,'
.son of Mr. and Mr.s. G. 1). Gitab.s
of Middletown, home on leave af
ter two and one half yeair, of ser
vice in the Pacific^war, whan ask
ed v^hat kind of fighters the lit
tle men of Nippon ware. “Of
coruoo,” he went on, “they can't
help hut d oa lot of killing, be-
cau.se tliere is so miany of them.”
Red Cross, wa.s notified 1o be on,
the alert with hi.s orga.nzaf.on.
Radio stations ca.T,ed tne an-
nouncem n* rn uulletins aL da;/
Wearies-la/.
Wheri the wind .st.aop'jd tilcw-
ing and Ih • sun came out this
®fvteE
; charming little village years .^a.go.
One thing that impressed me was
those old Dutch windmills that
were in existence at that tihie. I j
cannot recall anything .more in- '
teresting; alchough I did not have!
speaking acquaintance with any
of them. They are still vivid in
my memory.
I think if I were a citizen of
Hyde X would proiaose to recre
ate one of them for a new gener
ation to isee. No ePoubt there
are a number of people living in
the vicinity who do remember
them. Perhaps a lot of them and
.surely there may be some parts
of the old mills lying around.
Enough to get working plan.s
from. When the road.s get full of
automobiles again, there will Ire
thou,sands of people who will
want to vd.sit every point of in
terest that can be reached
To my mind PJngelhard would
be ideally .situated for i'., espe
cially when the new Croatan
bridge is built. The Lost Colony
found again, and the' road is
‘ve of the Instructional 1 paved from the Croatan Sound
lie r* ® the State office of Pub-
in the Fairfield
iti j. Tuesday. Improvements
ic Q, '■Uction was the main top-
be„ ' 'discussion. The meeting
id:30 and lasted until
Mr Qu
0 said that schools
^\x\a on a four-hour sche-
-.asgj^'^bring the cotton picking
«(J J,. ■ This decision was reach-
Cou;ii July" meeting of the
of Education. The
short whether or not the
'iffict *?®‘dule will be put into
^csts with local officials.
bridge to Engelhard
What do you people in Hyde
think of it?
C. H. Scarborough
Hampton, Va.
RECORDER’S COURT
*'aiviily has good
Tam^ Despite weather
ot the
tu.
511 Elgie Credle
won’t go hungry
They had a good
i*! Of „ year aiid Elgie did a
The ®®‘^ihg.
family Is an FSA
Harris, county
*he tg naakes this report;
iiiis ... ' T has canned 610 quarts
community in Curri-
"Ut
Tear
Of has 80 quarts left
®^Pect 'tunned last year They
lUa;
fts th- additional 100
a t ypar which will give
of 800 quarts.
Of
am
Canning all of this food
supplied a family
vegetables and sold
The N ° garden produce.
*l*cc6sj couple credit to the! r
^htejigg *31 their garden to per-
'^®®®fdle! planted regularly,
hard^ weather, add work-
^5na ' . Their landlord gave
^hey jA ^Pterested cooperation.
, ctory P $5.50 package of
a V. ^eden seed which gave
year, supply of seed for the
IMq,
**ard soldier in
Alvau^^HEVlLLE HOSPITAL
• '* ret,, ^"Igette, U. S. Army,
® from overseas, and
J'tal J Y id a government lios-
Son , Seville. Midgstte is
Addie Midgette
The following cases were tried
at the monthly session of Hyde
County Recorder’s Court Monday
morning:
Alfred Hooker, colored, public
drunkenness, plead guilty, 60
days, susperided upon payment of
$10 fine and cost.
Jason Spencer, colored, public
drunkenness, plead guilty, 30 days
suspended upon payment of cast.
Sam Spencer, colored, appear
ing on highway under influence
of intoxicating drink, resisting ar
rest and abusing a public officer,
entered a plea' of guilty to two
charges, sentenced to 6 , montbo
on the roads. Appeal was noted
to Superior Court. Bond was set
at $500,
Tom Mooi-e, colored, having in
his passession non tax paid mash
liquor, plead guilty, 6 months,
suspended upon payment of $25
fine and cost.
B. Martin, lac kof funds to take
care of check, 30 days suspended
upon payment of cost and taking
care of check.
Emory Howard, colored, drunk
en driving, plead guilty, 6 months
on the roads, suspended upon
payment of $50 fine and cost and
driving permit revoked for one
year.
Robert L. Bryant, colored, driv
ing without driving permit, plead
guilty, 30 days suspended upon
payment of cost.
Mack McCade, colored, driving
without lights, capias and con
tinued.
John T. Bryant, colored, .speed
ing, plead guilty, 3 month.s on the
roads su.spended ui>on payment
of $25 and cost.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Hyde Volunteers Meet With
UWF Officials in Swan
Quarter Monday
Plans ror launching the 1944
United War Fund drive in Hyde
1 » . . r. r o at County the week of October 15th
Warden Archie Berry of Fairfield Reports Large .^ere drawn at a meeting m swan
Fire Checked in Juniper Bay Section Last Month Quarter Monday afternoon. Hyde
p I County’s quota this year is $1,2j0.
Saving Hundreds ot Acres of trees i james t. Littie, district chair-
I ' • ~ ' j man, and T. J. Collier, field rep-
Tlie county-stats forest fire FARM PRICES HIGHER j j-esenlative, attended the meet-
prevention and control program,! THAN LAS'T YEAR I Monday afternoon which was
which was started in Hyde Coun-I | attended zy 22 volunteer work-
ty August 1st, as the result of j Prices received by North Caro-; gj.g gj county chapter. Con-
action by the Board of County 1 hna farmers for coin sold in Au-j ,^3^ expressed by those
Commissioners in June appro-1 gust averaged $1.64 per, bushel,, .|.j^g rneeting that Hyde
priating $2,000 to join wi th thai 16 cents fore^per bushel Ulan that j go over the top in the
state in paying for the program, jot August 15, 143, according to j again this year,
has already saved enough trees idyds Willis, State Department Miss Iberia Roach of Swan
and timber to many times pay 1 of Agriculture crop economist. Quarter, county chairman, pre
fer the cost of operations this! Wheat sold for $1.62 per bu.sh-. j.^g meeting. It was op-
year. Warden Archie Berry of; si as of August 15; oats, 96 cents; | singing “America,’’ fol-
Fairfield reports that t fire spot- barley, $1.40, and rye, $ .7 . j ]Q.^^g(J jjy j^j^g pledge of allegiance,
ted Ai4u.st 25 in the Juniper Bay, The drop in hog pnees halted | genera Ipicture of how the
section was put under control; at $12.30 per hundred on June 15.; organization
after it had burned over some 50, held .steady at that level on July j ^,,3^ g^^g^j the Hyde coun-
acres of woodland an da large, 15, and on August la, moved to. worker.s by Mr. Little
ned i an average of $12.90. j Collier, UWF representative, gavei carl doughboy.
Cotton broug it an e, ima e : ^ detailed account of how the shooter,” he said, adding “No .sol- and Manns Harbor
21.1 cent.5 per pound, as cornpar- ; money donated was used by show- i dier can compare v«ilh the Ameci-
A forest fire prevention andj®*^ with 20.0 cents on ugu.j j mg illu.strations in, pictures. The I earn”
control program h.as been advo-|^®‘^^' ; program wa.s very informative. | 'Tlie Middletown man was a
-_._j , -._j : — Mi.ss Roacn announced at the 1 cook wi'ub an ardllery outfit He
Sgt. Gibb,s was in the bloody j afternoon crops wore flat cn ibe
figliting at Guadalcanal. He has S^und and farmer.-.; were esti-
1 more recently been at a resl camp; mating losse.s at 75 per cent. Fruit
m the Fiji island.s. orchards were dam.iged t.bnugh-
The Middletown boy said that|UUt the county and the pecan
the Red Cross wa.s right up "'at said to be a.n alinrst lo-
Uie front helping the fighitlngHal The grape crop, already
men. He tells Ihe same story l^ahort, also suffered damage,
that every veteran of this wari Ba- icr of Currituck town-
tells regarding the good job being 'ship, was reporte i missing. JIc-
done by this great American or- SO crabbing and at last e
ganization. They are in there do- Ports today had not been found,
ing their best for the soldiers. ;jA search v^ 3 underway thi.s af-
“Isaw Joe E. Brown’s big j ternoon to locate hirt^,
mouth while on Guadalcanal,” The couni^-/ was cut off from
said Sgt. Gibbs, speaking of en- the outside world except by pri-
teretainment. He said that there vate motor transportation. Tele-
were movies for entertainment Phone lines were down and it was
even up near the front. There impossible to reacn points out of
were a number of the big shows the county. Some local calls
that came to the re.sl camps tea- could be niidi out some o£ the
turing outstanding players. circuits were r'i>t in working 01-
Some comment about his travel her.
over the Pacific were that the Electric power went off about
most beautiful waterfront he had 6 o’clock th-, morning and re-
ever seen was in New Zeaeland; mained of*. Leienien of the Pam-,
the Australians are very much Uco Ice and Light Company weio
like us American.s, but a Utile be- able to get lights opc-.-atui.r in the
bind time in fashions, and lots of Town of Engelhard, this evening,
pretty women. Damage to the power line.-: was
Sgt. Gibbs say.s the Jaj) soldier extensive with numerous b'-eoks
area of mar.sli and threat
hundred.! of acres of nearby wood
land.
Mr. I doesn’t compare with the Ameri- tu h,:emiles of rui-il lines ruti-
“The Jaj) i.s a poor uiug w> Swan Quai-;.'-.-, Fairfield
cated by landownero and inter-j
e.sted citizens for many years. 'Ph
Board of Commi.ssioners reacted!
to this sentiment thi,s year and!
made possible the program. Their |
action which was applauded as a
wi.se step is coming in for more
praise now that the benefits ot
the program are seen and the tax
payers can see that their tax-dol-
lars are well spent.
Mr. eBrry reports that the fire
was spotted in the Juniper Bay
section on August 25th and that
he and a group of
I ENGELHARD SERVICEMEN
VISITING HOME RECENTLY
A number of .servicemen from muiiily will be made shortly,
th eEngelhard section were visi
tors with friends and relatives
over the week end. A correspon
dent reports the following home
on leave:
Tne ErigelhirJ Bus Conip.ai’.y
did not operate eii'ier I'ts Colum
bia or Wushing .u'l routes tu.ia>.
Trees werp h'own aci: .-.s ;ii; higti-
' meeting that the organization forisav/ and ate a lot of pineapple way on noth sidc.s if Swan Quar-
j Hyde County was almost com-1 and cocanut. “f don’t care to see 1-®'^ hindering mi or trafi c Some
I plele. Announcement of com-{another pineapple or cocanut,” were able t ogee ..hroug 1. how-
HYDE BOY WORKING IN
GLASS SHOr IN ENGLAND
he said, explaining that his taste sver, and this afternooi iiighway
has changed since he went into srew-s- were clearing the path,
service almost four years ago. “I The U. S. Mad truck came m
am enjoying fish, oy.sters, shrimp from Washingto.i. Kuial mail
and cabbage while home,” he said, carriers made .htur routes at
Headquarters, European Thea- explaining that the Army often Swan Quarter a.'o Fairfield, but
Cecil Silverthorne, U. S. Navy, j^gj. gf Operations—Normandy-1 had cabbage but they didn’t taste Mr- Fisher at Laai ^anding and
.stationed in Norfolk, spent the j |ggy,.jjj armored vehicles are giv-! goood coooked in the water they M"- Watson at S-crarit'cii did not
week end here with his wife. • gg 15-minute shatterproof wind-! used out there. make theirs.
Edwin Spencer, U. S. Marine! gjjjgjj replacement service at aj Sgt. Gibbs earned his furlough Workstock was .'■'ported killed
volunteers I *^urps, stationed at Cherrp Point,!-(jg^gd spates Army Ordnance de-| through the new rotation system in Lake Landing an 1 eurrituck
made immediate efforts to put it * spent Sunday here with his par- j pgp pg England where skilled .sol- i for .servicemen which allow.s tho.s8 townships when bam.s and stables
out. Operations were delayed be
cause the party was unable to
find a route to it at night. Work
was starte4 next day and the fire
was put under control.
The fire was on lands owned
by the government. Manager
Sam ,Lamb of the Mattamuskoot
Refuge helped W.arden Berry di
rect-operations and fight the
blaz-e. It is tlie only forest fire
reported since the program of
cxnrtrol v;ent into effect August
l.sl.
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Spencer.! dig]- glass-workers have cut, I with a long period of service over- blew down. Details were rmi a-
Latney Hooker, U. S. Navy, 1 gygggd and polished an estimated seas a nopnortunity to come to vailable.
spent Supddy here with his moth- j half-million windshield glasfees in the States and to their homes-. He The Watson’s Chapst Me.hodi.st
er, Mrs. Frank Swindell and Mr. I the past year. 1 will report back to Miami, Fla., church at Nebraska was leveled
Swindell. j 'Working in the only “G.I.” glass. when his leave is up the last of b ythe wind Another building
shop in south-ern England, Cor-, this month. reported blown .town was the
BELHAVEN STORE MANAGER. 1 pgj.^, g^-dis j^jon Lewis, 27, Fair-| And when the war i.s ov-cr and George L. Cox vi'ireboij-ie at Mid--
field. North Carolina, is one of the Army gives him his dsicharge, dletown located in front of hi;:.
SUFFERS BURNS
I the Ordnance -soldiers who i-s Sgt. Gibbs will be coming to Hyde store,
F. D. I’ownes, manager of Bur-I helping to turn out windshields, to make his home-—at least, that Repoii:
ge.ss’ Department Store in Bel- ! anti-dazzle headlight
haven, is
coming 111 fifim lli--‘
glasses, is what he'said when interview - Swan Quartet section tell of a
-till unable to be in tbe' len.ses fo rwelding goggles, dials-Qd this v/cek. And—^and it he great deal of damage. Th'; Meth-
store as the result of burns he re- I for in-.strument panels, pro-tection, gets married, and he don’t change odist church wa.3 damageri to tho-
ceived Augusa 30th while getting i guard.s for gi'inders and any other jj^is mind, he will manv a Hyde tune of something like $100 and
Hundred.s o facres in the vast'his boat ready to go fishing. Mr. j glas.s accessories. 1 Couniy girl. Soule church vyas damakecl by a
woodland betv/een Engelhard and Clyde Burgess, owner of the busi-
the Dare County lina at Long ' ness, iis ’managing the store in the
Shoal River burned otver during j absence of Mr. Townes,
the summer. A progr|5p. of con-'
trol could have saifeS
of feet of lumber
ed in the war and m:
tie trees that would
a wealthier county,
come.
!sand.s . STEWART ROGERS SELLS
sd-
lit-
'meant
years to
HAS NARROW ESCAPE .
T. S. Spencer of Engelhard and
Elizabeth City had a narrow es
cape Saturday night when his car
overturned in the canal at Gum
Neck when a front tire blew out
on a curve He wa.s pulled from
live almost completely submerged
BRIDGE FISHING SITE
Stewart Rogers, -whose success
ful career at the Roanoke Sound
bridge has been a subject of great
interest in this vicnity for some
ten years or more, has recently
.sold his home, sto-re, and business
to George Dykstra of New York,
and he plans to leave Roanoke
Island to make his home. Mr.
Rogers says he is leaving because
the island climate doesn’t agree
with Mrs. Rogers’ health. Mr.
Dykstra is well known at Wan-
w-bere he married Miss
vehicle by two Tyrrell men who
happened to be nearby. He wasichese,
only slightly injured. Spencer | Ruth Brothers, daughter of the
was traveling from Elizabeth City j late Captain Claude Brothers.
to Engelhard at the time of the
accident. Bitterweesd in pastures can be
controlled if the plants are not
Hyde County farmers have ap- , allowed to produce seed. Often
plied almost one ton of limestone J three mowings are required, the
to every third acre of cropland in I first about six inches from the
the county this year. ground with plants in bloom.
Cori>oral Lewis is the husband j —^
of Mrs, Alma Lewis and the son FAIRFIELD BOY TRAINING
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lewis, all
of Fairfield. A graduate of En
gelhard high school, he has been
in the Army for two years. Be
fore his induction he was work
ing as-an apprentice pattern mak
er.
SWINK BUYS LARGE FLOCK
OF PUREBRED SHEEP
falling tree.
’Three chiminies were blown off
SCO’TT FIELD, ILL. SCHOOL the Fairfield school building.
Details of other damage in that
Scott Field, Ill.—^Pvl.'Crawford community were not available.
L. Cahoon, son of Mr. and Mrs.! At Engelhard, half of the new
C. L. Cahoon of Fairfield has roof on J. H. Jarvis’ store was
been enrolled at Scott Field, Ar- ripped off and about two thirds
my Air Forces Training Command of the roof on the Pamlico Ice-
radio school. At the completion and Light Company plant wa.s
of training here, he will be quali- blown off. Numerous small
fied for further duty ais a radio houses were blown down or dam-
technician and may become one aged.
D. M. Swink, Swan Quarter gf {.jjg many Scott Field graduates The storm, part of a great At-
farmer, recently purchased 85 servingk as members of Army lantic hurricane that swept up
head of Hampshire sheep from the • bomber crews, at AAF ground from the South, was said by old
Scuppernong Farms in Tyrrell j stations or on the world wide bat. ; timers to be one of the mo.st se-
Oounty. There are 15 purebred | tiefronts of the Army Airways' vere to .strike this section in re-
ewe.s and 5 purebred rams in the j Communications Systein. j cent years. No official word was
flQck. ' Pirt. Cahoon, a graduate of the available as to the rate of the;
Mr. Swink’s flock is the out-1 ggggjbard high school, wa.s an wind, but some e.stimateri it at
standing flock of sheep in Eastern motor mechanic in civil; 100 miles per hour. Thq hun i
North Carolina, according to js the husband of Mrs. cane reported heading in this di-
Coun-ly Agent J. P. Woodard. Alice Cahoon. Pvt. Cahoon is a rection yesterday was reported
_____ — — member of the Masonic Lodge. to b eblowing 140 miles per hour.
The Gold Sand Home Demon- j j ^ jg believed to be even more
stration Club of Franklin Couniy, price ceilings for turkoy.s, live destructive than the one of 1933,
has canned 913 quarts of fruits, v^^gjgbt, will drop V2 cent a pound which was one of the most dam-
and meats for the October 1 and a like amount onaging to strike in this section in
vegetables,
school lunch room.
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