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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
News of the richest agricuetoral county in the foremost historical and recreational area of north Carolina
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Swan Quarter, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 12 1944
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Largest wheat farmer
WOULD PURCHASE
**R0PERTY m DARE COUNTY
Campbell Puts Bid on 168,000 Acre Tract
Mainland, Which Is Being Sold Under a Mort
Held By W. A. Julian of Washington. One
Greatest Areas for Timber, Game and Fish.
Iho
^ UQs T\
Lw Campbell of Montana
heat
"'heaf world’s largest
CHAIRMAN PLANNING
FOR PLYMOtiTH RALLY
intejg ^fower has manifested an
o{ acquiring 176,000 acres!
Part ? ^'epresenting the larger I
laaj p Dare County main-1
Oa Campbell, who is now
^aiseji ^ Washington, recently
iaa^ ivh placed by W. A. Jul-
gag'g is the owner of a mort-
lana the property, and the
be resold by W. A.
the K-j'^.^'^^tee, on October 19th,
Sq ''thing starting at $136,000.
have conflicting reports
that out about this sale, i
the he in order to publish
Jaiistatus of the matter. Mr. j
'tter it^PPens to be the Treas- j
ftatjjg the United States. His I
te^ev printed on all the cur-'
the 1 his connection with
is a private business
'i'he
oare
Property is owned by the J
TWO NORTH LAKE |
NEIGHBORS FINED
FOR FIGHTING
Will Invade Japs
Clay Gibbs and Enis Cooper
Fought and the Court Made
Them Pay For It
entij. ^°'’Poration. A year ago tl^e
aeo,,® ®tock of this corporation
by Fred Maloof of W- ROY HAMPTOl^, senator
quif ^'^ton, D. C. Mr. Maloof ac- nominate who was chairman this
it from the estate of Mrs. week of a meeting which plans
a^jL®'- Gilchrist Wells of Mi-' £or the big Democratic rally in
Plymouth Monday afternoon, Oc
tober 16th, at 3 p.m. A most
enthusiastic and harmonious
meeting was held Monday night
cljj' ^iurida, in settlement of a
he f ■ ^hen he got the property,
^260 it with a mortgage for
ian T ■ ii'® Metropoli- - - . —
iiew V ifisurance Company ofi'hy the leaders of the Democratic
givpiT'”^’'- Maloof agreed to'Party which was called by Mr.
the Julian a half interest in Hampton for the purpose of mak-
inP^'^Perty in return for certain j ing final arrangements for the
be^aciai assistance. Mr. Julian First Congressional Democratic
boag?® active in the project, and i Rally.
*''>Polt mortgage of the Met- The Democratic campaign for
tan Life Insurance Com- | a full vote for State and Nation
al candidates, will be staged in
Washington County on the above
date when State Chairman Wil
liam B. Umstead, Governor ,T. M.
Broughton. Gregg Cherry, candi •
date for Governor, Clyde R. Ho-
PSllV a
sidgy ^.®^r ago. Recently he con-
the ii advisable to foiyeclose
0w,j'’''°''tgage, for reasons of his
dgU it being generally un-
birt^°'i he was in position to
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th,
ere
property up to $260,000,
at) little interest shown, I ey, candidate for United States
(Ithe
property was knocked j Senate, and other State and coun-
hown +
Ooq iU® him for less than $100,-
bl hid was later raised by
end ^i'upson of Elizabeth City,
bjjj the resale, Mr. Julian’s
"’as $135,900. There has been
\vg|^,^"'*uncement that Mr. Julian
ly ® hhe property, but obvious-
his^invest-
Campbell read of the prop- \ possibly take the afternoon off
pjg being sold and decided to 1 on the 16th of October to be
said u® '^''1 on it. As to plans, he present and help make the Rally
that none, but he thought a perfect success,
jg Out of his experience as a 1 Speaking will be in the after-
to d ’ ho t^ould find something, noon in the court house at 3
Pro ■ '"'th so large an acreage, | o’clock and a barbecue dinner
it would sell cheap; will be served about 6.
—. gh. Hie ic q£ 1
ty candidates from the 14 coun
ties will appear on the program.
Also W. P. Horton, National
Committeeman and Congressman
Hei^bert C. Bonner.
Washington County Democrats
are looking forward to being host
to as many of the candidates
from the first district who can
great
His record is one
Of ■ ®''':cess. He is the au^or
his books on farming, and
(tigj, ^''ognized position as a far-
inter*'^'^® years ago attracted the
the Russian govern-
Realty Transfers
The following real estate trans
fers were last week recorded in
ovg" ’ they sent for him to go the Hyde County Register of
ten assist them in putting Deeds office: Etta C. Guthrie,
Piillion acres in cultivation. > Mildred G. Mann and husband
Raturai,,,’. . ... and Horace C. Guthrie and wife
locan^’ i to J. H. Patrick, one lot in Engel-
^f^-lhard; Hayes Covil to E. S. Har-
he 5 , ll'® P''°Pfly’iris and wife, two tracts in Cur-
this rituck township; Maude W. Jones,
^"1® to thB commissioner to Hyde County^
Count 'P® development of Dare
®Unty.
Scgtj^®.‘^t) years ago it was the
try.
the Pugh tract in Lake Landing
township; Hyde County to Sabra
i Gaskill Howard, one town lot at
Clay Gibbs and Enis Cooper,
neighbors of the North Lake
community, each charged in war
rants sworn out by the other with
assault with a deadly weapon,
were each fined $5 and cost by
Judge E. S. Fisher in County
Court Monday. They, like every
one else who gets into trouble
and goes to court, found out that
it is costly to get involved in
lawsuits and that it is best to live
neighborly.
Gibbs and Cooper argued ov
er some wood which Cooper cut
on Gibbs’ land. A melee followed
in which both men assaulted the
other with a deadly weapon.
Gibbs threatened Cooper with a
shot gun, according to the evi
dence, although he denied the
charge. Cooper pleaded guilty to
striking Gibbs with a piece of
wood. I
Lawyer Clifton Bell defended
Gibbs in the case brought against
him bjf Cooper, while Solicitor O.
L. Williams carried the case lor
the State. Cooper did not retain
an attorney. i
Albin Collins, young Engelhard
Negro, -charged with speeding,
and reckless and drunken driv
ing, was fined $50 and cost and
had his driving license revoked
for one year. |
Artis Blount, Negro of Swan
Quarter was fined $20 and cost
for assault and battery and using
profane and indecent language j
in public. He pleaded guilty. |
There were eight cases tried
for violations of the motor ve
hicle laws. Three of these were
for speeding, three for not hav- \
ing driving permits, one for driv-,
ing without lights and another
for driving with improper lights.'
'
MANTEO CITIZENS IN
LOSING BATTLE WITH
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS
Commissioners and Engineers Come to Manteo,
and Reluctantly Listen to Complaints About
Type of Road Being Built Where Storm Dam
aged Road and Bridge; More Washouts Expected
This Winter; Little Help Expected.
URGES SUPPORT FOR
WAR FUND CAMPAIGN
ON THE SHORES OF INDIA, large numbers of "soldiers, sailors and
airmen—Indian and British together—are rigorously practising the lessons
learned in the landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France.
This new picture shows the full realism with which they prepare to spearhead
the assaults on Jap-held lands of Asia. Under a protective balloon barrage,
and with full battle equipment, they wade ashore from the landing boats.
HYDE CAR OWNERS
MUST APPLY FOR
A BOOKS BY NOV. 1
Application Blanks Available
At Service Stations, Must
Be Mailed to Board
STUMPY POINT HOME
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Quick Work by Forest Service
Saves Community From I
Spreading Flames |
i
The home of Lonnie Hooper at
Stumpy Point was completely
destroyed by fire on the night
of Thursday. October 5, and on- j
ly quick work on the part of the
forest service, under the leader- j
ship of A. B. Hooper, forest war
den, saved the community from
a fire of immense proportions, j
The Hooper home had been un- |
occupied for three years, Mr. and
Mrs. Hooper having moved to |
Elizabeth City and the under- j
brush had grown up around the -
place. Flames spreading from the i
burning house to the underbrush |
threatened to spread and endan- j
ger other homes and nearby i
wQjodlands. Mr. Hooper got to-j
gether a group of four or five;
men, and put out the brush fire
before a great amount of dam
age resulted.
The origin of the fire was un
determined, It is not known whe
ther or not Mr. Hooper’s losses
are covered by insurance.
Hyde county automobile own
ers will apply for their new A
book before November 1st. Ap
plication blanks are obtainable
at filling stations. They should
be mailed to the ration office in
Swan Quarter.
The “A-11” coupons now in use
will expire November 8th. “A-12”
coupons in the present “A” gas
ration book will not be used. The
new “A” books will begin with
coupon “A-13” which will be
come valid on November 9th.
There will be three coupons for
use through December 21st.
Automobile owners are urged
to get their application in prompt
ly or their application may be de
layed. Those received after No
vember 1st will be processed af
ter all others have been attend
ed to.
The new gasoline books will
be mailed to the applicants. No;
books will be issued on the 9th,
10th and 11th of November ex
cept to those who purchase new
cars.
ROTARIANS WILL
ENTERTAIN HYDE
SCHOOL TEACHERS
Plan Banquet For Oct. 24th
At Mattamuskeet Lodge
With Harding Speaking
No matter how the war devel
ops this winter, supplies of sum
mer clothes fabrics, particularly
cottons, dre expected to be shori
of demand in stores next spring,! v . / a n D K. I FN f-
say clothing specialists of the yV /\ K D C—/ N L) O
USDA. .—
The Engelhard Rotary Club
will entertain their Rotary Anns
and members of the faculties of
the Engelhard, Fairfield, Swan
Quarter, and Sladesville schools
at a banquet in the Mattamuskeet
Lodge, Tuesday evening,' Octob
er 24th. Edmund Harding, hum
orist .and after dinner speaker,
will be the guest speaker.
It has been customary for the
Rotarians to entertain teachers
from the Engelhard school each
fall at a ladies night banquet.
This year the club, with members
living at Swan Quarter and Fair-
field, decided to entertain all of
the teachers on the mainland.
The banquet will begin at 7:30
in the evening in the dining
room of Mattamuskeet Lodge on
the Government Refuge at New
Holland.
The program committee com
posed of Dr. J. W. tMiller, chair
man, Sam Lamb and Carl Whit
field will have charge of the af
fair.
GOV. J. M. BROUGHTON ex
presses confidence that the peo
ple of North Carolina will “meet
the challenge” of raising the goal
of approximately $3,250,000 set
in Ihe 1944 United War Fund
drive which began Monday, Oc
tober 9th.
“This is a formidable under
taking,” said the Governor, “but
the cause is one in which the
people of North Carolina are
deeply interested and I have ev
ery assurance that the campaign
will be a complete success.”
The Governor urged support
for the drive saying, “It is earn
estly hoped that the people of the
State will make a generous re
sponse. The war is not over and
the need for the work of these
agencies is greater than ever be-
for. Noerth Carolina will again
do its full part.”
SCRANTON WOMAN, 89,
PASSES AWAY WEDNESDAY
PRISONER SCARES MANY
ON ROANOKE ISLAND
At
great logging Indus- Hyde’ County to Hugh
one time the property
thg ^ fourth of all the taxes in
frojv, Taxes have dwindled
’TJig *U,000 a year to $9,000.
Of built some 30 miles
has . ^^'■ough it, and the state
25 miles more, but the
have done no developing,
erafert ^°2ging business was op-
Vorj. n group from New
Pine ’ marketed much of its
§nm, cypress and juniper,
figuj, ^"omoters got together and
a out a scheme to make
the ‘dollars so they bought
floafp^oPorty for a million, and
Pugh, parcel of land in Lake
Landing township; Hyde County
to Geo. C. Swindell, parcel of
land in Currituck township; C.
C. Paul to N. F. Paul, tract of
land- in Currituck township; Hor
ace Gibbs to C. Gilbert Gibbs, 5
tracts of land in- Lake Landing
township; Clifton Ross to E. B.
Bell, parcel of land in Lake Land
ing township; C. A. Sawyer and
wife to Lula Sawyer and wife,
two tracts of land in Currituck
township.
6y
Benmrrfsoii-
linu*'. ^onds for two millions, MRS. H. C. JONES
"hich
they substituted for the se-
""rttie^
Papv • a life insurance com-
com-,'" Pittsburgh and broke the
Prisn crooks went to
the leaders of the in-
Iilgi ®® World met and got the
Pro °i'°i'tan to take over the
atiojf'''^’ work out the situ-
holdp to save the policy
that is how the Met-
got it. In 1939 they sold
BRIDGE HOSTESS
■fPolitan
taels'* ^ group headed by Mrs.
Of ®’f®tropolitan sold off some
Mrs. H. C. Jones was hostess
to the members of the Fairfield
Bridge Club Wednesday evening,
October 4.
E. N. Murray was winner of
high score and Mrs. R. F. Baynes,
second high. The traveling prize
went to Mrs. D. W. Cuthrell.
Refreshments were served to
the following members: Mrs. J.
L. Banner, Mr.- and Mrs. R. F.
I Baynes, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Cuth-
timber to various contrac-j rell, Mrs. H. L. Cuthrell and E.
fPlease turn to Page 4) t N. Murray.
When John McGee, 45, a trusty
prisoner engaged in road work
on Roanoke Island, decided to
take a stroll among the ladies of
his color Tuesday morning and
drew a razor blade to emphasize
his importunities, he threw quite
a scare among two women, but
who repulsed him. When news
got abroad, there was quite a tre- |
mor of apprehension throughout
the vicinity. He was caught by
prison guards during the after
noon and lodged in jail at Man
teo.
McGee is said to be doing a
term of 20 years for rape, and is
said also to have wandered
abroad once before. The men are
quartered at the old C. C. Camp
at Manteo, and are employed in
rebuilding the nearby road dam
age by thh storm. They have had
free access to Lloyd Meekins’
store, headquarters for colored
people, and being able to buy
beer, got somewhat irresponsible.
Austrian winter peas must be
seeded early, especially where
the land is to be planted in row
crops next spring.
If fat in a kettle, pan or boiler
overheats and bursts into flame,
smother it but never pour on wa
ter, say specialists of the USDA.
the
MosTTomnm
ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENT KNOWI
WAS DISCOVERED IN ENGLAND IN
1929 BY Dr.A.FLEMING AT st marys hospital
iSS'PS'ii-Xi'I '* PRODUCED BY A COMMON
BREAD MOLD... it’s THERAPEUTIC VALUE was
FIRST ESTABLISHED BY Dr. H.W. FLOREY IN 1940
4%-
i%/
033
discovered the
.CAUSESOF FERMENTATION
J ll'AND HOW TO CONTROL THEM.
" BOULING of BEER
I AND OTHER FOOD BEVERAGES
WAS MADE UNIVERSALLY POSSIBLE
ASA R&'ULT OF HIS STUDIES.
Mrs. Louisanna Sadler, 89, of
Currituck township passed away
at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Will Spencer, Wednesday
morning at ^'30 following a short
illness Mrs. Sadler was one of
the oldest residents of Hyde
County.
Born at .Swan Quarter in 1855
the daughter of W. G. Jarvis and
Elizabeth Jafvis, Mrs. Sadler had
lived all of her life in Hyde Coun
ty. She was a cheerful character
and had a wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at
the home Thursday afternoon at
3 o’clock. Interment was in the
Williams’ cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Will Spencer and Mrs. Dave
Spencer, both of Scranton. j
MRS. CAHOON UNDERGOES {
APPENDICITIS OPERATION j
Mrs. Dorothy Gaboon, chief j
clerk in the Hyde County ration |
office, who underwent an appen- |
dicitis operation last Thursday is j
getting along nicely. Mrs. Ina 1
Jones, assistant clerk, is taking
care of the work in the office
with the help of Mrs. Charlie
Gaboon.
READIN’ AN’ WRITIN’
iimm
WAS FIRST INJEGED INTO HUMANS
IN 1927 BYDrMax M.Strumia...
... THE USE OF DRIED PLASMA was
BEGUN BY THE U-S.FORCES m I940.r
Hyde County scl)ool children
will be drilled more in reading,
writing and spelling, it is an- *
nounced from the Board of Edu
cation office. Teachers have been j
instructed to tackle the problem'
of eliminating some of the ig-1
norance in language which pre-1
vails too much among high school
graduates today.
The use of language in all pha
ses will be emphasized in all class
rooms. It is a basic subject since
people must know how to read,
write and spell before they canj
master other studies. |
Meetings of the county teachers !
will be held in November, De- j
cember, February, March and'
April to discuss their problems
and plan their work. ’Two such
meetings have already been held.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Engineers of the State Highway
Commission as ruled from the
Tarboro office, which control*
what we get In the way of high
way facilities in Dare County,
have about carried their point in
building a sunken road, and an
inadequate bridge on the Roa
noke Sound causeway which was
swept away by the storm.
Seeking to ^et by with a make
shift road, which is two feet low
er than the former road, over
which the storm tides swept, the
engineers have provided a bridge
said to be 35 feet longer than the
old bridge. They have replaced
the old bridge at the same level,
which means it may easily float
away again as the result of storm
tides. Because of this low bridge,
tides have cut off communica
tion three times already. The
causeway is to be rebuilt two
feet lower than formerly, which
means the people of Roanoke Isl
and may expect much more in
convenience, and not necessarily
from very heavy storms.
Local citizens who have seen
thousands of dollars in damage
done to Manteo and the soundside
at Nags Head because of this:
bridge and road, reviewed the
long years of hostility manifested
by the Tarboro engineer-office of
the State Highway Commission
to every project sought in this
county, appealed to the Gover
nor in Raleigh, who caused an
investigation to be made. ’This
week, J. C. Gardner, district en
gineer, who has been in control
of engineering affairs in the first
district for some 20 years, made
a trip to Manteo, and on his way
back reported at some length in
the Elizabeth City Advance that
everything was all right. Two
days later a delegation of mem
bers of the highway commission
and their engineers came into
Manteo on Wednesday .night.
Without giving the people a
chance to be heard, they were
on their way out, but were pre
vailed to sit in with a few citi
zens Thursday morning, but they
were for sticking by what has
been done, and they pleaded the
inability of obtaining materials
essential to building the proper
structures asked for by the citi
zens, and they got out of town in
a short itme. So nothing comes of
the appeal to the Governor, and it
is a safe bet that the structure
will be divided by tides many
times more before relief may be
expected.
Those who came to Manteo were
W. Vance Baise, chief engineer,
W. R. Spruill and R. R. Roper,
engineers, Carroll Wilson, com
missioner for the First District,
John G. Clark of the Second Dis
trict, T. Max Watson of the ninth
district; Percy Ferebee of the
Tenth District.
It is a fact that time after time,
the citizens of Roanoke Island
and Dare County have had to
wage a fight to get even the sim
plest justice in the way of high
way facilities. They have too'of-
ten had to go against the recom
mendations of the Tarboro office
which is directed by Engineer
Gardner. In fact, the engineers
have gone out of their way to
find excuses, and have rushed
into print with detrimental argu
ments. When Mr. Gardner visited
Manteo recently, and was told by
Melvin Daniels about what was
needed here, he quotes Mr. Gard
ner as telling him we were “just
wasting time.” Mr. Daniels said
he told Mr. Gardner we had al
ready sent a delegation to appeal
to the Governor, and was given
the answer that “if your people
can mass enough power to whip
us out, is the only way you can
get it done.”
And so it goes. For 20 years
we have had to struggle for the
few road improvements we have
gotten. We have been fought on
the proposition of road connec
tions with Hyde County, and
bridges to Manns Hhrbor and
Tyrrell County. The people of
Hatteras Island and other places
on the coast have been denied
roads to which they were entitle
and which could have been pro-
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