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J k »ftE THE HYDE COU news of the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical and recreational area of north CAROLINA ''I; No. 14. 5*liMER «!ff SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1944 I S ELECT COMMITTEES COUNTY BONNER ACTS TO HELP HYDE FARMERS Germans Keep U S. Army Engireers Busy ® Intejcest Shown In Vot- Many Committee- men Re-Elected at various points the county last week, 'heir fiarmens elected '^fiple-A community ccm- for the coming ye^r '^®legates to attend the coun- ''vide meeting in Swan Quar- 0 elect the county committee, was litle interest shown cofjj ® holloting. Many of'the old ^ni‘?'',^®®men were re-elected. served since AAA was f, ^Rttniittgemen elected were as Uo^g, (,®'‘gelhard; B. B. FuMord, S. D. C.’OisLnKEb.iMAX KEBBERT C. *1? ®nd Cecil N. 'Williams. ^ BONER is acting to help Hyde p^'^rrituick A. L. McKinney, County farmers who claim that p Srinn and D. S. Daniels. j their lands are being damaged by 2''•^rritucji “B”: J. C. Bishop, R. the salt water from the inland ■ Sawyer and S. R. Clayton. ; waterway. He seeks a eongre.-,- Landing; W. W. Payne, S.; sional investigation of the mat- and J. D. Silverthorne. I ter. jj^an Quarter “A”: Ernest E. j Already the district army en- Joseph C. WilMams, Jr., gineer has made an informal Charlie J. Cdhoon. ' study of the situation and has ad- ^^irfieid; p! E. Swindell, J. L. vised Bonner that a thorough . ^kian and Oarl Cuthrell. I study is needed. ' The inland cuts J ■'«u Quarter “B”: D. M. Swink ; ' The inland waterway ■ Lee and H G. Credle. ' aoross Hyde County between the pounty oomimitteemen elected' fresh-wiater' Alligator River and "'eri Lake' the saltwater Pungo River. Far- B ® T- A. Jennette of ^ ‘ting, Gratz Credle of Scran-j mers along the banks of the ca- and H Z Jones of Fairfield.! nal claim that the salt water of Willi; The Editoi s Column TO ATTEND MEETING IN CHAPEL HILL Single Copy 5 Cents BERTIE HAS THE RIGHT SPIRIT Released by U. S. War Department, Bureau of Public Relation*. The Pont de IM.rc near Aix, France, as it looked after being wrecked by German demolition squads during the Nazi retreat. ams wtas named secre-; the Pungo has backed up into I the Canal and is destroying the fertility of their lands. Bonner has asked the Senate I Commerce committee to include i a resolution in the Rivers and I Harbors Bill, due to come up'soon j in the upper ohamber, authoriz- i ing an investigation. ^delViUBTSTNewAxealf PLYMOUTH MEN KILL Landowners Vote 1 MUCH GAME IN HYDE Approval , „ , One Day’s Hunt Nets 4 Geese, ll},. i 6 Squirrels, 12 Quail and conservation dis- ^eer for 2 Men Jopj. Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell, Beau- I Conservation J*ST. FOR EAST ^0 Be voted on I learn through Roy Parker’s column in the Hertford County Herald "that Bertie County Leg ionnaires are going to build a home for their ex-servicemen. He reports that $1,000 was pledged in a few minutes at an American Legion meeting the other day. Windsor and Bertie surely have the spirit. It would be well if Hyde could do the same thing. There is more need for action. Here is what Parker had to say in his Roanoke-Chowan column: “My oouinty of Hertford has O. L. WILLIAMS, who was re talked that thing for almost a, appointed by- the Hyde County quarter of a century. It has not Board of County Commissioners constructed it yet, bu i will. In Monday to serve another two NEW TERMS OF OFFICE FINDS ONE CHANGE Oaths Taken Monday; Berryv Is New Chairman of Commissioners each of the counties these under takings will fit into the era of postwar construction and may well take the form of memorials to the fellows of both wars. They are money-raising jabs that should appeal for support to ser vice men and civilians alike.” With an abjective of this kind, the Hyde County American Le- ion post or some other organiza tion would really have something worthwhile for wdiich to work. A GOOD WAY TO TEACH THE YOUNGSTERS Members of the 343rd U. S. Engineer Regiment found this captured German gun and salvaged the metal in its railroad car riage. ^^d Washington couiities will begin operation early Hyde County is known far and wide for its good hunting and given the go- sportsmen come from many states Vote n i^ndowners who will shoot fowl and game in its issue. The county borders. But few find shooting '*'6 ‘oners have voted to hold ^ ^gitter than did two Plymouth ^rendum in Hyde. i ^len, Henry Hardison .The i and Ben iioti ^ organization of a conservia- Snell of Plymouth, according to dfg- ‘district will bring aid in their home town paper, the Roa- agg individual farm man- ^ noke Beacon. Here is the Bea- Serv ®oil building, aud con- con’s story: forest and natural, Qne thing about hunting in stated by pro- eastern Carolina, there is variety h as well as quantity of game. And '''i1)h d ■ ^ *^'^0 Plymouth men, Henry Har- rainage. I dison and Ben Snell, just about ting ®re posis-ilbillitoies of get- ^he jack-pot down in Hyde County last Saturday. is be made available. It .pj^gy went down Friday night possibly a drag- ! g^gse the next day. Aris- It brought in to help.; j^ey had their limit, known just when the g^^^g gach, before 10 o’clock wm I!' Saturday morning. They had car eer kx ‘tarried in this news- dogs along “just ^'Vneiv, hand. Only land- case,” so they decided on a permitted to cast On the way, they I pagsgd a pecan grove full of AXTtwr I squirrel, collecting six without AENDS CHURCH MEETING j the highway more than Mooney of Ne- ^ fgg^ attended a meeting of j®ibodiist , , . I Continuing on the bird hunt, .'’"Hford’ '^°^^®"\/"|they bagged a couple of quail buck boiled out of a reed patch ofherlwn I almost on top of them. Armed i only with No. 8 shot, they banged f our days later Pont de I’Arc was repaired and trains were in operation carrying stores and munitions to advancing American troops. The other afternoon while I was up at the Engelhard school I hunting around for some bits of news, Mrs. Brown took me around and showed me some of the work they are doing and some im provements that are being made. The new coat of paint in a num ber of rooms makes a great im provement and there are a num ber of wonthwhile projects under way. One of the things that was im pressive was a project which one of the elementary teachers, Mrs. Alese Mann, has under way to teach the children geography. By drawings, which were very good, • Mrs. Mann is able to demonstrate the terrai niand location of the country, something about -the peo- I pie and many other things. No one I could fail to take in the lessons i demonstrated in this manner. I I learned that Mrs. Mann does j this drawing in her spare time. I It is a fine piece of work, and j must take a good wlhile to do the job. Other teachers may use the same technique, but they have a lot of competition w'it-h Mrs. ' Mann in the field, j This way of teaching by dem- I onstration is good, and it is I speedy. One reason for the fast growth and development of our armed forces is the superb way that they are able to teach by demonStrafiori by movies and by trained experts. MRS. NEAL’S UOLUMN IS DISCON-HNUED years as county attorney, wdll at tend a State-wide meeting of county and city attorneys in Chapel Hill Friday and Saturday, December 8th and 9th. The meet ing is sponsored by the North Carolina Institute of Government and is designed to inform these puiblic officials in matters per taining to their respective offices. A. Cahoon’s Store Entered Sunday About $50 in Cash Taken; Conn- Commissioners May Buy Bloodhound T. B. GIBBS DOES FAST JOB FA'TTENING PIGS Jofr® t'le best Irish potatoes ally got him, with the help of tne Of are apparently some bird dogs. Then they resumed . show's how by hard work agril " for China, too, say' bird hunting and wound up the teji^'^viral officials, who have' day with a total of 4 geese, 6 ^ ^ ^2 American varieites of squirrels, 12 quail, and the deer. 1 away at the deer until they fin- You can’t keep a man down -ike T. B. Gibbs of Sladesville— Uncle Thead to a lot of folks younger than his more than three COUNTY BUILDINGS ARE INSURED FOR $20,000 a big supply of meat. Mr. Gibbs neighbor, D. S. Dan- in severaLoarts of China ' Not satisfied, they stopped of on iels, gave him eight two-day old ^ 1 their way home and bought 9 pigs last April 29th, when the I bushels of oysters. And, incident- little ones lost their mother. They ' ly, on the trip they almost man- were brought to Mr. Gibbs house i aged to kill a couple of quar—tout by his wife and daughter in an that's another story. apple basket. When Mr. Gibbs Too bad the boys forgot their butchered the hogs on November fishing poles and didn’t- run into 21st they dressed out 1,450 pounds, any rabbit, turkey or bear—about It took a great deal of work all they missed on which the sea- nursing the pigs, but that was the son is open. ' only w'ay that they could be kept • ■ alive in their early days. Mr. Gibbs fed them six times a day Mrs. S. S. Neal’s column, “Send Them A Card for Christmas,” one of the most popular features ever run in The Herald, has been dis- If the Hyde County courthouse continued because government or agricultural building should censorship does not per- be damaged or destroyed by fire pu’ulication of locations or wind, the county wouldn’t be military units. While our first hold the bag, so to speak. The interpretation w?.s that we could County Commissioners for some ^hem (and we had seen them time now have been carrying in- m other papers) after carefully surance on these buildings for looking over the rules again we slightly more than $20,000. The ^ook the view that APO numbers A. Cahoon’s store at Swan Quarter was entered Sunday night and about $50 in cash was stolen, according to Sheriff Pratt Williami^n. No one has been ar rested yet in connected with the crime. Sheriff Williamson was called to the scene of the robbery Mon day morning and immediately had bloodhounds from Greenville brought in. A number of people had been around the store and the dog was unable to pick up the trail. Reporting tne incident to the Board of County Commissioners Tuesday, Sheriff Williamson sug gested that the county might buy a blood hound to help track down crime. He reported that enough money has been spent in the last several months to pay for keeping one. It was pointed out by Sheriff Williamson that a boy’s life was saved at Fairfield and several oth er robbiers had been -at least par tially solved by the help of one of these trained animals brought in from Pitt County. He stated one would be useful in getting bootleggers. The board authorized Mr. Wil liamson to investigate the possi bilities of getting a blood hound and the price and report his find ings at -their next meeting. New terms of office began for a number of Hyde county officers ; Mondhy, December 4th. There is I only one new name on the list j of officials. C. L. Bell is the new I representative. He did not take I his oath Monday, j Old members of the Board of j County Commissioners are: A. L. i Cuthrell of Fairfield, J. S. Mason of Swan Quarter and Ed Berry of New Holland, \Vho were sworn in to serve, another term. Solicitor O. L. Williams who was re-elect ed to serve another term wias sche duled to take his oath. Ed Berry was named chairman of the board of commissioners to succeed A. L. Cuthrell. 'This is Mr. Berry’s third term, and his first election to the chair. Both of the other members have served as oliairmen. O. L. Williams was named as county attorney for another two years and Mrs. Maud Jones was re-appointed for another one year term as County accountant. Her bond was approved at the meeting Tuesday. Commenting on the beginning of a new term, county attorney Williams said, “Let us hope that the next two years will be our best. We must keep the home fires burning until the boys come home. It is up to us to do a good job while they are away.” ENUMERATORS NEEDED FOR FARM REPORTS Great Value in Properly Report ing Farm Figures, Super visor Lupton Says are not for publication. Neal received a 0? Community observe the extra thousands upon of American homes to- day there is pride and sad ness. From these homes have come fighting men who died to bring us this far on ttie road to decisive victory over aU our ene- mies. It will take more sweat, more tears, ?h(i , more toil, more J>Uyi® individual War Bond S*®rum ® Japan in Pacifip ® mese barbarians of the hUich planned for us. How Penjs ^ore blood and tears de- jt’utu,. wherever Lm Ellis, agriculture engineer ted $45 60. Contributions w with State College Extension Ser- made totaling $9m I vice on the Fortescue farm last Friday. every individual Amer- l^nrtling down on the ?,®alitv „ .Pp~can only come to guy at 1 your individual help. Bond aK ‘‘St an extra $100 War laving, y°'“’ normal payroll 00 to ba , Pat’s the least you can aca up your fighting men THE EDITOR. HARRIS, EXTENSION HORTICULTURIST IN HYDE BED DRAINAGE TRIED ON wt • FRANK FORTESCUE’S FARM tor the seven months. No sir, you can’t knock a man like Uncle Bed drainage is being experi- Thead down. SladlttilS" on the farm in front ^^^J^JJJ^SnEY^^At'pARTY of his home on the Sladesville- RAISE MONEY AT F x I Scranton road. This syriem is said — I to be coming to the front in the The women of the Ladies Aid ' East with growing use of ma- Society of the Scranton Christian 4Tnes fo rfmming It is predic- Church raised $72 for the organ- Ued that the open ditch drainage ization. A pretty quit which was ^ system will be replaced in the made by the wornen was sold ior j jj Harris, horticulturisit with eggs in North Carolina increased A $16.50 to Kenneth Dunbar. Sales,Extension Service of State from 419 million pounds in the College, was in Hyde County 1925-29 -period to 696 million this week assisting farmers in pounds last year. home orchard management. Hyde orchards suffered considerable Agricultural economists estl- dsmage in last September and mate that U. S. farmers will de- many are puzzled as to how to m.and about a billion dollars '■''-t to put them back in good v-’O’-'-h of ■’i'torpoi-!‘''s and motor shape. trucks after the war. cost of this insurance is only , . , $156 a year or thereabouts. Tax- Neal received a large payers are of the opinion that amount of correspondence frorn this is a good investment, and the PaoP'® wishing to have ^am^ of move to take the insurance a wise friends printed in^dm that they might get more Christmas mail. She will not be able to an.swer all of the letters. She and the editor regret that it was neces- Some enumerators are needed to help take the fanm census ia January, according to D. W. Lup ton, well known Beaufort Ooun-- ty man who is supervisor of the- census for the First Congression al District. Two are needed in Dare County, and the rate of pay is $3 a day while they are attend ing the training class in Eiizabetli City. Hyde has many farmers, but Dare has few. However it is con sidered important to get an ac curate reiport, as complete fig ures often prove of great benefit. Instances have been noted recent ly when lack of complete farm figures has discouraged many possdible investors. Mr. Lupton, whose office is in IVashington, N. C., wants a thorough job of it this time. The agricultural resources and the production of U. S. farms will be measured by the coming U. S. Census of Agriculture scheduled to begin on January 8. Basic in formation on agriculture, includ ing statistics on farm acreage, crops, livestock, farm labor, and other items related to farm opera tions will -be obtained. Information obtained by the census takers will be strictly con fidential and the records from, individual farms cannot be used for purposes of taxation, regula tion, or investigation, according to Dean I. O. Schaub of State Col lege, who heads an advisory board of all agricultural agencies in North Carolina to work with census officials. SGT. LEON BALLAN'OE, who j IVho is a farmer? Under the has served' 19 months overseas | census rules the grov/er must in the American theatre, as a j farm 3 acres or more or if less weather observer for the Anny. than three acres, his agricultural Air Forces is home on 30 days products in 1944, whether sold or m NEWS OF OUR - MENwWOMEN K IN UNIFORM PFC. JOHN D. GIBBS of Aber deen, Md., spent several days last week With his mother, Mrs. S. M. Gibbs at Engelhard. furlough. Ballance was returned to the states through the Army plan of rotation. ROTARIANS HEAR COLLEGE . - ENGINEER TIIUR. EVENING sa;y’to'drscontinue the feature. ; _ I Another difficulty some’of our H. M. Ellis, agriculture engi- ou-t-of-county readers had week neer vvith the Extension Service before last was that they received of State college, was the speak- .pbe Dare County Times instead er at the Thursday evening din- ^he Herald. Mechanical diffi- ner meeting of the Engelhard Ro- : caused a large number of tary club last week. Ellis spoke Herald to be on drainage in this area. He was -nig Times published a introduced by County Agent J. was mailed them in or- P. 'Woodard. I ^jjgy mijght get advan tage of the Hyde County news that appeared in that paper. OPL. JACK MASON with the Army in Hawaii mef up with an other Swan Quarter boy on the island the other day. He was Sgt. David McGowans. He also spent a night with his cousin, Alton Gibbs, employed in defense work there. Cpl. Mason is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mason. Production of meat, poultry, and from cakes, pies and candy nat ure Buv War Bonus And Stamps Burning the woods destroys the food of birds and game. For good hunting, help prevent for est fires. used at home, must have amount ed to $250 or more, to be consid ered as a farmer. The census schedule lists 184 questions but happily no one far mer must answer this number of questions about his own opera tions. The census committee work ing on the schedule began with more than two thousand questions, and then boiled them down to one hundred eighty-four. “The coming census will give the mo.^ complete picture of Am- 11 MILLIONS INSURANCE erioan agriculture that has ever PAID TO N. C. FAMILIES been Obtained and it is particu larly needed at this time,” Dr. Schahb Said. “Let me urge every farmer in North Carolina to ful ly. cooperate with the census workers and give the most com plete information possible. The facts that are being gathered at this time will not duplicate the information being asked by other agricultural agencies.” North Carolina families receiv ed $11,721,000 in life insurance death benefits in the first nine months of the year, under 14,- 251 claims, the Institute of Life Insurance 'reported today. This compares with $11,958,000 in the same period, of 1943, when 14,429 claims were paid, and $10,279,000 in the same period of 1942, when 13,771 claims were paid. F -.,l G-'’o''s :-ive aid to I-"-. O'- vic tims of the September hurricane. The salvaging of household fat is just as necessary today as at any other time during the w.^.r, says WFA. s 1.. Yili; all'f v yiy- i'’ ■ .
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