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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD, SWAN QUARTER, N Hyde County Herald ^ ^and of opportunity 77 By COLLIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Ai -vVAN QUARTER. NORTH CAROLINA. BY TIMES PRINTING CO., Inc. THOS. E. SPENCER Editor &itered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice at Swan Quarter. N. C. | Subscription Rates: One Year S2.; Six Months $1; Three Months GOc. Vol. VI. THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1944 No. 14. POST-WAR planning FOR HYDE Every now and then it is called to our attention that there are a number of businesses and industries that could be located in Hyde County that would boost empolyemnt and keep many dollars in the county that now go elsewhere. ^ Some of the needed businesses cannot be started now because of labor shortages and war restrictions. It is the opinion of these who are looking into the fu ture, with an eye to helping returning war veterans by as suring post-war employment at home, that a committee rep resenting all of the communities be formed to study the pos sibilities of post-war plans given it by individuals or groups. Their findings could be passed on to the returning GI’s who would be given help in getting started in the work that they -chose. Some businesses and industries that are needed, accord ing to those who are thinking of i>ost-War plans, is a dry plant, a meat curing and packing plant, a winery, a wood cleaning plant and laundry, a feed mill, a fertilizer plant, a meat curing and packing plant, a winery, a wood works fac tory, making fish boxes, plow beams, plow handles, furni ture and other items, and a score of other things including at least two drug stores, better clothing stores and a num- "ber of other specialized sales and service agencies. Kite HOPE, BEANsy, I'H JUST TiMISHiRG MY WORKIMG MOPEU or My automatic WIMUOV/ CLOSER ANO MOISE PgFLECTOR utY, wswr' AINtCHA GOW , SKATlf4 HOMEft ^CROY W.N.U. SERVICE SYNOPSIS 'h , interested th ’e which he uccess." CHAPTER I: Sergt. Amol Croy was a covered-wagon pioneer from Ohio, and took up a homestead at MarysvUie, Mis souri. soon after the Civil War. He mar ried Susan Sewell and started the de velopment of one of the first farms in that region. ,» Jot® . oj got any ax^e grease- Murphy would say. “I like to .5 axle grease in case anythin^ CHAPTER H: Homer was born to the Croys. the year the Brooklyn Bridge was built. He was named after the townshio In Ohio. His earliest recollection was of a cyclone which blew the barn down and wrecked half the orchard. go the ham bone, ana, soon, bean soup would be on the table. Its odor wasn’t as captivating as the others had been, but still it was good. “Homer, here’s a bone for your dog,” she would say when it was all over. Off and on all day Kaiser would wrestle with that bone; sometimes | when you’re going into soih®'' It’d seem to get the best of him and ' hard. Newt’d be giving wrong. "Homer, you run and ® can of axle grease.” ^g When everything was would feel keyed up, the way he’d just lie down and look at it as i his trousers, John Murphy " CHAPTER III: Sunday weighing was an institution. All the neighbors would gather at the Croy farm after dinner and guess the weights of the steers. Amos usually won. “Ready to hang,” he would say and carry the ham in. Pa w'ould get up on a box and I would heave the , ... , , , . , ..... . ' up He would put the mine of recreation and s^port which will yield great dividends hook end over a rafter, then stand CHAPTER IV: Dehorning of the calves was always a big day. Jim, one of the neighbors, did the dehorning while Ho mer held the calves by the nose. All the blood and horns had to be buried so as not to encourage the cows in holding up their miik if he didn’t know whether it was worth any more effort, or not. Some times he’d give up and walk away; then he’d seem to feel ashamed of himself for having given up and would come back for another go at it. After while he’d walk away for better load, CHAPTER V say, "I guess I’d first,” and would sink his some Star, and Pa would saY' pj mer, put on your gloves.” jjjt would never wear gloves, no m® how much danger there was. I “I’ll throw ’em some corn, . good. But not quite, for the chick- would say. and would get the b®®;, ens would come clucking up, bobbing and drop some shelled corn on their heads from side to side. Then with a great growl he’d rush back at them as if that ham bone was the finest eating in the world. After a while it would lick him; then the chickens could have it undisturbed. Finally my mother would say., " “ sa' .T.™! ! then giving a grunt as if a®' . ■ 'I urViaf all tKIe ground to keep their minds on was going to happen. „ We’d all take our places, tl>« would be opened, and we’d "P® ver an old sow toward the rins chute. She’d go along calmly' T'l^is ncwispspcr is extremely anxious to see a greater ex- the Stale and the business men of the nearby towns. For- ® moment with his hands out- pansion of business, farming and industry in Hyde County! funately for the citizens there is a program which can result straighte7an7dump\^he ham on'the after the war. It seems to us that it would be a g'ood ideea kreat help to the area, hat is the plans of the National floor. to form a post-war planning committee to look into the pos-! Psrk Service which have progressed so far that through this, At last there would be a festoon of si'bilities of proposed projects. Each township might well | ^S^ncy might come relief far earlier than through other woTld on every rafter. Then Pa . . 1 ■ . stand in the door and proudly have its own committee. These committeees as a whole could m^'ans; tor tentative plans have been made which involves survey his work. If one of the hams serve as the county committee and meet at regular intervals. I expenditure of millions to aid in road building, deepening ^ iiiii®, be would get up ^ _ on the npnrn nnn Piirxyja fho tn/irck Letters on this subject would be welcomed. The columns | harbors and construction of barriers and breakwaters. It some more, because!^7ow and th7! of this paper are open to any cause that can be counted on seeiris that funds through these channels might be more during the smoking season, a ham to booost the growth of county business and industry that Tioickly obtained than in any other manner while on the times this*'woui7'^beT7'me mi°ddfe keep and draw money into the county./ j other hand to discourage this program would only result in of the night. Pa would always hear ! turning aside the great wealth and interest of other agencies "t; the smokehouse could have fallen I which might help later on. It is a well established axiom that thin7*'th * heard. The I “ first thing, the next mormng, he those who will not accept and make, the most of little things, would take the hand whisk broom out to the smokehouse and brush county is a long way from being alleviated. The situation It is clearly then the duty of every citizen in Eastern' again. “Homer, take that bone and bury it.” That would be the last of the ham. In April Pa’d say, “The ground’s getting soft. I guess we’d better ring the hogs.” More work. “Re mind me to get the rings Saturday.” I’d always forget, but Pa never did. He never forgot anything to do with farming. ' Saturday he would go to the hard ware store and get the rings; they’d be bigger than finger rings, and they’d be open and not yet brought together in a circle. As we came in sight of our farm, on the way home. Pa would say, wonder what all this i» John Murphy and I would behind with the herding bo® ^j|ji Then, before/she knew it, (jie! sow would be in the chute poles slammed behind her. she would begin to squeal. The 0 1 hogs would lift their heads won ing whether they’d better 005®® |jj help, or not. But hogs are hog® they’d start to eat again. e?-| Pa would never let anybody be '*'® cept himself do the ringing, -- 55 an expert at it and hurt the hog® than most people. Newt would her head down and now the old ® would roar at the top of her voie® I MUCH AID YET NEEDED (From the Dare County Times) The plight of the people living on the outer banks of Dare' seldom reedive big things. since the storm of September 14th is anything but enviable. | Norlth Carolina to join forces with people of the outer banks' to tim7durta7th7^y an^the^l^st It is true the Red Cross rendered a splendid service in num- to bring about such projects as might accomplish the most thing at night, I would have to erous instances, and spent $40,000 or more in assistance to benefits, and any one who will not assist those people cer- through the smoke and put on j ^ IT sr wood. 4.^/% families represented to them as charity cases. As a general tainly will manifest a spirit of ingratitude that is not ypical strong, Pd have to'dash water on I HOMEMAKERS OVERLOOK ! INDUSTRIAL FAT USES rule this help went to those who applied for it and many were of the peop/le of the North Carolina Cdastland. the cases top proud or too embarrassed to ask for help, went unaided. However, the Red Cross has certain limitations restraining the expenditure of its funds and while there were somettimes abuses, it is the intention of this great organiza tion that such should not be the case. In the storm on September 14th hundreds of people, par ticular those living in the Rodanthe village and at Avon suf fered tragic losses, when their houses were floated from their foundations by the high water and carried some dis- Survey Shows Reasons for Sag ging Fat Collections Despite War per cent realized our shortage of industrial fate bad anything to do with the Japanese war, or that a deficit could be ended only by Japan’s defeat. * The survey revealed in a/linost uniform misapprehension that the defeat of Germany and vic tory in Europe would end the need for sawing fat. The Japa nese angle was neglected in the If the fire was on it; if It was out, I’d have to get the soapstone from its coal-oil bath and start the fire going again. Toward the end of the five days. Pa would bring a ham to the door, while I stood beside him waiting hopefully. He would gouge it with his knife and sniff it, then say, "It needs another day, Homer,” then go and hang up again the cursed ham. At last—Oh wonderful at last!—he would be satisfied by the inspection and say, "I guess you can let the I would let it charging fighting for their kind. But and I would be over the fence out of their way. "Look yonder at the hogs in the I At the fearful noise, the other pasture.” We’d look and there would ' would come charging towara,_^„ be our old sows rooting in the grass just turning green. “We didn’t get the rings any too soon.” Monday morning, instead of let ting the hogs out, we’d keep them in the dry lot. There’d be all kinds of work to do before the neighbors arrived: the chute would have to rifS' Pa would fit a half-open brass r into the jaw of the ringers, and ® toward the old sow who, W flji® time, would be so mad that foam would be running out of K®' th* That many American wome'n I have been saving kitchen fat ' thinking they wdre helping to aosic wa tance from their original location. Not all of the owners of provide munitions for ^var, but majority of the women’s thinking, fire go'out'HVmVr these homes, could qualify for relief from the Red Cross be- j without full knowledge of the im- Another interesting revelation die out promptly cause most of them were people with fairly large incomes ' whole m- report was that it is the t J • . du^trial picture, is proved eon- j^all familv, with the limited from the Coast Guard and other sources, however it is not clusively in a survey made re- number of red ration points each a question of money but rather of labor because there is such i cently for the American Fat Sal- month, that saves the mioisit fat. a scarcity of labor and equipment that sufficient men could i Committee. ^ The two memiber family leads all not be attracted to this area for toe prevailing wages being ^ thousand homemakers the rest. Large families with paid in other localities. Bricklayers, carpenters, and other! ern state, with typical rural, in workmen simply would not go to Avon and similar villages dustrial and urban sections, and this limited knowledge at prevailing wages because of high expenses and exposure. As a resule, many people have had to live in homes without means of making fires and where cracks and other damages to their houses have not been remedied so toat the expense is great and the situation is a menace to their health as well as comfort of many people. Ordinarily all these families would be able from their was ap parent in most of their answers, supplying the clue as to why fat of age. colledtions are sagging at the I time when indus'try needs it most. Fifteen per cent of the women interviewed admitted they were not saving fat no'W, though they were a year ago, because they more pOints do not show up as good • savers. The young house wife, under twenty-five, is found to be just about half as good a saver as her senior of fifty years FARMERS SHOULD BUY FERTILIZERS EARLY A shortage of trucks and box a own lunds to move their houses and restore them, if labor neari7'^ove7''others^s“"T%he^7 ^7e' SMbor^rn^ manu:^ was available at the usual prevailing rates, but the war has drained all of these communities of all their workers, and every jperson is so completely engaged in doing the best he can with his own premises, he has little time left to aid his neighbors. Governor Broughton recently heard of the situation and sent June Rose, Assistant Director of Civilian Defense in North Carolina, to make a report on the situation. In the opinion of Mr. Rose, after visiting many residents of the area, some appeal should be made for sufficient funds to sup ply the means the residents might need, in order that prevail ing wages might be paid to attract workmen quickly to the area somewhat after the m'anner in which labor was attract ed to clean up the mess at Pearl Harbor. So much for the immediate personal problems of the citizens of that area which constitutes an urgent emergency a this time of the year. But there are also necessary and appropriate steps which must be taken before some parts of ti.e outer banks may be safe for human habitation. It is too -much that every dozen years or so citizens must lose their savings of a lifetime and undergo great haardships when .1 odern engineering and the great weahh of the Government i id the State might combine to create protectitve barriers in this area. Charles T. Williams, who is a well known citizen oi Avon, about the middle of November began to take this were still saving but less con scientiously because they were j sure the army had large reserves - of al'l types of'materials for which] fait is collected. up with Congressman H, C. Bonner, Harry McMullan, Attorney General of North Carolina and R. Bruce Etheridge Inrector of the Department of Conservation and Develop ment. All of them agreed that the need for this relief is ur gent but point out that it w'ould take years of strenuous work to obtain even an initial appropriation for help of this kind. However this is a problem that challenges the interest of “Practically none of these wo men realized their own and their family’s comfort and well being was just as dependent on the pro ducts 'and by-products of 'used fat a's the armed forces are,” said a spokesman for the American Fat Salvage Committee. “Industry cannot keep on pro ducing the goods civilians need if they do not get enough fat to keep their machines going. Prac tically every item produced in' any fac*tory uses fat in its manu facture or its operation. “Women must realize too, that during the coming period of re conversion, when the country changes from a war to. a peace economy, kitchen fat must help do the job.” Questioned as to where indus trial fats came from before the war, and now, 58 per cent of the women had no ideia or no in terest. Twenty per cent thought industrial fate had always come fixmi hitcher shops, three per cent thought they came from China, age of labor in manufacturing plants, and shortages in certain materials all point to a bottle neck in fertilizer deliveries in the spring. “Last year some farmers wait ed until the last minute to buy i hajn on a big plate on the table, their fertilizer and then had it' in front of me, while Pa was saying grace. The hams would be wrapped in brown paper and packed in an emp ty cracker barrel and put in our cold company bedroom. Now and then, when I’d go in, the room would be filled with a delicious odor. I wouldn’t hate the hams quite so : much, now. i At last would come the time when we were to have our first smoked ham. My mother would get out our ■ biggest pot, put in water and cider i and a handful of raisins, and boil j the ham. More tantalizing odors. 1 Now and then she would take off the lid and gouge the ham with our j long two-tined fork. When the ham 1 was tender, she would take it out, skin it, rub the outside with brown sugar and mustard and spices, then bake it. Now and then she would j open the oven door to see how the ham was getting along—more deli cious odors. When it was done she would put the poles and herding boards would pincers forward and edge them ■ jj have to be made ready, and then at I her nose and move them alefi® last, when everything was done. Pa , he got to the right place. Th®® tgg would go to the toolbox in the gran- | denly he would squeeze the ary and get the paper box of rings and the hog ringers and take them to the chute. ’Then he would turn a half-bushel measure upside down and put the rings and ringers on top of it and say, “Now watch yourself and don’t bump into them.” I’d keep looking down the road, of the ringers and through the nose would go one end of the ring. The squealing that had before wouldn’t be anything W she would do now. bra®* gon* wb®* The poles would be raised ai ndt”® sow would go charging out, S" ing her head from side to ®'“®. j excited to have someone come; pret- I she tried to get shed of the ty soon I’d see them-Newt Ken- Then she would run her head ak"‘ nedy and John Murphy—walking , yje ground, trying to get the out, then try to root it off- A® down the road together, and I’d go om. Then‘trv''to”rnnrit° off. A® s”® did this. hurt to meet them just to hear them talk. In a few minutes we’d all be lean ing on the fence looking at the hogs which’d be grunting and now and then charging each other. “I see you didn’t them get into the wallow,” j mer,” Pa would say after a ,jj Newt would say. Everybody knew and I would go to the house The . and as the ring -gj nose, she would give little short c very different from the roars s given in the chute. “Better bring us some water.^,j^ tid delivered on time iwithout the inconvenience of storing it dur ing the winter,” sayis Dr. Emer son Collins, in charge of Exten sion agronomy at State College. “Records Show that growers are n'ot buying nearly so much ferti lizer early as last year and the situation is becoming more alarm ing every day. “The latest information shows that quantities of chemical nitro gen may be about 100,000 tons of nitrogen short of the July 1 esti mate. Production of superphos- phat for July, August, and Sep tember wias (Jisappointing because military requirements were tak ing a good portion of the sulphur ic acid supplies. Potash produc tion appears adequate but there is a shortage of box cars for moving it to fertlizer plants. “These factors indicate that un while Pa was throwing off these captivating odors! When the moment came. Pa would take a knife and cut through the crunching crust and put a slice of the rosy, redolent meat on my plate. By this time I would be so watery- mouthed I could hardly wait till I had whacked off a piece. I was even glad I had smoked it. We’d have it a few days for din ner, then there’d be a hiatus. Then, 'some morning, Ma would cut off a few slices, freshen them in cold wa ter. then wipe off the water until the pieces were dry, and fry. When they were done she would take them out and put them on a plate that had been heating on the back of the stove. There would be fat left In the skillet, and into this she would sift flour and add milk. Little white bubbles would rise up and burst. She would stir the brown, seething mess, letting the little stream of f/ll . the jug at the iron pump. ] would rest while they drank -_,j I talked. Then Pa’d say, “1 guess * I better bring another’n in.” I At last all the sows j through the ringing chute. But I only meant the worst was ' come. For, standing in the diJ all by himself, would be the boat' his head down, the way boS® I when they know something is da \vron^' to \v % y.\ 'k % Now and then the would take off the lid. less farmers accept delivery of: flour run out of her hand until the tJhair fertilizer early, it will be impossible for the indusitry to supply the fertilizer on time for and the same num'ber thought next year’s crops. This does not they came from Europe. Only 12 pe rcent realized industrial fat had always been imported from the islands of the Blar East, even in pre-war days. Only 38 per cent of the women mean th'at everyone should rush in and buy their fertilizer at once. “However, if growers are to be assured of having their fertilizer ham gravy took on the color and consistency of heavy cream. She would pour this into a long gravy dish, which was fastened to a plate so the two were one, then take up the plate of ham slices and carry both to the table. Phebe would turn up the wick. Pa would bend his every person who wishes to aid the North Carolina coast and! interviewed believed the need for j gd dealer and accept delivery as on time, they should discuss their; head forward and start to say grace, requirements with their establish- | I could hardly wait. its people. It is well worth while for every citizen to put his grater mw than at early as he recommends.” ^ •' jr . I any tune since Pearl Harbor, and • — S-. ■q p'qtter; frr this area is r. preat onl” three " A few days later my mother would soak some beans overnight, and put them in our big iron jfot. In would i what that meant. If the hogs were covered with mud they’d be twice as hard to hold. “Why don’t you try Jersey Reds?” Newt would ask. Pa was a Poland China farmer and didn’t believe in red stock. “You can’t get the weight out of a red,” Pa would say. “They’re healthier," Newt would say. Then John Murphy would say “Hog Baker says he’s going over to Chester Whites.” Pa and Newt would study that, be cause they respected Hog Baker. A great monster hog, liiimped in the middle of his back, would come up, flapping hi.i ears out of his eyes. “That’s tlie boar,” Pa would 've got to take care of him I John Murphy and I would step carefully, for one slash of " tusks would open a person. J tb* I Slowly he would move toward i. > chute, while Newt and Pa g/s ' now and then he would toss his e^^ and give a suspicious grunt- , I denly we would clap him on the I and he’d dash into the chute- he found himself caged, his j would seem deafening, and the c would tremble and shake. 1^®,* ys, I would come charging toward i their heads up; in each nose '*'® I be a brass ring. We would beat off the sows, ^ Pa would pick up an very different from the one *** 56 used for the brass rings. j, I had sharp steel jaws meant for ting and crushing. “Feed him a stick," P* shout and Newt would run ^ through the chute. The boar seize it in his jaws. But just what Pa wanted, for he would grip a tusk with hi* ®^j pers and throw all his force 0® j,. handles. There would be * Ing sound and the boar would r and struggle in a frenzy of fury- ‘‘Now I’ll go on the other sid*> Pa would say and mov# chute, and again the terrible pera would descend upon the tiisk®’ 1 woo: a Mingled with the white foam be blood. At last the tusks would be we would open the chute. ^5 stead of trotting away, as the s had done, he would turn and ®®® “Climb the fence!” Pa would s® yj The boar would dash from °®®Tgnii to the other, throwing his head -making terrible fighting nally he would seem to realize had happened to him, and w® turn and walk slowly away. of yo®'' I'.uy Tl—Stanins. ”I guess T need jome (Please turn to Page 4) '4 Sn Stfs I (J*' s *>l ^1 'aie A iii k hoS*! 77 I s
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