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!}^NEWS of the richest AGRTCUT/rURAV. COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
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SWAN QUARTER, N. C., T^URSiiA^, lAN. 4, 1945
Single Copy 5 CentS'
{{EltRY OUTLINES
for BROAD
state program
NEW GOVERNOR ENTERS
OFFICE IN MUCH FAVOR
*5
Of Offi
I-
Governor Takes Oath
ice and Charts Nevr
f^ourse This Week
ovi.ACOKE POWER I
vLANT IS BOUGHT i
BY ISLANDERS
WILLIAMS !iOW A I
FIRST LIEUTENANT
CAA OFFICIAL
SEES AIRPORT
TOWN BUILDER
Ccoperation Buys Old
eracoke Power Company
Plant From REA
Farming, , Commerce and
Pleasure Will Depend On
Air Transport
%
^Gregg
Gastonia, lawyer, leg-
tofljj former soldier, today
•'Or of office as Gover-
North Carolina and de-
inaugural address that
to iL his recommendations
logijj® General Assembly. The
ieofj body, in joint session,
address.
Chgfj for an hour, Governor
Outj! ^ presented a program ot
for growth and development
louf z'® state during the next
Cof.,. ®rs when he will be North ,
p? >a-s chief executive. Em- N- G^EGG CHERRY, on^bocom-
C' given to matters ot Governor of Nortn Caiohna
health, education, high- this week, Mters under most fav-
Oof’ agriculture, welfare, labor orable conditions, and wuh ew
C*'" handling of veterans and «bligatioas. The Gastonia ma.
C at the close of the ^ade few promises, hnd he found
p at War I ihe state in favorable condition,
«oC"'^aor Cherry is the second ' begin an administrati- . as gov-
Cfaor of the state to be inau- emor. sa%e mr t ie ..robicms aid
during wartime. Zeh griefs of war. Among the high
the other such governor, tights of his mkugurax address.
he said:
“I recommend
current policies with a view'of
'OOlj C.
civjj oath of office while the
'''’ar was in progress. j
cyl^his statfilTenTof fiscal poli- l^animg a _d^;a«tion of North
w corporation, the Ocra-
..rictrii Memlbership Cor-
, ha.'- purchased the plant
racoke Power Company
. 1 • eccntly sold to satis-
I'toage of $52,036.07 held
R-ral Electrification Ad-
. tiori.
ars of the new corpora-
'10 will direct its affairs
naxt year are Amasa Ful-
. F. O’Neal, Stacy Howard,
C. O’Neal, Carlton Kelly,
Williams, James Garrish,
..’illis,'Pinta Williams, Ja-
ron and Joe Burrus.
1 racoke power plant was
Id on October 21, 1944
.iblication of the sale had
.. ir the Hyde County
A renresentative of the
0 it in for $100. This was
o $110 by P.' D. Midgett,
; of the Pamlico Ice &
. V'P'a.iy at'Engelhard,
c-sale was then held after
m
HYDE CC jVIMISSIONiRS
HAVE BUSY SESSION
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
> 1
Progress of all small towns af
ter the war is see ndependent up
on a good airport states Ben Stern
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Department of Commerce, Wash
ington, D. C., in a recent release
to the American Press. i
Mr. Stern points out that the, G BUSINESS
small town without a suitalble I KEEPS HIM BUSY
airport soon after the end of the {
wSr may find itself becoming
Seek Help of Hon. Clifton Bell in Getting Certain
Local Legislation Passed; Hold Hearing on Char
ges Made In Letter by Respess of Engelhard
W.OODBURN C. WII-LIAMS, son
of Mr. and Mr:
of Swan Quarter, has been pro-
one of the ghost towns of the air
age. “For progress will fly by
if there is no place to land,” he
says.
“From thousands of small air
ports, America, in 1950, daily will
fly the air roads on business.
*^overnor Cherry said that
Carolina policy in respect to all
5V:
i^Priations for the comig hi- Federal matters, foreign and do-
lUlu “
gi, must be kept within the • ... —
ed 4 ®J^ility of revenues estimate 1 ^ now appears, since wt have lyjenTibership Cooperation who is
I'sceived during the bien- money on hand, that we should (jperating it.
C, ’ The present general fund Provide for the retirment of this
mestic.”
O L Williams Pleasure trips, and all the other
reasons for travel that now keep
moted from second lieutenant to highways of the ground con-
first lieutenant. He is a pilot of gesleii- . , .
an English Army Air Force B-17 The CAA has estimated that
I Flying Fortress'and is stationed approximately 300 000 private air-
in England. A graduate of the Planes will be flying the sky-
, Swan Quarter high school and ways of thit country within three
S'udics of Puibhcation on the 9th day University of North Carolina, ^ears after the end of the war.
.-iKr. Xhis time the REA; ^ ,33^ connected If suoh a figure is even approach-
with the Iredell County schools every city and town in the
, country must have a convenient
I well-serviced airport, or musit
I suffer the consequences of being
I behind the times. The loss of
, 4 is f f tt--" .
ran
c;_.t.ritr.iive bid it in for $17,- i
.,,0. This bid was not raised,
xt is understood that the gov-
rment sold the plant to the |
wly formed Ocracoke Electric
before entering service.
he added,'will amounrio ('bonded) indebtedness.’
ca,;7.000 by June of 1945, be- : “The present tax structure
iiesf Pf abnormal wartime busi- should remain as it is
niw conditions. “This surplus “The General Assembly should
be dissipated in current “ake provisions for reenacting
Cl'?'bires.” he said. He added the (State employes’) bonus for
to ' ^bis money should be used the remainder of this fiscal year,
statr/ide for the retirement of “The beginning teacher, with
Vear^cbts. to come due in future A-grade certificate, should
“'[s. have at least $125 per school
cecommendaions along this month,
t the setting aside of recommend that you enact
POLIO DRIVE
IN HYDE BEGINS
SHEAR CHARGED
WITH BEATING
HIS LITTLE SON rural communities will be the
i value of the airplane to the big
I transient revenue in such a com-
I munity wiuld be obvious.”
' “Surther needs for airports in
S. Shear, Jewish merchant at farmer for use as a planting in-
MONDAY, JAN. 15! Engelhard, was charged Wednes- Strument, and as a machine for
_____ ’ day with assaulting and crimin- counter attack against plant di-
Shelton Says Funds Needed little son and p*;? ^rts through spray-
with neglect in providing ade- ing and dusting.
As Protection Against Fu
ture Epidemics
The annual campaign to raise
_ adequate and effective machinery funds for the Infantile Paralysis
Foundation will get underway
S"y .Phool ipp*.- - Mo„l.y. IS,
tetlx both principal and in- “The time has come when all-
said this would take weather roads should be avail-
jit ’^O.OOO and would, by this able to every section and com-
also reduce current munity of our State.”
Tli' ® of taxation by $5,000,000. “f believe the time has come
sho.,/omainder of the surplus when the people of North Caro-
furiri x so into a postwar reserve Ima should consider the estab-
cusx.’ be continued, to serve as a lishment of a new type of school
ill against a sudden decline for ^orth Carolina farm youths ”
tinue through January 31, states
N. W. Shelton of Swan Quarter,
county chairman. The drive will
be conducted through the schools.
Commenting on the need to re
inforce our lines of defense a-
gaiinst this insidious enemy of
ohild'hood, Mr. Shelton stated,
“The 1944 epidemic of infantile
NEWS OF OUR
MENwWOMCN
IN UNIFOIIM
^e.!.®^®nueroT for"otheT visible “The State at least could offer paralysis was the second worst
and purnoses that might free tuition in State institutions ou.break of the disease in its his-
«nse, “ purposes mat migni . Inrv in the United States. For-
quate support for his wife. He
will face trial in Hyde County
Recorder’s Court Monday.
The charges against Shear were
made by John C. Respess, Justice
of the Peace at Engelhaird, in a
Warrant sworrt'owt before■ Ralph •
L. Roper, court clerk. The fol
lowing have been subpoenaed to . ,.
appear for the plaintiff: Dr. J. is spendmg
E. Mann. Rufus Williams, Jim
Swindell, Harvey Farrow and Mrs. Bert Berry at their home
John C. Respess. '
Shear was arrested Wednesday -p-,™ pTTAiHTiTF n-’RAV TTAHRIS
by Deputy Sheriff Claud Davis. CHAiRDIE GRAY HARRIS
He was released on $100 bond, spent sonie time recently with his
The merchant came to Hyde Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Har-
County from Plymouth some two «s at their home near Swan
years ago and opened a store in Quarter.
V
--.d well pr.p.rrf >» | „,lh U.e Army in K.nya., visited
out strong against any new “We cannot build a great State f tlack in tall Parts of fee nation^ w mother, Mrs. Jeon Barber at
for holding unchanged or lift the average of all the peo
the ' ’ * ' i -'
, ^^Ucture. Tax structure chan- less fortunate.
’Oggested were to make drugs “I recommend . .
'doctors and patients ex- ment
men-t for all victims of the epi-
“I recommend . . . That you es- demic. Since no one knows
More tha na million dollars—or junk auto parts. He and his fam-
PVT. BILLY BARBER, stationed
4^^® oiost part) *the present Pl® unless we assist, most, those ao million dimes contributed by ily live in the annex on
'• pari; me pres x ^ American people were spent by
An amend- your National Foundation for In-
wnA4 - aim iiaimms r'wherdby 'women may fao'tile Paralysis to provide the
permitting ’ . • - enjoy the privileges accorded be^^,
c^ipt tax structure to ex- to the male.
♦4. GXfnttt-* ^ sj 1 — I r*A/»rvYV».rr»0
(Uho-t*Peoses for medical care.! ^ icrv,j44ii..ii4m . . . ......v j..... ..v,-
^6 a and of children in school, taiblish a Department of State ' where or how ha^ ^lio may
''boated continuing the war Police and Public Safety.” strike in 1945, we must again be
Wov * teachers and state em-1 “I recommend . . . Provisions ready to meet the artack where-
byes, 1 rAfprpn- ever it may come. Participation
'bg to education he sug-
stren„4.ub eight-point program to! BERRY-THOMPSON ooo
the public school sys-1 A wedding of much interest to unoared for, regardless of age
*125 Wants: a base pay of their many friends was solemnized race, creed or color,
teapi month for A-grade Friday evening at 6 o’clock in
less; just starting in the pro- the David Memorial Chapel, Nay- pEELE HOSTESS
A + 'Roc£x Kv OHunlain
Education
i for holding a Statewide referen-
I dum on the liquor question.”
in the annual March of Dimes ap
peal is our assurance that no vic
tim of infantile paralysis will go
PerC*’ increment for ex- al Operating Base by Chaplain
Of Y un expanded program Cassady, when Miss Bettty Mae
‘bbal training; free text Berry of Fairfield, N. C.. became
and I through the eighth grade the bride of Ivan Thompson, MM
TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
the back Lake Landing this week. He will
of the building which was for- report to California for duty.
S S XEON BALLANCE wh.
Respess alleges in his warrant has been visited his parents Mr.
that Shear, referred to around ®ud Mrs. O. C. Ballance at Ne-
Engelhard as “The Jew,” does not braska after 19 months overseas
provide adequate care for his fe fe® American theatre, left to-
wife, who recently gave birth to day (Thursday^) to report for
a balby. He also alleges that Shear orders at Fort Bragg,
criminally beats his little son. j
— ! MANTEO BOY NOW
LIEUT. IN MARINES
REGISTER OF DEEDS LEE I
HURTS BACK WHILE HUNTING
The Etta Peele Sunday School
high school 2/c, of Filmore, North Dakota, in ^lass met Thursday night in Man-|University, Durham, North
C °uly high enough to main- a double ring ceremony. The feo at the home of Mrs. ®“' —‘
hy f ^ system; 10 months Chapel was decorated with ever- Mrs. Henry B. Parker, program | S
Princinalc tn nrnuiiHp fnr ffreens and Doinsettias with the chairman, led the devotional, the
Following
Register of Deeds Bonner R. Quantico, Va. (Marine Lieu-
Lee was not in his office Tues- tenant Clyde Robinson Mann, son
day because of a kink in his of Mrs. Elma B. Mann and the
back which caught while he was late Dan Mlann of Manteo, North
deer hunting New Year’s day. He Carolina, has been graduated
was on the job Wednesday, but from the Officer Candidate Class,
getting albout with some diffi- Marine Corps Schools here,
eulty. Mrs. Janie Swindell assist- Lieutenant Mann is a former
Mrs.
"Petic ''b fee job before school Christmas scheme being carried topic being “Peace.
'C, it closes; raising out. the program the hostess served
H u attendance age from The. bride was dressed in a ice cream and cake.
1 ^ears; a program of ad- white flannel princess dress with Those present included
tiotiai 4 bcuipensation for excep- i black accessories. She wore a Peele, Mrs. Hugh McChesney,
Wyint, , b®bers; state aid in sup- shoulder corsage of orchids. ' Mrs. Raymond Wescott, Mrs. Hen-
15 „ t>ettet sanitation facilities Dot Parker of 808 Colonial ry Boyd Parker, Miss Peggy Saw-
t'eHpJ'bection with schools; and Ave., oi in orfolk, was maid of hon- yer, Miss Delnoy Burrus, Mrs.
’‘vf -fl— « ' TT_— T~\ rx V. .>4 T/-»e>/a.'rNV»
Honi ,t^®cal control of
^ funds.
Buy More Bonds and Stamps.
public or and was dressed In black Vernon Davis and Mrs. Joseph
(job ! sheer. She wore a corsuge of Cuso.
ejiciojfec*' Cherry also recom- gardenias. Curtis Green, MM2/c, I The class will meet usuiu the
'adequate provision” of of Columbus, Ga., was best man. first Thursday nighLin February
stiw higher educational in- j Following the ceremony Mr.' at the home of Mrs. Raymond
(>igli^,^bs. He pointed to future and Mrs. Thompson left for th_e, Wescott.
•ten ajfx 'teeds and said that as bride’s home in Fairfield, N. C., —
(•e Wane ^uterials are available ; Upon their return they will re-
^1 ull^weather roads for side temporarily at 428 W 27th
btunities. He also urged St., Norfolk,
asri btes of the by-products
ta. _4.4-
'(•e ■ fe fee state and
a u fef’^tierit of new products, j
(i>l„ ®**cr program of training :
®e turn to page four)
MANTEO PERSONALS
^M^^INFANTILE
I I PARALYSIS
JANUARY 14-31
BEST SPACING FOR CORN
Where high. yields are to be
made, a large number of plants
per acre must be used, according
to Extension agronomists at State
College. For yields below 50
bushels,' space 24 inches in 3%
foot rows or 22 inches in 4 foot
Carolina, student where he maj
ored jn Business Administration
and Social Science. He is a mem
ber of the Phi Sigma Pi frater-
nity.
He enlisted in the Corps Oc-
NORTH CAROLINA MAY BE THE and joined the of-
nunin UHRUL IIH mai DC int candidate class October 3,
“FIFTH STATE" IN MANY WAYS 1944, from Camp Lejune, North
Carolina, where he was stationed.
but it’s a poor
FORMER WANCHESE
GIRLS IN WAVES
J
Miss Marjorie Burdette of New
port News, Va., spent the week ^ ,
> end with Miss Catherine Midgett, rows; for 50 to 75 bushels per
f ^ Manteo. ''"Pee 21 inches in 31/2 foot
I Pvt Elwood H. Twiford, U. 0- rows or 18 inencs in 4 fott rovvr,
' Armv, has returned to camp afte. for 75 to 100 bushels, space 16
I sprr'ding the Christmas seasor inches in SVa foot rows or 14 in-
i in Manteo with his parents, M4
! and Mrs. A. B. L. Twiford. Pvt, 6,000 plants _ . „ i
' Twiford who was formerly at below 50 bushels, 7,200 plants for
Camp Crof+ 'S C. is now station- CO to 75 bushels, and 9.35Q plants
ed at Fort'G'eorgc G. Meade, Md. for 75 to 100 bushels. Such spac- _
— jngs are particularly recommend- |
Buy More Bonds and Stamps. ed for hybrid corn.
4 foot roys. This gives'
per acre for yields i
in Number of Hospital Beds
Per 1,000 People
Why not ask your Legislator
to Support the proposed
State-Wide plan for
WAVE Katherine Davis of Co
coa is a Seaman 1st class on duty
! at Port Blakely, Washington. En-
i listed l?st winter through the Or-
i landa Navy Retruiting Station,
I Miss Davis, 23, was formerly with
i the Naval Air tSation at Banana
I River.
I Her most thrilling experience
I in the WAVES .was her trip from
Boot Camp in New York across
1 the continent to her present sta-
I tion on the Pacific coast.
I She renorts that she i.s deli.g'hed
I with her work in radio communi-
: ,"-‘m'’S and asks us to tell her
, friends that “WAVES like to re-
' r'-'i^-e mri'T too!” Her addres.s'*?
‘Navil Pa ■ i-.“-iviues 40. Port
Bl.'.kely. Wash.
The Hyde County Board of
Commissioners adjourned late
Wednesday afternoon sifter a
busy ‘ two-day session during
which they passed a number of
important resolutions. Among
those passed were two petitioning
Representative Clifton Bell to
pass certain local laws in the
General Assemibly. . .
One of these bills would put
the election of County Commis
sioners back on a district basis
as provided in a bill passed in
1935, and repealed in 1943. An
other would provide for a wider
index system in certain county
records.
The commissioners also passed
a resolution regarding damage
done farm lands around Fair-
field which will be presented to
the District engineer at the pub
lic meeting in Fairfield, Satur
day, January 13th. The memlbers
of the Board expressed their de
sire to attend the meeting, and
M. A. MATTHEWS, cashier of the ^ fevited their attorney to attend
Engelhard Banking & Trust Com- ! ^c their spokesman,
pany, is a busy man these days. | The local registrars of vital sta-
With experienced banking help' tistics were re-appointed for a
scarce, Mr. Matthews has to work four-year period. They are Lil-
mu'ch of the time in the Columlbia Han Griffin, Scranton; D. D.
branch, as well as keep an eye Cuthrell, Fairfield; Mrs. Otis Ma-
on the main office in Engelhard, son. Lake Landing; Mrs. Tom
Hyde County people miss see- Howard, Ocracoke; Mrs. M. E.
ing the banker around Engelhard Mason, Swan Quarter,
so much these days, for they al- ; The Bo-ard held a hearing Wed-
ways found it enjoyable to drop 1 nesday morning regarding char-
by and talk with him albout their ' ges made in a letter by John C.
farming, fishing and store keep- [ Respess of Engelhard alleging
ing. But now he’s usually head- ' that the sheriff’s department was
over-heels iir vrork when he’s in not g'iving adequate protection to
the office. , Engelhard, and that Claude Dav-
One of the things that takes up is, depuy sheriff, had said the
mucih of Mr. Matthews’ spare commissioners had instructed
time is selling bonds for Uncle them that it was not necessary.
Sam in Hyde and Tyrrell cdun- jvir. Respess stated in his letter
tites. He has done a good job that certain stores had been en-
at this, as he has in building up tered and nothing had been done
' the Engelhard Bank throughout about it.
the Southern Albemarle. . j jj g g ^eal, Ben
Midgett, Gilbert Gibbs and M. C.
McKinney, owners of stores
which Respess stated had been
rbbbed, testified under oath that
their stores had been entered, b|Ut
the thievery had been of a min
or nature and had not been re-
ported to the sheriff’s depart-
Coast Guardsman Thomas J. naent.
King, first class seamon, of Duck, Both Sheriff Pratt Williamson
North Carolina, has been assign- and Deputy Sheriff Davis denied
ed to duty aboard this Coast that the commissioners had in-
G*ard LST that is bound for a structed them not to serve in the
Pacific combat area. A veteran town of Engelhard, and Deputy
of twelve months duty aboard Davis denied making the state-
(the Coast Guard-manned trans- ment alleged by Mr. Respess.
port Wakefield, combat duty is Testimony was offered to the
no new experience with him. effect that both Sheriff William-
Enlisting in the Coast Guard in son and his deputies were doing a
September, 1941, King received good job of enforcing the law.
his recruit training at the CoastThis included statesmen! by the
Guard Training Station, Algiers,! Engelhard merchants who were
Louisiana, and was assigned to' sulbiioenaed to the meeting to
duty aboard the Wakefield, one testify.
of the most publicized of the County Attorney O. L. Wil-
Coast Guard-manned ships. liams represented the county at
While a crew member aboard the hearing. Action was deferred
this ship, King participated in until 2 o’clock, Monday, Febru-
one of the most daring rescue ary 5.
missions of the war when the The board passed a resolution
Wakefield was ordered to the just before adjourning “pledg-
city of Singapore to evacuate ing its faiih and extending its
women and children refugees in kindest regards and best wishes to
the face of the relentless Japa- Governor Cherry.” It said in part,
ness advance. The Japs had al- “ ... be it unariimously resolved
most complete control of the air that this board does by this reso-
and, even before she reached the lulion express its sincere grat-
city, the Wakefield was attack- itude for the election of Honor
ed by a lone plane which was able R. Gregg Cherry.”
brought down by concehtrated ' Other matters taken up by the
anti-aircraft fire. Tied to a dock board included hearing official
in the besieged city for two days, reports, appiroving bills and oth-
she managed to take aboard more er routine work,
than three hundred women and; Readers Will find a numiber of'
children despite the almost con-; important resolutions passed by
slant aerial bombardment by the; the board printed elsewhere in
Japs. However, She did not es-; this issue which they are urgedt
cape unscathed for, as she slip-‘ to read. They deal with matters
YOUNG TOM KING OF
DUCK HAS ADVENTURES
Dare County Boy Has Excit
ing Times in Pacific War
ped out of the harbor, leaving
the city a smoking shambles be
hind her, the Japs scored a bomb-
hit that killed five of the crew.
Months later .while King was
still aboard her, the Wakefield
was swept by fire in the North
Atlantic. All her passengers and
crew were saved and the fire-
blackened ship was towed to an
east-coast port where she was re
fitted. Recommissioned and back
.4.4 s-.a, she has made many trips
to Europe ferrying troops and
'..'ies to the victorious Allies.
Before reporting^ to this LST,
that should interest every tax
payer, and are printed to better'
inform you.
BLAND GIBBS’ AUTOMOBILE
CATCHES FIRE IN TOWN
The Ford car driven by Bland
Gibbs of Leechville caught fire
in front of the courthouse in Swan
Quarter Wednesday. T’ne blaze
which started around the motor
was quickly extinr'-i's’’"d.
ent assignment, he said, “LST's
MORE DOCTORS-MOitE ‘niJihlALG
IfiURC iiidunMiloi:
'' I r ';! n .
i iiioix^do,
chese.
'' ‘':e daughter of King underwent a rigorous-peri-i i.-en’t bad duty, but I’d much
,v. jh. Da\;; ■: ' cf (.''.'ring hn'.h a.'hore . and i 'other be back aboard.the Wake-
Cal., formerly of Wan-' arioat at an eastern Amphibious' field. There was a ship anv man
' Base. Commenting on his pres- should be proud to be aboard.”