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■f ■ 1 .4 -r'- -iL Pa'^e f wo THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD. SWAN OUARTER M r County HercJd j taking oi 4 phot ... By coluer THURSDAY, JAN. 25, PUR! .n ''V( RY THURSDAY A; SWAN QUARTEFL! NORTH CAROLINA, BY TIMES PRINTING CO., Jnc.i THOS.. E. s; ,CEJi. Editor! Entered as SocoiH /.I.vit r a 'Ir', I'ofiloffitc at Swan Qiiai ter N. C. Subsciii I rtc::; >"ne l. ar 32.; S':x Months 51; Three B3'i;ilhs GOc. Vol. VI THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945 No. 21! CAPE HATTERAS LOSES A FINE OLD CITIZEN Matthew J. Gray, 82, Died at His Home January 18th; Ixiran | Barnett Passes Matthew Jordan Gray, a fine, upstanding, and beloved citizen of Buxton, Cape Halteras, died suddenly on January 18 at his' home following a short illness. He I was born Octoiber 23, IStfc, the sonl of the late Anderson and‘Eliza-, toeth Gray, and had lived at Ayon until about 40 years ago. He was a lifelong member of the Meth odist Church. I He is survived by his wife, Mrs. lOOKmG AM£AP BY GEORGE S. BENSON PresiUentiMari/i'Hg College ' Seareg, Arkansas Costly Dreams Before the middle of 1945, end of the federal fiscal year, some weary worker in Washington will yank a crank or touch a button and watch a calculating machine grind out some tell-tale totals about Uncle Sam as a farm executive and plan- ; tation operator. The figures will not . , be flattering but enough preliminary Louisa Gray, and the following data are available aheady to cush- children: R. H. Gray o,f Wlanchese, | ion the shock for his admiring pub- I. M. Gray ocC Portsmouth, H. J. j he. Gray, C. C. Gray and L. J. Gray, | About ten years ago a foolish no- Mrs. J. B. Gray of Buxton, and 1 tion grew suddenly, almost mysteri- Mrs. Lula Austin of Avon, 17 j ously, popular. The idea was that j grandchildren and 15 great grand- | poor farmers got poor (anyhow ' children. Following the funeral i didn’t get rich) because they never , services which were conducted | bad a chance. Big fat capitalists, it Couutri Cura HOMER. ^CROY ©W.N.U. SERVICE / . I SLOTWINSKI-DAVIS seemed, kept the juice squeezed out of them all the time. So Uncle Sam, i with Rexford Guy Tugwell standing ' mi,., ™ • 7 on his shoulder and whispering in ' „ T ,f of Miss Evelyn his ear, dashed to the rescue I b-stelle ,Davis, daughter of Mr. Rescue the Farmer! ‘ i °^vis of Man- A famous federal project, one of Slotwinski, many to fortify hand-picked relief ^“^ton Slotwinski j cases “back on the soil,” was the Steven’s pointy Wisconsin and The Methodist youths of Kitty 2271.acre Deshee farm near ,Vin- , ^biladelpbia. Pa., and the late by Rev. Andrew Sterling of the Holiness Church Saturday morn ing, January 20, the body was interred in the family plot at Buxton. METHODIST YOUTHS MEET AND ELECT OFFICERS Haiwk, Wanchese, and Manteo featured the Crusade for Christ in their monthly meeting at the Mianteo church January 19. Mrs. D. W. Charlton was in charge of the program. R. D. Sawyer, Jr., led the devotional, and then the five objectives of the Crusade were discussed. Miss Helen Meekins spoke on “Build ing a New World Order;’’ Miss Ethelene Morris’ suibject was ‘Re habilitating Our World;’’ E. J. Al ford gave the evangelistic em phasis of the crusade, while Miss Miriam Ferabee and Edigar Mid get! talked on the Church School and StewardEShip, respectively. The following were elected as ocfficers of the Dare County Youth Fellowship for the ensu ing year; Worth Midgett, presi dent; Miss Mlira Best, vice pres ident; Miss Lora Midgett, secre tary; Mis.s Lois Tillett, treasurer. Miss Mary Alice Etheridge County AAA committee, who says this ceiling price will re main in effect until July 2, 1945, Cannes, Ind. It was taken for grant- | Slotwinski, took place on ed that 42 families could make a ; J^duaryl 3 in Breezy Point Chap- living there after the government Air Station, Norfolk, had paid half a million dollars for i Virginia. The ceremony was per- .. the land and one of 20 agricultural , formed by (Chaplain Enwin J. Van 1 art wih'ich time the ceiling’ price lending agencies had helped out with ■ Handel. $100,000 more. It was, however, too | The bride wore a cadet blue i weight, iChicago basis. much to expect. They couldn’t make : dressmaker suit of wool crepe a living. I , . .. .. I with black accessories and a cor- With 50 acres per family, homes CHAPTER XI “I see you have, Tom,’’ Pa would say gratefully. “Sometimes, if you get horses dowu, you need to get the hames otT in a hurry.’* “Have you got an indelible pen- cil?” it wouldn’t be long till the harness would be in our wagon and we’d he on the way home. Once in a while Pa would turn around and look proudly at the harness. Wlien we got home, he would cr.ll for my mother to come out and .sec what he had. He would hold up the harness and she would say it was very fine harness, indeed. Of coarse she didn’t really know. But Pa liked to have her look at it, anyway. My mother was not only the “qui etest teacher I have ever known, but, as I have said, one of the most effective. About this time there came one of those periods when ev erything seemed to go wrong. The j sows were rooting under the fences ! CEILING ON CATTLE, CALVES and getting out, and the steers had : warbles. ’There was a sudden squall ' Effective on January 20, 1945, the “head” on our windmill was ! the OPA and WPA have been di- broken. This seemed the last straw, racted to establish an “Over-Rid- meant that we would have to inig” ceilinig price on cat/tle and ™®be a trip to town; if the machin- cal'ves of $18 per hundred weight, ®D'-store owner didn’t have a head Chicago basis, according to in- would have to write to formation received by T. A. Jen- there would be a wait, nette, chairman of the Hyde ? would have to pump water for the cattle by hand, soured me on life. It clustered in artistic groups like chairs at a lawn fete, the “farmers” were supposed to do specialty pro duction of top-grade produce and truck to yield fancy prices. Unfor tunately, somehow, the plan didn’t work. Deshee is being sold, as are many of the government’s other pipe-dream farms. Among them is the 3453-acre Lake Dick farm near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Psychology of Relief. An early discovery at Deshee was that specialty farmers don’t often get on government relief rolls. ’The relief farmers knew little more than sage o.f orchids. Miss Elizabeth Davis of Manteo, sister Of the bride, was her only attendant, i She wore an afternoon dress O'f' I dusty .pink faille with brown ac- ‘ cessorjes and a corsage of gar- I denias. Lt. Ridhard G. Mayer, , UQNR, was best man. I Only members of the immediate I families and a few intimate I friends were present for the cer- j emony. j Mrs. Slotwinsiki attended Peace I Junior College, Flora McDonald j College and the Universdty of j Georgia. She is a member of Al- My mother watched us feeling sor ry for ourselves, watched us moon- becomes $17.50 per h7undred Sunday dinner was icaien basis hardly talked at all. Another batch of sows was probably out. Tomor row I would have to hill the sweet potatoes. Then go and pump water for those damned cattle. They’d probably get blackleg and die before we could sell ’em. Ma broke her silence. “It’s a nice VISIT AT MANNS HARBOR Ensign Donald Williams, USCG, and Mrs. Williams, who have shore, N. Y., have been visiting been making their home in Bay- that they needed to plant seed and , Pba Gamma Delta National Soc- condudted the recreational hour. | scratch the ground. By this method { i^i Sorority. Refreshments weer served by Miss Jeanine Daniels, Miss Mila Wescott and Miss Etheridge. The pastors present were Rev. Vance Lewis, Wanchese; Rev. G. W. Crutchfield, Kitty Hawk, Rev. D. W. 'Charlton, Manteo. Mrs. Williams’ parents, Mr. and ^ the Mrs. Louis Hooper at Manns Har- j " bor. Mrs. Williams will remain was better than sitting around for a few webks after Ensign nothing, so we all got in the Williams returns to duty. started, glad to get otf our i accursed farm where every- j thing was going to hell HATTERAS WSCS I Z \ I iVe gloomed along the three miles. The Hatteras Women’s Sc^ety adinrup^to 1he"po°or Christian Service met at the Farm house, and, as we arrived, h^e of Mrs. Emehiie Austin one of the inmates came shuffling Wednesday, January 17. There out. One hand was drawn up from in tirivs. Tiie steers .stiii nan war- i LTes, the sows were probablv-out the windmill head wouldn’t be along : for days. But that was all right. It seemed to us wo were the luckiest , people in the world. Nothing had ciianged. Only ourselves. I My mother, sitting at the end of the table by the kitchen, looked at us chatting and laughing, but said nothing. That was her way. I On the railroad right of way that ran past our 'farm was a marker . which said; “Omaha 99 miles.” How . many times I had looked at that and wondered what Omaha was like. In . 1898, Omaha annoimced it was goina t'.> b.nve nn “Exporition,” and, S( m Ike papers were filled with stor' ;; about the Exposition. By the tiir.c summer arrived, everybody in our j neighborhood was talkhig about the ^ Exposition. Some had already gone ■ and had brought back breathless tales of what they’d seen. Enoch Day, a neighbor who lived half a mile from us, had sold his farm and gone to Omaha. Pa scud anybody who sold his farm and moved to a city had seen his best days. Ma had always corresponded with Mrs. Day, so now Mrs. Day wrote and said that if we would come to the Exposition we could stay wjith thfem. To my great de light, Pa said that as soon as we’d harvested, we’d go. Omaha, I’d actually see it with my own eyes! At last the great day came. It was arranged that Phebe was to stay at home “to take care of things”; one of the neighbors was to come in and chore. So we got in the hack and the neighbor who was to do the chores drove us to Wilcox, and we got on the train. As many times as I’d watched trains roar past our farm. I’d never been on one. But now I was on one and it was racing along at an incredible speed. Cinders beat through the windows on the red plush seats and 1 I smoke filled our eyes. But that was all right. We were going to the Exposition! Every now and then I Pa cautiously asked Mr. Day ho ^ I he was doing. Mr. Day worked ^ I the stockyards and it developed tda he was doing better than he -bad an I the farm. Pa was shocked throul® I and through. j The next day we started to Expu.sition grounds. Flags were Af' ing, bands were playing, and gf®®, j stages filled with gay people dash® by us, the drivers shouting at horses and warning people out a* the way. Pa shook his head gla®*’' ily. “Somebody will be killed ^ fore the day is over,” he said. We found it was almost iiTipc®-" ble to keep together, so we arrang®“ for a place to meet at noor. ai“ eat the .things Mrs, Day had put “A' “Here, Homer,” Pa said, “is a dollar.” I dashed away like a colt out of ® stable. It wasn’t long before I 5®“ j a supreme sight—General Nelson Miles, the Indian fighter, dressed ® a blue uniform covered with braid; Hanging at his side was a gold swor® that had been given him for captb^' ing the ferocious Geronimo. I awed by the great man until A® started to make a speech. Then ' saw, his line was Indian fighting- The crowds, the excitement, sense of freedom filled me with intoxicating pleasure. There many exhibits which said that if ,, visitor was interested and leave his name and address, f® company would, after he got hoib®; mail him “full information.” I istered everywhere, delighted a* chance to get big mail. Suddenly I heard the most weir^' titUlating noise I had ever encou”' tered in my life and saw sonoetb*®^ that made my eyes pop—a pro®®® Sion of camels with Arabs per®^®. on them, each Arab wearing a y® fez. On the swaying and lurcb>b» camels were the musicians who ^®® producing the exciting, unbelievaA'® sounds. I fell in behind, along wit” many others. The procession turn' icd of operation, Deshee had 20 fam- I U. Slotwinski attended Central ® numjber of the mem- some dreadful affliction; this afflic- ilies too many. Finally the commu- | Teachers College jn Steven’s nity shrank to eight families. Many I Point, Wisconsin, and the Uni- of them left because they didn’t like j versity of Wisconsin. He is a the surroundings. People on relief member of Chi Delta Rho fra- become fastidious. I ternity. Lt. and Mrs. Slotwinski High prices on just about every- [ are makanig their home for the thing of value, an aspect of war- j present -in Norfolk, Virginia, bom inflation, is what saves our i where the former 'is attached to ^ent several days here thte week' SaTutJTgrrcuUu/altxpfrl! i Naval Air Station. hers present and three visitors, tion had also laid hold of his face the new minister. Rev. Earl Mee- so that it was twisted to one side, kins and Mrs. Meekins and Mrs. He fumbled at the gate, doing the Rosamond Wilson, who became a he could with his one hand, member. After the business meet- at last got the gate open. He ing delicious refreshments were stood beside the gate, gazing at us (.e r HATTER/A3 NEWS and Mrs. Charlie Foster William ' ^“*eshSTnVo°S^^^^^ ! fldT^T reports’’ must be is xn the Navy and has 'been ov- i mav be small heean=» "j i February 15, if growers erseas for the last year. may be small because of well-timed sales, but this fails to prove that the Oaston Foster of the U. S. Navy government can farm, least of all is spendinig his furlough here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Foster. He has been ov erseas for the past year. H. T. Gaskins, Jr., USCG, has returned to hj'S ship after spend ing the past week here with his ' parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Gas kins. Linwood Ballance of the U. S. NayV who has been overseas for the past year has returned to his S'hip after .spending a month here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. B'lllance. ■Steve Styron. USCG, spent a j few days here with his father} and brovher the first part of | January. Mrs. Sam Neece has returned home after spending a few days away on ousiness. Mrs. Litchfield Peele of Man teo has returned home after spending a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Stowe. Mrs Nye Rallinson and son, Gerald, are spending some time in Elizabeth City. Cyde Austin has. returned home ■a'ter spending some time in Eliz- .e'leth City. Mrs. Earl Meekins has return ed to Norfolk after spending a f'. w days here last week with her 1 ’;sl>and, the Reverend Earl Mee- with human misfits on the land. No Future in This Up to now, the Federal Security Administration has sold quite a few of the government’s resettlement projects. The total number disposed of before the end of 1944 cost the taxpayers of America some 71 mil lion dollars. All the government real ized from the sales was 27 million dollars. It means that the FSA is, so far, liquidating these costly dreams at less than 40 cents on the dollar. In farming, government manf.ge- ment is showing a loss of P'.l%. We have no right to expect th,.:, losses , . . fromgovernm-mtmanrg 'me:;t'..-o;i;d : be less in manufacturing. If thc’- I ! ran only 50%, it would mean produc- j.Yi tion cut in half, wages lowered ae- ' I ' cordingly and prices acivajiced; per- ! ■ haps doubled^. Undertakenron- a big : scale, it would mean living star.d- ards, for all of us, half as high as we } fire used to. I m in favor of keeping i cur private enterprise system. * are to receive 1944 payments, says the AA.A. The War Food Administration urges farmers to keep more sows for spring farrowing .because ad ditional pigs are needed. served by the hostess TRANSFERRED DEMOCRACY John Fitch s' 4ANUARya», 17^5-JULY 2,1798 with a pitiful expression on his mis shapen face as we rolled past in our hack. The inmates were supposed to be . at their best on Sunday. But what Pvt. Milton Midjgett, U. S. Ar- a best! There were about thirty sit- my, has recently been transferred l ting in the yard, or rocking on the from Fort Benning, Ga., to Fort; porch, or puttering around. There Meade, Md. Pvt. M'idgett spent a [ was a squirrel cage in the yard; lO-'day furlough in Manteo with it had a cylinder so that the squirrel relatives. . | could run ’round and 'round. Two ' or three of the old people were Buy Move Boxids and Stamps^ ; watching the squirrel, for it was al- ^^ most the only thing they had in the j j way of entertainment. There was a 11 boy about my age, a paralytic, who, I when he walked, dragged one foot. ! A bell rang, later; from all over [ the yard the wretched people got up j and started toward a room that . served as a dining hall. An old man J was in a wheel chair, but he could ! not propel it himself and had to de- ' pend on others. So I laid hold of j the chair and pushed him over the ; grassless, hard-packed yard and up I a kind of ramp into the dining hall. I Then into a corner of the room where I a lapboard was leaning against the j wall. Picking it up, he placed it before him and w'aited for the other by Mat HIS 1786 STEAMBOAT- EACH BANK OF OARS RAISED AND LOWERED eVA SINGLE CRANK. // into a section of the Midway call® “Thei Streets of Cairo.” Both si'*®.® were lined with bazaars selling ental goods, and with fortune tellrt® and there were signs over advertising shows put on by whirll®^ I dervishes. I stood entranced, 1^*^ j afraid that, some way or other, H”® I was going to cost me money. F®® kept asking, “How can they Id * person see such wonderful sigh*® free?” Then something even more lating took place before my ast®® ished eyes. On a platform iii of one of the buildings there was * burst of oriental music, and, ®® , edged up, I saw two dark-skinn®“ men sitting on their haunches, tbO® knees as high as their should^®' playing strange musical instrume®!®' Over the building was a banner wrt® a most voluptuous dancing painted on it, and the words, “I’'*' tie Egypt.” In a moment the c®^ tains parted and a girl in a ARVIN O. BASNIGHT | RECEIVES PROMOTION INFANTItE PARALYSIS 1945 JANUARY 1945 JOIN THE MARCH C? ZIW.IS Arvin O, Basnight, son of Mr. ail'd Mrs. T. A. Basnight of Man teo, was promoted on December 3 from the rank of first lieuten ant to the rank of captain. Army Air Corps. Caiptain Basnight, who j is stationed somewhere in Eng-1 land, joined the Army Air Corps two years ago, and was sent oV' erseas last May, since which time he has had two promotions. Oapt. Basnight Brother, Thom as A. Basnight, Jr., is with the Navy, and is stationed in Italy. When a horse recovers from an httack otf infectious anemia, or swamp feyer. the infection may remain for years after all symp- tons otf the disease have disap peared. _ _ 7 Where farmers organize them selves into groups for the purpose of exchanging wmrk and whip-1 ping thel a'bor shortage, church' attendance is improved, says 1 C:t:-'’x Arrnt T. J W, B-own HIS STEAMBOAT OF 1788- SEPARATE CRANKS - AND SUSPENDED AS IN ROWING inmates, who acted as waiters, to | easier’n Pa did bring him'something to eat. After supper the poor old wrecks went back to their places on the porch, or on the benches in the yard, with nothing to look for'vard to till the next meal. Those who didn t go had to stay and help wash the dishes. Little Eg^ypt Pa’d say: “They’ve got good cox" through here,” or “They run i,. white-faced cattle through here.” ■ r he'd shake his head and say, “V.’e’re goin’ through a strip of 'haru;. >!. You can’t raise anything on h;"':- pan.” Ma visited up and down the aisle, because she always got acquainti-i When she came v,\\ Ik-- HIS SMALL STEAM80AT- 1797- driven by paddle-wheels AND SCREW PROPELLER As Pa and Ma and Phebe and I walked about the yard, we could see the miserable old people washing dishes and hear them banging the pans. One by one, as they finished their jobs, they came limping back to the porch and to the benches Someone had got into another’s seat and a quarrel arose. First one per son spoke, taking sides; then some- back she'd tell Pa where the people ' were from and how long they were i going to stay at the Exposition. When eleven-thirty came. Ma opened our shoe box and we had diimer, tossing the x;hicken bones out the ) window. At the end of the car was a round water cooler, painted red. There was a knob so that when I pressed down a trickle of water spattered out. I would fill the tin cup and take it to Ma and she would drink; then I would fill it again and take it to Pa and he would drink and throw what he didn’t want out the wmdow. Then I would stand in the aisle by the water cooler, to show that the train couldn’t toss me Pat^CIOT and INVENTOft, JOHN FITCH SERVED AS GUNSMITH FOR AMERICAN TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE * COMPLETED HIS FIRST STEAMBOAT MODEL IN I78S BUILT HIS LARGEST VESSEL WHICH WAS RUN * AS A PASSENGER BOAT BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON , IN I79O. Today he shares honors with Robert fulton FOR THE INVENTION OF THE STEAM FOAT. one answered; pretty soon they were around, and drink long and elabo- all quarreling. rately. One old man had an evil-looking pipe. He had whittled a piece of wood into a sort of tamper which was tied with a string and dangled from a button on his coat He fished some crumbs of tobacco out of his pocket and tamped them down with his little wooden stick. At last we started home, depressed by the sights we had seen. Little ! by little, as we got away from the I place, we began to talk. More cheer- ■ fuUy than we had talked in days, j 'When we sat down to our own j Sunday supper, our low spirits had i mysteriously disappeared. We I laughed and joked as we hadn’t done vei! swayed out, and my eyes juinp®^ again. Then she began to undula^® in time to the music, her hips m®''' ing rhythmically from side to sid® and ending in a little jerk. As ® that wasn’t enough, she sudd®®^^ began to shake and quiver afi ovcP a thousand muscles twitching ®® pulsating and her hips going fast®® and faster. My lips grew dry: ' seemed to me I could hardly breath®- A man shouted through a nx®^® phone, “You set on the platform h®' fore you the famous ‘Little EgyP* who danced for millions at th®, IVorld’s Fair in Chicago.” As h® talk.:d he drew us in closer, me v®®) willing to be drawn. Then h® i' 'P'".'d his vice aud is. a confide®' tial tone began telling about th- j®' triguing wonden.-^ to be seen vithi®- “Behind those curtains is a stag®- and 'vvhen Little Egypt comes out ®® that stage to entertain you "'hh her captivating dances, all t’’® i clothes the little lady will have ®'® can be sent anywhere in the Unit® States for a two-cent postal® stamp.” Little Egypt then gav® ® lew more wiggles and went inside* whereupon the ticket seller beg®® to shout at the top of his voice- ® stood hesitating, torn between right and wrong, trying to gaze past th® curtains into the alluring, seductiY® beyond. But it would cost a q®®®' ter. Could I afford it? I decided I could. I entered, my heart already thumping. Men were seated on fold' ing chairs, but on the sides so»® men were standing, all looking at' We arrived at the depot, where there was a fearful ringing of bells and blownng of whistles and people hurrying in all directions. “Run ners” for rooming houses pounced out and seized our grips, saying they would carry them for us. “Don’t let ’em,” shouted Pa. ‘^on t take any chances.” Then we saw Mr. and Mrs. Day. Mr. Day was a small man with a large mustache, and Mrs. Day was ' very larj the bizarre curtains. After a f®'^' minutes the curtains were drawn r®"; vealing what it seemed to me a tru^ to-life oriental harem. The mus*® began again, and two or three gl®'® came out, swaying from side to sid® and making their hands go snakes. Never had 1 dreamed suco a thing existed in the world. I guilty and a little ashamed, but also I tremendously stimulated a®® ' aroused. At last the curtain fell and th® show was over. But not quite, Tot a very large woman, but how gooL * stepped out and told us w® they looked to us! In a few minutes ’ anything yet, and tha^ we were on a streetcar, the first' I i ^here was going to be another ■sho'* ever saw, racing thrpugh acres and I would make the one we h®® acres oi' houses.
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