, THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
% NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
l*; No. 35
SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945
Single Copy 5 Cents
midgett
k^OMINATED for
^^Tary GOVERNOR
^ Thanks for Manila’s Liberation
j ® Rotarians Backing En-
Man to Head 189th
Rotary District
Lw Rotafy Club in |
'Weekly session this j
MWj ®day, March 8) evening j
▼tostMidgett for the |
I liij Rotary District Governor, j
(Jovp '’"'Rl bo s®ot to District!
'oti John Holmes of Eden-
he .will be voted on in a
^j'^ming election.
4 motion that Mr. Midgett
ttijj minated for tlie post was
Dtjj hy Dr. J. W. Miller, who
him as “an outstanding
y leader.” This sentiment
®t^hoed by President' J. M.
jjS and other club memibers.
Isf ®®'dent Long named Dr. Mil-
(!{('J ■ L. Berry and Tom Spen-
COMMISSION TO
STUDY IRISH
POTATO PROBLEM
Will Be Made Up of Six
Members With One From |
Hyde County j
HYDE OYSTERMEN AGAIN
WIN IN FIGHT TO KEEP
PUBLIC BOTTOMS FREE
/,
k “ Promote the campaign for
M'
Itr
.^i'dgett’s election.
Wi
[ttiej.'Il,Midgett who was instru-
otai
'Ub
in organizing the Rotary
II
0
iM , Engelhard is often refer-^
lij ^ as the “daddy” of the club.
®®rved as its first president,
has remained a leader in
A ^^Rvities.
native of Wanchese, Dare
Ijy "'k Mr. Midgette came to
h ® County about 10 years ago
'te K electric pO'Wer and
li5 j^^Psiness. Prior to that time
lari' Worked with power com-
’®s in Smithfield and Suffolk,
e, “e is a former school teach-
jj ba newsipaperman.
is an o-utstanding
W^bnity leader and is highly
;vv''v>>»k
in jjjg community. He
lon, of Trinity College,
Veig^J^tiike University. He is a
tiaf.
of World War 1. He is
Harrt*' ce t^iioio
SEVERAL HUNDRED FILIPINO RESIDENTS of Washington. D. C. attended a Mass of Thanksgiving at St.
Aloysius Church, February 5. following the liberation of Manila. Kneeling in Prayer (1. to r.) are: Mrs. Pilar H. Lim,
Member of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commission. Mrs. Hernandez and Hon. Jaime Hernandez, Secretary of
Fmance, in charge pf ^the Philippine Governmenf in Washington in the absence of President Osmena. The President
and officials of his Cabinet are witn ivaacArtiiur m tne Pmiippines.
and is the father of four
Itig ■ two of which are serv-
*h the armed services.
SHIPWRECK OFTEN
IN THE OLD DAYS
LED TO ROMANCE
FISHERMEN TAKE L.4RGEST PRnPn?Fr» ^011
OK. „C«.COK. "{J'bE
Bodie Island Coast Guard Sta
tion Noted for Marriages
of Seafaring Men
''CH BUG THREAT
TO 1945 CORN CROP
Ch'
''^.manoes along the North Carolina
843 a Mecklervburg counties m
counties in
tauso '-^rolina last year and may
Reports from Beaufort tell of
fishermen catching the largest
menhaden on record off Ocra-
coke late last month. The fat-
back was 20 inches long and
weighed 3 1-2 pounds. Usually
menhaden weigh a pound or less.
Dr. Herbert Prythereh of the
TOPIC OF MEETINGS
Landowners Invited to Be
Present and Express
Their Opinions
Shipwrecks often led to ro- t:.- v. t . v. Hearing on the- organi^Jation
U. S. Fishery Laboratory here rr°u
, , • , .u r- i, J- „ district, embracing Tyrrell, Wash-
determined the fish was five . , ’ - * j it j
uiL. uajo wiicii men , j ii i • j .u . ington, Bcaufort, Dare and Hyde
, ... , years old. He explained that men- * , , ,, . / „
from sailing vessels . , , ,, „ counties will be held at four
^ haden this old usually go off- • • n . . i.r„j
e fat- Hyd'S County on Wed-
back fleet and thus are rarely "esday, March 14, and Thursday,
taken meeting will
u ■ f i., be held Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 at the Sladesville gymnas
ium. with another at 8:00 in the
... were stranded. Bodie Island was , u „ a
yea large damage fQj- jn more recent
the corn crops grown ygai-g^ one sea captain iharried
Stains, if weather tjjg gigtej. of a Coast Guardsman
faiborable for the gnd later when his wife died, re-
insect pest. turned to marry her niece. He
Hro a thousand pounds of Din- ^^33 , Captain Ernest Arey, who
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dust
far:
was used last year by rnarried a sister of the late Apol-
in fighting the chinch los D. Midgett, after becoming , , , ,, ,,
^l47nnn^ acquainted following the wreck
toil M according to J. My- of his ship. ‘He last wife is the
logm ®^well, Extension entomo- former Miss Annie Midgett, dau-
Lo ^tate College. gh'ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Mid-
to small grains and corn gett.
6sti^ ■'Wintering bugs were In the old days some 75 years
ilie n at about $70,000 while ago, there came ashore on Bodie NAVAL OFFICER SUES
tiojjY^'Phs of the first genera- Island the widowed shipmaster
5cre
waters, in addition to their sub
stantial commercial value, is of . . .u e
interest to sportsmen because at the Swan Quarter
many game fish, particularly the '
down there will be the third meet-
A joint resolution asking the
Governor to appoint a special six-
memjber commission to study the
commercial Irish potato situation
in Eastern North Carolina and
report to the 1947 General As
sembly has been adopted by the
General Assembly. j
“It is apparent that there is a
grave danger of losing a sub
stantial part of the acreage plant
ed in Irish potatoes in Eastern
North Carolina, and there is pre
valent a bacterial wilt which is
causing a serious loss to the
growers of Irish potatoes in this
section,” said the resolution.
“The gro'wers in the State need
to exercise greater oare in the
harvesting and preparation of
potatoes for market and to ac
quire better and more up-to-date
facilities for hand'ing and mar
keting.”
The resolution would empower
the Go'vernor to name to the
Commission within 60 days after
its adOiption one representative
from the counties of Camden,
Currituck, and Pasquotank; one
from Tyrrell; one from Beaufort
and Hyde; one from Carteret,
Craven, and Pamlico; one from
Pitt; and one from Wayne and
Duplin.
Members of the commission are
requested to make “such investi
gation as may be necessary to
recommend steps that should be
taken to preserve and promote
the potato industry, which is
the m'ajor cash crop of many
growers of Eastern North Caro
lina, and shall report its findings,
together with recommendations
for any legislation which it con
siders desirable or necessary to
accomplish the purpose for which
it is created.”
Bell, With Askew of Pamlico, Instrumental In Kill
ing Bill In Oyster Industry Committee; People
Feel Industry Needs Boost, But Don’t Approve
State/ Conservation Department Proposal To
Lease Public Bottoms.
AVERY WILLIAMS NOW
A CAPTAIN IN ARMY
POST-WAR ROAD
PROGRAM FOR
HYDE APPROVED
County Commissioners Hear
State to Build Fire
Tower in Currituck
the coast. The vicious blue will
bite a menhaden his owm size
in two and eat the pieces with
two gulps.
ing at 2:30 in the afternoon and
one in the Engelhard school build
ing at 8:00.
The movement for such an or
ganization to . he known as the
Pamlico Soil Conservation Dis
trict, was begun December 4 in
E F WISE FOR 825,000 ^^3 o; passajppe pue mnoui^fia
rpj -- — , ----- £1. T. v> » p , State Soil Conservation Commit-
corn with a loss of about With him was his only daughter tee at Raleigh., This committee,
Miss Fredanna Andrews, who on Fogarty Alleges Manteo Man Re- jjgg^jgd by I. O. Schaub, chalr-
^ hen Maxwell was asked how the death of her mother had tak- sponsible for Injuries Sus- man, will be in charge of the
'''oinj "^^fhage the chinch bug en to the sea with her father. ,tained While Watching Man hearings to be held in the county
Car . P’'obably cause in North Capt. Andrews tarried on the on March 13, when all persons
- ®lina tKi- i-j 41-,^ hpaiph and found the home of A suit for $25,000 alleged dam- interested are invited to attend
Oq 4
- ”'igs attacked about 14,000 Isaac Andrews of Jamaica, N. Y.
flu • ^ year he parried the beach, and found the home of A suit for $2o,000 alleged dam- interested are
by savin® that he could Capt. Jackie Midgett most inter- ages has been brought in Federal and be heard.
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■ answer ^it ^long in April esting and married his daugh- Court in Elizabeth City against u ig believed that if the dis-
the bu®s begin to put in t®!"- Elizabeth. From this mar- Ethan F. Wise of Manteo by trigt jg formed, it will be possible
appearance He estimates riage descended Hulda Andrews Lieut. W. M. Fogarty of Missouri. fQj. secure surplus drag-line
3 growers wih nrobablv need ''^bo married Eben Roe of^ New He alleges that a saw mill owned and other drainage equipment
ii loo 000 nn'iinrts of the din- York, and they were the parents by Mr., Wise was defective and fj-om the Federal government
k*'. '^ust' this to nrntpct' ^1'®- Vance Brinkley of Man- unsafe, and that through negli- without cost as such equipment
.it po4„ _ ., . P , , teo. gence of the owner, he sustained becomes available. This number
The daughter Fredanna mar- pel-somal injuries when a pulley gf drainage projects badly need-
this ,
corn wih a barrier estab
J bcturci 4.U * +V>£» X lit; UclugiiiLcri x-x ctaaiiiia a»-»ii’c»x xiij i,« i. ....w.. — j:-— -ixiaiiiasc ucitxiy iiccu-
When this ri6d William Hayes, the son of flew off near the Manteo airport' gd in the area embraced by the
en he bug touches this william Hayes, fa- last Mhrch.
bflt „..®,'*Pniedlately dies on con
proposed district.
it.
; mous coast’and character. By
'tiding J . ~4 +V, Xiaycs m VV clllUllCOC, XJUV.t, Wl.v, V, ISC was - IICIU, tXl WO.40 LOOe C V Ci. J
Qf ®^onstrations as to the niarried the late Frank Midgett to cut some timber for the Navy g-wner of farm land will be giv-
W'h Dinitro dust last Manteo, and Margaret who from trees that had been cut on gn gn opportunity to 'Vote for or
cr ^ corn joined a srnall niarried Capt. Major Pugh and the property. The bill was being against the proposal. If 51 per
^ bagrower establish- .^;^,a,g j-j^g mother of Mrs. L. operated 'by J. C. Groce of Ma»- ggnf favor ‘setting up the soil
'''idg dust one inch ^ Hooper of Stumpy Point. Mr. teo, and several of the nearby conservation district, then a char-
one-fourth inch deep Hayes died when his children Naval personnel were standing ^gj. be issued and t^e or-
fl£ second rows were small, and Mrs. Haye^ mar- by. i ganization perfected.'
Wasjjb- The first row of corn j-jg^j ^.j^g jate William T. Meekins — —— j
by the bugs while q£ Wanchese, and two children gicK MAN, LOST IN j poNZER BOY" AT REPLACE-
fl £mi binder of the field made came of this union. WOODS, WALKS ALL NIGHT I mENT DEPOT IN FRANCE
^ I Rev. William Hayes, who was
1 the owner of the old Kaye's place
ijng f , . , this marriage was born Isaac eration of the mill while JVir. g^
iitis ®^^®rs conducting out- jj^ygg Wanchese; Lovie, who Wise was engaged in a contract be
Fogarty was watching the op-, Following the hearings, it is
of the mill while Mr.' expected that a referendum iwill
held, at which time every
Claude Sewell, Swan Quarter
near Wanchese, married Margar- farmer, victim O'f a heart ailment,
et (Peggy) Etheridge, who was ^^|jj_g(j’ more than 10 miles Mon-
to moves back
s NATIVE COLORADO , £jjg late Capt. Mieajah night, March 5, following an
Lamw ,4 tv.p ^ E'theridge, well-l^own keep- g^^ggi^. ibe woods near his'
, 'kimu-. .’i, . er of Oregon Inlet Coast Guard i^^j^g Sewell was stricken
0^''’ has Refuge for the p^t | gugUmn. Many of the Hayes peo- afternoon w-hile look-
^“'orado tr. buried in the old Ether- . ^ ^ Darkness w^as
> ope bis father with cemetery. ‘.bright on early by the low-
■V gb^itions. Sam was _weU, __ ' Lnjng rain clouds and he be-
Pfc. Joe B. Carawan, son of
Mrs. Minnie D. Carawan of Pon-
zer, is with the classification and
su'piply sections at Headquarters,
19th Replacement Depot, France.
Pfc. Carawan wears the Purple
Heart and other decorations.
County Commissioners in regu
lar session this week put their
stamp of approval on the h.'.gh-
way department’s post war road
program for the county and
heard District Forest Fire War
den Hooker tell of the State plans
to build a look-out tower in Cur
rituck township.
The highway program, which
the commissioners approved,
calls for building all-weather
roads from Swan Quarter to Jun
iper Bay via Tiny Oak, and from
Patrick’s store near Engelhard to
Fairfield along the north side of
Mattamuskeet Lake.
The commissioners heard Dis
trict Forest Fire Warden Hooker
of New Bern tell of plans of the
State to construct a look-out tow
er near the inland waterway
bridge in Currituck township. It
was explained by the warden that
the tower on the Government
Reservation at New Holland was
available to the service and the
remainder of the county could
be covered from that point.
Mr. Hooker explained that the
tower would be built without
cost to Hyde County. It will have
a value of several thousand dol
lars.
A resolution was passed by the
board requesting Rep. Clifton
Bell to introduce a bill in the
Legislature which would give
legal approival to the indexing
systeni installed in the Hyde
County Register of Deeds office
covering conveyances of mortgag
es, liens and other public docu
ments required to be registered.
Other business transacted by
the board included the approving
of the bills.
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CAPT. AVERY WILLIAMS, 26-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Williams of Swan Quarter,
who is serving with the Army
in the Southwest Pacific. The
Hyde County boy only recently
received his captain’s commis
sion.
Capt. Williams has served in
the Army for almost three years.
He volunteered as a Second Lieu-
.tenant in the infantry. He was
later transferred to the Air
Corps. He served in Panama be
fore going to the Southwest Pa
cific where he took part in front
line combat.
Before going into the Army,
Capt. Williams was employed as
a ceramiacs- engineer with the
Mexico Re-factories Company in
Mexico, Mo. He is a graduate of
the Preslbyterian Junior College
at Maxton and of State College,
Raleigh.
The young man hopes to come
home on furlough in May and
take unto himself a wife—a Mis
souri girl.
ALL-OUT PROGRAM
FOR SWEET POTATOES
A far-reaching cooperative
program looking to the eventual
estalblishment of the sweet pota
to as one of North Carolina’s first
money crops has been announced
by Harry Westcott, vegetable
marketing specialist with the
State Deparment Oif Agriculture.
/Westcott said the program
which was prepared and is being
carried out jointly by the State
College Extension Service and
the Department, is designeid to
standardize the North Carolina-
grown sweet potato.
‘Our aim is to produce a quali
ty product, a potato uniform as
to size, shape, and color of skin
and meat. If we are to avoid the
predicament in which the com
mercial Irish potato growers now
find themselves, the general qual
ity of all sweet growns in North
Carolina must be stepped up,”
declared Westcott.
ROSE BAY HOME CLUB
MEETS AT IVIRS .GIBBS’ HOME
ho.;*
regarded by a gWAN QUARTER SENIORS “ He walked slowly
,''1111. Tfil? entertain p. t. a.
he came to a residence about four
h'>tarTi"^ .Gray Cahoon is tem-
y in charge of the Refuge
JlEll;
The seniors of the Swan Quar- Q>.(,jo(.k Tuesday morning, he
ter High School entertained the vvas in the Negro sec-
parents, and the teachers at the back road some 10
a. . tion on tne DacK roao some lu
L&r SHAD LAii> p ^ A. meeting Monday, March | across a savannah from his
The program was about fern-, at Tiny Oaks. Meantime
ous paintings. After the P. T. A. | sheriff C. P. WilUamson and
to }„../iarbor citizen IS reported entertained r F 'Whitfield ha
Pa-
meeting the seniors entertained | £j.gin^an c. E.'Whitfield had a
'Whiav,'^?_ ^ on 4 ori-, school teachers with a j bloodhound on the trail. Mr. Se-
Eflst
Which
Catch
is said to be the lar
weiner roast at the home eco- cell’s family and friends Were
'■“tea ma(1o 4V.a>-a +Vli= CPU- WeinCI ruaai, 04 4444. 4 V4CiiiJ 4U44444J a—
&on3^®nce u Midgett was re- nomics department. Music was sure he had been stricken and
m '''dole, the season
®hch poorer . than usual.
has everyone enjoyed the music and
dancing.
died in the woods. They were
surprised that he withstood the
ordeal.
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Sgt. Edward Lee Gibbs of Camp
Ellis, Ill., arrived Wednesday to
visit with his 'wife, Mrs. Prances
S. Gibibs, and parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifton Gibbs at Swan Quar
ter.
THE PONDERS AGAIN
MAKING HOME IN HYDE
In the “good old dlays” they
watered the milk; today they wa
ter the cow at an automate
drinking fountain.
Cotton crop insurance is being
offered to North Carolina grow
ers for the third time this year
'by the Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation.
Graham Ponder, former Super
intendent of Welfare in Hyde
County, who has more recently
been connected with the State
Department as an area supervis
or with headquarters in Greens
boro, has returned to Hyde Coun
ty to make his home. He will edv-
er 11 Eastern counties for the
State Welfare Department in his
new position.
Mr. and Mrs. Ponder are re
siding at the George Thomas Da*
vis h jme in Swan Quarter
The Rose Bay Home Demon-
stra't'ton Club held its regular
monthly meeting Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Carrol
Gilbbs. Following the program of
singing and the devotional by
Mrs. Gibbs, the club held its bus
iness session and heard the fi
nancial report.
Miss Roach brought Mrs. Mc-
Kimmon’s new book which the
club recently purchased and al
so reported on a number of in
teresting books that are available
from the Bookmobile.
Members enjoyed a game and
a contest during the social hour.
Mrs. Gibbs carried out the St.
Patrick’s party theme.
The club will meet next month
at the home of Mrs. E. E. Hodges.
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Canning girls in the 4-H clubs
will attempt to beat last year’s
record for the nation of 17 mil
lion quarts. Violet Little of
Wadesboro was the North Caro
lina champion canner.
By THOS. E. SPENCER
News from Raleig’n Wednesday
night that Representative Clif
ton Bell of Swan Quarter, with
Representative Askew of Pgmli-
co, had been able to kill the
State Department of Conserva
tion and Development s propos
al to lease public bottoms as a
means of encouraging the grow
ing of oysters was received with
wide-spread approval along the
waterfronts at Swan Quarter, En
gelhard, Rose Lay, Middletown
and other oystering communities.
It was the second legislature in a
row that Hyde County oyster-
men through their representative
in the General Assembly had had
to fight the proposal, and for
the second time they won their
battle.
' The ConserYaion and Develop
ment Department proposes to en-'
i courage the growing of oysters
I in North Carolina waters by leas
ing out public bottoms in lots as
large as 5,000 acres to indmd-
uals and private business and per
mit planting them with seeds
from the oyster rocks. The oyster-
men in Hyde and Pamlico, where,
the greater part of the oyster
bottom is located, say that this
would encourage money inerests
and take from the small oyster-
men his only means of making a
living.
The sentiment in Hyde Coun
ty for the most part is strongly
' against thg department proposal,
which has he backing of the ex
perts. It has been a subject of
much conversation along the wa
terfronts of Hyde’s oyster villag
es recently, and seldom has any
thing been heard in its favor from
the men who drag for oysters
and make their living with small
boats ar.d their, dredges.
It is generally agreed that the
oyster industry is not devetoped.
to its fullest and that possible
someth’r.g can be, and certainly
should be donei if it is possible
to encourage the growing of oys
ters. It v.'ould mean added dollars
that is not being received now.
It is also generally agreed that
-BAjasuoo aiR arnssB oj gjnseaur
tion of this natural wealth should
be ' taken. That sorh'ething good
may have come from the recent
debates before the Legislature is
noted in a resolution sent by Rep
resentative Askew.
The Pamlico County represen
tative proposes that a commis
sion be named to study the culti
vation and marketing of clams
ard oysiers in Eastern North
Carolina. The resototion went up
today, and it has not been possi
ble to get local Sentiment. It has
long been the opinion of many
oystermen, however, that the sit
uation should be studied, and it
seems this 'is a great forward
step, and one that should have
been made before now.
Oystering is a big industry in
Hyde County. Three shucking
houses are operating and one can
ning factory. They have a size
able payroll. The prospects that
this wou:d be killed, and the
uncerta'inty of what would im
mediately replace it under the
proposed system of private con
trol of public bottoms was dark.
First reports from Raleigh on
the subject indicated that Bell
and Askew had a losing battle,
but the tide turned in the legis
lative mill.
News comes that Representa
tive Earl Cohoon of Tyrrell and
other legislators were aligned on
the side of the Hyde and Pamli
co Asseirfbly members and were
able to kill the bill.
Backing the State Department’s-
proposal were State Senator Roy
"W. Ham'pton of Plymouth, Josh
Home, member of the depart
ment; and Dr. H. F. Prythrich,
oyster specialist for the fish and
Wildlife division of the U. S. De
partment of the Interior, among
others.
Those attending the meeting of
the Oyster Industry legislative
committee in Raleigh from Hyde
County Wednesday, at which the
b'll was killed, were C. P. Wil
liams, W. J. Lupton, J. S. Mason,
E. B. Bell, Fred Harris, Hezzie
Brown, C. R. Lupton, Elmo To-
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