. THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
I'HE NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
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be possible for
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COAST GUARD HOSPITALS
SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945
Single Copy 5 Cents
Off . i
Hope Plan Can Be Worked Out To Convey
*^Udings and Equipment to Competent Hospital
Association; Great Need For Hospital At Hat-
^fas Prompts Suggestion They May Be Retained
Service of People I
"'ay 'be a ,possibility yet wta V Q TQ
Caj.the ‘puiblic of the North ' o-ol lo
Coastland the two Co'ast i PROCLAIMED
llju hospital buildings at Cape [
^ and Kill Devil Hills, i
iL soon ibe abandoned
toc^ Bald appear
m-cliael ^ ^KoraB^®
CLEAN UP DAYS
t th ♦
original purposes. Pre-
publicity proceeding
Hgy vf But of misinformation
the chances, for no def-
ever been made,
Ijt such thing as buying them
has ever been heard of.
^all hospitals are well
Eajj and are sorely needed
*fe 'Coast where the people
Vw away from hospitals,
J'artj ®ad medical attention.
k»spj^^®'‘ly at Caipe Hatteras the
W] ^ is needed to serve the
tacQjj^ Bf that island and of Oc-
Oil this great need and
people, the mat-
^Sar «*• "^Bcently taken up with
Campaign Being Pushed To
Beautify Homes And Farms '
In Hyde |
Meriting the full support of all
the citizens of Hyde County is
I the program now 'being pushed'
i energetically by Miss Iberia!
Roach, home agent, to clean up!
the homes, farms and business'
places in the county. Success of i
the program would undoubtedly!
attract the attention of tourists |
and put more money in the poc- I
kets of the citizenry. i
A proclamation was issued;
Tuesday gy the County Board ofj
Commissioners designating May
Of ti, Admi;;i“cErrMkhele, head i
Viyyi-Kfi.
te8®S
SHIPS SUNK OFF COAST
OF CAROLINA ALMOST
UP TO SURRENDER DAY
Crew of Norwegian Tanker Brought To Roanoke
Island Two Weeks Ago; Ships Sunk Off Mary
land Coast and Off Rhode Island
the
oarlcs na
_ turalI
StlOTll*
behalf bt. s^^/“rfoT eje ’—*0 ViiUs -‘“7 The
or epP^^ day® ^ theuceJo pprpoj*
I °^e of their he ®^Jladea to
£aoh «agpa
la larse
wished
7 w the ra^’ oh coYer sh ao^ a lo^d
4^oa9. ^ Each ‘^^re ar^desired ho h ibia
4charac^;^; or aichia.^, ar^^ of
ho«
d®^® Je •wagoae are of
®°^’hiader ibe
they »» 3.
ocoasiott* ^
|ttLe
TEXACO SENDS
OUT NEW TYPE
OF MOTOR OIL
At Urgent Request of Army,
Air Forces Are Provided
With Latest Improvement
Several carloads of a new type
lubricating oil for jet-propelled
fighter aircraft have been rushed
in ."■ f-oast Guard medical units
!oj^7'®''ica, and he was asked if
taj^ Jl'ag 'Could be done to re-
'’'Meh buildings and equipment
tjtjj" soon to be dismantled,
than have them go to
* *
'a*lj Michele was very sym-
^esi- and said it would be his
to
“Pm.
‘'!e.
see the structures and
‘•e>at dedicated to the ser-
■jet(y°* public, rather than to
down, and that upon prop-
tlij t^'^sentations on behalf of
to „:®Bple, he would be pleased
every consideration to
give
1 idea
ty thus lending official support
to the program.
Support is being given by
mem'bers of home 'dubs, as do
these citizens do their part in all
worthy undertakings. Already the CHAIRMANSHIP OF
women of the Po'nzer community RnARn maNTr'^o
have started a yard cleaning pro-
gram and those at Engelhard have _
started a moverhent to improve Uisagreement Over farliament-
the ap'pearance of their tO'wn. . ary Procedure Brings About
Engelhard Meeting j Edged Tempers
A meeting was held in the
Town Hall at Engelhard Monday Tempers were edged at the reg-
evening to discuss a program of monthly session of the Hyde
cleaning up that community. Sug- County Board of Commissioners
gestions were made regarding Monday when disagreement arose
improving the appearance of the between members on parliament-
BEN FK.VNKLIN, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 1755, caused to be written what is termed the country’s
first war loan advertisement. Franklin warned his readers against inflationary prices Ipst they “hinder the
King’s Service,’’ a lesson still good in the Mighty Seventh tVar Loan. The document was written in German
as well as English. Superimposed on the original are the words used by Franlilin. This was a loan of mate
rials and not of dollars.
JUDGE THOMPSON TO JOHN FINDLEY
HOLD COURT IN HYDE pjEW MANAGER
ly ^ 7 -
' w. Drinkwater of Manteo,
*5(i ^'bander Wialter Etheridge,
1 ^ -r^ TV . _T • .—I.-
when -presented in Wash-
appeal was made last week grounds around the town prop- ^ry procedure, during which Ed
V A was made last w creation of a park- Berry of New Holland was ousted
in'g lot. as chairman on a charge of fail-
Those present at the meeting mg to carry out the duties of the
were Mesdames J. M. Long, Nov- office and replaced by J. S. Mas-
oline Barrett, T. J. Etheridge, Da- o" of Swan Quarter on motion
vid 'Peebles, Max Hodges, Bell Commissioner A, L. Cuthrell
Credle and Rufus Williams, Joe Fairfield.
Harris and Tom Spencer. j The argument started over a
I tax matter. Information from the
lOli:
Sheriff D. V. Meekins, who
to Corolla where Rear-
''“i Michele was visiting.
^iie sense of the confer-
W fjjj, 3 competent association
t-Ose ^ work for this pur-
the eventual manage-
M ^be properties, if obtain-
Puibllc use, and it was
that Mr. Drinkwater be
officials and the records show
ENGELHARD ROTTARIANS that S. G. Sawyer of Currituck
ELECT NEW OFFICERS township presented an old tax
j receipt given 'by former sheriff,
Tom Spencer Voted President; late Harry 'O Neal, to Mrs.
Silverthorne, Vice President; i Maude Joines, county accountant.
Shelton, Secretary
Wt),
Pbairmian of the oom-
-apacity he this week
the njiatter with the
* Vi^ '^Pnty commissioners with i
y, ^B further exploration of
‘by premature pub-
Siilt i the situation may re
ts j7 'lueering the whole thing
*a(j .®PP«ars to 'be misinformed
liig ‘b'advised. Certainly, noth- I will succeed J. M. Long, Engel-' since the receipt had not been of-
tepj finite has 'been done, ex- hard contractor. I ficially presented to the board, it
tile arri-ve at the ooncltision' Asbie Gray Silverthorne, 'traf- seemed to him unwise to act.
of the coastland need a j fioo manager of the Engelhard This, he said, was not a reflec-
*al, htiH ;* Ln +u.^ YA..6 oil Bid: r’nm'rvD.nv. waS
I as evidence of 'payment of an ac-
' count on the books in her office.
Tom Spencer, editor of The'
Hyde .County Herald, was elected the r^e^pt They offer-
president of the Engelhard Rotary ®!^ sworn statements with the
Club at the regular weekly din-j
ner session at the Watson Ho-1 Mr. Derry stated that he would
tel last Thursday evening. He defer action, oointending that
mi
LAKE REFUGE
Former Assistant State Game
! Commissioner Takes Fed
eral Job in Hyde .
John D. Findley, for the past
several years assistant state gaime
I com'missioners with headquarters
in Raleigh, took over the jab of
manager of the Mattamuskeet
Wildfowl Refuge at New Holland
May 1st. He succeeds Sam Lamb
j who resigned last fall to return
to manage his father’s farm in
Colorado. Willie Gray Cahoon of
New 'Holland, member of the ref
uge force, has 'been in charge
since that time.
Mrr Findley is not a strange,
in coastal North Carolina where
I his position with the State De-
SHIPS SUNK
Almost up to the date of sur
render, U-boats were prowling
off the coast o-f Carolina, anid
only about two weeks ago, 40
men rescued .from a tanker, re
portedly Norwegian, were /brought
i into Manteo, and shipped out from
I the Naval Air Station. Details
have not been released, but on
Thursday the Navy reported the
sinking of ships nearly a month
ago. One of them off the Mary
land coast and one off 'Rhode Isl-
to the Army Air Forces by The j
Texas Company’s refinery at Port I . .
Arthur, Texas, in response to an
urgent request from the Army. "77®'^ ^ ^ Norwegian
Texaco engineers, in cooperation ‘T some s.. ip of
with the Army, developed the new j _j t,__ a
lubricant in the shortest possible
time, using special equipment
available at Port Arthur.
An interesting feature of the
HON e E. M^SONof Eliz-l partment of Conservation and
. and it is the duty of all
^dize;
to oooj>erate in aid
to get one.
OF HYDE CHILDREN
^tts 'being sent par-
? Pupils in grades one
®«ven this week by N.
'chooi, of Hyde County
them that it is
'^oiHg ® ^^at a state dentist may
Byde this summer and
if
they notify teachers
their children to
'-biig , free service. The only
'he y B" is getting the pupils to
'hat t^®*^ schools on the date
Bus Company, was re-elected tion on those who made the state-
vice president, and N. W. Shel- ment of seeing the receipt. But,
ton, suiperintendent of schools for Mr. Cuthrell saw the matter dif-
Hyde County was re-elected sec- ferently, and made a motion that
retarytreasurer. R. S. Spencer the board go on record as consid-
MAY CHECK was elected sergea'nt-at-arms. i ering the tax paid. Mr. Berry re-
The new officers will assume fused to put the motion before
their duties on July 1st. i the 'board, on the contention that
The new president has been a as chairman he had temporarily
memiber of the Rotary Club for deferred action, which he said he
almost five years. He served one had a right to do. Mr. Cuthrell
term as vice 'president and two was then made chairman, pro
as secretary-treasurer. For the' tern, and his motion put 'before
past year he has headed the pub- the board and passed,
licity committee. I This accomplished, Mr. Cuth-
comes 'lo uie
®^ould he be available.
dentist comes to the
Urged to fill out the
tropg ®Bd return them to the
'li« j 'facher. Whether or not
comes to the county
''“itiW ^ ^ large degree on the
of people wanting the
'ion_ ®; ''''liioh will include inspec-
B^'B'U'g’ -treating and ex-
S when necessary.
hBuses should have
"1 sunlight. This sunlight
B keep the house dry, is a
Iti
'dtamin D in the bird’s
Sertnicide, and serves to
(kt lo fifteen tomato plants
7°^ are needed to furnish
'b „ ''"uatoes and some extra
®an.ning.
abeth City, resident judge for this
district, will 'preside at the Spring
term of Superior iCourt in Hyde
County which will convene Mon
day morning. May 2:1st. Only a
small number of minor cases are
docketed for trial. The session is
expected to ibe a short one.
MRS. JOHN BERRY DIES
WASHINGTON HOSPITAL
Development brought him many
times in the past few years. He
is already acquainted with many
Hyde County people, particularly
those connected with hunting and
fishing in Mattamuskeet Lake.
I The new refuge manager is a
I native of Charlotte. He graduat
ed from State College where he
studied forestry. He is married
and has two small iboys.
ed by American forces.
The Norwegian tanker Katy
was torpedoed, but she managed
to reach port without loss of
^ , , crew, although badly damaged,
nev/ oil IS the -fact that only one ghe was of 9,800 gross tons, and
grade is required -for all atmos--,^,,3 .^hot” about 80 miles off
phene conditions. Unlike conven- | gjiore
tional aircraft engine oils, which'
are manufactured in different
grades and must be diluted or
pre-heated for sub-zero starting,
the new jet-engine lubricant
eliminates all this extra equip
ment and works equally well in
the Arctic or the tropics. More
over, oil lines and tanks need-not
be insulated for stratosphere
flight, since there is no danger
that the oil will solidify under
the coldest atmospheric conditions
encountered. At the same time,
the lubricant -withstands the
highest -bearing temperatures of
the jet engine. This type of oil
was used as a lubricant in the
Army’s P-59 jet-propelled fight
er plane during recent winteriza
tion tests in Alaska.
Texaco research has been in
vestigating jet fuels and lubri
cants for -many months. Two oth
er important contributions to
military aviation by The Texas;
Company have been solid fuels |
for "Jata” rocket units for as-1
sisted take-offs with heavier
bomb loads, and low-temperature | From all reports coming to this
greases for more dependable op- newspaper. Victory Day in Eu-
erati-on of high-altitude fighter ^ ,j.,Q,pe was little different from any
planes and bom'bers. i other day in Hyde County, except
■: in -Fairfield where there were
HYDE MAKES GOOD | prcgratr.s at the Baptist church
SHOW CANCER DRIVE i school and where the
! stores closed for the evening.
Reports County More Than i '^Bs rang as the an-
Chairman Jarvis of Engelhard : aoa-cement came from President
The Blackpoint, a collier was
enroute to Boston, and was tor
pedoed off Block Island, R. I.,
with a full cargo of coal. Twelve
of her crew was missing.
The American tanker Swift-
scout was sunk off the -coast of
Maryland on April 18, and went
to the bottom in 20 minutes. One
man -was lost, the chief engineer,
apparently dazed, refused to
leave the ship.
The Atlantic Refining Company
tanker Atlantic States, made /port
despite an. explosion, without loss
of life. She was struck April 35
o-ff Massachusetts.
PROGRAMS AT
FAIRFIELD ON
VICTORY DAY
Stores Closed, School Had
Prayer, Services At
Baptist Church
„ ^ iOLD TIME REVIVAL COMES
Mrs. John M. 'Berry, 54-year- ,j,q (.^OSE AT AMITY CHURCH
old wife of highly regarded rur-
al mail carrier at Swian Quarter,
What m'any older church goers
passed away in Fwle MemoriaL 'an old time’’ revival
Hospital at 12:(^ Tuesday morn
ing following a short illness.
1 came to a close at the Amity
Church at Lake Landing Sunday
ter her 54th 'birthday, which was
for two weeks, 'With the Rev. J.
I rell, stating that hir. Berry had
SENIORS ENTERTAIN JUNIORS failed to perform his duties as
AT STUMPY POINT chairman by using the office to
I block the will of the majority of
’The seniors of the Stumpy the members, made a motion to
Point high school -were entertain- oust the -New Holland mian from
ed by the juniors in their annual the chair and make Mr. Mason
banquet. May 4. The banquet was chairman. He firmly contended
carried out in a Hawaiian setting.! that Mr. Berry had no right to
A canopy of multi-colored crepe defer action on a mattion and
paper lent color to the Hawaiian ■ keep it from comfog before the
theme which was accentuated by' board. The motion for the change
spring flowers and the proverbial in chair'inanship was carried.
jj^0on. I '■kis brought about edged
The program -of the evening temi>ers, which many times do-
follows: Invocation, C. E. Payne; i arise in democratic foodies, where
Friday, May 4th, the day which
she was taken to the ho'spital. j
Mrs. iBerry was the daughter i ^ charge-wide revival
of the late -Rev. Charles Brothers' tjje Mattamuskeet charge and
of Elizall>eth City, Methodist min- ^ num'ber of Methodists, as
ister, and Mollie Weston Brothers | others from that section
of Aurora. She was Uving in j jjyde attended.
Hyde County yk'k an aunt, Mrs. i Many colored folks were pres-
George H. Weston, when shel^^^ -meetings. Not in re
married (Mr. Berr^ She was anj galleries of the
active mjemfoer of Providence i
old church seated so -many Negro
Methodist Chu-rch. j fj.j^n-ds who 'came to Worship in
A large numifoer of friends and ,
relatives -will miss Mrs. Berry, minister -for churches in
who was highly regarded and well Mattamuskeet charge is the
liked in her 'neighlborhood. j p Davis who devotes his
Survivmgj^stoes^her husfoand,,fyjj energies to the church. He
comes from the old school of
thought, and is especially well
Doubled Quota
Hyde County made a good show, silence
Truman Tuesday morning at 9
o’clock and the school children
observed a five minutes period of
in the recent oanicer drive, a re- ]
The Rev. Lee Phillips, Baptist
port by J. H. Jarvis, of Engel-I j^nister, gave a talk at the school
nard, county chai^ r^. i ^^3,^ ^^udents assembled in the
Contributions total^ M31.74. The I
/’^irr»+o xTrra.o i’%Yirtr ! *'
program.
The stores closed during the ev-
quota was only $52.65
iCo-chairmen in the drive 'were
Mrs. O. L. Williams, Swam Quar
ter; Mrs. Jeff Credle, Scranton;
ening at which time there were
union services at -the Fairfield
is one daughter, Mrs. Liniwood
Tunnel! of Swan Quarter; five
sons, John Madison of Jacksom-
vill-e, Fla., Charles of Portsmouth,
Clay, USN, Washington, D. C.,
and Morris and Murlin of Swan
Quarter; one sister, Mrs. Martin
liked by the older church mem
bers.
ENGELHARD SAW MAY 5TH
PASS WITHOUT ELECTION
Saturday, 'May 5th, was time
In the Land of Beginning Again,. opinions often widely differ.
Gra-ce Hooper; Philosophy ofSometimes they linger, but more | Griffin of Asheville; and a step-
Life, Lynwood Wise; Happy Days,' often they pass away quickly, mother, Mrs. Annie Brothers of
(Toast), Myra Best; Reply, Nita : They are seen as unfortunate, but ^ Greensboro. _ 1 hard, but there ‘were no candi-
Midgett; Prophesy, Nell Wechler; | not alarming incidents. They j Funeral details weer not aivail- ■ .running for office. Citizens
Farewell to Thee, a piano selec- j happen in many pla’ces. able as this was written.
Among other business transac- ,
tion.
generally agree that -they are
I awaiting the return of service men
and Mrs. R. G. Roebuck, Fair- Baptist Church with the Rev.
field. Prof. O. A. Peay of Scran- . Phillips doing the preaching,
ton headed the Negro campaign. There was a -program at the
Swan Quarter reported $27.10, | Engelhard school Monday after-
for special mention -going to the / ^oon observing the close of the
fourth and fifth grades of the; ^ar in Europe even though the
school for outstanding work. $25 ^ announcement had not been o£-
was raised at Sladesville, with' fidally made from Washington,
the sixth grade winning special I The Rev. J T. Brown Christian
mention for its good work. Fair- I .minister, was the speaker,
fiel dnoations totaled $18.80. The!
Fairfield Woman’s Club did good ' hytIE SOLDIER COMES HOME
w-ork in that comm-uiiity for the | / faST IN AIR TRANSPORT
drive. At Engelhard, $45.84 was 1
raised 'with 'Mitzi Watson winning i Miami, Fla.—It -wasn’t too many
special mention -for her Individ- ^ (iays a-g-o when a trio of North
ual- .work in the campaign. The Carolina G. I.’s out in the far
Negro division raised $15. | fjnng theatres of operations were
•The cancer campaigns were ^ •'sweatin-g out” furloughs
originally sponsored in Hyde j^o-me after -more than two years
County'by the Swan-Quarter Sen- overseas.
ior Woman’s dub. Among the fast travelling vet
erans was Sgt. Leon Ball-ance,
1 son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Bal-
lapce of Lake Landing who has
served 24 months in the Ameri
can Theatre of Operations.
'Sgt. Ballance is spending some-
tinie 'With his parents 'before be
ing assigned for further duty in
the states.
JUDGE FISHER TO HOLD
COUNTY COURT MONDAY
Judge Ernest Fisher of Slades
ville will hold the. regular term
of Hyde County Recorder’s Court
Monday, -May 14th, The - April
term of the court was not 'held
for the to-wn election at Engel- because of Mr. .Fisher’s illiiess.
Because the Ma-rch-April do-cket
-was postponed, for.trial until,this
month, some .18 cases are sched-
ule-d for trial. ' ..
The guests were delightfully 1 ted was the app-ro.ving a-nd paying' day, succeeding Bonner R. Lee | expect to take over
entertained by numerous piano i of .bills, and the-approving of the vvho was recently called to thej^p^j., affairs. In the meantim-
TTa.wniian and bond of Mrs. Janie S-windell, act- ■ i Difizer
selections, 'both Hawaiian and bond of Mrs. Janie Swindell, act- colors.
. popular,'' by Mason Nelson o-f , ing Register of Deeds, who offi- .
Beaufort'. ' cially assumed her duties Mon-; Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Fiberboard,. 'is more critical
now than ever before. Growers
some progressive minded citizens
fear that the town may lose much ' an-d 'proces-sors should-arder .their
1 by this unconcerned attitude. . 1 containers at once.
J. Y. Lassiter, Extension, horti
culturist of Slate College, says
that growers make more money
when the produce quality pro
ducts, and grade and pack them
a-ijceptably.
Buy More Bonds and Staoips.