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' '.fJL .j!J .. THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD ^ NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA No. 39 SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1945 Single Copy 5 Cents fOlIR HURT WHEN OVERTURNS. East lake road Twiford Critically In- iured; Wilbur Cohoon, tlriver, in Hospital FUNERAL TUESDAY FOR. MRS. WILLIAMS PROCLAIMS JUNE DAIRY MONTH I'fu 'Were hurt when Wilbur lost control oif his 1935 one and a half ton truck on Funeral services for Mrs. B. Warren Williams, 66, wife of a highly regarded retired Swan Quarter merchant, were held Tuesday morning ht 11 = o’clock with the Rev. J. C. Chaffin, pas tor of Providence Methodist Church, officiating. Interment was in her family plot. Mrs. Williams passed away at jjj East Lake road late Friday j^gr home in Swan Quarter Sun- and uptet near the Buf- evening at 9 o’clock. She had tj,*' 'bridge. The four were ^gen in poor health for many a from Manteo, following years, and had been seriously iil u 'isy vveek hauling stakes to fgu- the past month. Harbor fishermen, and Well liked and highly thought ^ returned on the last ferry. I of Mrs. Williamis will be missed i(, ®°rge Twiford 'wa smost crit- ' t,y mar.).' friends and relatives, y *y hurt haviiTg severe intern- DaughteN of the late Miles and 'kjuries. Cohoon suffered a i jy^n Harris Farrow of Swan j>l?'ren shoulder. Both are in the I Quarter township, she was a life- ^^beth City hospital. Amos! jong resident of Hyde County, y^^’re went to Columbia hospit-1 T.,,vigg marled, her first husband }j treatment of his injuries.' ^.35 the late Charlie Williams, bad an ear torn off. Jesse Surviving are her husband and one son by her first marriage, C. B. Williams of. Biuefi^ld, W. V vV" "P** V fourth member of the par ’vas hurt in legs and back, but '* "lot go to a hospital. IJORE gasoline for ”0RTH CAROLINA MOTORIST ^UtomobMe drivers in North ^rolina will get an increase in 'poling rations effective in June, District Director Theodore ' Johnson said today. The val- of t,^,> gQupons will be in- from four to six gallons J*® June 22, .when the new A-16 "Opons becomes v'alid. The -limit ot „g„ holders who can o\y ajj actual! need for more gas- “tie will be raised 'to 650 miles kionth on JuneTl. "I share with Chester Bowles the Petroleum Administra- the pleasure of announcing s increase in gas rations for ‘^bian motorists,” he continued. L 'J'he additional quantities to ® niade available to civilian are not guaranteed for any Jftain period of time but must remain dependent upon .^^'''^es in the military demand, be military has always had, and bst always, havR first 'call,” he ’^Walned. explaining the increase in tie ..13., ceiling, Johnson ^“'hted out that a person who only 200 miles a month bl continue to receive only that ^outlt. But a person who uses Car in. his business and who j more than he is now receiv es will be able to get additional etions up to 650 per month. In ge'-b cases they will receive the Per cent increase in the "A” ebon, he assured. Va. OLD CAROLINA RECORDS j TELL AMAZING STORY 1 . .3^.VIt:-. 1 ... ^.™ ■ ... .a,,. .. -.f A ‘■'sit i j SCHOOL BUSES ROLL I DESPITE HANDICAPS Dig a dollar bill, or maybe a I live spot, out of your pocket and; take a good look at it. Then read i this story and weep. It’s from an] old .ledger sheet, yellow and brit- | tie with age, that iwas recently 1 uneatrhed in the Seaboard Rail way’s station at Thelm'a, N. C. j The price entry is as follows; | Gaston Hotel, Gasoton, North | Carolina, March 31, 1840 i To Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company, Dr. I Despite shortages of vehicles, I parts, tires and manpower about ' 285,000 more children are being [transported to school by school buses today than were transport ed in pre-war 1941, Harvey Rose- man, district manager of the Of fice of Defense Transportation at Raleigh, stated today in a sum- ! mary of school bus transportation. Although children are doing more walking to and from school than they did. in pre-war years, Mr. Roseman said, sufficient ser vice is being provided to avoid ■hardship and to maintain good school attendance. By eliminating special services and reorganizing routes to pro vide all necessary school transpor tation wdth a minimium of mileage school executives in compliance with an ODT statement of policy of Novemiber, 1942, have reduced school bus mileage by about 20 per cent or a tofal of 156,000,000 'miles annually. In a statement taking note of the size of the mileage saving made. Col. J. Monroe Johnson, ODT director, commended State chief school oficers and local school officials for the excellent ■school bus transportation conser vation, which they obtained thru the elimination of less essential services and thru other economies. He said their efforts were large ly responsible for the continued efficiency of school bus transpor tation in the face of many war- I time shortages and difficultites. HATTERAS FOLK WANT EARLY CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY TO AVON Citizens Envision a Beginning of Uultimate System^ That Would Serve Daily Needs at Present; Fish ermen, Merchants, Schools, All Would Be Bene- fitted Righ Away Every Day in the Week WORLD? health food. Here he is Captain, Engineer, Trainband; breakfast and dinner for each, “ect . $75- extra engineer and fireman, .shown in an informal pose casual ’ for each, $.25; Total, ly making a good meal of bread Governor R. Gregg Cherry, wh dairy lunch. "Dairy products are S.\ME CEILING FOR IRISH o has set a^ide June as Dairy essential to the maintenance of h POTATOES THIS YEAR Month, believes in milk as the pe breakfast Petersburg Railroad Com'pany, Dr. Captain, Engineer, Fireman, Mail 'Clerk, Trainband, dinner, supper and breakfast for each and two IgdAings, $1.88; extra engi neer, supper, lodging and break fast, $.38; Total, $2.26. Grand total, $3.26. We hate to rub it in. Gentle and a quart of milk at a Raleigh ■uman health and efficiency, both on the fighting front and on the Country shipper ceilings for home, front,” declared Governor the late 1945 croip O'! white po- ■Cherry in his prodlamation. 1 tatoes will be the same as last ! years original ceilings yithout disaster increases for the same ttoi? .period, Theodore 'S. Johnson, MORE GOODS FOR Director said today. CONSUMERS SOON^ xhe ceilings will be set for the I period beginning October 1, 1945 Boll Weevil Threat Great This! Price Will Be About Same As and ending Jun 30, 1946, and will CROP PEST LOSSES AMOUNT TO MILLIONS Year; Chinch Bugs Threaten Corn Crop Those in Pre-W’ar Days Says OPA Every year the losses caused by county home CLUBS MAY SCHEDULE , ^orne demonstration dub mem- ers .v^rili learn th'/ latest infor- on "Garde ninsect Con- during June, according to County home agent. Miss ' Roach. The demonstration Reader, but that $3.26 covered crop pests amount to million’s of 24 roibus-t meals and three lodg- dollars in North CaroiMna and this ings! And rationing didnft mean year the inseot pest situation is a thing in those ffJden days. particularly threatening, say Ex- tension specialists at State Col- SLAUGHTERERS MUST lege. SURRENDER RATION POINTS J. Myron Maxwell, Extension entomologist, has already report- Class two commercia)! meat ed that the emergence of both be established on a graded, sack ed, loaded on carrier, FOB coun try shipping point basis, he ex- Homemakers in North Carolina plained, were told today by Theodore S. This notice of ceilings, which Johnson, OPA District Director, will be formally established lat- that the new vacuum dleaners, i® made noiw to infomi grow- eleetric irons and other house- si's iu advance of planting the hold appliances will cost about cro'p that will be affected by what similar models did in 1942. them,” he added. Some manufacturers will soon start to turn out alarm clocks, SLADESVILLE 4-H CLUB cameras, and Other war-stopced OBSERVES 4-H CHURCH SUN. slaughterers in Eastern North weevil is much greater this year j larger Carolina who did not surrender than in many years past. Chinch electric refrio-era^^ rs The S'adesvitle 4-H Club ob- any of the required ration cur- bugs threaten the corn crop in, stoves will take longer served 4-H church Sunday, May That a road from Hatteras to Avon would be a ■splendid ad vantage to two to'wns'hips that so far are the only townships in the State forgotten for 25 years by the State Highway Comimis- sion is the 'gist of sentir/jnt gath ered by this newspaper in talk ing to many leading citizen® in the Jour communities concerned. AbO'Ut 2,500 people in the four communities of Avon, Buxton, Frisco, and Hatteras are gravely concerned about 'the situation WHAT’S 'WRONG WITH iTHE | w’hi'ch steadily grows worse. To aggravate matters they see no reason why a road could not have ■If you ask us, the thing that ails' been built at any time in the past this old World is not the thing25 years, particularly since it that everyoine is‘harping on most.,, would be less than 18 miles long, but an obscure >and long neglect-1 and for the mont part, as time ed truth that was. learned early has shown, wculN be much safer in the dawn of history. We seem! from storm damage than the road to have been drifting away from lalong Nags Head beach, solid ground sinc,e the, time, the ! Going south from Avon to-ward Phoenicians invented "interest,”’: guxton is a high beach that is a® and began to figure how to skin'; ^igh as Nags Head Beach, and ;heir neighbors, rather than fj-g-m Buxton through the woods work for what they got them-, jg j^e lower end of Trent or Fris- selves. . " ■ I CO is some ten miles of forest 'We are too busy telling othef where there never has been any nations how to live, we are too gtorms to endanger a road, anxious to dictate the habits of| -phe building of such a road others, to make the lives, of our .jjjgy estimate, would foe so sim- neighbors subject . to our will, pjg ^jjg only reason they that We overlook the all import- haven’t got it, many peo-ple fig- ! ant facts of life. And in attempt- i g^^ is that other interests I ing to gain the world, we are ^j^^h influence, work to get the j rapidly losing our own soul, or mileage put elsewhere -in locali- jour happines*, at any rate. . ^^gg ^hyt already have roads, but We have been so eager to make ^ant better ones. progrefs we leaped to the top o£| Waiting and waiting, and wait- the ladder, only to find there hgs iworn their p.atience to a was no where else to go but down, edge for the situation has We have put the Cart before the ■ gg^^gg so critical that many peo- horse so to speak, and as a con- pjg ^hir.k they .will have to move sequence have been going back- a^ay. It is getting impossible to ward. We have found wajTs to tnayej-je ^he road with any large save labor, but to dissipate our jga^jg^ merchants are getting energies more rapi'dly by night ^heir goods shipped in by bo^at. hawking and helling around. We trails 'that once could have found how to get a lo't O'f j^g managed, are now torn up so- leisure time, which we are not py p^g ggmmand cars and content to- sim-ply waste, but use ^ggpg have come to the beach, it in which to mkke misch. f., regular cars cannot get an'd make life disagreeable for -without difficulty, others. , Tires must be deflated to as next uiont'h will be on "Home PrO'Cessed Cheese.” 01 following is a schedule of meetings for Hyde County; 'ftose Bay, Friday, June 1st, P-m. at Mrs. Charlie Sad- j''® home; Ponzer, Tuesday, 5, 2:30 p.m. at the Club tiusg; Engelhard, Wednesday, jj 6th, 3 p.m. at the Town Hall; Lake, Thursday, June 7, P.m. at the Oluib House; Lake Friday, June 8, 3 p.m. . the library; .SladesviUe, Tues- June 12, 2:30 p.m. at the room; Tiny Oa'k, Thursday, 14, 2:30 p.m. at Mrs. Ma- pj.® ^tce’s home; 'Swindell Fork, 15, 3 p.m. Mrs. Mal- rency during any three account- s'ome areas. The Mexican bean ing periods, whether or not the beetle, the coddling moth, the periods were consecutive, since potato lea'fhopper, and the pea January 1, 1944, face non issu- aphid, for example, are on the ance or cancellation of any quota move. bases under a change in provis- Farmers cannot depend on ad- ions in the meat control program verse weather conditions to help OPA District Director Theodc|re them contr.O'l the pests. The pests S. Johnson said today. i multiply so rapidly that favor- For those who surrendered on- ably weather for only a short ly part of the required ratLn time may cause serious damage to points the change provides for a crops and growers must be pre reduced quota basis, and there is pared to fight the pests. On ac- also a provision of cancellation count of transporta-bion difficul- of quotas on meats custom slau- .ties, materials for fighting the ghtered where the required pay- various pests should be obtained ment of ration points was not .well in advance of the seasor. paid to the custom slaughterer when they are to ibe used, during any three similar account-: With the demand for increas ing periods, he pointed put. | ed food and feed crops greater j than at any other time in the his- AVERAGE AMERICAN EATS : tory of the United States to sup- 100 EGGS EVERY 90 DAYS ply fighting forces, allies, and | to get into production.” 27, at the SladesviUe Methodist "An avafanice of goods pouring Church, from our industrial plants to -Mary Fisher, Sally Blane Cre- match the vast amount of money die, Cova Sm-ith and Billy For- in circulation will be of untold tescue lighted white candles on help in quenching the fires of in- the 4-H emblem whioh represen-t- flation, balancing the number of od Faith, Prayer, Courage and jpbs available, with the nu-mber Character. This was followed by O'f people wanting work,” he sug- the entire group giving the 4-H gested. ci'Uib pledge. "Two ot the major olbjectives -Mrs. -WlEie Bilake, Icofal 4-H of the OPA reconversion pricing leader, gave the purpose o-f the policy, full production and full service. The scripture was read emplloyment, are essential to farm by Kathryn Credle prosperity, as well as industrial activity,” he added. Consumer Prospects The Rural Press Section of OWI re/'orts as follows: New bi cycles will soon be on the mar ket. WIPE has authorized'produc tion and issued allotments of i materials to individual manu- A beautiful poem, "I Took a Day to Search for God” was re cited by Sally Blane Credle. Rev. J. C. Chaffin preacheld on "'Stewards of God’s Faith.” Jack Credle and Frank For- tescue acted ash ushers. liberated countrie.g. Maxwell ur- j within If you are an average Ameri- ggg North Carolina gimwers not an approved - 'prograan for 23,000 bicyclets a can egg-eater, you consumer 100 to depend on the weather .for in- eggs in the 90 days _from _last sect control but to take definite ^^.g SCRANTON BOY WITH FAMED EIGHTH AIR FORCE England, "VE Day—^Among the January 1 through March 31. This steps to fight them. The same is [ p,,Z°rtign “S °h-Ld* ganr'and 185,000 men and women of the is the per capita consumption^ of also true , for plant diseases. j mowers is permitted f fForce congr^mteted i eggs in the United States dainng There are scaVcities off many in- ^ ki,^ today by Lt. Gen. James H. Doo-» Jjjp" Siwindell; Pleasant Grove, ^^g first quarter, according to secticldes. "If growers wait to L ®*iay, June 19, 2:30 p.m. at the dyde Willis, State Department gr^^r insecticides until the pests of Agrlcu'lture statistician. i are actua.lly attacking the crops He said the high level of con- fg serious numbers, it is not like- sumption refledted the reduced jy that delivenies can be made in supply of meat and the continu-, time,” Maxwell says. ation of a high level of consum-j er income. While pointing out MOVEMENT OF that acurate data* as to the extent BERRIES INCREASES of substitution of eggs for meat rs are welcomed to meet- are not availaible, Willis declared that "it is apparent that substi- Ijg, ® Mrs. Walter Lee Gibbs; Wednesday, June 20, l>ou. Nebraska, at the club Fairfield, Thursday, June at the cafe building; 25 ^an Quarter, Tuesday, June ^'^8 p.m., home demonstra- . department. .Visitor “'gs. for civilian use, but few are ex pected to reach retail stores this year. Enough ice refrigerators to meet essential civilian require ments and an increaise in tire little, who assumed command of the Eighth in January, 1944, is Cpl. Mervin C. Credle of Scran ton, a member of the 55th Fight- chains for farm tractors 'in the personal 1945-46 quotas of civilian tire oh'ains. quarter student IS CONTEST WINNER Griffin, Swan m Quarter student, won first '“azi district livestock contest in Vanceboro last liog ^day. May 24th. Carl Co- Another mem/ber of the Slac^ Quarter team, won third of the Swan Quar- team were Pete Grif- Sj^i 'Gaboon and Lindsay w, J. M. Worrell, instructor, coach. The movement of dewberries from North Carolina increased tution of eggs for meat has taken j .jast week, according to the State place in other periods of meat ^ Department of Agriculture, with shortages.” I prices remaining firm at $8.83 —— j per 24-qu.art cra-te on New York MIDDLETOWN GIRL TO [wholesale markets. Virtually all' GRADUATE AT BREVARD: gf the offerings came from the ,, . . n I Clinton, iCameron-'Vass, and GWendolyn^Maxine^ Mar^all, bounty areas. dafU'g'h'ter of Mr. and * * i Wild hucklelberries froan the A^rshall, Middletown wil grad-1 bringing 50 uate from BrevaM Junior , gg^ts per quart in New York, lege at exerenses e on un cultivated varieties Miss -Marsha l IS president of. the Dramatic Club vice president, . of the Euterpean Literary, socie-^ ^ ty, a member^of ,the InternaUonal, j^Qj.g housewives: salvage as Relations , an , a i much fat as possible; stretch the the college newspaper. I FARMERS WARNED against COCKLEBURS ; congratulations and my heartfelt I appreciation to every one of you I for the .magnificent job you have ■ done,” Gen. Doolittle said in a j message to all personnel. , ^ , "Bach of you,” he continued, Farmers are warned- to keep ,proud of your part in their hogs and- cattle out of pas- ^ Germany. I am tures containing c^kleburs. The world is proud In issuing the advice. Dr. Wd- liam Moore, veterinarian with the ® ^ ' State Department oif AgricfuHture, said that "the first young leaves reV. ROE HARRIS of oockieburs seedlings are at-1 FAIRFIELD SPEAKER! tractive to cattle and hogs—but! these leaves contain a deadly poi- [ The Rev. Roe Harris came back son which kills in a short time. | .jg .jits native Fairfield last Sun- "Even a small amount of these (jgy ^g deliver the oommence- young sprouts can kill, an ani- merj. sermon. His subject was mal,” declared Dr. Moore, add-..-The Gain of Life.” ing that there is n% known anti- 1 The graduation exercises were dote. He said there is not as held Tuesday night with N. W. ruueb danger after the plants are Shelton, superintendent of schools, past -the early sprouting stage. awarding the diplomas. ' We, who let others d6 , ig.^^ as 12 pounds pressure in or- rhinking for us, who let machines .gg,^ along in the average and racketeers select men for automcbile, and this means cost- whom they tell us to vote, ^ fgj- tires do not last follow every fad invented by -conditions. Eighft the money changers to skm e miles to the gallon is good hard earned ^ shekels of gu i e ^j^g .gj^j^ens of this lo- muiti'tudes, imagine we now gality -pay double gas taxes. , enough to Stand on every stree ,pj^g ipggpjg ggf hope for the corner and cracker barrel, pro , gjj^ty miles of road that is need- claim to all the world just g^j jg ,he built soon, but would our country should be run. In fao happy to get even 18 miles to not only O'Ur country but every j jjgjp ^hem in their daily life. Not other country. We know hO'VV e gygj-yggg j^as to go all the way wars should be fought far bm er , ggj..jjj ever/ day for that matter, than the leaders who have been , gygj-y ^.eek, but they do need trained for it by a lifetime o j j.gg(jg at home every day in the education, experience and close i hand oibservation. We knoiw just Hatteras community is a town what ,steps should be taken o some 800 peo-ple and is the form a lasting peace. We are si - largest mercantile center o^n the ly eno'Ugh to echo the cry, island. It has an ice plant, a -light forever,” from the lips o e [ ^ ho-tel, a picture stf>w, starry eyed dreamers, ong j^^gy stores and a fine harbor, haired reformers, when a 1 e. ^von is a toiwn of about 700 history of a million years ^ .'m- pggpjg miles to the north, and ders down the ages to prove | h j^as many fishermen. The prob- can be no^ peace until the wor ^ ^ ,^g jgg ^g^ stops turning. j ^g market. So what have we got en y i Buxton has about the sa-me trying to be what we ^, numlber of people, -and is in be- trying to do what we can , y | ^y^ggg^ ,^gg j^g many fisber- pretending to be what we | men. -Frisco has about 300 peo- not be/fif we tried? Nothing an ^^g between. It nowhere, except t« spri e i®® I jjas many fishermen. Now all water on the dead ^shes o o r ^ y^ggg fi,s.hermen depend for a live- hearthstones; to destroy e a | j^^j^gg^j gg seafood, a higiiiy per- tars whose fires once i urn ^ isLaible icom-modity. Fast roads bright enough that our ancestors ^ were inspired and built for us a j ^jjggg gggd people have mighty heritage tha-t we ^ have ^g^ .their fish to Hatteras some how through the sand. They must scattered to the winds of heav en, and we go blithely on amid ail the waste and nil nthat might have been a second Eden for us^ which to ship. have ice, and they must have ac cess to buyers, and to boats on ai.. We seidem see it before it is too late, but maylbe now we can turn back from our business of run'ning the nation, the world, the universe, and begin at the beginning. Let us ferget our If a trick doesn’t get stuck, a half loaded vehicle can get to Hatteras from Avon in .about en hour and a half, with good tuck. This is a lot of_ time to coyer 18 miles. The same dififi-oulties all along ideas how to .run tfoe s^uritr-yvU.j^g route trouble all peoiplte who let us not worry how to rup the want ice, or freight from Haitter- state, nor even the town, por our | harbor. 'Imagihe the difificul- nei'ghiboris affairs, The:^ is ; one Ly ^ getting -lumber ashore; im- sure way lo have good ried'gh-! agigg the joy that is kn-ooked out bors, a good .town, and a good . trip to the movies; or med- state, and a;,gojd •patipn., W.h^ |j^'tg gg the .hardships of the .(Fiease luyii■ V'a ^ , . ’ (Please turn to page four)
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