. THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
^B: news of the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical and recreational area of north CAROLINA
Vl; No. 43
OLD PEOPLE IN HYDE GET
larger monthly checks
THAN AVERAGE IN STATE
'Wrage Payments Have Beeen Increased More
Than $5 a Month Since Last Year; Slight De
crease In Monthly Average Grants To Families
Of Dependent Children; Welfare Agency Looks
Forward to Greater Year In 1945-46
people in Hyde County pRIZES FOR BOYS
'iJJlCr.av* o cHi OT r»r»fW>Lro OT
WHO LEARN TREES
AND SAVING THEM
SWAN QUARTER, N. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1945
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Single Copy 5 Cent*
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SIS';'
■Ssf iu*' ^ " *■
^ digger assistance checks at
SVft month than the
person getting these ben-
in North Carolina. This was
ii"®® known through reports of „ . , •
^^IJyde County Welfare Depart- Tnp to Florida and $d0 Prize
^^Syde County Welfare Depart-
as the end of the 1944-45 :
year neared an end.
(aj report of the County Wei- .
jj ® Department revealed that I
Only are the pa.yments larger, |
In Forestry Program
Outlined
Trees are among North Caro-
jg that the average monthly' lina’s most important natural re-
ji^^Thents have been increased sources—trees and the things that
than five dollars during come from trees. Things like
year, which compares building materials, cellulose and
Oftl^ an average state increase of its large tribe of associated by-
little better than two dollarsi products, naval stores, lumber,
^^ring the past 12 months, paper and rayon. Much of Caro-
j^^a® County has increased its Una’s total area is forested and
.^’^age payment monthly to the state’s trees have played a
7"’. 5-
PURCHASES BY BIG BOND
BUYERS SENDS 7TH WAR
LOAN SALES SOARING
Hyd Credited With Sales Amounting to Nearly
Three Times County Quota of $69,000; E Bond
Sales Lagging Despite Energetic Efforts of
Home Clubs
PROPOSED AIRLINE
WOULD HAVE STOP
AT BELHAEN
Civil Aeronautics Board Con
sidering Application of
Gastonia Company
Hyde County’s 7th War Loan
sales soared past the $200,000
mark this 'W^eek, putting the
county nearly three tunes over
the quota of $69,000. Sales of
the small series E bonds were
j lagging badily, however, with
I sales amounting only to little
• more than half the quota of $50,-
j 000.
I The splendid sales record can
^ payment
j^®‘^y aged (persons from $12.67
517.61, 'or better than five dol
vital part in winning World War
II. That they will be equally
. The -state-wide average has i valuable during the postwar years
up from 10.67 to $12.50, ac- ■ and beyond no one doubts. It’s
strange, therefore, that in or
jjfding to Mrs.'Esther B. Spencer
^6 Welfare superintendent,
iiio were 132 persons receiv-
der to improve conditions for
.. — — j growing trees in the Old North
(>- old age assistance in Hyde state, an arrangement has been
last June compared with ■ get up for educating the Caro-
this month, aacording to Mrs. j jj^a Future Farmers of_^America
fiocer. j conserve, develop and use the
yde county has reacheddp j forests in their state. The won-
. yde oo'unty has decreased its jer is that it Wasn’t done long
J, othly average grant to femi- I ^.go.
55iR?'^ dependent children from! Fathering and participating in
W $30.44 for the 18 fami- jjjg pigjj gj-g the State Forest Ser-
receiving aid. A year yjgg represented by State Forest-
®eivi were 18 families re- j gj. ^ eBi-ohler at Raleigh—
state aver- i Future Farmers of America rep-
ij Payment to dependent chil-' resented by Roy Thomas, State
^Unp $24.76 for the month of Supervisor of Vocational Agri-
^^829 year ago it was gj .^j^g ggpital city—
/ ■ . {the Halifax Paper Company at
Vjtp there were 91 pri- Roan-oke Rapids—^American Tur-
\vj)j homes in 'North Carolina in j pentine Farmers Association rep-
^^hhren could be boarded ^ resented 'by M. E. Coleman who
iVpf whil4 arrangements ; jg headquartered at Valdosta, Ga.,
® ^*ug made for their perm- j gjj^ j,jjg Seaiboard Air Line Rail-
^O'W’ there are 12,1 j ^gy represented by its Industrial
o{ ,, although a good numjber | Forester, R. N. Hoskins.
. cm are in some of the more j Highlights of the program are:
[j/'hous counties. Hyde County j Selection of the most out-
hot las yet estalblished such a standing forestry project as a'Cti-
Vfggh’ Mrs. Spencer said this an fjFA. boy. Many
w • (o.f these boys live on small farms
'^P®'acer said she had been (.j^gt gg^ produce a substantial
by the State Board of proportion of the state's timber.
59 ofh Welfare at Raleigh that Representatives of the sponsoring
'•Bs jails and look-• g^ganizations will act as judges,
the inspected during (3) Award of a $50 war bond
®long with all county.da certificate orf merit to the
and county jails. winner.
®3e, said the local welfare j ^3^ ^^g pgy then be given
Released by U. S. War Department, Bureau of Publio Relations.
NAZI OFFICERS IN “SOLITARY”—Some German officers who tried to remain haughty'and
>bstreperou« after capture were placed in solitary confinement. Having no cell blocks available, the
kgenious commander of a prisoner of war camp in France, improvised these “cells” from huge iron
_|ruma. A catwalk enables guards to drop them bread and water—their solitary diet
USERS OF FUEL
OIL URGED TO
SIGN UP NOW
The Civil Aeronautics Board at! sales record can
reenslboro- is consiriprin., ‘credited to the work of Chair-
NEGRO TENANT BRINGS
FIRST COTTON BLOSSOM
George Sl'ade, Negro tenant
farmer on the farm o.f E. A. Wil-
Users of fuel oil in Eastern 7 c ^
orth Carolina are ur^eH tn fill ^wan Quarter, waj
North Carolina are urged to fill
out applications for their win
ter supply now. District OPA Di-
the first grower to bring a cot
ton blossocm to the Herald office
again this year, which entitles
rector Theodore S. Johnson, said ,
tgday I ^ year subscrip-
Johnsou stressed the import- ' 11°"
ance of ordering the first tank newspaper. Slade
full of oil on the dav corunons nre e blossom in Wednes-
Greenslboro is considering an ap
plication of the Southeast Air
lines of Gastonia, which propos
es an airline from Charlotte to
Norfolk, which would include a
stop at nearby Belhaven, Ply
mouth and Washington.
'The Southeast Airlines of Gas
tonia, headed by R. B. Babing-
I ton, Jr., proposes to serve 44
I cities and towns in North and
I South Carolina, Georgia and Vir-
' ginia. The application stated that
HYDE TAX RATE
WILL REMAIN AT
r or 1945-46 it would supply air mail, pas-
' senger and express serviec to the
IVI. A. Matthews of Engelhard,
who has done so'me fine work
selling bonds for Uncle Sam since
the war began. Mr. Matthews
has been successful in getting
the people who have money to
invest it in these sound govern
ment securities. He has done
this despite the heavy burden of
managing three banks with a
shortage of help.
The efforts of getting purchas
es -of small bonds has not been
so good in this drive, although
Mr. Matthews .again left this phase
full of oil on the day coupons are
received from the War Price and
Rationing Bo'ard.
"Your tank is part of Ameri
ca’s stora.ge,” he pointed out.
"With bulk storage filled to ca
pacity with fighting gasoline, to
delay your Oder now is, to over
burden transportation and run
the risk of cold homes this fall.”
"Heavy storage will not be
availaible to meet your instan
taneous needs this fall, because
transportation facilities are still
inad'cquate for heavy demands,”
he added.
"Every tank which is filled to
day insures a .warm home this j
fall and lessens the strain on
America’s manpower,” Johnson
said.
day, the same day that it opened.
The cotton from which the Ne
gro plucked the 'blossom was the
Cokers variety and was fertiliz-
ed with Bough’s 5-7-'5. Most Hyde I bonded debt
County cotton growers think!
they have done well to have bios
so.ms by July 4th.
The Hyde County Board of designated towns and cities hav-. 1 ■ hi , , . ' '
County CommissionL me^i -^Tort facilities. Mi-s fbT°?'Pn h" ""
special session Monday approved besides Belhaven ■ ^ Roa®b and the home
the annual county budiget^r the Washington which were in-I ^ ‘ women of the
1945-46 fiscal yelr S beg^s in the proposal were Al-; ^onk, and
July 1. The tax rate wUl rSn Asheboro. .Sanford, Er- fa-
at $2.05 per $100 valuation Jonesboro, Smithfield, Sei- otherwise would
The debt service fund continues Part ""
. .. . Wllliam-ston. WmH'inr AVinc.Via''^
The whole country has fallen.
to be the largest item in the bud- ^^^‘am.®ton, Windsor, Ahoskie
get with $1.29 1-2 cents of the *whicb h + a' down on the job of buying E
$2 05 going to pay off the inter- belrings^ 26 Sieatiom of
est and principal of the county’s • applications for
service in Southeastern United
the government to sell a large
amount of these securities as a
means of averting inflation and
REBEKAH LODGE HAS
ANNUAL ELECTION
farmers of the standing offer of , , ,
a year’s subscriiption to the ^ ®
county paper bad already gone
to the type setter for publica
tion in this issue when Slade
came in. Slade was the first to
bring in a blossom to the Herald
last year.
FIVE HYDE MEN LEFT.FOR
INDUCTION MONDAY
Bto»’ '^®'P'^®sent only part of the * ^ ^j,p ^ Jaioksoniville, Fla., weher,
ill made in publiic welfare company wl'th winners of sim-
^Carolina in the last 12 contests in Florida, Georgia
'kla-rt ■ future will Virginia, be will be entertain-
th service to veterans Chamber of Commerce,
families along with ex- address civic clubs aiW will
^id ^Pi^k in other lines, sne featured on a radio program
originating from Jacksonville.
- , Following all this, the young
^^ERAL SUNDAY FOR I ehampions will attend the State
IVHDdlETOWN woman : Uarmers Foceisitry Camp at
O’Leno near High Springs, Fla.,
..funeral services for Mrs. Ly- ] during' the month of July. Flor-
Spencer Gibbs of MiddietO'wn | «Ja has the only forestry training
^e-ld at the Middletown j camp in the South.
held at the Middletown j
J ,3®fian Church -with the Rev. jqjjjj bROWN GETS
The Rebekah Lodge at Siwan
Quarter held its annual election. ^"'indell. Swan Quarter; Hiram
of officers at its regular semi-' ®udler, Middletown; Humphrey
monthly meeting ’Tuesday, June and Ralph Carawan, Scran-
19th. Mrs. Quiinnie Boomer iwas ^ Lindsey W. Sadler,
' elected Noble Grand; Miss Lona * ^u™mld.
Bonner, Vice Grand; Miss Lola
W'atson, Recording 'Secretary;
Mrs. Lillian Bishop, Financial
Secretary; and Mrs. Luella Swin
dell, Treasurer.
Miss Kathleen Cooper, Mrs.
Mary Bonner and Mrs. Violet
Harris were appointed to serve
as the Lodge pulblicity com'mit-
tee. I
Miss Virginia Jennette was re
ceived by the Rebekah Degree at
the June 5th meeting. A beauti- j
ful candle light service was used.
„ States, concluded its hearings .
'Because of an accumulation of Friday and the examiners have k of averting
funds the commissioners were returned to Washington to study the morale of the fight
An announicement reminding f ^ reduce toe poor fund the applications. It has been es-
rmer.s of t.hp atanriina- lil cents to four which en- timated that possibly by Octob-
them t6 increase other er the board will be ready, to
^nds which were m need of ad- summon to Washington the at-
ditional revenue. The health fund torneys representing the various
was J^osted from .01 to .03 aipplicants and hear then on their
I®® final arguments concerning their
and the sch^ls froin .39 to .43. respective applications.
b fund' ^ estimated that by
opp,. 0.1 XT or early summer next
will be in a po-
.03Old Age ^i®tence, .07; giti^^ to announce which of the
Aid Dependent ^rldn^en, .M; and which of their
' Se^ice, 1.29 A Schools, proposed air routes have been ap-
oX P™^®d for certification.
Outlay, .08; DCbt Service, .07; ,
Total for schools, .43; Total levy, j ~ ~
2 “5. I UNITED CLOTHING DRIVE
Five Hyde County white men
left Monday for Fort Bragg to
be inducted into military service.
Those leaving were Russell A.
Swindell, Swan Q'uarter; Hiram
iScotland Gouhty
first cotton bloom
WAS SUCCESS IN HYDE
reported its |
on June 15.!
ing men who are having it tough
going in the Pacific war theatre
where the Japs are putting up
stuibbom resistance.
E Bond sales were reported to
have been $28,'831.25 this week,
slightly more than $22,000 behind
the quota oif $50,000. Over-all
sales were $203.981127 or nearly
three times the 'quota of $69,000.
A major factor in boosting the
sales of E bonds was 'community
rallies which were .put on by the
various home demonstration
clubs who did much work arrang
ing programs and getting prizes.
At five rallies held throughout
the county, sales amounted to-
more tlian $17,000, much better
than half the total sales to date.
IBelow is the purchase price of
3{te
Vs
Brown officiating Sunday
rnoon at 3 o’cloick. Interment
SERGEANTS RATING
the church cemetery.
John K. Brown of Swan Quar-
- . I JUllll XV. X:»iUWli kjwaii. vjficAtAi
digWy regarded in | administrative specialist
®oininunity, passed away Fri-
1,^, ®''®ning at 8:30 o’clock in St.
New Bern fol-
"■as 1? ® illness. Mrs. Gibbs fighter base in the Western
Huron Gibbs of
in a VII Fighter Commiand ad
ministrative office, has been pro
moted to Sergeant at this ad-
-- Hyde County Citizens donated bo:ids sold at each rally-
stands were .poor and many fields 1,2S8 pounds of old c’othing fori E.agelhard $5 750 00-' Swan
were grassy. i ralief ,purposes through the Unit- Quarter, $3,750.00; Fairfield $3 -
^ Clothing Drive held earlier in 281.00; iSladeaville, $2,2i50.0o6-
the y^r, it was revealed this apd Porizer, $2,000.00. '
Historic Battle Scene For USO
f *
I
SWAN QUAR’TER BOY NOW
A FIRST LIEUTENANT i
,. week in a report made by Miss
Iberia Roach of Swan Quarter,
county chairman.
Hyde County home demonstra
tion clubs sponsored the drive.
Churches, schools and home
clubs served as collection dbpots.
'Said Miss RoaCh, "The home
demonstration clUbs w’ish to
thank each individual who assist
ed in the drive, particularly the
schools and churches which serv
ed as collection depots.”
f ^letown and was the mother
family of children to
^ she was devoted. A large
•^f friends and neighbors
®*fcle
^3 n^iss her.
afg'^^^''in'g besides her hu^and
®tta daughters. Miss Henri
es V-^^Bbs of Middletown, Miss-
and Zula Gibbs and
ttiri l'' Forehand of Norfolk;
sons, Guy and Burnell,
y.h
the Army; three sisters,
diet McKinney of Mid-
Have Swindell of
at^^ro and Mrs. Otis White
the. Quarter; and four bro-
A.lbin SpeUcer and Pelege
of Middletown and Thur-
hjyg^^^d Conrad Spencer of Bel-
lliQj*, 480 prisoners of war in
*dg f *^®^°Bna, 189 are hhrvest-
®od. and feed crops.
Sergeant Brown’s work con
cerns the administrative end of
the VII Fighter Com'mand P-51
Mustang strikes against the Jap
anese Empire.
His m-other, - Mrs. Leta B.
Brown, resides in Swan Quarter.
He was graduated from the Swan
Quarter High School and attend
ed the University of North Car
olina. He entered the senvice in
October, 1942, and arrived in the
Pacific Ocean Areas in June 1944.
A craCk B-25 bomber-strafer i
pilot with 27 missions a'gainst the!
Japs, Vernon L. Sawyer, 22, son!
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sawyer of '■
Swan Quarter, N. C., has been'
promoted to First Lieutenant. |
Lieutenant Sawyer flies with |
the 345th Bomlbardlment Group.
"Air A'paches,” a veteran low lev- j
el attack unit of the Fifth Air
Force in the Philip.pines.
His wife, Marie W., lives at)
401 Norview Avenue, Norfolk,
Va.
■Too much credit cannot be giv
en 'the women who .made possible
these pro.gra.ms and made these
sales possible. At Ponzer and
Sladesville there were .picnics
given as well as other entertain
ment. Interesting ■progra'ms of
music and singing were given at
the other communities. Pvt. Travis
Flowers of Sia.desivill'e, who was
a Japanese prisoner for 33 months
and liberated a short time ago»
attended each rally.
funeeai. satbeday for I wjte e" o';
ROBERT E. BEE GIBES |j.,y e,p.cWly In ,h. t."
; series.
Funeral services for Robert E.
, Lee Gibbs of near Engelhard |
j were held at the home Saturday j ESTIMATES VARY ON
BOND SALES IN DARE, HYDE
BOOSTED BY STANDARD OIL
morning at 11 o’lClaCk with the
Rev. Gait’h of CrS^swell, Episco
pal minister, officiating. Inter
ment was in the fa'm'ily plot.
Mr. Gibbs passed* away at the
home of his son. Clay Gibbs, near
j Engelhard, Thursd.ay afternoon
; at 5:30 o’clock following a long
! illness.
Surviving are as follows An-
STORM DAMAGE TO CROPS
A storm which swept up from
the south Monday, striking coast
al North Carolina late in the eve
ning, did considerable damage to
cro.ps in Hyde County. Estimates
O'f the damiage to the corn crop
varied from
LIKE FAMILY REUNION
(With their daughter, Mrs. Re
becca Huggins O'f the Spars, sta
tioned in Philadelphia, and their
son, Harold, Jr., on furlough
from the Army, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Jarvis are unusually happy
this week. It is like a family re
union with all home for a change
daring these war days.
J. A. Buglass, field supervis-1
or, with headquarters in Eliza-j
beth City, announced todhy that
I Standard Oil Company of New
' Jersey had purchased war bonds
in the amount of $500,000 in N.
C. in coneotion with the Seventh
War Loan Drive. In line with the
company’s policy of allocating
this purchase among the 100
cou'nties of North Carolina in
proportion to each county’s quo
ta Dare and Hyde have each been
allotted $250.
I 'Mrs. Dorothy Gil’dbs, Fairfield,
I Clay Gibbs of the home, 17
j grandchildren and three great
I grandchildren.
Lindsley F. Kimball as new national USO presi-
dent was to accept, on behalf of USO, the finished painting of the
Guard^Zlm'^n Artist and Coast
r.inva n V a-inK-iaisimi pnoio irom nrust ana i.,oast mrs. Ftnaips lived in Hvde for
at Detroit Art Sehoot Si,Tn!u^°“ her hus-
ot A-i- o A'vuuoii 01 uecrou, mien, a lormer stuaent
p„„i, u Art School, Signalman Diebboll is stationed near Asbury
Bia picture in the arts and crafts room of
Rnspil -^^1^ where the painting will hang permanently,
thnl photograph taken by Photographer Joe Rosen-
for thf Calif.,-the painting is now on a display tour
Deonle Drive. USO is financed by the American
people through the National War Fund. 1 -
15 to 50 per cent
o — o .All- In the aibsence of County Agent
son Gibbs, Baltimore, Md., Mrs. I J- P- Woo.dard, a reported for this
Katie Byrd, Long Beach, Calif.; i newspaper called on Agr'icultur-
R/E— r-w„ I.U.. _ T, ..... t Teacher J. M. Worrell at Swan
Quarter as an authority. Mr. Wor
rell replied that he had not made
any su-nvey, hult that his observa
tions around Swan Quarter were
that they were albout 15 per cent.
A. Cahoon, Swan Quarter mer
chant and farmer, and Grady
Ctedle, afwan Quarter farmer,
expressed the same opinion.
At least two other Hjyde Coun
ty farmers. Will Sp.encer of. En
gelhard and Alva O’Neal of Rose
Bay placed damages at 50 per
cent.
VISITING IN HYDE
Mrs. Edward Phillips of Mal
den, Mo., is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
D. L. Berry at Swan Quarter.
Mrs. Phillips lived in Hyde for
band was employed by A. W.
Wells Co. who was digging can-
ale in the county for the Lake
Drainage district. Mrs. Phillips
has recently lost both of her sons
in service.
The average yield of alfalfa is
about 2 tons per acre.