HYDE COUNTY HERALD
^*^^Hoes creek op a permits increase
Has 17 FOLKS IN slaughtering
IN SEVEN HOMES
I PermiisiEion 'to slaughter 10 per
Ma=hoes cattle, sheep, am d’ambs
during acooumting periods begin-
iwas om'ce a “
■'t5
.'^°'hiniunity 'O'f
''' Hare County
Ti j " ■ ning an o rafter July 1, was
M Ithad'am-^staotve - ^on^federally inspected
^^jnd ehool amd was the .slaughterers to ob-
, tain a better balance in meat dis-
Kto getting a road ^ Qp^ District Director
: the place almos-t wreck"
L tn
lae 'Doc* Treats A Patient
j MIDDLETOWN MAN TO
i HEAD CROP INSURANCE
Order to puirs'U'e the ad-
O'f mo'dern living, sev-
^ minest families moved
Theodore S. Jahnsom explained
today.
This
Wm
1
increa'se brings , Cia'ss 2
JM
- .began to lO'ak as if siaughterers’ maximum percent-^
Would have to leave this ages up from 75 per cent to 8o per j
t.’'®‘8h'bo'rhood ce.nt for cattle, with Sheep and,
r‘«boi,i • lambs raised ifrom the former 100
years ago h gjaugb-j
r^S«'tt V V." d^ ’ *er pe'rce.ntages fo'r calves and
fa road'b^bum into Ma'- hogs are 50
Manns Harbor. Other remaining at 75 per cent and
.their voices too, but i P^r cent respectively.
C*’’ time when defeat star- | Johnson also gave the reason
> ih the face, it was Capt. for OP'A’s recent .extension of
^ Who 'kept the battle go- the June 3 Odegdiine for regis-
C^arly every momth he tration of farm siaughteners. ^
w^ore the Dare Commis-' ‘Many farmers 'Slaughter on.y
Cl To his many friends in the' late Fall, he said, and con-
r'^'it the State he made ap- sequently were unprepared to
I make early appiication. The new
T.iy . . deadline, Johnson pointed out, is
K 5?I S £‘*er .14;,.d ai: farmea. ,.ho
fa ’ cinH men from intentd to slaughter meat am-
* f«„, L,„d E,at Lake to Z,TL S
rk ■w.ould stop for a long that date.
.' again Capt. Midgett
I
ft-o;
i
MM
^ wgaiii. o I
k'“me .fort hto do battle, a- ^ R., KNIGHT DIES ON
a .sick bed ‘no'w and poANOKE ID. WEDNESDAY
.^.h Was oiften, said O'f him '
f^itig fo.r this road was j ]y[rs, Leah Meekins Kmight, 57,
ii'^ him .alive, .and that he' p, Knight o.£ Mianteo,
Soon after it was fin- foi’.owing la long illness Wed-
' a i nesday at her hom-e. She was the
)’ "“apt. Midgett did live to daughter of the late C. P. and
j',!'®ad opening celebrated Winnie Meekins of Manteo,
fish fry right in ifro'nt .g time mem'ber 'of the
%
--o—- a'liu a lu.iis toao,-
"=, and heard many .peo- pganoke Islaind 'Baptist Church
from far 'and 'near, and gggibes her husband, she i ssur-
prvi,„- praising him for .^j^g^j by four children: Williard
— - viveu i'uiAi
Work, .and he died hap- of west Palm Beiaoh, Flor-
Jul'ian 'E. Maun, Jr., natiye of
Middletown, who has held the
position of extenisioin economist
at State 'College, .has been ap
pointed ‘State Director for Federal
Crop Insurance Company.
Mann is ;a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina iwhere
he received his B. iS. degree in
comm'erce, majoring in insurance
in 1926. Prom State College he
received an M. S. degree in Agri
cultural Economios in 1930.
Mr. Mann is well kn.o'wn in
Hyde Co'unty Where he has la wide
circle of friends and relatives. He
is the 'son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian
E. Mann of .Middletown, who now
reside in Raleigh.
ENGELHARD SEES
IMPROVEMENTS
BEING MADE
Navy Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Loren Douglas of Princeton,
Ind., is shown treating his favorite patient, injured slightly during
the pre-invasion bombardment of Okinawa. The young lad in the
foreground is being treated by the Japanese equivalent of a Girl
Scout. Navy corpsmen are perfofming medical services usually
rendered only by registered physicians in the U. S. because of the
large number of Okinawans injured or suffering from illness, ag
gravated by long periods of cave dwelling. (U. S. Marine Corps Photo)
DAUGHTERS OF WESLEY
MEET MONDAY NIGHT
Miss Natalie Gould Speaks About
Her Experiences As Red
Cross Worker in Europe
IS the widow of Capt. w-ere 'ivvcivni loss soi vcu
cey Mekinis, Victor Meekins, Hugh I Tjjg j^g^t meeting will 'be held
' ayno, widow of Worth g.^^night, Norfleet Cuthrell and August 13, at the home of Mrs.
Carson .Creeif. Hymns were sung
that all his neigh- ' -^3'° Charles Knight of Stumpy
“^'aken ca're of-SO'iar as point, Mrs. Purdy Flowers and
L and that Mash'oes Creek Miss ’Louise KiHfit of Manteo;
Sain build up. He died following iWiothers and - sis-
®nd j.ust a few weeks ,j^,Qia.n‘d Maekins a'nd Mrs.
.j '^'bful wife pa'ssed away. ^ Twiiford 'of ‘Norfo'lk; Carl
leave two great gap'S Meekins, Mrs. 'C. 'C. Janes, and
ijjj, "I® sttlement. I Mrs. Gladys* Brantley of Manteo
(j,m«re are only seven oc- gjjjj -g^ Meekins of Panama'.
^®mes on Masboes, and mother, Mrs. 'Winnie Meek-
^^^Pulation is 17 pe^^rie- M .Manteo.
houses 'are 'Of eider-, p.yneral services were conduct-
for the present living Thursday, July llth, in the
is Mrs. Martha cemetery by Dr. G. A.
November, ‘the O'ld- family pastor, 'assisted by
J h in .Dare Conniy living .Charlton of the Man-
doing her own house- 7_ 1. td-i'.kqo,.-.
Sb
teo Methodist 'Church. 'PaH'bea.r-
ers were Melvin Daniels, Chaun
Miss Natalie Gould, recently
returned Red Cross Vvorker, was
guest speaker Monday night,
July 9, at the regular meeting of
the Daughters of Wesley of Ma'n-
;eo Methodist church, which was
held at the home of Mrs. C. S.
Meekins. ^he was presented by
the program chairman, Mrs. J. O.
Basnight, who had arranged a
patriotic program for the occas
ion. Mrs. D. E. Evans, president,
called the meeting to order, and
after a short 'business sessiO'n the
program proceeded as fallows:
■"Start Spangled Banner,” sung
by group; Scripture reading and
'pnayer, Mrs. Caleb Brickhouse;
"God 'Bless Our Native Land, ’
by group; poem "A Patriotic
Wish,” .Mrs. Nevin Wescott; talk
by Miss Could on ‘her experiences
as a Red Cross worker in the
European theatre of war; poem,
"A Benediction To Am'erica,”
writte'n 'by Miss Eflfie Westcott,
read by Mrs. Lucetta Willis; "God
Bless America,” by grO'Up.
During the social hour the hos
tess served pie and iced drinks.
Eng'elha'rd is seeing improve-
mients 'being made thiese days and
hears that some construction work
is tO' 'begin soon O'n two new
buildings. Boosters of the town
see this as an indication of con
tinuing growth which they say is
„ bound to come tO' Engelhard.
TOM SPENCER HEADS Gilbert Gibbs Ifts made a great
ENGELHARD ROTARY deal of improvements to the large
^ store buiding which was built by
his late father. Gloss Gibbs. He
has completed the annex tsarted
some years lagO', making it one of
the 'best 'store buildings in Engel-
Officers Installed At Meeting In
Watson Hotel Thursday
Evening
Tbos. E. 'Spencer, editor of the
Hyde County Herald, W'S'S install
ed as the new president of the
Engelhard Rotary Club at the
weekly dinner meeting at the
Watson Hotel in'Engelhard Thurs
day evening. Mr. Spencer suc
ceeds J. M. Long.
Other officers installed were
A. G. Silverthorne, 'vice president
and N. W. Shelton, secretary-
treasurer, both for their second
'terms, and R. S. .Spencer as .ser
geant-at-arms.
Mr. Spencer announced the fol
lowing committee lappointm'en'ts
to assist him in administering
club affairs: CO'mmunity service.
Dr. J. W. Miller, chairmian, J. M.
Long and .p. D. Midgette; atten
dance, , Frank iGibbs, chairman,
D. L. Berry and A. G. Silver-
bard. He is cons.tructing a new
porch roof to run the full length
of the store and plans to lay a
concrete wa'k the length of the
building.
iS. S. Neal is' planning to 'con
struct 'an oyster shucking house
on the waterfront 'before the oys
ter season opens in the fall. His
business will afford Engelhard
oystermen a sure market and .pro
vide jobs for shuckers.
Ano.tiher co'nstruction job -that
will be started as 'Soon as possible
is a cotton gin planned by R. L.
Gibbs & Comjpany, progressive
seed, feed 'and produce dealers.
Some, residential deve’-O'pmen't is
also expected as soon as building
restrictions are lifted.
■Prospects that the federal gov-
ernm'ent will deepen Far Creek
' into her 70’s living
for .her faithful
t for her faithful Midgett of Manteo, and
IVIrs. Maude Basjmght of several persons.
'®^^se.nt time housekeeping
ij her son .Fred takes.
Parties 'at 'OregO'n In-; lx. MAYNARD JOHNSON
%'e:
four .homes 'are those j
WITH NAVY IN HAWAII
August 13, at the home of Mrs.
Lawrence Swain.
MASHOES WOMAN PROUD
OF AWARD TO SON
[.^•'Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. j Lieut. Maynard S. Johnson,',
and Sam C. Basnight uSNR, of New Holland, is now
^ Twiford. Five miles 3,ej.vin'g at the U- 'S. Naval Air
1 at .the lonely Du.ra'nt station, Puunene, -Maui, Haiwaiian
Capt. J. S. Rhodes islands—one of the Navy’s key
y This, he keeps for 3,1^ installation's in the Central
“f Rocky Mount 'business pacific. IHis wife, Mirs. Arlene
t. ■ Johnson, and daughters, Ruth,
, ® dozen years ago, the'pig.anor and Caroline, live in New
^ashoes was a flourish- H'O’lland.
^'■fh many fishing cr^ws ‘ .Lieutenant Jo'bnson attended
'i^^Wn on the creek ^.^ig-s College -and the University
nh.
the busy season, Illinois, where he received the
from Manns Harbor, degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
ll ‘Roano'ke Island, gg was employed by
^Unty and elsewhere. Department of the Interior, Fish
motor boats and good ^nd Wildlife Service. He e'ntsr-
“fher places have fast gd the Navy in January, 1944, and
picture Oapt. Mid- was stationed at Midway Isl^d
road completed. j prior to transfer to Hawaii. His
f today is still an inter-brother. Major Stuart M. John-
. and. time for apart ^on, is senving with tl^ ^my Sig-
\®®ind,y 000k beaich may aai .Oorps in the PhillipineB.
ipopuiar a® ® | •-
Maantiine. ite eVALENA THXE’Tr
o ® » happy, eonibeid life, M"*- WANCHESE
Ithe part of good |
They are mak ing an;
Mrs. W. H. 'Mann of Mashoes
takes pride in the heroic record
of her so'n Max, 'who was the so'U
of her former marriage to G-eo.
W. .Mann. 'Max F. Mann, 29, who
is also a brother of Earl Mann of
Manteo, was awarded the bronze
star for gallantry in the village
of Speyer, Germany, by Major
General 'Willard G. Wyman, com-
m'an'ding general of the 71st in
fantry division. His citation
reads: "'For heroic aobievemient
in action against the enemy on
the night of Mlar.ch 26th in the
vicinity, Pfc. .Mann volunteered
u. ij. Deny au'u n. . .4
thorne; membership 'and clissifi- to 12 feet also is en'Courpn| to
cation L A Dudley, chairm.an-, | Engelhard business peopto, rrx/Ti)
R S ’Spe.ncer .and J. H Jarvis; gressm'an Herbert Bonner is seek-
youth servioe, J. M. Worrell, ing to he;.p 'them in this matter,
chairman, D'aUas Cuthrell and N >
W. Shelton. j e^re RATION BOARD
The new president ann'-.ii^^j'ced. xO OBSERVE NEW HOURS
that he would expect members to!
be responsib'.e fo^r programs as! xhe Dare County ration board
follows: D. L. Berry and J. M. observe 'new hours, begin-
Worrell, July 'and Jainuia'ry; J. H. jjfog July 15, according to a state-
Jarvis and Frank Gibbs, August issued this week by ohair-
and Fe'bruary; A. G. Silverthoirne ■ - _ - , _
andJ . M. Long, September and
March; R. S. .Spencer and L. A.
Dudley, October and April; N. W,
Shelton and Dallas Cuthrell, No-
vemiber and May; hind P. D. Mid
gette and J. W. Miller, December
and June. •
Cotto niwill get keen competi
tion from synthetic fibers after
th'e war. Join the one-variety
program to keep seed stocks pure
and produce only uniform, high-
quaiity co'tton.
man J. E. Ferebee.
Instead of ba'ng open all day
every day, as heretofore, ‘the of
fice will close to the 'public at
three o’clock every afternoon from
Monday through Thursday, and
on Friday and Saturday the office
will close to the public at one
o’clock.
This is m^ade .necessary by the
increased work load Of the office
personnel. Up to this time the HOPE TO IMPROVE THE
board has made an .effort tO' keep'
the office open longer hours, be
cause of the difficulty of 'people
from icertain sections of the coun
GRAHAM’S mi GIVES
HOPES FOR ROADS SOON
TO AID HATTERAS FOLK
Highway Chairman Visits Most Neglected Place in
All North Carolina, and Is Reported Impressed
With Needs; Community Roads As A Beginning
Considered Likely if Attempt Is Made
urkvrxTizi? rkiw TO ’ Highway Commissioner Chair-
BONNER ON TRIP TO ^ Graham came this wee'k
J PACIFIC _WAR ZONE Hatteras, bringing 'with .him
his Cbief Engineer Vance Daise.
He came and saw the place la
all'Nort h Carolina most negected
by the State Highway Commis
sion, 'and its engineers in the 25
years before him; the 'place in
‘which for 25 years the rule has
been to avoid doing anything
helpful. No doubt 'he was amaz
ed a.nd disgusted 'at what he saw,
but without saying much, he im
pressed the peo,pie favorably, 'and
left the impression that Bom.ething
must be done.
Melvin R. Daniels, Governor
Cherry’s camipaign manager in
Dare, who accompanied the party
'to Ha'tteras, was delighted at the
first at Mr. Graham, who came
to Dare County at the special re
quest’ of Highway Commissioner
Merril Evans, newly on the Board
and tong 'popular 'with Dare
REPRESENTATIVE HERBERT County people. Mr. Evans and
C. BONNER will depart Monday Graharn and Mr. Baise bad
from W'ashington by plane on a inten-ded coming along togfher
:our of .the Pacific War area.^is- ^nd paying a quiet visit but the
iting as chairman of the Coast ^ord leaked out 'and Engineer
Guard S'Ub-committee of the J- C- Gardner of Tarboro follow-
Ho'use of Merchant Marine, -the ed along anyhow, probably to try
following places: Pearl Harbor, to explain to Mr Graham why
.-Vus'trelia, Saipan, Philiipines and a*id done so little for .those
Okinawa. He wifi accompany the tong suffering peop.e in ' e pa
House Naval Affairs sub-corn- 25 years. He brought 'along so.me
mi'ttee. Mr. Bonner’s committee of his underlings to help .him ex-
deals with 'affairs Velating-So the Pt®™-
Coast Guard. Om this tour, he Maybe they didn’t help him ex
will have 'an opportunity to mee't plain but something gdt written
many Coast Guard hoys from the into the 'Dally Advance to help
First District, to observe the throw cold 'water on the project,
great work the Coast Guard has intimating fhat had .a road been
done in .the war. 1 butt, the recent storm would have
wiped O'Ut $100,000 worth of road.
MARINES ENLISTING MORE , What of .it; a road sunk at the
17-YEAR-OLD YOUNG MEN front door of Efizabeth City with-
I out the help of a storm, and the
During the mon'th of July a lim- State is spending a millio'n dol-
ited number of il7 year od young ®rs to .replace it. Folks of Ha-t-
men will 'be enlisted in the U. S. feras Island are net forgetting
'Marine Corps, it -was announced that. Moreover, had a ro'ad been
■by Major John M. Grear, recruit- built, it A quite likely it wouldn’t
iug officer for this state. .have washed aWay at all. Hut
Young men 'who have not yet nothing seems to deter the cold
attained the age of 18 years and water process for some seem scar-
w'ho have an eighth grade educa-1 death at the prospect 'Of
t’.on should write or appafy to the money being spent hefe. *’
Marine recruiting office, post of-' Anyway, those who had an op-
fice 'building, iRaleigh, N. C., for portunity to meet ,Mr. Graham,
application blanks. -Such young' Mr. Evans and Mr. Daise, were
men as apply should provide agreeably impressed with the vis-
themselves with birth certificates it. They were escorted along the
and parents’ consent form. , Banks by Cammissioner John
Accepted applicants will be sent Meekins of Rodanthe, and fed at
to Parris Island, S. C., for recruit the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard
training and will be given six Station by Lieut. Bernice Bal-
momlhs training before 'being sent lance.
overseas.
HARBOR AT ENGELHARD
Congressman Herbert C. Bon
ner has secured the passage of a
resolution by the iGommittee o'n
Dealers and manufacturers no' ty in getting 'to Manteo, but the ,
vicinity, 'Pfc. 'Mann volunteered will be required to obtain; work has increa'sed to -such a | Rivers and Harbors of the House
for a patrol Which crossed the spegfoi .application form's from point that this move to close to gf Representatives, directing the
Rhine river to fire a barge known j before makmg deliveries the public in the afternoons has B-oard of Engineers for Rivers
.to have a 'm'achine gun .position.: ‘ I become necessary.
Despite 'the fact that on -a previous, — y ^ ;
night a'nother .patrol received se.v-
« i-aL, services for Mrs. Eve-
at Wanchese Frid.ay mdrnmg, fol-
j lowing a long illnes.s, were con-
, ] ducted at the ho-me Saturday a£-
IIvT^Wn revival to ternoon at three o^ ®
Monday, JULY 23RD Vance Lewis, pastotr of the Wan-
' chese Methodist church, of which
meeting will begin Mis. Tillett was a rn'ernber. A..-
Jbddletown Ohristian listing Mr. Lewis were Rev
'Mio-nday .night, July Lawrence of Edenton and e •
Hev. Q Honderson, Loyd Pierce of the W'anch
evangelist, will do Holiness 'church. Bu.ial wa» m
■ by 'fbe pas- the family plot.
eral casualties on a similar mis-j
sion, Pfc. ^ann successfully com
pleted the missioin without regard
to 'persona se'fety. The bravery
and teamwork displayed by Pfc.
Mamn was pafftioularly outstand
ing.’'
Pfc. Mamn ntairted Miss Bea
trice Midgett, who is 'now living
at Ma'nteo, with her parents, Mr.
ond Mrs. Ellsworth Midgett. He
went to school at Maimteo High,
and before go;;;'g into . . -c a—-.i
custodial officer for Dls'trlct of
iColumlbia pC'U'ul In.jt.ilul'.o.ns at
Lot ton, Va. Ho went overseas in
January, 1945, after having ‘been
;!i t’lv Army cl "lit moidhs.
11, , ■ J. T. Brown. The m. R. Daniels, C. 'S. Meekins,
to tovitod to attend and C^O'Wder Da-ris, Dallas Tiuett,
t ti,and fellowship Ralph Tillett and Dick TiLatt.
iO^Ung. I out.-of-town peep:-- att.cndmg
k 1 the funora.l included sl.-. and Mrs. i ' ’ Ttoto . i _
• \V i'.iia'r'^.' ‘
IV ... Lv,,..cc '
El izAur^ '1 i
■Born to Mr.
)-ivr or Eliv^r
.4. Wilton
a da'i-gh-
5. The
m
a'rd Har'bors to make a S'Urvey
and report on Far Cre'ek, North
Cprolina, ‘with a view to deter
mining if it is advisable to mod
ify' the existing project at 'thie
12 foot depth.
■Mr. Graham left a feeing of
hope .among the people 'that some-
thi'ng would be done.
He didn’t ra-shly promise a road
the whole 60 miles to Ha'tteras,
bu.t did iieave the impressionthat
a serio us attempt would be made
to build a de'penda'ble road where
needed first, and that is from
village to village, 'Which in time
to 'Come m'usit certainly evolve
into a complete system.
Mr. Evans is looked upon 'as an
old neighbor 'and . friend who
knows the nee'ds of the people,
and' Mr. Grcdiam foeiing new on
the Commisisiioin ibut aairly tefeing
proseait time to a ri noon oeouu, ^ •" “
■Which wiuldconifoim to Dhe-'depth mt&refit m the phght clf -phe
... . « , , eKizen*. has won their tsmoA wlB
of itse 'InSBind. WaterwB'y,
Mr. 'Bcannefl- eteked he wtwAd
n'lake every posedBale emfort to get
a fatvoneiale repeat.
BELOVED BUXTON WOMAN
DIES .YFTER IvONG ILLNESS
.Mrs. Cyrus 'H. Gray, 70, of Bux
ton, Da.re ‘County, died July 10
i'.'.'inwiin'g'a long illness. She was
•3 betoved chizen of Cape H'atter-
J a native of Avon, N. C., the
.h'rr o'f the 'latc J'ames I. and
Alary Z. Quidley. Funeral 'ser
vices were condu'cted July 11 by
Rev. E. .R. Meekins Oif Hatterais.
iShe is survi'ved by the follow-
ing children: Mr.s. R. C. G'l'ay, of
■':. ■ av. Ark., C. .R. Gray cf Eliza-
■' ■ I'n City, .M.r.s. M. P. 'Wright o-t
,i n Branch, ahd a sister, Mrs.
. M. Miller of Buxton.
cltizea*, hae won their goc|l will
already. They belteve the 'sttua-
tiom wall be remedied iif .tihe ej>-
gtaiaerirag haaid'icaps can be overv
comie. ’Thesse hiandicaps aine
SD miBofc geographies'’., m'eralMiy
they are not local, but in the
minds of people who for 25 yaars
•have (been unable to see anyxhong
i to do.
PiCCir Rrlptioni
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HOME FROM P.YCIFIC
Bill Thos. Spencer, U;. S. Navy,
is visiting his pa.rents, Mr. apd
Mrs. A. L. (Spencer at their 'hom'C
■at Midriletown. The young Navy
nvan has just returned from 18
months service in the Pacific wa»
zone.
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