THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE TOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
Vl; NO. 49
SWAN QUAETEK, N. C.. THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1945
Single Copy 5 Centi
SCHOOLS
Scheduled to
OPEN SEPT. 6tli
Teacher Vacancies In
'**’**ty at Sladesville, En- j
^®lhard and Ocracoke !
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County mainland schools
i|^^^6duled to open Thursday,
iji, ^er 6th, it was announced
\ by N. W. Shelton, coun-
^^'■’iperintendent. The Ocra-
School opening will be de-
by local school officials,
are a number of teacher
■j in the county, includ-
1(1 home ec and agricultural
^or at Engelhard, several
^ilj ^'^ary teachers at Slades-
three teachers at Ocra-
''ion are few i'f any vo-
teachers available, ac-
to Mr. Shelton, who says
lijj/a®'Pects are not bright for
illjj *ag teachers to fill the En-
Vacancies.
’hi teachers obtained
^1^,. ^^ard—Mrs. Mary Brown,
‘bal, Mrs. Eunice Credle,
^ j Baum, Mrs. Clau-
Itj ^htison, Mrs. Myra Patrick,
|liij)'''*'?'^ita Miller, Mrs. Alese
h, p Lola Manning and
Credle.
'Mrs. Ellen C. Watson
]u ’ Mrs. Eva Mann Brant-
’ Cuthrell, Mrs. El-
‘■'■ay, Mrs. Tetah Windley
'iijljj and Mrs. Margaret B.
Ij'
—Mrs. Lillie Warren,
k ^oke^-JMiss Helen J. Tay-
H Q''‘'^^Pal, Mrs. Marin aBaum,
Va Sawyer, Mrs. Prisicilla
y Marietta McKin-
Lona Bonner, Mrs.
^s, Miss Lona Watson,
Williamson and J. M.
, '-'Ounty negro schools are
to open along with the
■ 'tin schools, except the
V J ? School at Sladesville,
Vo There s one
‘ ^ in that school.
YOUTH RUNS
^ MANTEO MAN’S CAR
bj" Cost of Court for
Warren Midgett’s
Guadalcanal Battlefront of 1942 Mow Peaceful Rear Base
MOUNTAIN POTATO
OUT YIELDS ALL
OTHERS IN HYDE
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Farmers Find Sequoia Variety
Beats Cobblers Almost
Three to One
4
I A mountain potato known as
1 the '-'Sequoia” made a record in
HONOR ROLL OF
SERVICE FOLK
AT FAIRFILLD
Ceremonies Held Sunday, Au-
gust 5th, Dedicating Board
Located at Post Office
At impressive ceremonies Sun
day afternoon, August 5th, Fair-
! the flat fields of coastal Hyde'field dedicated its new honor roll
I County this season reports coun-! of World War II service men re-
j ty agen J. P. Woodard of Swan, cently erected on the post office
I Quarter, who says that in one in- grounds. An estimated crowd o>f
I stance they out-yielded Cobblers 250 people attended the dedica-
I nearly three to one. The pre- . tion.
I dictipn is that this potato will be j The Rey. Lee Phillips, Baptist
I grown more extensively in this , minister, acted as master of cere-
'’k to Amount of $73
.^Or .
It by “^'og into, and damaging
JtitgT®*' of Warren Midgett of
kVs’ Sunday, W. A.
V ^ 20-year-old Columibia
V the costs of court
Tuesday
Court. Rhodes, with
! people in the car he
>5 toward Manteo from
'ttiii and as Mr. Midgett
'dake the left turn to en-
'0(jgg dnveiway of his home,
hor
%
, "’bo said he did not blow
to pass on
side of the road, and in
shoulder,
more than $100
■ ^idgett’s car $73.
*6 Party drew warrants for
i'V V Judge Baum dis-
Vtt oharges against Mr.
mm
The three years since August 7, 1942, when United States Marines landed on
Guadalcanai to open the Pacific offensive, have produced nuiny changes on that
Soiomon island. Now, Red Cross girls and Leathernecks (upper left) swim and
sun themselves at leisure. A short time ago, swimming and battling came under
the heading of “hazardous occupations” and a Marine machine-gunner (lower
left) guarded his buddies from Jap intrusions as they washed in Guadal waters.
^he teautiful tropical beach scene (above) now provides a more peaceful setting
for the quartet of Leathernecks who loll in the sun than it did for Marines who
were on the same beach three years ago. At that time, the beach was covered
with dead Japs, half-buried in the sand (below). The beaches are washed clean
now — and Guadalcanal today is a rear base, far removed from the fighting front.
(U. S. Marine Corps Photo.)
FARMERS REDUCE
CORN ACREAGE
EAST LAKE SOLDIER
RECEIVES PROMOTION
STRIPPED HER OF ALL
BUT HER UNDERPANTS
But More Hybrid Being Planted
Than Ever Before
Cb? ''"OMEN ORG.ANIZE
ASS at stumpy point
\ii,, of young Stumpy
met Friday night at
of Mrs. Grace Hooper,
Purpose of organizing a
“ ^’Oman’s Sunday School
^’c
*j.'Were elected' as fol-
Midgett, president;
s Jj. "'ford, secretary: and Al-
f'‘®u-surer. Mrs. Babe
J, V’as made chairman of
committee. .Mrs.
V ^°°P®r is teacher and
Bobbitt assistant teacher. .
'is 'f'® social hour the hos-
’’ved refreshments.
The State Agriculture Depart
ment reports that the acreage of
’orn for harvest this year in North
Carolina, now estimated at 2,225,-
000 acres, is five per cent less
than that harvested last year.
Four per cent of all corn plant
ed in North Carolina this year is
of hybrid variety, compared
with 2.1 per cent in 1944, 1.6 per
cent in 1943, and only one-tenth
of one per cent in 1938, according
to the N. C. Crop Reporting Ser
vice.
J. J. Morgan, statistician with
the department, said that 90,000
acres of the 2,248,000 acres in
corn this year is planted with hy
brid seed. Although this figure
is high in relation to other years,
only two states are planting less
hybrid corn than North Carolina
—(South Carolina and Georgia.
Expansion in planting hybrid
corn, bringing an increase in
yields of at least 20 per cent over
the native types of corn, enabled
corn growers to Pbtain a succes
sion of record corn crops since
Pearl Hahbor. But more than
that, it required less acreage for
corn than in the early decades,
thus providing grotwing space for
other wartime crops.
COTTON CROP
DOV\'N 31 P- C.
entertains
at SWTMivaNG P.ARTY
'J: 'Vi’. Miller of Engelhard
sined the younge rset of
°'"'"unity at a swimming
V out-door supper Tues-
It is the custom of
Vr; entertain at such a
"g every summer.
^EETS MONDAY
at stumpy point
August 1st cotton prospects
point to a production this year o.'’
490,000 bales in North Caroline
the third smallest crop since 1901
in 1938 and 1939—years of heavy
^veevil damage—only 388,000 bale?
were produced, the cron reporting
Service of the State .A.gricultui'f
Department has announced.
The cotton crop has made very
good progress in Piedmont counties
but rains have been excessive in
the eastern half of the State and
plants have become somewhat
“woody”. Although v'eevil infes
tation is comparatively high in
“woody”. Although weevil infes-
some localities, damage to date has
been considerably less than ant
icipated in view of weather con
ditions.
\ g^®^'an’s Society of Chris-
Jlliev^'®® Monday night
i(ts ^"oine of Mrs. Jeo Midgett.
f>0gf ■ Payne led the worship
*) The hostess, assisted
Carl Mason, served re-
VISITORS AT KITTY’ HAWK
Mrs. Eva H. White and grand
children, of Elizabeth, New Jer
sey, are spending the remainder
of the sumimer at Kitty Hawk in
Mrs. White’s home. Mrs. White
formerly lived at Kitty Hawk.
Deep rooted plants are import
ant in enriching the surface soil.
Their roots draw from the deeper
layers of the soil various plant
nutrients, particularly
Headquarters, African-Middle
East Theater (AMET), Cairo,
Egypt,—^Private First Class Mil-
iburn E. Twiford, son of Mrs. An
nie Twiford of East Lake, N. C.,
currently serving in the Africa-
Middle East Thteater (AMET),
has bedn promoted to grade of
technician fifth grade.
He is assigned to the 404th
Quartermaster Truck Company
with duty as driver and is sta
tioned at Camp Russell B. Huck-
step, Egypt.
Opl. Twiford has served over
sees 33 months. He was inducted
into the army April, 1942, and
was stationed at Camp Lee, Vir
ginia, for basic training. Prior
to his induction he was employed
oy the North Carolina State High
way Commission.
Vigorous Lovemaking Puts Col
ored Man Under $800 Bond;
Buren Twiford ^eld for
Housebreaking
Hyde Woman
i Writer, Artist
Making Good
MRS. ROPER IS PATIENT
IN RICHMOND HOSPITAL
Mrs. Ralph Roper is a patient
in a Richmond, Va., hospital,
where she is receiving treatment
for a skin disorder which recent
ly came out on her hands and
face. She is getting along nicely
according to Mr. Roper, who be
sides being busy keeping the Hyde
County Clerk of Court office, is
loing the house work.
Alphonso Wise, 27 year old
negro, is held in Dare jail in de
fault of $800 bond, charged with
assaulting Zorado Jennett, a
housemaid and mother of two
children. Wise was already un
der a suspended sentence for pre
vious assault on this woman. She
alleges that he stripped her of
her garments while escorting her
along the road, all but her under
pants, and she took refuge at the
home of C. S. Meekins. The col
ored woman came to Manteo from
Hyde County.
LBuren Twiford of Stumpy Point
was held by Judge Baum in de
fault of $2,000 bond, charged with
housebreaking. He is allgeed to
have entered the home of Mrs.
Doris Twiford at Stumpy Point,
at the same time that Russell Jor
dan is charged with entering the
house.
Buy t^ar Bonds and Stamps.
MRS. COX CONFIXED TO
BED WITH broken ANKLE
Mrs. R. S. Cox is confined to
bed at her home at Englehard
witha broken ankle. Her ma,ny
friends miss seeing her in her
husband’s store where she assists
■with carring on the business.
MRS. SOPHIE MUGGS WAS
MOST CAREFUL IN SELECTING
the presents for her
SON OVERSEAS IN THE NAVY
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MRS.MUSSS COULD HAVE
CROPPED THE PACKAGE DOWN
THE WELL FOR ALLTHE GOOD
IT WOULD DO . BEC/^USE-
SHE DID NOT USE A STfRONG
BOX.
SHE DID not USE SHREDDED
PAPER INSIDE THE BOX.
SHE OtO NOT USE STRONG
UJRAPPING barer, fgllll
SHE DID NOT use STRONG
wrapping CORO. —
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SHE SHOPPED EARLY AND
SHE mailed early- she
FOLLOWED SIZE MAILING
REGULATIONS RELIGIOUSLY, BUT
SHE DID A BAD
WRAPPING '
TOB. NOW, EVEN Though mrs.
MUGGS selected her PRESENTS
carefully and shofpeq early
AND (MAILED EARLY —
tCr
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■Jh
WHEN HER SON RECEIVEO HIS
fW:KA6E.PERHAPslH£ MERMAIDS
ENJOYED ^’^'-HBOIONT/
fmmaaammmamBmBSftsssBS.
A successful artist and writer
of children’s books is Mrs. Eillis
Credle Toiwnsend, a native of
Hyde County, who now lives in
Washington, ,D. C.^ Mrs. Town
send is the daughter oif the late
ack Credle and Mrs. Bessie Coop
er Credle of Sladesville, Hyde
County. Her mother resides near
Roicky Mount.
The Hyde County woman has
written and illustrated several
books for children since she com
pleted her education at Loiuisiburg
College and studies interior decor
ating, portraiture and edvertising
art in New York City. They in
clude ''Down, Down the Moun
tain,” “The Goat That Went To
School,” “Little Jeems Henry,”
and "The Flop-Eared Hound.”
Her husband, Charles de Kay
Townsend, a photographer with
the National Gallery of Art, has
illustrated a number of her books.
■ Mrs. Townsend has led an in
teresting life, including teaching
school in the Blue Ridge Moun
tains of North Carolina and en
tertaining children to supplement
her income as a beginning artist.
Both of these positions proved
invaluable to the career she was
to follow and make a name for
herself.
An exhibition on view at the
Children’s Museum Villa Rosa,
4215 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,
WashingtO'H, D. C., open Tuesdays
through Fridays during the sum
mer, includes original drawings
and paintings by Mrs,. Townsend,
as well as photographs by her
husband, all of which have been
published in Mrs.- Townsend’s
books under her maiden name,
Ellis Credle.
Her first book entitled 'Down,
Down the Mountain,” published
in 1934 has a setting in the Blue
Ridge Mountains. It is the sim
ple story of a boy and a girl
raising turnips on their hilly farm
to buy a pair of squeaky, creaky
new shoes. Her knowledge and
love for the Blue Ridge country
where she atught history and
French at the Forest City high
school inspired and helped her
to write and draw this story with
its mountain setting.
"The Goat That Went To
School,” and “Little Jeemses
'Henry” are other books that she
Was written and illustrated with
their setting in the Blue Ridge
Mountain Country.
•'The Flap-Eared H#und,” has
its setting on the farm of Mrs.
Townsend’^ late father in Hyde
section next year, although heavy
planting is not 'being advised.
The potato was brought into
Hyde County by R. L. Gibbs, En
gelhard produce dealer who has
observed it while buying potatoes
in South Carolina. Farm officials
were skeptical of the experiment.
According to Mr. Woodard, C.
C. Davis, Lake Landing farmer,
planted 10 barrels of Sequoia po
tatoes on 1.4 acres. He harvested
287 Va bags of Number One pota
toes and 11 bags of size B pota
toes. His cobblers in the field
with these averaged only 100 bags
of Number One.
Henry D. Cuthrell, another Lake
Landing farmer, planted 9/lO of
an acre and harvested 157 bags of
iNumlber One potatoes. His cob
biers averaged 100 to 110 bags
per acre.
A Middletown farmer, Colum
bus Cuthrell, produced 150 bags
per arce as compared with 80 to
90 bags of cobblers.
The Sequoia potatoes are large,
many weighing as much as two
to two and one quarter pounds.
The skin is reasonably tough, but
the heavy weight of the individ
ual potato causes many to be
scarredT' They ' have fewer
than the other varieties.
Farmers who plan to plant this
variety next year are advised to
get their seed from Western
North Carolina. It is a'.so sug
gested that growers reduce the
amount of fertilizer generally
used by 1,000 pounds. Because
this variety has a tendency to
produce tubers, it is recomnriend-
ed that seed be planted closer to
gether and that rows be run clos
er together.
monies and led the crowd in sing
ing patriotic songs. The colored
folks sang one song by them
selves.
The flag raising was followed:
by the Pledge of Allegiance. Ser
vice men present were introduced
and invited to say a few words.
iCapt. Neal Sears, Fairfield boy
recently returned from the Bur
ma theatre made a short talk.
County attorney O. L. Williams
of Siw'an Quarter, a Fairfield nat
ive, was the principal speaker
and delivered a stirring address,
which was as inspiring as any de
livered at Fairfield in recent
years.
'The service roll, which is a
handsome board bearing the
names of 86 white men, one white
woman and 34 colored men, was
built by contributions of local cit
izens. The work was done locally.
The board is situated on the
postoffice grounds. A small white
fence encloses it. The flag pole
is located in the rear.
Gold stars are located by five
names indicating the toll the war
has taken from the community.
Fairfield has lost four white men^
E. Horrace McKinney, Shelton
yv Edward Baum,-and Wewd-'
row Gibbs and one colored man,
Romulus Burrus.
The citizens of Fairfield are the
first in Hyde County to honor
their fighting sons and naugm-
ters with a roll of names. "We
are proud of it,” says postmaster
Guy Cothrell, and he expresses
the sentiment of all of the com-
monity. -,j r'
Off Recently
MULLETS 25c EACH AND
JUMP RIGHT IN BOAT
PERMANENT PASTURES
LIKE OVERWORKED MAN ^Fishermen Getting Fancy Prices
For Catches These Days; Fall
Permanent pastures are just
like the man who has worked for
12 to 14 hours on a stretch’ they
must have rest.
There are three general rest
periods for pastures during the
year,- one before early spring
grazing, one during the dry per
iods of summer, and one just be
fore the pastures go into winter
quarters, say extension special
ists at State Colleage.
Despite the decline in catches
during the past month, fishermen
lor the most part are doing well.
Mullets are now in season, and a
single mullet fresh, brings about
25 cents. In the old days, mul
let usied to sell for two cents a
pound sa.ted, and no home was
complete without a keg of salt
Short change the pasture at anv 'Winter use. Now
one of these periods, and it will
bring a reward of less total graz
ing. Some farmers practice pasture
rotation, and while this is gooii
practice, one of the best methods
of giving the permanent pasture
a rest is through the temporary
grazing crops which can be easily
produced for early spring, mid
summer, or late fall.
The specialists suggest that
livestock be kept off the pasture
in early spring until the grass has
made a growth of about 6 to 8 In.,
but who can do this ? Only the man
who has seeded a mixture of small
gi-ains and legumes, with rela
tively heavy seeding and adequate
fertilization about the first of
Seotember. Early seeding brings
earlier grazing and more grazing.
Who can rest his pastures dur
ing the long, dry periods of sum
mer? Only the man who has plan
ted soybeans, Sudan grass, and
other such crops, say the special-1 cliches would not bring
ists.
And, finally who can rest h'-
nastures during the late fall? On! -
the man who ha® some good crop
as !':“sr>edeza is the answer.
Alfalfa, with its 4 hay crops a
place in the plan of great°r feed
year, also occupies a prominent
production, the specialists say.
they are luxury food, for the fish
ermen can get 25 cents a pound,
and the average mullet weighs
a pound, by taking them direct
;o local buyers.
Darren Midgett and Harris Mid
gett of Manteo, took a day off last
week to get some fresh fish t-o
sat. They landed $28 worth of
fish, and each made a good day’s
work beside ail the fish they
needed to eat. On the way in, a
fine mullet jumped into the boat,
and landed on Harris Midgett’s
.’cot, leaving a fin bone in his toe.
The old jumping m'Ullet has been
famed from time immemorial for
jumping into boats.
At Siumipy Point, a good season
is underw'ay, and this is expected
lO last right up into December.
Shortage of meat is considered
re-ponsilbie for high fis hprices,
for at pre-war prices, present
a very
arge income.
SWAN QUARTER BOYS
JOIN 3IERCHANT MARINES
Three young men who grad
uated at the Swan Quarter high
I .school last spring are now serv-
[ ing in the Merchant Marines.
County. Photographs were made ' bS ^nd
by her husband. Swindell.
'Mrs. Townsend has a number
of relatives in Hyde County, in
cluding a naunt, Mrs. Bettie Mann
of Fairfield. Jeiff Credle of
Sladesville, Bland Fulford of En
gelhard and Lee Mann of Fair-
field, are first cousins. She is al
so fir^t cousin to Mrs. Harry Wa-
halb and Mrs. Beamon Watson
of Washington, Harvey Credle of
iSladesville and Baltimore, Mr.,
and Otis Fulford of Norfolk, Va.,
and Engelhard.
BIRTHS
Mr. aind Mrs. Cecil Silvertone
announce t helbrthisoiafJooomoa
announce the birth of a son on
Tuesday, August 7th, in the Col
umbia hospital. Mrs. Silvertone
is the former Miss Exedell Mc
Kinney.
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