THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
D; No. 50
SWAN QUARTER. N. C.. Thursday, August 16, 1945
Single Copy 5 Cent:
TELLS
OF TRIP TO
PACIFIC BASES
“'ates Retaining Islands
^aken By American
Figljting Men
returned from a 35,-
af Representatives xMaval
' ® Committee, Congressman
through the
member of
vast
the
Bonner last week issued
advocating that the
■v ^ retain the island bases the
3 forces have taken at great
v human lives. Said Mr. Bon_
S ''T u
* nave come to the conclu-
^aat it wild be necessary for
'to
^afain many of these Pacific
1 ® guarantee o-f the safety
Rnj.® United ,States against po-
aggressors in the Pacific.”
ll^^Sressman Bonner and his
agues witnessed the great
!||J^^ion wrought by tlie fury
^Odern warfare as they visited
Midway, Emajalehi, Ma-
’ ^tniwetak, Sa'pan, Guam,
% Manila, Samar, Okin-
^nadalcanal and i
ti/ Cannot visit ti
viVt
Jihle
^4'^aafare
hS;
other bases,
these areas
being deprcs.sed by the
destructiveness of mod-
he said, continuing,
anila, for example, I saw
modern city pounded to
® by our artillery and Jap-
,7 demo'Mtionis. Just visualize
of one-half million people
hardly a single modern edi-
ffit
for habitation or other
?«1
Vparticular notice of the
^ hies of the Coast Guard in
aciific^ Mr. Bonner, who is
ijj^an of the Coast Guard suib-
‘^'’hittee said, "Their work in
iy has been greatly praised
® high ranking officers with
^ spoke corucerning it. Our
1,. ^andpounders’ have also been
® great job in handling our
barges. Some of these are
ifjj *hy own district.”
® 'Cbtigressrneri' averaged
i(i)^ -"s 1,000 miles a day. They
W® at d^wn each morning and
a long schedule. Said
Bonner, "While it
^aifficult, I feel that I and the
^e' ?^®'^hers who took this trip
' derived great benefits from
• Which should do much to
ijj , in our consiJeratioa of
*e htiportant legislation which
hsit soon consider and which
i „ ®rgeiy d’etermine the peace
'-oine.” /
‘^TEFIELD new
Master of lodge
^ Williams Elected Senior
arden at Meeting Thurs
day Evening
%
E. Whitfield, highway pa-
at Swan Quarter was
and installed as master of
‘>!t Quarter Masonic Lodge
liju ®rirsday evening. Mr. Whit-
ij j ^'^’Oceeds Bonner R. Lee who
serving in the Navy,
^’^stallation was made at an
^ ceremony in the iiodge
0
\ Williams, past Master of
li,j^°dge, a 32nd degree Mason,
!!i51 a veteran member of
id was elected and install-
J Senior Warden.
®stallation was made by
itid c'\. of New HolCiand
.'-berry Point.
I.
Mason
members accepted into the
and received their degrees
are Leslie
Charlie 'J. Cahoon and
Swindell
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Pearl Harbor Avenged-Power Wins
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NAVY’S SHIPS OF WAR
I BEAR NAMES HONORING
i COASTAL N. CAROLINA
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i SCOUTS SPEND
i WEEKEND AT
i KILL DEVIL HILL
ravii
from
FATEFUL DECEMBER 7, 1941
From the ashes of the Japs’ treacherous attack on Pearl
• arose the great U. S. battle fleets, the mightiest
■wer in the world, that completely swept Jap fleet
vne seas.
(Soundphoto)
TURNING POINT
i Boys Enjoy One of Best
' Canilporees Ever Held in
District; Many Visitors
Spectacular photographic record of the Battle of Midway
in which the U. S. fleet struck a crippling blow at the Japan
ese fleet. Picture shows unsuccessful Jap torpedo plane at
tack on U. S. Aircraft Carrier.
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AMERICAN
INDUSTRY
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REVEALED
iScouts of the East Albemarle
District returned to their homes
Sunday night after spending two
days at Kill Devil Hill in Dare
County where they attended one
of the mo.dt successful camporees
ever held in the district. Troops
at Elizabeth City, Currituck, Shi_
loh, Wanchese and Manteo were
Among the 61,045 ships of war
belonging to Uncle Sam’s Navy is a
large number bearing names ho
noring North Carolina. Among
them are those named for counties
and points in our coastland section.
Honoring tidewater North Car
olina are the escort carriers Core,
Bogue and Croatan, and the sea
plane tenders Albemarle,Currituck
and Onslow, all of them named
after bays or sounds; also the fuel
carrier Posquotank, named for a
river; the ferry Colington, named
for an island in Albemarle Sound,
and the aircraft supply ship Kitty
Hawk, named for the place where
the Wright brothers made their
pioneering flight.
Add to these the attactk-cargo
ship Tyrrell, and the attact-trans-
poured endless supplies to
the Pacific. Trucktractor
shown here, powered by fa
mous Continental Red Seal
engine, speeded movement of
equipment on the invasion
beaches. After war, same
modern equipment will go to
work to rebuild the world.
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The powerful CyclorOn
(atom smashing) machine
used by American scientists
in development of our great
est weapon, the atomic bomb.
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represented.
Outstanding feature of the pro- Carteret and Hyde, all three
gram was the Council Fire held for tidewater counties.
Saturday evening. Mayor Robert _ other places in North
Midgett of Manteo made a brief Carolina are the cruiser Raleigh,
talk an died the group in sing- Ashevill^ Charlotte,
T i. s, • and Greensboro* named for cities:
mg There were also talks oy Nantahala, Wautauga
District Commissmner Norman K. Hiwassee, named for rivers,
Shannonhou'se, field Scout exe-; following vessels named
I cutive Peter Carlton and Solid- ^ after inland counties of the Old
tor Chester Morris. I North State:
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Scoutmasters -and Scouters pre_
The attactk-cargo ships Alam-
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sented by Mr. Cannady were: ance, Caswell Chatham, Duplin.
Fred Harward, Chairman of Ad- Lenour, New Hanover, Stokes,
vancemenit Committee, East Al- Union and Yancey, and the attactk-
bemarle District; Chester Morris, transports Bladen, Clay, Edgecomb
Solicitor of the First Judicial Dis- Granville, Guilford, Harrett.Iredell
trict, Henry LeRoy, attorney from Mecklenburg, Pitt, Rockingham,
, Elizaibeth City; Dick Baer, Chair- Warren and Wayne.
; man West Albemarle District; the Of course heading shins bearing
I Rev. Vance Lewis of Wanchese North Carolina names is the mig-
I and the Rev. D. W. Charlton of hty battleship North Carolina,
j Manteo; John Ferabee, president commissioned in 1941.
of Manteo Rotary Club; Scout- named for places in the
I masters Dick Owney, Raymond Naval :District_ made un of
MERCILESS POUNDING OF JAPAN
by intrepid carrier planes (shown here), as well as by fleets
of mighty super-forts and naval bombardment, was greatest
•oncentration of air and sea power in the world.
(Soundphoto)
Collier, Joe Tucker,
: Brown, Dan Cannady; Assistant
’ Scoutrhasters Adrian Mathias,
i Melvin Jackson; Mate H. C. Win
der of Sea Scout Ship 164, Eliza
beth City; Committeemen John
' Sanderlin, Troop 153,
City.
Vernon Virginia, West Virginia.Maryland
and North Carolina total more than
100, a small part of our present
day Navy but a strong fo'>’ce by
the scale of what stood between
us and the .Tans after Pear! Harbor.
By the end of 1944, the total of
Elizabeth ghihs in the Navy had climbed to
61,046, including 54,026 landing
MIRACULOUS AMERICAN POWER
transformed Marine-won jungles and captured Japanese
islands into efficient air bases in breath-taking time. Con
tinental,'Who built engirie for machine shown here, is ready
with peace-time power for farms and industry; air, land and
sea transportation.
i The Sunday meeting included craft. In July 1945 a listing that
religious services conducted by did not include landing craft,
fhe Rev. Charlton of the Manteo district i^aft
Methodist church. ’
and small boats
showed the following figures:
22 battleships, 22 heavy cruisers,
50 other cruisers, 20 carriers, 8
light carriers and 70 escort carriers
373 destroyers. 14 “DM” mine-
I Dan Cannady of Troop 162 at
Manteo was in change of the camp
and won high praise for the way
in which it was conducted^ Dis- “DMS” minesweepers, 37
trict Scout Commissioner Norman
ports, 6 “AVD” tenders, 365 des-
SWAN QUARTER BOY ON IHATTERAS ISLAND
BATLE-SCARRED SHIP ^gg^RED POWER
first
David H. Gibbs, seaman,
class, of Swan Quarter, served a-
board the 2200-ton destroyer USS
SEED SMALL GRAIN | NEGRO HOTEL EMPLOYEE
CROP AT RIGHT TIME KILLED BY HIT-RUN DRIVER
AND LIGHT PLANT
Plan to plant small grain on
time or prepare to accept much woman, emipioyed at the Wilbur
lower yields per acre because of Wright Hotel at Nags Head, was
K. Shannonhouse declared it was
the best Camporee ever held in tj-oyer-escorts, 240 submarines, 592
the district during his tenure of jjlinecraft in addition to the DM
office. and DMS grouus, 1,262 patrol craft
I ; —“ and 1,555 auxiliaries plus the AG,
Mattie Pair, 20-year-olid Negro DARE SCHOOL OPENING APD and AVD types. And from
NOW SET FOR SEPT. 13 through 1945 more than 100,
OOO planes were produced for the
Tnwr^Kam which survived the fury i Donner Announces $142,000 the delay in planting, say Exten- killed on the beach highway Mon- Opening of Dare County .Navy. „ , ^ ^
• • - - ‘ ' - • , _ 1 T.17. i> giQjj agronomists at State College, day night by a hit and run driver. Schools is now planed for Thurs- coHosal cost of
They point to the three-year The Enrjporia, Va.,-woman was re- day, September 13th, it was an- this arma .a may be g.eaned from a
Appropriated for REA
Project
JAbix berry at
hEMERTON, WASHINGTON
h 'hg-) Jabin G. Berry, USN,
^ ’'^gelhard, has reported for
duty in the Industrial
Sa^‘'^®ent of the Puget Sound
*5*0 Bremerton, Wash-
Where the mightiest war-
))if" ^ the Pacific Fleet are re-
}j.^ and overhauled.
-itg'’ “'Other, Mrs. Martha Berry,
(' and children, Dorinda,
^an, 12; and Luther, 9. live
f Selhard.
1/ Berry has spent the last
aiboard a repair ship in
^ific. He has been in the
' since 1922.
''^Txixg strikes home
SWAN QUARTER MAN
struck the home of
near Swan Quarter
(August 16) during a
\ ® ^’tectricall storm that struck
)ijj.“®dtion. A. bed and curtains
W ®®t afire, but the blaze was
y extinguished.
of a Kamikaze suicide plane at- j
tack off Okinawa and came back ;
to the States battered and charred j
but under her own power. | in a telegram to the editor of
he Ingraham was hit broadside newspaper Wednesdy, Con-
by one of seven Japs which pealed gj.gsg„j,an Herbert -Bonner said
off from a group of 70 to 80 that $142,000 had been approved
and roared into finish her on. In beA project on Hatteras
two minutes she had knocked six This assures the citizens
of the attackers into the sea, but -Buxton, Waves and Ro-
the seventh ramimed into the ship, - ^j^nthe of eleotri-c power.
kil’Jing 15 and wounding 30 of the Bonner’s telegram read:
ship’s crew. The plane’s , >k,eA has today allotted to Hat-
exploded in a -generator room. , island Electric Membership |
^ I Cooperative Avon Dare County
MUSEUM GIVEN NEW $82,000 for distribution line and
R.4TTLESNAKt ^qq^oOO for construction of gen-'
,, ' erating facilities project NC-64.”
A canebrake rattlesnake— three Hatteras Island power line
X lit. T vv w4..^w v.k.i.j.ww ^ x:jii-i,/t»i 10, V a., 'wuiiiaii W'da ic- j ' _ j. j* i it ,
records of the Agricultural Ex- turning from the Croatan Hotel nounced this week^ by Supt. R. I. ^
periment Station at the Piedmont where she had attended a party iss^u^ tbe fleef’-stated unoffically but with
following statement: » |
will o nthe avera-se bring The badly mangled body was Dare County Schools will open
planting will o nthe average bring vFillie Midgett, ™ Tbiirsdav Sentember 13th. ^elided were
in y.nW varying from ^.11 D.vll mili
oL SS on November 15 O-ara Station, .1 1:30 Tuee. oro.r.m adooled for North Car
Test Farm, Statesville, to show at Ithe servants quarters,
that delay of 30 to 45 days in
yielded 26.4 bushels per acre for
the three-year period as compar
ed with 61.2 bushels when plant
ed October 1. There was a gain
of 34.8 bushels per acre for 45
days difference in planting.
When the same test was made
for barley, the difference was 13.6
bu-hels per acre. Late planting
cut the yield 33 per cent.
feet long—has -been presented to i gg r. ^ „ v,... 1
the State Museum by Dr. John E. is understood that no location' ° under-iaker. The Highway aPtrol
Foster of the Animal Husbandrj planting produced . " , " J. was-also no’tified.
Department at State College, it
jrisrry,
program adopted for
day morning. She is reported to olina schools, our schools will par-
h-ave left the Croatan shortly be- ticinate. in so far as possible. We
fore midnight. shall endevor to meet the require-
There were no definite clues as ments of the State Department of
to the identity of the vehicle, Public Instruction,
which is reported to have carried
or thrown the body 20 feet.
Coroner Marvin Rogers of Man
teo examined the body and or
dered it removed to the Kill Dev.
il Hi-li- CG Station to await an
some d-^geree of accuracy.
-As for personnel, the totals as the
Navv. 3,388.6.56;
Marine Corns, 478 000; Coast
Guard. 171.076. The Naw’s tofol
cons’stod of 2.862, 971 reservists
378.263 regular navy,and 147,322
inductees.
In the Navy there were 311,030
male officers. 2.984.655 enlisted
-A very definite and detailed 8.415 Wave officers,73.000
course of study will be placed in enlisted Waves, and 11,000 nurses,
announced by Director
of the plant.
j. MerrJbers of the REA Corpora-
Davis. I tion are -Ho-mer Gray, Curtis Gray,
According to Davis, she may be- Luther Hooper, C. P. Gray, E. P.
come the "war bride of To]o,, Midgett and Acy Gray.
the large canebrake who has been : ;
a ibatchelor for 10 years. !
Dr Foster also presenlted to the CEILING STOLEN FROM
museum a dead canebrake, five , AVALLS OF CLUB PROPERTIES
feet long. The snake now is be
ing mounted for exhibitio nin the
poisonous snake display.
Dr. Foster got the snakes
aare for the October 15 planting.
! The agronomists call special at
tention to the need for observing
Hessian fly-ifree dates in planting
j wheat, as determined -by the Ex-
I tension entomolobist, J. Myron
' Maxwell. For the Mountains,
these dates are October 1 to 15;
I Piedmont, October 5 to 24; and
MANTEO welcomes
NEWS THAT WAR
each school. Any deviation from
the course of study will cause mis
understanding and failure to com-
nlete the P-escribed Course of study
in four years.
North Carolina,, as increased
salaries of teachers, Princinals and
j other school employees. However,
'the salaries naid to sueb emnloyees
are not sufficient to meet the com
petition of higher salaries paid by
Annroximately two thirds of the
Navy’s personnel, or 2,232.400,
■'•er° ■'•of.pntly reported to be serv
ing afloat.
FUNERAL FOR MRS.
TILLETT TO BE FRID.AY
Funeral services for Mrs. Coi-
inda Alice 'j7',llett, 72, will be held
HAS COME TO END some Government agencies and by today (Friday, August 17th) at
private enterprise. Therefore, the Wanchese Mbthodist chmch
about one fourth of the 225,000
teachers in the United State,® have
in America, w’e-lcomed the news (,p teaching profession.
at
fhat the war had ended with mix- -^yg need the sunnort of all the
A reward of $100 is being offer- f^j. yi0 Coastal Plain October 20 to I ed emotions. Some yelled; some people in the crisis facing the
ed for information leading to the, 27. 'sang; others were quiet. 1 'school system.
arrest and conviction of the partyy Maxwell points out that these | A few -minutes a-fter President Y^our bov oi^ girl is Ameriea’s
I W nona during a trip to inspect! or p-arties who have been looting; apply from west to east, and | Truman made the announcement most \>nluable asset.
I ome livestock experiments. He I the Buxton and Kinnekeet clubs, north to south. For exam-'’””""''"" +v,q c.,,.qv, r,r, rVia
Lid that the high water in the , The thieves not only have taken' wheat should not ,be planted
■fixture!, ibut the ceiling from the , +he northwestern section of the
walils of one entire room. It is piedmont bdfore October 5; and
, said that
twamps, caused toy recent rams,
drove the rattle snake population
to the drainage canal banks in
search of dry grounds. The rat
tlesnakes were so -plentifulu, he
said, that two were caught alive
and three large ones were kiLed
within a short distance and with
M-ttle effort.
Alalbam-a suggests 1,500 bream
and 100 ibasS in stocking an acre
of .fertilized pond; 400 bfe^m and
30 bass, if not fertilized.
believed they came in boats and
took the loot away.
in the southeastern section before
October 24.
THREE WTIITE MEN LEAVE
FOR INDUCTIO-N UESDAY 1 had Thursday for a- holiday.
JOHN GORDON RECENTLY
PROMOTED TO 1ST LIEUT.
John G .Gordon of Manteo has j
been promoted from 2nid to lst| Three Dare County white men
lieutenant in his 155th Infantry j left Tuesday for induction into the
Regiment of the Slst Division, j armde forces. They were Thurs-
Prpmotion for -the former con-, ton Midgett of Stumpy Point, Wil-
stniction foreman came', on July , liam- Austin of Hatteras and Char-
29. ' (les Allen HoweJl' of Buxton.
Tuesday evening, the siren on the
fire 'truck was sounded. Motorists DARE SHERIFF INJURF-D
blew their horns. Many were out IN AVREC KTHURSDAY
on the streets shouting. But by , Sheriff-Editor D. Victor Meek-
nine o’clock the town was quiet. 1 ins of Manteo was painfully in-
Most business houses and pub'- jured Thursday afternoon when
lie offices were closed Wednesday, the Chevrolet truck he was driv.
and the Federal departments also ^ ing overturned on the highway
near Manteo. First aid was ad
ministered at the Naval Air Sta-
iSome 7 million workers in man- ' tion, and on Friday Mr. Meekins
ufacturing industries are now be- was removed to Leigh Memorial
ing served food in the plants Hospital in Norfolk, where he is
where they work. In some plants ^-ffering from concussion, shock
albsehfeSisrti and accidents ’ have and bruises. -He suffered no
been materially reduced. broken bones.
wHh Rev. V. A. Lev/:s, pastor, of
ficiating. Interment will be in the
Ti-ilett cemetery.
Mrs. Tillett, a life long resident
of Wanchese, passed away at her
home AVedne,s-dia-y night at 11
o’clock following a lingering ill
ness. ■ ,She was the daughter of
the late Peter and Caroline Dan
iels Gallop of Wanchese and wid
ow of the late Willitt M. Tillett.
She was a memlber of the Wan
chese Methodist church.
iS'urviving are five sons, Dallas,
Sigsbee, Peter, Billie and Regi
nald Tillett, al of Wanchese; five
sisters, Mrs. Dora Davis, Mrs. -Car
rie Green, Mrs. Martha Etheridge,
Mrs. Lillie Daniels and Mrs. Eliza
Tillett, al of Wanchese; and two
.brolthers Ezekiel and Leslie Gal
lop, botti of Wanchese; several
grandchildren, nieces and neph
ews.
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