THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
news op the richest agricultural county in the foremost historical and :ECREATiONAL area of north CAROLINA
'1. VII; No. 11
'Hn quarter
OES CELEBRATES
iWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1945
oouy b Cents
POWERFUL BATTLESHIP NAMED FOR TAR
HEEL STATE WON ENVIABLE WAR RECORD
FIRST BIRTHDAY
Swan Quarter Chapter, No.
Order of the Eastern Star,
®'bpated its first birthday at
regular meeting, Thanksgiving
with 33 members and three
“tors present.
^rs. Maude Jones gave the
‘Shiights of the First Year’s
lighting the candle on the
^iJtifui birthday cake with the
i“tematic star in coiors on top
; the cake. The Chapter has
from 36 to 45 members. i
Jtie Orphanage Committee,
’■'iposed of Mrs Esther Spencer,
j®hman, Mrs. Mellis-sa Sadler
^ Mrs. Rosalyn Cahoon were in
of the Thanksgiving pro-
„5>n. Mrs. Virginia Crabtree
a beautiful Thanksgiving
while Mrs. Frances Gibbs
^ Mrs. Delle iSwindell rendered
. appropriate solo, accompanied ■
Mrs. Byrda Lee at the piano. |
special Thanksgiving offering i
1 ® taken for the Oxford Or-1
^hage and the Masonic and;
^tern Star home. The mem-'
also brought bags of pecans
Sent to the Orphanage. |
^tie degrees of the Order were |
spred on Mrs. Irene O’Neal j
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QUAIL SAID TO BE
PLENTIFUL IN HYDE
Opening of Season Finds, Short
age of Shells Biggest Problem
for Hunters
■
! impressive candlelight ser-!
Miss Iberia Roach, Worthy!
f^tpon and 'Wm. I. Cochran,
^^tthy Patron, presided in the ^
i.'^he hall was beautifully decor-
with evergreens, chrysanthe- j
' flowm's L ^th^nvrcolorT^in SLEEK, TRIM AND POWERFUL, the battleship U 'S North Carolina was the first of the ^ •
Ealt class of 35,000-ton men-o’-war. She won her spur in the So'omons helping repulse Jap ®«empts to ; compiled by the Bureau of Agri-
hostesses were Mr. and land on Guadalcanal. Throughout the combat actions that followed she wo nacc-aim as a first line ; cultural
Willie Grey Cahoon and fighting ship, hanging up an enviable record,
and Mrs. Henry C. Boomer - r
Huntesr and farmers in Hyde
county say that quail are plenti
ful in the fields and woods this
year, with prospects bright for
some good shooting when the sea
son opens Thanksgiving Day,
November 22. The greatest prob
lem facing hunters is the shortage
of small shot.
iFor many the hunting season
does not open until it becomes
legal to kill quail and rabbit, and
the first day of open season on
these attracts many to the woods
and wifelds. The shortage of
"bird” shells this year is expected
to keep many from enjoying the
hunting—the only kind they ever
do.
Bea rand heer hunters in Hyde
county have had good shooting
this season, but wildfowly hunt
ers have had tough luck with the
sunny, calm weather permitting
the ducks to stay out of range.
Goose shooting has been espec
ially poor.
mm HOMi am% r^vew
YEAR OF GOOD WORK
AT COO^TY-WiDE MEETING
Annual Achievement Day Program Held In Swan
Quarter School Auditorium Wednesday Even
ing With Mrs. Estelle T. Smith of Raleigh As
Guest Speaker; Tiny Oak Club Wins Prize As
Outstanding Club of 1945
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MRS. SMITH SPEAKS
AT HYDE MEETING
FARMERS PAYING $3.40
A DAY FOR THEIR LABOR
North Carolina farmers are
paying an average of $3.40 a day
for their labor, according to
Frank Parker, head of the Sta
tistics division of the State De
partment of Agriculture.
Basing his estimate on figures
"'*ho
^ served cake and ice cream PTA ACTIVE
’■'hg the social hour.
^^^IIVIERS URGED TO
VOTE IN ELECTIONS
IN HELPING SCHOOL'
Shades to Be Provided for All
Rooms; Program By Second
and Third Grades
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY |NEW ENTERPRISES
IN THE SPARS
that the daily wage irate for hired
j I'alborers is 40 cents higher than
j a year ago. However, it is still
I 99 cents lower tha nthe $4.39 av-
FOR SWAN QUARTER I erage for the country as a whole.
Farmers who furnish labor with
MRS. ESTELLE T. SMITH, assis-.
tant State Home Agent, of Ral
eigh was guest sipeaker at the an
nual Achievement Day program
of Hyde County Home Demon
stration clubs held in the Swan
'^'biunity AAA Committeemen
Be Chosen November 30th
Two Buildings Now Under Con- ! estimated $2.85 per
i i I 'iay as compared with $2.o0 for
struction^^Oj^ster Houses 1 October of 1944. |
** j Monthly farm wage rates in i It was Miss Smith’s first trip to j Quarter, Hyde County home a-
The first joint Achievement
night program given by Hyde
County Home Demonstration
clubs was held Wednesday even
ing, November 21st, in the Swan
Quarter high school auditorium
with Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, assis
tant State Home Agent, as guest
speaker. Approximately 1'25 peo
ple from all parts of the county
attended with 12 of the 13 home
clubs represented.
The meeting began at 7:30 with
Mrs. W. E. Noble of Scranton,
president of the County Federa
tion, presiding. The invocation
was by the Rev. J. C. Chaffin,
pastor of Providence Methodist
church. Mrs. J. A. Lee, presi
dent of the, Swindell Fork Club,
delivered the address of welcome,
with Mrs. Ben Harris, president
of the Ponzer club, making the
response.
Greetings came from Mrs. R. F.
Baynese of Fairfield, chairman of
the 15th District Federation of
H. D. C., and J. P. Woodard of
Swan Quarter, Hyde County farm
agent.
Mrs. iBen Gibbs, president of
the Nebraska club and secretary
of the County Council, conducted
the roll call and gave the achieve
ment report, which was followed
by the introduction of the speak-
Quarter school auditorium Wed
nesday evening, November 21st. j er by Miss Iberia Roach of Swan
The Avon Parent Teacher Asso-
elation held its third meeting of
^ery eligible farmer in North the year on Thursday afternoon,
’'«lina should atten da AAA November 15, Mrs. Percy Wi-
i^'tion meeting in his commun- Hams presiding.
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c North Carolina are now running I Hyde County since World War I
y _ 9 -“"Av,- ripijr fiU a'round $65 without board and ! when she visited in this section
ture. Construction is now un- j ^^^^h beard. giving demonstrations on canning,
derway on frame buildings to! The average U. S. farm wage ^
? November 30 and take part
A short program was presented
■ kaming his AAA community l^y the second and third g.rades,
.Vitteemen for the coming after which the business was dis-
I. O Schaub, director State cussed. . , -
Service, said today. ^ The first project of the year
of the most important jobs f^as been to raise money to pr -
'“ig the newly e’ected commit- vide shades for the school build-
as jS 4e the oath ol mg. It wa. t.part. db, .the Ittsas-
''e will be to determine best urer that sufficient funds had
, '^ttce to meet the neds of the been raised, and the shades or-
and distribute the alloca- dered. Now,_ for the first time
ef funds that has been allot- every boom in the building will
^ to the counties and communi- have shades.
v'" that individual farms will 'At the October meetmg it was
^‘eve conservation assistance decided that the ca^ains of the
*«6d n^P.H5 Besides two money-raising teams should
f actual ne . ^.^art an apron through the com- Freda Brinkley Midgett, daugh-
■'“at f ^^nvercion of munity. Mrs. Fulcher Scarbor- ter of Mrs. Frank Midgett of Wah-
’'otth n" 7 Inland from ough and Mrs. Charlie WUlUams chese and granddaughter of
^^a ;ba?™ “"%frj^iroducSon were the captains, and Mrs. Scar- Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mid-
^ wUI be faced borough’s apron held the largest gett pof Mantea recently cele-
'jumitteemen I donation, after passing through brated her birthday and the end
other postwar ' community. She turned in $19.45 of her first year in the Spars.
a ttin ad^ of the total of 028.77. This month Miss Midgett emlited in ^Norfolk,
l^^Juities, and production ad ^ November 2, 1944, as ap-
“ib - ' .Tibe primary room won the at- prentice Seaman. She received
lie uicii tendance banner for having the her boot training at Palm Beach,
PH I. b,. ’ largest 'number of parents pres- Florida. At the end of her train-
1 niinDort ent The fourth, fifth and sixth ing period she was transferred to
" the grade room wofi tbe banner in Seattle, Washington, with a rat-
e’ig;'b-e farmer m tbe g ^ Last
m - ' 1 July Miss Midgett was transfer-'
W *'°^™atly 350,00 a I .red to the Coast Guard office in
i>rs are eligible to cast hallo s SCOUTS TO RUN ! Washington, D. C. She comes from
1,733 AAA community el- coUNTY AND TOWN FOR DAY ^ jjne of Coast Guardsmen,
^bgibility to vo e re , , un- t ®^'er grandfather, W. B. Midgett,
Crt '? ^0 farmers who partici- Scouts of Manteo Loast Guard for 32
m the agricultural conser- i@2 will take over the .
hand Federal crop insurance j.gigns of government in the Town ;
^'■hhi. I of Manteo and in the Dare Coun- \
" ' ty offices, on Tuesday, November ; MORE FRUITS FOR
ernnoT PRINCIPAL 27. It is a nationwide practice i CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR
IN Z^TEO ON VISIT for Scouts to be designated to fiU |,
.these offices for one day out o , examination or prospects
rate per month with board is ,$84, i GAME OFFICIALS
compared with $76.40 a year ago, j ENJOY HYDE MEETING
and without board it is $95.70 as ^ iviLitiysu
against $86.80 last fall.
' house them. One is to be an au
[ I tomobile repair shop and the oth-
1' er a farm machine shop.
Leland G. Car.awan, a Swan
Quarter man who is a good ma
chinist, is building a frame build-
ing next to the East Carolina, , , , , , . .
M X, * , 4.U ■„ largely because of heavy rams in
I Bank on the main tsreet where ° , x, xx •/ , .
Parker said that national farm ! Findl^ey Host-
employment is about seven per To Officials From Eight
cent lower tha na year ago—
i,, many areas of the United States
I he will operate a farm machine | iix.
Farm employment in the South is
down nine per cent from last
While wage rates for the U. S.
^!shop. Back of Tunnell’s store
iBil! Kensie of Jacksonville is with a decrease of a,nnrnxi
I building a frame building which ,
j will house his automobile repair
business with the latest equip-
I ment. Kensie live-d at Swan j whole are 245 ner cent hi?h-
Quarter and Engelhard i e rthan for the 1910-14 period,
years ago w en which is considered average, they
highway patrol. ^
Oyster shucking bouses on he Carolina
waterfront owned by Rouse Lup- , higher” than last
ton and R. B. Burrus have re- “ey are some nigner tnan last
cently been enlarged to handle a summer.
larger volume of oysters.
States This Week
John D. Findley, State Game
and Inland Fisheries Commission
er, formerly manager of Lake
j Mattamuskeet Wildfowl Refuge,
mately 2,500,000 pounds in the 1 was host to m-s.mbers of the
quantity of cotton to be picked. I Southeastern Association of Game
k, to the magnitude of these
Ob]
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'"'lems,” Schaub said, “the men
b^Wnard W. IJuggins,
J$Sdhigh'?Mv?rtithboth^ fill
former each year. _ | f^j. fJ.^jf fgj. Christmas holi-
school, I Scoutmaster D. L. Cannady wi. ; days was made recently by work-
|C''®hts and parents, -and who offices later.
called to the colors by Uncle
■‘"'''thi;
29 months ago, came to Man- PLANS TO ATTEND
CHAPEL HILL MEETING,
s week for a visit. Mr.
has been wit hthe Air
Office of the Army Air i L. Roper of Swan Quar
ers in the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service of the N. C. De
partment of Agriculture, and they
came up with the assertion that
raisins will be more plentiful
than last year, and so will oran- \
ges, tangerines, grapes, and pe-!
will be
AVON HONOR ROLL
The following are pupils of the
Avon school who made an aver- |
MRS. D. E. EVANS ILL
IN GOLDSBORO HOSPITAL
and Fish Commissioners at Mat
tamuskeet Lodge at New Holland
early this week. Representatives
from eight states were present.
Th eparty, which arrived Sun
day and met through Tuesday,
gent.
Mrs. Smith spoke on “Building^
A Better Tomorrow,” pointing out
the role rural women will- p'ay.
During the course of her talk she
told of a visit to Hyde back dur
ing World War I in which she
was sent to the county to give
demonstrations on canning food,
one of which was held-in the yar-d
of T. J. Mann at Lake Landing..
Following Club OfficersSHtR3-J
Club Officers
-Following Mrs. Smith's speech.
Miss Roach conducted an impres
sive ceremony installing club of
ficers. -Fo-ur green candles were
used representing courage, char
acter, culture and citizenship. The
following local c’ub officers light
ed their candles from the four
large ones while soft music was
played by Mrs. Carolyn Harris of
Mrs. D. E. Evans of Manteo is
age of 90 during the second- month , seriously ill in the Goldsboro
of school i hospital, Goldsboro, N. C. She
Fifth grade: Rita Janette Scar- j -underwent an operation on Mon-
borough I November 5, and was report-
Eighth grade: Tilmam Ray.ed-, recuperating satisfactorily
Gray Harry Gray, Belle Price,! when pneumonia set in. Mr.
Gera’d Williams. j Evans was called to her bedside
Ninth grade: ’ Elizabeth Gray,' this week when she became
Faye Gray. ; worse. She is reported to be
Tenth grade: Edison Meekins. ' slowly getting better.
COTTON PICKED FOR $1.25 PER
100 POUNDS BY MECHANICAL PICKER
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Working out o Washington, j Hyde County Veterans Ser-1 cans. H-owever, apples
... ’■eceived his honorable dis-, . ’ officer plans to attend the short. _ j
on October 21, with the Veterans Sercie Offi- The apple crop this year is only:
^7 Of Sergeant,' at Seymour ; conducted by the In- j about half of the 1944 harves and
'“Ison Field, Goldsboro N. C. j ^^tute of Government for the N.! is considerably less than the 1934-]
^ ' C Veterans Commission, in Chap- 43 average
el Hill next week. He will leave The early orange crop is seven
Monday, November 26th. per cent larger than last year.
Training received at tha school
NOrtOlK 1 H/Tx Bnnpr tO give
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BIRTHS
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fh to Mr. -and Mrs. Kenneth i to’"HydrCounty men
>m at the U. S. Naval Hos-, va^le % y
Norfolk, October 31, a son.
The baby
! returning from war service with
the armed forces.
nipe pounds, 11 ounces.
I n Ns MERCHANT MARINES
Peele, son of Mr. and Mrs.
^field Peele of Manteo, was
9 to -duty with th-e Merchant
in October, after volun-
for that branch of service,
service in Norfolk, and
. “ts to make an ocean
hatteras navy man
VISITS HIS HOME
th(
hear future.
Myron Ballanee, USN, arrived
at Hatteras Friday to spend a 30
day leave with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Isaih Ballanee. He has
„„ been with the Navy for some time
"voyrge and- has recently been m the
South Pacific.
and the grape crop is somewhat
larger. Although Noth Carolina
leads all southern states except
Arkansas in the production of
grapes, it depends almost wholly
on California for its Christmas
supply.
Otis Mason of Engelhard arriv
ed home this week with his dis
charge from the Army after 26
months of service overseas.
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enjoyed hunting and jnsnection 1
trips during the day -and held second name vice presi-
discussion sessions at night. Co-M®"N and hir-d name secretary):
operation looking-toward uniform! K-ladesville - Mrs. Linwood
protective measures in game pre-jLupton, Mrs Sam Spencer and
servation was the keynote of the NIrs. Carson MMyette. Rose Bay
session. -Mrs. E. E. Hodges, Mrs^Belle
Jordan and Mrs. Pau* O neal.
j Lake Landing—^Mrs. T. J. Mann,
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD ! Mrs. W, W. Payne and Mrs. C B.
MONDAY FOR HAROLD NEAL Swindell. Swan Quarter—Mrs.
Linwood Tunneil, Miss Mildred
Funeral services for Haro’d Sne-nrer and Mrs. Ray Cahoon.
Neal, 59-year-old farmer and Tiny Oak—‘Mrs. E. A. Wi’liams,
merchant of the White Plains sec- Mrs. Lewis Cahoon and Mrs. Es-
tion of Lake Larfding township sie- Credle. Fairfield—Mrs. C. F.
in Hyde County, were held at the Gill, Mrs. J. L. Simmons and Mrs.
home Monday morning at 11 j, L. Blake. Nebraska—Mrs. Ben
o’clock wi 'h the Rev. F. R. Davis, G bbs, Mrs. Bessie Boomer and
Methodist pastor assistrd by the Mrs. Geneva P-ayne. Swind-ell
Rev. J. C. Chaffin and the Rev. Fork—Mrs. Claude Boomer. Mrs.-
C. K .Wright, Mstho-dist ministers Malcolm Swindell, Mrs. Bonner
from Swa-n Quarter and Columbia Liee and Mrs. Mi’.-Jred Askew,
respectively, officiating. Inter- treasurer. Pleasant Grove—Mrs.
ment was in Fu’ford cemetery at Walter Lee Gibbs, Mrs. Oscar
Engelhard. Payne and Mrs. Theo’a Spencer.
Mr. N-ea! passed a-^ay at his ponzsr—Mrs. Ri'.y Wi li-a-ms, Mrs.
home Saturday night following a e. J. Clayton and Mrs. -S. R. C'ay-
short illness. He was a lif-e-long ton. Engelhard—Mrs. T. J. Ether-
resident of Hyde County. idge, Mrs. J. H. Jarvis and Mrs.
Surviving are his wife, two ^igx Mann. North Lake—Mrs. A.
daughters, Geraldine a-nd June, q. B-erry, Mrs. C. D. Smith and
of Lake Landing; two brothers, jyjrs, W. P. Lewis.
Sam and Luke, -of Engelhard: and After the candles were lighted,
two sisters, Mrs. John Spencer of j, c. Chaffin of the Swin-
Wilmington and Miss Belle Neal dell.Fork Club sang appropriate
cf Engelhard. words to the tune of “He AU
Pallbearers were Liston Harris, xhos-e fin-de-aring Charms.”
Harry Harris, L"tham Jarvis, Ro- xiny Oak Wins
man Patrick, Tom Marshall and Following the i-nstaUaticn cere-
By planting both Blakemore and
Massey strawberries, the bearing
season can be lengthened.
'THE M-BQHANJCAL COTTON RICKER, shown here in a Robeson
County field, can harvest as much as 85 p.er cent -as much cotton
from the plants as hand pickers. The ma-chine is picking cotton this
year for $1.25 per hundred pounds. It is owned by the Libert Man
ufacturing Company of Red Springs.
The machine w*!!! aid Southern c-otton farmers to compete with
other cotton growing countries where labor is cheap. On the other
hand, however, it will throw thousands of low income groups out
of seasonal work and pose economic problems that will become grave
I as -the use of the machine spreads and becomes generally used.
Will Marshal’.
ITNDERGOES OPERATION
Affi-e Lee Midgett, seven-year-
monies ,awards were presented
far various club and individual
achievements. The Tiny Ork club
of Swan Quarter township was
nld -daurh'er of Mr. and Mrs. awarded the $25 War Bond prize
7,ora IMid.aett of.lVlantGO a pa- for be'ng -the most outstanding
tient in Norfolk -General Hospit- club in Hyde Co-unly in 1945. A
•>', having undergone an. opera- v-avel was given the Ponzer club
‘io-n Wednesday morning. She is for having the best attendance
"enorted to be recuperating nice- based on mileage -and enrollment,
ly. Her mother is at her be.dslde. They will hold it until the 1946
. Achievement program. Going to
Coastal Bermuda grass is one th-e Nebraska club was a book
of the most promising new for- kiven by the B. H. M. Regional
age plants for North CaroUna. It Library for having read the most
produces practically no seed and books during the year. For best
has to be increased by plantiny club reporting meetings for pub-
stolons. (Please turn to page four)