THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
tHE NEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1945
FROM ARTIST’S DRAWING OF NEW ICE PLANT IN MANTEO
^OL. VII; NO. 14
iiORTH CAROLINA |
TAX RECEIPTS I
RISE SHARPLY
Gasoline Tax Bringing In
Larger Revenue With |
Rationing Ended ■
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Highway and genera! fund rev-
'tiues totaling $37,825,689.70 have
^en collected during the first
months of the current fiscal
^®ar, an increase of 13.26 per cent
$4 430 733.73 over the same pe-
'iod ’ last year. State Revenue
^nrimissioner Edwin Gill an-
’'“unced. . '
November collections in the'
''^0 funds totaled $8,093,497.99 of,
*'hich $4,926,146.18 went into the j ' __ __ , ,
General fund. The November to- , Pliillllipilili® . Li ■'' ii;1
was an increase of $1,404,- |ii|ii:iifi|i|iiii!iL||y:;l:;|:|.lLlLii\:iLLlLL:!iLilill^
®H.26, of 21 per cent over the' ^ -
*®ihe mcbth last year. Gill said.' lyjpiiyilllilllllliiyilliyilgQsyEyyifl .ll
With the end of the war and
appreciably more civilian goods - i.oLL_
rv''^iump^^^*'fro^ MANTEO'S new ice plant now j builders in the State, to boss the , to build the place, and promises
■ ^ ^ under construction is going to be j job. The picture herewith is from ' .Manteo, the finest ice plant in
something out of the ordinary. A. ® sketch of the building j gg North Carolina. Food
, ... . I as it will look when completed, I
H. Ward said he was going to | reproduce very 1 Iccker space and storage space
build something that would be a ^ plainly. The materials are being | will be available in the plant. It
credit to this section, so he hired i asembled on the ground, and the j will be located on the west side
an architect to draw a plan and foundation is being pc*ured. Mr. j of the highway at Manteo, and
he got Bob Scarborough of Wan- Ward considers himself fortun- 1 will occupy most of a lot 90x150
chese who is one of the ablest ate in getting Mr. Scarborough' feet.
Single Copy 5 Cents
R.
I. CHURCHES PLAN
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
MANTEO GIRL COLLEGE
GLEE CLUB MEMBER
Special Sermons aild Music to
Mark Y’uletide Season; Pro
grams by Young People
•“VC S SaitfS ItXA. J
’',&84,921.94 in November, 1944,
^ $2,365,946.35 last month,
“Ringing the total derived from
's sc*urce during the first five
J'onths of the fiscal year to $9,-
’^,087.46, compared with $8,-
*2'1,738.37 for the same period
5st ygar.
.Most of the revenue classifica-
‘‘ons within the general fund
allowed increases over November,
including inheritance, privi-
‘^ge, income, beverage. The fran-
'*i>se tax total dropped from $1,-
“47,480,06 in November last year
$839,325.25 for the same month
‘’>>8 year.
With the end of gasoline ra-
^^ning revenue from the state*s
on gasoline increased from
*^.962,966 90 in November, 1944
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SHIRLEY MANN WEDS
THOMAS S. JORDAN
MRS. A. H. DAVEPORT, 88
DIES EARLY FRIDAY A. M.
Miss Shirley Mann of Manteo I '^rs. Sydney Ambrose Daven-
became the bride of Thomas S.' Po^t, 88, wife of A. H. Daven-
Jordan, CM 2c, UlSN, in a quiet Port of Manteo, died at her home
ceremony at nine o’clock Friday 3t)out 6:30 Friday morning. She
evening, December 14, at her, Had been an invalid for several
home in Manteo. j years, and several weeks
The vows were spoken to Rev. suffered a severe
JENNETTE’S COTTAGES
ARE BROKEN OPEN
The Yuletide season will be
celebrated in the churches ofl Ro
anoke Island with special serm
ons and music, and programs bj
ihe young people.
R. I. Baptist
On Sunday, December 16, the
Sunbeams of the Roanoks Island
Baptist Church- will give a pro
gram after the Sunday School
service.
Sunday evening of the same
date, the W. M. S. and Aid Socie
ty will give a pageant, “Girdling
the Earth with Light,” after
which the pastor. Dr. G. A. Mar
ti, will bring a message on Mis
sions.
Sunday morning, December 23,
will bring a Christmas message
from the pastor, and Sunday eve
ning the B.T.U. will have charge
of the cantata service.
Manteo Baptist
Rev. Frank Dinwiddle of the
Manteo Baptist Church will on
Sunday morning, Dec. 23, deliv
er a special Christmas sermon
PLANS SHAPE UP
FOR GREAT DAY
DECEMBER 17TH
Many Fighter Planes Expect
ed on 42nd Anniversary
First Flight
Melvin Daniels, Miles Clark, A.
W. Drinkwater, Ben MacNeil and
others who are active in the Kill
Davil -Hills Memorial Association
are expecting a notable celebra
tion at Kill Devil Hills Monday,
December 17th, in honor of the
42nd anniversary of the first
airplane flights.
Commander Frank A. Davis of
the Manteo Naval Air Station is
also taking an active part and
the Manteo airport may see as
many as 200 planes, including
many of the latest fighters that
day.
The Elizabeth City High School
—Tt - 1 TVT-J « -.T ^ I band will ,be brought to K. D.
“Taarjalene Midgett, of Manteo, Hills for the ceremonies. A sea-
a sophomore at Greensboro Col- fc^d dinner will be provided at
lege who IS ma]oring m voice' the First Colony Inn under tha
^d mmonng m Public Scho^. able direction of Mr. and Mrs.
Music is a member of both the c. P Midgett
_ Glee Club and Sextet. They have, Distinguished visitors may in-
recently been on a tour having elude Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of
and special Christmas music will’ in Statesville, Reids- the Army Air Forces Admiral P.
be rendered. The evening service L N. L. Bellinger of the Navy, Lt.
will be a carol service, led by Marjalene sang a solo Gen. James Doolittle, and many
the junior choir. On Christmas a others.
the sextet. A radio program is
Wanchese Brothers Held for En- 1
try; Army Officer Beaten Up j
The Next Week
Eve, there will be a Christmas
tree for the children, with spe
cial music and other seasonal
features.
Manteo Methodist
Rev. D. W. Charlton of the
Manteo Methodist -Church has an
nounced a Christmas program to
be given by the young people on
1 weeks age Gene and Dick Daniels, two, evening December 21 at oocieiy ana me vars
attack of fiujy°ung Wanchese men, the form-L.gQ^ Sunday morning bt Marjalene
scheduled soon and an exchange
concert.
Midge, as she is called in
schcol, is a member of the
Greensboro West Market Metho
dist Church Choir, is on the Stu
dent Council, the Y. W. C. A.
Cabinet, a member of the Emer
son Society and the varsity bas-
the
MRS. J. O. BASNIGHT
IS DINNER HOSTESS
Mrs. Nevln Wescott Honored Bjr
Two Small Daughters at Sur
prise Party
Mrs. J. O. Basnight was hostess
daughter' of’’Mrs.''llazeT Midgett ^ dinner party Thursday night
Twyne and -Samuel E. Midgett of Manteo, honoring
Manteo. Mrs. Twyne has receiv- ^usbad and Mrs. Nevin Wes-
” two letters from Dr. L L celebraUng
ed
D. W. Charlton, pastor of the which she failed to recov-1 ®^.7ust out of the service,, are j Charlton will
$2,882,332.61 in the same Manteo Methodist Church. White er. Funeral services will be lield °®^S^®“® ^lai luesaay oe-1 ^ -Christmas sermon, and
'**'^ath this year, while gasoline gladioli and fern were used for the grave in Manteo L . , Hamauinu will be special music. On
w„„. .e„,.LSnr„„;Tv.rw‘. p^-“s
tL$140 94L97 last month, {dress of rose wool crepe with Pastor of Mt. Olivet Methodist Lhe.beach near Manteo. Mr. Jen-informing bar nf Pnse tc the honorees. A wild
^f the total collections thus: black accessories, and a shoulder Church, of which Mrs. Daven- 1., p ace, e is -. Wanchese Methodist
' corsage of white rosebuds. port was a member, will officiate. I k At the Wanchese Methodist
She is the daughter of Mrs. Mrs. Davenport was a native I ' Church the children will
jn the fiscal year, $36,498,-
?2.31 has gone into the general
.•'ll and the remainder in the
''Shway fund.
'*0RE HYDE MEN ARRIVE
Home before christmas
.Twenty three more Hyde Coun-
; Service men arrived home with
•r discharges during the firs
weeks of December. or
, m, it means Christmas dinner
the home folks.
Heturning to their homes at
''Selhard were Norwood B. mar-
nter and Marvin Hodges. Back
'“be in Swan Quarter are Fred
Mason, Curtis E. Howard, Da-
C. Lupton, Carlos (Hoover)
“thrall, Elbert J. Jarvis Roy J.
“rawan, Benjamin Cradle and
Tank O. Harris.
Macon O. Howard is ba^ to
home in Ponzer, as is _
Mr. and -Mrs. Wilford Wise than 90 thousand of them are in
-•'-■iiic Hi i ...... , . ed can-dles were used, and table ; have recently come to make North Carolina.
tbistrong and Carlos L. Morris ^ were completed with ^h®^ home in Manteo, were hon-'
^ Leechville while Lake Land-1 gpj-igs of holly. Punch and wed- ®f®!'? ® surprise housewarming
has Frances Gibbs home for. cake were served. ““ their apartment Monday night.
' The party was given by Mr. and .
Mrs. Robert Ballance, and guests
RECEIVES DISCHARGE | included Mr. and Mrs. Wise, Mr.
bistmas. ,
t^olored servicemen who have
*'“rned home in the past two
!^tks are Morgan 'Moore, Jr.,
^hiderson J. Harris, Arthur
’“n, Bennie Barnes and Wn-
Tooley of -Scranton; Elmo
Lawrence Swain of Manteo and pT Washington county but had
the late Bruce Mann of Manns ti^ed in Manteo for approximate-
Harbor. She is a graduate of ly 90 years. She is survived by
Manteo High School and of Caro- her husbnd; three daughters,
Una Beauty College in Raleigh. Mrs. W. C. Topping of Manteo,
Mr. Jordan is the son of Swartz v^rs. -William Ma-vros of New
Jordan of Wilmington, N. C. He York City and Mrs. R. O. Skau
has been in the Navy for the last pT Brooklyn, N. Y.; one son by
three and a half years, and has “ fprmer marriage, Milton Corn-
been stationed at the Naval Air stock of Washington County; 14
Station in Manteo for two years, grandchildren and four great
The couple will make their home grandchildren,
in Manteo for the present.
en, and fbar ‘-fucruiure badly
broken. He found the two broth
ers in the place, who gave the
excuse that they broke in the
building to gt a warm place to
sleep. Across the road is a beer
saloon, and apparently they
pre
sent a Christmas program on
Sunday morning, Dec. 23, and at
the regular morning church ser
vice Rev. V. A. Lewis will bring
a Christmas message.
sought a place after it closed NAGS HEAD COMMUNITY ,
for the night. A few nights lat-! PLANS CHRISTMAS TREE „ fL
er they were in the place, when'
an army officer by the name Dfj Nags Head residents are plan
informing her of her daughters’ P''“®® ’^'“® bonorees. A wild
scholastic achievements during ^owl dinner was served to the
semesters 1944 and 1945. She has fpl’pwing: :M;r;. :and Mrs. Bas-
won the distinction of ranking in Mr. and Mrs. Wescott, Mrs.
the highest decile group of her Juanita Parker, Mrs. John Ro’o-
class, that is, the top ten per cent. Miss SfeL’a Creef, little
M-arja’-ene will be home for her Miss Mabel Jean Basnight, little
Christmas holidays December 14 Jimmie Basnight, Mrs. Annie
to enjoy the friendship of her Basnight and Mrs. Lilly Hassell,
many friends both young and old. Decorations were in keeping
: with the Christmas season, and
there was a birthday oake with
lighted candles.
AS COLD WAVE STRIKES On Wednesday night Mrs. Wes
cott was honored with a surprise
auuciu-ureii. Taylor was so badly beaten up j ning a community gathering, to ^L*^® birthday party at her heme, the
Among out-of-town people pre- ^® to be sent to the, be held in the Episcopal chapel J ’L® December 13, affair being given by her small
Following the wedding, an in-'sent for the services were Mrs. Hospital, and he alleged the two j one evening just prior to Christ- throughout the ‘ The '^^“®Hters, Judith and Janet,
formal reception was held, g-uests - Skau, Mrs. Mavros and son, Bil- ,®®i complete with Christmas '^’Hose present were Mrs. Wescott,
John A.
Norwood B. Mar- formal reception was held guests - Skau, Mrs. Mavros and son, Bil- i ? mm, ana - mas, complete with Christmas mome^er dronoed betow fLL L' Those present were Mrs. Wescott,
Gibbs, Domld D. bj, , „ ly, Mr. and Mrs. Comstock, sod beat htm, with the a.d ol a Gal-!,rce, Sant, Claus and presents ” ”so"l« atSL *“'■
- -- the Irlde. The dining b,bl. was'??!, and -Mrs, Charles Deaoen ol . i,P‘“: m.nl" llTlor mi-t« in™ Mrs. John Wescott, Judge W
laid with a linen cloth an-d grac- Virginia -Beach.
ed with a two-tiered wedding
eake topped wi-th miniature
whom have court records forj-widdie of Manteo will tell a
fighting and drunkenness and, Christmas story and Christmas
music will be sung. A large gath-
! ering of Nags Head folk is ex-
' disorderly conduct
orarl Vo.i crarl , HOUSEWARMING FOF I
DriO'C RDQ DTlu0§rOOITl) RD'u R I ^ i /\/\/\ x.™ j -
large out glass punch bowl at YOUNG MANTEO COUPLE There lare 1,700,000 boys ad pected.
-iV - « ^ ^ ■ girls in U. S. 4JH clubs and more
which Mrs. Henry Boyd OParkeri
presided. Red and White light- j Mr- and -Mrs. Wilford Wise,
^1' 1°'^ anti-freeze. Home f. Baum, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
owners 00k precautions about Wescott and Mr. and 'Mrs J. O.
their water systems to preven'
the pipes from freezing and
bursting.
The weather observers say that
Basnight Ice
were served.
cream and cake
Newspaper advertising pays.
IN MANTEO TUESDAY
REJOINS COAST GUARD ^ and Mrs. Ballance, Mr. and Mrs.
j Raymod Wescott, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvah T. Price, CRM, USCG, Edward Wescott, -Mr. and Mrs. J.'
rejoined the Coast Guard in Nor- O. Basnight, Mrs. Henry Boyd
laiiH 7f New Holland; and j folk on Friday, December 14, af-1 Parker, Mrs. Roy Wescott, Mrs. |
WI C'bbs of Lake Landing, ter receiving his discharge on I McCoy Tillett and Mrs. Willis'
November 27, at which time his 1 Wise. Contests were won by Ed- I
enlistment was up. j ward Wescott and J. O. Basnight. '
^HELH.YRD ROTARIANS -He first entered service in the Ice Cream, cake and candy were |
Hear ex-navy aviator ' C&ast Guard in Baltimore, Md., [served. Mr. Wise was released:
’ I more than five years ago. He from the Army abcut two weeks
filing of his experiences of i had three years convoy duty, be-' ago. He is the son of Mr. and ^
^‘“itig^ for a naL’ aviator, | ing sent later to Fort Trumbull 'Mrs. Claude Wise of Manteo. i
>ge Mid^ette, recently releas-1 at New London, Conn. He re-, |
from service, kept inter-| cently spent two rnonths 7 the [ STRIKES IN !
ot members of the Engel- - Marine Hospital in Staten Is.and, ^
Rotary Club last Thursday { N.^Y.
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we are going to have some cold WOMAN^S CLUB^MECTS
weather during December, which
is what the old timers have been
saying all along. The monthly _, Manteo Woman s Club met
weather-crops report issued this Tu^day night in the club rcom
week by the U. S. Weather Bur- '^*7 Midgett, vice
eau and the (Bureau of Agricul- President, presiding in the place
® r\f A/Ti Of- TX — i — i a.
L
ture Economics said: “Tempera
tures are expected to average
somewhat below the seasonal
normal, rather than above, as in
the preceding )two m.onths—al-
of -Miss Dorothy Drinkwater,
president.
During the business meeting
plans were made for a benefit
dance on New Year’s Eve, and
though there will be considerable continuig the Youth
Center, which is operated each
Friday and Saturday evening,
were discussed. It was voted to
invite ;he Ro-.anoke Island Music
C.ub to meet with the Woman’s
Club at the February mee*^ing.
Mrs. Lucetta Willis, who had
c’aar^e of the program, made an
il. cresting taik on the American
me, end the entire group sa::g
variability, with cold spells al
ternating with warm spells.’
DJR4FT REGISTERS FOUR
MORE HYDE COUNTY BOYS
SCHOOL FACULTIES
A number of Hyde County'
school teachers have had to be 1
'““ing ‘ Midgette expressed the | Mr. Price is the son of Mr. and
that the expansion of avia-1 Mrs. N. E. Price of Avon and he
that any I spent a week with them, return- „ .
made it imperative uiai a ^ i ^ away from class rooms recently
“gressive town must have an - ing to Norfo k m time to be of illness At Engelhard
Wt to keep pace with ^ ^wo hroXrs to s^vice H^^^^ Elizabeth laum a^d Mrs!
|iiiy moving times. The yo'i I Coast Guard Gibbs have had to be out,
^ aviator said he hoped his; man, S 3^ is m the Coast Guard,
“-atown of Engelhard would, over^Ls d-u-| ®tta -McKinney and J. M. Wdrrell
Something about getting ^ | j have been sick. Mrs. Ellen Wat-
The community has talk- ty.
such a prc'ject for a long
ONE SOW; 18 FIGS
KEN MURPHY VISITS
Pure-bred Durcc sow, and a
Hampshire boar last week
“Pie the parents of 18 large
'““ing, all like their father,
“ily after birth a num-ber of
^ began exploing among other
’’ ih an adjoining field. Two
Ptashed tc death, leaving 16.
Were given away to neigh-
‘ who started raising them
“^'fed. The sow kept on rais-
rest. The hog was bought
Hichard Shannon by Victor
-aiiis who owned a black sow
yaars ago that bore 19 pigs.
“"’apaper advertising pays.
son, principal of the Fairfield ■
'school, was not able to be at
I school Monday and Tuesday, -
' December 10 and 11. j
Lt. Ken Murphy of Kill Devil' j
Hills is back home with his wife, VICTORY BOND SALES '
a Minnesota girl he met in Eng- ■ GOING WELL IN HYDE |
land while flying for the Royal; — ;
Air Force. The yhave a 15 months The Victory Bond Drive is go-;
old son, Michael. They are the ing well in Hyde with 72 per j
guests of Major and Mrs. Leo cent of the quota sold, according ■
to a report received by Banker,
E. K. Mann of Swan Quarter j
who is working the campaign for 1
Chaiman M. A. Matthews. Sales-'
If ■■
'''W-
i,:M?
Murphy at Kill Devil Hills.
WALTER E'rtlERIDGE HOME
have been good recently, al-
Lt. Commander Walter Ether- though no drive has been put on.
Idge is on waiting orders after a ]y[j. Mann is hopeful that the
tong tenure of service in com- ggjgg will top the quota before the
mad of the Galveston District of gf ^j^g month.
the U. S. Coast Guard; with Mrs, 1
Etheridge they came home this,
week. Newspaper advertising pays.
kf:
Two white boys and two col
ored b'V’s regist-r’-o'^ v.dth' the
Hyde County draft board during L
the last .'.v'o weeks. Leoh, Gray Christmas caro’s.
O’Neal of New Holland ^nd Hugh j Mrs. R. D. Sawyer was ap-
Becton Payne of Lake Landing pointed to represent the Woman’s
were the white youths signed up i Club on the committee tc ar-
and James -Delma Toppings of i range for the planting of a living
Swan Quarter and Sam Sander-' memorial to the ve.erans of
son, Jr., cif Fairfield were the World War II. ,
Negro boys registered. j -Eefre.shments were served by
■— the hostesses for the evening,
SWAN QUARTER MASONS i Mrs. Dorian Quidlcy and Mrs. W.
M. Jolliff.
ELECT NEW OFFICERS ,
I
New officers were elected at HYDE TEACHERS MEET;
the regu’ar meeting of the Swan, ENJOY TURKEY DINNER
Ourrter Masonic Lodg, Thursday] '
evening. December Oth. L. M. Ca-i -Hyde County .schocl (ea-^he 'S
h-nn elected to succeed Carl enjoyed a county-wide meeting
Whitfield as Master. Others In the Swan Quarter school h.nr.ie
lerted were Pratt Williamson, econo.mics building Wedneslev
Senicr Warden; F. V. Harris, evening, December 12. N. W.
'-or Warden; Wm. I. Cochran, Shelton, supeintendent of schools,
secretary; and W. J. Lupton, j was tlie principal speaker,
treasurer. j A delicious turkey dinner was
! served.
ATTEND DISTTRICT
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Released by U. S. War Department. Bureau of Public Relations.
ICY MOUNTAINS TO CORAL STRANDS—U. S. Army chaplains
liave left behind them quaint GI chapels in every land. Above, a post
fhapel buried under the snowdrifts on Kiska in the Aleutians. Below,
Mamo Chapel of the 6th Army under the palms at Finschafifen, New
iruinea.
METHODIST MEETING,CFL. AND f/jUiS. WARREN
I HARRIS VISITING IN HYDE
Attending the Methodist dis-1 ■
trict meeting held at Hertford on j Cpl. and Mrs. Warren Harris
Wednesday were Rev. and Mrs.' and daughter, Myrtle Ann, are
D. W. Charlton, Mrs. Nannie visiting friends and relatives at
M'dgett ad Mrs. J. B. Peterson Egelhard. Cpl. Harris has been
of Mantect, Rev. V. A. Lewis, C. stationed in California. He re-
S. Meekins, Dallas Hillett and cently re-enlisted for another
Reggie Tillett of Wanchese. year of service in the Army.