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Hon. F. P. Latham Bel he v en, 'IT. 'C. VOLUME VI NO. 46 A. I). SWINDELLS TO RECEIVE FARM AWARD TOMOR'OW Public Ceremony at Pantego To Honor "Master Farm Family" A bronze plaque naming the Al len D. Swindells of Pantego as a "Master Farm Family" will be pre sented at the Swindell farm near Pantego tomorrow (Friday) after noon at one o'clock in a public cer emony honoring the outstanding family. The Swindells were one of twelve North Carolina families named in June by W. C. LaRue, associate editor of The Progres sive Farmer, and D. S. Weaver, state extension director, for "not able efforts in developing a suc cessful home and farm and for taking active part in community improvements." Following the presentation cere mony, which will be attended by many notable farm officials, a pub lic tour of the Swindell farm is scheduled. SUPERIOR COURT HELD LAST WEEK IN HYDE COUNTY The October term of Hyde County Superior Court was held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day of last week, with Judge Q. ir -kt: i . t . l : rm jy i iniocH, -r., p eMuii k. li e court minute book shows the fol lowing judgments handed down: In the case of Jack Mercer, who was charged with five counts of forgery, defrauding, and embezzlement, a plea of guilty to two counts was accept ed and the. defendant was given two one-year sentences that are to run concurrently. On a charge of breaking and entering R. S. Spencer's store and taking money and merchan dise worth $450, Edward Beach .was given two one-year sentenc es are to run concurrently. Elmo Moore was convicted of assault with a Vieadly weapon 4wmw4 n tvtoiar , sentence. Court costs, v thfn hospital and medical bills of his wife, and $25 per month to his "wife. Jimmie Lee Copper was found guilty of assault with a deadly V". capun, lit rnbnths sentence suspended upon paymenj of costs of court and $100 for Roscoe Green. Charged with taking under false pretense, Henry Spencer plead guilty to forcible trespass. He got a six-months sentence which was suspended on the condition that he pay costs of court and $225 to Mrs. Ellen Midgett. Operating a motor vehicle See COURT, Page Five DEATH TAKES MRS. BERTHA THOMPSON Mrs. Bertha Lupton Thompson of Be.haven died suddenly at her home in Belhaven Wednesday morning at 9:30. Mrs. Thompson had returned home from a Wil liamsburg hospital last week, but had been getting about normally since then. Funeral arrangements were incomplete yesterday, but it was announced that burial would be at Denton, N .C. The widow of the late Rev. J. B Thompson, she was the daughter of the ate Almeta cell and James Lupton. Surviving are: one son, James Tho.r.p.-on of Jacksonville, N. C; one daughter, Mrs. C. G. Burgess of Appharta, Ga.; three grandchil dren; end two sisters, Mrs. Wiley Edwards of Wilson, and M's. Wal ton Andorson of Duluth, Ga. GENE A. PURVIS JOINS WILKINSON STAFF Gene A. Purvis, of Belhaven, has been released from duty with the U. S. Navy and has taken up his duties as commer cial teacher in the John A. Wil kinson High School. Mrs. Ray Spencer, of Sladesville, sub stituted in that department until the end of the second school month. Mr. Purvis, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Purvis of B-alhaven, is a graduate of the high school in which he now teaches. After high school he attended East Carolina College in Greenville and was graduated from that institution in 1950 with a B. S. degree in Business. He then en tered the U. S. Navy and was in that branch of the service for three years and ten months. He soent nineteen months m Africa Upon his return to this country he wa& assigned to duty in Charleston, South Carolina where he remained until his re lease in August. PUBLISHED IN THE THEY MAKE 4 4 When Maj. Marvin Howard came ashore and home to Ocracoke last spring there was a job wait ing for him after his fifty years at sea, a job that everybody had been wishing that somebody would d nd iob that by 80rt , com mon consent they just let go until he got home to take over. And in six months Major How ard has put together about the lus tiest and most spirited Troop (No. 290) of Boy Scouts of America in America and the only one that does its goings and comings on horseback. More, every member, as a sort of initiation, catches his own pony, wild, tames him and teaches him navigation. (Ponies on this Island understand port and SWAN QUARTER TO HAVE HALLOWEEN HAPNIVAL FRIDAY The Mallawe en carnival at Quarter High Schkol is slated to be one of the biggest ever this year. The event, on . Friday night of this week (October 29), will get underway with a turkey sup per in the school lunchroom from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. As in the past, the celebration is being sponsored by the school PTA. Much interest has already been shown in the baby and popularity contests. Bingo is expected to be one of the big pastimes of the eve ning. Other events will include a turkey shoot, two fishing ponds, guessing, a cake walk, the draw ing to determine the winner of a cake on which chances have been 3old, penny pitching, the house of horrors, a short movie comedy, a central bank ,and the selling of home-made candy, ice cream and drinks. The supper menu is turkey, dressing, gravy, baked sweet pota toes, collards, cranberry sauce, nickles, rolls with butter, pie, and tea or crffee. Both $1 and SOt plates will be offered. Small oyster stews will also be sold at 25f each. DAVID SELBY PASSES AT LAKE LANDING Funeral services for David Gas kill Selby, 8'J-year-oid retired fanner, were held Tuesday after noon from Watson's Chapel Meth odist Church at Nebraska, conduct ed by Rev. H. S. Garrish. Burial followed in Soule Cemetery near Swan Quarter. Mr. Selby passed away suddenly at 8 o'clock Monday night at his home in Lake Landing. He was the son of the late Nancy Midgett and John Selby, and was a life-kng i resident of Hyde County. He was way. highly regarded by those who And a favorite it is. Last year, knew" him. at lea?t 239.000 ducks and geese Survivors are: two sons, Thad i were accounted for in the Matta Selby of Lake Landing, and Hu- j muskeet bill-count. Of this r.um bert Selby of Engelhard; three I daughters, Mrs. .John Payne of j CAR AND TRACTOR Lake Landing, Mrs. Preston Moon- j WRECKED IN HYDE ey of Lake Landing, and .Mrs. J. i. McKinney of Salisbury; 19 grand children; and 8 great grandchil dren. RECREATION CENTER UNDER SUPERVISION OF SMITHS An announcement has been made by the Belhaven Recreation Com nittee that Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Smith are now in charge of the Community Center. Anyone wish ing to reserve the Community Building for any oci-asion should nake reservations with the Smiths. Though they do not have a tele phone, they can be reached at their home on Bay Street. INTEREST OF BELHAVEN AND THE PUNGO OCRACOKE A VERY PROUD ISLAND it starboard haw,) -but never gee and There are now an even dozen qualified members, mounted, and four sort of probationers awaiting the time when it will be propitious to take and tame their own mounts. Major Howard is official ly scoutmaster but about every body on the island is assistant scoutmaster, very especially BMlc (L) James L. (Lum) Gaskill, who has an up-and-coming boy in the troop, and Stanley Waliab, the potentate of the island, who now settles for a nephew or so. Here are the troopers, with the dismounted ones standing in front, and the mounted, together with fhousands of Ducks Arriving af ucks and ceese bv the tans ot thousands are arriving at Hjie County's Lake Mattamus keet. By full moon (October 12), the migration was in full swing, as the wildfowl followed their seasonal schedule. Mattamuskeet. winter feeding ground for nearly a quarter mil lion ducks and geese last year, expects a greater influx of wing ed visitors this season, and even better hunting for the sportsman. The prediction of a "somewhat greater" gamefowl population at Mattamuskeet in the '54-55 hunt ing season was made by Willie G. Cahoon, U. S. Fish and Wild life Service representative in charge of the Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge. Mr. Cahoon is a top authority on gamefowl, with 20 years of background and observation at Mattamuskeet. "We have more Three-Square around the lake than last year, which usually means more geese, and we have a good crop of Duck Millett", he said. Explaining, he said that Three Square is the common term for Scirpus Americanus, a bullrush type of plant which averages about three feet in height, and which geese cfmsider quite a delicacy. Duck Millett, echinoch loa crusgalli, is tops on the duck's winter menu in North Carolina. A variety of other plants fav ored by wildfowl abound in the 50,000-acre Refuge area, giving the visitors a well-rounded diet and making 30.000-acre Lake Mattamuskeet a favorite winter ing spot along the Atlantic Fiv Patrolman V. E. Williams re ports that around S350 damages were sustained last Thursday morning when a car and a trac tor collided at Patrick's Curve, ! about a mile west of Engelhard on highway 264. As a result of the accident. Patrolman Williams charged the driver of the car. Tack Blount Gibbs of Engelhard, with driving on the left-hanil side of the road. The accident happened about 7:30 a.m. last Thursday. The tractor, owned by Gilbert Gibbs and driven by James Gibbs, was damaged an estimated $175. The automobile, a 1951 Chevrolet, was also damaged about $175. si i I 1 1 . i 11 BELHAVEN, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1954 1 1 4 the names of their mounts, lnahe rear. At the left front is Harvey Wahab, who has some difficulty riding because of the loss of a leg when he was a very small boy. Others standing are William P. Garrish, Jr., Lloyd Thomas Sty ron, Jr., David Esham, and Nor man Styron. Mounted; left to. right: Major Howard and Old Teach; Bill Gas kill and Nell; Bobby Garrish and Bimbo; Joe Ben Garrish and Prince; Rudy Austin and. D;ablo; Edward O'Neal and VBla; James Barry Gaskill and Char?p; Roy Thomas Waller and Old Davej and Lindsay Warren Howard with Lit tle Teach. and Geese , ' Lale Mattg$keet es., . ber, Canada deese totaled ab)ut 70,000, Pintails were slighy ahead with 75,000, and the J6 other species of ducks account'ecj for a total of 92,000. From 24 blinds operated with governmental supervision alo ng the southern shore of the lake. a total of 3,429 geese were kili ecj See WILDFOWL, Page Fouy TRUCK WRECKED NEAfe BELHAVEN TUESDAY A log truck owned by Viiva Lumber Company of Belhaven, wa damaged an estimated $250 fy, ar accident about one mile eat 0f Belhaven at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday) i-n log track, driven by Drew FA,ron, was traveling west on hig'j,way 264 when a truck belonging tj0 t)ie towTi of Belhaven pulled out' OI1to the road, causing the log trulf. to swerve to the shoulder to a0j striking the town truck. The og truck was overturned in the graide line. ( Highway patrolman John Thm. as, who investigated the accidf, charged Peter White, driver of,' the town truck, with failing to y-jeM the right-of-way. ' m - BELHAVEN'S; MAIN STREET DURING HURRICANE HAZEL r 1 f rJs.-'-- " : ---r. .7"" " - -- v ..-- .. ... . j" - -.4 ' rTTL-"ll ." r -, . "-- - - - - -v TIDE WATER THREE FEET DVFP rnvr Main S'rwt in RpIVi ivph lnls P'"re snows now niuch water stood in manv Reihavtn i down the street ealy v.hi.e the tMe RIVER BASIN OF BEAUFORT COUNTY BJJLHAVEN WILL HAVE HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL FRIDAY The annual Halloween Ca-ni-val of the Belhaven Parent is acher Association will be held ort Friday night, October 29. This war's carnival will feature sev eral new events in addition to :n traditional ones, among them "Ori the Spot" pictures made witha Polaroid camera, and a bizarre booth. Barbecue suppers will be serv ed, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the school lunchroom, to those who have purchased tickets in ad vance. During the evening, hot dogs, cakes, candy, and drinks will be sold. The carnival 'proper will open ment will be bingo games, a fish pond, fortunel telling, an art at 6:30. Available for entertain gallery, the "Cftd Country Store", bobbing for apples, a puppet show, and the House of Horrors, and a "girlie'l show. At 8:15 the judging for cos tumes will .take place in the auditorium and prizes will be awarded. Infimediately after wards, the fKing and Queen of Halloween" J will be crowned. Balloting for the king and queen will be closed promptly at eight o'clock. Contestants for the hon or in the high school division are Richard Howard and Elizabeth Sears, sen ors; Edward Lee Paul See CA i NIVAL, Page Four DISASTER LOANS ARE OFFERjED TO FARMERS IN HYDE AND DARE Vernon j H. Rankin, Farmers Home Administration supervisor for Hydei and Dare counties, an nounced this week that the FHA office in Swan Quarter is ready to receive applications for hurricane disaster relief loans from any es tablished farm owner or operator in the two counties. Hyde land Dare were among 46 North Carolina counties that were designatfcof by the FHA this week for hurricane loan help. The FHA is offigring the farmers lats tnf repai tlr. replace farm ffWjuififBamuk-earor destroyed by Hurricane Hazel. If the hurricane destroyed any crops in storage or seedlings in the field, the farmers concerned will be eligible for loans for this also. The loans will bear three per cent interest. ALL OF LAST WEEK'S PAPERS SOLD OUT; PICTURES REPRINTED The demand for extra copies of last week's paper far exceeded the supply and all available copies were sold out on Friday. Since so many people have ex pressed a desire to have a copy of the paper with the pictures of the flood waters covering the streets in Belhaven and Swan Quarter, the pictures are being reprinted this week; a good num ber of extra papers are being Drinted and it is hoped that those desiring to obtain copies this week will be able to do so. We regret that sufficient copies of last week's paper were not available. However, w e would like to remind you that if you are a regular subscriber, you will be assured of getting a paper each week. w at its height. ,Photo bjr Var.n SAA MEETING IN BELHAVEN AND BEAUFORT COUNTY WIN HIGH PRAISE ON TUESDAY Rev. A. Corey of Jamesville Named President for Next Year; Lindsay Warren and High way Chairman Graham Principal Speakers; Enthusiasm for River, Inlet, and Ocracoke Projects Expressed. "HYDE WILL RISE" PAMPHLETS SHOWN 4 ' My 11 1 , - Err UA GEORGE O'NEAL, chairman of Hyde County's Challenge pro gram, proundly displays a copy of the pamphlet "Hyde Will Rise' 'recently published by the organization. I n the 16-page pamphlet are suggestions for a long-range agricultural and in dustrial development program for Hyde County. A meeting of Challenge offi--eul3-'i3 -wow -biirsg planned tf decide just how to present "Hyde Will Rise" to the people of the county. The cooperation of each and everyone of the county's citizens is going to be needed to make the program a success. LIBRARY DRIVE IS A CASUALTY OF "HAZEL" Among the casualties of "Hazel" was the annual Mem bership Drive of the Belhaven Public Library Association. The drive had just gotten underway when the hurricane struck. Mrs. James Younce, chairman has an nounced that the drive will not be resumed at present because the canvassers hesitate to ask lo cal people, who were hard hit financially, for contributions. However, if there is anyone who was not visited who would care to contribute to the drive by be coming a member of the Associa tion, Mrs. Younce, or any mem ber of the Association, will be glad to receive a contribution Since the uncompleted drive fell far short of meeting the budget set up for this year, it may be necessary to continue it at a later date. at ahnnt tho tiL f H.;o( stores. Motor boats orr.it nH ; Latham) Single Copy 7p Some 200 delegates to the an nual Southern Albemarle -, Asso ciation meeting in Belhaven Wednesday heard much praise for an organization embracing several counties, which has stuck together since 1935 and holds the record for livelihood of a group of this kind. It is something, most folks say, has never hap pened before. The Association now includes six counties. After an absence of more than 13 years, Hon. Lindsay Warren of Washington, was a guest at the meeting, and h.s presence on the stage called for a standing ova toi; from the group. He was t"uiv welcome back home. Presented by Congressman Herbert Bonner as an exception al patriot and statesman. Mr. Warren was visibly moved b y th ovation given him. He recall ed his previous visits to the asso tion before becoming Comptroll er General of the United States, paid tribute to the organization nd the leadership in it; corn ended the newspapers of the rVxithern Albemarle . for their unselfish a..iv;ce to he region, and said he hopes far the day when a ro.iJ will be built to Ocracoke and bridges will span both Alligator River and Oregon Inlet. Good advice was given in Mr. Warren's admonition that the Association would outlive its usefulness should it ever act other than in the public interest. The morning meeting was call ed to order by Dr. W. T. Ralph, . president, in the High School building. The invocation was by Rev, L. P. Jackson. Music by the Srhool Glee Club under direc tion of Mrs. K. Foreman during1 the program was highly applaud, ed. The address of welcome was by Allen D. Swindell, Chairman of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners. Responses were by A. Corey of Martin; H. W. Pritchett of Washington; Melvin Daniels of Dare; N. W. Shelton of Hyde. Mr. Bonner spoke at length on the work of the Association, and of future need for it. He en dorsed the bridging of river and inlet and the road to Ocracoke. Highway Commissioner Em mett Winslow introduced High See MEETING, Page Four ART EXHIBIT IS SET AT RALPH LIBRARY An Art Exhibit will open at the Fanny Mebane Ralph Mem orial Library in Belhaven on November 3. A silver tea will be held on that date to launch the exhibit, which will be open for two weeks. This exhibit is open to anyone in Beaufort and Hyde counties who wish to display any kind of art work, including paintings, wood carving, sculpture, finger painting, block printing, pen and ink drawings, ceramics, ect. It is di eferred that the work be some thing not displayed at last year's exhibit. Not over five paintings may be exihlbted. All exhibits mu?t be entered by Tuesday, No vember 2. The art committees of the Bel haven Public Library Associa tion ar.d the Parent-Teacher Association are working together this year to give both school children and adults an oppor tunity to enjoy more type? of art work and to provide a place for the exhibit of children's work. Members of these commit tees are Mrs. W. E. Bateman, Jr., chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth Knight. Mrs. Howard Chapin, Mrs H. G. Brumsey, Mrs. Mar shall Wiilis, Mrs. Norma Jeffer son Hodges, and Mrs. Vernon Ward. WEEK END REVIVAL TO BE HELD IN BELHAVEN A week end revival will be held at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Belhaven October 29 31. Rev. DaNeel La Roux, a white native of Africa, will be the guest speaker. The services will be climaxed with a homecoming on Sunday, October 31. Special features of the day will be out-of-town and singers. Dinner ... L .u Everyone is cordially invited.
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