PAGE FOUR Along The Routes By John Follett m ■■ ■■■ P • t " * The other day we, my wife and I, trailed John H. Aldred as he cowed his R. F. O. Route 3 out of Dunn. It was quite an exper ' ience. We enjoyed It, though we doust Jf the Daily Record. Pontiac win ever forgive us for the way we treated it. Certainly the starts and stops, the tacking and back ing, made the old car live up to the- name "Tea. Kettle” which I had' given it when first I started using it for my travels about the tom* counties served by The Record. Rut the odor of burning oil which came from the engine didn’t smell much like the best orange pekoe MAIL CARRIER J. H. ALLRED’S First wq waited like a cat at a mousehole for mail carrier J. H. Allred’s trim little Henry J. to come out of the post office yard. When at long last our red mouse had finished gobbling up the huge. meal, of letters and papers and packages, It darted from, the yard, of course in the opposite direction from the way we were headed. This made it necessary for us to make the first of many hasty turnabouts before we were! off. -Win Out Route 301 we went, hut not for long. Like a real mouse run-; ning from' a cat, our quarry t Movie-Clear - I /% \| I/» Qlwut^Bril^int^Rod^tea^M Jj aml |l a Tine Blacks, Grays and Whites GOLDEN JUBILEE TELEVISION iJBBIM&SSHU* fIRSI yr we feature sylvania Golden Jubilee TV be* i ‘- / J - IN PERFORMANCE * these wonderful new 3618 dl the feo * .4 - f§|i| ■ *w« y° u want * Superb reception on all channels, even FIRST in di&olt “fringe areas.” The Murid system is at H. concert quality. And the cabinets are fine furniture. Period styling in selected mahogany and other tra<fi» ‘j, « ''•* ’ „ ,Vt |, fin CT tional woods or striking modem blondes with hand- i If in value Efe-.- v*Hm i nurwifi J i t ttATITWFfI I iu- J L^SS?(S2BLa.\ , I fnAlUltliS I PsLmrw Tatm Bliin Tdeviaiwi AM-FM B*dk> Iff' . werfal -Fnaac Area 1 n arris •«- »g^. I ItaUflMi * PLWim flmi * Sound— I 4 speea neeora rwyw f ' I ■-■■ Ajjpf- • ' zMi* ' I RT*l|dg,ViwA’’ M . T .At Ont Interference— I m • S' . - I ■■*■■«■ LiOcrs i/nt imerierence « VfF IWI I\WUIV V** W* ft I ■*.- mm. . . *. „ , x ... r* , I V , T I 1 ! I HVIIHHI — or, Cool, Long-1 lie Chassis I . . ... . scurried into the dirt road leading 1 toward the Wellons Candy Co., and we were subjected to the first cloud of dust of the many which we were to meet that day. Just beyond the railroad was a cluster of mail boxes and two ladies waiting for a word with the mail man. (One of them was the spittin’ image of my Cousin Lilias up in Loudoun County, Vir ginia). His business finished there, our, mouse spun around and darted back to 301 with us floundering in pursuit. Once again he turned briefly to the right to meet two adorable little children, a boy and a girl, then back across the high way, past cotton fields with red and blue morning glories fringing the borders, and so Bethsada Church. i “VISIT ENCHANTED ACRES” Prom there we lost track of direction, though we hope that our: combined bumps of -location will! let us retrace our steps and become! acquainted with some of the places | and people we Just glimpsed In our i chase. For instance we want to visit “Enchanted Acres”, the beau- j tiful home with the name of C. H : Jernigan on the mail box. We want j to meet the people who have a 1 bird house' in their yard exactly like a miniature of their own house, and we want to know what bird tenants are living in tgat little house on a pole. Back through Dunn hurried our mouse, weaving two and fro across the Dunn-Erwin highway in con stant danger of colision with on coming traffic. Apparently box : holders have, little concern for the , risks of the mail man when they : set up their boxes on the left side -of the road. At Black River the chase turned l south, then west again. Through i Erwin dashed our mouse with us ' in hot dispute. On Route -55 be : yond Erwin the weaving and stop i ping and starting began all over - again. Once we scuttled into the woods on what was little better \ than a trail, then back to the road. I At Turlington’s Cross Roads we i reached the westward end of the l chase. From there the route led i back to Dunn mostly by roads l which Oov. Scott’s highway build ers have forgotten. As a matter of l fact many of the roads traversed : that day are like old fashioned , washboards in a tub filled with dust rather than suds. TWAS QUITE A DAT Yes, it was quite a day. We feel 1 jthat the life of a rural mail man ! must be a pretty interesting one. He does not have to swallow quite | not have'to follow another car. (The eager people who greet him, the hungry mail boxes waiting with { tongues hanging out for mail which :he fills them, * the satisfaction he j must feel at bringing to rural 'people the communication with the nm pah* recoup, mm. * & rv, T ,-j INTERNATIONAL Boxing dub, the New York State Boxing Commission and Madison Square Garden face a suit for |500,000 in the death of George Flores, boxer who died after being kayoed in the Garden. His widow, pictured, filed the suit (International) world that has helped to knit our country togethed. In case of many people along Route 3 that communication in cludes the Dunn Daily Record. (Adv.) • / • Speaking of hungry mail boxes, some poor boxes along Route 3 seem positively starved. In a single group of boxes art to be found all kinds from big, opuleiH, shiny ones, firngy attached to sturdy posts, to battered, rusty, indigent boxes precariously perched on old oil drums or rickety fences. It seems to me that the Harnett County Home Demonstration Clubs might well emulate the clubs in other North Carolina counties and spon ser a mail box improvement con test. Incidently we saw only ’one box on Route 3, that of Mrs. Blanche Jackson, which wore a name plate bearing the owner’s 1 too, is a pity. I •- I i ■ < M m A M : , W _ - - M- * _ __ ■ |*ai4RMMM| JHfl| ARM ■ IVVfin 11 B-B.RyRp-B I ■ ■BB B FOR VISITORS AND RESIDENTS * fßr/ M i J m J w a GO FOR SALES— SERVICE- REPAIRS 1 i li r - ' ■ X T AUTO DEALERS *# GOOD USED CARS - TRUCKS NAYLOR-DICKEY DIAL 2127 FayettevOle Hwy. Dunn Nash Salas & Service ta H“ d NASH Dunn-Erwin Motor Go. N. Fayetteville As. Punnj • auto parts t Herring * Motor Parts, Inc. dependable AUTO PARTS So^Unto^v^JDum^ # AUTO REPAIRS '% Fair Body and Fender Repairs 8m Hmnry't Body Shop 1 So. CUM— Are. Ban, N. C. 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