Island Survives Serene, Immune To Gas Shortage In its way, "the last refuge of the horse" got the jump on the gasoline shortage years ago. The Island of Sark, self ? named "the Capri of the English Channel," outlawed the automobile when Henry Ford was a young man. Today, at best, it needs relatively little more than a dribble of gasoline - for the isle's 42 farm tractors. There have been problems in staying part of the horse and buggy age. But they are nothing like those of the Island of Bermuda, which gave up its exclusive dedication to Dobbin a few years ago and now has near traffic jams of cars, motorbikes ?- and horses. Bicycles still rule the unpaved lanes of Sark. In fact, the sole owner of the entire two - square - mile island says she is "the only feudal ruler in history who ever rode a bicycle." Mrs. Sibyl Hathaway is 90 years old, and since 1927 she has been called the Dame of Sark, or the 21st SEIGNEUR of the small rocky Befdom which Queen Elizabeth I authorized in 1565. She and the 600 Sarkians owe allegiance to Elizabeth II not as Queen of England but as the Duke of Normandy, the nearby French coastal region. Islanders say their forebears were liegemen of William the Conqueror, who was also Duke of Normandy and whose Norman army invaded and defeated England in 1066. Britain belongs to us, not the other way around," they say, only half joking. If historical tradition seems ignored on the Island of Sark, modern ways have fared no better. Take banning the automobile. "The automobile threatens to pollute the ? air with dangerous fumes," predicted an islander long ago. "And the airplane! Our cattle would be stampeded if they were suddenly pounced on without prior notice by a machine of such aspect." Without prior notice the German occupying troops pounced on Sark with three cars during World War II, and as they left British troops arrived with a jeep and two lorries. All are now long gone. Then farm tractors were permitted, but not without the Dame soon being vexed by joyriding tractor drivers. One farmer, ploughing zig ? zag furrows, was promptly arrested for drunken tractor driving. Restrictions have been inevitable. No tractor driving at night or Sunday. No more than 10 passengers each on trailers pulled up from the harbor. No tractor driving faster than the island's two policemen can apprehend on foot, five miles an hour. There was a spot of bother in recent years over electric invalid cars. Dame Sibyl, who has arthritis, secured one, and soon there were three more granted for others incapacitated. But the island's doctor had to threaten to quit to get one, or rather, something swifter than his allowed bicycle: a chauffeur - driven tractor. The island's new ambulance went into service only after the front wheels and engine were removed, thus facilitating tractor towing. Hope for importing motorbikes are consistently quashed. But the Dame was recently successful in an emergency plea to England for the purchase of several surviving victorias, the favorite horse ? drawn open conveyances of Queen Victoria. ?JUST ONE THING ? Continued from page 2 And day by day. We might be able all along To keep quite strong. Should all the weight of life Be laid across our shoulders, and the future rife With woe and struggle, meet us face to face At just one place We could not go; Our feet would slop; and so God lays a little on us every day. And never, I believe, on all the way. Will burdens bear so deep Or pathways lie so steep But we can go, if by God's power. We only bear the burden by the hour. ??George Klingle A British theologian, L.P. Jacks, has written: "Most of us die of something: of disease, accident, old age. But occasionally there appears in our midst a man who resolves to die for something." Such a man, of course, was Jesus Christ. In his death he showed all of us how to die as victors rather than victims. Christianity, says theologian Jacks, "came into being as a death ? conquering religion. It centered in the figure of a death - conqueror." Jesus Christ was a death - conqueror and he also calls us to be death-conquerors too. Some people object, however, that it was one thing for Jesus to conquer death and something else for mortal men to do the same thing. That is why the story of Stephen is so important, for this "mortal man" was a death ? conqueror too. For one thing, Stephen was a man of faith. We see this faith demonstrated in the "great wonders and signs" he performed "among the people" (Acts 6:8). We find it once again in the powerful witness he gives to the Hellenists. Luke tells us, ". . . they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke." We see it again in his fearless rebuke of the Sanhedrin, "You stiff ? necked people . . . you always resist the Holy Spirit . .." (7:51). The greatest evidence of his faith, however, is found in his death. His final prayer reminds us of his Master: "Lord Jesus receive my Spirit" (7:59). He believed himself to be firmly in God's hands and therefore did not fear death. Stephen did not ask for escape; he asked only to be in God's hands. Yet, there is more to say about Stephen than that he was a man of faithful courage. Luke said that Stephen was "full of grace and power" (6:8). We have already noted his power, but his grace we find manifested in the second petition of his prayer: "Lord, do not hold this sin against them" (7:60) If we are to be death - conquerors like Jesus and Stephen, we must have gracious love in addition to courageous faith. Jesus did not die with a complaint on his lips, nor did he curse his enemies. Count von Moltke, one of the plotters against .Hitler, has given us a . >r.tcmporary illustration. Although ? us mill was horribly tortured, he was both vOi'raye.-p -??? I 'nil of I In his lust ietter to lis w s ' ' ' I must nsk sounding In ~'en but . in so filled with gratitude thai there's really room for nothing else." Willi that courageous faith and giacious love, we too, like von Moltke, Stephen, and Jesus can be death's victors rather than its victims. GIVE A HOOT. D0N7 POLLUTE Farm Machinery AUCTION SALE RED SPRINGS, N.C. Saturday March 23 at 10:00 A.M. Farm Machinery & Equipment of Mrs. George Wilson, Rt. 3, Red Springs, N.C. in the Allendale Community DIRECTIONS TO SALE: From Red Springs take Duffy Road No. 1324 west and go 4 miles to cross roads turn left and go 1 mile to Sale Site on right. The Wilsons have sold their farm and therefore have no further use for this equipment and it will be sold piece by piece. 1-1030 Case Diesel Tractor full power Cutting torch outfit ? wilder 1-Farmall 560 Gas Tractor 1?7 ft. Bush Hog 1-550 Oliver Tractor 3-High Boys Sprayers 1-M-Farmall Tractor App. 200 Potatoes Boxes 1-Ford Tractor App. 700 Cyprus Posts 1-53F Oliver Combine with cab corn ?_Ile?len Rifls ? . ? 2-37 Intel Harrows , 1 JT -i. .n 1-15 ft. Athens 3 H.P. Chisel Plow 1-1963 Ton Ford Truck with Dump 1-3 HP Subsoiler 1-Set of 4 Row Lillington Cult 2 Cars 3-4 wheel grain wagon. Spreader 1-2 Row Cult & Distributor 4-Grain Augars Super A Plow & Disk 2?Dirt pans 1 Liquid Nitrogen Rig 4-Hog Feeders App. 30,000 Tob. Sticks 5-Hog Waters 1 Intel 468-4 row cult 5-Water tanks 1-lntel 486-4 row planter 3-Sets Bottom plow. 1?Intel 466 - 4 row planter pull type 1-Potato Digger 1-lntel off-Set Harrow 1_3 H.p. Rolling Cult 1-463 Intel rear mounted 4 row cult 1_3 H p Rotary p?g Harrow 1?Midwest Harrow 27 ft. conveyor Battery Charger Drill Press 1-Bush & Bog Disk - Tobacco Sheets Portable Elect Generator Gas water pump - Railroad Jacks Cement Mixer And all othar Shop Equipment, plus many more items to numerous too mention Notice = We will take consign items on this Sale. For information contact the Auction Co. Terms - Cash or Good Check - Lunch Served SALE CONDUCTED BY Uoyd Meekins & Sons Realty & Auction Co. Dillon, S.C. 803-774-8993 - 803-774-9391 Sale - Rain or Shine PRE-SPRINGSALE Curly Wig Wat 10 99 Style 208 NOW 8.99 No. 510 W., NOW 10.99 7.99 f No. 203 Was - ftn 899 now o.yy Wat 1099 No.201 ?*.T| Was _ -- 10.99 NOW O.yy 909 ^ W No. 248 15.99 NOW 9.99 OFF^J ? the FACE q qq NOW o.99 Love 200 LOVE RINGS no.mii W" rtftrt Were 2 .99 Wa' c 16.99 NOW 9.99 N0W Lgg 10 99 NOW 5.99 No. 280 gold ft silver Curly Afro wjMixedGrey) Bracelets w?No 202 10.99 NOW 8.99 Wart 1.00 NOW 79' 8 99 NOW 6.99 Meny Other Stylet - Come In And Choose HOTEL BUILDING A & J WIG SHOP ,Klr. Curly Afro No. 708 Wa, NOW 10.99 8.99 ?IL^SSOFOE? A? FOR SALE: 16 ft. boat, motor and trailer, 115hp mercury engine. 875-4607. TFC FOR SALE BY OWNER: Brick house on College Drive, 3 bedroom, l'/S baths, living room, kitchen-dining area-den combination, inside'utility room, stove, dish washer, 3 air conditioners, carpet, total electric, lovely wooded corner lot, large gbrden house, concrete drive, carport. Call 875-4874. TFC WANTED: Someone to assume payments on 1973 model zig zag sewing machine in cabinet, makes button holes, sews on buttons, overcost-Balance due S66.00. Payments $11.17 per month. Call 693-8136 in Southern Pines collect. 43-47P ?FERTILIZER ? Continued from page 1 evidenced when a carload of bulk fertilizer which used to arrive at the Dundarrach firm within 24 to 48 hours of being ordered now takes a week or more for delivery. In general, the firm has been able to obtain an "ample supply of most fertilizers, so far." FOR SALE: 1972 VW Super Beetle, with air, Call 875-2534. 46C WANTED TO BUY: Silver coins 1964 and before. Will pay $2 for every SI. Call 875-2362. 46-47 P FOR SALE: Travel trailer. Phone 875-2720. TFC FOR SALE: One house and 8 acres of land in the Arabia Section. Owner will finance. Call Frank Sandy at 404-798-9171 or 404-798-9427. TFC RAEFORD NEWSPAPER ROUTE AVAILABLE: Man or woman needed to deliver the Fayetteville Times. Must be 21 or over, have own transportation, live in or near Raeford and be available from 3 to 6:30 a.m. Interested persons call collect: Circulation Department. Fayetteville Publishing Co. 485-3411. 46-47C FOR SALE: Twin beds with mattresses and springs. Matching chest and night stand by Thomasville. 875-3520. 46P FOR SALE. 1962 \