Thursday, June 17. 1987
THOU SHALT NOT PARK TOO LONG
Dixie Graham, Elkin chief of police, leaned back in his
chair, pulled off his glasses, and said:
"Several months ago the board* of commissioners of the
town of Elkin passed an ordinance prohibiting parking on
certain downtown streets to one hour. Since this law was
passed a majority of the citizens of Elkin have been very
careful to obsereve the law, but—"
At this point Mr. Grahan
on the table with a pencil, an
has been brought to the atten- 1
tion of the mayor and police that
certain individuals have begun to
'break over' and violate the hour
parking ordinance."
Doggonit, he kept right on
looking at us, and we couldn't
help but wonder if he was trying
to make something of the fact
that our car was parked just out
side under a one-hour parking
sign, and had been there all day?
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1 gazed straight at us, tapped
I continued: " —here of late it
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"I want you to write a story
warning the people that from
now on they may expect to find
a ticket in their car citing them
to magistrate's court if they con
tinue to violate the parking or
dinance," Mr. Graham conclud
ed, still gazing at us.
Looking like the proverbial cat
that had just been caught in the
act of swallowing a 14-k goldfish,
we hastened to assure him that
we would be glad to write such
a story and that we agreed with
him that people shouldn't park
over an hour, the old mean things,
and if they did and then got a
ticket it would serve them right.
Then, with what dignity we could
summon, we walked from his of
fice and ran and moved our car
to a zone that was not restricted.
And we want to say here and
now that we are 100 per cent in
favor of the local parking law—
especially when the chief of po
lice is looking and talking straight
at us. Wouldn't you be?
THE ELKPf TRIBUNE, ELKIN, WORTH CAROLINA
THIS AND THAT
You will have read In this pa
per about the drlverless car that
Is to be here Saturday to appear
in the Safety Parade sponsored
by the Elkin Merchants associa
tion. This car will be all It's
claimed to be and will be oper
ated by remote control from a
car following. . However, please
don't confuse it with Mekko, the
Mechanical Man.
Airplanes have been made to
fly by remote control and auto
mobiles to run, stop, turn around
or what not in the same way.
However, this will be the first op
portunity people of this section
have had to see such a marvel
ous and educational exhibition.
And for any who come to scoff,
we'll say that the drlverless car
will not have someone concealed
in it to operate it. The car will
be the property of a local au
tomobile dealer and the robot will
be installed in it the morning of
the day of the parade. Anyone
who desires to inspect the car in
search of a concealed driver will
be given that opportunity, it is
understood.
The car which will appear in
the parade Without a driver will
be a Ford V-8. The car from
which the driverless machine will
be operated will be a Chevrolet,
and the official car of the parade
will be either a Dodge or Ply
mouth, all good cars and worth
your consideration when you feel
like buying or trading, let the free
publicity fall where it may. The
names of the three car dealers
were placed in a hat and drawn
to decide which should supply
the driverless car, which the con
trol car, and which the official
car. They were drawn in the or
der listed at the first of this
paragraph.
When we sort of hinted that
we would like to sit at the wheel
of the driverless car during the
parade, someone said it wouldn't
make much difference as the car
would still be about as driverless
as if we weren't in it. However,
now we're mad, and ain't going
to ride in none of 'em.
The object of the parade is to
make everyone who sees it safe
ty conscious in an effort to cut
down the accident death rate. It
certainly needs to be cut down,
for did you know that in one five
year period the number of people
killed by automobiles alone total
led FOUR HUNDRED SIXTEEN
THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED
AND SEVENTY-SEVEN! In fig
ures that reads 416,977 —more by
a wide margin than have been
killed in ALL THE WARS IN
WHICH THE UNITED STATES
HAS EVER PARTICIPATED. Yet
we shudder at the thought of an
other war and go right on killing
more folks on the highways than
would die in a war if we had one!
Figure that out.
War is terrible and more or
less a novelty. Killing on the
highway has become routine and
taken for granted. And it's a
problem that will not yield read
ily to wholesale solution, but
must be solved by each individ
ual driver for himself.
PLEASANT HILL
Mrs. Charlie Darnell, Mrs. Zora
Couch and Mrs. David Day en
tertained the singing choir Sat
urday night with a delightful ice
cream supper at the home of
Mrs. Zora Couch.
Miss Mae Cockerham, teacher
of the junior boys at Sunday
school, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Day,
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gentry, Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Couch, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Collins, Mr. Ernest
Wood and the junior boys visited
many interesting points of the
Blue Ridge mountains Sunday af
ternoon.
Mr. Roby Coockerham was in
charge of the prayer service Sun
day night. During the service,
Miss Beatrice Burcham. of Jones
ville, sang. Other special num
bers were a duet by Misses Eu
gene Money and Marie Wellborne;
a men's chorus and special songs
by the choir.
Among the sick in this com
munity are Mr. Jopes Darnell,
and little Bobby Joe Darnell,
small son of Mr. Rastus Darnell.
Mr. Tommy Newman, of Elkln,
father of Mr. Claude Newman, of
this community, is also ill.
Mrs. Susan Shuman of St.
Louis, arrived last week to spend
the summer with relatives in this
community.
Miss Margaret Settle of Little
Elkin community, was the Sun
day guest of Miss Mozell Darnell.
Mr. and Mrs. David Darnell,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Darnell and
Miss Mardell Walls returned
Sunday night after spending the
week-end at Wilmington, N. C.
A large crowd attended the
birthday dinner Simday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pet
tyjohn, in honor of Mrs. Petty-
John. '
Misses Mae Couch, Faye Cock
erham and little Paul Cockerham
underwent minor operations last
week at the Hugh Chatham Me
morial hospital, and are getting
along nicely.
Miss Pauline Reavis is spend
ing several days in Winston-Sa
lem, visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Transou
and children are spending some
time with Mrs. Transou's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Lyons.
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