THURSDAY, JANUARY SI, 1057 M Freee W heling By Bid Crowell CAPSULE HUMOR— From here on you read will be funny (It says here), meaning that the proprietor of Free Wheeling wearys occasionally, as probably you do, of the endless speculation on whither the motor age is lead ing us, accident wise, anyhow.! Let us then, for the moment, di gress while we examine some se lections of humor contributed, col lected and preserved by the State Department of Motor Vehicles. O "Safety” sign over; the door of a Midwest auto finance company: “Don’t lose control of your car — keep up those payments!” Q Excerpt from a tearful letter re ceived in the Driver’s License Di vision from a lad whose license had been suspended. “I _thought that, maybe you all would help me to get my license back. I am los ing out on all the good times I used to have with the girls, due to no way of traveling." O A slightly befuddled ' motorist, pulled up to a traffic cop: “Shay.'j me officer, but where am officer replied, “You're at the corner of Main St. and Elm.” Motorist/ “Jush cut out the details. What town am I in?” O Fjord: A Swedish automobile. O ' Motoring along US 301 the other day I did a double-take approach ing a filling station obviously op erated by either a crafty or a cross-eyed manager. Take your pipk. A banner, stretched across the front of the place, read: “WE FLIX FATS.” 1 O > If an Englishman tells you he has a strangler in his saloon, don’t be alarmed. He only means his sedan automobile Is equipped with a choke. If you’re still inter ested, other English equivalents for our auto iten*s include wing for fender and boot for trunk. Also, his cubby locker is our glove compartment, and if he’s driving a drophead it’s a convertible here. What we call a bumper guard the English refer to as an over-rider. A shock absorber is a damper and English pedestrians get to the other side of the street via zebra crossings. We call ’em crosswalks. WHy not install a “HOME COMFORT” Electric Water Pump to Supply Your Entire Water Needs. Write FRED HONEYCUTT . ■■ w ' ' ? ■ - - -rj - ' -I* '■ »•- 1 ■ - - | ~ , .. ’ NEMATODES M WITH EASY-TO-USE Jj IT%»T% ,M l 1 \ figlL FUMIGANT a good start this season by fj controlling nematodes with D-D soil fumigant: Jr D-D soil fumigant is an easy-to-use liquid. Apply W it directly to the soil with gravity-flow or simple “ N pressure equipment. In the ground it becomes a potent gas, killing root knot and other harmful nematodes as it spreads. And a single treatment gives effective control. t for an entire season. • t This season, see for yourself how a pre-plant soil treatment with D-D soil fumigant pays pff in bigger yields. D-D soil, fumigant is available from your local pesticide dealer* SHELL CHEMICAL CORPORATION AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL SALES DIVISION 55 Marietta St., N. W., Atlanta 3, Georgia * Wjm His windshield la a windscreen and he signals a turn with a winking indicator. The English starter is known as a commencer.J 0 j The village blacksmith was I chairman of the k>call Cultures Society. At one of the monthly 1 concerts the vocalist was loudly applauded after singing “The Village Blacksmith.” As he pre pared to sing an encore, the chairman leaned fonvard and whispered in his ear, “When you sing that one again, put in a word about the repairing automobiles, too. i . . i . . t.. O At the Motor Vehicles Depart ment’s truck weighing station near Wilson recently I watched a heavily ladened tractor apd semi trailer grind to a stop on the scale beam. The driver emerged, leaving his companions sitting in the cab. His companions, by the way, were a couple of generously dimensioned women. He waited with patierfee while station opera tors weighed the big vehicle, ac cepted a stamped ticket, then 1 paused with a frown knitting his brow. He was some 950 pounds ; over the legal limit. A moment ' later, though, his face brightened as he turned and. announced to the women, “You get outta that truck "now and let them weigh if again.” O Not too many biennia ago Tar Heel legislators, studying some traffic accident statistics submit ted by (gulpif the Motor Vehicles Department, were stunned to read: DRIVERS INVOLVED : IN ALL ACCIDENTS Male 708 Female —74 Other rl Red faced officials rushed for ward with the explanation that it was a printer’s error. “Not Stated” should have been where “Other” was. Sir Thomas Urquhart, Scotland’s tamed translator of Rebelais who lived in the village ol Cromarty on Black Isle, became so over , joyed at news of the restoration of Charles II that he died in a fit of laughter. '■ The sands of Arabia’s deserts t sometimes reach a temperature ol 170 degrees Fahrenheit, i I SARAH AND THE SEA —By June Reed Ruff I CAR AH was a small woman, I delicately boned, and as thin as Winter shadows: She had dark - eyes that harbored secert dreams, and small, keen ears*that listened to incessant sea-sounds. The years had been kind to Sarah, her dark brown hair showed only a wisp of gray, and the tiny lines around her eyes and mouth only added to her look of innocence. In many ways, Sarah, was innocent, for her home was off the beaten track and she heard little of the world’s per versions. A wood fire blazed brightly on the stone hearth, by its light Sa rah’s nimble fingers restored the worn heel of a heavy woolen sock. “The wind is wild tonight,” she mentioned, Jabbing the heavy steel darning needle through the sock, with ease born of long practice. The dim, comfortable room still echoed the Inviting aroma of sup per’s stew and hot biscuits. Sarah bit the thread free of the finished darn, then paused to listen to the roaring-breaker sounds outside of the cabin. She awarded the window an apprehensive glance, knowing that beyond the cabin’s sod roof, gray clouds were gath ering like mouldy dough, obscur ing the frozen moon. » She angled her head slightly to look at Aaron. There was security in his angular, weather-etched face. For a moment, Sarah won dered how he would look at the helm of a ship, his lean, muscular arms challenging the thrashing might of the sea, to hold his storm tossed vessel on course. Aaron was a good man. The years of their marriage had been pleasant, in spite of hard work, and the heartbreaking disappoint ment they shared when they learned Sarah could never bear a child.*fn away, Aaron seemed to thrive on the incessant toil, perhaps it helped him to forget he would never have a son. But there was no escape for Sarah, In work , «r anything else. Her Hr O Copyright IMS, we* Mwy ar*av*u»«* NOTICE OF SALE UNDER™" DEED OF TRUST , ,By virtue of the power of sale contained In a certain deed of trust executed by Alfred Hughes and wife, Faye Hughes- dated March 16, 1951, and recorded in the Registry of Yancey County, N. C., in Book No. 88, page 201, to secure the indebtedness therein named, and default having been made in the payment of Hie smite. t f»nd the Trustee therein named having been requested to exercise the power of sal© therein, the un dersigned Trustee will on the 26th day of February, 1957, at 11 O’clock a. m., at the Courthouse door in Burnsville, N. G, offer for sale to the highest bidder the fol lowing described real estate, situ ate In Crabtree Township, Yancey County, N. C., and bounded ©a follows: Adjoining the lands of Stanley Gurley, John Thomas heirs and others: Beginning on a beech, Stanley Gurley’s comer and runs about south 12 degrees west with Gurley’s line 13 4-5 poles to a chestnut oak stump on top of a ridge; thence continuing with the said Gurley line about south 19 de grees west 88 poles and 4 links to a stake on a ridge in the John Thomas heirs’ line; thence a sou theast course with the height of said ridge and the Thomas heirs' line 381-4 poles to a small sour wood; thence north 401-4 degrees east 20 poles to a stake at the Stanley Gurley road; thence south 28& degrees east with said road 7 poles to the ford of a branch; thence south 79 degrees east 61-4 poles to a stake on the west side of a drain; thence with said drain north UH degrees east 9 poles to stake; thence north 64 deg. west 25 pedes to a small branch; thence up and with said branch 221-4 poles to a bunoh of small locusts; thence north 74 degrees west 20 poles to the beginning, containing 8 acres, more or less. This being the property convey ed by Joseph Hughes and wife, Essie Hughes to Alfred Hughes and wife, Faye Hughes by deed dated January 26, 1949, which deed is of record in the registry of Yancey County, N. C, in Book No. 101, page 616. This tiie 25th day of Jan. 1957. Mary C. O’Donnell, Trustee. Charles Hughes, Attorney Jan, 81, Feb. 7, 14, 21 JTHE YANCEY RECORD heart was Like an empty cradle, a constant, aching reminder of her barrenness. Children were meant to harbor a woman’s dreams, and to soak up her endless tenderness, like small thirsty blotters. A woman is bom to mother a child, with wisdom and emotional depth only a child can bring into being. And if there is no child, when the dream of one is hopelessly dead, if a woman is to live without bit terness she must find another dream. Even ah insignificant dream is better than no dream at all. She gathered up the mended sock and replaced thread and v needle in her neat darning bask- J et. Maybe tomorrow would be a good day to walk along the beach ‘ in search of curious marine crea- I tures, and bright sea shells | washed in by the raging tide. In her mind’s eye, Sarah could see the wide sky heartbreakingly blue against scattered white wisps of storm clouds, while the sun discovered sparkling jewels in the platinum sand, and it’s own reflection in the amazing green water. V Sarah rose and walked to the window to peer out at the blind, black night. "Her dream of the . sea was a small dream, but it comforted her and she cherished it, althdugh she knew that tomor row she would rise and gaze out on a fa milk, r white world, where morning sounds would be muted by the weight of new snow. There would be the protesting creak and crack of pine boughs shattering the frozen stillness to fling their icy burdens earthward, while austere, silver-sheened peaks ringed the valley like a crown. Tomorrow would be just another day on the small, isolated moun tain farm. 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