THURSDAY, JANUARY SI, 1057
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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.
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"Safety” sign over; the door of
a Midwest auto finance company:
“Don’t lose control of your car —
keep up those payments!”
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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."
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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?”
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Fjord: A Swedish automobile.
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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
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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
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His windshield la a windscreen
and he signals a turn with a
winking indicator. The English
starter is known as a commencer.J
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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 .
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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.”
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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
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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. But somewhere far
away, the sea Sarah had never
seen would throb against an alien
shore, scattering small secrets
from its dark depths upon # the
sunlit sand.
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Fishermen along the eoast of
Brazil go'to sea on' petled-log* rafts
called, jahgddas. Centerboard, sail
and steering oar complete the
craft’s primitive design.
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Approximately 100,000 new
cases, at tuberculosis are being
reported annually, at the rate of
one every five minutes. ♦
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Jute, East Pakistan’s chief ex
port crop whose fiber makes cloth |
and burlap bags, grows 8 to 10
feet tall. It is planted in water, 1
usually in small jungle patches.
Harvested with long knives, the
stalks are tied in bundles and
left for three days until leaves
' drop off. Then the bundles are
placed under water for two weeks.
The soft pith of the plant ferments
and the long, tough fibers can be
. stripped easily frtim the stalks.
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