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PASSING OF THE FERRIES
A day or two before the end of
August I rode the Portsmouth, Va.
ferry for my last trip. The ferry
system was abandoned as of Sept.
1 after nearly 300 years of opera
tion. Remarkable the things mar
has dreamed up and carried on be
cause of his desire to get across
on the other side. Great things
have happened because of this de
sire. The establishment of ferries
have many times created the de
mand for bridges, and close have
followed developments of great
magnitude.
The courage and vision of Capt.
Thos. A. Baum, back in 1926 in
starting an automobile ferry be
tween Point Harbor and Roanoke
Island was based on man’s desire
to get across on the other side It
was a long, hard battle to make
the ferry route pay, but Capt.
Baum stuck to it. It would be hard
to find any other one thing that
contributed so much to the devel
opment of the' Dare Coastland.
When the traffic demands created
by his ferry resulted in a bridge
across Currituck Sound, then he
established ferries over Croaian
Sound and Alligator River. Capt.
Baum while still alive, saw the
clamor arise for the Croatan
Sound Bridge, which after 20 years
of agitation is now under construc
tion. Demand now continues for a
bridge over the river. Prop .nerts
of this bridge will insist “first
things first” meaning that the
Alligator River bridge is next in
order and should therefore be the
next major bridge built.
There is something nice aoout a
trip on a well operated ferry boat.
It gives a restful break in one’s
journey. A boat trip is usually fas
cinating. It always offers com
pletely new and interesting sights
and sounds. On my first trip to
Norfolk as a lad, I accompanied a
friend to the pilot house of one of
the famed old river steamers where
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The ferryboats, with their shrill
whistles and the heavy iron wa’k
ing beam, bobbing up and dow i to
operate the big old paddle wheels
seemed the most interesting of all
the things on the Norfolk water
front. For in those days the ferry
system used double-end steamers
like the old Rockaway, a boat that
had come from New York. Many
of these boats had been replaced
up north by more modern boats,
but were considered “good enough”
for Norfolk, so were sold off down
South.
Now we see the fine new fleet
of the Norfolk County ferries be
ing disbanded, almost before the
motors have cooled. Vessels which
cost up to a quarter million dol
lars some five years ago, are
bringing much less than a tenth of
their cost. The boats have gone to
Florida and New York. not
likely see any more ferries in Not*
folk harbor. A faster age has de
manded tunnels. A tunnel they
have.
It’s a fast age. We’re all going
too fast, We see too much of mis
ery and violence in the papers as a
result of this fact age. Men strug
gle to accumulate property for the
benefit and bone of contention of
others after they are dead. The
struggle costs too much. In every
paper we see where someone has
broken down under the strain of
living. This week a wife tires of
living and jumps off a ferry and
middle-aged man loses his wife in
is drowned. The other day a
the crash of a car he was driving.
He then shoots himself. He didn’t
care to live any more . . . An
heiress who had everything ma
terial in the world is dead of an
illegal operation. She couldn’t bear
the thought of having a baby—
legal or illegal . . . The world is
full of plenty of everything, but
many nations which formerly toil
ed and earned their living have
folded arms and sat down awaiting
what the American people will
give them —and America has been
pretty generous about it. These
outlanders have learned the easy
way to get what they want . . .
Changing times have brought
about a shifting of responsibilty.
Nowadays we see people abandon
the care of their aged parents to
their neighbors—in fact we see
them go to much trouble to get
the taxpayers to support their
relatives. A sense of pride is not
so deep as it was a few years back.
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Men with good incomes, who drive
fine cars, and live in fine homes,
can now relax in peace and com
fort with no apparent embarass
ment that their parents who
brought them up in the world, are
somewhere existing on the public
bounty.
SUMMER FERRY SCHEDULES
Effective June 1 Through Sept. 30, 1955
CROATAN SOUND FERRY
Lv. Menns Harbor tv. Roanoke Island
7:00 A M. 7:00 A.M.
7:45 A.M. 7:45 A.M
8:30 A M. 8:30 A M
9:15 A M. 9:15 A.M. |
10:00 A.M. >0:00 A.M ,
10:45 A.M. >0:45 A.M. I
11:30 A.M. 11:30 A.M.
12:15 P.M. 12:15 P.M
1:30 P.M. 1:30 P.M. I
2:15, P.M. 2:15 P.M.
3:00 P.M. 3 00 P.M. I
3:45 P.M. 3:45 P.M i
4:30 P.M. 4:30 P.M. I
5:15 P.M. 5:15 P.M. .
6:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M !
6:45 P.M 6:45 P.M.
7:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M.
8:30 P.M. 8:30 P.M.
10:30 P.M. 9:30 P.M.
12:00 Midnight* *11:30 P.M
(*Nightly except Monday)
ALLIGATOR RIVER FERRY
lv. East lake L». Sandy Point
6:30 A M. 7:15 A.M.
3:00 A M. 8:45 A.M.
9:30 A M. >0:15 A.M.
11:00 A M. >2 Noon
12:45 P.M. >:45 P.M.
2:30 P.M. 3:15 P.M.
4:00 P.M. 4:45 P.M.
5:30 P.M. 6:10 P.M.
7:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M
OREGON INLET FERRY
Lv. North Shore Lv. South Shore
5.00 A.M.
5 40 A M. 5:40 A.M.
6 20 A.M. 6:20 A M
7.00 A.M. 7:00 A.M.
7:40 A.M. 7:40 A.M.
8 30 A.M. 8:30 A.M.
9:10 A M. i 9:10 A.M
9:50 A M. 9:50 A.M.
10:30 A M. >0:30 A.M.
11:10 A M. >llO A M.
11:50 A M. 11:50 A.M
1:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M.
1:40 P.M. 1:40 P.M
2:20 P.M. 2:20 P.M.
3:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M
3 40 P.M. 3 40 P.M
4:20 P.M. 4:20 P.M.
5:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M
5:40 P.M. 5:40 P.M
6:20 P.M. 6:20 P.M.
7:00 P.M
Note: 5 A.M. and 6:20 P. M. Trips will be
discontinued on August 15th.
YOU, TOO, CAN OWN
YOUR DREAM HOUSE
Don’t let the high cost of living
keep you from having the kind of
home you dream of owning. That’s
the advice of Pauline Gordon,
State College extension housing
specialist, who advises making
complete plans before beginning
any type of home improvement.
Planning costs nothing, she ex
plains.
Learn to refinish your own
furniture, to make slip covers, and
t o reupholster. “Doing-it-your-
I self” is also an effective way to
get more for your money.
Study magazines. Keep abreast
of trends in house furnishings. To
day’s trend, according to Miss
Gordon, is away from sets of fur
niture. Instead, a few comfortable
pieces are used.
Use color in your home, but use
it wisely. Colored pictures, colors
in fabrics, and magazine pictures
of colored rooms can help you
select colors for your own color
schemes. Learn all you can about
color, recommends Miss Gordon.
Then see how it can change the
appearance of a room —and of
your whole house, for that matter.
Painting odd pieces of furniture
the same color will add unity to
your room and you’ll find that the
money you’d intended to put into
a new piece of furniture can be
spent elsewhere.
If you’re in the market for new
curtains, remember that nylon is
more expensive than some of the
other fibers and that it disinte
grates in strong sunlight.
The best way to save money and
to have the kind of house you
want, says Miss Gordon, is to be
doubly sure of where you want to
spend money before you actually
do buy something.
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DAUGHTER FOR GARRENS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Garren, a daughter, Anne Louise,
on September 2in Buffalo, N. .
The baby weighed seven pounds
one ounce. Mr. and Mrs. Garren
have many friends ’n Manteo,
where they were connected with
The Lost Colony. Mrs. Garren is
the former Lois Zierck.
RODANTHE PERSONALS
Charlie W. Midgett is ill and in
the Public Health Service Hospital,
Norfolk.
Mrs. Zeke Midgett, who has
been ill here at her home, is in
the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
City.
Elmer V. Midgett, Jr. of Manteo
spent Tuesday night here with his '
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Levene W. Midgett!
spent the week end in Norfolk with ;
their daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Jackson of
Elizabeth City are here visiting
relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Midgett
spent several days in Norfolk.
Mr. a.,d Mrs. Warner Miner and
children, Myrna and Warner, Jr.,
fom Oklahoma and Mr. and Mrs.
Bertrand Eason, Jr. and daughter
Serena of Norfolk left here this
week after spending some time
with Mrs. Miner’s and Mrs.
Eason’s mother, Mrs. Lurania Mid
gett.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Herbert,
Sr. were guests Saturday evening
at the Mirlo Beach Lodge with
Victor Meekins and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Mitchell.
Miss Norma B. Gray is in Nor
folk this week visiting her brother,
Allen E. Gray.
Miss Francis Pecha of New
York, who has been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Herbert Sr. and
Jazania Hefbert, left Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Herbert
Jr. and daughter Mary Ann of
Portsmouth, Va. spent the week
end here with Mr. Herbert’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Her
bert and family.
MANTEO COLORED NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Collins
and three children are visiting Mr.
Collins’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall Collins. They have b<en
living in New York, but Mr .Col
lins, who is in the Coast Guard,
has been transferred to Lightship
Barnagat, New Jersey, and they
will move there.
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ENGELHARD, N. C.
God's Good Earth
Gives Feeling
of Security
By CARLTON MORRIS
Editor, Gates County Index
Every man, from the lowliest
city dweller to the poorest share
cropper, has a deep-bred desire to
own a little piece of God’s good
earth. There is something eternal
and enduring about the land on
which we live and nothing gives
a man a greater feeling of security
than owning some of it.
As a small lad I dreamed of
owning vast acreage. On long
spring days, I gazed at the north
end of a southbound mule as we
went up and down my dad’s little
field and I planned to own .a great
estate. When the sun would climb
high in the heavens, I would sit in
the shade of the big gum tree at
the back of the little field and tell
the old mule about my dreams
while I listened carefully, hoping
to hear my mother calling me to
lunch.
But alas! I grew up and my
dream grew faint and was all but
forgotten as I went out into the
world and began the long struggle
that is life. On rare occasions my
dream would return to haunt me,
but with the coming of maturity
I realized that more than dreams
were needed to accumulate posses
sions of any sort on this earth.
A long time passed and my
mother and dad were called away
and behind them they left the little
farm that I plowed in my early
youth. It was too small to be of
any value according to present-day
standards of farming, and certain
ly I was no farmer. The correct
thing to do would be to sell it to
the first buyer.
Thus I went back to the little
farm and walked again among the
rows that seemed so long in my
I youth. The old gum tree with its
deep shade had long since suc
cumbed to progress and the ola
mule was only a memory as I
tramped the little field.
Grass grew rank in the rows and
corn stalks stood to the right and
to the left from last year’s crop.
Desolate and dead, they stooi
lonely sentinels over the fallow
land for they had lived out theii
time and no man had plowed them
under the comforting earth. Surely
I a more lonely and sad spot did
1 not exist and the wise thing to do
, would be to sell the little field ano
j forget it.
But as I stood there the little
I field seemed dead no longer, for I
j knew that of all man’s possessions,
j the good earth gave him most and
I asked little in return. Mother and
! dad slept side by side in the
churchyard by the church where
they had worshiped all their lives,
and the old mule was long since
dead. My dream was dead and
could never be, but the land was
still there. It woul be there for
ever.
And then I saw a little freckled
boy following an old mule and
dreaming of great things to come.
I even heard a bob-white whis
tling from the hedgerow. The sun
shone bright and I knew the rains
and snows would come again. I
remembered the dream that a
little boy carried in his heart for
so many years as he walked up
and down this little patch of earth.
| I stood long in the bright sun
and thought of many things such
as growing corn pushing shoots
through new-turned earth, and
crops ripening in the autumn sun
and the tiny sound peas make
when they ripen and burst in the
fall.
After a long time, I stooped
down and gathered a handful of
my earth and let it trickle slowly
I through my fingers.
NAGS HEAD OCEANSIDE
, Miss Natalie Gould has returned
II to Bowling Green, Ohio, after
’ spending a month with her mother,
Mrs. N. E. Gould.
STATE FARMERS' CO-OP
MEETING IN RALEIGH
Raleigh.—Sen. W. Kerr Scott,
Gov. Luther Hodges and Rep.
Harold Cooley will headline the
annual meeting of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange and the N.
C. Cotton Growers Association in
Raleigh Tuesday, September 13.
The event attracts yearly to
Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium
between 4,000 and 5,000 farm peo
ple from all sections of the two
Carolinas.
Senator Scott, a member of the
Senate committee on agriculture
and forestry, is scheduled to de
liver the principal address. He will
be introduced by Congressman
Cooley, who is chairman of the
House committee on agriculture.
Governor Hodges, making his
first appearance before the co
operative group since taking office
last November, wil 1 deliver the
address of welcome.
Indications are that this year’s
meeting will attract a record
breaking crowd, according 10 M.
ARCHIE BURRUS
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955
G. Mann, Raleigh, general manager
of the two associations. He said
he had received unusually good
response from the 185,000 invita
tions sent to members of the two
cooperatives.
The Cotton Association, a state
wide marketing organization, is
celebrating its 33rd annlversaMk
this year.
The FCX, which operates in
both North and South Carolina, is
a purchasing and marketing co
operative and numbers 167,000
farmers on its membership rolls.
It was founded in 1934 and now
operates service units in 61 cities
and towns of the two states.
H. C. Ferebee, Camden, is presi
dent of the farmer-controlled or
ganization. Other officers include
C. B. Player, Bishopville, S. C.,
vice-president; Mann, secretary;
and G. D. Arndt, Raleigh, treas
urer.
The last outbreak of yellow
fever in the United States was in
New Orleans in 1905.