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PAGE SIX Then L J| JWoa'WB I \ MEEKINS 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 ELIMINATE MOSQUITOES Use DDT Dust on Yoxr < Shrubs and Lawns 5% DDT Dust 15c Per Pound Dust Sprayers $2.95 GENERAL SUPPLY CO. G. G. BONNER, Mgr. Phone 4-W Manteo 94.4 gi Proof ■ I W °*' WEI ”** m*&aa ' Ifc'w ■ M JtSWo w LI $2.15 PINT $3.45 4/5 QT. 4..«rfe«. -fc<. ' . Gordon’s Gin INX NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN » GORDON’S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N.«, I might overlook the busy harbor. 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. za/iM EYK RIGHT - (Jin pins the zoo poor open 55 I Hi I penguins marched out of tub -r~~—| I gates and parapep around the I 't STREETS OF ePIN6URSH.SCOTLANn 111 S 3 Yr.lt they eeUAVEP WELL, ANNOY EP l^._Lra S ! nobody.subsequently, zoo Burial LL. IB officials maps an after- "3PIT 3 ■*HII KHHtTw . NOON trvß A REGULAR jp£Kl. ftiWW a PA ‘ L> ev£NT l S'oXSjH I / 1 GIANTS OF THE DEEP EACH \ I J ‘U’UE TALLEST PLANTS IN THE WORLD ARE TLp THE II 1 SEAWEEDS! SEAWEEDS MEASURING MORE THAN \ c£T ASIDE 11 » 600 FEET IN HEIGHT HAVE BEEN FOUND IN \ 11 « WATERS AROUNP CAPE HORN. COMPARE \ I I THIS HEIGHT WITH THE TALLEST OF THE \L-s^^ ; "uOOFt/ GIANT sequoia TREES-400 feet high/ ? 1 — I TELL YOUR BANK TO DEDUCT A SET AMOUNT EACH MONTH FROM YOUR ACCOUNT TO PURCHASE U.S. SAVINGS BONDS BUILDING FOR YOUR FUTURE THE SAFE, SBCIHtS MO PNTNIOTIC WAY.' ' 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. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. 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. SAVE up to 50% on FUEL WITH SIEGLER'S EXCLUSIVE PATENTED TWO-IN-ONE HEATMAKER! Look at these exclusive SIEGLIR features » • Two-in-One Hectmaker ' fflF NH • Saves up to 50% in fuel |S wEPUp’ * • Siegiermatic Draft ends soot and smoke • Silent-Floating super quiet motor mount H WS&WB • Lifetime porcelain enamel finish B • 6-way directional Tropical Floor Heat ■ ’sSj, • Cost iron construction B*- V- RLifc * • Kleen-Fire burner, cleans as it heats ■. ‘ St-;!' -j|S|Ww • Summer cooling at the turn of a switch ■ ’ 4ji pi- ■BN Hfe Q p win™* < JSk "1 I J. H. JARVIS & SON General Merchandise 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 SELF SERVICE FOOD CENTER Phone 237 Manteo WE DELIVER Choice of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Daily All Western Meats CHEEZ-IT, JR. SUNSHINE FIG BARS \ extra / > nutritious!/ A ex^ra \ j delicious! \ bHHEtni lull BUil siln EIUI 111 1111 iII s9lr||||| IllllUll I iii Bl lllllllll ®iiiii T J”* , 'H , "jr'',!! 'TI" |bß ■”■*■ ji DR Hs m,.|t, a ■ jl i «■ |||ta H II ' 1,11 rauiii iL.li iiiilLi I luiiilli.ii.iiini ihaiiiilHlllHlll Uni in i wsub HNih siiusiaii bihi hi is hiii siiii niii ihii iiiii tiiii situ fcSfc*:**\s bur SI Bilil eI Sil Uli!! 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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.