A Vanishing Scene
Ky WENDELL PEELE
at all times; and a pleasant afternoon
jaunt would be to go from Nashville to
Providence and return via Milwaukee.
They also say that when traveling
between Phoenix and Jacksonville you
will be within a few miles of the ocean
at all times. For those who prefer walk¬
ing. they claim you would enjoy a brisk
afternoon stroll between White Plains
and White Sulphur Springs.
What’s the matter, these people
cracking up or something? Not really,
you sec all these towns are in North
Carolina! — Siaiesville Record A Land¬
mark.
The twentieth century has caught up
with the ancient on the Cashie River in
Bertie County where the Sans Souci
Ferry now plies its passage across the
wake left by outboard motorboats. On
busy summer afternoons, the boats arc
busy, for the most part, towing water
skiers who in the future will probably
remember the ferry with more nostalgia
than they will the sport.
The ferry is a frail appearing, yet
functional craft. It looks, as a matter
of fact, about as seaworthy as a toy
sailboat. Yet. it docs its job of hauling
a maximum of two vehicles across the
TURPENT/NE
Drippings From the Tar Heel Press
nothing gets a liberal's
goat more than fighting
communism "too hard”
For “standing up" to the late Sena¬
tor Joseph McCarthy, General Zwicker
became a hero in the eyes of the na¬
tion’s liberals. For seeking to alert his
troops to the nature of the enemy.
General Walker has become the dark¬
est and most reprehensible kind of vil¬
lain.
The Zwicker-Walkcr parallel is a
particularly striking one. But Mrs.
Ross could have written about dozens
of others — all of which reflect the
Cashie per trip with as much expedi¬
ence as its more elaborate sister ships
haul their loads across the Alligator
River and Oregon Inlet.
Until recent years, the ferry was pro¬
pelled by the pull of its operator on a
steering cable. The cable still steers
the craft, but it is powered today by a
gasoline engine.
Operated loll free by the State High¬
way Commission, Sans Souci Ferry is
located east of Windsor, and is easily
found from U. S. Highway 17. 011 the
beaten path, it is all too often passed up
by tourists who should see it once.
undeviating inclination of the nation's
bleeding hearts to (worry) far more
about anti-communism (than) even
about communism itself. In these
liberal quarters, there is nothing more
menacing, nothing ntore destructive,
nothing more despicable than a de¬
termination to fight international com¬
munism with something more than a
barrage of weasel words and cream
puffs. — Cincinnati Enquirer.
you have to look
at it this way
According to the Carolina Motor
club, the fastest route between Dallas
and Houston is through Charlotte and
a return trip via Harrisburg would not
be much out of the way.
If you drive from Toledo to Min¬
neapolis you will be in the mountains
it was a safe bank
— for one depositor
Roy Bradley tells this one on his
grandma:
Mrs. Lucie W. Canterbury (that's
grandma) lives in Paducah. Ky.. now,
but this happened when she was a
little girl.
She was five years old. and some¬
one had given her S5. and she was
thinking about putting it into the bank.
She went down to the bank and
asked to sec the president, and he saw
her, and she asked him if her money
would be safe in his bank.
The banker said, “I give you my
word that your money will be all
right.”
She decided to trust him.
A week later he left town with all
the money the bank had.
A week after that. Grandma Can¬
terbury got a letter from Canada.
The banker sent her money back.
— Roy Thompson, Winston - Salem
Journal-Sentinel,
Math Quiz
By O. F. McCRARY
Solution to Problem No. 90
[A + O* X
Ш 'Л
X 10
* ['A
+'/«]
'/i X 10
— Vi X
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answer.
Problem No. 91
How can a traveler get three choice
cocoanuts. weighting two pounds each,
across a footbridge with a capacity of
250 pounds if he himself tips the scales
at 24S pounds? He can't leave any be¬
hind because the monkeys will cat
them?
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THE STATE. October ZB. 1961