The coastland times., 1952-03-28
RAIN FALLS ALIKE
h4 VICTOR MEEkINS


Golly, but it has been a rainy
season, and lots of changes in the
weather. Just about time one gets
popped idea with the idea of trying
to accomplish something. The
weather is either too bad to do
business, or so bad it discourages
those we might do business with.
This is particularly true of one
who sells advertising. Where is
the merchant who wants to spend
money for advertising if a rainy
weekend is expected.
Just about the time I enjoyed
riding past the newly ploughed
fields of Hyde and Tyrrell, and
Beaufort, here comes more rain.
They tell us the farmers need rain.
But the only time l ever hear 'em
praying for it is in midsummer.
They say the rain falls alike on
just and unjust Quite true, if both
happen to be in the area where the
shower falls.
Rain has really done a lot to
discourage our fishermen, particu-
larly those who fish pound nets,
which are less effective in the
fresh, thick water which poured
down out of the rivers all during
March, just when many of our
fishermen were making a fine
start. Rain has also freshened up
the oysters and they are not real
ly fit to eat. Fortunately this hap
pened after the closing of the sea-
son March 1.
We don't complain about the
rain. We just got too busy to do
much with column this week, and
being the rain is on our mind it
was easy to write about. Learned
a lesson about rainy day driving
on these black top roads which are
slick as glass. Always knew better
than to put on brakes on such a
road, but forgot the brakes were
not easily adjusted; presto, car
turned clear around on the road
and started the other way. Backed
down in the ditch, got stuck in
the mud. Got pulled out soon, but
remembered not to do it again.
l spend lot of time on the road
and enjoy the fact that so much
general improvement is being made
in the farmhouses and other build
ings along the way. 1t is good ad-
vertising, and will cause our visi-
tors this year to go away with
good words that bring still others.
1t looks like Roanoke Island is
going to do handsomely with
tourist business this year. Both
U. S. "a and U. S. 264 leading in
from the South and West are just
getting good on the maps. There
are yet a few people who don't
know they are hard-surfaced. 1t is
these two roads that are going to
save Roanoke Island a loss from
the business that has gone to its
new and breezy neighbors on the
Dare Beaches.
Ocean front is really getting
scarce. Notice Drinkwater adver-
tising a big ocean front lot for
$1,000. Most of these lots are SELL
ing from $4,000 to$2, 500, and they
are about gone, save for those that
are being held by spectators who
won't sell at all. There is one thing
about it; there will never be more
of them, but always less. One Gus
toner this week paid $4,400 for 100
feet of ocean front, and it isn't
even on the main drag.
Driving along U. S. 264 We'd
nesday morning near New Holland,
with the radio turned on hoping
to pick up something newsworthy
in world affairs, or maybe hear a
bit of good music, suddenly a
gushy female voice spurted out the
following frothy deluge:
Were going to get married this
fall, and I'll just quit my job, and
want a baby right away. Oh!
want lots of babies, dozens and
dozens of them; and 1 want them
all to look like Bart"
Shortly after this great gush of
idiocy she discovered that Bart was
loving her sister, and she immed-
lately condemned the world and ev-
erything in it and particularly