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There’s something about that cherry pie story that isn’t all out in the story. Where everything seemed to be in fun "with the tale as told in Monday’s city papers; back on Friday the Harrisonburg paper carried a story saying that Fredericksburg’s ire was raised by the President and the challenge for him to throw the dime across the Rappahannock had an “eat your words” note.
The story told on Friday was:
(From Fredericksburg) President"^ ruman was invited today (November 15) to eat a cherry pie—or his words—by the city of Fredericksburg. He also may be able to get a Tide bade up the road to Washington (D.C.) in a plush-lined wheelbarrow if he wants it.
These odd invitations cropped up because Mr. Truman last week touched on a matter closely kin to Fredericksburg’s history: Geo. Washington’s heave of a dollar across the Rappahannock river.
Mr. Truman told the national cartoonist society he didn’t think the first President’s toss was such a feat when you look how narrow the Rappahannock is near the spot where Washington lived- Besides, the President added, it was not a dollar Washington threw, it was a Spanish piece of eight.
(Pairson Weems, chronicler of Washington legends, including the cherry tree chopping, said it was not a dollar, a Spanish piece of eight, nor even a dime that Washington threw. The Parson said it was a small stone.)
In fact, said Mr. Truman, any KNyeai^old boy could throw a dime across the river at that point.
That last was what got the city fathers. Got them primarily be* ^f^F»ed«ad£8hur|Lis Jfewrwg,* big Washington Memorial shindig on Feb. 22, Washington’s birthday, and Presidents of the United! States are nice drawing cards at such affairs.
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