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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, July 18, 1958
Teen
Topics
IN NEW BERN TODAY
Murilla Oates, 14-year-old incom-
in) freshman at New Bern High
School .didn’t look for a job this
summer. She created one for her
self.
On a 500-acre island surround
ed by Haywood Creek and Rocky
Ren that her family owns she es-
la.hlished the Fiddlewood Farms
School of Horsemanship. '
Her pupils for the 15 lessons in
recent weeks have included Pat Al
len, Peggy McCotter, Mary Ann
Whitty, Sue Jo Lowery and Sue
Whitley. Much of her own profi
ciency in horsemanship has been
passed along to them on the 20
miles of bridle paths that the .is
land has to offer.
This is no fly-by-night proposi
tion, ds far as Murilla is concern
ed. She has had training from the
best teachers available, and went
as far as Maryland to get expfert
instructions in handling Tennessee
walking horses.
Her long range plans call for
breeding her own horses. Right
night she has a three-month-old
filly named Gwendonna, and is
counting on Gwendonna to be the
starter for her own line of thor
oughbred mounts.-
Murilla, aside from knowing how
to ride a horse and teach others
to do likewise, has a good business
bead. She talked a' horse owner
into lending her horses for her
school, with the understanding that
she would make a sale to any in
terested prospect. She has already
soid one horse, and fees charged
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pupils have taken care of her feed
bill.
This teen-ager’s initiative in
tackling a new venture has given
New Bern something else to offer
natives and outsiders. If Murilla’s
enthusiasm is a good yardstick, it
could develop into quite an enter
prise.
Murilla first drew attention in
print several years ago when she
ordered a pet monkey. The little
fellow almost wrecked the Oates
home on National Avenue, and
finally topped it off by leaping on
a hot stove. He was rescued before
he was thoroughly fried, and man
aged to recover.
Jo-Jo, to show his appreciation
for Murilla’s careful nursing, ap
peared in the PTA carnival at the
New Bern- Recreation Center, and
took in more nickels than any oth
er exhibit.
On that occasion the editor of
The Mirror was- barker for the
show, and was kept busy handing
Jo-Jo an astounding number of
candy suckers, which he devoured
for the edification of the cash cus
tomers.
Eventually, Jo-Jo died. Undaunt
ed by his demise, Murilla ordered
another monkey. This one died too,
sometime later, so Murilla turned
her interest to horses.
Horses have their failings, but
you don’t have to worry about a
horse scrambling up a pair of
drapes, doing acrobatics on a light
fixture, or jumping on a red hot
stove.
Besides, Murilla has found that
you can combine business with
pleasure when you’ve got a horse
to ride and a place to ride him.
Two-Week Superior
Court Will Convene
New Bern’s first term of Craven
Superior Court since summer set
in is scheduled for September 1.
Judge Clinton Moore of Wai’saw,
will be the presiding jurist, with
two weeks of criminal cases on
tap. Then on September 29, there
will be a two-weeks civil term,
with the same judge presiding.
A one-week civil term is sched
uled for October 27, with the
judge not yet assigned. Rounding
out the terms for 1958 are a one-
week criminal term on November
10 and a two-week civil term on
November 24. Judge Moore will
preside 6ver both terms.
As for the fall term of Eastern
District Federal court, it will con
vene here on October 13. Since
Kitchens Get Eat-In Treatment...
Range Features Make Cooking Easier
By IRA MILLER t~
Farm Electrification Bureau
“No matter where I serve my guests,
they all prefer my kitchen best.” This
sampler which adorns the walls of
many kitchens—in town and country
—is taking on more meaning every
day. It is an indication that time is
being turned back, at least in a con
struction sense. For kitchens are be
coming larger and of the eat-in
variety.
PLEASANT TO EAT IN . . . pleas-
ant to work in; that’s modern farm
“eat-in” type of kitchen.
The picture which accompanies this
on-the-farm report was taken in just
such a kitchen. Among the new things
which had just been installed was an
exhaust fan. Located above the elec
tric range, the fan keeps the kitchen
free of all cooking odors. We learned
that its installation was the first step
in a planned remodeling joib, which
included the purchase of a new elec
tric range. The next range, we were
told, was to have flat sides and sharp
corners so as to fit tightly against
new base cabinets to provide that
built-in look.
Other features being considered
varied from adjustable broiler racks
to simplified clock-controlled ovens
for automatic cooking. Actually, what
to get in a new electric range does
present a problem. Some ranges, for
example, have vertical broilers that
suspend food between two heating
elements to broil both sides at the
same time. There are ranges with re
movable doors and those with deep
well cookers which perform a variety
of cooking jobs. More electric ranges
have automatic temperature - con -
trolled surface units with sensing
elements in the center to maintain
constant temperatures. A number of
ranges now are designed to operate
rotisseries, and others have plug-in
meat thermometers for .automatic
roasting of meats.
Also, oven liners are lighter and
brighter. Backsplashes are higher
and some have shelf space on top.
And, you’ll find that the light located
on the higher backsplashes gives
better illumination of surface units.
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"Fraulein," a powerfully mov
ing drama about a young German
girl caught in the maelstrom of
war, with Dana Wynter, Mel Fer-
red and Dolores Michaels as its
stars, opens on Sunday at the
Kehoe Theatre. The picture was
filmed by Twentieth Century-Fox
in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Col
or in the actual locale of the
story—Cologne, Berlin and the
beautiful Rhine country of Ger
many. Based on a popular novel
by James McGovern, "Fraulein"
dramatizes the chaos of Germany
as the Allies and Red armies
were rushing in on Berlin.
NO LAUGHS HERE . . . I’ve nev
er been able to see the slightest
bit of humor in the fact that for
many years we have allowed an im
pression to be built up in the pub
lic mind, that enforcement of the
traffic laws is a sometimes thrill
ing, and sometimes laughable, game
between officers and drivers.
Typical of this attitude is the
cartoonist’s view of traffic enforce
ment; A trooper hiding behind a
billboard waiting to pounce on
some unsuspecting driver cruising
by at a mere 85 mph. And who
hasn’t laughed at the near legen
dary jokes about “Califoimia driv
ers?”
And what average driver tells
about the time he was caught and
fined heavily for violating a traf
fic law? More often he tells about
the time he talked the “cop” out
of a ticket or threw his weight
around City Hall and “beat the
rap.”
Just as there would be nothing
funny about a man who would stalk
down main street with a loaded ma
chine gun scattering gunfire in
all directions, there’s nothing hum
orous about the driver who aims
his car down the highway and, be
cause he violates the laws govern
ing the safe movement of traffic,
endangers life and limb.
We would find it difficult to
sympathize with either one. But
if sympathy were to be extended
at alk I’d be inclined to direct it
to the machine gunner; h6 would
probably heed psychiatric help. The
only excuse for the. most errant
drivers is that they haven’t yet
awakened to the fact that the priv-
Judge Don Gilliam, ill in recent
months, is stilt recuperating at
his Tarboro home, it is not cer
tain yet that he will preside.
In the meantime, defendants ac
cused of capital offenses, and
those accused of lesser offenses
who can’t arrange bond, will spend
a long vacation in jail.
ilege to drive does not give them
the right to endanger the lives of
others.
It’s time our views became more
adult about traffic and the hard
working people who enforce traf
fic laws. It’s no game, brother, and
no laughing matter when the stakes
are so high.
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SUDDEN THAWT . . . When
driving, watching the scenery in
stead of the car ahead is one good
way to become part of both.
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HOW’S THAT ... In addition to
driving on the left side of the
road, British motorists are at vari
ance with our motor customs in
other ways, tOo, including the lan
guage of their traffic signs. To
illustrate, what we call a reverse
curve the British call a double
bend.
Jn the following, the English sign
appears first with the American
translation adjoining;
Accident area — Congested area.
1 in. 12 — Eight per cent grade.
Lay-by — Roadside park.
Unadopted lane — Private road.
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No parking on the heath — No'
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Three years in gaol for hitting’
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COTTON PROSPECTS -
(Continued from page five)
ture; the infestation is more gen
eral than previously thought in
many areas, especially in some of
the eastern southeastern counties.
Jones suggests application of in
secticides when the pests show up
in numbers approaching 10 per cent
infestation. First generation weev
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year, farmers should not get caught
off guard and let the infestation
build up,” added Jones.
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