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r : ^ ffttbifr Htbrnii The NEW BERN r PUBLISHID WtEKLV ft HEART OF >0 ,7*™ ^ VOLUME 15 NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1972 NUMBER 16 Little girls with lots of curls are lovely sights to see, but I’ll confess that pigtails hold a special charm for me...Pigtails well tied with ribbon bom of bri^tfy cdored hue, pigtails t^ give a pair of ears a chance to come in view. Perhaps I’m getting childish about small trivial things, for I’ve heard that silly notions is a curse that old age brings...If this be true I won’t r^ret returning yesteryears, with iocks of gray I’ll still be gay, and thumb my nose at tears. Long years ago I didn’t know that pi^ils have appeai, ex cept of course fw yanking to make their owner squeal....! didn’t know there’d come a day, out in the worid of men, when fools whose hearts just won’t grow up would dream of way back when. Still get a thrill from march ing bands that lead a town’s parade, freckled kids with fishing poles, and picnic lemonade....When boys are small they’d give their all to reach manhood’s estate, never (HTising what they’ve got, until it’s much too late. The joys that older people get are few and far between, most adults are a restless lot, at least the one’s I’ve seen.. Concerned with making money, to impress their fellow man, or chasing fame to make a name, and rate society’s clan. Slaving, craving endlessly, so they can point with pride, to more expensive gadgets that their neighbors are denied....Conscious of their prestige, ashamed to qieak to others, ^ough Christ, Mmo died on Calvary, said that we all are brothers. Yes, I guess I’m getting childish, for it isn’t very smart, to tackle grown up problems with a foolish, small bov’s heart...Still, you get to love me si^ts that wiser folks don’t see, so little girls in pigtails look mi^ty sweet to me. ' YMterday was when, on Dec. 19, 1940, a head-on automobile accident near Madera, California, claimed the life of Hal Kemp, as he drove from «ie band engagement in Los >^des to another in San Francisco. Hie crash brought sadness to New Bernians who as youngsters in the Ticker Tape Twenties traveled to every town in eastern North Carolina where his orchestra pla^ a dance, including Rocky Mount’s June German. Although it wasn’t until 19M that Kemp’s soft and sweet music caj^vated millions of American, all of us down this way knew adille he was still at the University of North Carolina that it would happen. Like a number of other band leaders in the (dd daw, Hal began his quick climb to fame at Chicago’s Blackhawk Restaurant. Fred Waring, another great maestro from the college ranks, hdped finance him at the start. Kemp didn’t go for a lot of noise. His muted brass, coiqM (Continued on page 8) TIME TO CHECK—Albert D. Brooks is proud of his collection of old and rare photographs, published exclusively in The Mirror in a great many of its issues, but this candid product of his camera is closest to his heart. It is, needless to say, of more recent vintage. The youn&ters are Jeni and Anja Brooks, his granddau^ters and the diUdren of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brooks, III. They live in Estcourt, in the state of Natal, in the Rqiublic of South Africa, where Albert III is associated with Burlington Industries. Jeni was told to take care of Anja, while the two played on the lawn. This admonition, in Jeni’s thinking, certainly included making sure that Anja hadn’t wet her diaper, and she used this technique to halt Anja’s forward progress and find out. This is the sort of photograph that could never be planned. Keep your camera handy, and if you're quick on the trigger, you may snap action equally un predictable, and priceless. (2
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