Page Eight
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, January 11, 1974
TEEN
Topics
Rep. Bright to
File for Re-Election
IN NEW BERN TODAY
You are a very remarkable
person if you aren’t guilfy of
saving so called worthless junk.
Some of it you hold onto for
personal and sentimental
reasons. Much of it you hoard
for no useful purpose.
Actually, the world owes a
debt of gratitude to the foolish
savers. But for them, we
would have no relics of the past.
Almost anything, if it becomes
old and rare, is of value.
Virtually all of the comic
books your parents read, when
they were teen agers, were
eventually thrown away. Quite
probably this happened only
after persistent nagging on the
part of their mothers and
fathers.
If you had a large collection of
these comic books today, you
could sell all of them for a great
deal more than they sold for
originally, and quite a few of
them would bring a very high
price.
First printings of Super Man,
Little Orphan Anniej and other
favorites of quite a few years
ago, are eagerly sought by
collectors. Here in New Bern,
many copies were tossed into
trash cans.
People moving from one
house to another usually get rid
of stuff that they’ve ac
cumulated. And also ways when
a person dies there are items
left behind that relatives
quickly dispose of**.
In many instances, pec^le
move out (tf a house and neither
carry all their hoard-with them,
nor throw it away. The next
person who lives in the house
discovers it, but seldom keeps
it.
You could be wealthy if you
could.turn back the clock, and
round up thousands of old let
ters that were thrown away in
New Bern. Some of the letters
would have historic value, but
your fortune woidd be in the
We are grateful
for your trust and
appreciate your
patronage.
And in serving you
we make it a point
to practice genuine
old fashioned
courtesy.
rare stamps on them.
Everybody, is aware that
there’s a great demand for
stamps that have been out of
circulation for a long time. Not
only people, but disasters like
fires and storms, have
destroyed items now considered
priceless.
Unfortunately, the average
home doesn’t have room to
store things, in the hope that one
day they will be valuable.
Looking Glass—
(Continued from page 1)
the occupants of the car left
Florida.
Yesterday was when the most
popular “near beer” in New
Bern during prohibition, had to
be, if we remember rightly, a
concoction called Bevo. It
didn’t have any kick, but side
effects were the same.
Yesterday was when the last
words uttered by the Rev. J. L.
Hodges, before he collapsed and
died while preaching at his
Tabernacle Baptist church, was
a qualified endorsement of a
new revised version of the
Bible. He urged his flock not to
discard their King James
version entirely.
Certainly revision resulted in
greater clarity, but no one is apt
to come up with passages
superior to the simple
Joe L. Bright of Vanceboro,
one of the few members of
North Carolina’s legislature
with a farm background, an
nounced Thursday that he will
seek re-election to the State
House of Representatives from
the Third District.
Craven, Pamlico, Lenoir, and
Jones counties comprise the
three-member district, and
Bright was the top vote getter in
the 1972 four-candidate election.
As vice-chairman of the
agriculture committee in the
House, he is a recognized
eloquence of Luke’s description
of Cjirist’s birth, in Old English
language.
Yesterday was when, close to
half a century ago. Cab
Calloway made it big with a
song about smoking marijuana.
Singing unbelievably loud in
Harlem’s Cotton Club, he
wailed:
“Have you ever seen that
funny reefer man? If he says he
came from China, tries to sell
TOu South Carolina, then you
Know you’re talking to that
reefer man.” Reefers are
defined in the dictionary as
marijuana cigarettes, and could
be easily purchased by pot
smokers of yesteryear.
Yesterday was when New
Bemians would say, when a
false fire alarm came in at
night, ‘‘Well, another rum
runner must be hauling a load ol
C!raven County corn through
town from North Harlowe.”
Sending in a false alarm sup
posedly distracted our police
force from keeping a look out.
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When you think
of diamonds,
think of Mike.
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222 MIDDLE 5T . NEW BERN N C
637-9775
crusader for rural citizens.
“I am strongly opposed to
removing tobacco controls,”
Bright commented when filing
Thursday. “Without such a
restriction, the little farmer
can’t h(^e to survive against
large land owners who will be
able to plant unlimited
acreage.”
“I am strongly opposed to
removing tobacco controls,”
Bright commented when filing
Thursday. “Without such a
restriction, the little farmer
can’t hope to survive againt
large land owners who will be
able to plant unlimited
acreage.”
Recalling when controls were
last removed in 1939 Bright
said, “You had to be living on a
dirt farm, struggling to make
ends meet, to know what it was
really like.”
Another matter very much on
Bright’s mind is expansion of
the medical school at East
Carolina University. “We
desperately need additional
doctors in our section of the
State,” he emphasized when
filing, “and playing politics at
the expense of the ill and in
jured cannot be tolerated.”
Although he is proudest of his
farm background^ he is also a
successful businessman, and
owns and operates Bright
Chevrolet, In., at Bayboro in
Pamlico county.
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— Ben & Doris
Top Ten Tunes
In New Bern
This Week
1. The Most Beautiful Girl—
Charlie Rich.
2. Leave Me Alone—Helen
Reddy.
3. Time In A Bottle—Jim
CJroce.
4. The Joker—Steve Miller.
5. Hello It’s Me-Todd
Rundgren.
6. Show & Tell-AI Wilson.
7. Goodbye Yellow Brick
Road—Elton John.
8. Living For The City—Stevie
Wonder.
9. If You’re Ready—Staple
Singers.
10. Mind Games—John
Lennon.
(This week’s Mirror pick for a
future spot in the Top Ten is
Ringo Starr’s You’re Sixteen.)
CR WEN COUNTY'S
COUN'rRV AND WES TERN
I’ WORITES
1. If We Make It Through
December—Merle Haggard.
2. Amazing Love—Charlie
Pride.
3. I Love—Tom T. Hall.
4. If You Can’t Feel It—
Freddie Hart.
5. You Ask Me—Waylon
Jennings.
6. Somewhere Between Love
And Tomorrow—Roy Clark.
7. Jolene—Dolly Parton.
8. The Last Song—Hank
Williams, Jr.
9. The Most Beautiful Girl—
Charlie Rich.
10. Still Loving You—Bob
Lumon.
(This week’s Mirror pick for a
future spot in the Top Ten is
Loretta Lynn’s Hey Loretta.)
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