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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, May 30, 1958
TALK
Tommy P’aulkner, who made the
su'pretue sacrifice in World War II,
wa'i inquisitive and adventurous Tn
his days as a small fry. Most kids
possess these selfsame qualities,
Imt Tommy outdid everybody else
in..Ill'S neighborhood.
Along about the time he gradu
ated from diapers, the Athens
j^^Joday and Every Day
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Boats
Fleet Cap'n Trailers
Boat Supplies
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Where Quality and Experience
Save You Hours of Boating
Pleasure.
theater (now the Kehoe) was still
having roaxl shows on its bill of
fare. Such productions as “Blos
som Time” and “The Student
Prince” played there, as did “Sev
enth Heaven” and “The Cat and the
Canary” to name only a few.
One night Tommy sneaked away
from home, hied himself to the
Athens, and toddled down the same
alley that runs along the left side
of the theatre today.
For the life of us we can’t re
member what touring Broadway
hit was playing. We do remember
it was a hot night, and that the
stage door was partly open.
Tommp peeped in. liked what he
saw and decided to go inside. What
he didn’t realize was the fact that
the door opened directly into the
left wing of the stage, not so very
far from stage center.
Quite enthused by the lights and
glitter, he ran in, and didn’t stop
until he was right smack in the
middle of a love scene in which the
hero and the heroine . were sup
posed to be delightfully alone.
Tommy broke up the twosome,
and threw the audience into con
vulsive laughter. He left as speed
ily as he had arrived, with the in
furiated and embarrassed hero hot
on his heels. It was indeed the
shortest stage appearance in New
Bern’s long theatrical history.
The trouble with most people is
that they see double when they be
gin to look for the things they
want.
CITIZEN SOLDIERS—Members of Headquarters
Battery, 690th Field Artillery, stationed in New
Bern that are seen here left to right, first row,
N. F. Atkinson, E. E. Rowe, J. T. Daugherty, J. E.
Fulcher, H. J, Hargett, M- G. Petteway, W. E. Saw
yer, R. H. Drake, W. D. Sugg, and R. B. Heath.
Second row, E. E. Mills, J. A. Watson, H. D. Fields,
C. C. Laughinghouse, A. L. Heath, E. B. Prevost,
J. B. Arthur, B. E. Milter, D. E. Gibbs, C. W. Daley
Third row, J. F. Rhodes, A. A. Armstrong, B. F.
Jarrell, F. D. Hosteller, L. W. Davis Jr„ V. R.
Bowen, J. T. Beamon, L^ O. Taylor, J. J. Casey,
M. G. Whitford.
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A serious shortage of sweet pota
to plants, due largely to prolonged
wet, cool weather, has created
another problem for Tar He.el farm
ers.
Henry Covington, horticulture
specialist for the N. C. Agricultural
New Bern Heroes in
Every Type Service
New Bern’s heroic dead in World
War H were in every branch of the
service—Army, .Navy, Marines and
the Coast Guard.
Our first casualty was Robert
(Strawberry) Conderman, and in
cidentally he was the first Uni
versity of North Carolina graduate
to die for his country in that con
flict.
He met death in the initial Jap
anese air assault on Wake Island.
Remembering Here
Our town, situated as it is near
Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune,
has ample reason to observe Me
morial Day.
In addition to our own native'
sons, countless Marines who got to
know New Bern as a- home away
from home lost their lives in the
great battles of the South Pacific.
Stationed here, almost within our
city limits, were hundreds of out-
of-state soldiers at Camp. Battle.
They had casualties, too.
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