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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, August 22, 1953
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Television’s failure in providing
a sufficient amount of entertain
ing material for children is em
phasized by the popularity in New
Bern and elsewhere of the Little
Rasca’.s.
Old timers remember these an
cient and well-worn films much
better as Our Gang comedies. Hal
Roach, produced them in Hollywood
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several decades ago, and they got
just as many laughs then, in local
movie theaters, as they’re getting
today.
It’s a pity that Roach couldn’t
have made several hundred of
these features during his long and
distinguished career. Then today’s
kids, so eager to gobble them up,
wouldn’t be forced to took at the
same ones over and over on their
television screens.
New Bern’s small fry couldn’t
feel closer to Spanky, Stymie, Por
ky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Butch and
Darla if they were living on their
own block. Fortunately, a great
many of them aren’t awai-e that the
moppets they’re looking at are no
longer children, but grown folks,
mai-ried and parents themselves.
Hal Roacli, oven as aiark Twain,
knew and loved childhood. He
knew, too, that it is a changeless
thing. Generation.s come and go,
for better or worse, but kids still
skip rope, play hop scotch, slick
out their tongues at other kids, and
scribble on sidewalks.
Maybe somebody in television
will come up with a new series
similar to the Little Rascals. Per
haps they would have attempted
it before now, but realized that it
will be no easy accomplishment
to duplicate the mastery of these
old features.
Meanwhile, the Little Rascals
will continue their oft-repeated ap
pearances. New Bern kids already
know their antics by heart, just
like they know their nursery
rhymes, but that won’t keep them
from being faithful.
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Believe It or Not, Children
Are Biggest Kitchen Hazards
The No. 1 hazard in the kitchen
isn’t a sharp knife or a hot burn
er.
“It’s children.” the National Safe
ty Council says. “Children under
foot in a kitchen can cause all
sorts of trouble.
“They have a habit of leaving
marbles, crayons and toy trucks
here and there on floors. Such
objects on the kitchen floor are
booby traps when Mom tries to
carry a pan of hot liquid, for ex
ample, across the room. She may
fall, spilling the liquid on herself
or someone elseV’
The kitchen, the Council says, is
the third most dangerous room in
the house.
How can you make your kitchen
safer?
1. If possible, keep children out
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of the kitchen. If not, leach them to
stay away from cords, appliances
and stoves.
2. Turn in handles of utensils on
stoves.
3, Keep knives in racks—and
away from children.
4. Wipe up spUled liquids im
mediately from the floor.
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TRUE or FALSE?
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2
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You put electricity to work in at least 25 different
ways in your home. It’s at your service at all
hours, in every room.
TRUE FALSE_
Your electric service takes less than 3% of your
household hudget-less than cigarettes in many
families.
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Each dollar in your electric hill buys twice as
much electricity today as it did 25 years ago.
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ANSWERS; All these statements are true for the average
home. They are probably true for yours as well. Can you
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