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Page 2 THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. TOT Parents today are called upon invest far more money in birthday presents for kid than their mothers and fathers before them. Once a dime would do the trick, and entitle the freshly scrubbed gift bearer to ice cream and cake. Now a child is embarrassed to wrap up an item that doesn’t cost in tile neighborhood of a dollar. It's all part of the vicious habit ol trying to keep up with the Jones family, and where it will end nobody knows. Despite the in creased outlay of funds, most of the presents are neither practical nor permanent. Worse than that, few of them are actually appreciat ed and enjoyed by the recipient. Ahelpiiig hand ♦♦♦ WORTH REMEMBERING • Truly—ours is a sacred trust—to serve you with understanding, experience and honesty. Our funeral service is complete, our prices within range of all. POLLOCK Funeral Home Member of National Selected Morticians, an association of funeral directors of high ideals, ethical practices and business integrity One little girl here was flabber gasted when she had a party in observance of her fourth birthday. The first guest to show up brought her a tea set, and the tiny hostess squealed with delight. Her second squeal for a second tea set was less enthusiastic. By the time the last gift had been un wrapped, she was all but hidden by 17 tea sets in fine array. Now this little girl was of a domestic nature, but 17 tea sets was much too much, and she dis played her disgust for all to see. Maybe it was rude, yet you’ll have to agree that she had plenty of provocation. It had a happy ending for her mother, however. “I didn’t have to buy any birthday presents for other little girls for quite a while,” she confided to friends later. “It took me two years to give those tea sets back, but I finally did it.” The moral of this true story is to shop wisely when you buy gift for children. Don’t buy the first thing you see. Too many folks will be doing the same thing before you ever reach the store. MOON SHOT TRY Cape Canaveral, Fla.—The sec ond United States attempt to shoot for the moon probably will not come until October. The Defense* Department says that no date has been set for the next try to launch a satellite around the moon. Thus, theoretically at least, Rus sia will get two chances to reach the moon first before the United States tries again. IT TAKES TIME FOR DOLLARS TO GROW. PLANT THEM NOW. Donald T. Midyette Investment Securities 237 Craven Phone ME 7-2360 Don't Forget Your Week-End Special PACKAGED TO GO Barbecue, Bread and Slaw for Two $1.00 Barbecue, Bread and Slaw for Four . . . $2.00 SUPER SPECIAL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Half Barbecue Chicken with all the trimmings to eat on the premises or take out (listen), just $1.00 The best in seafoods and regular dinners served with Foleys Famous home cooked pies, fresh daily. You can get your barbecue fine or coarse cleaver cut. For Your Convenience When We Are Closed, Pick Up Our Barbecue Next Door at Hayes Food Center. MOORE'S BARBECUE Phone ME 7-2276 1216 Broad Street Check-Up on Your Medicine Chest! Throw-out old drugs, never use another person's medicine, and let us help you make a list of "needs" for emergencies, and to protect your family's health. And remember, your pre scription is carefully and quickly filled. Joe Anderson Drug Store ME 7-4201 Safety Scores At the Half By Jeanne Smith, Dodge Safety Consultant TRAFFIC SAFETY is receiv ing “the old college try” these days at many campuses through out the country. Students at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, for in stance, have staged several safety demon strations dur ing football games when, as one campus leader put it, "We have a Miss Smith captive audience.” At one game last season, three police squad cars lined up at the goal post during half time to at tract the attention of spectators. An announcement over the loudspeaker informed students that they were about to see the distance it takes to stop a car at various speeds. When a siren sounded teams of students picked up the ends of eight - foot - wide canvas strips piled in front of each car and went into action. For a stopping distance at 20 miles per hour, one strip was pulled out 15 yards—for 40 mph, a strip was pulled to the 50 yard line (150 feet) and for 60 mph, the third strip was pulled the full length of the football field. During another game, fans were surprised to learn at half-- time that tires, glass area, side- view mirrors, etc., on their cars had been safety checked by a team of students during the first half . . . more than 200 cars were inspected in the stadium parking lot. Another half-time safety fea ture was a driving “roadeo” in front of the grandstand.^ Tests in cluded stralgKt-lino driving, back ing, Stopping and parking. Par ticipants were judged by a group of students. GARDEN TIME How would you like to buy Ken tucky Wonder pole bean seed which te.sted only 8 per cent germination? A sample was brought to me a short time ago with the explanation that “three plantings have been made with no results.” I sent a sam ple to the Seed Laboratory and re ceived the report already mention ed. I was given the seed source and immediately called the president of the company. He thanked me and stated, “I will remove all seed from sale and send a sample to the Seed Laboratory for official test.” He did this because the sample I sent in was considered a “service test” rather than an “official test.” The attitude of this seedsman is typical of every seedsman in North Carolina, who values his reputa tion and makes a sincere effort to serve his customers well. I do not know of any phase of agriculture which requires as much care in pro duction and handling than does the seed industry. So many things can happen: mixtures, disease, improp er cleaning and storage, and rough handling. You would be surprised how rough handling of snap and pole beans affect the germination ol the seed. This brings up the question of saving your own seed from some of FOR COMPLETE REDECORATING Some of the world's fin est Wall Coverings in va rious types and textures. Paint colored to match or blend each pattern. Free estimates. Dial ME 7-5510 HARRELL'S PAPER SHOP the vegetable crops. If you have been successful, then I would not want to influence you one way or the other, but you are taking a chance of getting in trouble. I would prefer to buy fresh seed each year from a reputable seeds man because of the protection you are assured. Every now and then your seedsman may get a bad lot of seed, as in the case we have dis cussed, but he can pass this back to the producer of the seed and at the same time protect you on your purchase. Buy the best, as cheap seed is always the most expensive. USING HIS HEAD Rocky Ford, Colo.—There they lay on the ditch bank, a little pile of small boy’s clothing. Officers began looking up arid down the ditch, fearing the worst. 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