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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, June 5, 1959
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IN NEW BERN TODAY
Just as we expected, our New
Bern High school yearbook—The
Bruin—is all tliat anyone could
ask for. Our enthusiastic congratu
lations go to the co-editors, Carol
Hughey and Tommy Midyette.
We also want to congratulate the
business managers, Wanda Tingle
and Carol Forstadt, for the fine fi
nancial job that made an annual
of this quality possible.
Much of the credit belongs to
our advisors—Mrs. J. H. McKinnon,
the editorial adviser; Mrs. L. C.
W'hitley, the financial adviser; and
Miss Sarah Greene, the photogra
phy adviser.
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The color photography added so
much to our yearbook, but to sin
gle out any one thing about The
Bruin for special recognition is
hardly fair. Every phase of our
school life was amply and accurate
ly covered.
Judy Steinberg, who was the so
cial editor, deserves plenty of
praise, along with the sports edi
tors, Lloyd Brinson and Jimmy
Lewis. No one is the least bit sur
prised over the tremendous and
effective performance of the club
editors, Jackie Hammond and Mary
Anne Bartling. The same goes for
Glenda Ricks, the faculty editor,
and Erma Sawyer, the course of
study editor.
In fact the yearbook is so very
nice that its arrival eased some
of our tension as we crammed for
those awful exams we had to strug
gle with last week. You’ll agree
that this was something of a feat
for any group of editors to accom
plish.
Now the exams are behind us,
and the Class of ’59 has graduated
and joined the other classes that
have gones before. All of which
makes us feel rather sad, despite
the fact that graduation is the goal
we all aim for when we enter the
very first grade of school.
But this is vacation time now, so
there should be no sadness for any
of us. The college crowd has arriv
ed, and fun is waiting on our rivers
and at the beach. We’ll make the
most of it.
JUDGES SAW IT TOO—When we ran Georgia Parrott as
our Mirror Maid on January 16, we said, “Her charm lies
in the unique qualities that are to be found in her facial
expressiveness.” Out-of-town judges recognized that charm
last Saturday in choosing her as New Bern’s Dairy Prin
cess.—Photo by Wray’s Studio.
paper we can brand ’em two at a
time.”
It’s said the following announce
ment was seen posted on a rural
church several months ago: “Next
Saturday night, the annual Baptist
strawberry festival will be held.
On account of the recession, prunes
will be served.”
And then thei'e was a small town
postmaster who picked up a letter
one day with this inscription in tire
upper left hand corner: “If not de
livered in five days, try like hell
the sixth.”
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A couple of the Sunday journals
this past week broke out with syn
dicated humor columns. At least
that’s what the editors considered
it, for it was labeled “Chuckles.”
But I didn’t chuckle, not that my
funny bone’s any less sensitive than
the next guy’s, but “Chuckles” just
didn’t get across.
More funny things happen here
during my lunch hour than
“Chuckles” had in a column of
space. But I wanted to be demo
cratic about the thing, before try
ing to top ’em this week. I turned
to the office girl. “Stop typing a
moment and give a listen,” I com
manded. Then I offered her a
“Chuckle.”
Wife (to husband): “You don’t
seem as well dressed as you were
when we were married a few years
ago.”
Husband (inspecting newest crop
of bills): “That’s funny . . . I’m
wearing the same suit.”
She didn’( even titter. “How
about those gags you’ve been col
lecting through the years. Why not
print some of them?” she said.
I motioned her back to work and
began digging in my files. Here’s
what came out. I call them “Snick
ers.”
After a valiant but losing effort
to avoid the crash, a beefy truck
driver stepped down from his cab
and surveyed the damage. He ap
proached the saucy young lass who
was driving the other car. “Why,
may I ask, didn’t you give a hand
signal?” he demanded. With a toss
of her curls, she came back with
this reply, “Because, there’s no
signal for what I wanted to do.”
A Tar Heel hillbilly, strolling
down the street with a jug of
moonshine and a shotgun under
his arm, encountered a stranger
and said, “Have a drink.” The new
comer protested, “Thanks friend,
but I’m not in tlje mood for one.”
Whereupon the rustic ominously
leveled the shotgun at the other
man and again commanded, “1 said
take a drink!” Reluctantly, the
stranger drank. Tears flooded his
eyes, he loosened his necktie and
gasped, “Gosh, that’s the awfulest
liquod I ever drank.” The hillbilly
quickly handed him the gun a£id 1
said, “Ain’t it the truth. Now you
hold the gun on me while I take
a drink.”
A stick of G.I. paratroopers drop
ped into the night on a training
mission during World War II, with
instructions to destroy an aband
oned highway bridge. Safely
down, they regrouped and set out
to plant their explosives. With the
bridge thoroughly wrecked, the air
borne soldiers were driven back to
their barracks. Next day, though,
came a blazing memorandum from
the Highway Department suggest
ing all map reading classes be dou
bled. Wrong bridge.
A governor of North Carolina
several years ago is said to have
received the following communica
tion from a prisoner awaiting exe
cution at State Prison: “Dear Gov
ernor,” the unfortunate man wrote.
“They’s gonna electrocute me Fri
day and here ’tis Tuesday already.”
The drought had been severe and
two ranch owners were bemoaning
the lack of grass. “How are things
over to your place?” one asked
sympathetically. “Pretty tough,”
the other replied. “Why our cattle
are so thin that by using carbon
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