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THE NEW BERN MIRRCtR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, July 10,1959^
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Pubriihcd Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by ttie Sole Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
.Editor and Publishor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Onb Yoar $2.50 Six Months .——-. $1.25
Entered at teeendlata mail at New Bern April 4,19SS,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
REALLY TOPS
This month our State Highway Patrol is observing its
SOth anniversary, and the fact is worth more than passing men
tion.
Nqt that the organization needs any particular boosting.
Having already been recognized as America’s finest, ite
aebievements are a matter of record.
I
Fortunately for citizens, including those who don’t al
ways appreciate the Patrol’s vigilance, its officers and. men
have rendered outstanding service throughout the 30-year
span. The occasional bad apple in the barrel is a rare ex
ception, and doesn’t last very long. The percentage of sincere,
courteous and dedicated patrolmen is overwhelming, to say
the least.
Here in New Bern we have been blessed with able lead
ership from sergeants like Tom Brown, Clark Teague and
Ernest Guthrie. Brown and Teague moved up the ladder to
higher rank at Greenville and Salisbury. Guthrie has proven
to be a worthy replacement here.
Each of the three is first and last a gentleman. Being one
hasn’t diminished their efficiency. To the contrary, it generat
ed public respect and confidence that are essential if the
Patrol is to function at its best.
Some law enforcement officers in other fields seem to get
the impression that a badge and a gun gives one license to
behave like a bully. It could be that they’ve seen too many
westerns on television. At any rate, all of us can be glad that
the pattern for Highway, patrolmen doesn’t call for swagger
ing individuals who behave more like punks than guardians
•f persons and properiy.
Naturally, a newspaperman gets a closer view of the av
erage member of the Highway Patrol than does the rank and
file citizen. We see them under trying circumstances—at ac
cident scenes, in emergency rooms and morgues, and in court.
And we can say without hesitation that the State has every
right to be proud of them.
I ■ DESERVES YOUR SUPPORT '!?
Having joined the North Carolina Association for Retard
ed Chieldren, through its newly organized Craven County
chapter, we are urging you to do likewise.
All we were called upon to invest, for the annual dues,
was two bucks. To uS that is a small price for the satisfaction
we are getting from the realization that we’re among Tar
Heel pioneers in a cause so conlmendable.
It is understandable—yet ironic^—^that the greatest inter
est shown in the project thus far has come from the parents
of retarded children. A notable exception is the New Bern
Civitan Club. Members of that organization had already con
tributed liberally from club funds to help retarded youngsters,
but jumped at the chance individually to join the Craven chap
ter as soon as it was organized.
Offhand, we are inclined to feel that no one in New Bern
should be more eager to give retarded children special training
than those of us who have not been faced with the problem and
heartaches of such a situation in our own home.
Consider these figures. Out of every 100,000 children born,
700 have heart disease, 200 are blind, 300 are disabled 'by’
polio, 350 are victims of cerebral palsy . . . BUT 3,000 are
MENTALLY RETARDED. These children need help.
Haying a mentally retarded child is no disgrace. As the
old saying goes, it happens in the best of families and also in
the less well-to-do families. In short, it happens without re
gard to geography, race or economic status.
More than 70 diseases and other conditions are known to
cause it. Further study, however, is needed to find other
causes—still unknown—and to find ways to control it.
One of the sweetest little girls we know in New Bern is
retarded because of an automobile accident years ago. We
covered the accident as a reporter. For her, and for all re
tarded children who can have their handicaps reduced and
minimized, join the cause today.
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
Villoge Verses
THERE IS NO SECRET TO OUR
LONG YEARS OF SUCCESS.
WE PIONEERED, THEN KEPT PACE
WITH THE TIMES.
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CHARGE OF TREASON, 1777-1779
1777. State of North Carolina.
Pitt County. Whereas, information
has been made to me, one of the
Justices for the county aforesaid,
that Richard Fen, at a private mus
ter called by Captain Ellis in order
to put his company into divisions
agreeable to his instructions, that
the aforesaid Richard Fen behaved
himself disorderly, and declared
against drafting and further insist
ing that he would not abide by the
said draft, and further took a mug
of liquor and drank "King George’s
health, and success to Great Bri
tain, which , is cemtrary to the in
terest and good government of the
said State.
You are hereby commanded by
authority of the said State to ap'
prehend the body of the said Rich
ard Fen and bring him before me
that he thhy be dealt with accord
ing to law, made and provided in
such cases. Given under my hand
and seal, this 4th day of August,
1777.
To some lawful officer to exe
cute but for want of such, to Mr.
Henry Studivant. Signed: James
Lanier.
♦ * * ♦
State of North Carolina, New
Bern District. At a Court of Ses
sions, of the Peace, Oyer and Term
iner -and General Goal Delivery,
begun and held at New Bern, for
the District of New Bern, on the
1st Tuesday of September, in the
second year of the independence of
said State, and in the^year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy-seven, before the Hon
orable James Davis, and Alexander
Gaston, ELsquires, Judges and- Jus^
tices pf the State of Nortj^ C^olina
aforesaid, and by contmissw from
his Excellency, Richard Caswell,
Esquire, Governor, Captain General
and Commander in Chief, in and
oyer the said State, directed to the
said James Davis and Alexander
Gaston, under the seal of the State,
to hear, try and determine all of
fences against the peace and good
government thereof, which may
have been committted or which
shall hereafter be committed with
in the district aforesaid:
The Jurors for the State afore
said, upon their oath present that
Richard Fen, late of the Parish of
St. Michael, in the County of Pitt,
in the State aforesaid, Planter, be
ing a pernicious and seditious man,
and a person of depraved, impious
and disquiet mind, and of a sediti
ous disposition, and not having the
fear of God before his .eyes,., nor
■weighing the duty of his allegiance
to the State of North Carolina,
aforesaid, but being moved and se
duced by the instigation of the
devil and maliciously, turbulently
and seditiously, intending the
peace and common tranquility of
the State aforesaid, to disquiet,
molest and disturb and to bring
the State and the Constitution
thereof, into great hatred, con
tempt and scandal, with all the
liege and faithful subjects thereto
belonging, did on the 1st day of
August in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and seven
ty-seven, in the second year of the
CAN'T BE SOLVED
Mo.squitoes die in winter, but the love bug knows no season,
When boy meets girl, and stardust falls, they lose all sense of
reason;
Since time began, the wise guys have puckered up their brows
And have tried to solve the puzzle of a suitor’s frantic vows.
Yet, through the years, the joys and tears, this mystery has stayed.
There’s simply no predicting, when a young man- woos a maid;
For love blooms in a snow-storm, and beneath a harvest moon
In April it claims victims, in December and in June.
Don’t hibernate, you’ll find your mate, somewhere in Caroline,
And when you do, assert yourself and claim your Valentine;
Love is quite important, of that you’ll-have no doubt ?
But vou’ll never ever figure just what it’s all about.
—JQMcD.
independence of said State, at the
Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid, in an open muster field,
in the presence of divers liege sub
jects of the State aforesaid, with
a loud voice, drink success to Great
Britain and a health to King
George with a view and intention
and thereby maliciously, advisedly,
publicly and deliberately to excite
the good people to resist the gov
ernment of this State, subvert the
Constitution thereof against the
duty and aillegiance which he the
said Richard Fen owes to the
State aforesaid against the peace
and dignity of the State. Signed:
John Cooke, Attorney for the State.
Charles Allen and Pett Allen, wit
nesses for the State. Farnifold
Green, Foreman. Sworn and sent,
John Cooke for Christopher Neale.
(No BUI.)
* * ♦ * .
1779. State of North Carolina,
Craven County. Before us. William
Tisdale and Andrew Blanchard,
Justices for the County aforesaid,
personally came and appeared Cap
tain Abraham Gurling and being
duly sworn on the holy Evangelists
tlepweth atttf satd; that hp: entered^
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JOfifiSf, k’’lPla^ of lYnuit^Mund
from New Bern to New York, of
which John Williams was captain,
that John Blank entered as a hand
on board said Flagg, that they ar
rived at New York the first day
of ■ May,- that on their passage
from New Bern to New York they
spoke the GEORGE AND ELIZA
BETH, a BRITISH PRIVATEER
SLOOP from New York in compa
ny with the BLACK PRINCE BRIG,
Stephen Williams, captain, that the
captain of the GEORGE AND
ELIZABETH came on board the
Flagg, that John Blank informed
the said captain that a French ship
lay at Beaufort, and a Polacca (a
vessel with three masts used in the
Mediterranean) at Ocracoke Bar,
as he thought not well armed, and
that they might easily take them.
This deponent further saith" that
he heard John Blank further in
form the captain aforesaid thaf at
New Bern was lodged a consider
able quantity of Continental Stores,
pork, etc., and that a large trade
was carried on from Ocracoke Bar
to Hhe South Key, which be said
thtey might easily put a stop to by
coming in over Ocracoke Bj(r.
This deponent further sakh that
Commodore Sir George Ccdlier, on
their first arrival at New York,
ordered Captain John Willianu,
John Blank and the prisoners- oh
board his ship and detained them
all except Captain Williams the
whole night, from the Commo
dore’s ship John Blank and the
prisoners went and remained on
shore, that some days after John
Blank came down and told this de
ponent that he had better remain
in New York, that the matter,
meaning the war, would sohi be
settled, that there was a fleet ar
rived at Sandy Hook with twenty
thousand troops on board. This de
ponent furtljer saith that from the
general tenor of hi^ . the said
Blank’s discourse, he thinks him
an enemy to the United States^ and
further this de^jnent said not." ,
Abrai Gurling '
Sw^'#' before' iufs;^ ’■
’Tisdale.
AniiiTi# Blanchtt^^i!'F.
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