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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, September 11, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Pubrished Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N, C., by the Sole Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
Editor and Publisher
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Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4,1958,
unier the act of AAarch 3, 1879.
PUNK PARADISE
Big cities offer opportunities, advantages and entertain
went that a town the size of New Bern never could. They also
present problems not usually found in smaller concentrations
of population.
Grim and senseless examples are the instances of teen
age violence currently plaguing America’s greatest metropolis
New York. No one in his right mind would envy New Yorkers
at such a time as this.
Most murders are born of motives that seem logical
to the perpetrator, or occur without forethought in the heat
of passion. But to kill for the sheer joy of killing, as juvenile
punks have done repeatedly in the shadows of Gotham is
jungle savagery.
We’re not smug enough to believe that New York or any
other big city has a monopoly on viciousness in the ranks of
its youth. Heaven forbid, but what has happened above the
Mason-Dixon line could happen in the Old North State, too.
However, punks don’t seem to flourish as well in the small
er communities as they do where detection and apprehension
is difficult. A criminal has a better chance of escape when he
can quickly vanish into the teeming millions of people that
New York likes to boast of.
Hiding out until the heat is off, he can return for further
lawlessness. Any punk trying the same tactics in a small town,
especially when his crimes involved knifings and beatings in
public places, would be operating on borrowed time.
This isn’t to say that law enforcement officers are more
efficient in New Bern and other small towns than they are
in big cities. By the very nature of things, they aren’t as well
trained as a rule. However, in their favor is the fact that—
like it has often been said—everybody knows your business
in a small town.
When it comes to the business of crime, we’re glad it’s
that way.
MR. SUNSHINE
It required no stroke of genius years and years ago, when
the editor of The Mirror gave John S. Holland the nickname
of Mr. Sunshine. Nor was it surprising that the title caught
on, and remained with him the balance of his days.
As we often remarked to his wife, Jane, he was probably
the wealthiest man we ever knew. Not rich in dollars and
cents, but tremendously rich in the satisfaction that comes from
bringing joy, and comfort and inspiration to others.
We’re not concerned with what John left in his will. The
most important thing he left was a trail of thoughtful deeds
and kind remembrances that led to the very brink of the grave.
Here indeed was a treasure that had already been impartially
divided among the young and old, the rich and the poor, and
the high and the low alike.
If you were one of the many who received cheerful phone
calls from him, and cards of greeting, condolence and con
gratulations, you know what we mean. The only thing robust
about this frail man of exhaustless enthusiasm was his laugh
and his almost boyish voice. When he talked to you, it filled
the day with brightness.
None of us can say with certainty that we’ll see next
New Year’s Day, or even tomorrow. But for Mr. Sunshine the
hovering presence of death was a constant thing. He knew full
well that he was living on borrowed time, yet there was no
room in his heart for despondency.
He was so completely thoughtful in his dealings with oth
ers that he became thoughtless about his own prolonged ill
ness. He couldn’t be bothered with indulging in self pity, it
would have cramped his style.
That, in our considered opinion as a layman who knows
nothing about medical science, is why he kept on living. Not
just existing, although that in itself was a miracle, but living
a full and useful life.
So long, Mr. Sunshine, and thanks a million for your
friendship.
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
Villoge Verses
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fine or coarse cleaver cut.
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DELVING BACK INTO TWO CEN
TURIES OF OLD COURT REC
ORDS, THESE ALLURING NAMES
OF PEOPLE AND PLACES ARE
FOUND IN THE RECORDS OF
COUNTIES OF EASTERN CARO
LINA: .
FREEHOLDE21S: Sorrowful Em
ery, Shepard Horsey, Bluff John,
Silence Green, Little Little, Piney
Green, Church Bell, Borning Blin,
Wright Knight, Levine Rotten, Kin-
chen Kinchen, Lamentations O'
Neal, Loveless Savage, Malikiah
Sorry, Write Bell, James Onion,
Macajah Bull, Spring Brooks, Wel
come Durrance, Worry Kilpatrick,
Rice Price, Tratabus Etienne, Ant|-
pass Tisdale, Gear Chadwick, Rew-
bin Dear, Mishew Always, Long-
field Cox, Benjamin Gitstrap and
Idolet Gitstrap, Claret Wine, Me-
shack Always, Ephroditus Jones,
Gethemene Burden, Rip Van Dam,
Tom Taunt and Bold Robin Hood.
BRIDES; Comfort Always, Lovey
Divine, Morning Bright, Temper
ance Morris, Thankfull Coveil, In
temperance McCoy, Betty Bangs,
Temperance Highfield, Fidelia Jew
ell, Patience Bull, Deliverance
Moye, Virtue Crawford, Elizabeth
Dear, Comfort Dove, Sally Liekblal,
Wealthy Fanning, Devotion Davis,
Olive Green, Experience Grant and
Love Love.
PLANTATIONS: Turkey Quarter,
Turkey Perch, Blue Rock Planta
tion, Paradise, Springfield, Pem
broke, Mount Pleasant, Bellair
Clermont, Brickhouse, Half Way
House on the Trent, Doctor’s Folly,
Mount Misery, Sandhills, The Her
mitage, Richlands, Harrow, Let
Alone, Apple Tree, Golden Grove,
Apple Grove, Briery Branch, Chin-
pin, Cowpen’s Neck, Brice’s, Snow
Hills, Jacob’s Well, Jumping Run,
Oald Meating House, Pamplyco Riv
er Plantation, Red House, Walnut,
Wilkerson’s Point, Smith Creek,
Stone Bay, Bald Ridge, Beaverdam,
Bull Yard, Capped Point, Cabin
Neck, Cedar Point, Deep Branch,
Dogwood Ridge, Ecrepint, The Pol
icy, Sailors Hammocks, Great Quar
ter, The Hill, Hogpen Neck, Hol
land House, Horse Meadow, Horns
Quarter, Image, Indian Creek,
Kirks,, Lawsons, The Light, Law
son’s, the Lilliput, Ludlow Castle,
Mount Calvert, New Bern, New
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HAPPY TO HAVE YOU
Don’t count yourself a stranger,
If you’ve just moved into town;
And forget that you are homesick,
Treading unfamiliar ground.
The children playing on our streets
Are like the ones you knew;
And here you’ll find the sun and moon
That used to shine for you.
An alley cat is still just that,
In Boston or New York;
The gossipers out in Dallas
Spread our type of idle talk.
We have our share of pompish follck.
Who try to put on airs.
And other folks of simple faith
Who go to God with prayers.
In short, you’ll find that New Bern
Really is of stock design;
But I do so hope you'll learn to love
This lovely town of mine.
—JGMcD.
Germany, Old Box Neck, Oyster
Shell Banks, Paupoy Ridge, The
Point, Possum Quarter, Mason’s
Neck, Prisce’s Neck, Roses, Rose-
field, Sandy Hook, Sandy Run,
Snow’s, Stumpy Island Plantation,
Tower Hill, Town Point, Tubbago’s
Folly, Cow Island Plantation, Clur,
Elbo, Voll’s Island, Whitemarsh,
White Hall, White Oak Neck, Wild
Cat Neck, Wolf Pit Ridge, Alden,
Abington, Ballards, Beach Reag,
Black Rock, Blew Water, Blew-
bootens Neck, Butcher’s Neck, Mt.
Thomas, Mountain Creek Land, Mt.
Garriot, Nash, Hatch’s and Swann’s.
CREEKS, GUTS, GULLEYS,
BRANCHES, RUNS and SWAMPS:
Blue Billy Gut, Yellow Britches
Branch, Dumpling Creek, Jumping
Run, Pudding Branch, Wrigdon
Branch, Shaking Bridge' Creek,
Dancing Branch, Rainbow Creek,
Deep Gully, Samuel’s Creek, Jack
Cabbin’s Branch, Rocky Run, Han
cock Creek, Cahooque Creek, “A
creek called by the Indian tongue,
Inisquorque”, in English Clubfoot,
Aharskey Swamp, Horse Swamp,
Rattlesnake Branch, Wickacorn
Creek, Bear Creek, Horse Pen
Creek, Graveyard Gut, Good Neigh
borhood Branch, Goose Creek, In
dian Grave Branch, Kisable Creek,
Screech Owl Branch, “a creek call
ed where Mr. Stewart ketch’d a rac
coon,” Craven County, Caswell
Branch, Grindell’s Creek, Oyster
Creek, Orchard Creek, Pig Basket
Creek, Wolf Pit Branch, Pole Cat
Branch, Swift Creek, Smith Creek,
Brown’s Cyeek, Beard’s Creek, Slo-
cumb’s Creek, Plub Branch, Cherry
Creek, Lilliput pond. Bee Tree
Creek, Blount’s Creek, Bear Creek,
Alligator Branch, Gum Branch,
Chinquapin Swamp, Frying Pan
Branch, Gale’s Branch and Look
ing Glass Branch, Island Creek,
Hood’s Creek, Hatch’s Creek, Ad-
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GOD IS MINDFUL OF HIS OWN
When distress and cares oppress you,
And you seem to walk alone;
Look up friend, for God will bless you,
“He is mindful of his own.”
You may walk with Him forever.
He’s a never-failing Guide;
He will not forsake you, never,
He will keep right at your side.
What a word of consolation;
Sweetest theme you’ve ever known;
In the time of fierce temptation,
"God is mindful of His own.”
—Good Tidings.
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