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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, October 30, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
Editor and Publisher
One Year.
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YESTERDAY'S TEACHER
New Bern teachers don’t get many apples in this sadly
sophisticated era, but they do have the consolation of greater
freedom. Most folks are willing to admit that they’re human
beings, and can be left unchained to follow a normal pursuit of
life.
It wasn’t always so. We are forcibly reminded of this by
the terms of a teacher’s contract that the state of Idaho cooked
up in 1923. Maybe our North Carolina contracts didn’t spel
out the same restrictions, but the prospective teacher was in
structed to walk a very narrow chalked line.
Here are some of the rules that applied in the not so gooc
old days: “Don’t get married, and don’t keep company with
men; be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
don’t loiter in ice cream parlors; don’t smoke cigarettes; don’t
drink beer, wine or whiskey; don’t leave town without permis
sion.”
Still worried about the evils of being around a man, the
Idaho contract said, “Don’t ride in a carriage or automobile
with any man, except your father or brother.” Apparently,
uncles and cousins were dangerous too.
And, the rules added, “Don’t dress in bright colors; don’t
dye your hair; don’t use mascara or lipstick, and do wear
at least two petticoats.” We assume that a sufficiency of other
lingerie was to be taken for granted.
In New York, back in 1872, the law was laid down in no
uncertain terms too. It was made clear that “Women teachers
who marry, or engage in unseemly conduct, will be dismissed.
Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting
purpose, or two evenings a week if they go to church regu
larly. After 10 hours of school, the teacher should spend the
remaining time reading the bible or other good books.”
Furthermore, “any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in
any form, frequents pool and public halls, or gets shaved in
a barber shop, will give good reason to suspect his worth, in
tention, integrity and honesty. The teacher who performs
his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be giv
en an increase of 25 cents per week in his pay, providing the
board of education approves.”
TOURIST DOLLARS
People on the go spend plenty of dough. Hence New
Bern is on the right track when it makes a play for visitors.
Nothing helps more than outside cash that is fetched to us,
and make no mistake about it, the money is floating around.
Last year, according to carefully compiled figures, travel
ers in North Carolina parted with $360 million. Of this huge
sum, $218 million was spent by out-of-state folks and the re
maining $142 million by Tar Heels enjoying their own variety
vacationland.
Word passed along to us by the Travel Council indicates
that motorists from outside the Old North State traveled an
estimated 1.5 billion miles on Interstate and other Primary
Highways within our boundaries.
Covering this astounding mileage were 9.7 million vehi
cles carrying 21.8 million passengers. To give you an idea
of the mushrooming tourist industry from Manteo to Murphy,
it is significant to note that it has increased 131 percent in
the past 10 years.
There are 14,750 business establishments in North Caro
lina serving travelers, and these establishments employ 65,-
240 persons. Outsiders are responsible for only part of their
revenue, but the firms in question have increased their income
126 percent while the tourist traffic was increasing 131 per
cent. The figures tell their own story.
Paid employees in businesses serving travelers drew sal
aries amounting to $102 million in North Carolina last year.
Whatever percentage of that income you see fit to credit to
ourists, it is quite a tidy sum.
Service stations, eating and drinking places, lodging places
and recreation services naturally got a large share of the
money spent by travelers. However, merchants and others
profited too. Certainly the farmer, for example, had an in
creased income from the sale of his truck crops.
No mater where the money is spent in our community,
everybody along the line benefits.
Historical
Gleanings
-By-
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
1840 DIVISION OF COUNTY INTO
SCHOOL DISTRICTS (Continued)
No. 15. Bound by Wiggins Creek,
Mill Creek, Morgan’s Swamp, Lit
tle Swift Creek, Big Creek and riv
er.
No. 16. Bound by Sneads Branch,
Morgan’s Swamp, Broad Creek,
Main Pocosin, along the edge of
the same to Joshua’s Island.
No. 17. Bound by Sneads Branch,
Joshua’s Island, Bear Branch, Big
Swift Creek, mouth of Mount Plea
sant Swamp, to Bryan’s Mill Dam,
down the river and up Big and
Little Swift Creek to the begin
ning.
No. 18. Bound by Wiggins Creek,
Mill Creek, to the mill and thence
Northeast to the Glade, and down
the Glade to the main road, and
with the road crossing the Glade,
then up the Glade to Muddy
Branch, down the same to main
road, and with the road to Broad
Creek, thence up the same to the
Main Pocosin, and with the same
to Deep Run, and down said Run to
Broad Creek, and with said Creek
to Neuse River.
No. 19. Bound by Broad Creek,
Deep Run, then with same to head
of Goose Creek, down to the mouth
thereof, and then with Neuse River
to the beginning.
No. 20. Bound' as follows, begin
ning at the mouth of Goose Creek,
and running up the East side there
of to the Mills, thence down Neuse
Road to Sandy Branch, thence up
the said Branch- to the head of
the Bird’s Nest Branch, thence
down said Branch to Beard’s Creek
Swamp, thence down said Swamp,
as low as Peter Banks, then cross
ing the savannah to the heard of a
Cart Road, that runs on the East
side of Shadrach Lee’s Plantation,
thence with the Cart Road to the
Neuse Road, thence up said road
to Beard’s Creek Bridge, thence
down the creek to Neuse River.
No. 21. On Southern and Eastern
side of Goose Creek, Mill Pond,
Bay River, down the Pocosin to the
Easternmost part of John W. Lee’s
Plantation, down the pocosin to
Neuse Road, &c, to Bird’s Nest
Branch, to Sandy Branch and to
Neuse Road.
No. 22. Bound by Beard’s Creek
Bridge, Dowson’s Creek, mouth of
Tarkiln Creek then up said creek
to Neuse Road, and with said road
to beginning.
No. 23. Bound by Tarkiln Creek,
Dawson’s Creek, Pearce’s Creek,
&c. to the Northern and Eastern
corner of Daniel Tolson’s Planta
tion, then up the Swamp to the Po
cosin, to the head of Tarkiln Creek.
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TRAVEL TIP
Take hoed. Yankee tourists, who read this today.
Forget about Florida, instead you might stay
For a brisk vacation, here in North Carolina,
Like song writers say, there’s just nothing finer.
Miami and Palm Beach, well they are all right.
But so are our pine trees, soft whispering at night;
And though press agents shout about St. Augustine,
If it’s history you want you can pause on our scene.
Delve in the past, see buildings quite old—
Hear storie.s of pirates, swashbuckling and bold.
A moon down at Key West is lovely, they say.
But the moon on our Neuse and our Trent is okay;
Romance is lurking in each sparkling beam—
Youngsters can claim it, and oldsters ran dream.
So just save your gas, don’t rush to Miami,
Don’t long for'that trail they call Tamiami;
Don’t scamper to Tampa, or sigh for Key West,
If you’re seeking a haven for pleasant rest.
We’ll fix you right up, if you’re puny and pale.
And make you forget about Fort Lauderdale;
Stick around, get acquainted, you’ll like it fine
In this land of enchantment, in Caroline.
—JGMcD.
No. 24. Beginning at the mouth
of Pearce’s Creek, to Haw Bridge,
in the Brown’s Creek Road, to
Brown’s Creek Bridge, &c to the
South side to the mouth of Broad
Creek, thence up Neuse River, to
the mouth of Pearce’s Creek.
No. 25. Bound by Brown’s Creek
Bridge, Bay River Road, thence
down said road to a Cart Road, to
the head of Ball’s Creek, the West
prong of Muse’s Landing, to the
mouth of Bay River.
No. 26. Beginning at the mouth
of Vandemore’s Creek, on the East
side, thence up said creek to the
head, thence a direct line North to
the county line, thence Easterly
with said line to Jones Bay Bridge,
to mouth of Bay River.
No. 27. Bound by Trent Creek,
to Smith Creek Bridge, to the South
east corner of Thomas Jones Plan
tation fence, to Haw Bridge, to
the main road on Bay River, to a
cart path to the west prong of
Ball’s Creek, at Muse’s Landing,
thence up Bay River, to mouth of
Trent Creek,
No. 29. Bound by Neale’s Creek,
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