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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, December 4, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
j. 6ASKILL McDaniel
.Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.50 Six Months $1.25
Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4, 1958,
under the act of March 3, 1879.
THOSE TB SEALS
Here in New Bern and Craven county, where tubercu
losis is far more prevalent than healthy folks realize, the pur
chase and use of Christmas seals is one of the better ways
to celebrate the Yuletide season.
It’s true that the disease often attacks as a likely victim
the man, \yoman or child who is underprivileged and probably
undernourished. But it is also true that it strikes too among
the rich, the strong and the influential. No segment of our
population lives a charmed life against, the possible ravages of
this serious malady.
As a matter of fact, from one-fourth to one-third of the
nation—40 to 50 million Americans—are believed to be infect
ed with the germ that causes tuberculosis. Of this number, ap
proximately 250,000 persons have active tuberculosis. Last
year alone,* 13,000 people died of TB in the United States.
A new case of tuberculosis is reported in the nation every
six minutes, and yet it is conservatively estimated that ap
proximately 100,000 Americans are suffering from an active
case of the disease and aren’t even aware of it.
Tuberculosis strikes people of all ages, but half of the
new cases reported are among people under 45 years of age.
The largest number of cases are found among men, and more
than half of the Americans who die from the disease are men
over 40.
Of course, the cost in terms of life and health is or should
be our chief concern, but in terms of dollars and cents the an
nual cost of TB in the United States amounts to about $750,-
000,000. Most of this cost is borne by the taxpayers.
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from infective
and parasitic diseases, with a death rate of 7.7 per 100,000.
Approximately 2,000,000 Americans, or 5 per cent of the 40
to 50 million people infected with the tubercule bacillus, will
develop tuberculosis if the present infection rate continues.
This year alone, TB will strike approximately 80,000
Americans. The figure would certainly be higher if the tradi
tional Christmas seal sale conducted by the 2,700 tuber
culosis associations in the United States didn’t provide funds
for medical research, case finding, rehabilitation, and the ed
ucational activities to combat the disease.
Last year the citizens of our nation gave approximately
$26,000,000 to finance the fight against tuberculosis. And, we
would like to inject at this point the reminder that most of the
money stays within the community where it is solicited.
Your pennies for Christmas seals are put to work right
here in New Bern and Craven county. It is only natural that
you are concerned with the welfare of your loved ones and
neighbors first—natural if not Christian^so the seals you
buy have added significance if you feel that charity should
begin at home.
You need not be told that tuberculosis has afflicted man
kind as far back as recorded history goes. Skeletons of pre
historic man show that TB found its way into cave homes,
just as it invades our modern houses and apartments. Evidence
of the antiquity of tuberculosis has been found in mummies
and hieroglyphics of Egypt.
The germ that causes tuberculosis was first identified in
1882 by a German scientist, Robert Koch. The X-ray, still the
most efficient weapon for finding TB, was discovered by Wil
liam Konrad Roentgen, a German physicist, in 1895. Strep
tomycin, the first drug used successfully to treat tuberculosis,
was discovered by Selman Waksman in 1944.
Fortunately, public opinion has changed a lot since Dr.
George Bodington of England started a TB sanatorium in 1840.
He was denounced a lunatic, and eventually he turned his sana-
tarium into an asylum for the insane. It’s too bad the fools
who denounced him couldn’t have been placed behind bars
instead.
Tuberculosis has been called many things. The Greeks
had a word for it, they said it was “Phythisis.” Others later
labeled it consumption, the white plague and hectic fever.
It’s deadly, so fight it with seals.
SeQ Us for
PRESCRIPTION
SERVICE
There's no question
about it! We give
you safety, purity
and double-checked
accuracy in our
prescription service.
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ME 7-4138
The Mirror Advertising Pays!
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
INVENTORY OF THE PERSONAL
ESTATE OF JOHN WRIGHT
STANLEY, DECEASED, RETURN
ED SEPTEMBER TERM, 1789, By
THOMAS TURNER, EXECUTOR
One filtering stone, one copper
tea kettle, one copper coffee pot,
one fish kettle with strainer, three
tin pans, nine pewter candle
moulds, one tin dripping pan, 14
patty pans, one cheese toaster, one
roasting iron hook, one frying pan,
one iron ladle, two pot trammels,
one iron tea kettle, two old Dutch
coffee mills, one cooler, two soap
tubs, one keg, one pickle bottle,
one stone jar, one small wooden
candle box, 13 baking or pudding
pans, 13 Queen’s ware oval dishes,
seven blue edged oval dishes, one
Japanned tea pot, eight octagonal
blue and v/hite China dishes, one
oval blue edged red and white
China dish.
Seven red and white China pud
ding pans, two Queen’s china
drainers for fish, one wooden box
to chop sausage meat in, fivejlozen
bottles of cyder, nine large panes
of window glass, three pine tables,
one Dutch oven, two iron pots, one
desk and book case, one mahogany
tea board, one wooden sun dial,
one mahogany cradle, six Windsor
chairs, 12 mahogany chairs with
stuffed bottoms, one mahogany
side-board, two mahogany beds,
one bolster, one pillow, two rose
blankets, one mahogany card table,
eight mahogany chairs with silk
damask bottoms ornamented with
brass nails and cheque covers over
the bottoms, one oval looking
glass, one dressing glass, one Ja
panned tin sugar box, three blue
and white cheque window curtains,
four red and white window cur
tains, four green and white stripe
window curtains, one set cotton
purple bedroom curtains, two yel
low and purple window curtains,
six purple and white window cur
tains, eight green striped window
curtains, one set black pencilled
Villoge Verses
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FOR EVERY AGE
Christmas belongs, some say, to eager youth—
And childhood finds it bright as gleaming gold;
Yet, grown-ups too enjoy it, for in truth
A heart that sings is never really old.
Who of us could wish for something finer,
In this time of boundless Yuletide mirth;
Than blessings all about us in coastal Carolina,
This friendly land, the grandest spot on earth.
Happy is he whose heart has love to spare.
When Christmas brings its magic charm orice more;
And happier still are those with dreams to share,
Who bear their gifts to some forgotten door.
In every home, on every New Bern street.
May holidays be jolly days of pleasure;
May each precious moment be wonderfully complete.
As good times come to you in fullest measure.
—JGMcD.
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china for tea table consisting of
12 cups for tea, six cups for cof
fee, ten saucers, one tea pot, one
cream pot, one tea kennester, one
sugar dish, one plate for bread,
three small blue and white cups,
21 glasses for syllabub, 23 tum
blers, six butter boats,
Seven blue and white salts, two
small black tea pots, two large
fruit baskets, one oyster tureen
blue and white, four pudding pans,
two Japanned snuffer trays, one
silver tea urn with case, two silver
punch ladles, one silver sugar dish,
one silver punch strainer, one sil
ver coffee pot, four silver
goblets, one mahogany curtained
bedstead and sacking bottom, two
dressing glasses, one easy chair
with chintz and one cheque cover;
35 pounds of cotton yarn, one walk
ing cane with gold head, one bed
quilt, one sheet, two Japanned sug
ar boxes, one earthen tea pot, half
pound ginger, two pair pistols, sil
ver mounted, one morocco leather
paper and ink case, one pine writ
ing desk, one poplar bedstead and
sacking bottom, one spinning
wheel, one horse cart and wheels,
harness for six carriage horses,
one coach, one chariot, one single
riding chair, one small cotton gin.
three carriage horses, two calves,
one pair brass candlesticks, two
Queen’s ware milk pans, one Delph
pint mug, six Delph dishes, one
piano, one mahogany table, one
maple desk, six Windsor chairs,
one saddle, 49 sheep, two ox yokes,
one hand saw, a quantity of flax
(Continuod on Pago 8)
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Tips From
New Bern's Post Office
What’s Your Postal I. Q. ?
WISE TO ADDRESS )fMA5 I tbuE O
parcels on at least TWOjJ
FALSER?
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be addressed on only one side. Multiple
soeefai h »he markings on parcel post sent as
ovlnooked ‘‘el'vefy. insured, or C.O.D. mail to be
comJ! to*in P'’otect your parcel in case the wrapper ba
the Pap®r with your name and address and
it is addressee inside the parcel before
IS wrapped. Mail parcels early to insure delivery by Christmas.