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With New Bern and other towns
throughout North Carolina faced
with ultimatums to build sewage
disposal plants, attention is being
centered on the many streams that
this state has within its boundaries.
Quite a few readers of The Mir
ror are apt to be surprised with
the disclosure that of the Old North
State’s total qyea—52,712 square
miles— no less than 3,615 of those
square miles are made up of fresh
or brackish water.
Our own Neuse river is 260 miles
long. It is formed eight miles north
of Durham by the confluence of
Eno and Flat rivers, and flows
Southeasterly until at last it emp
ties into Pamlico Sound, 34 miles
below New Bern.
Not -all of our Tar Heel rivers
finii their way to the state’s coastal
region. For example, the Hiwassee,
Little Tennessee and French Broad
rivers join the Tennessee river, and
flow in the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. All
three rise in the Blue Ridge moun
tains of western North Carolina.
The Broad river rises in the
Blue Ridge mountains near Hick
ory Nut Gap. raence it flows in a
general southeasterly direction for
166 miles, to its junction with the
Saluda river at Columbia, S. C., to
form the Congaree river, which
joins the Wateree river at Wateree,
S. C., to form the Santee river. The
Santee riyer empties into the At
lantic ocean near Santee, S. C.
The Catawba river rises in the
Blue Ridge moimtains west of Ma-
iiidr then sqvdficrlyi^^H} mires to its
junction with the Wkteree river,
southwest of Charlotte. Both the
Broad river and the Catawba fiver
are tributaries of the Santee river.
The Yadkin-Pee Dee river rises
on the eastern slope of the Blue
Kdge mountains in Caldwell, Wa-
-tauga and Wilkes counties. It flows
approximately 100 miles in a gen
eral northeasterly direction, and
thence southeasterly 335 miles to
enter the Atlantic ocean through
■ Winyah Bay near Georgetown, S.
G. The 202' miles of the stream
above the Uwharrie river are
known as the Yadkin, and that por
tion below, comprising 233 miles,
„ is known as the Pee Dee or Great
Pee Dee.
The Roanoke river rises on the
eastern slope of the Appalachian
mountains in south-central Virgin
ia. It flows 410 miles in a general
southeasterly direction, and emp
ties into Albemarle Sound—seven
miles northeast of Plymouth. The
pripcipal tributary is the Dan riv
er, which enters the Roanoke river
at Ciarksviile, Va. The Dan river
' rises in the northwestern part of
Stokes county.
The Cape Fear river is formed
by the confluence pf the Deep and
Haw rivers near Moncure. It flows
in a general southeasterly direc
tion for approximately 202 miles,
and empties into the Atlantic oc
ean at Cape Fear. The Chowan riv
er rises in Virgina, flows in a gen
eral southeasterly direction, and
emptibs into Albemarle Sound near
EdentOn.
There are approximately 1,450
miles of P'ederally improved navig
able waters in North Carolina,
ranging from 300 miles of the At
lantic Intra-coastal Waterway, and
rivers extending as far inland as
Fayetteville, Greenville and Smith-
field.
Our nearby Pamlico Sound has
over 1,700 square miles of surface
area, and is three times the size
of Washington State’s Puget Sound.
It extends some 70 miles in its
longest northeast-southwest dimen
sion, and varies from 10 to 30 miles
in width. Outside of extensive
shoal areas, it has a fairly uniform
depth of about 20 feet.
Albemarle Sound is actually the
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VOLUME 3
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961
NUMBER 49
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Jasper High school basketball team. These are the UPrevost, Judy Medley, Nadihe Carpenteri JesH Adkihs,
lassies who copped this year's Craven cojinty crown. Front Shirley Lancaster, Evelyn Cox and Linda Gray.—Photo by
row, left to right: Coach R. H. Woodard, Lois Murphy, John R. Baxter. ' '
Myrtle Rice, Nancy Morton, Myrtle McDaniel, June Adams, ' "
Here's an Irish Interview on
This Saint Patrick's Day, 1961
Nothing could be finer than to
be in Carolina in the morning.
Nothing, that is, unless you could
be in your beloved Emerald Isle
with a lot of other happy Irishmen,
oh this sunny St. Patrick’s Day.
So says Mary Ann Kennedy Bos,
23, who likes living in New Bern
with her Marine husband, Robert
Bos, of Washington State, but ib
prone to get homesick now and
then. That’s the case today, with
every son of Erin and every daugh
ter, too, sure to be wearing the
green.
A distant relative of President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy — his
great-grandfather hailed from her
own birthplace, Waterford — she
came to America a little less than
two years ago for a vacation.
“I had always dreamed of visit
ing the United States,” she confid
ed when interviewed by The Mir
ror. “I couid do secretarial work,
and planned to work while seeing
the country, in order to meet some
sunken valley of the Roanoke river,
which evidently once flowed to the
sea past the present location of
Nags Head. Surface area is over
500 square miles. This sound ex
tends some 55 miles in an east-
west direction.
Currituck Sound cover about 160
square miles, Core Sound 120
square miles, and Bogue^Sound
about 35 square miles. And of
course there are countless lakes in
North Carolina, and still more
creeks.
Obviously, getting rid of pollu
tion is a giant undertaking.
of my expenses.”
She landed in New York, but
stayed .just a day there before fly
ing to Los Angeles. “I had heard a
lot about the climate,” she said,
“and it was just like I thought it
would be.”
From California she intended to
IRISH ANGLER WITH CATCH
travel hither and yon, but Dan Cu
pid upset this' arrangement. Robert
happened to be rooming at the
same apartment house where she
was staying. They met on the
stairs, and six months later were
married. i
Not only charming but intelli
gent (she graduated from Water
ford High school at the age of 13)
Mary Ann then availed herself of
two years’ secretarial training at
Waterford Central Technical Insti
tute. In New Bern she is employed
by the law firm of Ward & Ward.
“Waterford has a population of
30,000,” she told us. “Its citizens
are proud of its chief industry, tho
manufacture of world-famous Wat-
erford crystal. We’re only 90 miles
from County Cork. I’ve been there,
and kissed the blarney stone.”
Even as every true native of Ire
land, Mary Ann firmly believes in
leprechauns. “I’ve never seen one,”
she admits, “but I’ve seen some
people who say they have. I’m not
so sure, because they didn’t have
a bag of gold.”
The bag of gold referred to by
Mary Ann is part of the leprechaun
legend. If you meet a leprechaun
and can trick him, you can snitch
his bag of gold and be rich forever
more. This, it is said, requures con
siderable ingenuity.
What does this delightful candid
Irish girl like most about America?
“It’s the people,” she said without
hesitation. “Everyone has been
friendly, just as friendly as the
people back honie in Ireland.”
Those of us who take pride in
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