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, iNew Bern Public library The NEW BERN ■^>V '«EIKLY IN . ; • or EASTk.. iSTfc.. ^ t CAROkk' Si Per Cop> VOLUME 5 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1963 Four out of five families in the United States buy Christmas trees, according to the national Christmas tree growers associ ation. A sample survey made in New Bern by The Mirror during the recent Yuletide indicates this percentage compares closely with our average. If you're interested in statis tics, the marketoffered 34,000,- 000 American trees and 11,- 000,000 Canadian trees. Most popular were the Douglas fir, red pine and eastern red cedar. At our house we were happy to settle for a North Carolina pine. We used tinsel, bulbs and artificial snow, but no strings of electric lights. We liked the effect without lights. Unless you purchased a tree grown in these parts, yours may have been one of the 30 per cent grown on tree farms. On such farms they are given special care to assure unifor mity of size and shape. For our part, weTl shed no tears over the fact that the fad for artificial Christmas trees (except the table models for small apartments) is losing favor. An artificial Christmas tree is like a stuffed canary in a gilded cage. There was a wistful aspect to the 100-year-old, 15-ton, 70- in Washington. It was adorned with 4,000 lights, and 3,000 or naments, but President Kennedy and his family were far away in Florida with his parents, and didn’t get to enjoy its Christ mas brilliance. Citizens here in New Bern-- some of whom could never be counted on to lend a hand in any holiday undertaking--have n’t been too happy in recent years over the community observance of Christmas. The town wants a parade, and public opinion will bring it about. A parade takes time, trouble, imagination and money. If you aren’t willing to pitch in and help, one way or an other, stop complaining. It isn’t solely City Hall’s responsibility, nor New Bern’s denounced mer chants. It isn’t THEIR parade but YOUR parade, and you CAN help. We will agree with the com- plainers that a religious pageant, no matter how noble its intent, isn’t a satisfactory substitute for a parade with Santa Claus as the center of attraction. As far as we’re concerned we see nothing sacriligious about a Christmas parade that would include both Biblical and secu lar floats. And, if we’re really serious in wanting a creditable parade, we can have the best one in the State. It can be a Christmas parade that not only features floats and bands, but hundreds of costumed marchers depicting characters in the Bethlehem Story and story-book characters dear to the hearts of children. Every church—every civic organization--could take part. Civitans, Jaycees, Lions, Ro- tarians, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, boy SHE DID IT—A Craven county woitian — jilted by her lover — reportedly threatened suicide on the night of September 8. Minutes kter, .just west^nf another vehicle. She died in the shambles of her demol ished automobile shown here. Three of four male occu pant? JsA thn.otW nOT- wont^ (tenth teh-The by Bflly Benners. WHAT SHE STRUCK—Here is the other car involved in Craven county’s worst traffic tragedy of 1962. The remarkable fact is that one of the four passengers in the vehicle lived to tell the tale. Apparently, this wreck was deliberate, but the dead weren’t any deader than other Craven motorists who didn’t intend to die but departed this life quickte and violently. New Bern and Craven did their bit to 'ticrease North Carolina s toll of more than 1,300 fatalities for the year.—Photo by Billy Benners scouts and girl scouts could be in the procession in appropriate costume. The costumes, taken care of properly, could be used from year to year. The idea would require central planning, to avoid duplication of characters. From the realm of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, you could certainly find enough char act is to go around. Think how delighted the kids would be, when they spied Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Boy Blue, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rip Van Winkle, the Three Little Pigs, Little Abner, Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner, the Three Stooges, Super Man, Little Miss Muffet, and scores of others in the parade. Ddiver us, for all time, from the inflated monstrosities that (Continued on Page 8)
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