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VOLUME 6
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1964
NUMBER 42
Rev, Fred Mauney, pastor of
New Bern’s First Baptist
church, has a very patient and
understandTng wife. However,
even a preacher’s better half
Is entitled to a small portion
of exasperation once In awhile.
The other day she was left
stranded at a local beauty shop,
when the parson failed to pick
her up on time, as he had pro
mised, “He said he was looking
for a sermon,’’ she comment
ed almost peevishly, “and If
he doesn’t hurry up he Is going
to have one,’’
Sister Mauney has a keen
sense of humor, and so does
her husband. Neither objected
when we suggested that a story
as cute as this one ought to be
passed along to readers of The
Mirror, Anyhow, the minister
has been forgiven, although
Mrs, Mauney probably filed the
Incident for further reference In
, . the event she needs It for ammu-
! nitlon on a later occasion. Wo
men, blessthelr hearts, are like
that.
Writing In The New Republic,
Gerald W, Johnson says, “As
an exercise In futility nothing
exceeds trying to recall today
what one thought of John Fitz
gerald Kennedy last month or
■ last year; for what anyone
j thought of him pales Into In-
significance by comparison with „
I » - '^ '''^■" ’ #i{eF1fie hatlbn'feel!!i About him ^
now and will continue to feel
through the predictable future, ’ ’
Concluding Johnson ob
serves that “What Is already
evident Is that the national pan
theon has a new figure and a
shining one. It Is, above all, the
Ideal of youth; which Is to say.
It will continue an Inspiration
to the rising generation for
longer than we can see; and
when a nation has gained a sym
bol that can release the gen
erous Impulses ofits young men
and women It Is fortunate be
yond computation,’’
On this day, back in 1922, an
enterprising gentleman by the
name of C. K, Nelson obtained
a patent for the first Eskimo
pie. If memory serves us faith
fully, they were smaller than the
chocolate-covered ice cream
bars you see today, and were
priced in New Bern at twenty
cents. At that rate. In our cur
rent era of deflated money val
ues, a popslcle would be sell
ing for close to a half dollar.
It’s nice to know at least one
thing Is cheaper than It used
to be.
Also on this day—back in
1888—J, L. Wortman perfect
ed the first typewriter rib
bon, and exactly eleven years
later Humphrey O’Sullivan
came up with the first rubber
heel. Earlier, In 1848, J. W.
Marshall discovered gold at
Coloma, California. Idore re
cently, in 1925, the first mov
ing picture of an eclipse of
the sun was taken from a
dirigible at Montauk Point, Lmg
Island.
Senator Barry Goldwater’s
speech In Kinston last Friday,
attended by quite a few New
Bernians, was billed as “non
political,’’ Goldwater’s oratory
was most certainly political—
just as political as the “non-
political’’ mouthings resort
ed to by other Republican and
Democratic office seekers on
the state and national level.
Let’s cut out the kidding.
Politicians—not just at elec
tion time but day in and day
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THE BEST TWO-PIANO TEAMS NOW BEFORE
THE PUBLIC ■ THE NEW YORK TIMES
“ENORMOUS POPULAR FAVORITES.’’
“CONFIRMED THEIR RIGHT TO BE CALLED TODAY’S
MOST SUCCESSFUL TWO-PIANO TEAM , ’’ CHICAGO AMERICAN
“THEIR CONCERT TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF THE
MOST POPULAR OF THE SEASON ■ ATLANTA JOURNAL
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
NATION’S FINEST—Never before, in New Bern’s
long history, has the town played host to a pair of
musicians as celebrated as Arthur Whittemore and Jack
Lowe. The famed duo-piano team will be presented
8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the latest Community Concert
at NBHS Auditorium. Admission is restricted to mem
bers of the Concert Association. 'The two have appear
ed' as soloists with the New York Philharmonic, the
Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony, as
well as the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, San EYan-
cisco, St. Xxjuis, Washington, Cincinnati, Los Angeles,
Dallas, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Denver, San Antonio
and Rochester. ’ITiey were the first classic instrumenta
lists to have their own regular show, a five-day-a-wedk
program. 'They have appeared on the Jack Paar Show,
and been re^arly starred on “Today.” Other guest
appearances have ranged from Captain Kangaroo to
the Telephone Hour. They are among the very few
serious-music performers to sell over one-million rec
ords. laical of their tremendous appeal was the audi
ence of 4,000 that packed the Municipal Auditorium
in New Orleans for a Community Concert there. It’s
front page news for anybody’s paper when WMttemore
and Lowe visit a city large or small. For New Bern, it’s
one of the noteworthy events of our time, and mem
bers of the New Bern Community Concert Association
are to be con^atulated^ for bringing this outstanding
cultural contribation to our midst.