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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, March 20, 1964
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 510 Jefferson Avenue
New Bern, N. C., by the Soie Owner
J. GASKiLL McDaniel
Editor and Publisher
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IT ISN'T FAIR
For our part, we’re fed up with all the things
we’ve read in the papers and heard on radio and tele
vision about the shame and guilt that citizens of
Dallas must live with, and presumably die with.
To saddle an entire populace with blame for Lee
Oswald’s crackpot murder of President Kennedy is as
unreasoning as the twisted mind was that planned
JFK’s slaying.
No community has any guarantee against acts
of violence perpetrated by a dangerous fool with a
gun in his hand. Thank God, President ’Truman wasn’t
felled by a bullet when he visited New Bern a few
years back, but despite every possible precaution it
could have happened.
And let’s face it, almost every town of any size
has its punks, and some of those punks are adult
punks like Jack Ruby. Blame with considerable satis
faction the Dallas police department, if you care to,
for Ruby’s presence in the courthouse, but don’t con
demn citizens in general.
Both slayings — the killing of a President from
ambush and the sneak rubbing out of a trapped pris
oner — were acts of violently inclined individuals.
Any attempt to make the guilt a collective thing —
embracing everybody who calls Dallas home simply
doesn’t ring true.
This editor has no great desire to wear a 10-
gallon hat, rope a steer or listen to a coyote’s howl
in the distance. We never expect to end up in Dallas,
but if we did we would expect to meet the same kind
of folks that live right here in New Bern.
Notwithstanding the raving of Ruby’s loud-mouth
ed, show-off lawyer, the Dallas jury that convicted
Oswald’s killer' acted properly. Coming as it did in
a week that also saw Jimmy Hoffa convicted by a
jury in Tennessee, the verdict was satisfying to those
who have respect for law and order.
It may appear that there’s a lot of decency left.
You may have trouble in finding it in the headlines,
but you can discover it in less conspicuous places.
Kinston’s High school basketball team — now
wearing the State 3-A crown — came face to face with
some of that decency a few days ago, when Coach
Bob Lewis and his New Bern Bears made a special
trip to the I^enoir town to wish the Red Devils well as
they embarked for the tourney in Durham.
This editor came face to face with some of it this
week. We were in a local store when an elderly lady
came in. She had found too much money in her pocket-
book when she returned home from a shopping tour
in the downtown business section.
Now she was back, and very much worried. “Some
body gave me more change than I was supposed to
get,” she told the manager of the store we happened
to be in, “and I’ve got to find out who did it.” You
could tell by her weariness that she had been making
the rounds. She left disappointed.
Then there’s the old man who goes into a local
restaurant daily. When he finishes his meal, he stacks
the dishes neatly for the waitress and carefully wipes
off the counter. “I’ve cleaned it up the best I could,”
he tells her.
The waitress says he always giggles a little when
he places his order, sort of like a happy child would
giggle. It looks to us like he has plenty of sense, so
mavbe it’s just more fun than a lot of us realize being
kind and friendly, and helpful to others — including
waitresses.
April is just around the corner — the flowers
are budding and the birds are singing. ’To make it
even nicer, the politicians haven’t started kissing
babies yet. What a wonderful time of year!
FRY BONDED BUILT-UP
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Historical
Gleanings
—By—
ELIZABETH MOORE
N. C. CRAVEN COUNTY:
JOSEPH LEECH V.
THOMAS BRANTON,
1810-1816 &c.
Summons to Craven County
for william McKlnnle, Dec.
1815. J. G, Stanly C. C.
Summons to Craven County
for Joseph Rhem, Jacob
Rhem, Daniel Lane, Fred
I. Cox, Jesse West, Clai
borne Ivey, March 1816.
Deposition of William Lane
at the home of Thomas Holliday
salth: About 35 years past or
upwards Rlgdon Brice was call
ed on to survey a patent grant
ed to Thomas and William
Moseley, lying on the S side
of Neuse River, and this de
ponent and John White was call
ed on to carry the chain and
that they begun at an oak on
the river bank, and run out
the patent, they run to a large
forked pine llghtwood stake
and stump, the third corner,
which place was shown to him
the said deponent by Long-
Held Cox and others &c.
Then was present at thal
time Longfleld Cox, Richard
Heath, John Jones, Levi Truitt,
Richard Cotton, and his son.
Deponent further salth that
about 28 years past that Rich
ard was called to survey the
said patent and deponent said
Isaac Anderson carried the
chain and theybeganatthesame
oak to survey and they run to
Gussmon
CLEANFRS
233 CRAVEN
Village Verses
North Carolina, Craven
County, November 12, 1812.
A commission to take the
deposition of Frederick Heath
concerning a certain place,
said to be Moseley's third
corner, said Heath sayeth that
when he was about 46 years of
age, he was in company with a
certain John J. Jones, getting
timber in the branch and a
doubt arising with the said
Jones whether the said Jones
had not committed trespass
on Moseley’s land, the tract
being on the North side of the
Branch called Allegator
Branch, the said Jones had cut
or caused to be cut, and said
Jones asked this deponent to go
with him to Moseley’s third cor
ner to see if he had committed
trespass or not, and this de
ponent further sayeth that he
the said Jones showed him a
stake near the road, being the
public road leading from New
Bern to Cox’s Ferry, the said
stake being 9 feet or there
abouts from the said public road
on the North side of the said
road and he the said Jones
proceeding from the line in
company with this deponent, till
he the said Jones was satisfied
he had not committed trespass
and this deponent further say
eth some years after he was in
company with Thomas Tyer, and
he the said Tyer shewed him the
said deponent the same corner
stake, and told him that was the
third corner of Moseley’s pat
ent so called, and the said Tyer
was bounded to as he was then
the purchaser &c.
Q, Mr. Heath: Do you know
who Thomas Tyer first sold
to after he purchased Moseley’s
land.
A. I do not. s/Fred’k Heath
Sol. Patrick, J. P,
Richardson, J. P.
SUGGESTED PATTERN
What is the best advice to give.
At High school graduations;
What word or thought can help to solve
Those future situations.
I wish I knew, for this old world
Has so much grief and need;
Perhaps the key to happiness
Is banishing all greed.
Folks completely selfish
Are seldom ever gay.
They miss out on the sunshine
Hoarding for a rainy day.
They covet what their neighbor has.
Begrudging him his pleasure;
Instead of sharing life with him.
They lay up things to treasure.
So to those soon graduating
I have one thought to give.
Strive to be unselfish
Every moment that you live.
—JGMcD.
the said pine stake and stump,
and Longfleld Cox and John
Jones were both present, &c
and deponent saith that this
large pine stake and stump
was the same corner that he
swore to before Solo. Patrick
in the year 1810, in the pres
ence of Claiborne Ivey and Dan
iel Lane &c &c
Sworn to before us 23 March
1811 by William Lane at the
house of Thomas Holliday.
s/Willlam Holliday
H, Hooker
Summons for Stephen Heath,
Craven County, George Lane,
William Lane, William McKin
ney, William Jones, Claiborne
You'll Find a Variety of
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at
Pittman's Aquarium
137 Middle Street
Ivey, Frederick Heath, Sr.,
Thomas Jones, Worry Kilpat
rick. Stephen Harris, Jonathan
Price, Surveyor.
1810-1813. (Craven County
Records, New Bern, N. C.)
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