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CAROLINA
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NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1964
NUMBER 8
Mirroring the press...“The
condition of a man can test be
Judged by what betakes twoof—
stairs or pills.”—BerkeleyGa-
zette..."Dancing is wonderful
training for girls; it’s the way
they learn to guess what a man
is going to do before he does
it.”—South California Ranch
er...."Marriage: Union that de
fies management.”—Washing
ton Star.
If you don’t believe us, ask
the man who operates Avery Up
church Esso Service, at 2601
Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. He
didn’t believe it either until we
furnished proof.
Standing in his drive, we saw
a robin walk up as brashly as a
politician hungry for votes. Ob
viously pleased with himself, he
looked in the door, saw the
station temporarily vacated and
strutted right inside.
We told the gent who runs the
place what had happened. Du
bious, he entered the station
through the same front door.
When the robin saw him, the
bird lost his cockiness and flew
out of a side door.
How, we wondered, did the
robin know there wasn’t a cat
around? And what was his in
tention-shoplifting? Without
wings (you wouldn’t espect them
on a newspaperman) we couldn’t
overtake him and find out.
or mbiHals w^^ese^w^^^"
slightest Intrusion on their pri
vacy—were irritated when they
went to register for voting in
the Primary (or Primaries)
and the November election.
Some of the nicestNewBern-
lans we know didn’t want to say
whether they are a Democrat or
a Republican. The law is aimed,
of course, at preventing mem-
^ ters of one party from votingln
another party’s Primary.
There’s nothlnganyonecando
about switching from one party
to another in the General Elec
tion. An unpredictable number
of North Carolinians will do just
that in November. Had Charlie
Jonas run, we might have ended
up with a Republican governor.
Robert L. Gavin will draw
support from a lot of Demo
crats who won’t look with favor
on their party’s choice for the
Executive Mansicm. Make no
mistake about it, ill feeling
isn’t going to vanish overnight.
Even so, it’s very doubtful that
Gavin has what it takes to pull
an upset.
Incidentally, there don’t seem
to be as many mothers rolling
babies on Main Street these
days. Perhaps the hazard of
having one’s offspring kissed
by a roving polltlci.an is clear
ing the avenues of infants.
The problem can be solved,
and happily for your youngs
ter, by giving the moppet a
sticky sucker, or permitting
him to decorate his face—and
this comes naturally—with ice
cream, preferably chocolate.
Few candidates will pounce
upon a child at the risk of getting
his test campaign clothes
smeared.
It’s bad enough to be smeared
in print, and the top Guberna
torial aspirants have been doing
this to each other in a glorious
free-for-all. Punches are dead
lier still in the off-camera slug
ging that doesn’tgetaplaylnthe
papers.
As the fair haired boy of the
Sanford forces (denials of this
are futile) Richardson Preyer
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JOY IN SONG—^All youngsters have one thing in com
mon. They love to make their own music with any
instrument available. These are dear little friends of
ours in the Craven County Class For Trainable Retard
ed Children, at Centenary Methodist Church. Adults
pictured are the teacher, Mrs. J. R. Hardin and a moth
er. The boy facing the wall has decide to get his
music from a record player.—^Photo by John R. Baxter.
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FUN GALORE—Give kids a sand box, and small ob
jects to putter around with, and they’ll amuse them
selves ii^efinitely. That’s doubly true in the Craven
County Class For Trainable Retarded Children. The
boys and girls associate happily together. ’They look
forward to each morning’s session, and are reluctant to
leave at noon. Mothers of the pupils will continue the
class during summer months because of its success.
Photo by John R. Baxter.