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New \ ,'ri V , You can't cover trials big and little tor a third of a cen tury, and toll to see some funny things happen. Take, for exam ple, an episode In Craven Super ior Court quite a few years back. It's the usual practice among lawyers to question on opposing witness about his own police record. If any, to minimize the strength of his testimony. Cross examination can be a dangerous maneuver, however, as the late Clarence Darrow, shrewdest of all criminal at torneys’ used to point out. Cer tainly such prodding proved de structive In a case tried here. Familiar with the misdeeds of a man who had taken the stand against his client, a local member of the bar was raking through past convictions of the witness with the thoroughness of a fine tooth comb on a suspected head. Time and again, the squirm ing witness admitted he had served sentences for this or that offense. The Jury, listening with perked up ears, was getting a pretty good Idea of his habitual waywardness, and weighing his truthfulness accordingly. Obviously determined to strike a final crushing blow, the puffing and perspiring attorney cited still another case, and shouted, 'i suppose you’re stealing?’’ "No sir,’’ the witness replied with a plsdntive respectfulness that smacked of sincerity. "You was my lawyer in that case, and you was the one who said I wasn’t guilty.’’ The jury snickered, the judge smiled, and the deflated lawyer, no longer huffing and puffing, called It quits. Not long ago, you’ll recall, we wrote of the passing of our favorite banjo player. Miss Minnie — who brightened things tor years at the Craven County Home. Various other residents at the Horae have been Intriguing too, including Mrs. Mary Fisher, who was still reading without glasses at the age of 96. It was a rare accomplish ment, and no one appreciated this fact more than "Miss’’ Mary. Most of her waking hours were spent with a book In her hands. No one could say her lit erary tastes followed a routine pattern. Much of her reading centered on the Bible, but for diversion she switch^ to de tective stories based on actual crimes. During her long stay, after outliving loved ones, she became something of an au thority on Scripture while keep ing abreast with the latest methods of murder and may hem. Actually, Miss Mary was a gentle and peace loving Indlv- vldual of dMp religious faith. However, she frankly admitted that the gory stuff she perused In pulp marines gave her relaxation and pleasure. Her method of relaxing may sound foolish to other tolks, but significantly. In this world of sleeping pills and headache remedies, her mldlclne cab inet, was, by her own choosing, as bare as Mother Hubbard’s cupboard. To have been as wide awake as she was. Miss Mary cer- (Contlnued on Page 2) The NEW BERN P'^'HtlDWinCLV A;wa*t of Si Per V VOLUME 7 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1964 NUMBER 11 KEEPING THEIR PROMISE—Most High school seniors solemnly tell each other at graduation that they will get together for a grand reunion bye and bye. Sadly, ve^ few ever do. New Bern High school’s Class of 1944 is a happy exception. Tomorow night — 20 years after marching down the aisle to the stirring strains of Pomp And Circumstance — members wUl gather at New Bern’s Shrine Club, and turn back the clock to hours that are no more . . . Rounding them up, from near and far was no small undertaking, but they’ll be here — a little older and wiser, and in most inistances less streamlined. Included in the class, shown here, are Rodney Alexander, Jane Amos, Closs Barker, Anne Barton, Gloria Blanchard, Peggy Boyd, Richard Boyd, Margaret Burkhart, Sara Bowser, Mary Gaboon, Peggy Carter, Paul Casey, Nancy Caton, Elwood Cayton, Ruby Cole, Jessie Conner, William Conner, Dorothy Cook, Page Daniel, DarreP Daniels, Geraldine Eakes, C. B. Edwards, Mary Louise Edwards, Richard Farmer, Wil liam Fitzgerald, Dorothy Fulford, Robert Fuson, Lila Gaskins, Oliver Gaskins, Edmond Habib, George Hardesty, Molly Hargett, Crawley Hartsell, Agnes Ho«- er, Betty Humphrey, Lillie Ives, Robert Jacobs, Faye Jenkins, Eloise Jones, Sylvia Joseph, Rudolph Jowdy, Charles Kaleel, Kathenne King, Ray Miller, Helen Moore (deceased), William Moore, Beverly Morrison, Maiy Louise Moulton, Josephine Nassef, Harold Olsen, Basil Paafe, Hazel Parks, Emily Phillips, Laura Price, Mary Elizabeth Pugh, Joseph Rachide, Mary Emma Rhodes, Martha Simpson, Marjorie Smith, Bertha Springle, Loy Thompson, Roy Tucker, Lois Waters, Marie Wetherington, EUnor Williams, William L. Wil liams, Elsie Willis, Rudolph Rhodes, Dorothy Hardi son, Verona Osborne, Margaret Owens, Russell Rowell, George Huffman, Robert Gaskins, Paul Griffin, Emma Katie Guion, Mary Irene Gray and Raymond Karam. When this picture was made, in front of the Moses Griffin building that housed these students, they could hardly have envisioned today’s greatly e^anded New Bern High school at the new location. Facilities the Class of ’44 had to settle for in no wajr compared with the elaborate plant now operating, with its excellent auditorium, very creditable ^mnasium, and roomy athletic fields. World War II was still going strong at the time this photo was snapped. Within a few short months one member of the class would lose a brother in the Battle of the Bulge, and she herself — not long after, as time flies — would be the first youngster in the group seen here to depart from the ranks of the liv ing. The week that saw this Class of ’44 graduate also prodiuced an invasion of France by the Allies. It was dubbed D-Day, and so it would ever remain. Exactly 14 months later, to the day, the first atomic bomb feu on Hiroshima. These were big things, but Saturday night at the New Bern Shrine Club a lot of little things will be remembered most of all.
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