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The NEW BERN PUBLISHED WEEKLY HEART OP 500n^» A VOLUME 8 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1965 NUMBER 36 Before we forget It, here’s a note of appreciation to other newspaper editors who picked up and reprinted our Thanks giving Day editorial. Being hu man (or as nearly so as a news man can be) we were flattered. That small boy atLaurinburg who got stuck in a chimney trying to initate Santa Claus, and had to be fetched out by a rescue squad, has probably de cided St. Nick is not only spry but capable of making himself smaller when necessary. What used to puzzle us most, in our tender years, was how childhood’s patron saint man aged to keep himself spotless, scrambling in and out of dirty fireplaces. To this day, we haven’t been able to figure it out. Talk about news, wouldn’t it make headlines if Santa’s sled collided with some of those man-made satelltes that are up yonder now. Thank goodness, Rudolph is still around to ll^t the way on Christmas Eve. New Bernlans who are 50 or older will remember that pur chase of fireworks from Leon Cohn at his shop on lower Middle street was once an Important part of every boy’s Christmas. Leon, readers will be glad to know, is still living and very much Interested in the town where he once resided. In a re cent letter to Marcus BlojAj from Philadelphia, he ^iced about The Mirror and Marcus lost no time in subscribing for him. New Bern, notwithstanding its Imperfections, seems to per manently ensnare the hearts of many who move elsewhere. Letters we have received from service men and their wives, who dwelled here during World War Two, express fondness and a wistful hankering that shows no sign of diminishing. Local citizens, always hur ricane conscious when Septem ber approaches, may be able to worry about something else one of these days. UncleSam is try ing like all get out to reduce future tropical storms to gentle breezes. The undertaking, labeled Project Stormfury, has been launched in the Caribbean and westem Atlantic by the U. S. Weather Bureau andNavyjolnt- ly. It calls for seeding hurri canes and cumulus clouds around their eye (or center) with silver iodide crystals. This, according to scientists, will release latent heat to such an extent that hurricanes can be tamed. No one, apparently, has hopes of actually destroy ing one of the things entirely, but reducing the velocity can save life and property. Up until this year, efforts at seeding were largely ineffec tive, but a new generator de veloped by Dr. Pierre Saint Amand of the Naval Ordnance Test Station holds out hopes for better results. It weighs seven pounds empty, is eight inches long and three inches in diameter. Filled with four pounds ofpropellantmix, it is fired from a plane and drops 20,000 feet, discharging smoke, before burning out. From 1900 to 1964, the United States was visited by 119 of the 299 hurricanes that roamed the Caribbean and North Atlantic. Deaths for this span totaled 12,280, which roughly figures about the toll of North Caro- ''Contlnued on page 6) 'kirkirk-kirirk A A A A * ^ ^ ifirkirkirkirirkii idfifirk-kirkirk HIS FIRST HONOR—New Bern’s Norman Swindell, captain of East Carolina’s bowl-bound l^tes, has received ^eat acclaim during his college gridiron ca reer, and justly so, but it all started on a spr^ morn ing at New Bern High School Auditorium. That was the never to be forgotten day when Burke H. Taylor presented young Swindell the trophy attesting to his selection as the most valuable Bruin gridder of the year. Norman bloomed late as a scholastic star, but his outstanding performances as a blocking back in his senior year was an indication of bigger things to come. When he leads the Pirates agsunst Main^ in the Tangerine Bowl on Dec. 11. it will be his third Bowl appearance. East Carolina’s only loss of the season, to Furman, occurred when Swindell was side lined with an injury sustained in the West Chester game.
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