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You're trifling with truth when you say this troubled world Is strictly for the birds. Judging by a local pigeon's efforts to commit suicide, our feathered friends are fed up withthlngsln general too. While chill winds blew the ottier morning, ahd rain pelted from a darkened sky, he ap proached the exhaust jdpe of a parked city bus at tiie comer of Middle and Broad streets and deliberately Inhaled Its deadly fumes. All but overcome by the car bon monoxide, the mournful member of the dove family lost his equilibrium. Lurching like a prizefighter out of his feet, he stumbled Into fresh air and soon revived sufficiently to wander dejectedly In the vicinity of the Federal Building. By that time the dty bus was gone, but where there's a will there's a way. A few min utes later a motorist parked his automobile on the opposite side of Middle street, and left the motor running. He was In a hurry to get to a dentist's of fice nearby. Now recuperated from his first suicidal attempt, the pig eon headed straight for die car, maneuvered Into position at the e^aust pipe and Inhaled sUll more fumes. An Instant later, while no one was watching, he disappeared. Pedestrians hurrying along the street either didn’t see the pigeon, or failed to realize what he was up to. Margaret Ellis Whltford witnessed the en tire episode from the window of a dpctor's office she works In, but couldn't leave her duties to give the unhaq>py bird a talking to. Although evidence does Indi cate the pigeon had self destruc tion in mind, he may simply have discovered a convenient way to go on a spree. "He sure did act Intoxicated," Margaret said. "He was weaving all over the place." Could It be a pigeon that hl^di went Into orbit? Inevitably, when Robert E. Lee’s birthday rolled around last Wednesday, we thouedit of "Miss Sophie" (Mrs. J. T.) Hollister, and the stirring way she reclt^ "The Sword of Lee" to New Bern school children of past generations. Each year the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy held a chapel program In Griffin Auditorium on the Academy Green, and with radiant face and reverend tones she made every kid present proud of his south ern heritage. Those days are gone forever. Playing "Dixie" Is frowned on now at some colleges, while the Confederate flag Is more often desecrated than honored by those who display It. Usually the emblem Is flaunted In ex tremely bad taste, without re gard for Its real significance. However, no one on either side oftheMason-Dlxonlinecan dwarf by foolish words or rash acts the giant Image and lasting Immortality of a man who led the Lost Cause with courage, and accepted defeat with dignity. Compton's Encyclopedia, In Its lengttiy biography of Lee says, "Could he have lived until the centenary of his own birth, Jan. 19, 1907, ho would have heard his eulogy pronounc- (Cmitlnued on page 6) New Bern PuWio Library The NEW BERN ^ ^*«LlfNIDWIIKLY 5^ Per Copy VOLUME 8 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 19M NUMBER 42 ‘r-* . r' - •-x .'V - SCZ YOU—One glance at this scowling baby, with fists clenched, will convince Mirror readers that here is a blossoming boy who is going to be picking fights with neighborhood kids by the time he is able to walk. Sure he’s tough and hard to get along with. Anybody can see he is a natural born bully. Don’t you believe it. To begin with, you’re looking at a girl,
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