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Unlesb you're a New Bernian past 65, It's entirely possible that you heard 'Happy Birth day" sung at parties when you were Just a child. A little old lady, out In In diana, wrote the catchy com position back in 1907, and col lected royalties m it for years and years. Incidentally, do we have a reader who ever came across the entire song? Speaking of familiar mel odies and their composers, how many of you know that "Hall, Hall, The Gang's All Here" was penned by the same man who wrote "Onward Christian Soldiers"? If his name. Sir Arthur Sul livan, rings a bell for you. It's probably because of the Gilbert and SuUivan operas (in cluding H. M. S. Pinafore pro duced here years ago) that live on and on. Anonymous, abusive, and ob scene telephone calls may soon be a rarity, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tele phone companies throu^out the country are beginning to move against them and new electronic equipment is mak ing it possible to catch the guilty persons. Included are gadgets to not ify authorities while the annoy ing call Is . being made. Thqy "lock in" the line sd that the originating telephone can be located through computers in a matter of seconds. In one New York case a prank ster was arrested in a phone booth while he was actual ly making the call. The system can be that efficient. You're an exception if you haven't been the victim of such calls at one time or another. It's good news for everybody, but the fools who Indulge in ancmymousdial ing, that a new day is dawning for the rest of us. You're wrong if you're under the Impression that U. S. citi zens are the best Informed in the world. Here in America, 30 new^apers are printed for every hundred people, com pared with 50 per hundred people in England. As for Bri tish television and radio, more programs are devoted to news and discussion of current events than here. It probably would be surpris ing to know just how many New Bernians of reading age rarely if ever read a news paper. As an editor, we natural ly find this hard to understand, but you too encounter fellow mortals, no doubt, who say almost boastfully, "I don't have the time." Admitting that all publica tions, including The Mirror, publish things that may not be of general interest, virtually every new^aper, if only acci dentally, carries something worth reading. For our part, we wade through just about everything on every page, with the excep tion of the society section. We scan that briefly fur items con cerning those we may be personally acquainted with. Few men devote much time to stories dealing with wed dings, stork showers and teas. Likewise, the percentage of women who reach for the sports section to see how the Balti more Orioles fared last ntght (Continued on page 6) The NEW BERN VOLUME 9 FUBLI9NID WIIKLY IN TH« HBART OI> V '^tTBRN NORTH V^OUNA NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1966 % NUMt». Ifs School Time, And Once More Thousands of Children Are Traveling Along And Craven County Highways. For Their Sake, PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY
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