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I I New Bermans were so busy winning and dining George Washington, when he^sitedour town on his Southern tour, that they didn’t get around to asking him how tall he was. Don’t feel badly, about that. If anyone else in America ever broached the subject, and got an answer, it wasn’t recorded for posterity. Best guess, or at least the most popular one among historians, istfaathewas 6-2. Abe Lincoln was 6-4, and no guess about it. On his death bed, at somebody else’s house across from Wa^ington’s Ford Theatre, he had to be placed at an angle because he measured too much from head to toe. In his stricken condition, this ml(^t have mattered to others but not to the President. Turning to pleasanter things, the New Bern Cosmetologists Guild deserves commendation for the unselfish services its members render gratis throu^out the year to feminine residents at Williams and West Memorial Home. At their own expense, var ious local beauty shops install ed equipment there, and without fanfare have been seeing that it is put to good use. Such though^lness ought to make a lot of us who do little or nothing for the elderly un remembered subtly achamed. No one likes to be call^ an informer or a stool pigeon. Un derstandably, a Greensboro man who testified here Monday that, working for Uncle Sam, he gained the confidence of mari juana peddlers and tricked them into sales, doesn’t care for ttie label. He bristled on the stand dur ing a preliminary hearing in City Court, vhen Attorney Jcdm Beaman, r^resenUng two of six defendants, suggested that he wasanlnformer.Thewitness classified himsOlf asa"q>eclal employee.” Informer or special employee, he apparently gets results. Alttiough most citizens are inclined to withhold admiration from those who engage in this sort of ttilng, for a price, it is a grim fact ^t without under cover agents, informers, stool- ies, or envious and spiteful in dividuals who squeal on lawless acquaintances to get even, America’s prevailing crime would be even higher than pres ent astronomical figures. In the marijuana cases sched uled for grand Jury action when the Marm term of Craven Sup erior Court gets underway, it is a maxim of law that the de fendants will be cloaked in a robe of innocence until or un less ttieir accusers prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the essence of Justice in America, and administered properly it is better with all its flaws and shortcomings than any other Justice we’ve read or heard about on the face of the earth. Considering the fact that the alleged price of marijuana on the New Bern market is five dollars for an amount so small it barely fills a penny match box, it’s surprising that more folks don’t risk planting the easily grown weed. Biggest hindrance, of course, isn’t the danger of crop failure, but the acute awareness that somebody down the road or (Continued on page S') NEW BERN-CRAVEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY The NEW BERN WIIKLY 54PerC«4 VOLUME 9 NEW BERN, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967 FIRST TO PLY—Soaring througlrthe air is«onimon- place today, but only those with brave hearts and a zest for reckless adventure dared to take to the sky in 1912. New Bern’s Bayard Wootten, noted pho tographer, was such a soul. Here, North Carolim’s { lioneer: female plane passenger, she is ready to sail nto the wide blue yonder with an unidentified pilot from the local fair grounds. It was the talk of the town, just 55 years ago. THEY FLEW TOO- -Ben Whitcomb, who graciously allowed us to borrow these photos, identifies the gentlemen seen here as New Bern’s L. T. (Jack) Grantham and Herbert Grumpier. So far as we know, neither of them actually piloted the plane they are perched on, but they did take rides with the owner, says Ben. It all came about, in 1912, when a barn storming aviator descended on the fair grounds and solicited business. lie didn’t get rich, not here.
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