Bob Pugh, rounding out his
final year as superintendent
of Craven’s public schools, has
one thing in common with the
current crop of prospective
first graders. He too is sport
ing an itchy smallpox vaccina
tion. Puidi needed his to get
passport clearance for a
Masonic trip abroad with other
notables of &e fraternity.
A sample survey by The Mir
ror reveals that two out of three
packs of cigarettes sold over
New Bern counters are the fil
ter type. With the demand for
fags at an all-time hl^, de
spite the cancer scare, 542bil-
llon of the ’’coffin tacks” were
smoked in the U. S.duringl966.
If yours is an average Amer
ican family, the odds are nine
to one that you eat your meals
in the kitchen, and reserve the
dining room for occasions when
you have company or an over
flow of relatives.
Even wild geese can get con
fused in flight without an ex
perienced navigator in the
flock. Ambling up Broad street
Wednesday morning, rl^t at
day-break, we were sur
prised to see and hear 20 of
the fea&ered critters come
over at low attitude.
They were headed northeast
but suddenly swerved, lined up
abreast Instead of using the
familiar "V” formatton, and
headed southeast over Trent
river. Could it be that all the
honking came from 19 of the 20
geese, saying to the lead goose,
’’Fool, you’re taking us the
wrong way?”
Mark Dunn’s dog is the sad
dest-eyed canine in town. As a
puppy> theDunnpethad the same
expression of deep despon
dency, so wouldn’t you know it,
Mark’s kids named him
’’Happy.”
Parenthood has its hazards
on all levels of God’s Creation.
A sparrow, building Its nest
at the Louis Daniel home, got
entagled in a piece of string
the other day and hung her
self. Louis discovered the trag
edy on a spring morning ttiat
wasn’t quite as bright after
that.
Worst than the Junk let
ters and circulars crammed
dally in New Bern mailboxes
are the unordered items of
merchandise that show up from
time to time, with Instructions
to return the stuff to the sender
if you don’t want to buy it or
make a donation to this of that
cause.
Do not pay for what you have
not ordered. Do not return the
merchandise. Put it on a shelf
and leave it there for at least
three months. Let the sender
come and get the merchandise
if he wants it.
You and millions of other
citizens can put an end to this
kind of sales trick if you band
together and make it unprofi
table to mall out packages to a
list of names and addresses.
As for strangers who ring
your telephone, and rattle off a
sales pitch or a plea for do
nations, you can throw these
human parrots into a tizzy by
asking questions hot covert by
the spiel they are reading. Or
to make them really stutter and
back off, ask them to give you
their phone number and where
they are located.
While we’re on the subject
of nuisances, what a blessing
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NEW btiuM CRAVEN COUNTY
PUBLIC LIBRARY
The NEW BERN
VOLUME 10
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1967
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TAKING SHAPE^—Scheduled for completion before Street. In addition, there’ll be a meeting room, where
the end of the year, the new New Bern - Craven Coun- among other things there’ll be story hours for chil-
ty Public Library is well on its way. It will provide dreh. Incidentallv, the library’s volumes are a true
spacious and attractive surroundings for 38,000 books treasure house of literature.—^Photo by Billy Benners,
now housed in temporary quarters on East Front
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WHEN IT IS READY—This artist’s drawing shows a film forum and a North Carolina room containing
you how the local library will look after its last fin- rare publications and documents to delight researchers
ishing touch. There’ll be semi-classical and classical interested in the State’s history. That’s what is in store
phonograph records that can be borrowed, a framed for you before 1967 fades into the past.—Photo by
print collection of reproductions likewise available, Billy Benners
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