NEW BERN-Pfif/^VfN COUNTY
POBLie LIBRARY
The N£W BERN
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VOLUME 10
NEW BERN, N. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1967
NUMBER 27
“If there be any question of
the position of this newspaper,**
says the highly respected Coast-
land Ttmosof Manteo,**regard-
Ing the brazen expenditure of
taxpayers* funds through one
of the biggest farces ever visit
ed upon those who have to pay
the fretedit, let us now set the
record straight.
“We refer to the constant
throw-away of funds of the U.
S. Government through its pro
gram to combat poverty. It is
disgusting to see the leeches
who have been fired from pri
vate employment or who are un
employable for other causes,
hired to the big-shot positions
and rambling about telUng our
home folks what to do.
“The coastland is not Im-
nume. We have plenty of the
so-called blg-wlgs who draw
handsome salaries for little
work, directing many other
unemployables, in a program to
help out the poor folks. What
suckers can we bo? What will it
ever require other than guts
and determination to ever throw
this shackle off the tajqiayers*
backs?
“We maintain that the poor
receive only a token benefit.
The major portion of budgets
are eaten up by administra
tion. It has been suggested,
not only by us, butln many other
quarters, that the poor devils
purportedly the target of up
grading through the programs,
receive as little as 10 percent
of funds allotted. Admittedly,
this has been established In
many areas.
“We are pleased,** says the
Coastland Times, “to see the
truth told in a story by Marie
Wood In her column “SCRIB
BLED ON A REPORTER*S
PAD,** published In the Hert
ford County Herald of Ahoskie.
We reprint herewith her Open
Letter To People*s Program On
Poverty:
“People*s program on Pov
erty workers plan to visit the
woman in the new location daily
and to work with her to see that
conditions are kept as they were
when she moved in, they re
ported.**
“That promise was contain
ed in a page 1 story August U,
reporting on a visit to The
Herald by a PPOP delegation
concerning their moving afam-
lly out of quarters at 530Snipes
St. that was in such filthy con
dition they **told them to leave
everything in it when they moved
them.**
**The family consisted of a
woman with four children, ex
pecting her fifth, and whom
PPOP*s four .said told them she
could meet the rent onthehome
to which they moved her.
“Last Saturday I visited the
woman in the new address to see
how she was progressing.
*‘I found the knob gone from
the front door, the front screen
torn, and it necessary to go to
the back door to get In. At the
back porch there was slop all
over the ground, flies, tin cans,
and more of the same.
“The back door was screen
less and wide open. Inside, the
kitchen was filthy. A television
was going strong in the living
room, with condition of that
room not quite as extreme as
the kitchen, but with flies cov
ering everything in si^^t.
*'lri other words the interior
rapidly was approaching the
(Continued on page 8)
REAR OF COMPANY A’S QUARTERS IN NEW BERNE WHIl.K DOINC. PROVOST DUTY
AT EASE—Unlike the drawing of the Battle of New
Bern appearing on this page, you see here an actu^
photograph (also obtained from the University of
North Carolina Library) showing Union soldiers dur
ing the town’s occupation. Following the victory,
Yankee service men had little to occupy their time,
and mostly wandered aimlessly when off duty. Ob
serve closely, and you’ll see a number of the invaders
enjoying the sun on a conveniently low roof.
MORTAL COMBAT—^The deadly skill of military con
flict has progressed mightily since the War Between
The States, and this grim fact is emphasized by an old
engraving of the Battle of New Bern. The artist’s con
ception seen here is from the North Carolina file of
the University of North Carolina at Chanel Hill No
one who participated in the hand to hand fighting is
still around, of course, to verify this version of how
New Bern was captured.
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