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VOLUME 10
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967
NUMBER 28
When next you motor to Wasb>
ington, D. C., as we did dur
ing recent days, you can do
worse than pause for a bite to
eat at the Indian Hills Motel
and Restaurant, 13 mUes south
of Richmond.
We found the food delicious,
the service prompt, and the
help courteous. Our choice
after hundreds of miles of rid
ing was the best SmJthfieidham
you could ever hope for, and the
meal was made more pleasant
by the waitress for our table,
Carol Fulton.
A native Virginian, she lived
for years in Anchorage, Alaska,
before returning to the State of
Presidents. This young lady
would be a credit to any estab
lishment catering to the public,
so much so that in this instance
the Indian Hills Restaurant
is getting a free plug from The
Mirror because of her.
Approaching Washington at
ni^t is stUl a spectacle to
b^old, despite the turmoil,
double dealing and uncertainly
existing within its boundaries.
As always, the Washington Mon
ument asserts itself on the hori
zon, and in the distance the
spotlighted Capitol does some
thing to the heart of even a
disillusioned American, grown
sick of the scarcity of states
men operating Ibere.
Much has be^n said, and un
derstandably so, about the vio
lent young on Washington’s
streets when darkness comes
on. However, all pedestrians in
their teens or twenties aren’t
bent on hell raising.
Scores of them streaming
along Twentielh Street Saturday
night weren’theadingfor adem-
onstratlon or random vanda
lism but returning from a con
cert (?) at Constitution HaU
featuring the Lovin’ Spoonful.
You older folks who -aren’t
’’Cool” may need enlighten
ment that Lovin’ Spoonful is the
name for a group of vocalists
who do weU on popular music
charts and, praises be, have on
occasion crashed The Mirror’s
Top Ten Tunes.
Washington has more than
its share of punks, hippies and
other assorted misfits, but itls
comforting to know that there
are also thousands of more ra
tional youngpeople attending the
various universities, including
Georgetown, George Washing
ton, Howard, American and
Catholic, all within the city
limits of the Nation’s Capital.
During the weekend we
Journeyed to Bethesda, Mary
land, a city known best for the
Naval Hospital where President
Kenney’s body was taken for
an aut(^sy, and where Secre
tary of The Navy Forrestal
plunged to his death from the
window of a room he was oc
cupying.
Inevitably, one things of both
Kennedy and Forrestal when
passing the towered institution,
althouf^ many another prom-
mlnent figure has been hos
pitalized there during its years
of notable service.
Another reminder,lessgrim,
of a famous American is on the
Bethesda scene. Walter John
son High school stands where
the greatest baseball pitcher of
them all lived, and it is prob
able that no other school in
the United States has been
named for a professional ath-
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FANTASTIC—You can tell by her expression that this
is the reaction of Alisha Dawn, daugnter of the D. J>
Franklins of Aurora, to Autumn’s splendor. If she
is excited now over colorful things, imagine what will
happen when she sees those bri^t lights on the fam
ily Christmas tree, a little more than a couple of
months from now. While adults grumble about the
weather, cuss the politicians, and wish for peace
they don’t expect to come, Alisha and her generation
are discovering wonderful sights, sounds and flavors.
It is much too late for most of us to share her inno
cence, but we could at least strive to match her ap
preciation of the world around her. Ignore, if you can
for a few fleeting moments, the mess that man has
made, and be grateful for blessings still untarnished
by the blundering human race.—Photo by Eunice
Wray.
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