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€ I NEW BERN CRAVEN COUNTY The 'iimERN nWLIWID W TH» • VOLUME 10 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1968 NUMBER 44 You're well on your way to 60, or older, If you can remember when a boy's ability to chew a wad of Brown Mule to bacco without turning green proved he was all man. Likewise if you recall the glorious abandon of swimming stark naked off local docks, and your embarrassment when you ventured forth in broad open daylight in your first patr of long pants. Remember too when you wanted to run away with John Roldnson's circus, and envied every adult male who sported a tattoo on hts arm? You may insist on fitter cigarettes now, but what about the butts you used to gather off the side walk, and proudly puff with other kids in a secret hideaway? C;m you imagine a masculine juvenile with long hair in the old days? You liad the barber crop it short, and then tried in vain to make tt lay down by wearing a skull cap. Not unlit your mid-teens did you smear Vaseiine on your noggin, and convince yourself you looked a little bit like Rudolf V.alenlino. Yesterday was when any kid who didn't make a slab at selling Clover!ne salve lacked am bition, and iui aiibinioblle with an out-of-state license was like seeing somebody from outer space. Weejuns and Hush Pup pies hadn't come along Uigrace Ihe feet of style-conscious up starts. If you had Will shoes on, rough and durable, you knew you were walking in quality. Voslerday was when a fellow with as much as a dlim* in his pt)cket felt safe to date a new girl. Only a gold digger wiuld order more than a nickel Pepsi or Coke. Word gotaround about such females, and before long they had less clrciilallon than a hardened artery. Y’esterday was when no New Bern housewife who could afford it cooked with anything put pure (hog grease) lard, except of course our g(M)d Jewish neigh bors. Compound lard, fore runner of the vegolable «)ils praised so higlily today, was for folks who couldn't do any belter. Yesterday was also when a husband expected hot biscuits or cc»rn muffins every time he sal down to the t.dde, and cai- sclenlous mothers who didn't know Ihe me.iiiiiig of starchy food and calories told their youngnns to “eat some bread with that, it's good for you." Yesterday a medicine show featuring Sinokcy Joe per formed in tlie street on Mid dle's first block fur six straight niglits, and just about everybody toted home a bottle of stuff that would cure anylhtiig that ailed you. Some of the town's leading citizens actually thought tliey were healthy until they heard tlie show's eminent doctor de scribe a multitude of symp toms; enough in fact to cast doubt on every function of the human body. Yes, you're pushing 60 if yon remember that Wu Kang was Uie mean old Chinaman in Pearl White's must exciting serial, and how stone-faced William S. Hart never once kissed the heuine in any of his westerns. You also qualify for tlie Old Timers Club if you recall the Karnum brothers, all movie (Continued on page 8) FAVORITE AMERICAN—A survey by The Mirror re veals that this man above all others is New Bern’s choice as the nation’s citizen most deserving of admi ration and respect. Bob Hone’s humor has given laughter to millions, but his concern for service men far from home, especially during the Chri.«!tmas sea son, is the ntinj* that has endeared him to those mil lions. Let it be said to the everlasting credit of Holly wood that there too he is the most beloved of all entertainers. Publicly and privately, his behavior is ; above renroach, and those who know him best say that the Hone imaee familiar to televiewers and movie . natrons is as genuine as it is deliehtful. Incidentally, ,;Mrs. Hone, his wife of many years, has long since vV grown used to his absence from the family fireside durinp the Yuletide, and heartily approves of his unselfish jaunts abroad.
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