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Krm Vrrn-Cdrtttvn (Uountg {/utilU iiiiror];' The NEW BERN 0^^© r liii PUM.IIHID WIIKLY IN THI MUUtT OF ^^«tirn north I VOLUME 11 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1968 NUMBER 29 Tne drought that has piagued North Carolina in recent months brings to mind a similar dry spell that gripped Tar Heels a third of a century ago. As the story goes, it got so bad in Johnston County that the Bap- Usts were sprinkling and the Methodists used a damp cloth. Unusual weather conditions do cause strange happenings. Nobody believes us when we tell of a hurricane we covered for United Press and State papers back in 1933. The wind was blowing so hard at the height of the storm that a hen at Smy rna In Carteret County laid the same egg three times. During the same hurricane, a little old lady at Barkers Island reported to the Sheriff that she was having her troubles. The tide, she said, had come up in her garden, and the hog fish were eating up her collards. If you had been with us in the btg blow that year, you wouldn’t have doubt ed anything. Before you write off America and the world at large as a hope less case, reassure yourself that kooks and punks notwith standing there are sUil some decent people around. Tl>ey don’t make headlines, but some of them ought to. For example, there’s an un identified man in Boston whohas his telephone listed in the di rectory as “Lollipop Founda tion.’’ He won’t reveal his name, but for years he has been passing out all-day suck ers to kids who need to be re membered when they are ill or Injured. It all started when this Good Samaritan discovered a little girl in a hospital who was get ting no attention from her rel atives. He brouglit her lolli pops while she remained there, and extended his crusade to otlier youngsters who needed love as much as they needed medication. This kind gentleman, and may his tribe increase, now gives 200,000 lollipops a year to chil dren. A wholesale candy com- 'pany delivers them to Ihe in stitutions. Remember him the next time you get the feeling there’s nothing left in the world but violence, hatred and greed. Speaking of kids who are neg lected, Milwaukee’s Family Court has drawn up a “Bill of Rights of Children.’’ Those rights Include the following: 1. The right to be treated as an interested and affected person and not as a pawn, pos session or chattel of either or both parents. 2. The rl^t to grow to ma turity in the home environment which will best guarantee an opportunity for the child to grow to mature and responsi ble citizenship. 3. The ri^t to the day-by- day love, care, discipline, and protection of the parent having custody of the children. 4. The right to know Ihe non- custodian parent and to have the benefit of such parent’s love and guidance through adequate visitations. 6. The rl^t to a positive and constructive relationship with both parents, with neither parent permitted to degrade or downgrade the other in the mind of the child. G. The rifdit to have moral (Continued on Page 8) UP AND AWAY—Hopefully, at 11 a.m. today the Apollo 7 will shoot into orbit from Cape Kennedy, Fla.i in the next step in our mammoth effort to put a man on the moon. It will be the first manned flight in the Apollo series, and the 10-day, 19-hour misdon represents a number of firsts for the U. S. team. Fol lowing the mission that was aborted by the death of three astronauts on January 27, 1967, it is the first manned space flight in the U. S. involving three ptronauts. For the first time since Mercury 9, on board television will be used In the new spacecraft. Throughout the mission, live television pictures wiU be sent back from the orbiting spacecraft. The pictures will show the activities of the three-man crew and the interior of the Apollo spacecraft command cap- WNBE (Chann& 12) will give the flight full coverage via ABC.
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