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4 I isueasmasaLii It wouldbe Interesting to know how many New Bernlans believe in astrology. Countless local citizens, probably numbering In the thousands, start their day off by reading their horoscope in the morning newspaper. Whether youaccept the theory that the stars influence your be havior, or consider it unadult erated hokum, there’s good ad vice in those dally columns. If the planets can’t strai^ten you out, try doing It yourself. We won’t suggest action now, not with kids at Central School attending classes in trailers, but sooner or later the State’s olde.st school building, on the Academy Green, ought to be converted into a school mu seum. This is just one of many proj ects waiting to be promoted in this town that has so much, and does so little about It. In this respect, we take our full share of the blame. Down here in eastern North Carolina, we complain that we’re neglected and there’s proof of this when you compare our highways with those In the Piedmont and West. But let’s face it, more get up and go has been a contributing factor in the greater progress enjoy ed by other sections of the State. Boone doesn’t have our two lovely rivers, but it has steep slopes that gave someone an idea. This year. In the middle of January, the first North Car olina Snow Carnival was held to call attention to the State’s growing prominence as a major skiing area. Not only is the carnival,to be staged annually,theState’s first but the South’s first. It rain ed on the last day of the event, and the weather man didn’t pro vide snow the first two days. That was no real problem, all four ski resorts in the Bonne area have snow-making eqidp- ment to supplement natural snowfall. The good old days were not completely good. Tonight, for instance, the pattern of the yes teryears if followed would be to leave anonymous “comic” valentines on the porches of folks you didn’t like. As vicious in their wording as a poison-pen letter, and Ill ustrated with drawings that were hardly complimentary, they were embodied more malice than humor. Then as now, Valentines Day was pri marily for the young and young at heart, but quite a few old sters who weren’t spry enough to scramble up and down a nelf^hbor’s steps on so furtive a mission would use Uncle Sam’s mall to get into the act. You could buy the things for a penny at the five and ten. That, of course, was before the five and ten got dollar con scious and outgrew its field. The available assortment al ways included something insult ing to deliver the miser, the gulutton, the skinny guy, the drunk (alcoholics weren’t in existence then), the butcher, the teacher, the grocer, the spin ster, the musican, the nagger, the bully and the bragger. Some of these so called comic valentines, we’ll have to agree, smacked strongly of the truth, since all mortals have faults and fallings subject to attack. (Continued on Page 8) Nwtt (Sonttl^ Public Hfttfstif Tbt NEW BERN PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OP ■ASTERN NORTH r St. VOLUME 11 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1969 NUMBER 45 RIGHT ON TARGET — Fouling New Bern’s Bill Bunt ing is a costiy way to stop the deadly cool University of North Carolina sharpshooter. From the floor he has been making 62 percent of his tosses good, but send him to the free throw line and you’re dealing with a marskman who connects 85 percent of the time. Here you see him in action Monday night against outmanned North Carolina State. In the top picture, he follows through on tiptoe as the highly arched bas ketball appears to be going into orbit far above his head. Instead, as the bottom photo snapped an instant later shows, it was hearing unerringly for the basket. Bunting has reached full bloom this season in the scoring department. Defensively, he draws the tough est opposing player for his assignment, and rarely has to be rested.—Mirror Photos by Chick Natella.
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