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! !i Smt-(Sniitni (Zlotmtg ftUtUr Uibrar*,^ The NEW BERN VOLUME 12 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1969 I PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OP "^ASTERN NORTH 'ROLINA fOo NUMbi>. 4 Time marches on, but In the case of New Bern’s town clock it might be more factual to say It stumbles. Depending on those faltering hands that grace our City Hall tower Isn’t the best way to show up promptly for appointments. Maybe it’s just as well that the good folks In our mother city of Bern aren’t aware of Oils. Their own famous clock is a master piece of mechanical precision, and they mlg^t take a^m view of a contraption that points to one time, rings out another, and is often wrong In both Instances. Nothing is closer to the hearts of the Swiss than their wonder fully designed clocks and watches. And when wesaynoUi- ing, we don’t even except their deep desire for peace, ttielr pride In the gradeur of the Alps, and their enthusiasm for red geraniums in black window boxes. .Switzerland’s superiority in the fashioning of timepieces date back to the long ago, but the country’s craftsmen haven’t been content to rest on their lau rels. When improvements came, the Swiss were largely responsible. Rolex produced the first wa terproof and the first automatic wrlstwatches. In addition, Swiss firms designed antimag- netlc watches, and air and wa ter compenstaed, quartz, elec tronic, and atomic clocks. Latest creation from Swit zerland’s masterminds is the electronic watch. These are eliminated by a circuit, and there are no moving parts. Half of the world’s watches are made in Switzerland, a- mounting to something like 65 million annually. By 1975, It Is predicted, the total annual demand for watches In the world will be 180 million, or roughly 30 million more than the present output. The Swiss are determ ined to hold their share of the market. They don’t expect to get rich selling watches to Russian cus tomers, since the Soviets man ufacture virtually all of the timepieces used by their citizens and inhabitants of C om- munist dominated countries of Eastern Europe. fee****** The following is an editorial from the St. Louts Post Dis patch: The nicest compliment we have heard paid to the small town in many ablue moon comes from John V. Lindsay, with love, to Cooperstown, N. Y., pop. 2,700. “I’d like to be may or of this town,’’ he said. “I’ll bet it’s a good life.’’ Who else could have said it with so much grace? None but John Lindsay could do it with ail the proper equipment. He is that supposedly non-existent specimen, a native of New York City. What’s more, or anyhow as much, he is its mayor. That is the kind of combination that makes the compliment fully complimentary. •*I’d never get bored here,’’ Mayor Lindsay said, riding throuid> Cooperstown. And why should he? Things go on in cities but in small towns it is people that go on. The novelist James T. Farrell once wrote that every good American novelist came from a small town or had a small-town experience in a city (Continued on Page 8) OUT OF THE OCEAN — This isn’t some sort of mon ster, but an exceptionally close view of an unusual seashell an Instant after it was washed to shore by an early spring wave on the Carteret coast. Those ringlets on the upper left portion of the shell are beads of foam, left by the wave as It receded. Pho tographer Bill Benners, an artist with a camera, visualizes the shell as angel wings. What do you make of it? 4
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