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Vmt-(Sniiifn (Bornttg Ctbrarg The NEW BERN r PUBLIIHID WIIKLV *M THI MAIIT Off* . ^tN NOKTH *'4» VOLUME 12 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1969 NUMBER 6 The ivroar In Congress and numerous state legislatures ov er questions planned for the 1970 census is understandable. Nose counting the public will accept, as it always has, but describ ing one's bathroom facilities to inquisitive stranger goes a- gainst the grain. Stop us if you've heard about the rough hewn mountaineer, minding his own business in North Carolina's Great Smok ies, who had a ready answer when the census taker wanted to know his family's political preferences. “I'm a Republican,'' he re plied. “My wife's a Democrat, the baby's wet, and cow's dry, and the cat's on the fence.'' Maybe it never really happen ed, but anybody who is acquaint ed with mountaineers wouldn't bet on it. Then, of course, there was the exasperated mother of four children, who was in the midst of washing diapers when the census taker rangher door bell. Ascertaining the number of off spring she had been blessed with, he wanted to know their exact ages. Much too occupied with her urgent duties to wrestle with birth dates, she shru^ed wear ily and said, “I've got one lap child, one crawler, one porch child, and one yard cliild.V If the census taker couldn't figure ages from that, he has never been a parent. Include us among those who like dayli^t saving time, al though there are plently of New Bernians who don't care for it. Complainants most vocal about the clock switching are wait resses who report for work at dawn, truck drivers making early deliveries, and mothers who have trouble getting their small fry to bed while the sim is still up. As a group. New Bern must have the most pleasant bank tellers you'll find anywhere. It matters not where you do busi ness, the courtesy accorded local bank patrons by tellers, often under trying conditions, is tops. A few of these employees are numbered among our friends of long standing. Most are simply a smiling face at a window, but all of them help to make the morning brighter. And, on oc casions when you're overdrawn, that takes some doing. Having a black cat cross your path can indicate somethlngbad for the cat too. So thou^t an ebony feline on Metcalf Street the other night. He (or she) charged in front of an oncom ing automobile, had a change of mind and scrambled back to safety. Maybe the critter had already used up eight of its lives, and didn't want to unduly risk the ninth erne. At least he appeared Intact, which was more than you could say for the cats we grew up with on upper Pollock Street. It was the sort of a neighborhood where a tomcat with a full length tall was bound to be a tourist. Kids on the block between Eden and Bern Streets welcom ed summertime for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which was the tar, bubbled by the heat, that you pulled off the thoroughhire and chewed for (Continued on Page 8) NO BUYER — When dawn broke, after New Bern High school’s Junior-Senior Prom last Friday night, the real estate sign seen here was racing the lawn of Craven County’s historic courthouse. Youthful celebrants, before they headed for weekend house- parties, removed the sign from another location and placed it on the Craven street side of the venerable structure. The average local citizen, if he can arrange it, prefers to avoid this or any other courthouse as he would the plague. No one came along Saturday a subs the advertisement to the spot nom whence it came. morning with a suEstantial offer for the property, and finally a serious minded adult got around to carting Little if any harm was done. The prankish teen agers had a laugh, oldsters remembered their own youthful acts, and the realtor, as you can see, got front page publicity.—^Photo by Billy Benners.
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