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h-' tlfui J^fni-OIrawn (Bouiita PublU IGilirury The NEW BERN PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OP «TERN NORTH y. ^ VOLUME 12 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1970 NUMBER 4; The recent Christmas holi days weren't completely mer ry tor three women who visited a local supermarket in a small, foreign-make car. One ofthe ladies stayed Inside the vehicle while the other two shoiqied. When the shopping pair re turned to the automobile, and opened a door, a huge Ger man police dog (German shep herd if you want to get techni cal) jumped inside and insisted on going home with the trio. For once there wasn't a brave man, or even a cowardly one, anywhere around. The wom an inside wanted out, the two women outside wanted in, and the canine intruder wanted to stay put. Everybody got histerical but the dog. After several min utes of trying to tolerate such ridiculous pandemonium, the friendly instigator of the unex pected invasion figured it simply wasn't worth it. He made a mighty leap from the small automobile, and the lady shoppers scrambledlnside and quickly sped from the park ing lot. If you meet a dog sev erely disillusioned, and ready to agree with Scrooge's "Hum bug" evaluation of Christmas, you'U know why. Usually, in the coldest weath er you'll see mini-skirts on Middle and other New Bern business streets. There may have been some worn by femi nine pedestrians duringthe Ar tie days the town went through last week, but something long er and warmer was on top to conceal the fact. Extreme temperatures, in either direction, don't do much for physical attractiveness. Humans aren't exactly glam orous when their faces are drenched with perspiration, and they are even less so when they sport a red nose and wince in agony at the onslaught of each frigid blast assailing their con torted countenance. On one of the coldest recent mornings, at an early hour, we met an intoxicated man stag gering up Middle street, along about the Post Office. Neatly lodged under his right arm was a morning newspaper he had obviously purchased to take home, or somewhere. The thought occurred to us that no one in his condition could possibly make any sense out of what he was planning to read. That was our first thou^t. Our second thought was that folks quite sober would probably be just as confused as the weaving drunk, when they too read the morning news, and a lot unhappier. Carl Goerch, who founded the State Magazine and has been doing columns since semi- retirement, remembers as af fectionately as we do the late John Bragaw of Washington. The other day, Goerch recall ed Bragaw's story of going to an office to make a complalnt,and changing his mind when he found the man wasn't in, and the following under the plate glass covering die man's desk: "The customer is the most Important person ever in this office. The customer Isnotde- pendent upon you, you are de pendent upon him. The custo mer is not an interruption of your work, he is the purpose of it. "You are notdolnghlmafav- ■ • • (C ontinued oh Page 8) ‘ ‘‘ ’ HAPPY PAIR — Donna Elizabeth (Cookie) Purlfoy and her brother Dell belong to a mutual admiration society reserved for two, so posing together for this delightfui photograph was a joy they won’t soon for get. Barbara and David Purlfoy of 2805 Old Cherry Point Road are the parents, and living nearby on the same highway are two of the grandparents. Bob and Marie Andrews. Nothing is better than the bright faces of chiidhood to make all of us momentarily escape from the worries of our grown-up world. Hopefully, some of those worries will be erased before Cookie and Dell are old enough to realize such things exist. —Photo by Mona Hanes (Wray’s Studio.) ■ (» > • t > • 11111111111111111111 > I • > 1111
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