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®mt-(5rmir« (Hnuntg Pubifr Cibrarg The NEW BERN 01^ (^©[^ WIIKLV ^ ^ j VOLUME 12 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 6,1970 NUMBER 49 Those New Bernlans who ft-own on X-rated movies can take ccmsolatlon flrom the fact that nationally the big money made on films last year came to the makers of so called "family" pictures. Variety, a show-blz pub lication that tells It like It Is, says, "If there was a sur prise In the year-end check of the tig business plx, It was that the real whoppers, $10,000,000 and above, were, wlthaslngle exception what could be con sidered "family" fare. The only "non-family" effort to make the $10,000,000 plus area was Midnight Cowboy,” Here are the top ten box of fice rentals for 1969. Heading the list' is a movie that gross ed $17 million. The Love Bug, followed by Funny Girl,Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Romeo and Juliet, True Grit, Midnight Cowboy, Oliv er, Goodbye Columbus, and Chltty Chltty Bang Bang. One movie house here In New Bern, the Masonic Thea tre, steadfastly refuses to show X-rated movies, but man ages to pay its bills from the proceeds derived from pictures not listed in that category. We might add that tiie Mason ic’s largest patronage comes from young people. Yesterday was when 'the big gest story was how everybody could get rich by investing mon ey In the Big Apple operation at a converted filling station on upper Broad Street. When the scheme busted wide open, we came up with these Unes: The Big Apple bank has done tumbled down. . . . Jt’s the news of the hour, it's the talk of the town. . • . .And people who had more dollars than sense are mourning their money gone over the fence. Something for nothing, with nothing to do, has turned out to be too good to be true Folks out in Riverside, down town and Ghent, are sorry they fell for that sure five per cent. Barnum was right, and there's really no cure, all hu mans are suckers, this, fact will endure Men high in business, and civic affairs, dug out their war bonds and hauled them downstairs. Then eagerly cashed them, to Join in the race to quickly get rich at that Big Apple place. Some quit their job. Just sat in the shade, and figured the wonderful money they m ade Good com mon horse sense went strangely beserk, when Bill, Jim and John got too smart to work This was the pay off, a true life of ease, sweet as the honey you get from the bees. But the bubble it busted, just like a balloon, and investors awakened to sing a new tune. ... .A sad, grim re frain that was badly off key, aspirin sold fine, and so did B. C JIumans laught at a monkey on life’s fleeting stage, but people, not apesj may belong in a rage. *«*«*•** What's in a name? From March 22, 1892 to January 24, 1018, when our town's postmark was changed to New Bern, the state’s first capital city was officially known as Newbern. (Continued on page 8)- • ■ MEETING OF MINDS There's no place more ideal than a downtown corner to self appoint an Instant committee of two and solve the problems of our city, county, state, nation and world. At this precise mom ent, the discussion deals with Democratic family feuding on the local level, and the perplexity of de termining who is the black sheep and who is the goat? Like your mama used to tell you, fighting inside the house Instead of in public is the best way to keep your squabbling out of the papers.
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