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VOLUME 13
NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1970
NUMBER 6
Our thanks to Laura Rhodes
for passing along to us the
following anonymous lines:
Remember when HIPPIE
meant big in the hip, and a TRIP
involved travel in car, plane or
ship?. . .When POT was a ves~
sel for cooking things in, and
HOOK was what grandmother's
rug may have been?
And FIX was a verb meaning
mend or repair, and BE IN
meant simply existing some
where. . When NEAT meant
well organized, tidy and clean
and GRASS was a ground cover
usually green.
When the lights and not people
were TURNEDONandOFF,and
a PILL might have been what
you took for a cough. . .When
GROOVY meant furrowed with
channels and hollows, and
BIRDS were wing creatures like
robins and swallows.
When FUZZ was a substance
fluffy like lint, and BREAD
came from bakeries, not from
the mint. . .And ROLL was a
bun, and ROCK meant a stone,
and HANG-UP was something
you did with the phone-
When CHICKEN was poul
try, and BAG meant a sack,
and JUNK trashy cast-offs, and
old bric-a-brac. . .When CAT
was a feline, a kitten grown up,
and TEA was a liquid youdrank
from a cup.
When Way-out meant dis
tant, and far, far away, and
times seemed so simple, un
troubled and GAY. . .Words
once so sensible, sober and
serious, are making the freak
scene like psychedelerious-
It's groovy man, groovy, but
English it's not, me thinks that
the language has gone straight
to pot. One word of advice as
you cats graduate, whatever
the language, COMMUNICATE!
Now, join the Mirror's edi
tor for another nostalgic stroll
along Memory Lane-
Yesterday was when New
Bern's housekeepers placed a
pan under the ice box to catch
the water as that dime block
you bought off Major's wagon
melted. Of course, if you didn't
want to bother with a pan, you
could bore a hole in the floor
and insert a tin funnel.
Yesterday was when today's
senior citizens, who consider
modern dancing outlandish, did
the camel walk and turkeytrot,
and whooped it up each time a
female bosomy enough to Justi
fy the exertion barged out on the
floor and presented her version
of the shimmy.
Yesterday was when the
lyrics of some of the popular
songs made Just as little sense
as a lot of current wailings.
Have you forgotten "It Ain't
Gonna Rain No More, No More"
and "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
From Dumas, You Oughta See
Me Do my Stuff"?
And what about "the Music
Goes Round and Round, And It
Comes Out Here" as well as
"Barney Goggle, With the
Googly Eyes"? Remember too
how everybody went around
singing "Pistol Packing Ma
ma" and that ridiculous tune
about the three little fishes that
swam and swam, right over the
dam?
Yesterday was when boys be
yond the age limit for paying
half fare at local movie houses
knew how to get in without tell
ing a lie- They wrote the
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Tolsdn, Elizabeth Tol-
son, Debbie Paden, Lane May, Phyllis O’Brien and
Alice Taylor anticipate a happy afternoon Saturday.
Nothing, for them, could possibly take priority over
the all English Horse Show that is being staged at
Jasper at 1:30 p.m., with Johnnie Wetherington serv
ing as ringmaster.. Trophy and ribbon girls will be
Mary F. Bullock, Kathy Tingle, Elaine Carrier and
Brenda Dowing. Assisting James Wiggins of Jasper,
the chairman, will be Carol McCosley and Judy Ipock,
show secretaries; Mrs. Ray Ipock, the treasurer; and
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Cutler, who will be in charge of
the concessions. If you’re interested in obtaining ad
vance tickets, contact Mrs. Hubert Q. Tolson, Mrs.
James R. Paden, or any member of the Turkey Quar
ter Saddle Club, the New Bern organization sponsor-
ng the show. Largely through the efforts of this rid
ing club, the sport, pastime, or whatever you choose
to call It, is becoming increasingly popular hero. The
local youngsters seen here are quite at homo on a
bridle path, and take great pride In grooming their
mounts to perfection. ^