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TBl-.. Yesterday waswhenfarmers who had been eating h^ meat at home> all week long, headed for locid barbecue stands when they got hungry doing tiieir Sat urday shopping. All except a few who settled for a dime's worth of cheese, a nickel box of soda crackers, and a bottle of pop. Yesterday was when your ears tried to strain out the static, so you could hear the nlghtty radio newscasts of Lo- w^l Thomas, Boak Carter, H. V. Kalterborn or Bagriel Heat- ter. They came on Just before Amos and Andy, and Bing Crosby. Yesterday was when an auto mobile loaded with white light ning from North Harlowe collided with a telephone pole at the corner of Pollock and George. The driver disappear ed before die coixi arrived, and so did all of the Mason Jars that didn't break. Neighbor hood lushes, some in pajamas made away with the Joy Juice. It was often said in the old days of rum running in these Npui Slpm-dlraoett (Hauntg PublU iilirar)j The NSW BERN J PUBLI8HID WIIKLY IN THI mART OP ^ *«8TIRN NORTH irj To]-, lih. If o’l- VOLUME 13 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY. 8EFTEMBER 4,1970 NUMBER 26 Yesterday was when Bob Pugh, then superintendent of Craven county schools, had a huge herd of elephants in his office. Not live ones, itwnif goodness, but the toy kind. He was a sucker fbr ash trays, paper weights, and any thing else adorned by a minia ture Jumbo. Friends, aware of his hobby, added to the collec tion. They aren't around now, at his Scottish Rite office. May be they stampeded. Yesterday was when a fellow could absorb a lot of sound phi losophy, listtfilng to wise and witty Captain Dick Honrlne over an early morning cup of cafe coffee. He was the sortof guy you miss forever. Yesterday was when New Bern had several hotels, but no motels. Now it's the other way around. Imagine the dis may of an ex-Marlne coiq>le, married here during World War n. Returning recently for a second honeymoon at the Queen Anne, they were flabbergasted to find instead a parking lot. Yesterday was when Joe Wat son, who loved to loiter at Uie corner of Middle and Pollock, could roll up a piece of paper and make music as tuneful, as anything from a French horn come out. what a Pled Piper he could have been. Yesterday was when New Bern's younger dance crowd considered Rocky Mount's June German the social event of social event of the year. You had to have a Md to get by the door of die tobacco warehouse where one of the nation's top name bands played it sweet and hot. Latching (mto a bid wasn't al ways easy, but even harder for local males was scraping iq> die money to rent a tuxedo. Most gals had an evening dress, could borrow one, orlnapinch,head- ed for the sewing machine. Yesterday was when Sheriff Dick Lane's faithful bird dog disappeared. He learned why several days later, when some body discovered the much alive canine in the County Courthouse basement. More curious than the proverbial cat, he had ram med his head into a discarded brass ciwpldor, and got hope- lessly stuck. BRUIN MENTORS — These four men have a lot on their mind this first Friday in September. Tonight they send the New Bern High Schooi Bears into ac tion here against Wiimington Hoggard, to get 4-A grid campaigning going for 1970. Head Coach Roger Thrift, holding the pigskin, poses left to right with his able assistants, Arlestus Attmore, Ed Reel and Howard Mathews. Later home games are with Wash ington, Jacksonville, Wilson and Kinston.—Photo by Chick Natella. game would be less noisy, Hess complete, without at- (Continued on page 8) WHOOP IT UP — A ball and for players and fans tractive girls beseeching spectators' to exercise their lungs and vocal chords to spur their team to victory. More relaxed than they’ll ^ tonight, Head Cheer leader Mimie Whiteside and her assistant, Karen Stocks, left, make use of the Bear weight machine as a prop for this picture at NBHS. Only the stuffed team mascot ain’t for real.—Photo by Chick Natella.
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