Record #:

22800

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer relates several odd tales from Pitt County's past. One Greenville resident, James O. Bond, found a shell clump at the beach in 1973 and took it home. In 1979 he decided to open it and found an ancient Roman coin from Claudius I. In 1951 the Greenville City Aldermen questioned the purchase of a case of sardines by the Street Department. C. K. Beatty, department head explained that they used the sardines with rat poison and molasses to control rats. People still use "Lard Stands," once to store lard and now as large flower pots. A nine-year-old hero named Dickie Haar, son of Dr. Fred B. Harr, saved Roy Tripp Jr., a one and a half year old boy from drowning when he fell off a pier in Bayboro. Dickie was honored on the radio and on the Abbott and Costello Show, of which he received numerous gifts. Judge Charles Whedbee laid down an unusual sentence in 1959 when a local boy had to serve punishment in a "Graveyard Stint." And finally, "Cheated Taste Buds" occurred when a baby ruined chicken on the grill.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Jun 8-21 1994, p5

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History