The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-07-20

ments. Will Burch and Brewer
try to come up with counter ac-
ton?
We hear on good authority
there is-more to come.
BREWER PERSONITY. Al
though no man living has had
as much free publicity in the
| past seven months as Kidd
Brewer, there are lot of in
teresting sidelights about him
that have not been written. ,s
Here are some of them.
His nome out on the edge of
Raleigh-built about six years
ago-at one time had a big pop
lar tree growing smack through
the middle of it. You could re-
fer to it as a stree planted By
the water, since it lifted its
branches above the indoor pool.
But unlike the proverbial tree
that would not be moved. this
one had to be. for it died.,
Trees, even the tulip poplar,
like not to live in houses.
Brewer has mania about
safety on the highways. During
the six, seven years we wrote,
copied, or had read to us by
phone (sometimes from a thou
sand miles away the Raleigh
Roundup" column from or for
Kidd Brewer, he always insisted
we try to end it each week with
an item on highway safety.
ALWAYS drive carefully-the
life you save may be your own"
/. or something just as origin
al. 1t helped. but sometimes
seemed awfully dull. "Remem-
Der. If it's tie, you lose!"
Kidd Brewer pulled the best
land deal executed in Wake
County in this generation, we
believe. Now we could be off an
acre or two or a thousand dollars
or two. but you will get the
idea. He bought. .and as we re-
call it was from Benton Stacy in
the early SOS for $4,000, acre.
age totaling somewhere near
"a. l doubt that you could pur-
chase this same land now for
100000. There is no property
any prettier east of Greensboro.
In recent years he has added
greatly to this acreage.
Although not much of a mu-
sician, Kidd Brewer likes to play
the organ. He has one in his liv-
ing room. following the var
ious color combinations shown,
/ ETC., he makes the music. 1t has
been broadcast. Brewer at the
organ on a radio show he once
had on Saturday moons to boost
his business and plead for safe
ty en- routes the football games.
Other Brewer bits. He does
not drink or smoke. but really
leans into those Pepsi's. "A
great fellow for the telephone,
he has been known to stay on
the line two hours on stretch
has connections where he
can plug in and start talking by
pool or pillow. at tea or toilet
He has, or had, Cadillac
convertible, while his wife driv-
es, or drove, the ditto sedan. !. -
and then there was usually d
runabout car. and for a time
a big bus for eating-and-sleep-
ing cross-country trips. "A
year ago, worried about his
overweight, Kidd hung a trapeze
down from the middle of his liv-
ing room ceiling. has been
known to carry conversations
with visitors while doing pull
ups and stomach rolls on the
swinging bar.
Due to his athletic career In
high school, at Duke, and as
coach, Brewer has thousands of
friends all over the State. He is
yice-chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Appalachian State
Teachers College at Boone.
unless a change has been re-
Gently made. but Kidd has
been his official name only
few years now. since he NOV
ed to Raleigh. He had the nick
name made the real name. His
former real name was something
like Oliver Pierce. .and not too
good for an athlete.
A lot of men thrive. some
how. public opinion-wise. -.
on attack. and unfavorable
publicity. They become cause
celebre. Will Kidd Brewer? Only
time will tell.
WAS 1T SMOKING?. =.
Charles Gold, the Insurance
Commissioners who died a few
weeks ago, was a victim of lung
Gamer. though it may have
had a more technical name. A lot
of people have asked if he smok-
ed a lot.
He first found there was
n: ,,,..,.. x,,;th him In