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W« welcome the following letter from Mrs. Merritt H. Smith of 104 Country Club Cir cle, New Bern: In your editorial “Throng The Looking Glass" fn Friday, March 1st, Mirror, you stated that Governor Rockefeller was intimidated by the Labor Un ion In New York’s recent gar bage strike. I would like to express a dif ferent viewpoint, since by hus band and I moved here from Long Island, N. Y., aboiitayear or so ago. I previously lived In New York City for 32 years. We voted for Gov. Rucke-’ feller, as N. Y. State was in a financial shambles,and we think he did a good j*)b of putting it back int» gear. A lot of his actions were even a little harsh, taxwise, but it had to be d«>ne (he made this very clear) and inosi people accepted it in that spirit. I cannot imagine any one less likely, to be intimi dated than the Govenior. Since yiii cannot put down a Itnion, as they h.ave been fos tered to such an extent by the present Administration and the Supreme Court, :md negoti ations cun be endless (witness the present cpper strike)there are times when the piildic is so drastically affected y«m have to cut your losses. You did not say, in your ed- itfirial, that when Mayor Lind say wanted to call out the Na tional Guard, the Union immed iately countered with an un equivocal and immediate threat to call a General Strike. This gives an entirely different slant to the affair. New York City's metropolitan area has a population of over 8 million people, plus thousands more located in Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester,Con- necticutt and Staten Island, who commute daily to Manhatten, which is the name of the ISLAND tliat these City people live on, access thereto being by car bridges, subways, railroads through tunnels, and, I suppose, still some ferry boats. Most of the supplies are trucked or flown in. The airports are several miles out on Long Island. We were in N. Y. during, respectively, a milk, subway, L, 1. Railroad, taxi and truck strike, at different times. In each case the results were ap- ptdling. Children had no milk, in one case; people could not get to the City, in others, as the bottleneck of cars was Im possible to deal with, and there never Is any extra parking .space in the place, anyway. Ima^ne a General Strike Comprising all the above, plus hospital help, teachers, truck drivers, possibly even the po lice and garbage men. They all have to eat, you know, and in the past have been notoriously underpaid. .lust think of a pebble thrown into a pond, and remember the ever-widening ripples, and you will have .some comprehension of a General Strike in N. Y. City. We spoke to friends in the City, by phone, and tliey said the smell was overpowering, the rats were running in the streets (they also can be ferocious •uni carry diseases). In ad dition, the streets weresoclog- ^(;d that some wore impassable. Something had to be done, and (Continued on page 8) Iprn-dtratmt (Zlomttg Pttblir Cibtartf The NEW BERN PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE HEART OF EASTERN NO0-~- „ „aven I VOLUME 10 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1968 NUMBER 50 ■-f;r HIGH NOTE—Denise Holmes, 11 month old daugh ter of the M. G. Holmes of Route 2, Vanceboro, may be headed for grand opera. Honest injun, doesn't she look for all the world like a soprano reaching for the loftiest portion of a challenging aria? Or, if Denise develops no urgent yearning for the lead role in Madame Butterfly, Carmen, or La Boheme, she could by the time she becomes a teen ager make her mark in the field of pop music. Just what pop music will be like 15 years or so from now is hard to en vision, but adults of that future day can be counted on to view with disfavor tunes preferred by the younger set. Until then, little Denise and her age group have a lot of growing up to do. May they carnr a song in their heart along the way.—Photo by Eunice Wray.
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