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\ Kwn ilmi-illratJwt (Hmwtfl ?utilU Tht N£W BERN PUBLISHID WIIKLY IN TNI HIART OP lASTIRN NORTH ^'AtOLINA ,l°o joh"-5r?^ Barn St, - 17C 2« 28560 VOLUME 11 NEW BERN, N.., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968 NUMBER 26 Yankees who visited Rikki's, a highly respected Atlantic City night spot, following the Miss America Pageant couldn't believe their ears. Tlie placets plush and knee deep in atmos phere, but on this one evening (if you can call far past mid night evening) the atmosphere was strictly Southern. A group of New Bernians,out on the town, saw to that. They were aided and abetted by Rose Gallo, the buxom but thorou^- ly delightful blonde pianist who tickles the ivories by the hour in the restaurant's softly-lit lounge. Rosie, as the .regular cus tomers call her, reminds us more than vaguely of Jo Ann Castle, who presides so effi ciently over her battered up right on the Lawrence Welk Show. Like theCasUegal,Rosie knows just about every song by heart that was ever written. Not just the melody, mind you, but the lyrics. Naturally she knew “Carolina Moon” and “Carolina In The Morning.” And just as naturally, these were the first two songs we a.sked lier to play and sing along with us. There’s a bar in the lounge, and liefore you could have said General Robert E. Lee. the Yankee imbibers clustered there to^eJ^ijjtj) the.act. Some of— them no doubt have never ven tured below the Mason-Dixon line, but they agreed musically that “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning.” Honest injun, you almost got a whiff of magnolias blooming, and with very little imagination you could picture Rosie in the role of a Southern belle. Sing ing “Dixie” was Rosie's idea, and all assembled gave vent to it with much gusto. If you've never heard “Dixie” rendered with a Jersey twang, you’ve missed part of living. There’s always somebody in every crowd who wants to be different. Someone, by no means a New Bernian, suggest ed a chorus of Yankee Doodle. He waspromptly outvoted. “The South will rise again,’’ an ele- brant shouted, and everybody sang two more choruses of “Dixie”. Elsewhere in Atlantic City, even at this late hour, the hip pies were proclaiming what is wrong with the world. Therels, of course a great deal wrong with the world, but in Rikki's the North and the South were of one accord. Rose Gallo ts someone we’ll remember, altliough life being what It is, we may never visit Rikki’s again. Southerners are notoriously friendly, occasion ally to the point of being a nui sance, but seldom does Dixie offer anyone more genuinely congenial than she proved to be. Hundreds of miles from home, in a place predominately occupied by strangers, it oc curred to us as it has many times before that people are pretty much the same every where. Folks like Rosie, we might add, find the latchstring hanging on the outside, no mat ter where they go. Needless to say, the New Bernians in our party stayed at Rikki’s until it closed. Say ing goodbye to Rosie for the (Continued on Page 8) LOUD AND LIVELY—No one works harder when the annual School than leaders. On pressed, defending Northeastern Conference cham pions are a determined lot, but thev don’t take their chores any more seriously than the attractive and energetic girls seen here. Young as they are, they grow older and suffer anguish far beyond their years each time the Bears are thrown for a loss or yield a touchdown. Sooner or later, in the realm of sports, heartbreak exacts its toll, but there are moments of ioy and exultation to even things up, and a cheer leader yelling for the home team on a crisp autumn night wouldn’t trade places with anyone else in the world. Like the band and majorettes, and those in evitable dogs that have to be coaxed or chased from the field, she is part of the game.—Photos by Chick Natella.
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