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LETTERS, Page 6East St. Louis Blues
The difficulties suffered by the declining city of East St.
Louis, Ill., ought to awaken Americans to just how fragile their
little piece of turf is (AMERICAN SCENE, June 12). What happened
in East St. Louis should be fair warning to cities everywhere that
they must act now or they will have to react later.
Lealand D. Luck
South Boston, Va
East St. Louis' first order of business should be to hire more
police and get crime under control. The tax base will not return
until the city shows that it can maintain order in the streets and
provide basic government services.
John A. King
Damascus, Md.
You note that the average age of the police force is a
"doddering 46.5 years." How many doddering employees of that age
are there at TIME? Or are you all inexperienced, entry-level
teenyboppers like the person who wrote that sentence?
Owen Findsen
Cincinnati
[Writer Lee Griggs, although possibly a teenybopper at heart,
is a fully mature but hardly doddering 61.]