Show tits t its l I 1 v Every now and then the Ant packs his valise and trundles off orf I to do points far tar and wide Now the wise old Ant generally makes a a. determined effort to leave things back at the hill bill in pretty prelly good shape e. e However it is isa isa Isa a constant source of ot amazement to those who are left lert at the hill how row fast things left in good shape cl can n fall apart Take for tor instance Bruce Wid Wid- Bison trying to find out where a group of headlines went Normally Normally Normally Norm Norm- ally h headlines ad nes go on stories The only onty trouble Is these these particular parti parti- particular cular headlines were written for stories that had already been boon run the previous week darn near ran himself through the press in a fit of hopeless despair Theres There's a linotype machine that Jl has s faithfully turned out type forI for tor I I months years maybe even cen- cen furles You got it right this week it n broke down Eleven thousand cards had 0 o 0 be cut from paper stock to the I right i size for comm commercial printing printing print print- ing but the cutter culler broke and the stock had bad to be shipped back to Salt Lake City for cutting The proof reader went b berserk and had Laddie Laddle Russell listed ed as Superintendent pf pI the Elementary School Of ot course we all aU know knowlie ie lie is the principal A letter t received on press day from the happy wanderer tells ot of the fine food and festivities which he be ie is enjoying Everyone thought I this was nice especially at mid mid- night when we w were re all still sUll working at top speed It really didn't make mak any difference that th the paper wasn't out yet Somehow the key to the cash drawer which was supposed to be left IEtt at the little white while house on the corner wound up in Roy This necessitated three frantic phone calls Two members of ot the News staff agreed to meet in Ogden Ono One would pick up the key and return to Morgan Only somehow the tho train of normal events stayed right on the track and the two waited at different intersections intersections inter inter- sections for tor each other for no BO noless noless less than forty minutes When they both beth started looking for each other and got things straight straightened ened around their only comment was Wa Ill give up if you will Through a series of ot spasmodic f jorka and aDd gasps last weeks week's papers pa pa- 1 pore pers r got out on time Everyone exchanged happy comments as tho rho pre prom press run was about to be made Then it was mentioned that when wIlen tho the Ant was gone before before before be be- fore a picture almost got run upside down Everyone started I double checking all the pictures Luckily there were only one or two to worry about bout The Ant wont won't return for another another an other week It is a certainty certainly that things will continue to go in every direction at once until he does No doubt his first homecoming I question will wl 1 be bl Well how did things go got Fine will be the answer answer Just fine Mac Mac Junior I |