Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-10-30 | Page 13 | Return of 'Whiskers' Cheers Capitol Pals

i I It t Was a Dirty Trick Return of Whiskers Cheers Capitol Pals Nuts to you too Whiskers seemed to chatter Saturday as he returned to work at the state capitol Oblivious to politics with sundry reactions Whiskers went assiduously assiduously about gathering bits of cold lunches peanuts and popcorn from broad brond granite g window sills around the outside of floor first-floor offices at the statehouse the But in case youve you've gotten idea Whiskers is some sort of beggar dismiss it it Hes He's a very spirited high sleak steak gray squirrel with a host of friends Including some practical jokers at the capitol He was almost done In In theother theother the theother other da day however when a wag pasted a half peanut on the inside of a closed window Vainly Whiskers clawed and 4 gnawed the pane of glass to get I the peanut he could see but not reach Finally his bushy tall tail sagged sag dej dejectedly dejectedly de de- j and he be scamp scampered red away frustrated and more nervous than ever reported one one witness Hunger Hung or instinct of thrift more dominant at this season must have conquered defeatism however because with not the slightest sign of ill feelings toward those who tricked him Whiskers is back peering through h windows His first visit was to highway patrol offices Louis Domenko chief clerk lerk and M M. E. E Sanders radio dispatcher greeted the rodent with such handfuls of peanuts peanuts peanuts pea pea- nuts and acid popcorn that Whiskers required several trips to carry the ther r food away to his burrow somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where near the northeast corner of the capitoL