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Show SAY IT AGAIN By HERB 1'RICE lafriqu? "KEEP OCT I NI.ES! YOU VAT ADVE.NTt'RE! MYNTERYi I.NTRKil'E!" That's what the sign warned (tutaide the vault at the state department de-partment of public Instruction. So we went In. And we didn't get any adventure, adven-ture, mystery or intrigue. In fact the viult Interior looked like the Interior of any other vault around town. ."Aad Hhat." we asked Secy. Barbara Raile, "what Is so Id tiigulag about this place f Barbara hedged just a bit but finally admitted that several months ago one of the educators i she refused to Identify him further! fur-ther! was Inadvertantly locked .. Innde the vault after closing time and was rescued only because a late worker heard him beating on the door. Hence the sign. "Maybe the choice of words was wrong," agreed Barbara, "but nobody's been locked In there s I a e e we put up the Motice." Well, maybe nobody wants any ef that adventure mystery - intrigue in-trigue stuff these days. Right-Handtd Crime, in the opinion of Jack Householder, Bingham policeman, has taken a turn for the worse. "It's the technique which has suffered most," mused Jack recently re-cently as be contemplated the "Case of the Right handed Shoplifter." "When we picked this guy up," lie recalled, "he was carrying a mackinaw jacket, three shirts and a pair of gloves. This was okeh, but the guy couldn't explain how come he'd bought a "pair" of gloves, both for the right hand, one a size nine and the other a size 10." (Maybe his left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing, t (Thanks to Cashouse Gus.) This Is Ntws! This Is it! All our lives we've . waited for this moment! For the last time, we hope, we've heard some sardonic character tell us that old saying about "When a dog bites a man that's not news, but when a man bites a dog, THAT IS NEWS!" Because now, if anybody starts that talk, we'll have an answer readv for him. "Oh. yeah?" we'll sneer, "and what if the 'man' is a baby girl does it .still go?" Colleea Connnle, 15-mnnth-old dog-bttrr, makes up with Rusty. And then, while the snide Interloper Inter-loper wipes thst look off his fsce we'll tell him about Colleen Connote, Con-note, lVmonth-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan W Connote, 253 Iouglas st Connie, It seems, made news over the Christmas holiday when her fox terrier puppy started to Ilsy too roughly. The pup kept licking Connie's face despite her protests and finally, without saying a word (he can't talk yet. Incidentally) . she picked up the miscreant puppy and sunk her baby teeth Into his little pink ear. And believe It or not. the puppy dog was so chastened chas-tened by. this treatment he retreated re-treated to a corner In stunned silence snd has been a good puppy ever since. And the moral to this story Is that maybe if more people went around biting dogs, fewer dogs would go around biting people. |
