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Show It's Always Straw Hat Weather for This Pair i . .j ....... WMMMMMMMiMMMHMMMMMa.W' NWMHMMMMHBMMMBBaSX f ' miM 1 I ' , (mm 1 vXv'" ...... r: . ;'x Laa. iLA.. ,..-:W4....iai ii i .aaXiletij a.a- iuaaeaaMi THREE REASONS WHY BUTCHERS WEAR STRAW HATS Bob Harris, left; Bert Evan. Butchers Still Wear 'Zanies Their Time-Honored Headgear . Why do meat cutters wear straw sanies"? For three reasons: 1 The - hat protects them against cold. The head doesn't perspire, as in a felt hat thus insuring against effects of sud- ; den changes in ' temperature as they run In and out of refrig-; refrig-; orators. 2 It's a sort of symbol of cleanliness clean-liness to housewives. 3 It's convenient grease stains are easily wiped off with a wet towcL ' At least these are the answers many butchers in Salt Lake City meat markets give to the riddle. The hat la believed to have been adopted as standard headgear more than 40 years ago after a sales promotion stunt A Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, Pa., butcher wanted a means of identifying his market so he had his employes wear straw hats. While the headgear Isn't aa popular today as It waa a decade age, several old-tlms butchers still cling to ths custom. |