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Show 9 jbuuta, But 9 Jfeaid "The tallest snowman ever made" turned into a "Leaning Tower of Pisa." The chidlren of Jake and Nellie Schow built a snowman) after our latest storm, so tall they had to use ladders to add the hat and the eyes and nose, and the darned thing was actually actu-ally higher than Jake's garage. But next day, after the sun had melted the base, it started getting tipsy, and by mid7 afternoon was leaning at a precarious pre-carious angle. Every session the legislators come up with some of the craziest ideas. Now they're proposing that if a newspaper, magazine, or raaio or j. v station accepts any tobacco advertising, they "must give equal space for presentation presenta-tion of the facts pertaining to the effect of the use" of tobacco to-bacco products. Wonder just who's supposed to prepare the "facts" and if we'll also have to give "equal space" to the tobacco companies comp-anies to refute the "facts." Advertising is the way we make our living, and if the tobacco companies want to advertise ad-vertise their products, we're accepting that advertising. If the anti-tobacco folks want to tell our readers they think tobacco is awful, they're welcome wel-come to place paid ads in our newspaper, at the same rate the tobacco companies pay. But I don't like do-gooders trying to regulate my livelihood liveli-hood ... or my vices. Babe Ruth sez he's wondering wonder-ing if the Milford schools got their students home last week, when they had the CD drill. He said five minutes after the drill started he had phone calls from the other end of the county advising him the buildings build-ings had been cleared and were available for any CD use the county director wished to use them for, but "I haven't heard from Milford schools, so maybe may-be they didn't evacuate." Shucks, Babe, reckon Bryce slipped again, and forgot to advise the principals they were supposed to call your Our "Save Stamps for the Hospital" program is going great guns, with individuals and business houses saving their envelopes and dropping them in the boxes at the Milford Mil-ford Medical, Beaver County News, or Beaver County Hos-' pital. Armon Whiting brought in a batch from the Telluride office the other day, and told us that the Richfield office of Telluride is even saving their stamps for us. Complying with a telephoned suggestion, Principal Lee Pettey Pet-tey of Milford Hjgh School has accepted some contributions to a special scholarship fund in memory of J, M, Hughes, Milford High instructor for 36 years. Donations may be made at the school office, Mr. Pettey said, and the family will be advised ad-vised of names of all donors to the fund. Only 85 dogs have been licensed li-censed in Milford, Mayor Kizer reported this week, and that's about 65 short of the usual number. Deadline is Friday, Feb,.' 15, "' "No female dogs have been licensed," Hizzpner said, "and it won't be very pleasant for the owners of any 'male' dogs that show up with a Utter of pups," Owners of unlicensed male dogs, as well as unlicensed females, fe-males, will be issued a summons sum-mons after Friday. SALLIE SEZ: Oscar Levant, on a recent TV show", had the best der scription of Pres. Kennedy's proposal to Increase federal deficit-spending and jt the same time cut taxes: "He wants to take the shirt off our backs and then give us cufflinks." |