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Show $ui 9 Jfeaid A lot of people would like to have "Post No Bills" signs on their mailboves. Chief Doug Bolton asked us to remind businessmen and householders that the city ordinances or-dinances require all walks to be shoveled a half hour after the end of a snowstorm. It is sorta rough on the tootsies wading thru half a foot or more of snow, especlaly if you drive downtown and don't put on your galoshes. More than a third of the federal fed-eral employees are now covered cov-ered by exclusive representation representa-tion union agreements. On city lands, the thing raised most Is taxes. The federal government's total to-tal spending for education in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, will be five times greater great-er than it was in 1954. SOUP TO NUTS ? ? Wonder if Ronnie's trying to alienate his adult trade? He's got a dam-near-lifesiie picture of tlie goofy Beatles in his grocery department at Jeff Merc . . . right over the soup shelves. See where the State Liquor Commission has come out favoring fav-oring doing away with the annual an-nual permits to buy liquor, and also with making the customer fill out a card with the brand name, number, and price. They finally found out, after about 30 years of this idiocy, that it costs 'em more to process and keep track of the cards than the charge for the per- mits, even after raising the cost from four-bits to a buck. It was an asinine regulation to start with. Now if they'd just get rid of some of their other silly rules, such as "no reference to price in any liquor advertisement." advertise-ment." This week we had to delete the words "at no extra cost" from a Jim Beam ad ... . it had a "reference to price." Maybe the next Legislature will also make it legal to buy just one drink, instead of a bottle, when you're thirsty in the evenings. Rev. Sloan says it's foolish to keep wishing for things we don't have . . . but what else Is there to wish for? |