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Show 2tuu&, Bat 9 Jfeatd Jesse says that school dropouts drop-outs just can't see the handwriting hand-writing on the wall . . . and If they could see It they couldn't read it Milford's high schoolers evidently evi-dently adhere to the old saying: say-ing: "Don't bslieve everything you see in the papers." Couple of weeks ago our feature fea-ture "Tell Me" answered a ijueion about age of animals, listing the elephant as the animal an-imal that lived the longest ((sometimes 200 years). Students Stu-dents of the 10th grade biology clajs didn't agree, and after researching three encyclopedias came up with the answer that turtles and crocodiles live the longest, with elephants in third place. We tried to argue that crocs belong to the reptile family and turtles to the denizens of the sea, but the students insisted that there's only two kinds of life, animal and plant, and that makes turtles and crocs animals. So we quit arguing. Norm Baxter wants us to remind the public again that when the fire siren sounds one blast is the curfew and time for the juniors to get home; two blasts is a practice, and three blasts is the real thing. Norm says that lately when they've called a practice there's been more curious adults show up than firemen. Horton says Us bard to believe that tuls nation was founded partly to avoid exorbitant ex-orbitant taxes. I Dunno, of they can't control con-trol the press one way they kp trying others. Latest is Edwin Zimmerman, acmg assistant attorney gen- , testifying before a House Representatives Subcommittee, Subcommit-tee, that in certain situations advertising is an unnecessary expenditure of national re-we! re-we! merely to move the wnsumer dollar from one prod- another..." The Jus- Department is drafting leg- S.Y0 restrict "unnecel fary advertising. vonh6y want to tell you what can f advert'se and how you can advertise It. SALUE SEZ: Oratory ls the art Q( m chL P sounds frw e 2 Z Sem Mke Important |