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Show Bid 9 affeaid A fool and his money are soon Invited places. The roofing-siding buffs are still at it, but at least they're switching. " Switching from pressurized house-to-house calls to pressurized pres-surized telephone calls, and we ain't no happier with the new pressurizing than we were with the old. Now, friendly voiced ladies make long-distance phone calls, and want to know "if your house is metal or frame," after first identifying themselves as representing some investment company. We use dto slam the door in the salesman's face. Now we advise the lady that "it's none of your business" what kind of a house we have, and hang up. Hanging up is the only way to get rid of them. There's a warning from the federal government gov-ernment in our local post office: of-fice: "Never buy from high-powered high-powered telephone salesman." To which we add: "Don't even listen to "em." NOW IT HAPPENS TO BABE ! Babe Ruth and Mel Tait' were "goosing" up at Clear Lake, and a flock of geese- sat down a couple of hundred yards away from Babe's new life-like decoys. He started crawling thru the sagebrush to flank the birds, and when he raised up to see how close ha vas, there was a big flock between be-tween him and Mel. As Babe raised up to shoot, the honkers he was stalking took off in startled bedlam. Babe was drawing a bead on liis own decoys. - The City Dads have postponed post-poned naming a City Marshal to replace Doug Bolton, who resigned a few weeks ago. H C. 'Cliff Cook and Eddie Patterson Pat-terson are both employed on temporary assignments. WHO'S THE KOOK? In answering the young radicals' rad-icals' comment that the "old kooks in Congress ought to be 6ent to war," Rep. Frank Bow of Ohio commented: "No, it is not love of war that prompts us to support our troops in Viet Nam and demand de-mand victory there. It is love of our country and the realization real-ization that 'however much we pray and work for peace, there are still forces in the world that will let us live in peace only at the price of our freedom. free-dom. The young radical probably prob-ably doesn't deserve the blessings bless-ings of liberty he enjoys, but millions of youngsters in America Amer-ica today and, we hope, many generations to come, rely upon us now to preserve and defend their heritage. This is what the war Is about." |