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Show Week's End... A Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz - the one with the bumper Ackers reading -Re-elect Nixon, or Lose your Butz - " received some impressive awards from his farming const tuems this year. Just last week reporters awarded him with , tne "Wounded Steer" award, after he delivered a dozen identical speeches promising to "fight like a wounded steer against beef price ceilings. Last Friday the National Potato Council gave Butz its token of gratitude The Golden Spike Potato Award. O According to the latest polls, Rep. Sherm Lioyd and challenger Wayne Owens are running "neck and neck." If they're using horse race jargon, they ought to add that Nick Strike seems to be running on three legs. O Way out there about 36 inches further to the right than anyone any-one can reach, American Independent Party candidate John Schmitz is running for President. Updating Robert Welch's views, Schmifz last week came out favoring the prosecution of the three released American pilots because he thinks they contributed to Hanoi propaganda. He also praised General John Lavelle for his unauthorized raids over North Vietnam. We understand that Schmitz gets his speeches from a thumb-worn copy of "None Dare Call it Treason." Q The president of Zambia has just signed a bill making weekend week-end imprisonment the punishment for drunken driving, a mild penalty by African standards. In South Africa, execution by a firing squad is the sentence for drunken driving. 0 Farmers have known it for years, but a South Carolina service station attendant just discovered it. A corn cob when soaked in a detergent rubbed against a windshield is the easiest method of recovering auto stains. The service station owner noted that, "It takes a lot of rubbing with a regular rag to get a windshield clean, but you can do it swiftly and easily with a corn cob." |