Show Ii - - CHARLIE RICE'S 1 ) PUNCHBOWL Some salt N substitutes taste funny 1 0 r) I This one Try Bouncing These Checks! ' y old friend Murray Teigh Bloom has a good article on page four of this issue all about checks that look good but bounce like a tennis ball in a cement-mixNow I'm going to tell you about checks that look as queer as a three-dollbill but have been declared as good as gold by the courts of our land For instance would you say that a M It er as a dramatic gesture -- ----------- ' —a housewife took the shirt off her husband's back and wrote a check on it The bank honored it - -- check painted on a watermelon was cashable? Or a check whitewashed on the side of a live cow? Or a check written in frosting on a birthday cake? I certainly wouldn't — at least I wouldn't have until I talked to a Ordano at pretty girl named the Chase Manhattan Bank ll has been busy researching checks for a window exhibit In the next six months the exhibit will make the rounds of the many Chase Manhattan branches in New York City 1 'i f $ Jo-An- ne Jo-An- ne i $ odd-ba- i z tt ? 1 4 land Albert Haddock had bitter woirds with the tax collector Mr Haddock t pounds 10 shillingson the side of his cow After much litigation the court ruled that the tax collector had a "beef" but the check right) was legal ' :t4 ' -' i of all is a check for $3o made out to John Sputter by Eben Grumpy (These names sound like something out of a Dickens novel but can prove they're the McCoy) MY FAVORITE i 3 Jo-An- ne Anyway about 75 years ago in Iowa the Messrs Sputter and Grumpy got into a fight over a 1130 loan When Sputter threatened to sue Grumpy took a door off its hinges and painted a check on it Next time Sputter came to collect Grumpy dropped the y door out a window on head (see photo below) Sputter's An Iowa court ruled that the door was legal payment It is not clear whether Sputter ever collected for damages to his head third-stor- ' 1 ' - ''' ' 1 : - ' '''': '14 ''' -- - A less violent repayment of a loan occurred in Elmira N Y when— ' I I 1 ---- -01 I F i : I - LL ' i lot 1 l'- I JA - ---- -21 - 4 154 - mia)"ak' Grumpy repaid his debt HAND odd-ba- ll docu- ments are a headache to everyone involved Bankers distrust outsized or bizarre checks which they call "bed-sheetSome have considered special service charges for handling them except when they can get some publicity from one — and many odd-ba- ll is checks are publicity tricks For instance the watermelon check that I mentioned earlier was I : part of a television stunt In New I - - Zealand a mason who was helping to ‘" 4144 tt 4 r1 --- -- t-- $ A - ON THE OTHER That :‘-- i lawyers i I 1 'i with interest! build a new bank building inscribed a check on a wet block of concrete The bank gladly accepted it as "unbounceable" and imbedded it in the it vault wall of the safety-depos- ''' — - - ! I 4:!:" ' - : L ' ' ' I t L - i : ' ' ''''' ' '''''Ili ' - 4 t if 4 ' ' ' e104 ' ' It :i – 1 - - ' t - ' 1 ' 1 1 V4 T ' i - Nt for 1 1 1 1 : ' - A le N 1 - ' i I ' 1 pi t I 4 I i ' ektimik t 14i LT '' ' I t 4 1 - '6- t 7 Models pose as Haddocks (and check) s" ---- 0 --- ''"'" 1 f d tz-- - c: ' 91 - ' : 04 141010 hand-lettere- high-price- - '''''''' ''' -' 1 k 4 : '' ' "" - i Y-- cl'' – ' 7: ' I - ' What is the explanation of all this surprising legality? Well a teacher in Hopkinsville Ky demonstrated the principle very tastily when she baked a fide cake for her class in business On the top she wrote a practices check in frosting and then marched the class down to a local bank and cashed it The teacher's point was this: there is no legal requirement as to size or substance of a check The court is interested only in the validity of the signature and the intent of the "check" This goes for other documents such as contracts and wills The physical form is not important A will that is scrawled on a pillowcase can be every bit as d on rare legal as a will a drawn and by battery up parchment of - ' high-scho- ol e - i ' - !14- - I t i il 4tt f mrk '" V 'I ' ' - ' I T t - : - triari : 1 SUBSTITUTE -T" ! ' i - ' '1 e' 'I'L'' i white- washed a check for 26 (see !i4' Ii 0 '''''''''"14 ' fr ' r--- s Years ago in Eng- - 1 - -- -- F i '' I ' ' t - r i r7 - I ar I -'- - tastes salty - 1 l the bank 4 exhibit ! 5 - f ' t - section at your market regular or seasoned Phil Silvers once wrote a check on a banana which was cashed by an obliging Pittsburgh bank It happened while Phil was on tour with his musical comedy "Top Banana" A Cleveland bank was delighted to honor a steel check that was lettered and which had won a by first prize in a welding contest The canceling holes were applied by a There are a lot of salt substitutes around and that's exactly what they taste like Adolph's doesn't It really tastes like salt It even looks seasons and sprinkles like salt In fact Its so close to the real thing you can use it in cooking without objection from the rest of the family It has no metallic aftertaste and its approved by doctors for diets Look for it in the dietetic 111161 NEXT WEEK mInmmwmo '4 IS THERE arc-weldi- bank guard with a submachine gun The Fort Worth National Bank cashed the "biggest" check on record feet by seven feet It was used -2to publicize a local charity drive The smallest checks on record were An Atlanta engraved on cuff-linbanker distributed them as Christmas gifts (I wonder how many people cashed them!) Other unlikely examples: Checks written on a ski on an auto fender on a parachute on a phonograph record on a loaf of bread and on a fish 11 ANYTHING 1 1 AMERICAN t 1 ET IN HAVANA? ks Reporter Geoffrey 1 Bocca hasjust returned from Cuba with a chill- 1 ing (and surprising) report on the city Castro took over in 1959 rt serFirst of a ies — underlines the basic legality checks But pretty Miss of odd-ba- ll Ordano asked me to remind readers that regulation paper checks are much more efficient than scrap metal or fruit "And don't forget" she adds "if you write a check on a fish it will be returned for your records" She's got something there —a month-ol- d canceled pickerel is not handiest the exactly thing to file away in your desk! 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