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Show MISSING PENNIES The United Staes mint informs us that five billion pennies pen-nies have been lost since they first started minting them. These misplaced coppers may be in many children's banks a lot of them here in Milford. Many of those that have disappeared dis-appeared from, circulation may be down a drain or lost in small cracks by hundreds of youngsters. The sales tax on articles have brought forth the lack of these coins, no doubt. Someone suggests th.t we have new ones minted with a hole in the center as do the Chinese. Then we could string them on ribbons for necklaces. We recently read where a plate of pennies appeared on the street of a mid-western city. A man had heated the pennies pen-nies to a red glow and tossed them to children to hear them , cry When they touched the hot coins. A judge didn't hesitate hesi-tate to fine this fellow an amusement tax with a jail sentence sen-tence to cool off the episode. The entire affair turned out to be less amusing than the donor of the pennies expected, and we don't thank him for putting pennies back into circulation circu-lation in this way. |