| Show Hope nope springs eternal In the human beast it says here hero and nd with Uh convention time coming up Loon oon weve we've all been going over the tho thep papers p for tor 1961 and trying to pick lck out Gut a a good story a n good editorial a group roup of or good coll to enter In competition Contemplation of 52 62 I Issues luea ues of ones one's cn newspaper t 9 10 pause cause aU for m me Introspection a II re re- Ii ve to io do better belter In 1062 1662 For Instance we had too few tew editorials editor last year This is 18 partly because we didn't always have room but its it's mostly because editorials represent work and Ye Yo Ed la le mentally lazy And there weren't any big news breaks all year Actually the only big story was the tho visit of ot the theNEA theNEA theNEA NEA to Morgan in June and that wasn't anything to cable home about Further Investigation shows howa that my Long Suffering Long Suffering Lady Fair took quite a verbal beating In 1901 1661 The columnist needs a scapegoat now and then and andlEe lEe lla 0 safer Ifor to begin a at home And we must have set some sort of ot a record by having three col col- yuma puma In tn 1061 1961 which were actually supposed to be sober In March I I thought I 1 Was having a n heart attack attack at tack and ond it was not funny tunny In January I soberly regarded the they I chances of ot a young and very rich richman richman I Iman man aa ae President And In June I Iwas Iwas Iwas was very humble in appreciate of the friendliness of my my AI bors bore On the other ther hand hant I chu chuckle kle ot got a or 0 AIt b e of f rub rubon You on pick an any t b a few v. Come ComeIn t ti In lii In got the f y her ner accounting t. t h. Christmas tree ornar orna oma r eta ts and tinsel My Iy brother aul auland nl r and his bin wife visited us usand usand usand and wrote an on Imaginary letter letteron I Ion on our lack Jack of hospitality We visited Las Vegas in April and got cramped Lands bands from clutching nickels In May there I Iwas was amazement at th the dL discovery covery I that some people eople think laying hens bens should be cooped up I A charming Southern girl at Yellowstone furnished a midsummer mid mer story as ae did the visIt to the vanished boyhood ranch on Owl I I Creek Wyoming In August there were a bunch of ot boneheads in the I i print shop and musing on the I things which cause newspapermen newspaper newspaper- I 1 e men to live lives of quiet despera despera- tion A boyhood prayer for a bike answered 40 years later was waa kicked around In September b bought 0 ugh t a made hand-made Christmas poinsettia from an Imaginary Boy Scout and later made an Imaginary to-do to about a strange match book from Kamas Nothing ever happens what what would I do without ail w I Imagination 1 And in December a school bus bua wreck near Greeley Creeley Colo reminded reminded re re- I minded me of a summer hobo trip and we rounded out the year with I f description of my Christmas gift gm I a new office chair chair AND AND the one one It Jt replaced Come on choose a couple Any I two Pick along with with Mac Mac |
