Show r t DO YOU EVER let Jet your boa run ran away and aid try to r what you'd do under circumstances If so cope cone along aloag oa OR this imaginary trip witch Ich could happen happee anywhere aay- aay where I tat bit is best illustrated on 00 the tile Interstate near Coal- Coal v die Youre You're driving alone north north- III 11 about two miles out of 01 Its It's getting dark Just ta Ia frost front of ad you there is a minor alnor a and d a nice old driving alone suffers a avery very bad ts eat cut on the leg Yon Yov about first aid aid lilt ad the leg with your and aad still know bow he will bleed to death dead in 10 minutes What do ds doyea year yea do YOURE YOU'RE 5 MINUTES from a food od io hospital ital but youre you're headed the tile wrong way tray on OIl the tile later foter- Vie Ahead If its it's s about abort an aa hour t to aid A ravine separates you from tile the e southbound and Interstate No Notie tie ue to carry the man W across eross the ravine try to stop Coal- Coal I vOte vIDe t traffic r aU I c hope lope to catch some one ODe with the necessary os- os sary UJ first aid take a chance on catching a trooper or radio- radio equipped car car It it might take tate an hour Meanwhile cars and trucks swoop swoop past Nobody stops They didn't want to get in in- in Besides its it's almost S dark WHAT WOULD YOU DO hurry you have less than 10 minutes You know what Id I'd do Maybe Ron Robinson Ted London or orDon orDon orDon Don Facer all the good troopers in the area have this in their books and well we'll hear from them next week Id I'd load the injured man into my car turn around and drive the wrong way on the Interstate back to Coal Coalville ville Theres There's almost room 0 out u t there for a third lane Maybe Id I'd be lucky and not meet two trucks May May- be But better than nothing How about you IT IS NO SECRET that there is rea real I competition between television and newspapers While each fills its niche and competition is usually friendly friend friend- ly each gets a big kick out of boneheads pulled by the other So we got a fine chuckle out of Monday mornings morning's weather forecast One hundred per percent cent chance of s snow now n o w today Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member Bright and shiny all day Now if we newspaper people could just arrange a big chart to show why we were per percent percent percent cent w wrong r o 0 n g every time we j pulled a boo boo-boo THE MORGAN COUNTY 1 i it i t t Assessors Assessor's office was Jam- Jam packed Thursday with last- last minute auto license buyers In Including Including In- In me The too busy workers were in no mood to appreciate attempts at humor- humor especially from somebody like me who forgot all aU about it a year ago aeo and paid a 25 fine for downright stupidity And ADd so my most-favorite most citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen Lee Rollins RoBins knew I wasn't kidding when I asked if they advised pulling off the old decal or putting the new one on top of it Put it right on top Mac Mache Mac Mac- he said Dry clean it first then slap it on John Johnson my favor favorite dry cleaner refused to permit permit permit per per- mit me to drive the Ford into his plant just to dry-clean dry anold an anold anold old decal cal Had to do it myself Things are sure sur e tough all aU over Mac |