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WHEN A WOMAN bears her tenth child in the Soviet
Union, she is awarded the title of Mother Heroine. No, sir, no
ridicule intended. Any lady who labors that long and
frequently merits medals. ... STANDING on the moon and
peering at the earth through a telescope, it’s said, there is only
one man-made object that’s visible. Can you name it? That’s
right, the Great Wall of China
MEASUREMENTS - In England, a girl with a bust
measurement of less than 32 inches does not need to pay a tax
on her dresses. If said measurement exceeds 32 inches,
however, she is required to shell out 10 per cent sales tax. Oh,
you think I’m joking? Not at all. That is how the English have
chosen to differentiate between little girls and grown women.
The woman’s clothing is taxed, the child’s is not.
CONSIDER THIS - Question, does the law have any legal
right to arrest a wobbly drunk on the street even though said
drunk is not bothering anybody? New York City’s chief
criminal court Judge John M. Murtagh says no. “If I want to
get plastered at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel,” said the judge,
“and walk home without bothering anyone, why should
society waste its time on me?” What’s your stand on this
matter, sir?
CUSTOMER SERVICE - Q. "Just how fast is ‘quick as a
wink,’ anyway?” A One twentieth of a second. ... Q. “What
are my chances of getting a royal flush in poker?” A. One in
649,739.
ARE YOU AWARE that green is the most popular color for
cars now? . . PLEASE ADD to your Palindrome list: “Live
evil.” . . . IT’S EXCEEDINGLY RARE that those who have
six or more children come up with an even balance of boys
and girls Why is this? . . IF YOU WANT to be a radio
announcer, young fellow, swiftly repeat the following phrase
three times: “The clothes moth mouth closed.” ... DO YOU
KNOW how long an automobile on the average parks in front
of a street meter? Just 29 minutes.
GARBAGE - Won’t bore you at this moment with the
tedious statistics, but it is a fact that the garbage explosion is
accelerating far faster than the population explosion. Each of
us is said to turn about 4Vi pounds of garbage a day now, and
we’re expected to produce about eight pounds a day within
the next 10 years. Can’t somebody develop a Pill for this?
HAPPINESS NOTE - To be happy, a citizen is said to need
five things: health, freedom, economic independence,
congenial work and recriprocated love. Which of these is the
most important? Going to have to take a house-to-house
survey on that. Be sure to answer the doorbell.
DID I TELL YOU about one out of four service stations
either fold up or change hands every year? ... THE
AVERAGE MAN between 55 and 64 years of age owes debts
equivalent to 41 per cent of their annual income, the experts
report ... AM ASKED who first painted taxicabs yellow. A
fellow named Hertz Maybe you’ve heard of him ....
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Your questions and comments are welcomed and will be
used in PASS IT ON wherever possible. Address your letters to
L. M. Boyd, P.O. Box 3760, Santa Monica, Calif. 90403.
((c) 1970,McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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”You*re thinking about trying the new skirts-for-men
fashion? Good heavens, George! Do you want people
to think you’re a kook?!’*
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byLsM.Boyd
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Interior Se
cretary Walter J. Hickel, in a
letter to President Nixon:
“I believe this administration
finds itself, today, embracing a
philosophy which appears to
lack appropriate concern for
the attitude of a great mass of
Americans—our young people.”
WASHINGTON—Anthony J.
Moffett, President Nixon’s
youth director, explaining his
reasons for resigning:
“I think the inflamatory
language used by the President
in the past 10 days and by the
vice president and others over
a period of months has served
to divide the country, not bring
die country together.”
WASHINGTON—Rep. Donald
Riegle, R-Mich., during House
debate on Cambodia, furious
over an attempt to cut off the
session:
“Where are many of those
who voted to cut off debate
now? They’re down in the
House gym playing paddle
ball.”
HOT SPRINGS, Va.-An in
dustrialist at a meeting of the
elite Business Council during a
session on inflation:
“With the present Congress
permitting the labor unions to
do as they please, and the
President seeming to be unable
to do anything about it, there is
no way of controlling inflation.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, May 8, the
128th day of 1970 with 237 to
follow.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter,
On this day in history:
In 1541 Spanish explorer
Hernando de Soto discovered
the Mississippi River.
In 1879 George Selden of
Rochester, N.Y., filed for the
first patent on an automobile.
It was granted in 1895.
In 1945 President Truman
officially announced VE Day in
honor of the end of World War
II in Europe.
In 1964 President Truman
became the first former chief
executive to address a regular
session of the Senate.
A thought for the day—
President Truman, before the
atomic bomb was dropped on
Japan, said, “The force from
which the sun draws its power
has been loosed against those
who brought war to the Far
East”
THOUGHTS
For we are glad when we
are weak and you are strong.
What we pray for is your im
provement. —ll Cor. 13:9.
♦ ♦ ♦
People seldom improve
when they have no other
model but themselves to
copy after. —Oliver Gold
smith. English novelist.
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point
★ ★THIS WEEK’S SPORTS
Babe Ruth League
has a new look
The Griffin Babe Ruth League will open its 1970 season
here Saturday.
Opening day ceremonies will include a barbecue, a short
talk by Bob Uecker of the Atlanta Braves and two baseball
games.
The Babe Ruth League has a new look this season.
Instead of playing 13-year-old boys in its regular league,
the program now has a special league for rookie Babe
Ruthers.
They will play in their own four team league.
Babe Ruth officials added the new league to give more boys
an opportunity to play organized baseball. And many felt it
was unfair for 13-year-old boys to compete in a league that
included 15-year-olds.
League officials are expecting a great season for its new
rookie league and its circuit for 14 and 15-year-olds.
We wish the Babe Ruth League success as it heads into the
1970 season.
Good TV news for tots
To parents of video-oriented small ones, it comes as wel
come news that Sesame Street, the imaginative public tele
vision series, is going to be around for at least another
year.
Not only will the program tailored for 3- to 5-year-olds
begin its second season in October in some 200 cities, but
it may be joined by a similar education-through-entertain
ment effort tailored to the 7-to-10 age group.
In its first year, Sesame Street, the first major TV project
created from scratch with the interests and welfare of the
youngest viewers in mind, has been a success not only
with critical adults but, somewhat surprisingly, with chil
dren, whose share of the tube schedule has traditionallv
run to crudely repetitious cartoons and superhardsell com
mercials.
In showing the way to better children’s programing, it
has clearly been a case of “Open, Sesame.”
The scrap heap bonanza
That’s gold in them hills—or mountains, rather—of trash
Americans create every year. Literally.
According to Chemical Engineering News, military elec
tronic scrap averages about 5.5 ounces of gold per ton,
which is immensely higher than the gold content of ocean
water and a lot more practical to recover.
But even ordinary household refuse could yield up to 10
million tons of iron a year and one million tons of other
metals if all municipal incinerators utilized the devices
and techniques that now exist, or are being developed, to
separate salvageable materials from mixed wastes.
It will be exceedingly expensive to equip every com
munity in the country with the technology to “mine” our
man-made mountains.
Eventually it will be too expensive not to.
Boyhood Heroes
33 “ Bill
Hickok”
35 Short sleep
36 Narrow inlet
37 Cut
38 Convent
41 Miss West,
glamor girl
43 Sun
44 Pioneer fur
man
47 Akin
51 Sparkling
dress bit
53 Billiard ball
material
54 John (Gaelic)
55 Grain
56 Curt
57 Clumsy boat
58 American
humorist
59 Sea eagle
DOWN
1 Site of
Biblical
miracle
2 All (comb,
form)
3 Ate sparingly
ACROSS
1 “Buffalo Bill
5 “ the
Bootblack”
(Alger)
8“
Buntline”
(dime novels)
11 Vampire
12 Female sheep
13 Bullfight
cheer
14 Near the
center
15 Jack London’s
“The
17 Masters, as of
hotels (Fr.)
19 Aromatic
plant
20 Geologic time
division
21 Request
22 “ Dick”
26 Toiletry case
30 School subject
31 Swiss canton
32 Spanish
nobles
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Answer to Previous Puzile
27 Wrongful
illegal act
28 Unicorn fish
29 Danube
tributary
34 Devil
39 Blue mineral
40 Drool
42 Gaseous
element
44 Continent
45 Box
46 Armored
Army vehicle
47 Plexus
48 Ripped
49 Gaelic
50 Coloring
agent
52 Deposit
4 Pungent weed
5 Hardy heroine
6 Be indebted
7 Beef and pork
for instance
8 Midday
9 Cloth
measures
10 Challenge
11 Blue pine
16 Roused from
sleep
18 State
formally
21 Fatty
22 Birds
23 Ireland
24 Tamarisk
salt tree
25 Verbal
BERRY’S WORLD
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"Now —one of the things that bothers me about 'the war
in Vietnam' is that they're beginning to call it 'the war
in INDOCHINA'!"
MY
ANSWER ,J)
Proof
Why don’t you present more
proof of the immortality of the
soul? What proof is there?
Please answer so that perhaps
we unbelievers can grasp it and
have something to cling to. N.K.
Life has its intangibles and its
tangibles. The intangibles can
not be proven; they are woven
into the fabric of our con
sciousness, and simply
assumed. They are, in a sense,
more real than the things which
can be proven scientifically.
I cannot prove love. It has
never been adequately defined.
It has never been scientifically
analyzed. It has never been
photographed. And yet, the
smallest child does not doubt its
existence. It is assumed, dis
cussed, and experienced by all.
So are the things of the Spirit.
I believe in immortality
because I have experienced it,
just as I have experienced love.
God, through Christ, took
eternity and placed it in my
heart. I feel in my being the
thrill of the future life. I am
more sure of immortality than I
am of most things I can see, feel
and touch.
And I believe in immortality
because my Lord said: “I am
the resurrection and the
life...whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never
die.” He experienced it, and He
says that all who trust in Him
shall live forever. I believe Him
because He is trustworthy.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Snorro was the first child
born to European parents
in America, The World
Almanac notes. He was the
son of Thorfinn Karlsefni
and Gudrid, the widow of
Leif Erickson’s brother
Thor stein. They arrived in
America with a party of
160 Norse volunteers to
form a settlement in Vin
land, which is believed to
have been located in Nova
Scotia or on the coast of
Maine.
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