today's
laugh
"That fellow is too slick for me.
Sold me a lot that was two feet under water. I went
around and demanded my money back."
"Did you get it?"
"Get nothing. He sold me a
motorboat.
"Mr. Jones," a man asked his
tailor, "how is it you have not called on me for my
account?"
"Oh, I never ask a gentleman for
money."
"Indeed! How, then, do you get on
if he doesn’t pay?"
"Why," replied the tailor,
hesitating, "after a certain time I conclude he is
not a gentleman and then I ask him."
"I made some very valuable
contacts today," said one salesman to another.
"I didn’t make any sales,
either," was the reply.
1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
Here’s a War Egg Right.
Over in Worth county an ambitious hen
has produced a war egg which lays every other one so far
reported in the shade. The old lady who owns the
aforesaid hen went out one day to gather eggs and found
one bearing the cabalistic letters "G.S.H." The
find created much excitement among the women of the
neighborhood who agreed it was prophetic of something but
what it was puzzled them.
One lady suggested it meant "Give
Sinners Help." Another suggested that it meant
"God Sends Help." Still another said it meant
that "Good Saves Heathens." Yet another
declared it meant that "God Sends Harmony."
Finally one old lady, noted for her
religious devotion who had been sayin little, sprang to
her feet and vehemently declared the letters stood for
"Give Spain Hell." All present agreed that her
interpretation was correct.
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Today's Feature Budget Still Fat.
City Department budget requests
made it through the initial cutting phase of the
Budget Committee hearing without any serious
deletions on Monday evening. Budget requests from
all departments, outside agencies and capital
improvements total almost $3 million more than
the estimated available funds for next year.
Some large engineering projects
were "put on hold" that would
drastically reduce the difference, but nothing
was actually voted on during the meeting.
Discussion of reducing Police
Department requests prompted Chief Ellefsen to
deliver his traditional observations about the
fallacy of funding outside agencies at the
expense of basic government services.
Budget Chair Jackie Boyer told
Ellefsen that cuts to outside agency requests
would be dealt with later.
Committee member Mike Harris
raised questions about the lack of a long term
policy dealing with sidewalks in the City. A
budget request of $70,000 for City owned sidewalk
repair and $30,000 for other sidewalk repair has
been made. Budget hearings continue Thursday at 7
p.m.
H.E. Williams/Union Disagree
Union workers at H.E. Williams,
Inc. began picketing lines yesterday morning
after rejecting the company’s final contract
offer. According to a new release by H.E.
Williams, the offer provided employees an
immediate average wage increase of eleven percent
that would have put hourly wage rates at $7 to
$14 per hour.
According to information
supplied by the company, negotiations broke down
over the company’s request that current
employees start paying $5 per week towards family
health insurance coverage. Currently employees
pay nothing for individual or family coverage.
It was reported that management
was assisting in production yesterday and
production was continuing at nearly one hundred
percent.
The strike involves the IBEW
(Assembly and Paint) and IAM (Machinists) unions.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
Mayor Ken Johnson has been
attendin’ the budget hearin’s this
year. Haven’t seen that in the last six
or eight years. Although he is mainly
observin’, he has spoke up a couple a
times to clarify a particular point or two.
Johnson has gone through this process before
as a Council member, but this Council has
several new members, a new Budget Committee
Chair, and a new City Administrator in the
mix. I’m not sayin’ there is
anything wrong with this year’s process,
it’s just different in a general sense.
Seems ta have a little nervous edge of sorts.
I’m sure as the hearings progress,
things will get in the grove and a
definin’ form will take place.
Bastin has not attended
since he left the first meetin’ in a
huff over not bein’ recognized to speak.
Former Council member Lujene Clark was
present Monday.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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Building Your Community
The U.S. Chamber has launched a
national campaign to urge employers and employees
to register and vote entitled "Register,
Vote, Make A Difference For Business." The
1998 elections will be critical to implementing a
pro-business agenda and we are encouraging all
state and local chambers, trade and professional
associations, and the business community to
implementing a pro-business agenda and we are
encouraging all state and local chambers, trade
and professional associations, and the business
community to join us as partners in this effort.
The campaign will focus on three areas -
Registration, Education, and Mobilization.
Registration - It has been
estimated that as high as 50% eligible voters are
not even registered! Education - An ongoing
education process is critical to an informed
electorate. The campaign will work to show the
connection between key business issues and
paychecks. Mobilization - Initiatives will be
undertaken to mobilize voters turn out at the
polls and cast their ballots. Already more than
600 organizations have joined with us as partners
in the Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) effort.
In a recent speech U.S. Chamber
President and CEO Tom Donohue asked every Member
of Congress to spend at least two days each year
working in a small or medium size business or
doctor's office. He noted that by accepting the
challenge, the member of Congress will experience
first hand the challenges and costs of federal
mandates.
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