SOME REVIEW — Straight out of the “Saturday Review,” a noted American magazine, came the following “Personals” ad: “Through an untoward happenstance I am unable to understand, a packet of 37 torrid love letters was placed in my overcoat pocket while it hung in the clothes rack on American Airlines flight 489 from Dallas to Columbus, Ohio, on March 21. My home situation would be greatly improved if the person who mistakenly deposited this packet would step forward and claim same. By an abominable coincidence, my name is also Irving.”
What luck you Irvings of the world have!
REAGAN STEPS OUT — Although a RR fan I’m not, it should be noted that the former Cal governor has done something constructive by announcing his presidential aspirations. He has finally got President Ford talking about things Americans are interested in. And that is a big step forward.
AGAIN ON THE CAMPAIGN — Less than a month into the campaign for the ’76 presidency, there has already been an assassination scare. Unless this wave of terrorism in the U.S. is curbed, the Bicentennial year could be a bloody one indeed for Americans.
CLOSER TO HOME — If reports in recent issues of the Texarkana Gazette are correct, many local government bodies in the Texarkana area have been breaking state law by holding private meetings to discuss public business. You sophomores may recall that last year, heated debate occurred in which it was decided that all TCC student senate meetings would be open to the press, and public.
“CAT”ASTROPHE — It seems a landlord in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, was recently set afire often accidentally smothering a tenant’s cat.
The man was admitted to a hospital with burns of the chest and neck. The tenant had doused the landlord with lighter fluid and set him on fire after the tenant had discovered his cat had been smothered when the landlord rolled over it while sleeping. Stranger than fiction.
TALK ABOUT POETIC — Auckland, New Zealand — A bank robber here, upon discovering only one teller on duty, got away with over $10,000 in cash. The other tellers turned out to be at a seminar on crime prevention.
AS IF THE ECONOMY ISN’T BAD ENOUGH — Although many people may remember 1975 for being a terrible year for the world’s economy, or the year Patty Hearst was captured, to members of the British Goldfish society, it is going to go down as a “terrible year” for goldfish breeding.
Rare species of the commonest of pet fish throughout the world sold for upwards of $150, with one fish selling for over $2,000.
However, president of the society Roger Whittington, lamented, “The year 1975 will go down as the worst year in my experience for goldfish breeding.”
He credited it to the weather.
Something to remember this week’s MY TURN.
CLOSING, I quote Publius Syrus, “Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it.” For now…
BILLY BURTON