That got me thinking about the time, several years ago, when Al dropped by the Times office around lunch time, and I shared my bologna and crackers with the U.S. Representative.
Wouldn't it be something if he was elected president of the U.S. some day? He'd probably remember that ‘meal' he shared with me, and would likely give me a cabinet appointment, and put me in charge of the ‘boloney brigade'.
Well, I'll say one thing; I don't know anybody who is more qualified to be a bologna inspector than I am. I'll bet I've eat no less than five tons of it in my lifetime.
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Ole grouchy Pauline Ramsey called me up late last week to inform me that Mrs. Nevie Thomas was 99 years old and not 94 or 95, as I started in this column last week. Also, Edith Walsh, of the Courts Hotel in Red Springs informed me that Mrs. Nevie resided at the Counts, and not Cloyd's Country Inn, as I stated. Sorry for the errors.
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Went home from work Monday night and wife Catherine was all excited and said, “Guess what happened?”. I thought she was going to tell me I had won a million dollars, or something, but instead, she had broken three eggs and all three contained double yokes. Now that really thrilled me.
But the best was yet to come. As is my usual work routine,I returned to the office after supper Monday night, and about 15 minutes later, in walked Catherine holding a paper cup. Would you believe she had broken another egg, just to see if it contained two yokes, and sure enough, that made four in a row for her.
Jimmy Durham remarked the odds had to be one in at least one in a million. My only comment was, “Hope you aren't planning on me eating all them eggs, are you?”
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I receive this little newsletter each week, from the Research Institute of New York City, and I think I'll pass along a few of the predictions they are making for the upcoming months:
• Social Security will become the single most pressing item, and Congress will do whatever it can to fudge making clear choices. Interfund borrowing, etc., will keep the pension checks moving; but the issue is coming to a head, despite Congress' wishes. New ideas will emerge, with a greater reliance on personal savings, private pension plans, and curbs on benefits paid to the wealthy.
• The ten percent July tax cut will go through, if Reagan wants it to; the votes to override his vetoes simply do not exist in the Senate.
• Can a five cent hike in gasoline tax save the nation's highways? Transportation Secretary Lewis thinks so, and is trying to persuade Reagan. The president opposes any and all tax hikes. Nevertheless less, it might go.
• A nickel a gallon gas tax would net the government $5.5 billion a year. Lewis wants to use four cents to repair highways, and a penny for mass transit. That's only enough for a patching job, but it's better than nothing.
• Want something to blame if this winter's weather is frigid? Try a “monster” cloud of volcanic ash from a Mexican “explosion” on March 8 and April 5 of this year. Meteorologists say the two clouds of debris circling the earth could lower average global temperatures as much as one degree F., in 1983. Couple those predictions with the forecasts of a much colder winter and the cold season in 1982-83, could be a lula of a “deep freeze”.
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