Government
Marches On!
by Jack Ryan
I he Montana senate sol
emnly voted to make the ponder
osa pine the state's official tree,
only to discover that the ponder
osa had been the state tree since
1949.
Mayor Francis Berry of
Libertyville, 111., proclaimed a
"Kick Week" in which citizens
were invited to complain about
village services. On the first day
of "Kick Week" the mayor left for
a fishing trip to Canada.
A letter intended for the
director of intelligence of Pakistan
was mistakenly addressed to "The
Intelligent Officer." The letter
came back marked, "The govern
ment of Pakistan does not have
an Intelligent Officer."
A history teacher in Gra
ham, N. C, got into hot water
when he gave students a test with
the question, "The Graham city
council is largely composed of
(A) Idiots; (B) Ignoramuses; (C)
Ne'er-do-wells; (D) You call it,
you got it."
Henry Robeck was ac
cepting congratulations on his
election as mayor of Irondale,
Colo., when officials discovered the
voters also had decided to abolish
the town and the office of mayor.
Government officials in
Rangoon, Burma, found docks and
warehouses choked with more rice
than the nation could use for
years, so they traded it for cement
from another country. Result:
docks and warehouses in Rangoon
were choked with more cement
than Burma could use for a decade.
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