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Toilets & Trash Baskets. The crowd voiced its feelings with acrimony on other subjects: unclean school toilets, school bus service, street trash baskets, abandoned trolley rails. But the people of Munjoy Hill did more than complain. By a show of hands, they worked out a compromise plan for night automobile parking on public streets: repeal of a present city ban except in winter when snow plows must reach the curbs. They decided they did not want to spend tax money on lights for a softball playing field...
...remaining incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party...
...governing committee of the All-India Congress Party in New Delhi last week, Nehru got annoyed at the way members threw banana skins on the floor. Quick-tempered Mr. Nehru got off his platform, and while lecturing members on cleanliness, picked up the skins, put them in trash baskets...
...Oakwood, Ohio, when the city tried to claim $7,220, found by five trash collectors in a city dump, on the grounds that all collected trash is city property, Judge Don Thomas awarded the money to its finders, because "U.S. currency is not in the category of waste paper or waste of any kind...
...sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...