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What to do? Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats to appear...
...families made 20 kills a night, and the bounty fund was depleted within a week. To continue his war on rats, Stemberk wrote President Carter for federal aid. The alderman also wants the President to put Government scientists to work developing a new poison-one powerful enough to kill Ward 22's super rats...
...been gyrating from month to month and even week to week. In the past three weeks, the money supply first grew by $3 billion, then dropped $800 million, then rose another $2 billion (to a seasonally adjusted daily average of $331.6 billion). In an effort to ward off inflationary pressures, the Federal Reserve will have to try to hold down the growth, and that will push interest rates up further-how far and fast is unclear...
...Dracula: an "undead" creature refuses to lie still in the grave, sustaining himself, between sunset and sunrise, on the blood of innocent mortals. This Anti-Christ dooms his victims to flock in his unearthly host forever; they become "flesh of his flesh." Only herbs or holy objects can ward him off, and only a stake through his heart can end his lecherous career. The story is terrifically titillating: all that sacrilege and perverse sexuality to relish...
...crafty murderess Velma Keily, "The Girls" admit to the rather hideous murders of various husbands, lovers and cheaters with the cruel excuse "They had it coming, they had it coming." Roxie fears all is lost until she is taken under the wing of the ward matron Mama, who for a small fee, is pleased to point her in the direction of a cunning and flashy lawyer named Billy Flynn...