bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) (09/23/85)
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EDITOR: BOB "STP" NEBERT VOL # IX 9/23/85 PRICE: WHATEVER YA PAY
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Ed Hammer thought he had hit on something when he began pouring beer on
his corn crop. "I was just laying in bed one night and thought,'Why not
beer?' What would happen" said Ed. So the 67 year old farmer bought $100
worth of beer, planted three rows of corn inside a 10 foot fiberglass hut,
and laid in a different brew for each row.
And then as if in a frenzy of inebriation the plants began shooting up.
Well, thought Hammer, if a little is good, more is better and began dousing
the corn plants. It seems corn is very much like humans, and the plants
headed for skid row. The ears, once so full of promise, turned out failures.
.....FILLING IN HISTORY
A tooth containing the world's oldest dental filling has been found in
the skull of a Nabatean warrior in Jerusalem buried there 2200 years ago.
A bronze wire was inserted into the canal in an attempt to stop
"toothworms", an old belief that worms caused cavities. The tooth turned
green from oxidizing of the bronze. Death may have come as a relief,
because the one-tenth of an inch bronze wire caused great pain.
"This guy's mouth was a mess," said Joe Zias, curator of Israel's
Department of Antiquities, "He had four abscesses, two impacted teeth,
an extra tooth in front and an enlarged molar."
.....ARMY TO BUY SGT. YORK PARTS
Even though the Army canceled the Sgt. York defense gun program, it
will end up buying parts of 81 more of the weapon beyond the 65 that
already have been delivered.
.....TODDLER MISTAKENLY RETURNED TO ABDUCTOR ...story of the week
Welfare workers mistakenly returned a kidnapped Maryland boy to his
abductor instead of his parents.
The child, 21-month old Michael Fitzgibbon, was reunited Sunday with
his real mother, from Waldorf MD, after a six-week odyssey with Tammy Giles
a hitchhiking 14 year-old baby sitter. Workers did not question Giles
about her age because "there are many 14 year old kids that can pass to
be older...Plus we do have people that age that have childers in this
town,".
Police records show that on August 14, four days after Giles arrived
in Dallas, the child was found wandering on a busy south Dallas street.
Police turned him over to Welfare workers. The following day, the boy
was returned to Giles because she could identify the boy and the boy
seened to know her. Michael was left in Giles' care by his 15 year old
sister, an aquaintance of Giles.
Giles faces extradition as a juvenile on Maryland charges of kid-
napping and abduction.
.....PANEL OK'S RAISING DEBT
The Senate Finance Committee, heeding a Reagan administration warning
that the Treasury soon will run out of cash, voted to raise the national
debt limit, by a voice vote, to above $2 TRILLION.
.....CITY CAN'T BEAR NOT TO WATCH
California has its whale watch, Pennsylvania its groundhog watch. This
summer Minnesota has a bear watch.
More than 30 bears have been seen this summer in the Duluth area, twice
the usual number. The bears have made uninvited visits to homes, frightened
a number of people and upended garbage cans. Up to 20 bears have been shot
by the Department of Natural Resources. One of the bears shot was a 350
pounder that crashed into a house where a woman was showering. (is that
you Yogi?)
"They sat in somebody's yard for about half an hour, munching on
raspberry bushes and generally having a good time," said Bear Affairs
Director Rory Strange.