Drunk driver
| knows best

THE Syracuse Post-Standard
reports that a driver tired two
years earlier by Grevhound tor
drunk-driving was now
employed in Liverpool, New
York — as a driving instructor
at the Navional Tractor Trailer
School.

The driver had challenged
her firing, claiming she had
never driven a bus drunk,
despite the company’s con-
tention dit one time on the
job she was so drunk that she
urinated in her pants twice,

The Centers for Disease
Control bas reported the first
instance of HIV transmitted
not through sex or drugs but
through deep Kissing

However, doctors insisted
the transmitting agent was not
saliva but blood, Doctors said
that the man had gum disease,
canker sores and “hair-like
growths on his tongue,” and
the woman had bleeding
gums, but that the couple
nonetheless were very aflec-
tionate.

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It took a recovery team
two days to pull out the body
of a 23-year-old tourist who
slipped and fell over a scenic
waterfall at Waterton National
Park in Alberta.

During the two days, visi-
tors expecting to take in a
remarkably beautiful site were
forced to gaze also at the dead
body lodged in the rocks at
the bottom of the waterfall.

Moorhead, Minnesota —
Maria Garza has filed a
$50,000 lawsuit against her
landlord because bugs had so
thoroughly infested her apart-
ment in 1994 that allegedly
one crawled in her ear while
she was sleeping, and stayed for
a week before a doctor extract-
ed it.

The landlord’s lawyer said
the lawsuit is frivolous since
Garza is a migrant worker and
probably brought bugs with
her to Minnesota.

A judge in Des Moines,
fowa, turned down) nvo
inmates’ petitions for Jewish
ceremonies, citing the facts
that the men were nor Jews
when they came to prison and
don’t know ouch about
Jewish traditions, and the sus-
picion that the men were only
interested in Jewish ceremoni-
aj fruits and shawls, which are
helpful to inmates in, respec-
tively, making wine and stran-
gling people.

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NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Ar oa) recent) National
Organization for Women's
gathering in: Crah, Elizabeth
Joseph, an attorney, and Ellen
George, secretary of the
NOW Cah office, praised
multi-wife polygamy as an
alternative for feminists, an
idea that Was a few vears ago
denounced by NOW as slav-
ery.

Joseph fives informally in
such an arrangement with her
husband, six co-wives, and 20
children; some wives stay
home, and others work. Said
George, “We fight for lesbian
families and single-parent fam-
ilies. I don’t know why we
wouldn't support this.”

According to a Minneapolis
Star Tribune, the University of
Minnesota is seeking more
“specialists” to work on its
three-year, $390,000 program
to sec an “odor emissions rat-
ing system” for regulating the
state’s 35,000 animal feedlots.

Having judges, or govern-
ment officials, go sniff the
feedlots apparently would give
insufficient due process of law;
rather, a panel of sniffers will
develop objective standards on
the types of odors and their
strength. Already 35 people
are employed and have begun
sniffing the nearly 200 chemi-
cal components of cow and
pig manure in order to catego-
rize them for the formal state
stench test.

Scott and Sonya
Rutherford have filed a
$40,000 lawsuit against a
Houston school district
because the baseball coaches
at Cypress Fails High School
failed to use their son enough
as a pitcher to give him a
chance at a college athletic
scholarship.

The Rutherfords say thev
have been humiliated around
town by the coaches’ failure to
play their son. According to
the Ruthertords’ lawyer, the
coaches’ decision violates the

.S. Constitution.

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Eastern stars

KAARINA Moore (left to right), Georgina Joli and Estelle Howard raise cash for a good cause. Burrard Chapter
3, Order of the Eastern Star, holds a bazaar and luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 18, noon to 2 p.m. at the North
Lonsdale United Church, 3380 Lonsdale Ave. Proceeds go to a number of charities.

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