page 16 - March 23, 1977 - North Shore News Belly buttons is shur interestin!! F’ rinstance, AIN’T THERE! Where it wus, things have gone sorta accordion like, wich explains why | punched anuther hole in my belt jest recent...an why the wife is sayin’ I shud. start doin’ push-ups—startin’ at the. table! Enyways, | there — ain’t nuthin’ on the TV except fer wot to spray on yur armpits or fer fixin’ piles wot itch, so. I settles back fer a quiet think, wich is alus good an ain’t gorie up in price lately. Seems to me that. with sumthin’ that costs not a dang cent an don’t wear out, the Guv’mint shud make more use of it...but they even trip over their feet ‘wen it cums to belly buttons! F’rinstance, the Thanks- - giving chicken didn’t have no belly button, near as I can recall...unless the ~ wife’s relatives et it wen they cum over. Also, wile I’m chasin’ fer the soap wich has been improved so’s it don’t float anymore, it gets real mind- boggling to think about Dinny Sores stompin’ . an -thrashin’ arount a_ few millyun yeres ago...AN NOT A GOLDANG ONE OF ‘EM HAD A BELLY BUTTON! _ . Well, sir, wen it cum to Adam and Eve, this — belly button thing gives. the eccliastikul fellers the Heebie-Jeebies! Vm_ settin’ bathtub t’uther nite, wen I looks down AN IT an soakin’ UTE JHQONENUNUEEUUAGEAAUENUEUUUUUTOGGOERENUUAEEAAL Y’see, wearin’ them col-. lars front-to-back must have _cut off a littel blood to the think bones, becus wen it cum to beliy buttons on ' Adam and Eve; they rund into a real contradicksun! If you wus to look up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you wud see that Michel- angelo put a real genuine | belly button on Adam and Eve...an Raphael has a cupple paintings of Adam in the Vatican, complete with belly button. © It gets real tricky wen you. figger they wus both wor- king’ fer a real HIGH CLASS | STRAW BOSS...Pope Julius Il and Pope Leo X. ras a Y’see, wen thinkin’ about belly buttons an Dinny Sores, a politis-- hun’s thinkin’ starts with the Increases in the Old Age Security pension, Guaran- teed Income Supplement and Spouse's Allowance,. effec- tive in April, 1977, have been -announced by Health and Welfare Minister ~-Marc Lalonde. Increases in Old Age Security pension and Guar- anteed Income Supplement payments represent the four- teenth quarterly escalation based on the cost of living, as provided for in the Old Age Security Act The new monthly total at the single rate for persons receiving both the basic Old Age Sccurity pension and maximum Guaranteed In- come Supplement will be $244.08. For a married couple, both pensioners, the combination of the basic pension and maximum supplement will provide a payment of $465.62 for the couple monthly, The basic Old Age Security pension will rise in April to $143.46 from the present $141.34. The Guaranteed Income Supplement is paid to pen- sioners whose income, apart from the Old Age Security pension, is limited. The amount of the supplement varies. in relation to the amount of income. The maximum Guaranteed Income Supplement for a single person, or a married person whose spouse is not a pensioner and is not receiv- ing a Spouse's Allowance, will go up in April to $100.62 from its current $99,13. The maximum supplement for a married couple, both pensioners, will increase. to $89.35 cach from. $88.03. Added to the basic pension, this will give each married pensioner $232.81 monthly, or a total of $465.62 for the couple. The Spouse’s Allowance is paid to persons between 60 and 65 years of age who are married to Old Age Sccurity pensioners and mect resi- dence requirements. Entitle- ment to a Spouse’s Allow- ance, and the amount paid, is based on yeariy income. The maximum Spouse's Allowance will increase to $232.81 from $229.37. The maximum Spouse's Allow- ance is made up of an amount equivalent to the basic Old Ape Security pension and the maximum Guaranteed Income Supple- ment at the married rate. in the. it cums to Dinny Sores—a yeres ago! — Like, f’rinstance, Repre- sentative Durham of North Carolina, who wus Chairman ~ of a sub-committee of the U.S. House Military Affairs Committee, back tn 1944. Seems like two Professors of Columbia University worked up a thirty-page ~ booklet called ‘‘The Races of Mankind,’’ wich seems to heve heen aimed at the UU, Ss, Armed Forces, so’ s they cud millyun tell’ where the. feller cum frum, before they shot him. . f . oe The ‘trubble wus, an illustrashun showed Adam> and Eve with belly buttons... so Congress voted agin’ it! — Like I sed at the beginning —a politishun’s thinkin’ starts with the Dinny Sores... an. they can even trip over belly buttons! 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