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Putting His Foot Down. In Carthage, S.Dak., when the city auditor sent out notices for dog licenses addressed to the dogs, Vergil Herron followed suit, sent back a check for the license signed with the paw print...
Black is so generous with his 1,000 employees, whose personnel manager is onetime Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, that he gives them 10% of his profits as a Christmas bonus. But his big-scale generosity began in 1957, when his chief company auditor contracted Parkinson's disease, joining 1,500,000 other U.S. victims. Black promptly launched the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. He has given the foundation $250,000-just part of the total $1,000,000 that he had already given to medical causes before his outright gift to Columbia...
This Easter week, in a custom 438 years old, elderly men and women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
Misogynist? In Milwaukee, County Auditor Robert Boos submitted the annual report of the annuity and pension board, commented, "There were fewer deaths among women service pensioners than expected. In other respects, however, the experience was favorable...
...situation is actually far from humorous. It's silly, but it's not funny when the Defense Department declines to tell the General Accounting Office about "secret" defense expenditures until the GAO's auditor proves his "need to know." Security has apparently become the last refuge of bureaucracy...