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From Missouri came a request that the sheriff in Austin, Minn., arrest Ramona Van Oster and hold her for extradition on a charge of passing a bad check. She was promptly jailed. Her alleged crime: writing a $3.39 check on a closed bank account, which is a felony in Missouri. She made the check good and the charges were dropped. The sheriff then angrily announced that he would send Missouri a bill for $460, which was the cost of keeping her in jail five days and paying for her court-appointed lawyer. Said he: "This is one of the reasons...
...Carole McClellan, 39, is something of a lone star among big-city mayors. A former civics teacher and school district trustee, she oversees not only the 353,400 people and 120 sq. mi. of her home town of Austin but also a household of four sons, aged eleven to 16. McClellan starts the morning with a dawn breakfast followed by car-pool duty to get the children to school, works all day with Austin's city manager and six-member council, and hurries home to cook dinner for her children (she is a divorcee). She then returns to city hall...
...gradually introduce it into the U.S. Perhaps in five years people may be able to buy it throughout the country, for a penny or so more a bottle than Coke or Tab, because it is costlier to make and the company aims to profit. Moving faster would be hard, Austin points out, because Coca-Cola is already at full production with its regular soft drinks...
...doesn't Austin bid for a Government subsidy to give Samson away, much as milk is handed out in school lunch programs? Anybody knows that if Coke tried for that, the milk lobby would raise hell. The company also has to be careful about trumpeting the product as a good-for-you drink because consumers-particularly the poor-might be suspicious...
...good news, then, is that a powerful marketer has come up with a cheap and tasty product that can do much to whip malnutrition. The frustrating fact, however, is that Austin & Co. feel constrained to go slow by politics and the realities of the marketplace...