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Town Without Water. All this spells financial disaster for some cattlemen, although there are many who have shored up their financial position out of the huge profits of recent years. Eventually, consumers all over the U.S. will feel the effects. Although beef prices are down at the butcher shops now because of the market glut, premature marketing and sale of foundation herds are likely to lead to serious beef shortages and high prices in the months ahead...
...HOUSEWIFE once asked her butcher why he charged 50? a Ib. for hamburger when the man down the street advertised it for 10?. Retorted the butcher: "Why don't you buy your hamburger there?" "I tried to," she replied, "but he was all out." Said the butcher: "Well, when I don't have any hamburger, I sell...
...hormones, and 95% of prostate cancers shrink (though 75% later become active again). "Of course we never use the word castration," he says. "It has bad psychological connotations. It's like a doctor who is about to take out your appendix saying, 'I'm going to butcher you up.' " Sometimes Surgeon Huggins does remove the testicles, but often their hormones can be neutralized, without operation, by a female hormone...
Ruffles & Flourishes. In East Molesey, England, Butcher Shop Executive Stan Richards and his bride, after a formal wedding, left the church under an arch of soupbones held aloft by 14 meatcutters...
Raymond I. (for Ingram) Smith is a 66-year-old ex-Vermonter, ditchdigger and news butcher who got his start in business running a carnival wheel of fortune and is now a leading citizen of Nevada. Every year Smith hands out $90,000 or more in scholarships to deserving high-school seniors, another $100.000 or so to such organizations as the Boy Scouts and Community Chest. The Reno Day Home, a nursery run by Catholic sisters, is a Smith philanthropy; the local Methodist Church paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church...