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...Jefferson City repose three old cannon from bygone wars. Every time that Ralph Coghlan, a ruddy, owlish man who breathes fire and snorts the editorial page of the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thought about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...
Last week he took matters into his own hands. While planting some locust trees in his garden he discussed the cannon with a tree surgeon, one Sidney Stearns. Ralph Coghlan said he was "very serious" about wanting those cannon on the scrap pile. Upshot: Arborist Stearns agreed to get a friend and remove the cannon; Editor Coghlan agreed to pay the expenses. Further upshot: when Stearns and. friend tried to uproot the cannon they were arrested. The case was suddenly complicated when police found a loaded revolver, a full can of gasoline and a sixth tire in Stearns...
Winner of a scrap-collecting contest for New Mexico schoolchildren was Connie Davis, 13, of Carlsbad. California Shipbuilding Corp. readied the prize: a girl's wrist watch, a chance to christen the Liberty ship Archbishop Lamy. Then someone discovered Connie...
Last week Connie, stopped by seafarers' traditions against male ship sponsors, looked on while his runner-up smashed a champagne bottle across the Archbishop Lamy's bow. Said he: "Well, I'd have collected the scrap anyhow. I had two brothers captured on Bataan...
...scrap drive is the sort of thing most students file away with the things they'd finish when they tie loose ends before leaving college. These days, that eventuality may arise rather often, and, just as before, the scrap solicitors are just as eager to accept the old clothes as in past years...