Letter to the Editor

Yammering

Monday, March 15, 2010

Dear Editor,

I hear on the radio ... $1 today would be worth 2 cents in 1933. I remember five hamburgers for $1, 10 cents for a loaf of bread, 25 cents, even nickel bids at auctions.

At the Lena Scrivner auction, no one bid on a bunch of stuff. I said I'll give you a dollar for a dictionary (it was declined)! Other stuff around sold for $2.50, I bought the dictionary for $1 from a buyer. Were Lena Scrivner's heirs entitled to the dollar?

I suggest, when yammering -- oops, did I invent a word? (The time while an auctioneer is chanting, no bids are made!) -- if anyone hollers "dollar," (display item) yammer once! Sell quick!

"Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." Romans 12:11.

Frank Sowers,

Benkelman

P.S. Health care reform is baloney. They want to pile more taxes on us.

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