March 12, 1958

More people than usual are collecting their unemployment insurance and
inevitably new pressures are added to a transaction that is always
difficult–handing out public money. And so complaints are
reverberating.

A woman who worked steadily for four years at an aircraft factory was
recently laid off and has been collecting her compensation.

She has been cashing the vouchers at a bank. Recently, under the new
policy of cashing them at the unemployment office, she presented her
slip for an OK.

The clerk pointed out severely that her card hadn’t been stamped for
two months, indicating that she had not been interviewed for employment
possibilities as required.

The woman replied truthfully that no one had told her the stamp was necessary.

The clerk went into a tirade and called the manager who, after scrutiny, approved it.

The woman went a couple of windows down the line and came under the
glare of another clerk who sullenly checked it and finally cashed it.

The woman has become so intimidated she now fears Friday, the day she gets her check.

She is not alone. In fact there’s quite a chorus of jobless people who
resent the implication that everyone who collects unemployment
compensation is a chiseler.

Unfortunately a few are and they make it tough on the others.

DID YOU HEAR about
the man who came home without his pay because he’d been taken in a
poker game? His wife grabbed a rolling pin and said, "Lead me to your
taker."

INSTEAD OF PAYMENT, Pacific Telephone received this note from a subscriber on East Adams Boulevard:

"My mother is out of the city. Will pay Feb. 13 bill as soon as she
comes back within a week. I fargot and spent the money for a baseball
glove to warm up far the dodger.

Billy

P.S.: I will pay her back when she gives my allounce. I won’t ever do it again. Thank you."

QUOTE & UNQUOTE — Paul
Drus catches himself singing softly, "Oh where, oh where, did our
satellite go? Oh where, oh where can it be?" … Phil Girten saw this
sign on Van Ness Avenue Monday, "Silky Sullivan for Mayor" … Ruth
Shartel of Glendale says we really shouldn’t condemn the sack dress,
it’s the comedy relief for the hectic times we live in … Joe E.
Brown, emcee at the Hollywood Women’s Press Club clambake for gents of
the press yesterday, thanked the gals for their efforts in his behalf.
"I’ve never complained when they wrote something about me that wasn’t
so," he confided, "because they have said so many wonderful things
about me that weren’t true I guess it evened things up."

AT RANDOM — No
question about it, the Detroit chrome boys are belatedly concerned
about the foreign car invasion. Loran Smith, who acquired a Renault six
months ago, received a four-page questionnaire from the National
Research Institute there asking why he bought it and if he had it to do
over again would he and so on … The Animal Regulation Department
report for February lists the year’s first mole and seal bites …
Observes Frank Goldberg: The worst thing that could happen to the
Indian is for the Lone Ranger to get married … A passenger remarked
to Betty Dixon, driver of a Beverly Boulevard bus, "Don’t you think
L.A. people are about the most inconsiderate you ever saw?" "On the
contrary," replied Betty, "I’ve driven buses all over the country–I do
it on my vacations sometimes–and I’d say people here are the best
behaved anywhere." So there.