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Teresa Cardina of Buffalo, New York, handles the emergency -
dial 911 - phone at police headquarters. Late one night she received
a call, but the only sound she heard when she picked up the phone was
heavy breathing and tapping sound. She gets a certain number of crank
calls at the police complaint desk, but somehow felt this call was not
one of those.

It would have been easy just to hang up, but 26 year old Miss
Cardina said, "If you need help, tap once for yes and twice for no".
There came a single tap. Somewhere in the city a human being needed
help - but where? Teresa told the caller she would recite the alphabet
and to tap when she came to the first letter of the caller's street.
Then of course she had to go through all the streets beginning with
that letter and finally the street number. Soon she had an address -
Melbourne Street on Buffalo's west side.

A few minutes later a squad car and ambulance arrived at the home
of a 75 year old woman who was having trouble breathing because of a
throat operation that prevented her from speaking. Happy ending because
of a young lady who went that extra step in doing her job. Teresa Cardina
must be a nice person.

Another happy ending story took place in Colorado this last December.
A family-owned business, the Coors Brewing Company, has been undergoing
a strike for almost two years. I don't know the cause of the strike,
but I do know the Coors family, as an employer, has been generous and
thoughtful to its employees. It was no surprise, therefore, when the
great majority of workers refused to abide by the union's call to strike
and kept right on reporting for work. The union responded with a hurtful,
nationwide boycott of Coors products. Both the union and Coors asked
the N.L.R.B. for an election. The results were announced last December
15th -- 71 percent of the company's employees voted against their own union.

This next story is a good news - bad news item. Probably nothing is
more visible as a mark of our continuing inflation than the changing prices
of food items in our markets. Indeed the average housewife can be excused
if her daily marketing leaves her with the impression that food for the
table is where inflation is at. The truth is since 1960 the price of
food as a percent of earnings has gone down 21 percent. The bad news is
the cost of government as a percentage of earnings has gone up 20 percent.

An item that helps explain government's increasing cost comes from
the Los Angeles County welfare director. Just 18 years ago Los Angeles
County, which has 40 percent of California's population, had 22,000
families getting assistance from the Aid for Dependent Children program.
Today there are 170,000 families getting such aid and 37,000 of these
are second generation - children who grew up on welfare, married and set
up housekeeping as a new family unit eligible for public assistance.
Another reason for government costs increasing has to do with Washington's
"buddy system". Representative John Brademas, Chairman of the House,
Education & Labor Committee, which has jurisdiction over the. National
Endowment for the Humanities, found himself in a tough campaign last
November. Joseph Duffey, head of the National Endowment, just happened
by the Congressman's district with a $425,000 grant for two colleges
prior to the election.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>01/19/[[Radio1979|1979]]</TD></TR>
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