Screwy Squirrel on Head". When he finishes, the dog remarks, "Gee whiz! He hit me with !" Screwy responds with, "Well, don't want to disappoint you, chum," then pulls out that very item and bashes him over the head with it. The final cartoon in the series, "Lonesome Lenny", a broad parody of the characters of George and Lenny from the John Steinbeck novel "Of Mice and Men", ended with a joking reference to indicate that Screwy had been "crushed" to death by his antagonist, who commented "You know, I had a little friend once, but he don't move no more." Both
John Steinbeck Library funding, saved the library. Had the libraries closed, Salinas would have been the largest city in the United States without a library. John Steinbeck Library The John Steinbeck Library is a public library in Salinas, California. The library was named after writer John Steinbeck in 1969. The library held the Steinbeck archives until 1998 when they were transferred to the new National Steinbeck Center. The library made national headlines in 2004 and 2005 when it, along with the two other libraries in Salinas, were on the verge of closing because of insufficient funding. In 2005, a nationally covered read-in drew