Uncle Joe's Mint Balls usually a sealed can, describes its contents as "pure and good", and "They keep you all aglow" and carries a picture of the mascot, a smiling man in a top hat. British singer/songwriter and humorist Mike Harding has a song called "Uncle Joe's Mint Balls" on his 1975 album "Mrs. 'Ardin's Kid". It also appeared as the B side to his 1975 single "My Brother Sylveste". Wigan Warriors have a version of the song celebrating some of its legendary rugby players of the 1950s and 60s such as Billy Boston, Brian McTigue and Eric Ashton that plays before some of
Joe D. Smith Jr. careers or businesses." Smith said that "a home-owned newspaper has a responsibility to try to improve the community, not for business reasons alone, but also for the welfare of the citizens." Central Newspapers, originally held by Eugene S. Pulliam, the uncle of former Vice President Dan Quayle, held "The Town Talk" for only four years; the company itself was sold in 2000 to the Virginia-based Gannett Company. Joe D. Smith Jr. Joe Dorsey Smith Jr. (April 6, 1922 – March 20, 2008), was the former general manager, president, publisher, and chairman of the board of the "Alexandria Daily Town Talk"