Hey, here's an idea for how you can reduce the number of employees you have to offer early outs to --

Just increase sales.

Here's how. Just change the name from The News & Observer to the News & Enkwirer (note the clever spelling to avoid possible lawsuits from the "real" Enkwirer -- your new readers will never notice the difference).

Here's the big money-maker: Print more stories like that trash on the lady who gave her husband a "gift" for 365 days ("Her husband got it every day," news story, April 28). Your supermarket sales will surely get more attention. Just make sure to put these "news" stories on the front page with big headlines. Get that boring stuff about the war and economy and politics out of the way somewhere in the back.

Raymond Lefrancois

Garner