Scratch 'Harry Baals' off list of names for government center

[Molly Robinson]

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire.

Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won't be enough to put the name of the city's longest-tenured mayor on the center.

The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41480994/ns/us_news-weird_news/

 

[Mervyn]

Who wouldn't vote for someone named Harry Baals ?

If it's really such a problem, then they can simply call it the H.B. Centre. Which would be much better than naming it after the deputY Mayor's Initials of B.M.

 

[papasmerf]

I am shocked that Harry Baals beat out Dick Likker Center for Government.

 

[Rono]

Don't be so hard on the guy. He would be quite blue over all this fuss.

 

[Rono]

What are you, some kind of a nut job? It's not like Harry Baals' gonna hang around there anyways.

Look, I was only joking, why you so testy?

 

[Never Compromised]

I don't understand this thread. You guys are nuts.