In the sleeve notes to 'PHIL OCHS The Broadside Tapes Part 1', (which incidentally were written by Paul Kaplan who himself recorded a song he'd written about Phil, which I am currently trying to get a copy of), there is an article from The N.Y.Post 1977 about Alferd Packer and a plaque honouring him which was placed in The Agricuture Departmentr's cafeteria. The plaque had been removed, presumably because someone complained that it was in bad taste, (oops, sorry for the pun!)and "a bunch of Packer Buffs were stewing over it!" (not my pun!). The Agriculture Secretary was quoted as saying that when the judge passed sentence on Alferd Packer he had said "There was only six Democrats in all of Minsdale County. and you, you man eating son of a bitch, you ate five of them. - I sentence you to hang by the neck until you're dead, dead, dead, as a warning against further reducing the Democratic population in this county." (Exagerated maybe, but my favourite version).

The article goes on to say that members of the Colorado chapter of 'The Friends of Alferd Packer',whose membership card carries a picture of Alferd and the caption "I never met a meal I didn't like!" were protesting the sign's removal.