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In the spirit of Bill Geist, highways and byways correspondent for CBS' Sunday Morning, CBS' evening newscast, too, likes to profile an occasional offbeat tourist attraction. Sharyl Attkisson, of late, has taken an unfortunate sanctimonious tone against porkbarrel spending for the Museum of Teapots in North Carolina and the Museum of Prisons in Kansas. So it was refreshing to see Steve Hartman revert to a folksier touch on Assignment America as the Iowa town of Traer has decided to invest $13,000 in 84-year-old Ruth Rasmussen's shaker collection, started in 1949, for its Museum of Salt & Pepper. "The bar for what makes a tourist attraction is set pretty low around her," mused Hartman. Traer's shakers are up against "Brandon's giant frying pan."
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