Picket

In Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass!"

Matches

In Worcester, Mass., the County Jail distributed to prisoners a shipment of paper matches, aluminum grey & black, with the institution's label neatly printed on the cover.

Hike

In Lynn, Mass., newshawks spied War Veteran Michael Collins, his dog, Madame Queen, and his duck, Mac, hiking along the road to Maine. Explaining he wanted treatment at the Togus, Me., soldiers' home, Veteran Collins said he, Madame Queen and Mac had hiked all the way from Phoenix, Ariz, in a year.

$1

In Pontiac, Mich., 24-year-old Jerold E. Oaks obtained a marriage license, paid for it with a silver dollar--first money he ever earned. Said he: "It was my pay for a day's work on a golf course when I was only ten. I prized it so much that I kept it until I could find the most that a dollar could buy."

Perfect

In Boston, when Surgeon Dennis Leo Black, 54, was rated perfect on a routine physical examination, he joked with his secretary, mockingly pounded his chest, dropped dead.

Mustache

In Miami, H. H. Farr awoke to find his pillow spotted with blood, a tiny cut in his nose, deduced that in his sleep he had punctured himself with his stiffly waxed mustache.

Twins

In Chicago, passengers on a transcontinental TW Airliner blinked as Pilot Maurice Williams and Hostess Margaret Stuecken went off duty, turned their jobs over to their twins, Merrill Williams and Marjorie Stuecken.

Menace

At Gloucester, Mass., Coast Guardsmen laboriously towed a dead and odorous 60-ton whale off Bass Rock Beach seven miles to sea, were chagrined that evening to see the whale in Gloucester Harbor, towed in again by a public-spirited yachtsman to remove a menace to navigation.

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