Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons.

Solid Proposition. In Sedro-Woolley, Wash., J. E. Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE--George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with him. . . ."

Red-Point Prize. In Hot Springs, Va., meat-conscious officials of the 16th annual Bath County Horse Show decided that the grand prize this season would be a steer instead of a pony.

Night Work. In San Diego, George A. Scott stopped to peer into an air-raid shelter on his way home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison ivy.

Service. In West Hartford, Conn. Eddie Jordan, picked up by police for not carrying his draft card, telephoned his wife, who hurried over with the card and a just-received order to report for induction.

Louder Than Words. In Phoenix, police officially charged a baseball umpire with being a robber.

Animal Kingdom. In Dallas, Mrs. J. E. Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore.

Not So Good. In Syracuse, N.Y., a friend met Frank Allis in a cafe, asked him how he felt, watched him drop dead.

Canned Canaries. In Colorado Springs, Sheriff Sam Deal held a man for U.S. narcotics authorities despite the prisoner's insistence that he grew marijuana just to provide seed for his canaries, who sang better on it.

Pique Peck. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lila Roman charged that when she refused Manuel Lira a date he bit off the end of her nose.

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