Monday, Jan. 24, 1944
Man at Work. In Philadelphia, John Craig Huff, super-buster of traffic laws, was ordered by a judge to sell his car within a week or face 81 days in jail. His record: 81 busts in 20 weeks.
Family Entrance. In Kansas City, labor shortages were nothing in the life of Nightclub Manager Bill Petersen, who had two daughters as waitresses, his wife as hostess, his ex-wife as hat-check girl, and his father as doorman.
Government Business. In Portland, Ore., OPA Official W. H. McCarger's application for a house was rejected by WHA on the ground that his job was not essential.
Ox-Bow Incident. In Decatur Township, Ind., Trustee Herbert H. Edwards found that the township had become "automatically insolvent" because the course of the river which bounded it had shifted, transferred to neighboring Perry Township $12 million worth of taxable property.
Private Lives. In Tallahassee, Ben J. Walker, who swore he was 113, took a bride.
Path of Progress. In Washington, the Food & Drug Administration, doing research on penicillin, took a bow for developing a device that keeps a mouse's tail warm.
Morale. In Detroit, WLB ruled that women war workers at Packard have a right to spend five minutes of work time twice a day making up their faces.
Opportunist. In Columbia, S.C., Police Court Recorder Richard E. Broom fined a woman defendant $10, discovered she could cook, hired her.
Booby Prize. In Santiago, Cuba, Street Vendor Martinez Aspuru sold all but one of his lottery tickets, tried & tried to get rid of it, won the $100,000.
Ration Reason. In Salt Lake City, a gas-rationing board told a mother-to-be that there would be a "slight delay" in issuing extra stamps for a trip to the hospital, hurriedly accommodated her when she threatened to stay.
Dashhunds. In Jefferson City, Mo., Minnie Brauner dashed out of her blazing house, dashed back in again, dashed out again accompanied by 28 dogs.
Piscatoreadors. Back & forth across the U.S.-Canadian border, governmental negotiations for the development of fishing proceeded apace between International Fisheries Commission's Leo Sturgeon and Dr. D. B. Finn.
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