Monday, Jun. 19, 1950
Enemy's Weapon. In Delaware, Ohio, Harry McClellan pleaded guilty to a charge of attacking his wife, Almyra, with a rolling pin.
It's Like This ... In New Orleans, cops found Lawrence Dorsey sitting in a parked automobile behind a suburban bank, locked him up despite his protestations that one of his two loaded pistols was a war souvenir and he just didn't know where the other one had come from.
Awakening. In Detroit, Mrs. Violet Formento got a divorce on her complaint that her husband had slept during most of their eleven-year marriage.
Inventory. In Grafton, N.Dak., Postmaster George W. Mclntyre considered a letter addressed to the "Chief of the Communist Party" in Grafton, returned it to the sender, Richard Rolnick of Pfaffenhofen, Germany, with a little note: "We had a little ring rot in the potatoes, the snow is up to our belts, the water is up to our necks, and ... we expect a mild infestation of grasshoppers. But, thank heaven, we have been unable to find a Communist."
Success Story. In El Paso, Hugh Burchfiel, nabbed in a theater holdup, told a radio audience that he became a robber by being lucky and having faith.
The Breaking Point. In Muncie, Ind., Lee Beaty replied to his wife's divorce suit by filing a cross-complaint and requesting the court to make her stop throwing stones at his new car.
Next Question? In Washington, the Fish & Wildlife Service pondered a query that turned up in the mail: "How can I get help to open the overland cycle trade from the inland tide water of the Atlantic to the growth crest creedet of the Pacific? I discovered the oval location of growth-set."
Standard. In Milwaukee, Police Chief John W. Polcyn warned that girl entertainers in nightclubs had to wear more than "a G-string and a couple of two-inch stars," added that it was all right as long as they dressed no more immodestly than the ladies in the audience.
In Kind. In Sidcup, England, Mrs. Annie Skinner willed to Norman Butler, who had done her plumbing free, her bathtub, sink and water heater.
Entrepreneur. In Bloomington, Ind., the Monroe County clerk got a letter from one Walter Sadlick, an ex-serviceman, who explained that he had married to get a bigger student's allotment under the G.I. bill, but that now, as his eligibility for benefits was running out, "we would naturally like to abolish the marriage."
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