Prayer Meeting. In Ciudad Juarez, Mex., two pickpockets kneeling in a church robbed Andres Quinonez of his wallet and $13 while he was praying, were arrested by a policeman kneeling behind them.

Shall We Dance? In Birmingham, Lucian McCrary told police who arrested him for reckless driving that a couple of girls had pulled alongside his car, shouted. "If you want to go dancing, follow us," then had outdistanced him at 110 m.p.h.

Dud. In Bakersfield, Calif., Marine Sergeant M. U. Johnson gingerly dismantled an unexploded bazooka rocket he found lying in an alley, discovered a note in place of the explosive: "What the heck are you looking for? You crazy?"

Stormy Weather. In Wichita, when Robert Steven refused to push a stalled car from a flooded intersection for fear his own auto would stall, eight angry men piled out, ripped the hood ornament off Steven's auto and poured water on the back seat.

Cure. In Manchester, England, Steel-worker Edward Eckersley, who hit his 61-year-old mother on the head with an ax, was only put on probation after a detective told the court: "She suffers from high blood pressure and he genuinely believed the old wives' story that a blow on the head would relieve it."

Good Try. In Los Alamos, N. Mex., Joe Quintant, charged with failing to display 1953 plates on his car, was excused by the judge when he explained that the last time he tried to put on the new plates, an old back injury flared up and sent him to the hospital for three weeks.

Bon Voyage. In St. Peter, Minn., the weekly Herald ran a classified ad: "WANTED: Man to handle dynamite. Must be prepared to travel unexpectedly."

Impressionists. In Springfield, Mass., Custodian Alexander Caranicholas went to the hospital and Custodian Frank Klupa went to court after fighting over the use of a mop-pail in the Museum of Fine Arts.

Question & Answer. In Buffalo, Charles Anderson was fined $15 for sneering at Patrolmen William Moslow and Charles Hahn and asking whether they were "real policemen or boy scouts."

Undercover Agent. In Dallas, a woman who was arrested after a department-store floorwalker saw her slip two articles under her dress was unburdened of: a sack of candy, two billfolds, a raincoat, a boy's shirt, two brassieres, five pairs of ladies' hose, a jar of deodorant, a tube of toothpaste, two pints of paint, two flower bulbs, four packages of flower and vegetable seeds, three packages of buckshot.

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