Arts & Crafts. In Moultrie, Ga., accused of smuggling a hacksaw blade to prisoners in Colquitt County jail, Mrs. Ruth Lower, 18, protested: "The boys in there told me they wanted the blade to saw soup bones. I didn't know they were going to try to get out."

Or Give Me Death. In Oklahoma City, Isaac West was convicted of drunk driving, despite his insistence that he had a constitutional right to drive on either the left or right side of the road.

Menage a `aQuatre. In San Francisco, Edward J. Broxton won a divorce after testifying that Nettie Broxton insisted on taking her two dogs, which "sometimes nip at my legs," to bed with them.

Captain's Paradise. In Monroe, Mich., after radar clocked him going at 38 m.p.h. in a 25-mile zone, Greyhound Bus Driver Blake F. Glass indignantly drove his 30 passengers to police court, where they backed up his plea of innocent, won him an acquittal.

Literacy Test. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Clarence Strode, 22, after a hitch in prison during which he had been taught to read and write, was arrested for passing bad checks.

The Mutiny. In Calipatria, Calif., Mayor Edward Rademacher protested to the governor that the town was situated in a onetime ocean bed 184 ft. beneath sea level, was "outside the jurisdiction of the state and subject to marine law, therefore was being unjustly taxed."

Lover Boy. In Milwaukee, suing for divorce, Beverly Shaw, 21, charged that John Shaw demanded her attention "every waking minute they were together," persisted in "holding her unduly often and long," insisted that she "respond to his amorous advances in the same intense manner although this was not her nature," remained with her even when she was brushing her teeth and putting up her hair.

After the Fact. In Boston, Record Photographer Morris Ostroff was assigned to get pictures of a pet cat and squirrel that ate, played and slept together, returned without the photos to explain that the cat had just eaten the squirrel.

Pot Luck. In Memphis, suing Ada Jackson for divorce, Scott Jackson testified that she refused to give him butter for his hot biscuits, but did give butter to their boarder.

Q.E.D. In Denver, charged with driving an automobile with one arm around a woman, Murel Webster was acquitted after arguing that the woman was his wife and that it was therefore "not logical" that he should drive through town with his arm around her.

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