Monday, Oct. 13, 1958

Frozen Beef. In Sacramento, Calif., Loretta Weyant was granted a divorce on her testimony that after an argument, her husband had hung her from a meat hook in her restaurant's cold-storage room for two hours.

Heil to Pay. In West Hartford, Conn., Kenneth B. Johnson paid a $2 fine for illegal overnight parking, drew an additional $50 fine for making out his check to the "West Hartford Police Gestapo."

Winer Take All. In Rouen, France, Factory Worker Andre Poultier bet his friends that he could down 30 glasses of Pernod in ten minutes, did so, barely had time to collect his money before he died.

Good Old Daze. In Knoxville, Tenn., police reported that a thief had broken into an auto service department, taken a 1952 used car valued at $600, passed up two 1958 models worth $7,000 each.

Coronery Occlusion. In Milwaukee, Frank G. Dionesopulos, Democratic candidate for coroner, came in third in a field of four candidates after he announced his slogan: "A square deal for every body."

Witness for the Prosecution. In Philadelphia, John Blakeley, plaintiff in a drunken-driving case in which his car was clunked, was jailed for ten days for showing up in court intoxicated.

Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit.

Testy Pilot. In Wichita, Kans., police refused to accept Motorist Johnny Eli's complaint that a passenger airliner was "trying to crowd me off the road," arrested him for drunken driving on the city airport's runway.

No Enosis. In Athens, the English-language Athens News refused a classified ad stating "Greek lady desires to hold conversations with English gentleman on the Cyprus issue in exchange for lessons in Greek, German or piano" on the ground that "the lessons would be doomed to failure."

Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece.

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