Tomato Aspect. In Montreal, the daily Star carried a classified ad seeking "UNMARRIED GIRLS to pack fresh fruit and produce at night."

Exchange O. In Telephone, Texas (pop. about 280), there are no telephones.

E.G.-Man. In San Bernardino. Calif., John H. Fairweather took over as director of the Air Pollution Control District.

Nod Car. In Petoskey, Mich., Policeman Charles Laubrich paid a $25 fine after he fell asleep at the wheel of a patrol car and crashed into a utility pole.

Lineup. In Middlesbrough, England, Margaret Gray, 29, resigned as a policewoman rather than end a developing romance with a man who has a criminal record.

Suds Rosa. In Port Arthur, Ont, where it is illegal to drink beer in a licensed beverage room unless seated, the provincial liquor licensing board clapped a four-week suspension on the Vendome Hotel when inspectors saw waiters serving beer to customers who had fallen off their chairs.

Plug Nichirens. In Tokyo, during a showing of Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion, the management of a movie theater had to beg Nichiren Buddhists in the audience to stop throwing coins--an act of worship--at the fragile Cinema-Scope screen.

Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-cal. rifle."

Ps & Queues. In Omaha, Billy Paxton, 13, told to make a list of practices important to dental hygiene, wrote: 1) "Brush your teeth after every meal"; 2) "See your dentist twice a year"; 3) "Stay away from fountains where they push."

Hove, Too. In Hove, England, a new bus, built for a 10,000-mile overland service between London and Bombay, left the factory, broke down ten miles north of town.

Berth Control. In Onomichi, Japan, after Mrs. Yukiko Hashiguchi, 34, sobbed to railroad officials that, somewhere down the line at a station she could not remember, she had stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter.

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