Public Offering. In Detroit, when imaginative investment dealers B. C. Morton & Co. entered a car in the state fair parade covered with a hundred $1 bills, with a driver whose hat was decorated with $1 bills, a mob closed in, stripped both car and driver.

Total Recall. In Sinoia, Southern Rhodesia, C. T. R. Williams wrote to a debt-collecting firm that had offered a reward for news of his whereabouts, gave his present address, claimed the reward, got paid.

Obvious Descent. In Senatobia, Miss., about to go off to his first year of college, Only Child Jim Aiken, 18, consoled his parents by giving them a pet monkey to take his place.

Room at the Top. In Hiraya, Japan, Mayor Tetsusaburo Susuda announced an economy drive, cut his own salary from $111 to $69 a month, proposed to take over the jobs of assistant mayor, treasurer, and property-assessment committee.

Family Line. In Hackensack, N.J., the Bergen Evening Record ran a personal ad: "Maladjusted couple. 3 ill-bred children, colicky baby, need 3 bdrm. house or apt. DA 7-4901."

Rattled. In Philadelphia, a woman registered at the Essex Hotel returned by mistake at midnight to the nearby City Hall Annex, stumbled into the Health Department suite, complained bitterly to a phone operator that her room was filled with skeletons.

Foreign Extraction. In Savoonga, Alaska, visiting Public Health Service Dentist Dr. Duane Oakes pulled 104 Eskimo teeth in one day.

Home Demonstration. In Washington, Health Department Inspector John F. Davis was charged with owning two tenements that have defective sewage facilities, stopped-up water closets, overflowing basins.

Withering. In Melbourne, Australia, Mrs. Marjorie Creasy was convicted of using the telephone mischievously after she ordered funeral wreaths to be sent to a woman she disliked.

No Installation. In Detroit, the Michigan Hypnosis Institute had a summer sign in its window: "Air Cooled by Hypnotic Suggestion."

The Gifted Child. In San Diego, charged with giving her 14-year-old son a "shopping list" of items she wanted him to steal, Mrs. Dolores Myers explained: "The boy has had sticky fingers since he was just a little fellow. I thought I might as well make the most of it."

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