Monday, May. 02, 1960

Two-Time Step. In Waterloo, Iowa. Reynold Nels Rickan, 27, was jailed after he bought four tickets to the policemen's ball with a bum check.

Lab Work. In Lee. Mass.. Joseph R. Dischino. sentenced to nine months in jail for having two wives and two families in towns only eight miles apart, was also fired from his job as a high school teacher whose main course was ''Problems of Democracy." Burning Passion. In Milwaukee. Thelma Kamuchey, 25, admitted setting ten fires in apartment buildings, garages and a trailer during a two-month period, because she wanted to see her former boy friend, a fireman.

Fact Finder. In Apeldoorn. The Netherlands, six months after he was appointed to the newly created job of "coordinating director for special duties"' of city services, K. H. Tusenius handed in his resignation with the announcement: "I am superfluous.''

Timesaver. In Rosario. Argentina, when Tomas Copola was tried for robbery and two prosecution witnesses failed to recognize him. the astounded judge dismissed the case, learned too late that during his two months of detention Copola had carefully dyed his hair and shaved off his bushy mustache.

Marriage Ties. In Los Angeles. Model Doris Oliver. 25. won a divorce after she testified that her husband "cut off my hair, shaved my head, took out the telephone, took away my clothes, beat me. threatened me with a gun. and locked me in the apartment for two months."

Poetic License. In Richmond, after Truck Driver S. J. Bradbury bought his new license plates and took them out of an envelope, he found a note reading: "Help. I'm being held a prisoner at 500 Spring St.." later learned that the address was where plates were made--the state penitentiary.

Social Security. In Penang, Malaya, public notice in the Straits Times announced: "All persons residing in Kedah and Perlis who are in possession of Orang Utans are required to declare them to the ame Warden. Kedah and Perlis. Sungei Patani, within ten days for Registration."

Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aida. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198 pieces of orange. 891 lumps of bread, one small sausage, 13 wads of paper, three bags, one white glove, one shoestring, for a total undigested weight of 127 Ibs.

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