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Show Queer Even I 5 i:rcvc -'Everybody 5 CiC Except Thee, Mo' FRANKFORT, Ky Oddities in the news add salt ana pepper to the newsman's chores and lighten the load of care that is likely to faU upon the shoulders of readers who stick too close to a reading diet of war scares, murder and politics. For - instance, this item gave a police reporter in Hayward, Calif., a welcome relief from the usual gloomy vein of police court news: Cops grabbed a burglar, Marcus Garzon, after he tried to break into the police station because he thought it was closed for the night. And you can imagine the laughter of the Savannah, Ga., reporter who expected little more than the usual obituary from a funeral home and got this story: After the funeral home attendant fled in terror from a snoring corpse, police discovered William Fleming asleep with three bottles of beer beside him and got an explanation, "I was just trying to find a peaceful place." Some other items that were amusing to the usually blase reporter report-er as well as to readers: In Kansas City, President Walter Wilson said that the Kansas City Bible College's paid-up mortgage would not be disposed of with a traditional burning because "None of our people practice cremation." In San Francisco, a baby-sitter sued her 4-year-old charge and his parents for $10,000. She said that he broke both her wrists when he launched a furious and violent attack at-tack and threw himself violently against her. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: invididual bowls of shaving soap. Their religion requires they wear full beards. In St. Joseph. Mo., a bakery salesman sales-man left a package of six rolls on the seat of his truck. When he returned, re-turned, he found in their place a bundle of religious tracts. In Tredegar, Wales, clothing-factory laborers went on a l'A-hour strike because they disliked the music played to keep them happy. In Houston, Addie Belle Sanders, 69, divorced her husband of 46 years. She objected to his 30-year romance with his 68-year-old girl friend. |