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Show Spooks, Ghosts and Goblins Will Be Doing Business , As Usual AgainTonight in S.L at the Same Old Stand No matter how you look at it, I iff Halloween when ... Small boyi aoap your house and automobile windows. . Young urchins ring your bell and run like . . like startled deer, say. Jack o' lanterns flicker in windows, win-dows, goblin masks adorn otherwise other-wise cherubic faces and the world in general goes slightly haywire for a night or so. No one recalls how long all this has been going on for, several thousand years, the encyclopedia says but the only persons who seem to object are property owners, own-ers, wbo have considerable repair re-pair work to do the morning after af-ter the night before. At any rate, Halloween falls this year, as usual, on October 31, the eve of All Hallows, or All Saints' day. It's the best time of year to see a ghost, so fortify yourself accordingly. . Ssfest gamea. to play. oa. Hal- . loween, according to police, are innocent pastimes like bobbing for apples or dancing around bonfires. It will be very unhealthy, police po-lice said, to chop up your neighbor's neigh-bor's front porch for kindling, or wander Into a strange house after af-ter midnight, even if you are garbed like a ghost. No Mischief, Now, Boys ,-. Malicious mischief and Halloween Hal-loween "pranks" causing property damage are definitely taboo. Police Inspector Odes B. Record said Tuesday after waFnlng celebrants that officers will be out In full force to curb any such attempts. Sixteen -officers. Including . 12 "rookie" officers, will be on duty In the business district and cars will cruise In the residential districts. dis-tricts. Inspector Record said all officers are under orders to bring to the station anyone destroying property. In addition to police, off duty firemen will serve In residential areas and will be alert for any false alarms. A few preliminary "headaches" have already been reported and laid to the Halloween spirit They included breaking the There's Witchwork Afoot Here Pelfae eouldat blame this ea to "HaJleweenm, althoaia they admit there Is a goad Me-ap- Prowl ears rne4 to aaawor a burglar alarm at a Bafeway Mora, Ins, a Ma Heath Elrhta West street, foaael the alarm rlns-lac aolally, but eeuMat flaa the prowler. Invosticattoa proved that a black ' eat bad tripped the alarm. handles off seven parking meters on the north side of the city and county building; throwing a rock through a window of a grocery store. at 1959 Sixth East street; placing United States mail storage stor-age boxes In streets at several lo cations, and building several large bonfires. |