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Show number had dropped to 500,000. Since 1970 the number of farm children under 14 has dropped by a third. nillQTITV inventive An IflSHOHS I Australian prefers to woman (who re- main nameless) in Selby, Victoria, has taken out world patents on a chastity belt for dogs. She doesn't want to give her name, she says, because she is swamped afraid of being by crank calls from dog lovers. GDIODCOO In Brooklyn, STAB donkeys to DUlcULOU N.Y., it's sleep in the bathtub. A are iHul ton Hotel Corporation. It's taken se- years, but the hotel curity people have finally wised up and decided to make conditions more difficult for robbers. One of their, recent steps was to remove the familiar card shown above all their from rooms. it doorknob, immediately flagrantly advertised Now rip-of- f. the only card for guests to hang left on the doorknob advises the maids in four languages, "Please Do Not Disturb. Sheraton has also wide-visi- on a made peephole ma- doors. It permits guests to see who is knocking or scan the hotel corridor before opening the door. ndatory for In Cleveland, radius. jury Ohio, you ot members all are Mexico, Mo. in Minnesota are prohibited from walking on Women the streets while dressed as Santa Claus. A law in Berkeley, Cal., prohibits whistling for your escaped canary bird before 7 a.m. It is illegal to feed cigarettes to animals at the zoo in Manville, N.J. Goldfish are not allowed to ride in buses in Seattle, Wash., unless they whiskey or keep very quiet. Whoever snores so Last FARM PGPSIAHOII year one 1 DROPPING over Americans lion people in 26 8 mil- lived on farms. But the farm population continues its long downward trend. From 1970 to 1976, it dropped 15, or 1.5 million people. Blacks are leaving farms at a faster rate than whites. In 1970 about 900,000 blacks lived on U.S. farms. By 1976 the that disturbs his it neighbor in Dunn, N.C., is breaking a law. Whoever falls asleep while being shaved by a barber in Erie, Pa., is breaking a law. A married man in Cold Springs, Pa., may buy alcohol only with the written consent of his wife. Arresting a deceased person because of hisher indebtedness is illegal in New BEATRICE LILLIE GROUCHO MARX are allowed to kill your neighbors chickens if you have the permission of the majority of other neighbors living in a 50-fo- Ji on breaking the law if they knit during a trial in to any thief that the room was unoccupied and ripe for a Youngs- to transport passengers the roof of his cab. It is illegal to lure bees away from their keeper in Connecticut. Female Placed on the outside and taxi driver in town, Ohio, is not allowed PHTIPf M really angry TI'C nnOT at the Shera-llI- L GOHOnS y: wisecracking ladies man of Hollywood, Groucho Marx today is a doddering, senile, incontinent old man of 86 whose fortune an estimated $2.8 million has been placed in the hands of a conservator. Beatrice Lillie, 82, the famous comedienne J. weeks ago, Judge Edward Greenfield of New York stated that she should be taken back to England, "where she can be sus- tained for considerably less than the current expenditures. He assigned a former justice vator. Rita state supreme court as her conser- RITA HAYWORTH Hayworth, another film star of yesteryear, not yet in her 60 s,- was recently involved Ain a conservator case. petition to appoint a guardian for her estate was dismissed because she was not a resident of Orange Cou- nty, Cal. The petition in- cluded an affidavit from a doctor saying she was "gravely disabled as a re- - York. C ILOYD British suffered a stroke two years ago, is also out of it. Lady Peel, as she is known in private life, has been cared for by nurses in her Park Avenue apartment at a cost of almost $70,000 a year. A few who SHEARER 1977 .suit of mental disorder or alcoholism." Growing old, even when one has money, is no picnic. What one needs in addition to money is the lcvo and care of friends and family. Without these the publicity generated by courts and conservators. comes |