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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. inventive nmiCTITV (lllHulll I Australian woman prefers to (who re- in Selby, Victoria, has taken out world patents on a chamain nameless) belt for dogs. She doesnt want to give her stity name, she says, because she is afraid of being swamped by crank calls from dog lovers. ODMfDEOC In Brooklyn, CU&UlDU N.Y., QTATtlTEQ illegal for its ONCE uIHIUIlU S INVITATION TO THIEVES lie Thieves are nnnpr LUIIkLlfr really angry flir nnof at the riiul to1 Hotel Co- Shera-Ili- L Its taken years, hut the hotel rporation. se- curity people have finally wised up and decided to conditions more difficult for robbers. One of their, recent steps was to remove the familiar card shown above make all their from Placed on doorknob, and rooms. the outside it immediately flagrantly advertised to any thief that the room unoccupied and ripe for a rip-of- f. Now the only card left for guests to hang on the was doorknob advises the maids in four languages, "Please Do Not Disturb." Sheraton has also made a wide-visipeephole maon ndatory for all doors. It permits guests to see who is knocking or scan the hotel corridor before opening the door. donkeys to sleep in the bathtub. A taxi driver in Youngstown, Ohio, is not allowed to transport passengers on the roof of his cab. It is illegal to lure bees away from their keeper in Connecticut. In Cleveland, Ohio, you are allowed to kill your neighbor's chickens if you have the permission of the majority of other neighbors living in a radius. Female jury members are breaking the law if they knit during a trial in 50-fo- Mexico, Mo. in Minnesota are prohibited from walking on the streets while dressed Women as Santa Claus. law in Berkeley, Cal., prohibits whistling for your escaped canary bird A before 7 a.m. It is illegal to feed whiskey or cigarettes to animals at the zoo in Manville, N.J. Goldfish are not allowed to ride in buses in Seattle, Wash., unless they keep very quiet. Whoever fabmpgpolak; STILL DROPPING over 8 milAmericans lived on lion people farm popfarms. But ulation 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 ot snores it disturbs his so GQiJSERUATORS 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 it. Lady Peel, as she is in private life, has been cared for by nurses known in her Park Avenue apartat a cost of almost $70,000 a year. A few ment weeks ago. Judge Edward Greenfield of New York that 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 British suffered a stroke two years ago. Is also out of who neighbor in Dunn, N.C., is breaking a law. Whoever BEATRICE LILLIE CROUCHO MARX stated that she should J. be taken back to England, "where she can be sus- tained for considerably less than the current expenditures." He assigned a former state supreme court justice as her conser- vator. Rita 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 included an affidavit from a doctor saying she was "gravely disabled as a re- - suit of mental disorder or alcoholism." Growing old, even when one has money, is no pic- nic. What one needs in addition to money is the love and care of friends and family. Without these the publicity generated by courts and conservators. comes York. C UOYD SHEARER 1977 5 |