Super. In Kansas City, Grainman W. J. Haynes, who had always had trouble with his soup, invented an automatic soup bowl that took care of everything. A thermometer on pulley and chain dipped in & out to register temperature, and turned on a bulb cooler when the soup piped too hot. Other gadgets dunked crack ers, sprinkled salt, swabbed the last drop.

Escape. In Seymour, Tex., Mayor C. M. Randall decreed that the opening day of Texas' fishing season was a holiday. Every school, bank, business house put up shutters, and the 3,500 souls of Seymour went fishing.

Outsider. In Baton Rouge, junketing Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, Rep., N.J., stopped to visit Louisiana's House of Representatives. On which side of the House, inquired polite Representative Wolverton, did the Republicans sit? "Out side," chorused his hosts.

Free. In Little Rock, a cop brought in a vagrant. "Who are you?" asked the desk sergeant. "I am a Free Frenchman," said the man. "You were a free Frenchman," corrected the sergeant.

Tenth. In Sapulpa, Okla., Aunt Lizzie Deevers, no, got set to marry Neighbor John Knight, 77. Cackled bird-eyed, bird-sized Aunt Lizzie: "I'm tough. Man, I've been snakebit six times, been bit by a mad dog once, had nine husbands and I'm still here."

Rented. In Los Angeles, Insurance Salesman Samuel Brummel, 56, sued his wife for half of the $10,000 fee he says she got by renting him for a year to an other woman.

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