Open Market. In Des Moines, enterprising Justice of the Peace Earl W. Rinehart, standing firmly on his rights, refused to build a partition between the bar where he dispenses 'justice, and the bar where he dispenses beer.

Reformer. In Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph George Buca admitted making off with a slot machine containing $18.65, insisted that he took it only because the machine was illegal.

March of Progress. In Colorado Springs, Colo., the city council abolished the 36-year-old ordinance limiting the length of women's hatpins.

Hearth & Home. In Detroit, Mrs. Eleanore Croze won a divorce after testifying that her husband refused to be kissed because he was afraid of germs. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Geraldine Lewinski filed for divorce with the charge that her husband insisted that she put pin curls in his hair.

. . . Hath September. In Des Moines, Policeman Harold Grossnickle learned why the twelve parking tickets he laboriously wrote out last month resulted in some confusion: he had ordered the violators to appear in court on Sept. 31.

Vital Statistics. In Vinita, Okla., an illuminated sign at the turn of Highway 66 informs motorists: "Welcome to Vinita, home of 7,539 good people and a few soreheads."

Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop.

Deficit Financing. In Dallas, caught redhanded trying to crack a safe, Delbert A. Bowers told the cops: "I'm going on trial tomorrow [for armed robbery] and I needed some money."

Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words.

Power of the Word. In Los Angeles, Joseph Weissman was booked for assaulting his wife with a deadly weapon: a prayer book.

Crusader. In Fort Scott, Kans., Bus Driver Walter Anneberg fumed at a grade crossing while a freight train held up traffic for 25 minutes, stepped on the gas the minute it had passed, parked his bus on the tracks to stop an oncoming switch engine, and waved his fellow motorists through.

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