Snarevoyance. In Penang, Malaya, Medium Cassim Bin Osman was asked to go into a trance and locate a missing corpse, did so, was convicted of murder.

Foam Stretch. In Carlisle, England, eight managers of state-owned pubs were brought before a Home Office disciplinary board for repeated failure to draw 300 one-pint servings of beer out of a 288-pint barrel.

Spruced Up. In Los Angeles, Tree Surgeon Columbus B. Fulghum was fined $25 for giving haircuts without a license.

Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where his dad is up for 15.

Autemotion. In Lisbon, visitors at the Portuguese Industrial Fair could play ticktacktoe with an electronic machine that cackles mockingly when it wins and snarls menacingly when it loses.

Rebait. Near Crestline, Calif., Fisherman Frank J. Indovina ran out of worms, had no luck with processed cheese, finally tried green trading stamps, caught a trout, seven bass and two bluegills.

Weight Lifters. In Georgetown, Ky., P.S. Hickey, hauling watermelons, pulled his truck into a state weighing station, returned later on the tip-off of another driver and found six slobbering state employees stowing away part of his load.

A Tooth for a Fang. In Rutherfordton, N.C., Postman J.F. Orders switched to a rural mail route after years of harassment by dogs, was promptly startled by a rattlesnake.

Cuckoonik. In Brussels, at the World's Fair, Milwaukean Albert O. Trostel Jr. wondered what made the beep in the souvenir Sputnik he bought in the Russian Pavilion, pried it open, found the words Made in Switzerland.

If You Can't Beat 'Em . . . In High Springs, Fla., ex-Mayor Juanita Easterlin, who last year campaigned unsuccessfully for re-election by charging that enforcement of the state liquor laws was lax in her area, was arrested as the ringleader of a big-time moonshining operation.

Impartial Advice. In Yuba City, Calif., when carpenters discovered a whisky still in the basement of a real estate office run by a couple of church deacons, the deacons denied any knowledge of it, helpfully pointed out that previous tenants were the City-County Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic County Central Committee and the Republican County Central Committee.

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