Monday, Mar. 14, 1960
Dry Ice. In Los Angeles, Laundromat Proprietor Sui Ming Leung, 52, was fined $500 after he admitted trying to steal $1,500 worth of heirloom jewelry that a customer of his was washing in one of the machines.
The Dinghy. In Leicester, England, William Ernest Woodward bought a bicycle to ride the one mile from his house to his garage, where he keeps his Rolls-Royce limousine.
Field Trip. In Memphis, after City Judge Beverly Boushe had showed up at Siena College to give a lecture on memory training, he remembered that the talk was scheduled for the next week.
Fringe Benefit. In St. Paul, the Minnesota Industrial Commission handed down the ruling that Elma Sweet, 62, was just as much on the job when she slipped on an icy walk during a coffee break as any "employee who is allowed to smoke or blow his nose."
Double Standard. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Movie Starlet Sabine Sinjen, 17, greeted thousands of fans at the premiere of her new comic criminal film, No Angel Is So Pure, then had to go home before the actual showing because it is a film that German law forbids juveniles to attend.
Minor's Dram. In Norfolk, a father was fined $500 and sentenced to one month in jail for giving three ounces of whisky and half a can of beer to his six-week-old son.
In a Corner. In Nashville, Tenn., Postal Worker Henry G. Gregory, 39, was arrested for tearing stamps off letters to add to his collection.
Sailor, Beware! In Jacksonville, police warned whoever stole Mrs. Ralph Y. Smith's 16-ft. aluminum canoe that it has a hole in the bottom of the hull patched only with a Band-Aid.
With Mustard. In Bushy Park, Middlesex, England, Billy Hudgins, 11, a sixth-grader in a U.S. Air Force elementary school, asked to write a theme on space travel, reckoned out the gastronomic requirements of an interplanetary junket: "584 ham sandwiches, 764 Coca-Colas and 407 cakes and pies."
Overtime Parking. In Philadelphia, Patrolman John Burke, 37, traffic safety lecturer at the city's public schools for the past eight years, was suspended from the force for having driven since 1950 without a license.
Simple Interest. In Alexandria, Va., any dog accompanying his owner to the drive-in window of the Alexandria National Bank gets a free dog biscuit.
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