Fan

In St. David, III., Fred Sepich became so enraged when the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs that he rushed into his yard, seized a calf, choked it to death.

Winner

In Amherst, Mass., the Pomona Grange held a husband-calling contest. When the judges had awarded the prizes they found that Spinster Thelma Glazier had taken second place.

Marks

In Denver, Oscar Malo received a cable from his Son Kenneth in Munich: "Imperative you send marks immediately." Malo cabled $1,000 in marks. Son Kenneth kept the money, crossly cabled: "I meant my school marks."

Diploma

In Patras, Greece, Nicholas Djirdjis flunked his final examinations in high school. Revolver in hand, he sought out the principal, demanded his diploma. As the diploma was being signed, two teachers came into the room. Nicholas fired, missed, went off to the police station, still without his diploma.

Ghost

In Chestertown, Md., when the ambulance could not be made to run, a hearse was sent to bring Negro Wilbur Stewart back from an Easton hospital. Hearing that a hearse had gone for him, the sick man's family arranged a funeral. The hearse drove up and out stepped Stewart, clad in a white hospital gown. Negroes dived out a second-story window, through a screen door. By dusk only a handful of the mourners had ventured back.

Bowler

In Roebling, N. J., 15 motorcyclists roared single-file along a highway. Careening drunkenly from the opposite direction, William C. Burton drove his car into the first cyclist, into the second, the third and so on down the line until he had bowled over all 15.

Snake Boy

In Pasadena, Calif., when Roy Dickson was barely old enough to walk, his father, a photographer, told him of adventures with snakes in India. The boy toddled off and caught one near his home. Thereafter he wandered through neighboring canyons, developed an uncanny instinct for locating snakes and lizards. Poisonous reptiles he catches with a forked stick, nonpoisonous ones with his bare hands. He has never been bitten. Last week Roy Dickson, 11, fondled a Western Ring snake, rarest of his collection, planned to go after a rattler next.

Pranksters

In Ravenna, Ohio, Jaspara Servia was ganged by fellow employes of the Erie Railroad. The pranksters pushed an air-hose into his body, turned on no l10b. pressure, blew him up to more than double his size. Hoping to save his life, surgeons cut open and deflated Jaspara Servia.

Bed

In La Plata, Md., a young Negro drove his stolen car to an outlying farm, entered the house under cover of night, edged carefully into a bed where Alton Davis was sleeping with his bride of two weeks. Undisturbed, Davis and wife slumbered on until morning.

Taxidermy

In Ephraim, Utah, youngsters found the body of a 2-year-old boy, skilfully preserved, stuffed by an expert taxidermist and buried in a hillside.

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