Samaritan. In Philadelphia, a stranger stopped to help Walter Bowe push his stalled car, suggested that he work the starter while Bowe pushed, managed to start the motor, disappeared with the car.

Property Rights. In Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Elmore Fryar sued for divorce, asked her husband's motorcycle as alimony.

The Search. In New Haven, Conn., young Vito Manga, chased by police to the roof of a nurses' dormitory, explained how he had happened to be lurking on the fire escapes outside the building: he "was looking for a men's room."

Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar.

Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing charges of illegally wearing a Navy uniform and possessing an Army discharge, was convicted of polygamy (three wives) at the age of 17.

Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office.

The Critic. In Tecumseh, Mich., miffed by an "E" on his school report card, an eight-year-old tried to set fire to his school building.

Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless."

Burden. In Knoxville, Tenn., the judge bound Neal Edwards to the grand jury for stealing a 100-lb. sack of flour, despite Edwards' contention that "somebody must have put it on my back . . ."

Treatment. In Morgantown, W. Va., Mrs. Isabell Shaffer, suing the Monongalia General Hospital, charged that while she was being X-rayed there for a broken arm, she fell off the laboratory table and broke her leg.

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