Mothers' Day. In El Centre, Calif., after 200 eager mothers surged through rope barriers at the city's annual Easter egg hunt and picked the field clean while waiting youngsters went eggless, harried Junior Chamber of Commerce Events Chairman Bob Schwantz announced that he was planning, for 1956, a special hunt just for mothers.

The Animal Kingdom. In Milwaukee, after carefully teaching two baby elephants to step on and off a small platform 18 inches high, Animal Trainer Robert Bierwirth blithely tried it himself, slipped, fractured his left ankle.

Flight Plan. In Green Bay, Wis., State Reformatory Inmate Robert Toth, 18, volunteered for civil defense ground observer duty, quickly abandoned his midnight post to sneak to the reformatory plumbing shop, put together 20 feet of pipe sections, scaled the wall and disappeared into the night.

Upstaged. In Cincinnati, Cowboy Kenneth Hoober lost a $5,250 damage suit in which he alleged that Photographer Jackson Storey had circulated a picture which depicted Hoober's horse more favorably than it did Hoober.

Conditioned Reflex. In Delaware, Ohio, after five inmates escaped from the Girls' Industrial School, Superintendent Mrs. Evelyn Ethell reluctantly explained that they had been left unguarded so that a visiting psychologist might study them unhampered.

Challenge Accepted. In Memphis, five delegates to a Key Club convention discussing "Vandalism: A Challenge to Youth" were fined $16 each for throwing a mirror and chair out of a window of the Hotel King Cotton.

Dividend. In Indianapolis, Criminal Court Judge Saul I. Rabb rejected a request that the jury members in a robbery case be examined by a psychiatrist, commented: "There's no statutory requirement that a juror be sane."

I Feel the Spirit. In Salisbury, Md., Earl McGlotten, 53, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after the Rev. Daniel Quillen, pastor of the San Domingo Methodist Episcopal Church, reported that during a Sunday-morning service McGlotten strolled about shaking hands with parishioners, repeatedly sang Throw Out the Life Line, and occasionally stepped out to his car for a nip of wine.

Trial Offer. In Media, Pa., Magazine Solicitors Nita Eubank and Joan Doyle were charged with larceny and false pretenses after detectives testified that Pig Farmer Stanley Blosinski had signed three checks for $1,752, ordering enough magazines "to last him 150 years."

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