Hedge

In Cleveland, Mrs. Rebecca Butler found out why people kept pulling up stalks from her hedge. Police discovered that it consisted of marijuana.

Fudged

In Cambridge, Mass., J. O. Welch Co. reported the theft of a ton of fudge.

Service

Somewhere in England, an Army detachment took over an evacuated girls' school, read approvingly the notices in each dormitory: "If in urgent need of a mistress, ring this bell."

One Way

In Brownwood,Tex., the council changed the name of Lindbergh Avenue to Corrigan Street.

Kiss

In Cameron, Mo.. Third-Grader Lawrence Clark went to the editor of the local paper with a problem. He "loved his teacher most of anything," and would like to send her a kiss if he only could think how. The editor managed it. On page i he printed an affidavit of Lawrence's kiss for Miss Anna Marie McLaughlin.

Right

In Chicago. John Mosley survived a stabbing because his heart was on the right side.

Professor

In Liberty, Mo., Professor Chester J. Prince climbed to his attic to see about stopping drafts of which his family complained. He hammered and nailed, did a good job, sealed himself completely in.

Recruit

In Los Angeles, Ivan Whitfield, 25, told a Navy recruiting officer he had never kissed or hugged a girl, eaten chicken or chocolate ice cream, talked with a girl on the telephone, smoked, drunk, danced, watched a prize fight, or stepped aboard a battleship. "I might switch over on a few things," he observed.

Odds

In New Orleans, bookies lost $5.000 taking Thanksgiving Day bets on the Columbia-Brown football game before they found out that it had been played in the morning.

Lipstick

Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped -- dead from the first shot.

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