Double Check. In Newport News, William Greer paid some bills, found he was $4 short, asked two stores to check their receipts for a $4 error. Both stores informed him: "Our cash balance is $4 over. We are mailing you a check."

Home. In Queens, L.I., a man charged with burglary was freed from jail under bond, went home, shortly came back to report that he had so much domestic trouble he preferred jail. He was readmitted. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Anthony Tesco went free after serving a jail term for assaulting his brother-in-law, went to his mother-in-law's house and knocked her off the back porch.

Violation. In Rome, N.Y., a stray buck deer jumped through a window into a cocktail lounge, nearly struck a sign reading: "No Stags Allowed."

Stitcher. In Cleveland, police held a man who claimed he had stabbed himself in the abdomen, then neatly sewed himself up. When doctors refused to believe him, he sewed on himself awhile, by way of demonstration.

Warriors. In Coffeyville, Kans., an Osage Indian introduced his family to a visitor. "I am Brave Eagle," he announced. "This is my son, Fighting Bird-- and this is my grandson, Four-Motored Bomber."

Enthusiast. In Boston, Stenographer Phyllis Cheyne, a mountain climber, reached her 20th-floor office every day by climbing the stairs. She said it was fun.

Dividend. In Chicago, 63-year-old Henry Hertzinger wrote the Navy asking for a record of his honorable discharge 40 years before. He got the record and with it a bronze medal which he never knew had been awarded to him.

Correction. In Pueblo, Colo., the county clerk got a note from a woman in Oklahoma instructing: "Just erase my marriage off your records; I understand it was illegal."

Quiz. In Albany, N.Y., the Rev. Button S. Peterson opened a session of the State Assembly by reading a seven-line invocation, later asked more than a dozen members if they knew what it was. None of them recognized it: the last verse of America.

Fate. Near Waverly, Tenn., two trains collided head-on. Among the killed were the firemen of the two trains: A. C. Hargrove and A. C. Hargrove Jr., his son.

Oh, Nothing. In Olean, N.Y., Patrolman George Forrest asked a prowler what he was doing. Said the prowler innocently: "Nothing. Just trying to steal some wood and iron."

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