Passenger. In Muskogee, Okla., Patrolman James Hunter arrested a drunk, made a routine search of his automobile, found a securely trussed mountain lion, alive, in the trunk compartment. The drunk remembered helping a friend catch it, but explained he had thought at the time he was seeing things.

Coverage. In Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near the Walter Grubb house, gave Mrs. Grubb a shock; a mile to the west, a bolt of lightning struck a telephone pole, narrowly missed Son Lloyd Grubb; seven miles from Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near Father Walter Grubb, gave him a shock.

Ingrate. In Baxter State Park, Me., Wild Life Protector Joseph Stickney complained that, though a crew was going through the forest tacking up No Hunting signs, a preposterous bear followed along, tore them all down.

Racket. In Hattiesburg, Miss., a physician examining Private John Lafferty for entrance to the officers' training school applied his stethoscope, listened, rejected him, had him sent to a hospital. The odd noises the physician had heard were the crunching of hair on Private Lafferty's nappy chest.

Specialist. In Canton, Ohio, a man fought extradition to Muskegon County, Mich. on a charge of having stolen 20 gallons of worms.

Trend. In Coffeyville, Kans., the Paul Helphinstines set out to visit friends in Ohio. They traveled by homemade motor scooter.

Resolved. In Omaha, Attorney Michael Kearney, balked in his efforts to make a radio talk, stood on the steps of the county courthouse, delivered his address to three curious children and his wife.

Sleeper. In Goldsboro, N.C., John Cotton slept while a thief brought in a floor lamp to make his work easier, stole the spread from the bed, also made off with Cotton's trousers.

Impressionable. In Los Angeles, the children of 81-year-old Mrs. Jenetta Benepe Lux, who remarried, asked a court to make them her guardians. A witness testified that she had wanted to buy an insurance policy she didn't need after the salesman had seated himself at the piano and played I Love You Truly.

New Order. At Coney Island, lost children, who used to be taken to the police station and treated to ice cream, were taken to a special vanilla-colored, chocolate-trimmed "ice-cream bungalow," where they got nothing to eat.

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