Unpreparedness. In Chicago, Grocer George Meister toted a pistol four years, then put it away as superfluous. Few minutes later he was robbed of $120.

Harvest. At Hutchinson, Kans., James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course.

Sneaks. In Palm City, Calif., two men stole a house.

Company. In Miami, Fla., from his jail cell, Joseph N. Smith saw a man breaking into a parked car, got him arrested.

Contented. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., Staff Sergeant Peter Hardley Jr., a Negro, rejected a promotion and pay raise of $18 a month so that he could continue to carry the flag in his regimental color guard.

Honeymoon. In Sacramento, Calif., Private Carl LeRoy John started on his honeymoon. He wrecked his car, was arrested for auto theft, discovered his bride was a bigamist.

Impulse. Over Camp Elliott, Calif., Lieut. William F. Schroeder, Navy medical officer, watched ten paratroopers leap from a low-flying plane, could not resist the urge to jump too. He was transferred to paratroop service.

Home. On Ocracoke Island, N.C., a Negro seaman visited his folks for the first time in 20 years. When his ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic, his lifeboat brought him straight home.

Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted.

Air Mail. At Fort Benning, Ga., Lieut. John J. Y. Lyons received an airmail letter mailed at Lewistown, Pa. It had gone: first to Australia, back across the U.S. to Ireland to another Lieut. Lyons, thence across the Atlantic to the U.S. Travel time: 109 days.

Suspicion. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frank K. Hauser suspiciously observed that her husband returned home wearing different socks from the ones he had started out in. In addition she found a telephone number. Sure enough, it belonged to a bigamized Mrs. Frank K. Hauser.

Missing. In Paterson, N.J., Joseph Statuto reported his wife, mother of nine children, missing. Police found her, plus yet another eight-pound Statuto, in the maternity ward of the Paterson General Hospital.

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