Job Hazard. In San Diego, Night Watchman Dale Kipple pleaded guilty to a Peeping Tom charge.

Handy Around the House. In Chicago, seeking a divorce, Mrs. Dorothy Lokes explained to the judge what she meant by cruelty: her husband rigged tin cans around the door, then when she tripped the trap, he woke up and thrashed her for being late.

Beginner's Luck. In Maysville, Ky., Mrs. Ira Beckett nervously started her first driving lesson, carefully turned a corner and sideswiped five cars.

Honest Bob. In High Point, N.C., after a friend squared the $9 he owed on bad checks, Robert Denny was freed from jail just in time to play his role of Abraham Lincoln in the town's historical pageant.

Roundhouse Blow. In Hazelwood, Pa., B. & O. Railwaymen Norman Gibson and Robert Morgan worked an all-night shift fixing a passenger engine, started for home, walked away unhurt when the locomotive they had repaired demolished their car at a crossing.

Cherchez la Femme. In Big Arm, Mont., Ade Wagner went fishing, caught a 3-ft. rattlesnake, then found that four of its rattles were coated with bright red nail polish.

Abandon Hops, All Ye . . . In Springfield, Ill., the Salvation Army 'bought a onetime brewery as a home for the rehabilitation of alcoholics.

Short-Term Loan. In Houston, the day after he gave a pint of blood to a hospital bank, John T. Brown was badly cut by a power mower, needed a transfusion, and got his own blood back.

Doctor's Orders. In Hoboken, N.J., Joe Lawless, 11, limped into a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and told the intern: "You don't have to go digging in there, Doc. I already dug it out with my penknife. Just put some penicillin in it."

Some Crust. In Mexico City, police shut three bakeries and jailed the bakers for using motor oil in baking bread.

Friend in Need. In Toledo, when William Carrothers saw a woman driver lock bumpers with another car and walked over to help her get clear, she backed up, broke his ankle, shouted "Go to hell" and drove off.

Postgraduate Work. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Police Chief Willi Klapproth, who spent three months last year studying U.S. police methods at State Department expense, was charged with bribery, perjury and accepting kickbacks.

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