Hot Licks. In London, Sidney Adams was fined -L-3 ($8.40) after Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews testified that he had sworn to drive his neighbors mad, kept them up with noisy music night after night, once played a record of Shake, Rattle and Roll for 2 1/2 hours.

Marksman. In Boise, Idaho. Jess Arnold, 35, was fined $60 for reckless driving after he tried to back his car over his mother-in-law, missed, ran into a utility-pole guy wire, disrupted traffic signals on a nearby corner.

Traffic Lane. In Wells, Nev., after complaining to the city council of being badgered by strangers for directions to the local red-light district, townspeople got the city fathers to install directional signs, charge them to the bawdyhouse proprietors.

Pedal Pusher. In Atlanta, during a test for a driver's license, Mrs. Maude Pierce, 42, stepped on the gas instead of the brake, cracked into a utility pole, smashed into a parked car, demolished her own, sent the test supervisor to the hospital with head and hip injuries.

Station Brake. In Marietta, Ohio, Raymond Ray won a divorce from wife Regina Bell Ray after testimony that she watched TV every night until the last station signed off, forbade him to talk to her except during the commercials.

Hot Head. In New Bedford, Mass., enraged after an argument with his wife, Floyd L. Ostrander, 52. burned down their storage barn, tried unsuccessfully to set fire to the house, ripped out the telephone wires so that firemen could not be called.

Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend.

Wishful Drinking. In Keokuk, Iowa, Wilbur Damon, 27, was sentenced to three days in jail after he phoned police from a saloon, asked the cop who arrived to go tell his wife that he was sober.

Hit Tune. In Logansport, Ind., Sheriff 0. R. Carson heard three Cass County prisoners lustily singing There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, found that they were trying to cover the racket they were making while digging an escape hatch under the prison wall.

So Sorry. In Tokyo, after 50 persons were killed by arsenic inadvertently mixed in its powdered-milk preparation, the Morinaga Milk Co. expressed its "humblest apologies."

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