Viene La Mañana

SEVERAL TIMES during
John Neely’s plane trip here from Texas, where he was arrested, a woman
passenger in a nearby seat looked hard at him and said, "Didn’t I go to
school with you in Dallas?" Neely, in custody of Lt. George Stoner, didn’t answer. 

On arrival, when she learned he was charged with murdering Ronald Caruana, she almost went into orbit on her own power.

THE COMMITTEE handling
the entertainment for the American Society of Civil Engineers
convention opening here Monday recalled the time several years ago in
Chicago when someone suggested hiring a funny little guy with a guitar
playing in a club on State Street. The chairman overruled him, and a
string quartet was hired. So GeorgeGobel had to wait a little longer for fame to strike him. 

REMEMBER the
recent news story from St. Paul about the 16-year-old baby sitter who
got stuck to a freshly painted toilet seat? And the doctor who tripped
and knocked himself out when he came to her rescue? And both of them
had to go to the hospital for repairs?

Well, the AP gave it
the seminar treatment and in its weekly log reports that editors all
over the country were skeptical. Many recalled having heard the tale
repeatedly for the last 25 years, with variations, but without
verification.

Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post recalled that
about 1935, when he was on the Portland Oregonian, a staff man got a
hold of a similar story but was restrained from using it when he found
the source was always one removed. They decided the young lady had been
cruelly framed.

By the way, the St. Paul Dispatch, which broke
the story, insists it is authentic. The source, editors say, is the
insurance adjuster who handled the case.

Concludes AP: It could have happened twice.

THERE’S a dramatic scene in the movie "Hanging Tree" in which Maria Schell, after a near fatal accident, rides a white horse bareback, seated sideways, into a mining town.

At a preview an irrepressible reviewer broke the spell by shouting, "Take it off, Lady Godiva!"

KID STUFF —
The parents of Timothy Deans, 4, are pretty sure he no longer is a
little boy. The other day he told his mother, "Call me Tim, not Timmy
— that’s a baby’s name." And at bedtime he announced, "I only want to
be kissed good night once a week!" . . . Mrs. F. J.Biebl was awakened at 6 a.m. by her 6-year-old asking, "Mamma, if I shot a bee with a BB would the bee be dead?" 

FOOTNOTES — The
animal regulation department’s monthly reports reveal an eland bite,
possibly the first ever recorded. What do you say we skip it, that’s
reaching too far . . .Blodgett, Lauber & Wood have opened an office on Olive Street. as political consultants. Tom Blodgett is a Democrat, Mrs. Ruth Wood is a Republican, but Henry Lauber has thus far declined to state . . . Betcha this is the only place with a sports Freeway League. Yep, down Buena Park way.