Right-Hand Waiver

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No. 995 is very popular in the legal league these days. It is the
argument for dismissal of a charge against a defendant on the grounds
that the evidence was searched through illegal search and seizure.

Atty. John Hamilton made such a motion a few days ago but Judge Edwin L. Jefferson denied it and set trial for late in March.

The
judge noted the defendant had been in jail for two months and asked if
he waived the time. The puzzled defendant turned to his attorney, who
nodded.

The judge repeated, "Do you waive?"

The defendant raised his right arm, smiled sheepishly and waved at the bench.

A WOMAN who
lives in West L.A. recommended her cleaning woman to a friend who lives
nearby, and a few days ago the maid appeared for her first day’s work.

When
she finished, the lady of the house asked how much she owed. The maid
said $10 and $.75 cents for bus fare. The housewife paid it but said
her friend had told her the bus fare was only $.58.

"Well, you see," explained the maid, who lives on the East Side, "the farther west you go the more it costs."

LUCKY US
Rains are falling, falling down,
Our house may wash away.
But APCD proudly reports
"No eye irritation today."
— PEAR ROWE

FINDING HIMSELF engulfed, as do many of us, by the deluge of Civil War novels, biographies, anthologies, stories and letters, writer Caskie Stinnett has bravely stood his ground and announced in a choked voice, "No war could be that fascinating!"

Furthermore,
he has determined that only a few books remain to be written on the
subject and he has obligingly filled out the bibliography with these:

"Moment
of Decision," an account of the exciting period between 3 p.m. and 3:40
p.m. Aug. 8, 1861, when Gen. J. E. B. Stuart inspected a field kitchen.

"Eagle of the Confederacy," speculation on the course of the
war if Gen. John B. Gordon, dashing young Confederate, had possessed an
air force.

"Lee, as My Father Knew Him," an analysis by the
son of one of Gen. R. E. Lee’s orderlies of the contents of Lee’s
pockets the day he rode into Appomattox.

KID STUFF — Grace Payne, teacher at 6th
Avenue School, last week briefed her first-grade class on the two great
Americans whose birthdays come in February, then asked, "Who can tell
me whose birthday we celebrated this week?" Came the answer: "George
Lincoln" . . . And then there’s George Reasons, 7, who was asked to
write the opposite of "down" and "come." George, no conformist,
laboriously wrote "nwod" and "emoc."

IRRELEVANT THOUGHT
while Sunday driving: You seldom see anyone stop to inspect historical
markers. Perhaps the time has come to strike historical markers for
those who stop to inspect them.

AT RANDOM — Ad in a Hollywood paper: "Woman, 50, wants room & board in exch. for lite work, such as watching a tree grow." Peggy Rendall, who spotted it, says she gets lazy, but not that lazy . . . Does it seem odd to anyone else that the Los Angeles Dodgers hold spring training in Vero Beach, Fla.? . . . Overheard in Gardena
by H.R.: "He juggled that ball like a man with short fingernails trying
to open a fresh pack of cigarettes in the dark" . . . A Pasadena car
wash place has a sign, "We give rain cheques." Yes, cheques.