The Coral Gables Times

GETTING AROUND

Continued from page 2 Parents in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, can be surer than most that their children will avoid foreseeable accidents on their bikes this summer, as a result of the police department's bicycle-inspection and safety campaign. Working with the Mt. Lebanon PTA, the police set up inspection stations at the community's schools. Bikes were checked for faulty equipment, some were grounded, and all those in good condition were given an "all clear" and a license plate. The police also showed bicycle-safety movies and gave lectures on the proper care of the bikes. After that, the kids wheeled confidently off for a summer of fun. From a reader near Millburn, New Jersey, we just got the word of an automobile dealer she's heard about who bought a 39-foot pleasure cruiser for use by groups of his employees. He named the boat "Fringe Benefit." If you live near Des Peres or Rock Hill, Missouri (or anywhere else, for that matter), and you have a lawn problem-Johnson grass, for instance, that won't let anything else grow around it-drop a line to Tom Madden, in Kennett, Mo. Tom's in the goose-leasing business. Geese love Johnson grass, and it only takes two or three birds to control an acre of the stuff. Over 15,000 geese are leased each year, mostly to people who grow cotton, it's true, but you can't ever tell when Johnson grass will crop up around your property. Oh yes, he buys the geese back when the season is over. Edward L. Hogan, an 83-year-old railroad-crossing watchman who lives near Aurora, Colorado, had a watch that stopped one day. That caused all kinds of trouble since Mr. Hogan's job depends on knowing when to wait for a train, so he determined it would never happen to him again. He began to collect watches and now owns about a dozen. This didn't strike us as such an unusual hobby until we found out that Mr. Hogan wears his entire collection, all at the same time, and he says his arms are plenty long enough to hold future additions to the group. "Middle Age," says a Silver Spring, Maryland, reader, "is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places." It's never too late to hear news like this. Ansel Borkland, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, broke the law and got praised by Judge Ostrovsky for it, too. It seems that Mr. Borkland's car scraped the back end of a tractor-trailer rig when he tried to pull around it. He could have driven away, since no one had seen him, but he stopped and called the police, who came and gave him a ticket charging him with improper passing. Judge Ostrovsky, however, refused to fine him and even dropped all court costs because, he said, Mr. Borkland showed a kind of integrity he rarely sees these days. In Royal Oak, Michigan, police had no trouble tracking down housebreaker Daniel McDonald, who, while making his escape, jumped over a fence a landed on a skunk. "Do It Yourself, Then Call Us," is the good word in a Kensington, Maryland, TV-repair shopwindow. The Petal Pushers of Parkrose, Oregon, are currently holding a progressive gardening party. Every couple of weeks, all the ladies get together with box lunches and spades in hand and "invade" the garden of two of the club members. It's a day filled, we hear, with good conversation, fine food, lots of laughs, and at the end there are two more beautifully groomed gardens that the whole group can be proud of.

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