NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Compiled by AP. McCredie

GORDON DAVEY, 30, has been
named Britain’s most boring man,
after he waxed rhapsodic about his
extensive collection of brown paper.

Said Davey, whose fascination
-with the paper product began when
he was an art student: “I shall obvi-
ously have to try to be more inter-
esting and less obsessive.”

California's January 1994 carth-
quake officially killed 58 people,
but within six months, the state had
received almost 400 requests for the
$6,000 burial grants from federal
disaster funds, by people claiming
their dead relatives perished
because of the quake.

According to a pryss release
from the Butterball company, the
strangest call ever received by the
company’s emergency hotline
occurred in 1993 when a woman
reported that her pet Chihuahua had
jumped into the cavity of the fami-
ly’s turkey and was stuck.

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The Japan Economic Planning
Agency's annual report called on
Japanese husbands to participate
more in family activities.

' Agency surveys estimate that
85% of husbands “never” help their
wives with household chores, and
, that younger women, knowing this,
are increasingly declining marriage.

Dubuque, lowa — William
Soule, 71, on probation on DUI
charges, recently turned himself in

‘and said he'd rather go to jail.

Said Soule, “1 can’t take another
year of probation.”

And in September, Kansas pris-
oner Joe Cart, 77, convicted of mur-
der.in 1941, passed up his parole

board hearing for the [5th consecu-
live Cine.

But another Kattsas inetiite, nae
derer Marvin D. Brockett, 64,
vying for parole. Since age seven,
Brockett hos been free of corree-
tional facilities for a total of only
three years.

EDGEMONT VILLAGE

Corner of Edgemont Blvd. & Queens
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Cockpit transcripts of last year's
crash of the Agroflot jet in Siberia
reveal the pilot's LG-yeur-old sen
and f2-year-old daughter were con-
stantly playing with the controls
during the fight.

One of the last communications
was the girl asking, “Daddy, can |
turn this?

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