Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.

MICE-LESS MAZE / This kitten pokes its head from some electrical conduits stacked at the construction site of the new federal building in Fargo, N. D., after an apparently fruitless search through all those likely-looking tubes.

There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.

Tomorrow morning to the Council board He be convented.