Strange Things Are Happening - Sunday School students at Middletown's Church of the Nazarene have an instructor who spends much of his spare time collecting newspaper clippings about situations that usually do not occur in Sunday School or, for that matter, anywhere. W.D. Carmichael, 2213 Hill Ave, owns a scrap book stuffed with items of grotesque and uncommon interest ranging from two-headed babies to a celebrated Middletown murder to a 700 pound fat boy. The 74-year-old retired Armco Steel Corp. employee defends the usefulness of his hobby in the Church classroom. "Sometimes I bring up one of the items in the class," he points out. "It takes away from the monotony of the lesson if you can switch interest." For example when hogs turn up in the Bible, Carmichael sparks up interest by telling about the 1,250 pound porky who stepped into the Cincinnati Union stockyards on April 6, 1938...

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