56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Anne Henderson: “I had a lot to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day. I didn’t have to cook at the lunchroom and my husband went hunting all day so I got all my floors scrubbed and waxed.” Daisy Fetterolf: “I don’t think too many people had fresh stuff out of their garden for Thanksgiving, but we had green onions.”

* One of the six national awards in the 4-H Club beef projects went to Jerry McReynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McReynolds of Woodston. Jerry was a member of the Woodston Sunflower 4-H. The award was made at the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago at which Jerry had been in attendance.

* Death had come to Loyal Walker at his home in north Stockton as he slept. He had been suffering from a heart condition and had been hospitalized, but his death was unexpected. He was 59 years of age and had lived all his life in this area where he had been engaged in a trucking business.

* Mrs. Madelyn Murray and her current husband had been in Stockton on Friday and had called at the courthouse to see about the taxes on the property of Other American, Inc. She had attracted no attention, however, either friendly or otherwise.

* The Stockton Rural High School girls basketball team was off to a good start with Johnnie Locke as their coach. The twenty-four girls on the team were Kathy Look, Jody Johnston, Sharon Pettijohn, Linda Lowry, Sandra Kriley, Bonnie Yoxall, Norma Bellerive, Kathryn Bellerive, Sherry Cook, Vicki Olson, Connie Dix, Bonnie Dix, Joelle McCall, Maralyn Springer, Linda Poore, Marva Desaire, Dianne Yoxall, Diana Boyd, Cathy Ellison, Karen Jones, Saundra Walker, Diane Peterson, Jody Casad and Debbie Niermeier.

* Approximately 140 Friendship Boxes containing toys and other Christmas gifts for Vietnam children had been sent last week by the Rooks County Junior Red Cross to the office at Wichita. The boxes had been filled by the following schools and organizations: Woodston, Webster, Codell and Stockton Grade Schools, Plainville and Stockton FHA Chapters, ESA Sorority, Stockton FFA, Palco 4-H Club and Plainville Christian Church.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: Things are not as bad as they could be.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Rooks County had led the state in oil production for the week. Don Bigge had placed second high individual at the National Poultry Convention.

* As We Think It: You can fill those Christmas stockings just as well with gift items from the Stockton stores as you can from the pretty mail order catalogues. And besides, you can see what you are getting.

* On sale at Slansky IGA were twenty grapefruit or apples for $1.00, choice sirloin steak for 89¢ a pound, a two-pound bag of roasted peanuts in the shell for 79¢ and rib end cut pork chops for 59¢ a pound.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre were the movies “Those Calloways” and “Circus World” starring John Wayne, and Rita Hayworth.