56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Chuck Reed: “If it rains, I hope I get the credit because I have one ordered.” Spec Dillingham: “You don’t know much about buying a watermelon if you plunk it to see if it is ripe. I read that in the Kansas City Star.” Harry Butler: “I’m glad you didn’t hear what I just said about the raise in Blue Cross/Blue Shield rates. It wouldn’t be fit to print.”

* Mrs. Sophia Hazen was voted in as the USD No. 271 Board of Education president. Winton Sheffer was vice president. Other members were John Towns, Elvin Melton, Dr. B. M. Korb and Erle Muir. The superintendent was William A. Voss.

* Sixteen stockholders of the Stockton Development Corporation gave the green light to authorize the board of directors to make arrangements for the loan to Stockton Bowling, Inc. at an interest charge of one-fourth of one per cent.

* Season tickets for all nine of the programs for the Rooks County Free Fair were on sale at various places of businesses in the county. The tickets were to sell for $10.00, which was a savings of $3.00 from the regular price. Tickets could be obtained in Stockton at Webster’s Supermarket, Boyd and Conn’s, Lee Phelps Cash Drug, Rip’s Conoco, Ostmeyer’s, Maris Store and Pla-Mor Cafe.

* The Bird’s Army Store in Plainville had been broken into by someone forcing in the back door. As near as the management could tell, nothing was taken but two pairs of boots.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: It isn’t always the big things that leave their marks. Take, for instance, a mosquito.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: A total of 895 people registered at Smith’s during their 50th anniversary celebration. The county budget was asking for a levy of 12.85 mills, an increase of 1.34 mills. The Packard belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brewer had caught fire and burned as they were moving from Tescott to Stockton.

* Mr. and Mrs. John Thummel, Jr. had announced the engagement of their daughter, Theresa Louis, to Robert Kriley, son of Mrs. Irene Kriley of Stockton. A September wedding was being planned.

* On sale at Oyer Food Market were six Sunkist lemons for 19¢, chopped ham for 69¢ a pound, a one-pound can of Butternut coffee for 73¢, and three cans of Wilderness cherry pie mix for 79¢.

* The engagement of Georgia Elaine Riffe to Stephen W. Larson was announced. The wedding was to take place on August 14th at the First Methodist Church in Stockton.

* Several Stockton young people were attending the annual High Plains Music Camp at Fort Hays. They were Brad Bates, Dennis Doty, Jim Giebler, Elaine Inman, Nick Lowe, Kerry Maddy, Craig Phelps, Rhonda Maddy, Mike Saunders and Bonnie Yoxall.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In were the movies “The Rounders” starring Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda and Chill Wills, and “Taggart” starring Tony Young, and Dan Duryea.