56 Years Ago

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1970 * And So They Say: Jack Miller: 'I felt sorry for my father-in-law this year as his birthday fell on Father's Day.' Leonard Dix: 'I hate to ask for dry weather in this part of the country—but I am.

* And So They Say: Clark Stocking: 'No more fishing for me in the Ozarks since $6.75 was a pretty high price to pay for one scrawny little fish.' Fred McMichael: 'I don't like to go home because my wife always puts me on the end of a hoe.

* And So They Say: Ernest Trible: 'Believe it or not, but it does seem awfully good to be back to work again.' Freddie Baughman: “I’m a girl. I thought everyone knew it, but I've found out there are a lot of people in Rooks County who do not.

* And So They Say: R. J. Baker: 'It just better not rain on Friday. That is when the Farm Bureau has its annual fish fry.

* And So They Say: Paul Ballinger: 'Well, I’ve run out of grade school kids now.' Howard Webster: 'When your youngest kid gets too old to want to go places with you, you have to take your grandchildren.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1970 * And So They Say: Sumner Southard: 'There were so many people downtown when I came to work Saturday morning that I thought I was two hours late.' Chuck Waller 'Only ten more days till my mother comes from Virginia to see me.

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: 'These people who are rioting and doing everything they can to tear down this country should talk to some who have lived behind the Iron Curtain. A refugee couple sat by Pudy and me on the plane coming home from Hawaii.

* And So They Say: Roy Slansky, 'If I would die, I would probably be buried before anyone found out about it.' Betty Jacobs: 'I don't care much where I live just so I don't have to live in a big city.' Ivan Combs: 'I sure got my bald head sunburned Sunday.

* And So They Say: Richard Pinnick: 'You wonder if there isn't something they can do with empty beer cans. Well, there is, you can throw them out the car window.

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: 'Ask Chuck Schruben howhestayedathome two days last week.' Abbie Tipton: “I’m glad I don't have a family to raise these days—particularly if I had to do it in a city.' Jakie Willis: 'I'm allergic to work.