56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Blackie Randall: “I wouldn’t shoot a deer even if I had a license to do so.” Bill Green: “Bob LeFort and his wife sure are ambitious people. I see them delivering papers in the morning now before they go to work.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Mrs. Tom Shaw: “We could have sold at least three bicycles from the ad we had in the Record last week.” Gil Thyfault: “I wish folks would quit calling me Mr.

* And So They Say: Mrs. J. L. Morrissey: “We had a nice vacation, but I’m certainly glad to get back where you don’t have to fight traffic and look at hippies.”

* And So They Say: Fair Secretary George (Butch) Ostmeyer: “It was worth all the headaches of the Fair Board to see the faces of all those kids when they got their first look at Lassie.” Glen Buss: “Just because I have 24 cuckoo clocks is not a sign that I’m cuckoo.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Clarence Heiner: “Most of this summer, I’ve got nothing done but water my tomato plants.” Milt Boethin: “Jo Stewart sure started something when she had us run that new cement walk in front of the Maris Store.”

* And So They Say: Pat Reed: “So you object to paying six cents for a stamp, but just ask yourself what else you can buy for six cents.” Maxine Kenworthy: “The reason we used to get along without air conditioning is because we were used to being hot.”

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “One thing you can always expect on a trip is trouble.” Judge Gilbert: “It looks like most laws these days are just to protect the criminals.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Ken Bates: “Our biggest news is that we will be celebrating our first anniversary of being in business for ourselves next week.” Lu Slansky: “When I get tired, I’m not just tired—my feet hurt.”

* And So They Say: Bill Bedore: “It isn’t the heat that’s getting me down this summer—it’s the gnats.” Leo Bird: “Making a hole in one is a thrill that comes only once in a lifetime— and sometimes not that often.”

* And So They Say: Virgil Olson: “It really is a small world. The first people we saw when we stopped to stay all night at a motel at Denton, Texas, enroute to Dallas, were some people from Palco.” Rae Hageman: “I think I could cut out a dress for myself and make it blindfolded.”