56 Years Ago

Body * And So They Say: Gene Miller: “I’m afraid I planted my potatoes the wrong time of the moon.” Elva Walker: “My want list is always bigger than my need list.

Body * And So They Say: Lee-Roy Doty: “Before I joined the Lions Club, I couldn’t stand up on my feet and say even two words to a group of people or at any kind of meeting.” Rhada Hutton: “We went fishing over the weekend, but all I caught was a cold.

Body * And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I’m one hundred percent for the kids of this town.” John Wells: “Nice weather isn’t getting us what we need.” George Riffel: “I’ve seen a lot of places, but there just aren’t many that can begin to compare with Stockton.

Body * And So They Say: Jody Sanders: “I’m looking forward to April when the Kansas Anthropological Society will have a dig near Alton.” Robert Osborn: “I was late for work on Tuesday morning because it took me so long to find my raincoat.

Body * And So They Say: Clarence Spencer: “They told us this was going to be a wet year, so it better begin pretty soon.” Blackie Randall: “The only news I know is about myself, and I won’t tell that stuff.” Red Hagan: “I couldn’t be any more Irish if I had been born in Ireland.

Body * And So They Say: Bill Gouldman: “If I had known that Warren Miller was such a good cook, I’d have had him cooking instead of shooting snooker.” Viola Balderston: “I’m going to quit work so that I can go fishing with my husband.

Body * And So They Say: Dean King: “I found a shark’s tooth Sunday, but that isn’t news as the woods are full of them.” Red Hagan: “Lee Phelps put out two flags on Washington’s birthday. The big one he said was for George’s birthday and the little one, for mine.

Body * And So They Say: Mary Jo Robinson: “If Wilbur had bought me a Valentine, I’d have known for sure that he had been up to something.” City manager Harper: “I think the new engine down at the power plant should be installed and operating by May.

Body * And So They Say: Lucille Scott: “My husband usually remembers our wedding anniversary as it falls on Valentine’s Day.” Francis Eshler: “If I’d buy my wife a Valentine, she’d wonder what I had been up to.

Body * And So They Say: Ig Gross: “It’s hard not to know anything, but it’s not impossible.” Velma Bedore: “I do my duty, and that is all I do.” Kenneth Medley: “When I grunt, I am not ignoring you.