56 Years Ago

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Chuck Waller: “It’s awfully hard to convince the kids that it’s time to go to bed while the sun is still shining.” Linda Turnbull: “Sunday was the first time I ever went to a party empty handed and came home with a car full of loot.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “I think Loyalty Day is a good thing. This country could stand a little more loyalty.” Vivian Van Horn: “Some people are always late. They’d be late at their own funerals.” Velma Bedore: “This crazy weather—only 24 hours between the air conditioner and furnace.”

* And So They Say: Ivan Combs: “I really think my dad went to Norton Sunday to stake out a claim to a good fishing place on the lake being constructed there.”

* And So They Say: Irene Cabbage: “If my husband drank too much, I could send him off some place for the cure. But where can I send him when he eats too much?” Red Hagan: “As long as people are griping at me they are leaving other folks alone.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”