*AndSoTheySay:Chuck Hageman: “I am really glad that 1969 is over as maybe 1970 won’t be quite so hectic.” Lee Phelps: “The town certainly seems awfully empty this week with the kids all gone back to college and the population has shrunk considerably.” Eddie Hageman: “The food at the Air Force Academy is really good if you get a chance to eat it.” Lester Maddy: “I don’t know anything and people are beginning to catch on.” Ernest Trible: “It costs too much to live and you can’t afford to die.” Maxine Bates: “Brad came home from his SCUBA diving trip sunburned and broke.” Betty Harding: “David got a real thrill when Bob Hope performed for his outfit in Vietnam.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Frank Hrabe: “I have worked for John Russ for ten years and we’ve never had a word. So I’d say we get along real good.” Don Unruh (Saturday): “This snow is a little late for Christmas and a little early for New Year’s Day.” Jean Atwill: “How am I? Well, how is anyone after Christmas— broke.” Mrs.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Eva Jean Athon: “The thing I don’t like about Christmas is the extra intake of calories.” Ted Brunson: 'Even when a person asks me a sensible question, they usually don't get a very sensible answer.' Ruth Phelps: 'I think the high school Christmas program on Thursday night was the best I ever saw and heard.' Gene Miller: 'We really thought we had all the Christmas stamps we could possibly sell, but we ran out a week before Christmas.' Betty Cadoret: 'I'm glad I live out in this part of the state where the weather is nice most of the time.' Joyce Chapel (Hastings, Nebr.): 'No wonder nations can't get along. Joe and I even got into a fight over where we were going to put our 'Peace on Earth' Christmas greeting.' Police chief Virgil Hagan: 'A can of windshield spray will be a lot cheaper than paying a fine for driving with a frosted windshield.' * Mr.

* And So They Say: Postmaster Pat Reed: “We ordered a lot more Christmas stamps this year than we’ve ever had before and I hope the supply will last through the season. Colleen Richardson: 'I think they should change the date of Christmas or taxpaying time.' Jakie Willis: 'I get into enough trouble without saying anything.” Pauline Southard: 'Grandma just can't find enough Christmas presents for her new little grandson.' Kenneth Buss: 'I think it should be news when a person doesn't even get out of the yard over the weekend.' Ig Gross: 'I've hung up a sprig of mistletoe, but it isn't doing me any good.'

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: 'Chuck Schruben was gloating about beating the 'old ladies' at Bridge on Friday.' Dale Shelton: 'This snowy, damp weather is sure good for the dryer business at the laundry.' Merton VanEaton: My raccoon hasn't suffered any ill effects yet as a result of biting me.' Ernest Trible: 'I thought I had killed myself Sunday, but all I did was smash my thumb in the car door.' Charlie Baxter: 'Old Santa may be a little late this year on account of my running over one of his reindeer this fall.'

* And So They Say: Wanita Touslee: 'I was in six towns over the weekend, about the size or larger than Stockton, and none of the Main Street Christmas decorations were nearly as pretty as Stockton's.' Undersheriff Easter: 'Maybe someone should notify the Humane Society about how many turkeys were slaughtered last week.' Bob Lambert: 'Stockton looks better to me every day since coming back from Denver.' Lee Phelps: 'Some people don't realize yet that Christmas is just around the corner.' Lester Maddy: 'I get more mail since I moved to town than I did when I lived in the country. The gas company and the city utilities know me now.' Elaine Korb: 'My daughter Tessie's broken bones heal quickly because they've had so much practice—nine in 11 years.' Betty Hunter: 'My sister Pat Glendening, who is traveling in Europe, pulled a real switch this year for Thanksgiving— she was in Turkey.'

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Ollie Ochampugh: 'Everything always happens to everyone except me.' Lester Maddy: 'All that happens to me is I just get one day older every day.' Mrs. Willard Atwill: 'They give entirely too much publicity to the bad things the college kids do and not nearly enough to the fine things they accomplish.' Mary Alice Boethin: 'Just about anything I ever want to buy, I can buy right here in Stockton.' Kim Athon (age 3, after having her seatbelt fastened): 'Mommie, my girdle is killing me.' * A large crowd had attended the Joe Veverka estate sale, at which land, machinery, etc., were sold.

* And So They Say: Homer McCauley: 'When TV first came out, it was said that it would hold families together, but now it seems to be driving them apart as everyone has to watch a different program.' Gene Miller: 'I'm just a homebody. If you don't believe it, ask my wife.' Leo Bird: 'It is getting so you can't believe anything except what you read in the paper.' Madelyn Lambert: 'Time moves fast enough without them starting Christmas before Thanksgiving.' Floyd Blauer: 'I don't think I write so bad— it is just that most people can't read it.'

* And So They Say: Hilda McClellan: 'I was certainly ashamed of Stockton and the American Legion for not doing even one small thing towards the observation of Veterans Day.' Dave Oyer: 'This was the first time in 28 years that Eva and I didn't have pheasant hunter weekend guests.' Harry Griffin: 'I want to thank all the people who opened up some of the country roads which haven't been opened up since they were here last year.' Elmer Odle: 'Eleven pheasant hunters who couldn't find any place to sleep Friday night wanted to bed down in the jail.' Jimmy Sanders: 'There were plenty of pheasants around. They just weren't coming out to be shot at.' Leta Bouchey: 'You can't get shot for jay walking. but you can get run over.'

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: R. J.