* And So They Say: Don Unruh: “My boy was pretty proud of the fish he caught even if the bait was bigger than the fish.” Erma Jean Price: “What I need is a vacation from a vacation.” Harold Maddy: “My dad caught the most fish and the biggest fish of anyone on the boat the day we went deep sea fishing.” Les Sheahorn: “It rained as soon as McCaslin, Hamilton and McMichael left town. Why didn’t someone get them out sooner?”

* And So They Say: Gene Miller: “The only thing there is to talk about is the weather.” Dorothia Lytle: “Our new granddaughter was supposed to be a grandson.” Freddie Baughman: “Where are my shoes, you ask? Well, they are where I left my dignity.” Curley Walker: “I don’t bother to weigh a fish if it’s less than three feet long.” Arnold Dix (at Tuesday night’s ball game): “I’ve been missing a lot of good ball games because I thought the Legion team was the little kids team.” * Mr. and Mrs. James

* And So They Say: Jack Berkley: “John doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to cut his wages for calling that strike on me.” Dean King: “I’ve managed to air condition everything except my favorite fishing holes.” Freddie Baughman: “Well, we went to the lake Sunday and barbecued ourselves.” Leighton Marshall: “There is some advantage to being old. You remember the Drought of 1934 and don’t get as excited about this hot weather as the younger people.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Buss: “You won’t believe it, but my wife has a tomato plant with 75 tomatoes on it, and another with 60.” Kenneth Currie: “Duane says it’s hotter than a dollar pistol—but I say it’s hotter than a two-dollar pistol.” Lester Maddy: “I always tell my company they can’t stay if they don’t work.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall (looking at the thermometer registering 100 degrees): “There goes our grass.” Frank Mitchell: “Anything I earn after six o’clock, I get to keep for myself.”

* And So They Say: Don Grieve: “Don’t blame the new cars or their manufacturers for accidents as 90 percent of all accidents are caused by the ‘nut’ behind the wheel.” Blackie Randall: “I’d like to trade some fishing tackle for an old yeller dog. The dog would do me just about as much good as the fishing tackle.” Ray Bigge: “I don’t think it was a friend that Les Eckart loaned his battery charger to.” Elvin Keiswetter: “By the looks of Roy Slansky, he either spent the weekend in the harvest field or sunning himself in the backyard.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Stella Willis: “Everyone better beware of Pudy’s Batmobile.” Francis Cadoret: “It was certainly a welldressed fire department that made the fire run Sunday as most of the men left church in a hurry.” Joanna Stewart: “When I was in the hospital, I swore that if they ever let me out of bed, I’d never get tired again.” Merle Hus: “We think Six Flags Over Texas is as good as Disneyland and not nearly so far away. I was surprised at all the shade trees, benches and ice water they provide for visitors.” * Mrs.

* And So They Say: Les Eckart: “I’ll buy someone a t-bone steak if they’ll tell me what friend I loaned my battery charger to.” Judge Gilbert: “Even with plastic over all of the north windows, all we are able to do is try to keep the dust from sandblasting us out of the courthouse.” Iva Roskilly: “They’ve got cards for about everything, but I don’t know whether they have any saying, ‘Sorry to hear you are in the penitentiary.’”

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “The Stockton kids are sure lucky to have such a good swimming pool these hot days, and I hope they appreciate it.” Mabel Bartlett: “I do an awful lot of things, but don’t do anything very well.” Merton Van Eaton: “I didn’t catch any fish, and it didn’t rain, so I don’t have any news.” O. T. Meador: “Planting our garden in the right time of the moon isn’t of as much importance as giving it the right amount of good old city water.”

* And So They Say: Susan Hamilton (age 4 after her first year at Bible School): “Mommy, how do you wash up God? I’ve heard this a dozen times at Bible School.” Leo McCue: “What does a man have to do to get his name in the paper? I cut my finger and had to have stitches in it last week—but didn’t read a thing about it in the paper.” Florence Coolbaugh (Nevada, Mo.): “The Record prints more local news than any weekly paper I know of.”

* And So They Say: Tony Kreller: “I’m the kind of guy who will sneak in any place where they leave the gate open.” Harry Brewer: “Why doesn’t someone do something about this lack of rain business? It seems they don’t listen to me.” Irma Renner: “I wish I knew just half as much as I thought I knew when I graduate from high school.”