* And So They Say: Nolan Harper: “I went fishing yesterday, but all I got was a boat ride.” Stella Willis: “You water, and water and water, and nothing comes up but weeds.” Leighton Marshall: “Friday the 13th isn’t always unlucky. My oldest son was born on Friday the 13th, was married on that day and his daughter was also born on Friday the 13th.”

* And So They Say: Maxine Kenworthy: “Thirteen is not an unlucky number. I now have 13 grandchildren.” Lee Phelps: “The thing kids like best about a party is the food.” John Wells: “I hate to have to eat all this ice cream, but they want me to gain weight. But I don’t know what they’re fattening me up for.”

* And So They Say: Vernie Degenhardt: “It’s a nice day, but it would be a lot nicer out on the bank at the lake.” Robert Osborn: “I resemble my late grandfather quite a bit, except that he wore a beard and I don’t, and he was short and I am tall.” Howard Wanamaker: “Nothing has happened to me this past week except that I’ve gotten to be a week older.” Jess Riffe: “It doesn’t hurt to try to make people think you do all the housework.”

* And So They Say: Floyd Fix: “Doesn’t it always rain on the day of the junior/ senior banquet?” Twila Strutt: “At the secretarial seminar we went to on Saturday, we didn’t really learn anything new, but were reminded of what we already knew and weren’t putting into practice.” Lloyd Hollern: “I got some smart pills in Hays on Sunday.” Clark Stocking: “Well, this is the big week—the week that Batman comes to local television screens.”

* And So They Say: Virgil Bird: “I went bowling and made a strike, and I think it should be in the paper.” Kenneth Medley: “I’d get into trouble if I told you what I know.” Erma Jean Price: “We have fewer little pigs now than we’ve had anytime since the first of the year. We only have 180 now.” Jessie Hammond: “Believe it or not, but I gained this weight on my own cooking.”

* And So They Say: Clark Stocking: “When I came here eight years ago, I planned to make a thorough inspection trip of the Webster Dam area that summer, and I haven’t done it yet.” Mary Alice Boethin: “This summer I’d like to play golf all morning, get a crew cut so I can swim all afternoon, and a wig so I can play bridge all night.” Elmer Kern: “All I’m doing now is waiting for it to rain.” Judge James Gilbert: “It seems to me the law is favoring the criminals more and more all the time.”

* And So They Say: Ken Bates: “I didn’t do a thing this weekend—thank goodness!” Charlotte Riffe: “I bought me a new fishing hat which I wish I could wear on Easter as I think it looks better on me than my dress-up hat.” Jack Berkley: “I think the colleges stagger their spring vacations so that all the kids won’t be dumped onto their hometowns at the same time.”

* And So They Say: Paul Marshall: “I’ve got to get my hair cut or they’ll be calling me ‘Shep.’” Ed Reichard: “I don’t think it’s spring yet. My rattlesnakes are still asleep.” Kenneth Medley: “I did have a small bank account until this morning and then I paid my income tax.” Nellie Kern: “I’m sure I could bowl better if they would move the pins about halfway up the alley and put a railing along the sides.”

* And So They Say: Fred McMichael: “As a painter, I’m a good electrician.” Judge Gilbert: “There are some advantages to getting old. I don’t have to buy a fishing license.” Charley Baxter (reading the grocery ad in the Record): “Fresh eggs from the country—but it doesn’t say what country.” Leta Bouchey: “When I saw Benny Wildrix at the hospital after his accident, I told him it looked as if he must have been running around with Cassius Clay.”

* And So They Say: Coach Johnny Locke: “Kelly Desmarteau had the distinction of being the only player in the state tournament who hit 100% of his field goal tries.” John B. Smith: “It would take up less space in the paper if you’d just list the people who didn’t go to the tournament.” Rachel Barnes: “Stockton never had such an epidemic of laryngitis as there was the day after the tournament closed.”