* And So They Say: Mrs. Everett Stewart: 'I've had a television set for 15 years and the United Fund Telethon is the most interesting program I've ever seen. I didn't realize we had so much area talent.' Freddie Baughman: “I told my son that if he comes home from college with long hair, he'll go back with it shorter than it would be if Uncle Sam cut it for him.' Mrs. Ben Niermeier: 'The only interesting thing I did all week was to get an hour's extra sleep Saturday morning.'

* And So They Say: Betty Hunter: 'Our high school band made the best appearance of any band at the Fort Hays Homecoming.' Leo Kollman: “Everyone should go to Acapulco before they die.' Matt Mullen: 'My wife keeps me too busy around the house since I retired.' Bill Waller: 'It isn't because I don't want to go places—I just don't have time anymore. I have to work too hard.'

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Chuck Ostmeyer (commenting on his Colorado vacation): 'It's the first time I ever stood in two feet of snow to fish.' Howard Webster: “I think it's going to be a long winter.' Chuck Waller: 'It seems to me we had an awfully short summer.' Richard Carmichael: 'I think the people who spend most of their time on Main Street know less about what's going on in town than the ones who stay at home.' * SP-4 and Mrs. James L.

* And So They Say: Paul Ballinger: “I saw Warren Harding this time at the K-State football game.” Ernest Trible: “This time of year, you’re turning something on all the time— either the air conditioner or the furnace.” Kenneth Buss: “My wife had a birthday last week. She is sweet sixteen—well, anyway, she is sweet.” Pudy Larson: “Roy Mallum came home and the first thing we get is a frost.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Buss: “They are sure growing kids big these days. My 16-year-old grandson is six feet tall.” Bump Arrington: “I nearly struck an antelope on the highway in Wyoming, and I think I saw at least 500 on my trip.” Barbara Riffe: “Fall is the nicest time of the year if the flies would just leave you alone.” Jim Chastain: “The spider that bit Pudy Larson died.” Red Hagan: “I want you to know that I didn’t paint my toe nails. It was those girls down at the Health Center while I was helpless.” Ollie Ochamapaugh: “Everyone talks about being so hard up, but you can’t find anyone to do any work.”

And So They Say: Lt. Dale Baxter: “Everywhere I go I’m still a Tiger—first Stockton High, then Fort Hays State, then Detroit, and now Missouri U.” Paul Marshall: “No matter who plays the New York Jets, I hope they win.” Jo Carmichael: “I always have a terrible time getting anything out of a box, and even a worse time getting it back in.” Stan Krysl: “I don’t know anything that is fit to print—and very little that isn’t.” Butch Ostmeyer on Monday: “Today is my birthday, but I don’t see any flags flying.” Chuck Waller: “After watching some of the out-of town coaches in action, I think the Stockton people should be most happy to have gentlemen for their team coaches.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: ‘I’ve never worked so hard in my life as I have since I retired.” Red Holmes: “When I see all the stuff on television about what is happening in the big cities, I’m mighty glad I live in a quiet little town like Woodston.” R. J. Baker: “I’m counting on the first freeze getting the mosquitoes that the spraying didn’t get.” Virgil Bird: “I think I know at least one person to every 50 square miles in Texas, and I’ve met most of them on bus tours.” Chuck Ostmeyer: “This was the quietest weekend I ever spent as I did nothing but behave myself.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Adaline Zoller: 'You don't learn much digging weeds.' Paul Marshall on Monday:' All I know is that today is my wife's birthday, but I don't dare tell how old she is.' Bump Arrington: 'The mosquitoes are so big and numerous this year that when a swarm goes over it sounds like an airplane.' Jo Carmichael: 'It's a good thing we were all too poor to go to the VFW Convention in Chicago, as the convention was in Philadelphia.' Velma Bartlett: 'I was talking to some tourists the other day who thought Stockton was one of the nicest little towns they had ever been in. They seemed to like everything about it.' * The dog-gonedest story you ever heard was about Paul Lowry's little female dog named Duchess.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Dave Oyer: “We spent two quiet days at home—and enjoyed them.” Madalyn Lambert: “In spite of the citations we received at the National VFW Convention in Chicago, we were all too poor to attend it.” Maxine Bates: “I wonder if anyone else ever caught their finger in the cash register.” Velma Bedore: “Bill and I are the only hillbillies left in the Bedore family.” George Ostmeyer: “You’ve never tried anything until you’ve given mouth-tomouth resuscitation to a bullfrog.” * Leon McComb & Sons had closed out a very successful rodeo season with the rodeo at Grant, Nebraska. They had eleven rodeos during the season for which they furnished the stock, including Brahma bulls, and all were two to three-day affairs.

* And So They Say: Bill Dixon: “Those Big Chief tablets used to sell for 5¢— only then no one had 5¢.” Mary Cruts: “The patch over my eye is necessary because a bush attacked me.” Lucia Hamilton: “The five and a half inches of rain did some good. It washed the bug juice off of my car.” Leta Bouchey: “In his work for the Fair, I think Butch Ostmeyer goes far beyond the call of duty.” Spec Dillingham: “My rain gauge had over eight inches of rain, and so did Red Hagan’s, and we wouldn’t both be lying about it.”