* And So They Say: Lester Eckart: “Coming home in that wind Sunday I had the pickup wide open but couldn’t get it past 35 miles per hour.” Don Peebles: “We dodged tornadoes all the way home from Kansas City on Sunday.” Stanley Krysl: “Now that income tax time is over, maybe I’ll have time to find out something.”

* And So They Say: Everett Hughes: “Switzerland is the only country that is really as beautiful as the picture postcards make out.” Ben Winfough: “Just because a man is an ex-service man, that doesn’t mean he’s especially fitted for a public office.” Don Peebles: “The only thing I know is that we all have sore backs, etc. from climbing up on stools and chairs Sunday while invoicing.”

* And So They Say: Betty Harding: “With all the things that are happening in other places, we should all be glad we live in Kansas.” Bernard Carlson: “Outside of numbers, the Messiah chorus at Lindsborg was no better than our local chorus.” Stella Willis: “Well, I hope I’m retired before the bank gets in any more special issue coins.”

* And So They Say: Clara Liebenau: “I certainly am getting a fine birthday present—this rain.” Elton Smith: “By the time I know it, it’s history—not news.” Mrs. Paul Marshall: “When I get the Record, I always read the ‘And So They Say’ first then turn to the classified ads.”

* And So They Say: Earl Bartholomew: “I’ve only lived a day at a time ever since I’ve been bornf Doyle Cook: “I broke in my fishing luck Sunday by catching two nice channels.” Elizabeth Dryden: “I went hunting again, but I’m not going to tell the Record about it.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR...1964

* And So They Say: Maxine Bates: “I’m afraid if I should ever put on one of those new model bathing suits, I’d never come out from behind the bushes.” Lee Phelps: “Most everyone will be eating Girl Scout cookies for the next few weeks unless they freeze some of them.” Ralph Burlin: “I thought March came in like a lion because I forgot to look at my calendar to see that February had 29 days.”

* And So They Say: Les Eckart: “You haven’t tried anything till you’ve tried to get a passport photo.” Butch Ostmeyer: “I don’t think it will be too long until we have the 1964 Fair lined up pretty well.”

* And So They Say: Dave Oyer: “I put fertilizer on my lawn on top of the snow and I’ll bet the grass will be a foot tall in a month.” Francis Cadoret: “There’s no need of putting the fire in the paper as everyone in town was there by the time we got there.” Leo Bird: “I don’t know anything— and I’m not sure of that.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1964 * And So They Say: Spec Dillingham: “I’ve already started my flower garden—in the basement.” Leonard Liebenau: “I’m enjoying the nice weather, but I wish someone would