SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Fern McDonald: “I feel a little guilty—so many people compliment me on my beautiful flowers when they belong to Ralph Hornbrook.” Martha Cramer: “I think our Fair is wonderful and I’d certainly hate for a time to come when we couldn’t have it.” Warren Harding: “It will take us a week or more to get back to normal at the Extension Office after the Fair.” Harry Butler: “Cleaning the Fair advertising off the store windows gave the people something to do after the Fair.” * Stockton was to have a dentist again. Dr.

* And So They Say: Mrs. Jo Stewart: “Those acts at the Fair Monday night were as good or better than any that I and the kids saw at the Barnum and Bailey Circus in Texas a few weeks ago.” Babe Noble: “I never saw Kansas so green in August.” John B. Smith: “When we were in Kansas City last week at the furniture market, we bought some lamps and learned that the bases came from the Stockton Manufacturing Company.” Don Unruh (looking at Virgil Olson’s giant tomatoes): “I throw away the ones I grow that are only that size.”

* And So They Say: Pat Reed: “It always cools off here the week I’m away on my vacation.” Madalyn Lambert: “I don’t have anything for you today, but I may have some around Christmas.” George Ostmeyer: “For the past two years, the Rooks County Free Fair has had about 100 motorcycle riders, and between 16 and 20 of them are the top riders in the nation.” Jo Carmichael: “Wouldn’t you know it. We are re-arranging our store already.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Currie: “It’s too bad that the fairgoers didn’t get to see Stan Krysl working on the Lions Club permanent shelter at the fairgrounds because that was some extra good entertainment.” Betty Harding: “My boss is just like my husband. Everything I tell him goes in one ear and out the other.” Ollie Ochampaugh (Monday): “Something we can do is take the weather as it comes and the kind that came today isn’t hard to take.” Dode Morrissey: “I’m planning to hug some of those Yellowstone Park bears when I go on my vacation.” R. J. Baker: “You could have a headline this week saying ‘Stockton visits Stockton.’ That’s my stepfather’s name and he was here.”

* And So They Say: Dean King: “This stupid idea of federal offices closing for a Moon Holiday is just about to make me change my politics.” Jess Jarrett: “Pudy Larson didn’t close his business on Monday because he’s a Democrat.” Joe Cadoret: “I couldn’t see the moon on Sunday night so I don’t know whether those men were really up there.” Dennis Kreller (Sunday): “Today’s a special day for me to remember on my seventh birthday. The astronauts landed on the moon. We should celebrate together.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: W. McCaslin (reading And So They Say column): “I don’t ever want to see my name in that darn column.” Dode Morrissey: “Everyone knows I’m a sort of a pest.” Harry Butler: “I think the rain did my tomatoes so much good that maybe my wife can have some too.” Bernard Carson of California: “I never saw Kansas look better.” * Marvin and Edward Lucky bailed out the Record for the second time in less than a year when the motor of the Model 8 Linotype machine ceased to run.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Bessie Marsell: “I don’t know why it couldn’t have rained before I spent two evening watering my lawn.” Doyal Hrabe: “When you are camping out, I don’t know which is worse, the wind or the mosquitoes—but you are bound to have one or the other.” Sterling Bagby: “My philosophy is that it’s better to try and fail than not to try at all.” Betty Cadoret: “You don’t know what trouble is unless our kid has brought home a bunch of baby jackrabbits.” * Two employees of the Rooks County Highway Department reached retirement age and had worked their last week. They were Ustle Bemis, who had been with the department since 1962, and Eugene Palmer, who began his duties in 1961.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Betty Hunter: “I just wonder how many thousands of miles Ella Hock’s sewing machine has sewn. It really should be placed in a museum.” Pudy Larson: “The bank will be closed Saturday for my birthday.” George Ostmeyer; “The people in the grandstands can slide all over the seats as much as they want to this year without fear of splinters.” Wilma Look: “I think everyone picked cherries over the weekend.” George Riffel: “If I only had one combine, I’d only have one broken down.” * Kerry McCue definitely attracted accidents.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Elmer Slansky: “The radishes out of my garden look more like turnips, but they taste like radishes.” Albert Richardson: “Record ads are really effective as I got my bee hive back the same day the paper came out.” Ivan Combs: “If I don’t get the family news in the paper, I’ll get shot.” Don Unruh: “Judging by the music they like, I guess the kids’ ears just aren’t tuned the same way ours are.” Kerry McCue: “You didn’t get my name in the paper last week. I busted out the stitches in my arm and had to have it sewed up again.” * Stockton’s new Coast-To-Coast Store was set to open with a full stock of brand-new merchandise.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Mary Alice Boethin: “I don’t stay at home very much because I think too much when I’m at home.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “I try to buy everything I can in Stockton. I don’t know why I should help support some other town.” John B.