56 Years Ago

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: R. J.

* 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.'

* 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.'

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.'

* 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.

* 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.”

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.”

* 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.”

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.'

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.”