56 Years Ago

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Aggie Henry: “I took my first plane trip last week and now I can’t see why anyone wants to travel any other way.” Edna Blauer: “My week’s vacation will be over before Floyd and I make up our minds what we are going to do.

* And So They Say: Veda Van Horn: “Wouldn’t you know that I’d break my toe the first day of the week I took off from work?” Luke Mitchell: “I think I’m a little too old to enter a beauty contest now.” Mike Kreller: “I certainly want to thank whoever sent me a $5.

* And So They Say: Leta Bouchey: “I got my hair wet and it shrunk!” Betty Harding: “I never saw such beautiful wild flowers as there are around here this spring.” Vernon Sammons: “Stockton looks better than ever to us after traveling over 3,600 miles on our trip.

* And So They Say: Carolyn Fetterolf: “Since we’ve had a cat, I’ve come to realize that it is true you don’t own a cat—it owns you.” Pudy Larson: “All kids aren’t idiots. We’ve had some mighty smart ones come out of Stockton.” Jake Willis: “I’m retired and now I’m tired. My wife works me too hard.

* And So They Say: Jo Stewart: “I lived through the winter with a monkey in the house most of the time, and now that he is out of doors most of the time, I guess I can live through the summer.