* And So They Say: Milt Boethin: “I’m fixing up some of the rooms at the Owl Court so they will be the nicest between Kansas City and Denver.” Lee Phelps: “Ask Leo Bird about the skunk he shot in my yard Sunday. He got rid of the skunk, but not the smell.” Clark Stocking: “Warren Harding and I won the bowling tournament. It isn’t for publication, but there weren’t many against us.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Betty Cadoret: “I think the new drapes at the Midway Café should make headlines.” Jess Riffe: “When it comes to knowing news, I’m the dumbest person in town.” Bob Osborn: “I know more about washing dishes than most women do.” Clark Stocking: “I never do anything or make any decision unless my wife tells me to. That is the safest procedure.” Paul Ballinger: “The only things I now are what my wife tells me.” * Tragedy struck Stockton, taking the lives of two people, critically inuring three, and injuring another.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Glen Buss: “I’ve got 32 clocks. They are all kinds, shapes and sizes, but I don’t let them all strike at once.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Bernice Brown (Holdrege, Neb.): “If the Apollo 8 didn’t do anything else it certainly put an end to linking romance with the moon, as the pictures and descriptions by the astronauts have proved it to be the most unromantic looking place.” Maxine Bates: “One thing we can always count on is the Christmas exchange business being good.” Dave Oyer: “After two weeks of a holiday in the middle of the week and the paper getting to us on Tuesday, it will take at least another week to get back to normal again.” * The Robert Osborn family, which had been called to Vermillion, S. D.

* And So They Say: Frankie Dillingham: “When Spec comes home sick from work, you know he’s sick enough to stay for a few days.” Alma Maddy: “We won’t be having any more holidays for a while— not till—or is Ground Hog Day a holiday?” Mrs. Ben Niermeier: “Going to school programs has been the order of the day the past week in our family— but they’ve all been worth going to.” Paul Marshall: “That Mr. Nicholas has certainly done things for our school bands.”

* And So They Say: Velma Maddy: “All we did over the weekend was stay at home and enjoy the flu.” Elmer Odle: “No fooling, we do get Christmas cards from people we’ve had in jail.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “These cold days, even a one degree temperature rise makes it seem a lot warmer.” Dean King: “With all this flu around, I might as well have moved my bed down to the pharmacy.” Elmer Kern: “They say if you get the Hong Kong flu and take the proper medication, you’ll get over it in seven days, but if you don’t take any medicine it will take you a week to get over it.”

* And So They Say: Christine Peterson: “I am so absent-minded that I wouldn’t have dared change my name when I got married. I never would have been able to remember it.” Pat Reed: “I guess I must be a kind of oddball as I’m getting a little bit tired of football on TV.” Harry Butler: “I’m not going to get my wife a color television. I’m the only luxury she can afford.” Dave Oyer: “I don’t move as fast as I used to. When I turn the light out now, I can hardly even get in bed before it goes out.”

* And So They Say: Cleo Baughman: “I think there ought to be something in the Record about Lucia getting picked up for speeding near Salina.” Margaret Kendall: “By the time Thanksgiving gets here, I don’t particularly enjoy turkey.” Dot Hrabe: “Some ways it isn’t so bad when you lose your voice, but it’s sure hard to holler at the kids.” Maxine Kenworthy: “I have 70 percent of my Christmas shopping done.”

* And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “It used to be Asian Flu, now its Hong Kong Flu, but it’s the same old thing.” Dean King: “They seem to come from a long ways to hunt around here. There’s one fellow out here from Michigan in a camper.” John B. Smith: “Christmas is all right, but I wish they’d wait until December to start it.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Kenneth Buss: “We haven’t been any place for so long that when we do go, it’s big news.” Joe Bedore: “I’m just a baby. When night comes, I want my bed.” Jo Stewart: “I haven’t had to do my own housework for so long that it’s about to kill me now.” Clark Stocking: “Stockton certainly looks nice with all the campaign posters and stickers disposed of.” Bertha Morel: “I’m going to get all my out-of-town visiting done before winter gets here; as they say, it will be a long, cold one.” * A collision at the intersection of North First and Walnut sent Brent Clayton and Kerry McCue to the Health Center for treatment for a number of severe cuts.