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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Martha Cramer: “I just don’t see how anyone can bowl a 200 game and then in the next game only bowl a 104.” Vernon Sammons: “I didn’t get a pheasant. I didn’t even look for one and it’s for sure they didn’t look for me.” Gene Miller: “When hunting becomes work, it isn’t fun any more.” Robert Osborn: “Our granddaughter still can’t talk and she is over two months old!” * Mr.
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* And So They Say: Judge James Gilbert: “If anyone of us had done half the things all the presidential candidates claimed the other had done, we’d be in jail most of the time.” Bill Gouldman: “I went hunting but the ducks proved they were smarter than I was.” Keith Dryden: “Do you want to print what I said when I went in to pay my taxes?” Dave Oyer: “Why is it that there is never any room to park downtown in Phillipsburg, but there are never any more people in the stores than there are here?”
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* And So They Say: Ken Bates: “I checked and found that our Peanut Day business this year was better than last year.” Leta Bouchey: “We saw comedian Pat Paulson at Manhattan Saturdayandhewas better than the ball game.” Dean King: “I found out the hard way Sunday that the train time at Hays had changed.” Chuck Hageman: “Attending four football games in one week is about to make an old man out of me.” Elvin Keiswetter: “I’m remodeling my house so I can’t afford to go anywhere or have anyone in to eat.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “I think the decision of that Norton judge who published the names of the juvenile defenders will turn into a test case, and maybe we can get something done.” Twila Strutt: “My week started out fine. My small son dumped a quart jar of honey on the living room carpet Sunday.” Veda Van Horn: “The good Lord certainly knew what He was doing when He gave the kids to the young people.” Sterling Bagby (after Peanut Day): “I never want to see another peanut.” * What was supposed to have been a fun weekend for the Palco football team ended on a sour note when the team members and coaches lost a considerable amount of good clothing, toilet articles, and other personal effects.
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* And So They Say: Charley Baxter: “I guess Stockton must have lost its city dump. I went up there the other day and couldn’t find anything that looked like a dump.” June Arnold: “I wish we could have more weekends. My foot feels a lot better when I can sit around with it elevated.” Duffie Hindman: “The best news I know is that Washburn beat Fort Hays Saturday.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Lee Phelps: “I’ll always have money because I embedded a nickel in my new sidewalk.” John B. Smith: “Up in Maine, all the houses in the small towns and the country look like they had just been freshly painted the day before.” C.
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* And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “I fall down every time I stub my toe, and when I try to save my back, I hurt my elbow, so you can’t win for losing.” Elton Smith: “You don’t have to be capable to get your name on the ballot, even though it’s just a popularity contest.” Bud Lytle: ‘All I did over the weekend was no more than I had to.” Don Grieve: “I get mail from everywhere. I’m known all over the world.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Howard Webster: “As old as I am, it looks like I would know more than I do.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “Well, fall is here—but it turned out to be just some more summer.” Martha Cramer: “The more I sleep, the more I yawn.” Reid Baxter: “I don’t hear much news. I don’t have a backyard fence.” Red Conyac: “We need a good soaking, and I don’t care how much it delays the wheat planting.”.
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* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I certainly want to thank everyone for the fine cooperation to the several suggestions offered by the Police Department recently.” Bob Weltmer: “I’m a hardy character. I never go to the doctor when I need patching up.” Betty Jo Krysl: “I’ve been jogging every day for a week, but I guess I’ll have to stop because I’ve gained five pounds.” Bump Arrington: “Hardly anyone knows what my first name really is.”
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* And So They Say: Blackie Randall: “I wouldn’t shoot a deer even if I had a license to do so.” Bill Green: “Bob LeFort and his wife sure are ambitious people. I see them delivering papers in the morning now before they go to work.” Tommy Carmichael: “I don’t know what my dog will do while I’m in college. I’ve had him all my life.” Erma Jean Price: “The nine little setter pups we have out at our place are the cutest things you ever saw.”
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