56 Years Ago

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.