SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Mrs. Tom Shaw: “We could have sold at least three bicycles from the ad we had in the Record last week.” Gil Thyfault: “I wish folks would quit calling me Mr.

* And So They Say: Mrs. J. L. Morrissey: “We had a nice vacation, but I’m certainly glad to get back where you don’t have to fight traffic and look at hippies.” Pudy Larson: “I told my grandson who is just entering high school that a kid doesn’t have to be very smart to do some of the things other kids think are smart, but it does take brains to get good grades and be a good athlete.” Elton Smith: “When one hears and sees how things are in the big cities, I think we’re awfully lucky to be living here.” Robert Osborn: “After seeing my new granddaughter, I think we’ll keep her— and I just happen to have a picture.”

* And So They Say: Fair Secretary George (Butch) Ostmeyer: “It was worth all the headaches of the Fair Board to see the faces of all those kids when they got their first look at Lassie.” Glen Buss: “Just because I have 24 cuckoo clocks is not a sign that I’m cuckoo.” Coke Gouldman: “I never look for trouble, so I seldom find it.” Dode Morrissey: “I had to break up my vacation to come home for a couple of days of the Fair.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Clarence Heiner: “Most of this summer, I’ve got nothing done but water my tomato plants.” Milt Boethin: “Jo Stewart sure started something when she had us run that new cement walk in front of the Maris Store.” Joanna Stewart: “The Record report must be color blind. Our new store front is sage green— not grey.” Loren Schrock: “I want you to tell folks that I’ve got the weeds cut now.” * A break-in occurred at the Cadoret Texaco Station at the east edge of Stockton.

* And So They Say: Pat Reed: “So you object to paying six cents for a stamp, but just ask yourself what else you can buy for six cents.” Maxine Kenworthy: “The reason we used to get along without air conditioning is because we were used to being hot.” Joanna Stewart: “I never saw such tired men in my life as the ones who finished the work on the front of our store the other night. It was nearly one o’clock and they had worked straight through since lunch time with nothing to eat except a sandwich and a cup of coffee.” Bob Berens: “If I keep on working, I may get my place fixed up the way I want it one of these days.”

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “One thing you can always expect on a trip is trouble.” Judge Gilbert: “It looks like most laws these days are just to protect the criminals.” Bump Arrington: “If I’d get rid of the grass growing in the cracks in my sidewalk, it would look bare out in front of my store.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Ken Bates: “Our biggest news is that we will be celebrating our first anniversary of being in business for ourselves next week.” Lu Slansky: “When I get tired, I’m not just tired—my feet hurt.” Virgil Olson: “I think on our recent rip to Dallas we saw an average of at least one camper every other mile. Just about everyone is traveling that way these days.” * A new thrill show to offer spills and chills at the Rooks County Fair had been announced.

* And So They Say: Bill Bedore: “It isn’t the heat that’s getting me down this summer—it’s the gnats.” Leo Bird: “Making a hole in one is a thrill that comes only once in a lifetime— and sometimes not that often.” Albert McCue: “We’re going to be so busy Saturday serving wedding guests we won’t be able to have our usual summer picnic outdoor service.”

* And So They Say: Virgil Olson: “It really is a small world. The first people we saw when we stopped to stay all night at a motel at Denton, Texas, enroute to Dallas, were some people from Palco.” Rae Hageman: “I think I could cut out a dress for myself and make it blindfolded.” Duffie Hindman: “These days if you commit a crime and want to stay out of jail, you have to commit a big crime.” Bill Gouldman: “I’ll have big news next week. I’ll have tomatoes out of my garden.”

* And So They Say: Frank Mitchell: “I do think the kids are learning to spell better than they did a few years ago.” Merton Van Eaton: “I don’t think much of those Monday holidays they are talking about. It will just give more people a chance to be killed.” Terry Odle: “It cost us $10.00 to get our honeymoon car cleaned up after our friends decorated it so beautifully.” Pudy Larson: “I never saw an election year when so few of the people of both parties seemed to be satisfied with any of the presidential candidates mentioned.”