56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Maxine Bates: “I’m afraid if I should ever put on one of those new model bathing suits, I’d never come out from behind the bushes.” Lee Phelps: “Most everyone will be eating Girl Scout cookies for the next few weeks unless they freeze some of them.” Ralph Burlin: “I thought March came in like a lion because I forgot to look at my calendar to see that February had 29 days.”

* Freeman Sanders was the runner-up for the State Young Farmers state title at the second annual convention of the Kansas Association of Young Farmers in Manhattan.

* The Boy Scout Court of Honor had been held with Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Tommy Carmichael presiding in the absence of S. P. L. Leslie Conn. Awards were presented to scouts Craig Phelps, Richard Perry, Mike Morrissey and Nick Lowe, as well as Eddie Hageman, Carl Findeiss, Mike Saunders, Tommy Carmicheal and Lawrence Look. Scouts receiving Merit Badges were Leslie Conn, Carl Findeiss, Kenneth Brunson, Richard Perry, Craig Phelps and Eddie Hageman.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: It has been proven that it is less dangerous to circle the globe in outer space than it is to take a bath. At least John Glenn buzzed around in his rocket unscathed, but was injured when he fell in his bathroom.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: The Harlem Hoboes were to play a game of basketball with the Stockton SNAFUS. Memorial services for Lt. Lorin Grover, who had been killed at Cherry Point, N. C. were to be held in Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bouchey, Jr. were the parents of a son born March 5th. Mrs. Froma Drumm had purchased the Jackson rooming house.

* Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Cunningham were the parents of a son born on March 2nd. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Look were the parents of a daughter, Virgina Lee, born on February 28th.

* Charles Springer was breaking ground in the Hillcrest Addition just west of the John Locke home, for his new home.

* Mr. and Mrs. Milt Boethin, who had recently purchased the property belonging to the Mrs. Elsie Snyder estate at the corner of Cypress and North First, were redecorating it and doing other work on it in preparation for the occupancy of Mrs. Boethin’s mother, Mrs. Mary Higby.

* Alan I. Stewart had announced the appointment of Glenn Drotts as a Rooks County Farm Bureau Insurance Special Agent.

* Lee Odle had announced that he was back in Stockton and had purchased the Phillips “66” Station and Comfort Motel.

* Sharon Ann Stockton became the bride of Mr. Gale Hutton on February 8th in the First Christian Church in Stockton.

* The second place winners of the Class “B” District Basketball Tournament were John Berkley, Gregg Dean, Jim Scott, Ferryl Locke, Dave DeRosear, Leneal Locke, Mike Loftin, Jimmy Jackson, Richard Desmarteau, Kinny Baxter, Gerald Wehrli and Richard Haines. Coaches were Johnny Locke and Orgene Loftin.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre were the movies “Diary of a Madman” starring Vincent Price, and “Spencer’s Mountain, starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and James MacArthur.

* On sale at Webster’s Supermarket were ten pounds of potatoes for 39¢, two bunches of carrots for 19¢, Picnic hams for 27¢ a pound and a gallon of Purex bleach for 49¢.

* Rip Poore, Lloyd Hollern, Everett Hillary and Don Denning had donated blood in Plainville for local patients. Without volunteer blood donors, local hospitals had to call on the blood bank in Wichita.