56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Clark Stocking: “When I came here eight years ago, I planned to make a thorough inspection trip of the Webster Dam area that summer, and I haven’t done it yet.” Mary Alice Boethin: “This summer I’d like to play golf all morning, get a crew cut so I can swim all afternoon, and a wig so I can play bridge all night.” Elmer Kern: “All I’m doing now is waiting for it to rain.” Judge James Gilbert: “It seems to me the law is favoring the criminals more and more all the time.”

* Work was started on the new Culligan building, which Ben Niermeier was erecting on the lot just west of the VFW Club on Main Street. M. N. Boethin is the contractor, and the building was expected to be finished by mid July.

* Neil Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Young of Woodston, had accepted the position of principal of the senior high school at Newton. Young had been principal of Campus High School near Wichita for the past seven years.

* Secretary George Ostmeyer of the Rooks County Free Fair had been feeling rather happy the first of the week after receiving a letter from the booking agent informing him that the Thursday and Friday night shows were tops. Further than that, the Ernest Tubbs show, on Thursday night, was scheduled as being the biggest show ever booked in Northwest Kansas. And the Joan Cassell show scheduled was also considered one of the best ever brought to Kansas.

* The Kansas Highway Commission had issued the construction work order for the improvement of State Park Roads at Webster Reservoir, according to J. Rex Duwe, highway commissioner. Plans called for approximately one mile of bituminous mat on roads in the Marina area and the four parking areas. Roberts Construction Company of Lincoln, Nebraska had the contact for work on the bid of $34,899.00. V. R. Olson of Stockton was the resident engineer on the project for the highway commission.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: It is beginning to look like the dirt is going to be blown in this year instead of tracked in.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Pvt. Bill Thelan, stationed at Camp Stoneman, California was in the hospital as the result of being slugged and severely kicked and beaten by three men with whom he had accepted a ride, and who robbed him. Gary Pauley, Jim Lytle, Terry Ostmeyer and Brian Mullen had received awards at the Boy Scout Court of Honor.

* Chuck Hageman took the Webelo Scouts on an overnight camping trip at Webster Reservoir near the marina. The boys who made the trip were J. D. Niermeier, Johnny Ross, Alan Maddox, Dennis Yoxall and Glen Byerly.

* On sale at Slansky IGA were fresh pork chops for 59¢ a pound, a threepound can of Butternut coffee for $2.39, five cans of Hershey chocolate syrup for $1.00, and bananas for 10¢ a pound.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In were the movies, “Kid Galahad” starring Elvis Presley and “The Art of Love,” starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson.