Yesteryear

The crew of state highway engineers under Engineer Jackson, working on cross-sectioning State Highway 1 from Stockton to the Phillips County line, finished its survey and left Stockton a few days ago.

SHS graduate Patrick Poore was to be on the sidelines coaching the next season for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team. Poore had been the quarterbacks coach and wide receivers coach for Northern Illinois before taking on his new position.

* 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.

Last Friday night, the Woodston High School building was broken into, and the lower floor was completely ransacked. The prowlers entered the building by prying open a window in Miss Bowman’s room.

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* 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.

Stockton’s new set of wheels, the VanHool 56-passenger charter bus, had arrived with the tiger mascot and school logo painted on the front, rear, and both sides of the white vehicle.

Sheriff Joyce F. Blackman found Clark W. Thuma, well-known businessman and merchant of Lenora, who disappeared from that town on October 26th, in Hill City as Thuma was on his way to Norton, riding the Midwest Stage.

* 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.

The Stockton Building Commission and the Rooks County Healthcare Foundation announced the contract to build the new health center in Stockton, which was awarded to local contractor Cornerstone Building and Design Inc. of Plainville.