56 Years Ago

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.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Lee Phelps: “I’ll always have money because I embedded a nickel in my new sidewalk.” John B. Smith: “Up in Maine, all the houses in the small towns and the country look like they had just been freshly painted the day before.” C.

* And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “I fall down every time I stub my toe, and when I try to save my back, I hurt my elbow, so you can’t win for losing.” Elton Smith: “You don’t have to be capable to get your name on the ballot, even though it’s just a popularity contest.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Howard Webster: “As old as I am, it looks like I would know more than I do.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “Well, fall is here—but it turned out to be just some more summer.” Martha Cramer: “The more I sleep, the more I yawn.” Reid Baxter: “I don’t hear much news.

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I certainly want to thank everyone for the fine cooperation to the several suggestions offered by the Police Department recently.” Bob Weltmer: “I’m a hardy character. I never go to the doctor when I need patching up.”