56 Years Ago

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.

* And So They Say: Blackie Randall: “I wouldn’t shoot a deer even if I had a license to do so.” Bill Green: “Bob LeFort and his wife sure are ambitious people. I see them delivering papers in the morning now before they go to work.

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.

* 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.

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.

* 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.