56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Doc Mason: “No kidding, I feel like a grandpa today.” Howard Wanamaker (Monday): “I got my first Christmas card today and I think that’s plenty early.” Don Riffel: “The day after my wreck, I found out I had joints I never knew about before.”

* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “The world is certainly getting smaller. I had a letter from Vietnam and one from Holland in the same mail. And neither had been on the way more than four days.” Harold Maddy: “I was pretty old when I had my first baby, but she was worth waiting for.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Shannon Krysl: “Doug DeRosear says real funny things. When I asked him why he smashed his rolls up at the dinner table, he said, ‘So I can get all the flavors in one bite.’”

* And So They Say: Albert McCue: “Bob, who is stationed in Okinawa, writes that it just takes a little while to make us appreciate the United States. He says they have no sewers, just ditches on each side of the street, and often they are not even covered.”

* And So They Say: Jo Carmichael: “Everyone sure laughed at me when I told them it was going to snow on November 2nd because my Farm Journal said so.” Mary Alice Boethin: “Yes, I know I went deer hunting, but I’m not just about to eat any of the meat.”

* And So They Say: Mrs. Mary Stewart: 'I saw a really beautiful sight Sunday morning. It was a deer standing up against an evergreen tree in our yard. It would have made a nice picture.' Rhada Hutton: 'The big news is that the fish are biting again at Webster.'

* And So They Say: Kenneth Medley: “Why don’t you leave the front page blank some week? That would cause a lot of excitement, as everyone would wonder what it was you left out.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Ruth Phelps: “I’m trying to get into the Christmas spirit even if it is a little early.” Dode Morrissey: “There can’t nobody take my place.” Charlie Baxter: “I shot off a homemade rocket down in Wichita on Sunday.

* And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “My wife knows all the gossip, but she never tells me anything.” Howard Wanamaker: “A man has a right to be in a bad humor if he spends half his Sunday working on a machine, and then can’t get it to operate.”

* And So They Say: Rev. James Williams: “Stockton people can be proud of the high school band and the football team, and the stadium is also extra fine.” Pudy Larson: “I can’t get excited over the World Series. I’m a football man.”