56 Years Ago

* 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.

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “If you think it’s easy to find anyone to do any work, just try it some time.” Ilah Suhr: “I couldn’t believe it when my sister called me from Wilcox, Nebraska on Sunday by dialing direct. She was experimenting to see how the new system worked.

* And So They Say: Wilma Johnston: “Things are pretty quiet at our house now—in fact, things are just like they were when we started our home 21 years ago—no kids.” Palco man: “I hear that Stockton doesn’t have a football team, that it’s a machine.

* And So They Say: Howard Wanamaker: “I can’t tell you any news. It’s the women who do all the talking.” Clarence Spencer (after returning home from his trip to the West Coast): “Kansas is the only place to live.

* And So They Say: City manager C. N. Harper: “In spite of this summer being a little cooler than last summer, a little more electricity was used up to the first of August, and the swimming pool revenue was also more than last year.

* And So They Say: Doris McMichael: “This certainly deserves special mention. I balanced the fair books the first try this year.” Clinton Smee: “I don’t really think I’m getting old, but you should hear my bones creak after I’ve been playing football with the kids.