56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Paul Ballinger: 'Well, I’ve run out of grade school kids now.' Howard Webster: 'When your youngest kid gets too old to want to go places with you, you have to take your grandchildren.'

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1970 * And So They Say: Sumner Southard: 'There were so many people downtown when I came to work Saturday morning that I thought I was two hours late.' Chuck Waller 'Only ten more days till my mother comes from Virginia to see me.'

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: 'These people who are rioting and doing everything they can to tear down this country should talk to some who have lived behind the Iron Curtain. A refugee couple sat by Pudy and me on the plane coming home from Hawaii.

* And So They Say: Roy Slansky, 'If I would die, I would probably be buried before anyone found out about it.' Betty Jacobs: 'I don't care much where I live just so I don't have to live in a big city.' Ivan Combs: 'I sure got my bald head sunburned Sunday.'

* And So They Say: Richard Pinnick: 'You wonder if there isn't something they can do with empty beer cans. Well, there is, you can throw them out the car window.'

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: 'Ask Chuck Schruben howhestayedathome two days last week.' Abbie Tipton: “I’m glad I don't have a family to raise these days—particularly if I had to do it in a city.' Jakie Willis: 'I'm allergic to work.'

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Edna Stice: 'No wonder a person can lose weight on that grapefruit diet. That unsweetened grapefruit juice makes you so sick you can't eat.' Spec Dillingham: 'Did anyone see my rose cones blowing down the street on Sunday?'

* And So They Say: Mrs. Tom Shaw: 'It seems like bad weather always follows us home from Texas.' Bill Gouldman: 'I had the best time on my trip I ever had. Can’t you tell by the weight I've put on?'

* And So They Say: Clarence Spencer: 'I have to smoke a pipe because I'm too young to smoke cigarettes.' Clark Stocking: 'Nothing exciting happened on our trip—not even a flat tire.' Chuck Waller: 'I think it's a little early to start any campaigning. The election isn't until Tuesday.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: 'Sometimes it pays not to hear very well—especially when someone is cussing you out.'