56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Jimmy James: “I would rather be in where it is warm than out in the cold trying to find pheasants.” Lawrence Conyac: “If the State will not declare an open season on deer, I think it should have to pay for the damage they do.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Orr: “Well, I think I’ve just about won the battle of the leaves.” Bill Gouldman: “The only thing I really know is that the fish aren’t biting.” Erma Jean Price: “Well, we got moved.

* And So They Say: Sterling Bagby (looking at his green November and December show calendars): “I guess I’m the first one to get any Christmas advertising.” Lloyd Maddy: “When I say I don’t know anything, I’m telling the truth.”

* And So They Say: Barbara Riffe: “Anyone who writes an anonymous letter or a makes a phone call certainly lacks strength in his convictions and is obviously ashamed of his deed.” Ray Bigge: “Earl Lee thinks he is the only person in town who has a Confederate flag.”

* And So They Say: Chas. Baxter: “Lee Phelps had my electric watch running on a hearing aid battery.” Doc Mason: “It gave me a sort of startled feeling to almost step on two deer which were bedded down the other morning while I was out hunting.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “I wouldn’t mind my wife taking a vacation if I didn’t have to work in the store while she is gone.”

* And So They Say: Doyal Hrabe: “Having nine kids in your home for a few days leaves you with never a dull moment.” Kenneth Cooper: “I am able to be about, but I do not know about what.” Red Dibble: “A person ought to be on a month’s vacation when he comes back to visit his old home town.”

* And So They Say: Bob Smith: “No one heard anything they didn’t already know after all that money was spent on the Warren Report.” Glenn Conn: “I never complain, I just comment.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall: “I still like the old-fashioned afternoon football games best.”

* And So They Say: Clarence Heiner: “I think I have lived in Stockton longer than an other person living here now—81 years.” Bump Arrington: “You don’t have to believe it if you don’t want to, but I drove through an inch of snow up at Glade last Thursday evening.”

* And So They Say: Chuck Hageman: “From what I learned at the abstractor’s meeting, practically everything will be done by automation ten years from now.” “Jimmie James: “We Stockton men didn’t do much good at the shoot at Plainville Sunday, but we made a lot of noise.”