56 Years Ago

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Mary Alice Boethin: “I don’t stay at home very much because I think too much when I’m at home.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “I try to buy everything I can in Stockton. I don’t know why I should help support some other town.” John B.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Aggie Henry: “I took my first plane trip last week and now I can’t see why anyone wants to travel any other way.” Edna Blauer: “My week’s vacation will be over before Floyd and I make up our minds what we are going to do.”

* And So They Say: Veda Van Horn: “Wouldn’t you know that I’d break my toe the first day of the week I took off from work?” Luke Mitchell: “I think I’m a little too old to enter a beauty contest now.”

* And So They Say: Leta Bouchey: “I got my hair wet and it shrunk!” Betty Harding: “I never saw such beautiful wild flowers as there are around here this spring.” Vernon Sammons: “Stockton looks better than ever to us after traveling over 3,600 miles on our trip.”

* And So They Say: Carolyn Fetterolf: “Since we’ve had a cat, I’ve come to realize that it is true you don’t own a cat—it owns you.” Pudy Larson: “All kids aren’t idiots. We’ve had some mighty smart ones come out of Stockton.” Jake Willis: “I’m retired and now I’m tired. My wife works me too hard.”

* And So They Say: Jo Stewart: “I lived through the winter with a monkey in the house most of the time, and now that he is out of doors most of the time, I guess I can live through the summer.”

* And So They Say: Bob Scoby: “My ear feels worse after my surgery—but then, the doctor said it would.” Bill Gouldman: “If I put all I know in a book, it certainly wouldn’t have very many pages.” Freddie Baughman: “I don’t know who invented daughters.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1969 * And So They Say: Blackie Randall: “The reason I get more rain than anyone else is because I’m the only person in town who knows how to put up a rain gauge.” Clark Stocking: “I don’t like the idea of my wife quitting work.

* And So They Say: Meryl Hus: “It was worth the trip from Altus to Sulpher, Oklahoma just to see the redbud trees and lilac bushes in bloom.” Paul Ballinger: “I’m afraid my income tax return will be late. I asked my wife for four cents so I could mail it, and she wouldn’t give it to me.”