56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Kenneth Buss: “You won’t believe it, but my wife has a tomato plant with 75 tomatoes on it, and another with 60.” Kenneth Currie: “Duane says it’s hotter than a dollar pistol—but I say it’s hotter than a two-dollar pistol.” Lester Maddy: “I always tell my company they can’t stay if they don’t work.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall (looking at the thermometer registering 100 degrees): “There goes our grass.” Frank Mitchell: “Anything I earn after six o’clock, I get to keep for myself.”

* After finishing sandblasting the east front and the north side of the courthouse, the workers just went away. The story that was making the rounds, and everyone seemed to believe, was that the County funds had run out when half of the building was finished and no more work would be done. But that was not the case. The contract called for the work to be finished by 1967, which was plenty of time for it to be competed, when, or if the workers return. No explanation was given as to why they left so suddenly.

* A $55,000.00 insured loan and a $47,000.00 construction grant for 34 farm families in Rooks County to develop a rural water system had been approved by the Farmers Home Administration. The loan enabled Rooks County Rural Water District No. 1 to install two booster pumps and lay down 52 miles of water distributing lines. The water was to be purchased from the City of Woodston with the system capable of supplying 500,000 gallons of water per month.

* Although there were still some finishing touches to be made to the interior of the Ben Franklin Store, the big remodeling sale was set for the weekend. Work had been going on for a while with business being conducted as usual. A new tile floor, pegboard walls in pastel shades, new tube lighting and display islands had been installed with the office moved to the rear of the store to afford more shopping and display space.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: Most young girls who dream of being completely surrounded by boys never realize their dream until they grow up and find themselves Den Mothers.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Mr. and Mrs. Art Fiskin, who had recently moved to Stockton from Silica, had moved their house with them and were living in it on North Cypress. The long heat wave had been broken with rain. Floyd Blauer had been installed as president of the Rotary Club. Oyer’s Food Market was advertising Gold Medal Flour at ten pounds for 95¢.

* Jennifer Ilene Lare became the bride of Jimmy Dean DeBey in a double-ring wedding on June 11th. The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a floor length gown of delustered satin.

* On sale at Slansky IGA were six cans of frozen TV orange juice for $1.00, five cans of Good Value pork & beans for $1.00, choice beef roast for 49¢ a pound, and two bath-size bars of Zest bath soap for 45¢.

* The Boy Scouts who helped teach fire building, trail laying, knot tying and tent pitching to the Cub Scouts were John Hageman, Don Jenkins, Alvy Bobbitt, Jerry Harding and Doug Cunningham. Den Mothers helping included Mary Jo Robinson, Wanda Kreller, Ruth Marshall, Marie McCue, Beverly Hageman, Phyllis Votapka, Rose Jenkins and Sandra Kriley.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In were the movies, Rogers and Hammerstein’s “State Fair,” starring Pat Boone and Bobby Darin, and “Von Ryan’s Express” starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.