56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Christine Peterson: “I am so absent-minded that I wouldn’t have dared change my name when I got married. I never would have been able to remember it.” Pat Reed: “I guess I must be a kind of oddball as I’m getting a little bit tired of football on TV.” Harry Butler: “I’m not going to get my wife a color television. I’m the only luxury she can afford.” Dave Oyer: “I don’t move as fast as I used to. When I turn the light out now, I can hardly even get in bed before it goes out.”

* The Owl Court, just off Main Street on Elm, was sold the first part of this week to Milt Boethin, who plans to hire someone to operate the business. The house also went with the 13-unit court. The motel, which had been a favorite stopping place for salesmen, wedding parties, hunters, racehorse people, and others connected with the fair, was built by the late John Buchner and Mrs. Buchner and later sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hill, who came here from California. They sold the business but later took it back after Mr. Hill’s death about two years ago; Mrs. Hill continued to operate it with the assistance of Nora Thayer. Mrs. Hill’s health is relatively poor, and although she regretted giving up this business, she felt it was necessary.

* Mrs. Catherine Brewer won the lovely ice bucket given away at Baxter Hardware and Electric. The gift was awarded at the close of the “Golden Value Days Fall Sale.”

* In order to make it easier for people in the area to do their Christmas shopping, a number of Stockton merchants were planning to keep their stores open on weekday evenings until 8:30 p.m. until December 23rd. The nine stores were Stephensons, Bates of Stockton, Maris, Maylaines, Sears Catalog Store, Baxter Hardware, Jemison Jewelry, Smiths, and Quenzers.

* The first serviceman from this area killed in Vietnam, Timmy Miller, was to arrive during the middle of the week with funeral services on Thursday at Smith Memorial Chapel. The military service was to be officiated by Rev. O. T. Meador of McPherson, the former pastor of the Congregational Church in Stockton.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: It is beginning to look as if everything we planned on doing last year right after Christmas will be done right after this Christmas… if ever.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Keith Collier served Rooks and Osborne Counties as the highway patrolman. Efford Lowe, Darrel Musser, Warren McCauley, Carlis Cassel, Max Fiskin, Brian Mullen, Darlene Lowe, Judy Hamilton, and Gwendene Webster had been playing with the Maverick Band at Phillipsburg.

* Kent Johnston, serving with the Navy, had arrived in Stockton from San Diego, California, to spend time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnston. He had been overseas for over past six months.

* Mr. and Mrs. Ferrel Marshall had announced the engagement of their daughter, Gloria Jean, to Pvt. James Leon Havlas of Plainville.

* On sale at Glenn’s Mr. AG were beef liver for 39¢ a pound, six Surfrost frozen meat pies for $1.00, two heads of Arizona lettuce for 49¢, a five-pound bag of Surfine flour for 29¢, and Chicken of the Sea Tuna for 29¢ a can.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre was “Petulia” starring Julie Christie, George C. Scott, and Richard Chamberlain.