56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Ted Brunson: “I’m just here by being careful.” Lester Maddy: “I’ve been uptown so long this morning that I can’t remember where I parked my pickup.” Cleo Baughman: “I’m watching my weight now because it’s got out to where I can see it.” Jo Stewart: “One never appreciates their school system fully until they have a kid at home a few days with the chicken pox.” Kenneth Currie: “Some people may not like to hear me say it, but I wish it would snow.”

* The conservation committees of the Twentieth Century and Home Clubs sponsored the Litterbug Poster Contest in the grade school. Stacey Unruh was first, Tammy Atwill was second, and Gail Atwill was third. The three posters were sent to the regional contest for further competition.

* Misses Ollie and Barbara Ochampaugh were doing some remodeling work at their Kiddie Korner, which included new display units and some redecorating. They hoped to have the work completed before the new spring merchandise arrived.

* The Woodston Junior High Coyotes won their first basketball game of the season by defeating the Alton Panthers by a score of 43 to 36 on the Woodston court. Chris Chesney and Darwin Dix were high scorers for Woodston, with 15 points each, while Freddie Jones contributed 12.

* Little Terry Simons, injured in the automobile accident on January 11th, was able to come home from the hospital. He still had headaches and some ear discomfort and was to stay in bed. His father, Harold, was improving and, though still in the hospital, got to spend most of his time with his son, Paul (5), who was on another floor of the hospital, waiting to have a cast put on.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: The average husband isn’t nearly so bad as he is made to appear when a few women get together over the bridge table or in the beauty parlor.

Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Walter Vose had slipped on the ice and broken his hip. The latest thing in the way of a photostat machine had been installed in the register of deeds office. Charles Groner had been featured in the Kansas Farmer in a story about some of his farm inventions.

* Eleven-year-old Tessie Korb, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. B. M. Korb, was having a little more than her share of trouble. She had just gotten her arm out of a sling and was back on crutches with her right foot in a cast as the result of a broken bone, which she received while at a birthday party.

* On sale at Slansky’s IGA were fresh frozen fryers for 29¢ a pound, a head of lettuce for 19¢, a one-pound can of Folgers coffee for 69¢, and Wilderness cherry pie mix for 49¢ a can.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre was “The Scalphunters,” starring Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, and Telly Savalas.