There was considerable excitement in town Thursday evening along about eight or nine o’clock caused by a chase participated in by a father and son from Hill City. The father, O. Trexler, had been looking for his son, Kenneth, a 20-year-old youth, for some time. The boy seemed to have been on a grand spree and had written checks totaling over $1,000.00 on his father’s account, who had refused to honor them. Tuesday, the elder Trexler heard the boy had been seen around Stockton, and he came to look for him. He inquired of Fred Turnbull, who knew the son, if he had seen him. Fred, who is employed at the Standard Oil Service Station, had seen him and had reason to believe he might show up there. Mr. Trexler parked his car at the station and waited. Pretty soon, young Texler drove up from the south and started to head to the station, but upon seeing his father’s car, he veered sharply and headed out in the opposite direction as fast as he could drive. His father took off after him, and the chase led over many of the streets in the northern part of town and finally out of town to the west. The cars were traveling at an excessive speed, and on several occasions, the boy barely missed overturning while turning corners. Several pedestrians had to jump for their lives when he came down from the north and turned west at the Eades Store corner, and he missed cars parked along the street by mere inches. How the chase ended has not been learned. The young man was driving a 1935 Chevrolet Coach with ’33 county tags, but his father thinks he has been using Colorado tags part of the time.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago The community was shocked and saddened at the news of the tragic death of longtime Stockton resident Alva Beck. He had been on his fourwheeler working some of his pasture ground spraying musk thistle when the accident claimed his life.

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.” Bill Gouldman: “I have tomatoes on my vines as big as gourds—that’s halfway between a golfball and a baseball.” Pat Reed: “I was sure a good looking kid in that old school picture Dennis Reynolds found and I haven’t changed much.” Rita Palmer: “All four of my children started school with Mrs. Yocum and they all learned how to read.” * Nick Lowe had signed a letter of intent to attend Barton County Community Junior College on a track scholarship.

An enthusiastic group of North-40 road boosters determined to make a strong fight against changing their highway number to 24 decided at their last annual meeting in Beloit to send W. F. Hughes to Chicago in June as a member of a committee to present their claims before the American Association of Highway Officials. Other members of the committee are L. F. Davidson and R. M. Shawhill, both of Glasco. The proposal by the American Association of Highways organization to route U.S. Highway No. 24 over U.S. 40 and 40-N from Kansas City sparked a vigorous and prolonged discussion, during which representatives of the 16 towns expressed their opinions concerning the proposed change.

The umpires selected to officiate the 3A State Softball games in Manhattan had former Stockton resident, Scott Wagner of Goddard, named as one of the six. The Galaxy soccer team, consisting of Gage Conyac, Camden Iwanski, Brady Beougher, Christian Turnbull, Kaden Kriley, Cameron Hamel, Terry Wayne Moore, and Landon Riffel, placed first in the boys first- through fourthgrade Stockton Recreation League Championship.

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* 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.” Mike Kreller: “I certainly want to thank whoever sent me a $5.00 graduation gift, but forgot to sign they card.” Mabel Nichol: “When you are getting ready for a wedding, I’m telling you, you don’t get much else done.” Lionel Carter: “Death and taxes are inevitable, but death doesn’t get worse every time the Legislature meets.”

A former Stockton boy foundoutonMondaywhat it means to look the gallows in the face and then hear the glad news that the fate had been changed to life imprisonment. That man is Walter McGee who was the first person in the United States to be given the extreme penalty for kidnapping. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Guy B. Park of Missouri.

Stockton veteran Dale Dean took part in the Memorial Weekend Parade. Dale was one of the veterans featured in the documentary shown at the historical Nova Theatre.