* And So They Say: Ken Bates: “I checked and found that our Peanut Day business this year was better than last year.” Leta Bouchey: “We saw comedian Pat Paulson at Manhattan Saturdayandhewas better than the ball game.” Dean King: “I found out the hard way Sunday that the train time at Hays had changed.” Chuck Hageman: “Attending four football games in one week is about to make an old man out of me.” Elvin Keiswetter: “I’m remodeling my house so I can’t afford to go anywhere or have anyone in to eat.”

On the cover of the August Leatherneck Magazine of the Marines was the “Photo Of The Month,” which showed a picture of LCpl. Brandon Tucker and his working dog, Augie. The photo hit close to home because Augie was purchased from South Fork Kennels LLC in Natoma, where Aaron and Nichol Homburg breed Labradors.

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The movement started by the Stockton Chamber of Commerce to have the oil from the Silvers field piped to the railroad at Stockton instead of going south to Zurich on the Union Pacific is developing satisfactorily. O. E. Blacketer, freight agent for the Northern Kansas and Omaha Division of the Missouri Pacific, and O. C. Fing, assistant superintendent of the division, were in Stockton on Monday, interviewing the owners of the well and local businessmen. Matters of this character are not decided in a day as so many issues must be considered before a final decision is possible. Mr. Boyson, one of the owners of the well, who is now engaged in collecting two other small blocks of acreage to be developed as soon as is conveniently possible, states that the big problem now is to find a market for the oil. He says it is shallow in gasoline content but is nearly half paraffine base lubricating oil. Many refineries are in need of oil of this character, which is very scarce in the mid-continental field. In fact, Boyson says for the manufacture of high-grade motor oils, no better oil has ever been discovered in the whole mid-continental field. Even at present prices, the oil is worth about $1.35 a barrel to any refinery needing that crude oil. The Silvers Well is still practically shut down. There are over a thousand barrels of oil in storage, and more can be produced at 500 barrels a day as soon as a market and a pipeline are available. The owners of the well are planning on starting an offset well in the near future. Any doubt that Silvers No. 1 is a producer was removed this week when the oil companies associated with drilling the hole paid their “bottom of the hole money.” That is one sign that never fails: oil companies do not pay out on a dry hole or a doubtful well unless the contract depth has been reached.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “I think the decision of that Norton judge who published the names of the juvenile defenders will turn into a test case, and maybe we can get something done.” Twila Strutt: “My week started out fine. My small son dumped a quart jar of honey on the living room carpet Sunday.” Veda Van Horn: “The good Lord certainly knew what He was doing when He gave the kids to the young people.” Sterling Bagby (after Peanut Day): “I never want to see another peanut.” * What was supposed to have been a fun weekend for the Palco football team ended on a sour note when the team members and coaches lost a considerable amount of good clothing, toilet articles, and other personal effects.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago An independent living complex was to become a reality with Wes Bainter of Bainter Construction of Hoxie to construct a facility in Stockton. Genny Robben-Rahjes, with the help of her family, friends, co-workers, and others in support of building a new medical clinic in Stockton, prepared a buffet-style Italian lunch and raised over $7,000.00 toward the facility.

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The two young men, George McGee and Howard Johnson, were arrested in Wichita last Wednesday with charges of robbing the Cash store in this City and the Swank store at Woodston. They were returned here on Thursday evening. In district court on Saturday, the boys pleaded guilty to the two charges, and Judge W. B. Ham sentenced them to an indeterminate term at the State Reformatory at Hutchinson. Another charge rests against them: stealing an Essex Coupe in Columbia,Mo.,whichthey were driving at the time of their arrest. McGee gave his age as 19 and Johnson as 20. Both claimed Leavenworth, Kansas, as their home. Sheriff A. C. Gillilan and Undersheriff F. W. Hagemeister left for Hutchinson with the two young men just before noon today. This is George McGee’s second trip from Stockton to a penal institution. Several years ago, Sheriff Gillilan took him to the State Industrial School at Topeka.

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* And So They Say: Charley Baxter: “I guess Stockton must have lost its city dump. I went up there the other day and couldn’t find anything that looked like a dump.” June Arnold: “I wish we could have more weekends. My foot feels a lot better when I can sit around with it elevated.” Duffie Hindman: “The best news I know is that Washburn beat Fort Hays Saturday.”