SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Howard Webster: “As old as I am, it looks like I would know more than I do.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “Well, fall is here—but it turned out to be just some more summer.” Martha Cramer: “The more I sleep, the more I yawn.” Reid Baxter: “I don’t hear much news. I don’t have a backyard fence.” Red Conyac: “We need a good soaking, and I don’t care how much it delays the wheat planting.”.

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One of the most unfortunate automobile accidents to be reported in years in western Kansas occurred last Thursday evening on Wilcox Creek, about six miles north of Hunter, when three young men, employees of the Kansas Power Company, plunged over a 40-foot embankment into the creek bed as they were returning toward Downs from a fair at Sylvan Grove. Two of the young men, Lewis Churchill, son of Sheriff Churchill of Phillips County, and Virgil Eldred, son of Mrs. Anna Eldred of Philipsburg, were apparently killed instantly. At the same time, their companion, J. S. Limbocker of Downs, suffered injuries that will probably prove fatal. He was pinned beneath the overturned car, pressed against the bodies of his dead companions, where he lay until Saturday forenoon when the wreck was discovered. A son of Ben Leach of Hunter met with an accident at the embankment Friday night. Still, he did not discover the bodies and the injured youth until Saturday morning when he returned for his motorcar, which he had abandoned the previous night. The wrecked vehicle was not in a direct line of vision from the highway. No explanation of the cause of the accident has been published other than the fact that it occurred on a very dangerous curve on the road that was probably strange to the young men.

SHS Homecoming King and Queen candidates were Chance Miller, Jon Bellerive, Austin Wieden, Chandler Johnston, Brooke Waller, and Mary-Lynn Griebel. Curt Pfannenstiel, with Heartland Building Center in Hays, Stockton, and Russell, had announced that Michelle Stithem was named manager of the Stockton facility.

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I certainly want to thank everyone for the fine cooperation to the several suggestions offered by the Police Department recently.” Bob Weltmer: “I’m a hardy character. I never go to the doctor when I need patching up.” Betty Jo Krysl: “I’ve been jogging every day for a week, but I guess I’ll have to stop because I’ve gained five pounds.” Bump Arrington: “Hardly anyone knows what my first name really is.”

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Pussyfoot Johnson, accompanied by Col. Frank B. Ebbert, newly elected superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Kansas, is now making a tour of the state. He is expected to remain in the state for two or three months, lecturing in every county as far as possible. The lectures are educational, being a part of the nationwide dry educational campaign being launched by the Anti-Saloon League of America and the National W. C. T. U.

Les Lankhorst was to perform at the Nova Theatre as the legendary Frank Sinatra. A grass fire kindled by hot parts in a baler kept the fire crews from Stockton, Woodston, and Plainville busy most of Sunday on 23 Road, about a half mile north of Highway 24.

* And So They Say: Blackie Randall: “I wouldn’t shoot a deer even if I had a license to do so.” Bill Green: “Bob LeFort and his wife sure are ambitious people. I see them delivering papers in the morning now before they go to work.” Tommy Carmichael: “I don’t know what my dog will do while I’m in college. I’ve had him all my life.” Erma Jean Price: “The nine little setter pups we have out at our place are the cutest things you ever saw.”

PRIOR TO THE 1991 STOCKTON/NORTON HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME.