Yesteryear

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.”

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...

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.

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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.”

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.

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.

* And So They Say: Leta Bouchey: “I got my hair wet and it shrunk!” Betty Harding: “I never saw such beautiful wild flowers as there are around here this spring.” Vernon Sammons: “Stockton looks better than ever to us after traveling over 3,600 miles on our trip.”

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* And So They Say: Carolyn Fetterolf: “Since we’ve had a cat, I’ve come to realize that it is true you don’t own a cat—it owns you.” Pudy Larson: “All kids aren’t idiots. We’ve had some mighty smart ones come out of Stockton.” Jake Willis: “I’m retired and now I’m tired. My wife works me too hard.”