Yesteryear

Body were the Stockton seventh-grade boys basketball team.

Body * And So They Say: Judge James Gilbert: “If anyone of us had done half the things all the presidential candidates claimed the other had done, we’d be in jail most of the time.” Bill Gouldman: “I went hunting but the ducks proved they were smarter than I was.

Body The Rooks County Commission was set to turn over the first shovels of dirt for the groundbreaking construction of the first new airport in Kansas in more than ten years. The Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Fund funded the $4 million airport through a grant.

Body Seven-year-old Keith Dix, son of Mabel Russ Dix, left last evening for the Bell Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, where he will enter for a cleft palate operation. Miss Floyd, principal of the grade school, is to be highly commended for the part she has played.

Body * 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.

Body 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.

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Body 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.

Body 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.

Body 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.