Stockton will have a Fourth of July celebration this year, and the businessmen are inviting everyone to come to town on the evening of the Fourth and enjoy the celebration. There will be no speech-making and no milling around during a hot July afternoon. The entire entertainment will be in the evening at the fairgrounds, with the fireworks set for nine o’clock. The entertainment is free, the expenses having been contributed by about sixty Stockton businessmen. A fine display of rockets, bombs, set pieces, all sorts of wheels, and other fireworks has been ordered. Harvest will be on all over the county, but the farmers are asked to quit a few minutes before dark, load the family into the car, and come in for the fireworks display.

Lance Corporal Matt Terry was in an Afghanistan hospital recovering from injuries he received when an IED went off approximately ten meters from his platoon while it was on patrol looking for roadside bombs.

* And So They Say: Carmen Andrews: “How do you keep from antagonizing a friendly skunk that has taken over your place?” Lionel Carter: “I don’t get out very much anymore as it’s been too hot—but when I do get out, I go fishing.” George Riffel: “Pulling all those big walleyes and other fish out of the lake has developed my muscles so that they are just right for harvest work.”

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The Winstead Brothers of Wichita will launch an air circus next Sunday, staging the event at the Alex Low farm in northeast Stockton. C.H. Crawford, advance agent for the Winstead Brothers, was in Stockton for a couple of days this week, completing plans for the circus. In the list of attractions, there will be wing walking, balloon busting, looping contests, a twenty-mile race, a dead motor loop and land, a parachute leap from the plane, and plenty of thrills for everyone. Among the planes to be here will be the sister ship to Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis.”

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* And So They Say: Postmaster Pat Reed: “Some people still expect to mail letters for a nickel.” Lt. Ronald Novotny (in Vietnam): “I got the box of cookies from the Lioness Club, and believe, me, they were certainly appreciated.” Danny Emerson: “The fish are not biting—and no one can tell me any different.” Jo Carmichael: “Main Street really looked nice on Flag Day with all the flags out in front of the places.”

A 20% chance of thunderstorms during the weekend turned into a ferocious storm in the Stockton and Woodston areas on Saturday night— heavy rain and hail, with the bulk coming in during an hour-and-a-half stretch. Tornado sirens were blown as some rotation was noted, but no funnels formed. Rainfall totals were recorded at seven and a half inches. In that Sunday morning’s early hours, the floodwaters were over six feet deep in Tiger Stadium.

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* And So They Say: John Lawson; “Rain is getting closer every day.” Hazel Larson: “The new sign at the Maris Store makes the rest of Main Street look sort of small-townish.” Dean King: “Poor old dad isn’t good for much except to pay the bills.” Doris McMichael: “I don’t have any more time to sigh now than I did when I was working.”