Licenses issued by the state automobile bureau this year now number 417,725 or approximately 35,000 more than the total number issued during 1922. The clerk’s record shows the licenses distributed as follows: 39,928 trucks; 370,895 automobiles; 2,239 automobile dealers; 1,632 motorcycles and 31 motorcycle dealers.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago This edition of the Stockton Sentinel, published Dec. 25, 2008, featured the Thirteenth Annual Offering of “Santa’s ‘Deer Ones,” with 326 pictures of loved ones in a special 36-page insert! There were three new homes in Stockton as a result of a cooperative project between Northwest Kansas Housing in Hill City, Solomon Valley Homes, LP, Rooks County Economic Development, and the State of Kansas.

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* And So They Say: Esta Riseley: “Cleaning off the Buford Tudor corner was the best Christmas present Chuck Hageman could give the neighbors.” Kenneth Cooper: There are some people who don’t know a fence from a gate.” Mrs. Pansy Coolbaugh: “I was certainly thrilled the other day to get a Christmas card from one of my pupils of 61 years ago, who now lives in California. She had read of our 60th wedding anniversary in the Record.” Howard Wanamaker: “The last time Christmas fell on a Sunday was in 1955, and it won’t happen again until 1977.”

Each year the U.S. Army All-American Bowl travels around the United States to find America’s best high school football players for its annual January game. The players, in turn, choose a Soldier Hero to accompany them to the game in San Antonio, Texas. This process had been done for several years and would have gone relatively unnoticed this year, except that while reading the December issue of “Sports Illustrated,” Doug Bigge, Plainville, saw a familiar name. Bryce Brown of Wichita East High School, who had rushed for more than 7,000 yards in his career, had been selected to be part of the East team as a running back. Brown chose Cpt. Rob Ukleya of Kansas City, Mo., a twice-honored Bronze Star Medal recipient, to be his Soldier Hero. Ukleya had ties with Stockton since he is married to the former Vicki Odle, daughter of Larry and Lana Odle, Stockton. Ukleya had served two tours of duty working with the medical units. One tour was to Afghanistan, and the other was in Iraq.

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* And So They Say: Georgie Riffel (age 5) to Santa Claus after being asked by Santa what his name was: “You ought to know. You saw me last year.” Irene Cabbage: “The last time I had some news, I couldn’t get anyone to believe it.” Robert Osborn (after paying taxes): “They used to give us something to drink after giving blood.” Gene Miller: “Yes, I’ve finished my Christmas shopping because I’m not doing any.” George Riffel: “The trouble is too many hunters don’t know the difference between a deer and cow.” Johnnie Locke: “That was the best team on Friday night I ever had out on the floor.”

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago Connie Conyac presented the Rooks County Commissioners a list with information deal-ing with all of the grants, funding and projects she was either directly or indirectly responsible for. Conyac asked whether the commissioners would reconsider her employment agreements as she had presented at the meeting two weeks prior.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: James Gilbert (Monday): “It may look as if it is going to snow, but I don’t think it will. We need it too bad.” Ferrel Stoutimore: “Buster gets me into enough trouble here, so I don’t know what I’ll do with him in Kansas City.” Glenn Conn: “Live turkeys are certainly getting mighty hard to find these days.” Dean King: “People keep asking me why I never wear a coat.