* And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “My wife knows all the gossip, but she never tells me anything.” Howard Wanamaker: “A man has a right to be in a bad humor if he spends half his Sunday working on a machine, and then can’t get it to operate.” Clarence Heiner: “I’m almost glad I don’t know anything, folks don’t expect so much of you that way.” Lucia Hamilton: “I don’t go to anyone’s house unless I have to.” Velma Bartlett: “I like my clothes to fit, but I don’t like to look like I’ve been stuffed into them.”

* And So They Say: Rev. James Williams: “Stockton people can be proud of the high school band and the football team, and the stadium is also extra fine.” Pudy Larson: “I can’t get excited over the World Series. I’m a football man.” Wilbur Doak: “I know it’s early, but I’m washing my windows so I can put my Christmas cards on display.” Dode Morrissey: “I had six good reasons for going to the circus on Sunday—five grandchildren and half the proceeds go to crippled children.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “If you think it’s easy to find anyone to do any work, just try it some time.” Ilah Suhr: “I couldn’t believe it when my sister called me from Wilcox, Nebraska on Sunday by dialing direct. She was experimenting to see how the new system worked.” Richard Pinnick: “Stockton and Osborne have the two nicest football fields and stadiums in the state.” Bump Arrington: “People either aren’t very patriotic or else they don’t read the Record. I only counted three flags out on Citizenship Day.”

* And So They Say: Wilma Johnston: “Things are pretty quiet at our house now—in fact, things are just like they were when we started our home 21 years ago—no kids.” Palco man: “I hear that Stockton doesn’t have a football team, that it’s a machine.” Betty Cadoret: “Now that I’m back at work, maybe the men will stay on the job.” Mrs. Ray Schindler: “I’ve never ridden on a train or a plane, and only once on a bus.”

* And So They Say: Howard Wanamaker: “I can’t tell you any news. It’s the women who do all the talking.” Clarence Spencer (after returning home from his trip to the West Coast): “Kansas is the only place to live.” Dave Oyer: “The kids are sure crazy these days—but I guess we were too, only our cars were not so powerful.” Virgil Hagan: “I still think we have the best kids in the world in Stockton, and the more I hear about other places, the more convinced I am.” * There seemed to have been an injury epidemic among the young men during the week, with the injuries affecting shoulders and arms. The first to be injured was Jerry Harding. Jerry was doing a Thrillcade act on a ramp some of the boys had rigged up, a bicycle being the vehicle. The stunt wasn’t a success, and Jerry fractured his right wrist. Thursday night, two other boys were hurt. While out practicing football, Johnny Hageman received a shoulder separation, which could cause him a lot of trouble and, at best, would keep him from playing with the eighth-grade squad for the remainder of the season. Tommy Charmichael was the other casualty. In a scramble over a big plastic bag filled with water, he received an injured right hand and some cracked bones in his left wrist.

* And So They Say: City manager C. N. Harper: “In spite of this summer being a little cooler than last summer, a little more electricity was used up to the first of August, and the swimming pool revenue was also more than last year.” Francis Cadoret: “A person has to be a millionaire these days in order to buy all the things his kids need to start back to school.” Erma Jean Price: “Someone told me that our first frost will be September 15th. I certainly hope they don’t know what they are talking about.” Kenneth Medley: “I like the harness races better than the motorcycle races at the Fair because everyone doesn’t stand up in front of you if a horse goes flying off the track.”

* And So They Say: Doris McMichael: “This certainly deserves special mention. I balanced the fair books the first try this year.” Clinton Smee: “I don’t really think I’m getting old, but you should hear my bones creak after I’ve been playing football with the kids.” Frank Mitchell: “Kind words do not cost anything and the average person can use all they can get.” Bill Wyant: “I can’t see why Ostmeyers couldn’t have declared a holiday for my birthday the day after the Fair. Of course, maybe when I get as old as Jack Benny, 39, they will.”

* And So They Say: C. R. Scott: “Well, we teachers start our education over again each September.” Red Conyac: “The women aren’t the only ones who watch the soap operas on TV.” Robert Osborn: “Fishing is alright, but it does lead to lying.” Vera Martin: “We have certainly found Stockton to be a friendly town.”