* And So They Say: Francis Eshler; “I don’t think I’m ever going to be a grandfather. My daughter, Darlene, just had another girl.” Jerry Jackson (after the big rain): “Well, this isn’t a very good day to put up hay, but it’s sure a fine day to fix fences. Dave Oyer: “If people keep putting out the propaganda about business places closing, Stockton will soon be known as ‘This is the town that was.’” * The worst storm to visit the area since at least as far back as 1951 had arrived unexpectedly on Thursday night. The cloudburst had a rain accumulation of over five inches at the power plant. The forces of the wind had driven the rain into houses from the north and under doors, windows, and seemingly just through the walls. Many basements were flooded with windows broken by hail or holes knocked in the roofs from trees falling. Corn, row crops, and gardens suffered with the combination of rain, hail, and wind. Bow Creek was particularly hard hit. Falling branches fell on power lines in many places, causing several areas to be without electricity. Many cars had been pulled out after miring down on the highway detour, but no injuries were reported. The birds were not so lucky, and hundreds lost their lives. People reported picking up from 30 to 50 in their yards the next day, with one family finding 75 birds.

* And So They Say: Rhada Hutton: “We’re getting awfully tired of those rumors that Quenzer’s is going to close out.” Nellie Kern: “My daughter sent me a package of candy from Japan, but it doesn’t taste much like candy to me.” Ruby Odle: “When it finally got to be summer, it really got to be summer.” City manager Harper: “If the sprayer doesn’t get the mosquitoes and flies, I suppose I’ll have to go around town with a fly swatter.” Glenn Buss: “It’s hotter in Nebraska than it is in Kansas.”

* And So They Say: Gil Thyfault: “Nothing exciting has happened to me in a long time, except that I caught a fish Sunday.” Chet LeSage: “I saw a mosquito flying down Main Street wearing a pair of bifocals. I don’t know who they belong to.” Leta Bouchey: “Maybe the farmers will get smart next year and plant rice.” Gerald Colburn: “Our plane trip to and from England was no rougher than a ride down Main Street in a car at any time.”

* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “Thirteen hours of plowing in one day is too much as it sure stretches a lot of muscles I don’t use in bowling.” Joe Bouchey, Sr.: “Most of us farmers would have got our wheat cut sooner this year if we had just sent the kids out into the fields with a pair of scissors.” Clarence Heiner: “I’ve lived in Stockton longer than anyone else. I’ve lived here 85 years, and that is a long time. I was born only 20 miles from here, but have never been back to my birth place.”

* And So They Say: Judge Gilbert: “They tell me someone caught a 19-pound channel cat in the Plainville Lake Sunday.” Mary Jo Robinson: “If you want to find anyone these days, you have to go out into the harvest fields.” George Riffel: “I went out and literally stopped four combines going by on the highway. But it didn’t do me much good as they turned down my wheat at the elevator because it was too wet.” Butch Ostmeyer: “We are really going to have a colorful Fair this year. The toilets down at the fairgrounds have been painted a different color on each side” * The new 1,600 HP Fairbanks-Morse engine was put into operation at the City’s power plant, and according to City manager C. N. Harper, everything seemed to be satisfactory. The new engine had been in the process of installation since January.

* And So They Say: Ted Brunson: “All I did on my vacation was mow the lawn and fish. And the fish came hard and expensive.” Jim Reidel: “Our baby antelope is doing fine now. We’ve got it on calf starter and when we take him out to the farm he follows the kids around like a little dog.” Bernice Brown: “They are advertising the Rooks County Free Fair on the billboards up around Holdrege.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Orr: “I farm for my recreation.” Doyle Cook: “I know I will never live in another place which is as friendly as Stockton.” Ed Baxter: “I don’t know what Bump Arrington does with his copy of the Record. He can’t read.” Jo Carmichael: “When it starts to thunder, I quit ironing. There are a lot better ways to die from than electrocution with a flat iron.”

* And So They Say: Dean King: “I’m really in a bad way. I don’t even know any gossip.” C. R. Scott: “I’d better not say which of Lucille’s alumni reunion anniversaries we attended, as we are neither of us over 39.” Frank Adams: “Every time a cloud comes asy a time getting my magazines changed to my new address as I did my Rooks County Record.”

* And So They Say: Jerry Riseley: “You just can’t hire friends and it’s about time our country is finding that out.” Marion Hamit: “I can tell anyone anything I know in thirty seconds.” Judge Gilbert: “I’m not supposed to tell you all the news—you’re supposed to guess at some of it.” Effie Lewin: “When I come home after just going to the grocery store, I can see how the weeds have grown.”

* And So They Say: John Wells: “Things do phase me—but I just don’t let them bother me.” Doyle Cook: “You women with your great big purses! We men have to carry everything we own in our hip pockets.” Bill Gouldman: “My new marquee cost me so much, I can’t afford to eat anything but chicken necks.” Charlie Coolbaugh to Rae Hageman: “You do more work in your wheelchair than most of us do on the run.” Wilma Johnston: “It rains every time our relatives come from California. I wish they would have come earlier this spring.”