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* And So They Say: Efford Lowe (Wednesday last week): “I thought maybe the Record would get out early today as it’s my birthday.” Dr. Harold Mauck: “If a person has to be sick, they are lucky to be in Stockton where people are so considerate and helpful.” June Arnold: “It doesn’t do much good to explain anything to me— you have to paint me a picture.”
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* And So They Say: Bill Gouldman, with the help of Butch Jones and Rollin Stewart: “After six months of work, I’m about to get my gun cabinet finished.” Judge James H. Gilbert: “I own one thing that is in perfect running order— and that’s my nose.” Doris McMichael (the day after she retired): “I was going to sleep late this morning, but the latest I could make it was a quarter after seven.” Rip Poore: “Now that the basketball season is over, maybe I can get some work done.”
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* And So They Say: George Riffel: “When I’m mad at someone, I cuss him out if he’s smaller than I am—and if he’s bigger, I run.” Leta Bouchey: “Would you believe it— the wind blew one of my earrings off Sunday.” B & B Lumber Company: “We sold every gallon of paint we had for our Washington Birthday Special.” Glenn Conn: “You can call me Grandpa now.” Lee Phelps: “When the Record gets out early, and it snows, and the basketball team loses a game all in one day, it makes you feel like the roof has caved in.”
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* And So They Say: Glenn Conn: “If you folks have something you really want people to read, why do you put it on the front page? Why don’t you put it on the page with my ad?” Charlie Baxter: “Sunday afternoon I saw three deer this side of the bridge and four more within three miles of town.” Little girl to another on the street: “I’ll be glad when I grow up so I can have different colored hair.” Rip Poore: “With gasoline at the price it is, it’s cheaper to keep your car running. It saves wear and tear on the motor, the muffler, etc.”
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* And So They Say: George Riffel: “You don’t have to believe it but I got this skinned nose when I followed my hunting dogs down over a little hill and ran right into a currant thicket.” Frank Mitchell: “My geranium is five feet tall now and when it gets to the top of the window, I’m going to give it to Dillingham.” Kenneth Cooper: “Well, I just ate my first meal in the old folks home—but it probably won’t be the last.” Clark Stocking: “I was in our bowling alley for the first time on Saturday, and it was the first time I had bowled in nine years—but I broke a hundred.”
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* And So They Say: Ira Hazen: “The pheasant hunters must be in town again. I found three empty beer cans on my lawn last week. Surely, no one in Stockton would do that.” Curley Walker: “It only has to warm up a little more until I can go fishing.” Gilbert Thyfault: “Everyone else hears all the gossip I hear, so I guess it isn’t even gossip.” Gisela Eckart: “I do hope no one is this country will ever have to see a war being fought in the streets of our towns.” Myrna Kincaid: “I don’t like to cook very well, but I can’t get anyone to believe it because Don looks so healthy and well fed.”
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* And So They Say: Virgil Bird: “I’ve been on six guided tours and have only met one unpleasant person on any of them.” H. C. McCall: “I’ve taken the Record since 1910 and I’m not planning to be without it now.” Jess Riffe: “I don’t even know a good lie I can tell you today.” Mrs. Dode Morrissey: “The last pixie doll I made went to the Craft Hall in a senior citizens center in New York City.”
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* And So They Say: Everyone at the Solomon Valley Manor Opening: “This is the nicest Home I have seen.” Myrna Kincaid: “The Record almost kept me from going to the VFW Auxiliary Convention. The paper said the convention was in Wichita and when I told Don I was going to McPherson, he wondered what was up.” Mary Jo Robinson: “I think there is no doubt but what I am the quietest living person in town.” John B. Smith: “On our trip, I think we traveled every way except by dog sled.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Lodeska Romeiser: “No, we’re not crazy at our house. We left our Christmas tree up and decorated all this time because we wanted it to be here when Doug comes home on leave.” Neva Marshall: “When they get those new memory pills, I want to be the guinea pig.” Barbara Riffe: “I’m getting just like a reporter—always snooping around to find interesting items I can send to Bob in the Navy.” Chub Baxter: “I celebrated my 21st birthday Tuesday.” * Twelve-year-old Mary Phelps, the daughter of Mr.
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* And So They Say: Frank Mitchell: “Those geraniums in the window at my barber shop are four and a half feet tall. I measured them.” Harry Butler: “I’m so lazy I don’t even like to work the television remote control station changer.” Dode Morrissey: “I didn’t fall off the stepladder, the ladder fell while I was on it.” Sterling Bagby: “There were 223 kids who braved the cold weather for the matinee Saturday.” Clark Stocking: “I still think the Roadrunner cartoon is the best show on TV.”