* And So They Say: Ken Bates: “I didn’t do a thing this weekend—thank goodness!” Charlotte Riffe: “I bought me a new fishing hat which I wish I could wear on Easter as I think it looks better on me than my dress-up hat.” Jack Berkley: “I think the colleges stagger their spring vacations so that all the kids won’t be dumped onto their hometowns at the same time.”

* And So They Say: Paul Marshall: “I’ve got to get my hair cut or they’ll be calling me ‘Shep.’” Ed Reichard: “I don’t think it’s spring yet. My rattlesnakes are still asleep.” Kenneth Medley: “I did have a small bank account until this morning and then I paid my income tax.” Nellie Kern: “I’m sure I could bowl better if they would move the pins about halfway up the alley and put a railing along the sides.”

* And So They Say: Fred McMichael: “As a painter, I’m a good electrician.” Judge Gilbert: “There are some advantages to getting old. I don’t have to buy a fishing license.” Charley Baxter (reading the grocery ad in the Record): “Fresh eggs from the country—but it doesn’t say what country.” Leta Bouchey: “When I saw Benny Wildrix at the hospital after his accident, I told him it looked as if he must have been running around with Cassius Clay.”

* And So They Say: Coach Johnny Locke: “Kelly Desmarteau had the distinction of being the only player in the state tournament who hit 100% of his field goal tries.” John B. Smith: “It would take up less space in the paper if you’d just list the people who didn’t go to the tournament.” Rachel Barnes: “Stockton never had such an epidemic of laryngitis as there was the day after the tournament closed.”

* And So They Say: Jo Carmichael: “If you are going to hit a cow, don’t do it in Trego County. I think the sheriff over there favors the cows.” Ruth Phelps: “I can tell this is going to be a most unusual year. Our old cat had kittens three days apart last week.” Clark Stocking: “I hear that Stockton people were pretty mad at Johnny Locke fourteen years ago, but today he is the most popular man in town.”

* And So They Say: George Riffel: “Every time I open my mouth I get in trouble, so I have practically stopped talking.” Stella Willis: “If someone isn’t off work on account of the flu—that’s news.” Howard Wanamaker: “Quinter had a clever sign at the tournament the other night, but it didn’t do much good. It read: ‘Let’s unLocke Stockton.’”

* And So They Say: Ray Bigge: “I don’t now whether I am the only person around here still rolling his own cigarettes, but I do think I am the only one still using Bull Durhum.” Kenneth Medley: “The trouble is that people take the wrong attitude toward me.” Chuck Waller (Monday morning): “Things sure are quiet today. I haven’t even sold one car this morning.”

* And So They Say: Joke Venekamp (Holland): “I would give anything if I could be watching a basketball game back in Stockton and rooting for the Tigers.” Bump Arrington: “I want the law to keep Bob Jarrett from picking on me all the time.”

*And So They Say: Dorothea Lytle: “Saturday was the first time we ever ran out of everything in the bakery.” Rupert Dryden: “I used to have long golden curls—and still have them put away in a box somewhere.” Iva Roskilly: “Glen had a birthday Saturday, but I’m not telling how old he is.”

* And So They Say: Dean King: “I was certainly more than pleased with my grand opening— all those lovely flowers and everything.” Marilyn Freemeyer; “It is certainly a tragedy when on your only day off, your car won’t start.” Lester Maddy: “We had to come home from Texas—it takes money to live down there.”