* And So They Say: Mrs. Willard Atwill: “Is there any news except flu?” Duffie Hindman: “I can tell you one thing about that flu, it does not get better until it gets worse.” Paul Bridwell (Monday morning): “I do not think I will go fishing this morning. I will just wait till evening and see how the weather is.”

* And So They Say: Dan Stewart: “That thirty-yearold car we sold on Saturday is more valuable now than when it was new.” Doyle Cook: “Our town basketball team has good players, but it needs more followers.” Roy Nichols: “From now on, I’m only going to watch happy TV shows. I’ve got too many troubles of my own.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Medley: “You think you have got troubles! Well, we are breaking in a new cash register, and it is a mess.” Alan Stewart: “The kind of news I want to read is the kind you won’t print.” Stanley Krysl: “Can a lawyer do anything to make news during income tax time?”

* And So They Say: Lee Phelps (after Friday afternoon’s rain): “We looked it up in the dictionary to find out what that stuff was coming down from the sky. It is rain.” Milt Boethin: “I said I would not take my Santa Claus decorations down until it snowed, and I didn’t. I took it down on Saturday.” Erma Jean Price: “I don’t think anyone was complaining about the snow drifts this time.” * The local youngsters

* And So They Say: Mary Fix: “Oh, yes, I entertained all right over the weekend—but it was a sore throat.” Henry Marcotte: “I do not know what all I ate at Bill Gouldman’s party, but I ate some of everything and it was all good.” Jimmie Copper: “I can’t appreciate the nice weather because we need rain so bad.” Les Eckart: “I’d like to get a big cannon, put it up on top of the courthouse and shoot at the clouds till I scare up some rain.”

* And So They Say: Chuck Hageman: “The only thing I know is that I fell on my you-know-what Sunday while skating with my kids.” Harold Copper: “That Hays TV station should be sued for broadcasting that Stockton lost their game Friday night.” Mary Mason: “Maybe this will be the week when it rains.” Erma Jean Price: “Well, I had to do my spring house cleaning a little early this year on account of burning up a kettle of stew.”

* And So They Say: Rae Hageman: “People are funny, Saturday in Stockton most of the stores were open, but the bank was closed; and in Plainville the bank was open, but the stores were closed.” Red Hagan: “I don’t know, but I am afraid we will have more accidents in Stockton this year. My kid will be learning to drive.” John B.Smith: “I imagine I was the oldest kid in town to get a bicycle for Christmas.”

* And So They Say: Cleo Baughman: My own mother won’t ride with me in my plane, but when I take my mother-in-law up, I always tell her ‘no back seat driving,’ and she obeys.” Traveling salesman: “Stockton was the only town between here and the Colorado line where the stores were open the Saturday after Christmas.” Chuck Waller: “You don’t have to read our hometown paper to find out what the people are doing, but you do like to find out who got caught.”

* And So They Say: Merton Van Eaton: “I never read my Christmas cards until after Christmas when I have time to enjoy them.” Ira Hazen: “When our daughter came home from Korea last week, she arrived in the States two hours before she left Korea.” Clark Stocking: “I guess beating Plainville Friday night eclipsed the eclipse of the moon.” Duffy Hindman: “Christmas came on too fast this year.” * From The Feminine

* And So They Say: Leonard Dix: “I feel positively naked without that cast on my arm.” Bill Gouldman: “Right after Christmas, I have go to begin working on my annual birthday celebration.” Leighton Marshall: “Appraising wouldn’t be such a bad job if you didn’t meet me with a shotgun in a Main Street door.”