* And So They Say: Pauline Southard: “Since my stay in the hospital, I think I’ll be a little more thoughtful about sending cards to people who are in the hospital.” Gisela Eckart: “It didn’t take long for our truck to get a frosted glass windshield in the sandstorm near Damar Friday morning.” Doris McMichael: “Yes, I got sunburned, but I also got a fish.” Howdie Webster: “I did not know that the want ads were so well read until I found homes for all my pups that way.”

* And So They Say: C. N. Harper: “I’m beginning to think about getting the swimming pool ready to open and I am considering the possibility of a family season ticket this year.” Bill Nichols: “What do you mean, a good day? The sun is too bright and the noise is too loud.” Mary Sammons: “I came home from my trip expecting to have to begin watering my lawn and found I had to cut the grass instead.”

* And So They Say: Wimp Hulse: “Since the episode near the Marina on Saturday, I’m going to start advertising a three-minute car wash.” Don Peebles: “They complain about kids having nothing to do in the small towns, but in the cities, where there is surely plenty of recreation facilities, they seem to commit more vandalism.” Frank Tyson: “With this sour puss of mine, I can’t smile.” Harold Copper: “Mickey Spillane was a fraternity brother of mine at Fort Hays State, but I don’t think he based any of his characters on me.”

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* And So They Say: Lester Eckart: “Coming home in that wind Sunday I had the pickup wide open but couldn’t get it past 35 miles per hour.” Don Peebles: “We dodged tornadoes all the way home from Kansas City on Sunday.” Stanley Krysl: “Now that income tax time is over, maybe I’ll have time to find out something.”

* And So They Say: Everett Hughes: “Switzerland is the only country that is really as beautiful as the picture postcards make out.” Ben Winfough: “Just because a man is an ex-service man, that doesn’t mean he’s especially fitted for a public office.” Don Peebles: “The only thing I know is that we all have sore backs, etc. from climbing up on stools and chairs Sunday while invoicing.”

* And So They Say: Betty Harding: “With all the things that are happening in other places, we should all be glad we live in Kansas.” Bernard Carlson: “Outside of numbers, the Messiah chorus at Lindsborg was no better than our local chorus.” Stella Willis: “Well, I hope I’m retired before the bank gets in any more special issue coins.”

* And So They Say: Clara Liebenau: “I certainly am getting a fine birthday present—this rain.” Elton Smith: “By the time I know it, it’s history—not news.” Mrs. Paul Marshall: “When I get the Record, I always read the ‘And So They Say’ first then turn to the classified ads.”

* And So They Say: Earl Bartholomew: “I’ve only lived a day at a time ever since I’ve been bornf Doyle Cook: “I broke in my fishing luck Sunday by catching two nice channels.” Elizabeth Dryden: “I went hunting again, but I’m not going to tell the Record about it.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR...1964