* 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.”

* And So They Say: Ellen Farr: “Martin Luther King and I were in Denver at the same time, but he made the headlines and I didn’t.” Clark Stocking: “It seems mighty funny to me, but no matter how many clothes a woman has hanging in her clothes closet, she never has a thing to wear.” Iva Lee Bennett: “My goal for the summer is to get my kids clothes all ironed before school starts in September.” Francis Cadoret: “I don’t know why they don’t keep school going through the summer.”

* And So They Say: Curley Walker when asked how his fishing was going: “I haven’t had time to fish. I had to plant my watermelons three times.” Bill Gouldman: “If you eat lots of horseradish, you’ll be healthy.” Red Hagan: “There’s nothing quite like being with a bunch of Boy Scouts for a few days.” Karen Wiklund: “I wish people would put diapers on their dogs.” Nellie Kern: “Larry thought he came home for a vacation, but I put him to work remodeling my house.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Chuck Waller: “It’s awfully hard to convince the kids that it’s time to go to bed while the sun is still shining.” Linda Turnbull: “Sunday was the first time I ever went to a party empty handed and came home with a car full of loot.” Lionel Carter: “There are several places of business which won’t let me in because I flapped my mouth in front of a Record reporter.” Freddie Baughman: “My stockings run, but I don’t.” * The Stockton Chapter of the Future Farmers of America was named a Gold Emblem Chapter again, being one of the 17 chapters in the state to receive the coveted award. Receiving the State Farmers Degrees from the local chapter were Brent Casad, Alton Hazen, Eldon Kriley, Robert Lowry, and Kerry Maddy.