* And So They Say: Dean King: “Sometimes, the less you know about your relatives, the better off you are.” Ira Hazen: “The pheasant hunters are getting thicker. I got nine beer bottles off my lawn early this morning—six Falstaff and three Coors.” Bill Gouldman: “I built my wife a nice sewing cabinet, and now I’m going to try to get her to take up sewing.” Lee Phelps: “So much of the really interesting stuff just isn’t for publication.”

* And So They Say: Floyd Lightfoot: “I always like to read the Record in the barber shop and save wear and tear on the one I get at home.” Lee Phelps: “There are really only 36 people in Stockton who will have the right to complain if they don’t like the way the City is run this year.” Rhada Hutton: “I think the wind blew all the fish away this weekend.” Pete Harding: “It won’t be long until my new grandson can say, ‘grandpa.’” * Over three hundred persons attended the annual Farmers Union Mercantile and Shipping Association meeting and barbecue at the Stockton City Auditorium. Governor Robert Docking was the principal speaker.

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “I wish I had some talent besides scrubbing.” Kenneth Currie: “March 28th was a red letter day. It was the first time Warren Harding ever had to buy the coffee.” Clark Stocking: “If you don’t believe I bowled a 200, I’ll never tell you anything again.” Stella Willis: “I’m afraid all the trash I hauled to the dump over the weekend has blown back into my yard.”

* And So They Say: Elton Smith: “They tell me the only way you could find a place to fish for walleye at the Webster Reservoir was to elbow someone out of the way.” Jim Riedel: “If they slap on any more taxes, I won’t have anything left of my paycheck.” Howard Webster: “It’s best never to take any chance of not staying on the good side of your wife.” Irene Holland: “Really am disappointed that Pat Paulsen did not get any votes in the New Hampshire primary.”

And So They Say: Reid Baxter: “I guess everyone thinks spring is here as we ran out of fishing licenses Saturday.” Bill Bedore: “Now that the ball games are over, there is nothing to do but listen to the politicians cuss each other.” Gary Schultz: “They say you shouldn’t change horses in the middle of the steam, but how about if the horse is downing?”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”

* 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.”