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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1968 * And So They Say: Lodeska Romeiser: “No, we’re not crazy at our house. We left our Christmas tree up and decorated all this time because we wanted it to be here when Doug comes home on leave.” Neva Marshall: “When they get those new memory pills, I want to be the guinea pig.” Barbara Riffe: “I’m getting just like a reporter—always snooping around to find interesting items I can send to Bob in the Navy.” Chub Baxter: “I celebrated my 21st birthday Tuesday.” * Twelve-year-old Mary Phelps, the daughter of Mr.
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* And So They Say: Frank Mitchell: “Those geraniums in the window at my barber shop are four and a half feet tall. I measured them.” Harry Butler: “I’m so lazy I don’t even like to work the television remote control station changer.” Dode Morrissey: “I didn’t fall off the stepladder, the ladder fell while I was on it.” Sterling Bagby: “There were 223 kids who braved the cold weather for the matinee Saturday.” Clark Stocking: “I still think the Roadrunner cartoon is the best show on TV.”
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* And So They say: Charlie Springer: “I got a ten-point deer during closed season, didn’t fire a shot, and didn’t go through a check station.” Pat Reed: “The canceling machine in our post office is the one Lee surrendered to Grant.” Betty Osborn: “I was around a lot during the holidays— but mostly around the dish pan.” Vera Gouldman: “I just missed seeing the New Year in by 14 minutes.”
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* And So They Say: Duane Miller: “I do hope whoever stole my outdoor Christmas tree lights enjoyed them.” Judge Gilbert: “Santa Claus was real good to me. He left me lots of pinochle cards.” Hazel Larson: “My grandson, Steve Muir, was quite excited when he got to shake hands with President Johnson when he stopped in Hawaii last week.” Sheriff Elmer Odle: “This was one of the quietest holiday periods I ever saw. Everyone seemed to be behaving.” Erma Jean Price: “Today, I don’t know which direction is up, and I’m not sure I’d go if someone pointed it out to me.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Mrs. Paul Marshall: “The kids, I think it was Pam Miller, have renamed Main Street Sugar Plum Drag.” Clara Mullen: “I’m certainly glad that Matt got his deer the first day as he said we weren’t going to start our trip until he had bagged one.” Bill Gouldman: “Someone should ask Chuck Ostmeyer if he ever got stuck in a snow drift.” Chuck Waller: ”I have three solutions for the post office corner mailbox parking problem—move the box 15 inches closer to the curb, put it in the middle of the street; or provide arm extensions.”
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* And So They Say: Doc Mason: “No kidding, I feel like a grandpa today.” Howard Wanamaker (Monday): “I got my first Christmas card today and I think that’s plenty early.” Don Riffel: “The day after my wreck, I found out I had joints I never knew about before.” Dode Morrissey: “I just spent the busiest weekend of my life. Charlie Baxter lost November 31st and I spent three days trying to help him find it.” Cole McClellan: “I know why the United States is so anxious to land a man on the moon. We want to see if they need any foreign aid.”
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* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “The world is certainly getting smaller. I had a letter from Vietnam and one from Holland in the same mail. And neither had been on the way more than four days.” Harold Maddy: “I was pretty old when I had my first baby, but she was worth waiting for.” Myrna Kincaid: “Sometimes, after trying all the nationally advertised cleaners, you find that just plain old elbow grease works better than anything else.” Erma Jean Price: “There was no one at our house Thanksgiving except me and the turkey.”
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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1967 * And So They Say: Shannon Krysl: “Doug DeRosear says real funny things. When I asked him why he smashed his rolls up at the dinner table, he said, ‘So I can get all the flavors in one bite.’” Red Hagan: “Any more you can’t tell which comes first, Thanksgiving or Christmas.” Bob Smith: “They call me the deer slayer now.” Lee Phelps: “Never hit your head on an electric transformer while you are holding a string of tinsel.
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* And So They Say: Albert McCue: “Bob, who is stationed in Okinawa, writes that it just takes a little while to make us appreciate the United States. He says they have no sewers, just ditches on each side of the street, and often they are not even covered.” Merton Van Eaton: “This is the first time that I can remember that I never got a bird on the first day of pheasant season—and I only had one shot.” Stanley Krysl: “I’ve been here 20 years and this is the first year I haven’t gone pheasant hunting. Virgil Hagan: “Don’t people have any patriotism anymore? There were only eight flags out on Main Street on Veterans Day. I know things were closed up, but it wouldn’t have taken long to put the flags out.”