* And So They Say: Dode Morrissey: “I think Loyalty Day is a good thing. This country could stand a little more loyalty.” Vivian Van Horn: “Some people are always late. They’d be late at their own funerals.” Velma Bedore: “This crazy weather—only 24 hours between the air conditioner and furnace.” Harold Maddy: “No telling what you will see the first day of May. A car coming in from the north stopped at the stoplight, and a big hunk of ice and snow fell off from underneath it.”

* And So They Say: Ivan Combs: “I really think my dad went to Norton Sunday to stake out a claim to a good fishing place on the lake being constructed there.” Freddie Baughman: “I don’t know what the freeze did to the wheat, and we probably won’t know until after harvest to find out if all the big heads are empty.” Velma Bedore: “We just could not find a blanket big enough to spread over our wheat field.” Leta Bouchey: “I hope Russell doesn’t find out that I’ve taken on another secretary/treasurer’s job.” Lionel Carter: “I sure hope Chuck Ostmeyer is able to go fishing before long, as he is the only one around here who can give me any competition.”

* And So They Say: Irene Cabbage: “If my husband drank too much, I could send him off some place for the cure. But where can I send him when he eats too much?” Red Hagan: “As long as people are griping at me they are leaving other folks alone.” Dean King: “They should do something about making Stockton the lilac capital of the state.” Stanley Krysl: “I can always remember my granddaughter’s birthday as it comes the day after the income tax deadline.”

* And So They Say: Gene Miller: “I’m afraid I planted my potatoes the wrong time of the moon.” Elva Walker: “My want list is always bigger than my need list.” Francis Cadoret: “ Clean Up Week isn’t until next week, but I think a lot of people started early judging from the number of trash fires that have been getting out of control.” Lee Phelps: “We had a very good One Cent Sale, but those things are work!”

* And So They Say: Lee-Roy Doty: “Before I joined the Lions Club, I couldn’t stand up on my feet and say even two words to a group of people or at any kind of meeting.” Rhada Hutton: “We went fishing over the weekend, but all I caught was a cold.” Ray Bigge: “I don’t know any more than I do because I don’t ask enough questions.” Roy Mallum: “I work harder than anyone, and I don’t do anything.” Bob Smith: “I’m glad I’m out of the hospital, but I hate wearing this girdle. I don’t see how the gals stand them.”

* And So They Say: Red Hagan: “I’m one hundred percent for the kids of this town.” John Wells: “Nice weather isn’t getting us what we need.” George Riffel: “I’ve seen a lot of places, but there just aren’t many that can begin to compare with Stockton. The only trouble is that Stockton doesn’t toot its own horn enough.”

* And So They Say: Jody Sanders: “I’m looking forward to April when the Kansas Anthropological Society will have a dig near Alton.” Robert Osborn: “I was late for work on Tuesday morning because it took me so long to find my raincoat.” Leighton Marshall: “They didn’t put the flags out for my birthday, but everyone wore something green.” * Approximately 140 4-H members and leaders from Rooks and Phillips Counties had attended the Sander Brothers (Freeman, Delbert,andGeorge) Livestock Judging School and Contest. Six classes of livestock were judged in the contest. The Sander Brothers furnished Angus heifers and fat hogs, Hereford steers were furnished by Larry Dix, and sheep were furnished by Bernard and Rodney Carsten. The top three placings in the older division went to Ted Odle and Richard Eggers (tie), followed by Alton Hazen and Rodney Carsten. The three high in the younger division went to Donnie Lowry and Gale Maddy, with a three-way tie for third between Larry Riffel, Mark LeSage, and Mike Muir.

* And So They Say: Clarence Spencer: “They told us this was going to be a wet year, so it better begin pretty soon.” Blackie Randall: “The only news I know is about myself, and I won’t tell that stuff.” Red Hagan: “I couldn’t be any more Irish if I had been born in Ireland.” Clark Stocking: “If you are born right at midnight like I was, you can celebrate on two days.”

* And So They Say: Bill Gouldman: “If I had known that Warren Miller was such a good cook, I’d have had him cooking instead of shooting snooker.” Viola Balderston: “I’m going to quit work so that I can go fishing with my husband.” Ed Riffel: “I’ve been farming all my life and I still don’t know anything about it.” Dave Oyer: “When the Stockton delegation cheered at the game Friday night, the roof of the Palco gym rose two feet in the air.”

* And So They Say: Dean King: “I found a shark’s tooth Sunday, but that isn’t news as the woods are full of them.” Red Hagan: “Lee Phelps put out two flags on Washington’s birthday. The big one he said was for George’s birthday and the little one, for mine.” Paul Marshall: “I was a member of the first Boy Scout troop in Stockton—and that was a long time ago.”