* And So They Say: Twila Smith: “Folks will think I’m ignorant. Last Monday, I said that in three months it will be the day afterChristmas—notthree months and one day.” Frances Stocking (looking at Badlands in Dakota last week ): “It looks like the soil conservationists didn’t get here soon enough.” Lloyd Hollern: “Well, I have my annual football cold.” Pudy Larson: “I’m looking for a lot of snow this winter.”

* And So They Say: Jo Carmicheal: “I still say that the scenery around here is just as pretty as you will see anywhere.” Dr. Dean: “I was amazed at the number of replies I received to my help wanted ad in the Record. Your want ads really work.” Mrs. Ray Schindler:“Ineverthought I’d see the day when I would have my 15th little grandsweety.” Mrs. George Riffel: “George wants to go deer hunting in Wyoming, but it seems sort of silly to me as it won’t be long until he can hunt them in his own pasture.” Twila Smith: (Monday): “Three months and one day from now will be the day after Christmas.” Doris McMichael: “I was the pitcher for our school’s baseball team when I went to school in the country.”

* And So They Say: Stella Willis: “I had a wonderful vacation. I caught up on my ironing.” Jake Jaros: “I certainly hope the sun keeps on shining so the rest of my tomatoes can get ripe.” Gardner Rogers: “I’ll tell you one thing, Kansas raises bigger weeds than Texas.” Mabel McCaslin: “My opinion is that the astronauts were a lot safer up there 850 miles above earth than they would be in a car going between here and Salina.” Chuck Hageman: “It’s too bad our team isn’t the Roosters, then we could call our booster club, the ‘Rooster Boosters.’” * The Chamber of Commerce had announced that Peanut Day was set for October 22nd. The first such event was held the year before and proved to be an enormous success with the exception of the fact that the peanuts ran out.

* And So They Say: Hazel Larson: “I’m certainly glad I’m living when I am. Never in history have so many interesting things happened.” Wilber Doak: “I am flying my flag today, September 14th, because it is the anniversary of the writing of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ and the book says you are to fly the flag.” Ernest Trible: “I spent most of my weekend on the roof.” Erma Jean Price: “We can notify everyone that we found our dog. So folks can stop looking for him.”

* And So They Say: John Wells: “Any news I know, I wouldn’t want to have my name connected with it.” Abe Schneider, Jr.: “All that’s new with me is that I get a little older and a little fatter all the time.” Gilbert Thyfault: “Van Eaton didn’t know what to do with his vacation, so he went to the hospital.” Paul Ballinger: “All I did over the Labor Day weekend was to lose my billfold.” C. N.

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “The grandkids are gone and we now have a new project at our house—painting the inside.” Lula Keeten: “It looked kind of good to see girls in dresses again the first day of school.” Doris McMichael: “It looks like the school kids are going to be dragging Main with Hondas this year instead of cars.” Clarence Heiner: “After you have already had your shoulder broken twice, the third time doesn’t hurt much.” Albert McCue: “One of the leading citizens said he saw two little green men peaking out of the UFO sighted here Friday evening.” * Mr. and Mrs.

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Viola Paulson: “As we were coming home from Phillipsburg last Tuesday night, we counted 87 cars going north out of Stockton from the Fair.” Stranger in the grandstand: “I always heard this was a good fair, but I didn’t have any idea it was this good.” Kenneth Medley: “Sunday was the first time I ever sat through three ball games—and the last.” Bump Arrington: ‘I think the City should pass an ordinance making the people cut their weeds.” * Mr. and Mrs.

* And So They Say: Jean Lindsey: “I took a week off from work to get ready for the fair, but I’m not ready yet.” Mrs. Alex Siruta; “I don’t feel old until I look at my fifteen-year-old granddaughter.” Francis Cadoret: “We took that coast drive along the Pacific, but I don’t know whether the ocean was there or not. All we saw was fog.” Erma Jean Price: “I’m not tired anymore, I have now reached the point of exhaustion.” Pudy Larson: “When Wayne McCaslin says the Fair entertainment is good, it is GOOD.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Virgil Olson (Monday evening at the church picnic): “I’m trying to eat enough to last till the Lions Club picnic on Wednesday night.” Tim Miller (in Vietnam): “We are playing all kinds of games. They are so much fun that I have built my house out of sandbags real close to my foxhole.” Leonard Liebenau: “I’m afraid the watermelons at the Fair this year won’t be any bigger than cucumbers.” * President Richard (Dick) Muir had announced that the Rural Water District had let a contract to F.