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.

* And So They Say: Butch Ostmeyer: “I think right about now would be an awfully good time for me to take a vacation.” Harry Butler: “The reason I didn’t look as good as my wife in that picture in the Record last week, was all taken care of by her and the photographer before the picture was taken. Just as he was ready to snap the shutter, Mabel turned to me and said, ‘Harry, did you know you are overdrawn at the bank?’”

* And So They Say: Don Unruh: “My boy was pretty proud of the fish he caught even if the bait was bigger than the fish.” Erma Jean Price: “What I need is a vacation from a vacation.” Harold Maddy: “My dad caught the most fish and the biggest fish of anyone on the boat the day we went deep sea fishing.” Les Sheahorn: “It rained as soon as McCaslin, Hamilton and McMichael left town. Why didn’t someone get them out sooner?”

* And So They Say: Gene Miller: “The only thing there is to talk about is the weather.” Dorothia Lytle: “Our new granddaughter was supposed to be a grandson.” Freddie Baughman: “Where are my shoes, you ask? Well, they are where I left my dignity.” Curley Walker: “I don’t bother to weigh a fish if it’s less than three feet long.” Arnold Dix (at Tuesday night’s ball game): “I’ve been missing a lot of good ball games because I thought the Legion team was the little kids team.” * Mr. and Mrs. James

* And So They Say: Jack Berkley: “John doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to cut his wages for calling that strike on me.” Dean King: “I’ve managed to air condition everything except my favorite fishing holes.” Freddie Baughman: “Well, we went to the lake Sunday and barbecued ourselves.” Leighton Marshall: “There is some advantage to being old. You remember the Drought of 1934 and don’t get as excited about this hot weather as the younger people.”

* And So They Say: Kenneth Buss: “You won’t believe it, but my wife has a tomato plant with 75 tomatoes on it, and another with 60.” Kenneth Currie: “Duane says it’s hotter than a dollar pistol—but I say it’s hotter than a two-dollar pistol.” Lester Maddy: “I always tell my company they can’t stay if they don’t work.” Mrs. Ruth Marshall (looking at the thermometer registering 100 degrees): “There goes our grass.” Frank Mitchell: “Anything I earn after six o’clock, I get to keep for myself.”

* And So They Say: Don Grieve: “Don’t blame the new cars or their manufacturers for accidents as 90 percent of all accidents are caused by the ‘nut’ behind the wheel.” Blackie Randall: “I’d like to trade some fishing tackle for an old yeller dog. The dog would do me just about as much good as the fishing tackle.” Ray Bigge: “I don’t think it was a friend that Les Eckart loaned his battery charger to.” Elvin Keiswetter: “By the looks of Roy Slansky, he either spent the weekend in the harvest field or sunning himself in the backyard.”

SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Stella Willis: “Everyone better beware of Pudy’s Batmobile.” Francis Cadoret: “It was certainly a welldressed fire department that made the fire run Sunday as most of the men left church in a hurry.” Joanna Stewart: “When I was in the hospital, I swore that if they ever let me out of bed, I’d never get tired again.” Merle Hus: “We think Six Flags Over Texas is as good as Disneyland and not nearly so far away. I was surprised at all the shade trees, benches and ice water they provide for visitors.” * Mrs.

* And So They Say: Les Eckart: “I’ll buy someone a t-bone steak if they’ll tell me what friend I loaned my battery charger to.” Judge Gilbert: “Even with plastic over all of the north windows, all we are able to do is try to keep the dust from sandblasting us out of the courthouse.” Iva Roskilly: “They’ve got cards for about everything, but I don’t know whether they have any saying, ‘Sorry to hear you are in the penitentiary.’”

* And So They Say: Pudy Larson: “The Stockton kids are sure lucky to have such a good swimming pool these hot days, and I hope they appreciate it.” Mabel Bartlett: “I do an awful lot of things, but don’t do anything very well.” Merton Van Eaton: “I didn’t catch any fish, and it didn’t rain, so I don’t have any news.” O. T. Meador: “Planting our garden in the right time of the moon isn’t of as much importance as giving it the right amount of good old city water.”