* 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.”

* And So They Say: Mary Jo Robinson: “If Wilbur had bought me a Valentine, I’d have known for sure that he had been up to something.” City manager Harper: “I think the new engine down at the power plant should be installed and operating by May.” Bill Bedore: “The soles of my boots are worn out from turning the corners too fast.” Larry Dix: “We’ve tried rain dances and everything, but still can’t get any moisture.”

* And So They Say: Lucille Scott: “My husband usually remembers our wedding anniversary as it falls on Valentine’s Day.” Francis Eshler: “If I’d buy my wife a Valentine, she’d wonder what I had been up to.” George Ostmeyer: “Sometimes a person just has to admit he’s not as young as he was. Mary Fix: “We shouldn’t have much trouble remembering our license tag number, it’s seven-eleven.” Ralph Burlin: “This is a wonderfully nice day, but what we’d like to see is a nice nasty rainy day.”

* And So They Say: Ig Gross: “It’s hard not to know anything, but it’s not impossible.” Velma Bedore: “I do my duty, and that is all I do.” Kenneth Medley: “When I grunt, I am not ignoring you.” Harold Maddy: “It was a pure, simple accident when I shot the Chief of Police in the back with the water hose.”

* And So They Say: Irwin Wright (Eugene, Ore.): “I think Bud Lytle makes the best bread of anyone in the world.” Brad Waller (age 6, watching his mother cook and was asked by her when she was cutting down a recipe, how much half of three-fourths of a cup was): “I don’t know, I haven’t studied cooking yet.” Bill Gouldman: “If Jim Chastain would play better pool, we’d win more games.” Harry Butler: “Usually when I buy a bargain, I figure on getting stung. But once in a while, I get a pleasant surprise.”

* And So They Say: Milt Boethin: “Well, I really should be doing something even if I do the wrong thing.” Nellie Kern: “Bill’s birthday parties are like the Rooks County Free Fair. They get bigger and better every year.” Clark Stocking: “All I did over the weekend was feed the squirrels.” Judge Gilbert: “I’m back, but I won’t say I’m back to work.” Doyle Cook: “If I didn’t have anything to do but gripe about the kids and criticize the teenagers, I think I’d spend part of that time trying to do something for them or making the town a better place for them to live in.”

* And So They Say: Mary Stewart: “I am scared to death every time I go to a basketball game, but they always come out all right. Lillian Stithem: “I’m not saying which anniversary of my 39th birthday this is.” Jo Carmichael: “If there are no such things as flying saucers, they’ve certainly got an awful lot of pictures of them to be nothing.” Doyle Cook: “I don’t know why I should take down our Christmas decorations until everyone else has theirs down.”