56 YEARS AGO

* And So They Say: Pauline Southard: “Since my stay in the hospital, I think I’ll be a little more thoughtful about sending cards to people who are in the hospital.” Gisela Eckart: “It didn’t take long for our truck to get a frosted glass windshield in the sandstorm near Damar Friday morning.” Doris McMichael: “Yes, I got sunburned, but I also got a fish.” Howdie Webster: “I did not know that the want ads were so well read until I found homes for all my pups that way.”

* A total of thirty-nine SHS seniors were set to receive their diplomas. The very Rev. Msgr. Bernard Dickman was to deliver the Baccalaureate sermon. Members of the 1964 graduating class were: Larry Allen, Patsy Holiday Bane, Kinney Baxter, Larry Bedore, Martha Bedore, John Berkley, Thomas Bigge, Martha Conn, Gary Cook, Betty Ann Dancer, Richard Desmarteau, Nola Dunning, William Elder, Thomas Farr, Mariane Flores, Sondra Koontz Folsom, Gloria Goodard, Wilma Hazen, Dixie Ives, Jimmy Jackson, Roland Johnston, Roger Jones Karol Kennedy, Sharon Kennedy, David Knight, Gary Kollman, Janet Liebenau, Janice Liebenau, Ferryl Locke, Donald McLaughlin, Terry Odle, Judith Richardson, David Rogers, Maria Ross, Emery Leo Schilowsky, Douglas Sonntag, Lana Stephen Dianne Walter and Thomas Yost.

* Fourteen-year-old Quentin VanEaton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merton Van Eaton, had done exceptionally well at the Zone Shoot in Philipsburg. He came home with four trophies, winning the Sub Junior trophy shooting 100 out of 100; the Class C trophy for getting 196 out of 200; the Sub Junior handicap for getting 92 out of 100; and the high over-all Class C trophy by shooting 463 out of 500.

From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: There is a different between being lazy and tired. Other people are lazy. You are tired.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Dedication for the new Methodist Church at Webster was to be held on May 21st. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Merton Van Eaton on May 11th. Oyer’s Food Market was advertising two cans of pie cherries for 49¢.

* William Henry Burton, Adelaide Frances Blakeley, Minnie May Totten, Thomas Pauley, Mathias Jepson, Della Estella Munn and Mary Ella James had passed away.

* On sale at Oyer Food Market were two pounds of apples for 35¢, a head of lettuce for 19¢, pork steak for 45¢ a pound, three jars of Welch’s grape jelly for 99¢ and ten pounds of pure beet sugar for $1.17.

* Joyce Marie Ives and Donald Dean Keeten had exchanged marriage vows on February 23rd in the Main Street Christian Church at Stockton. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a street-length dress fashioned with three-quarter length sleeves and scoop neckline lace bodice with bouffant chiffon skirt of taffeta. She carried a bouquet of pink and white carnations on a white Bible. Her jewelry was a necklace of pearls, a gift of the groom.

* Mrs. B. M. Korb had entertained twelve friends of her daughter, Becky, at a dinner party at the Sunset Café to celebrate Becky’s tenth birth anniversary. Those present were Sara Jo Marshall, Connie Poore, Pam Miller, Cindy Hulse, Cindy Votapka, Brenda Hunter, Rhonda Stice, Roberta Gibson, Becky Waller, Janelle Locke, Marie Currie, Elizabeth Zoller and Tessy Korb.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In Theatre were the movies “Tammy and the Bachelor” starring Debbie Reynolds, and “Summer Holiday,” starring Cliff Richard and Lauri Peters.