56 Years Ago
Spotlighting The Year...1967
* And So They Say: John B. Smith: “The world is certainly getting smaller. I had a letter from Vietnam and one from Holland in the same mail. And neither had been on the way more than four days.” Harold Maddy: “I was pretty old when I had my first baby, but she was worth waiting for.” Myrna Kincaid: “Sometimes, after trying all the nationally advertised cleaners, you find that just plain old elbow grease works better than anything else.” Erma Jean Price: “There was no one at our house Thanksgiving except me and the turkey.”
* A successful archery deer hunt, which concluded on the Sweet land about two miles south of Stockton, had begun Sunday morning at the Emory Hart home in the 200 block of North Third Street. Two high school boys, Tommy Carmichael and David Elliston, brought down the deer as arrows from the bows of both boys found the mark. They used 40 and 57-pound bows. The deer, a young buck, was spotted by Mr. Hart in his backyard. He knew Tommy had an archery permit and was anxious to bag a deer, so he called the Carmichael home. He knew they couldn’t kill the deer in town, but he figured it would soon be moving out of the territory. It did, and Emory kept his eye on it. When the message came for Tommy, he and David were out with their bows and arrows, but their mothers set out to find them. When the boys and the deer got together, the animal was in the draw west of the Celly Rupp home, but the chase didn’t end there. The deer traveled, and so did the boys, and so did the gallery because the affair had become a spectator sport. Neither the highway nor the river stopped the procession. At least one of the enthusiastic spectators nearly got an arrow instead of the deer. Fortunately, however, there were no casualties other than the animal. The deer field dressed about 100 pounds. The excitement was over in time for the young Robin Hoods to get cleaned up and to church on time.
* City manager C. N. Harper had announced that the City would once again give the users of electricity the usual Christmas gift of them only paying the electricity bill amount from the month before if that bill was smaller than the amount used during December.
* Floyd A. Blauer, vocational agriculture instructor at Stockton High School, was leaving for Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association convention as he had been named a recipient of a National Travel Scholarship sponsored by A. O. Smith Harvestor Products, Inc.
* Mr. and Mrs. Danny Dix of Salina were the parents of a son, Bradley Wayne, born on November 26th. Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Johnston were the parents of a son, Michael Alan, born on November 23rd.
* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: Some respectable things are never popular—like hard work, for instance.
* Looking Back Fourteen Years Ago: The cast of the Junior Play included Garry Poore, Carol Cooper, Margaret Chastain, Eric Griffin, Marion Fleming, Judy Peebles, Carol Kellogg, Wilda Cook, Glenna Snyder, and Mike Ellsworth. Webster’s Peter Pan Store was advertising beef liver for 33¢ a pound.
* Miss Darlene Deloris Maddy became the bride of Mr. James D. Pettijohn on November 4th.
* Mr. and Mrs. Chester Miller of Woodston announced the engagement of their daughter, Diane Faye, to Mr. Vernon Lee Strutt.
* Showing at the Nova Theatre were the movies “Thunder Alley,” starring Annette Funicello and Fabian, and “The Psychopath,” the shock thriller of the year.
