56 Years Ago

* And So They Say: Wimp Hulse: “Since the episode near the Marina on Saturday, I’m going to start advertising a three-minute car wash.” Don Peebles: “They complain about kids having nothing to do in the small towns, but in the cities, where there is surely plenty of recreation facilities, they seem to commit more vandalism.” Frank Tyson: “With this sour puss of mine, I can’t smile.” Harold Copper: “Mickey Spillane was a fraternity brother of mine at Fort Hays State, but I don’t think he based any of his characters on me.”

* The high wind the community experienced the first of the week had not only been exceedingly unpleasant, but it caused one personal injury. Mrs. Sumner Southard had gone out into her back yard and a high gust of wind hit her and caused her to lose her footing, bumping her face down on a cement retaining wall around a flowerbed. The result was a deep gash on her forehead, painful facial bruises and a sprained wrist.

* A Buick station wagon belonging to F.S. Honish of Oakley had been submerged in the Webster Reservoir on Saturday morning with only the flat surface of the top being visible. The accident happened near the Marina while a boat was being unloaded. Fortunately no one had been in the car and no one was injured. Honish and Burton had been standing behind the car preparing to uncouple the boat trailer when the brakes failed to hold and it rolled backwards pushing the trailer and boat behind it. The men had jumped out of the way, but were unable to stop the car. Fortunately the trailer jackknifed after the boat floated off and sunk to the bottom with the car on top of it. Otherwise the car would have been pulled into 30 feet of water. Honish dived into the water and fastened a chain to the car and then the chain was attached to an International Scout and the Scout was chained to a Jeep. Wimp Hulse engineered the draying of the Buick from the water.

* The Arion Award was presented to the outstanding high school senior musician Lola Dunning at the spring concert. The Dennis Overley Memorial Scholarship to the High Plains Music Camp went to Pam Findeiss.

* Glen Heiner had set the record straight to the date of Stockton’s other fall of giant hailstones. The big storm stuck on July 5th, 1904 and he had a picture of some of the stones, the largest of which were 17 ½ inches in circumference. Glen said he remembered being huddled under a big tree with his mother and siblings, though it didn’t offer much protection during the storm. Mrs. L. D. Fuller also reported on the same storm, stating that everyone went out and picked up as many of the big stones as they could to store for ice because that was before the day of electric refrigerators. Miss Mabel Bartlett reported that the giant stones killed young cattle, hogs, coyotes and rabbits. The stench from the dead animals and battered vegetation was bad for days.

* Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Miller had announced the engagement of their daughter, Sharon, to Airman 2c Myron L. Chapel.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: If you can’t say anything good about a person…. well, that’s probably what everyone wants to hear.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: J. C. Dillingham had been elected cashier of the Stockton National Bank. The county highway department was building a new shop on South Walnut. An amateur rodeo was being scheduled at the McComb Ranch. Auctioneer Ira Hazen reported that he had sold 42 school houses during the past two years. The community was begging for rain. * On sale at Boyd &

* On sale at Boyd & Conn Supermarket were six cans of Roxey Dog Food for 49¢, a pound of rhubarb for 19¢, three dozen eggs for $1.00, four, sixounce packages of vacuum-packed lunch meat for $1.00, and ten pounds of Pure Beet sugar for $1.19.

* Showing at the Park Drive-In were the movies “The Great Imposter” starring Tony Curtis, and “Wives and Lovers” starring Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters and Martha Hyer.