56 Years Ago

YEAR…1963

* And So They Say: Ray Bigge: “I don’t have anything on my mind but my hair and my hat.” Leta Bouchey (on Saturday during the high winds): “My hair looks like it has been combed with an egg beater.” Vernie Degenhardt: “I’ve been wearing this red coat for several days and I still don’t have the Christmas spirit.” Candace Dryden: “They’ve got to start playing more Christmas carols. Maybe then we’ll realize how close it is to Christmas.”

* Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Novotny were the parents of a son named Scott Lynn born on December 7th.

* The Stockton Webelos, under the direction of Scoutmaster Chuck Hageman, had made candles from bottles they had collected from the City dump. The bottles were glued together to form a tall candlestick, painted and then filled with wax.

* City manager C. N. Harper had announced that the City would again give the residents a chance to do some holiday lighting at no additional cost. The way it worked was each person’s bill for electricity on their February 1st bill, which covered the period from December 17th through January 17th, would be the same as their bill for the November 17th to December 17th reading.

* A yearling bull, CM Beau Crusty, belonging to Alton, Wilma and Clarence Hazen, had won first place in his class at the Great Plains Hereford Association Sale at Hill City.

* John Glendening had moved his paint and body shop from East Main to South Sixth Street. He was open for business, but stated he would not have his Open House until after Christmas.

* From The Feminine Slant By The Office Cat: I am not exactly a cynic, but if I should hang up my stocking on Christmas Eve, I wouldn’t expect to find a thing in it except a run.

* Mr. and Mrs. John Russ, Sr. had returned from Chicago, Ill., where they had attended the International Livestock Show. They had also attended the National Angus meeting and convention held at the Conrad Hilton. John was one of the delegates from Kansas.

* College students Margie Colburn and Richard Ellis of Stockton, were to participate in the presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” in Sheridan Coliseum at Fort Hays State College as a Christmas Vespers.

* Looking Backward Fourteen Years Ago: Hobart Lamkin was celebrating his 25th anniversary as a mail carrier. Frank and Curley Walker were opening a new filling station and cabin camp on east Main Street. A new oil pool had been opened in the county in SWC NW 18-10-19w. Peanut brittle was 27¢ a pound at Webster’s Supermarket.

* Earl Kellogg had left via car for Travis Air Force Base in California. He was to report by December 9th and leave for Hawaii at midnight that same day to work as an assistant administrator to a doctor at Schofield Barracks.

* Shirley Mae Corey, Margaret Ann Riley Richardson and James I. Martin had passed away.

* Featured at the grade school Christmas program were Bruce Wanamaker, Linda Poore and Mike Saunders as soloists, and Nicky Lowe, Joelle McCall, Dianna Yoxall and Lee Ann Harding as accompanists.

* Showing at the Nova Theatre were the movies, “HUD!” starring Paul Newman, and “Summer Place,” starring Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee.

* Pre-Holiday Specials at Webster’s Supermarket were twenty-five pounds of red McClure potatoes for 79¢, six-foot aluminum Christmas trees for $4.77, Betty Crocker angel food cake mixes for 49¢ a box, and C&H brown or powdered sugar for 25¢ a pound bag.

Bart Hamilton, Susan Schneider and Bob Hamilton were in Larned Friday afternoon last week for the funeral services for their cousin and nephew, Greg Smith, who passed away Monday, December 2nd.