SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Alan Stewart: “We’ve really made some progress. We’re putting in some glass in our back door which has been out for 15 years.” Lawrence Conyac: “I’ve learned never to open my mouth in front of a reporter.” Dave Oyer: “I’m washing the store windowstoseeifIcan’tget it to rain.” Adaline Zoller: “I wonder if I could be stupid.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago The Kansas Sampler Foundation announced the 8 Wonders of Kansas Commerce finalists on January 5th, 2009. Baxter’s Bait & Tackle of Stockton and Dessin Fournir of Plainville had been selected in the 24 finalists of over 100 that the public had nominated.

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SPOTLIGHTING THE YEAR…1966 * And So They Say: Ollie Ochampaugh: “I’ll be glad when the weeks get straightened out and Monday starts coming on Monday again.” Bob Osborn (to Timmy Miller): We’re sorry you have to go back to Vietnam, but we all feel a lot safer with you there.” Floyd Fix: “It was an hour and 40 minutes by air from Los Angeles to Denver and over 60 degrees difference in temperature.” Bobby Norton: “Stockton has the best street department in this part of the state. This is the only town I know of where they make much of an effort to clean the snow off the streets.” Chuck Hageman: “I was surprised to read in the Salina Journal that I was building Tudor Manor in Plainville.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago Ah, Kansas! Where you can just barely stand the cold one week (previous Monday was in the ‘teens), and a week later you’re breaking out your t-shirts and sandals! The front page featured a photo showing a temperature of 65 degrees was displayed on Stockton National Bank’s time and temp sign. A concert benefitting the Kori Bigge family, featuring inspirational “Top 10” recording artist, Ginger Millermon from Hutchinson, was scheduled for Jan.

Licenses issued by the state automobile bureau this year now number 417,725 or approximately 35,000 more than the total number issued during 1922. The clerk’s record shows the licenses distributed as follows: 39,928 trucks; 370,895 automobiles; 2,239 automobile dealers; 1,632 motorcycles and 31 motorcycle dealers.

What Was Going On 14 Years Ago This edition of the Stockton Sentinel, published Dec. 25, 2008, featured the Thirteenth Annual Offering of “Santa’s ‘Deer Ones,” with 326 pictures of loved ones in a special 36-page insert! There were three new homes in Stockton as a result of a cooperative project between Northwest Kansas Housing in Hill City, Solomon Valley Homes, LP, Rooks County Economic Development, and the State of Kansas.

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* And So They Say: Esta Riseley: “Cleaning off the Buford Tudor corner was the best Christmas present Chuck Hageman could give the neighbors.” Kenneth Cooper: There are some people who don’t know a fence from a gate.” Mrs. Pansy Coolbaugh: “I was certainly thrilled the other day to get a Christmas card from one of my pupils of 61 years ago, who now lives in California. She had read of our 60th wedding anniversary in the Record.” Howard Wanamaker: “The last time Christmas fell on a Sunday was in 1955, and it won’t happen again until 1977.”