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56 Years Ago

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* And So They say: Charlie Springer: “I got a ten-point deer during closed season, didn’t fire a shot, and didn’t go through a check station.” Pat Reed: “The canceling machine in our post office is the one Lee surrendered to Grant.” Betty Osborn: “I was around a lot during the holidays— but mostly around the dish pan.” Vera Gouldman: “I just missed seeing the New Year in by 14 minutes.”
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* And So They Say: Duane Miller: “I do hope whoever stole my outdoor Christmas tree lights enjoyed them.” Judge Gilbert: “Santa Claus was real good to me. He left me lots of pinochle cards.” Hazel Larson: “My grandson, Steve Muir, was quite excited when he got to shake hands with President Johnson when he stopped in Hawaii last week.” Sheriff Elmer Odle: “This was one of the quietest holiday periods I ever saw. Everyone seemed to be behaving.” Erma Jean Price: “Today, I don’t know which direction is up, and I’m not sure I’d go if someone pointed it out to me.”
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Loren Goodheart became a great-grandfather with the birth of Braelyn Rae Blackwill on November 18th. The family gathered at Thanksgiving and took a four-generation picture with Maxine Goodheart of Russell, 91, Loren Goodheart of Stockton, Jill and Trevor Blackwill, and little Miss Braelyn Rae.
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Yesteryear story about a Stockton Santa

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(The following article is from the December 23rd, 1973 edition of the Hays Daily News. Hrabe's daughter, Dorrine Dix of Stockton, gave the article to the Stockton Sentinel in 2009 for republication, and we have reprinted it for our reader's enjoyment. Merry Christmas!) Frank Hrabe, Stockton, remembers when he first donned his Santa Claus suit, drove his pickup to the children-filled house of a good friend, hid his transportation in the trees, and walked in to deliver his famous one-liner: 'Ho, Ho, Ho!'
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What Was Going On 14 Years Ago • For December 14th • The annual Parade of Christmas Trees celebrated its 25th year at the Stockton Public Library. A weather system holding heavy snow and frigid cold had taken over the area, and when it finally stopped snowing, there was a total of 11 inches of snow accumulation.