Burlington Edison High School - Tinas Coma Yearbook (Burlington, WA)

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cb' J Benston H Tilft L Kifllby B liller D Basal' Election day proved to be a fortunate day for the Junior class when they chose Lyle Kirkby as president, Dan Rasar vice presi dent, and Helen Taft as secretary treasurer. Beverly Miller and Joe Benston were the voices of the class as student council re Dresentatives Lyle went to the High School Leader's Conference at the University of Washington, bringing back many helpful ideas All in all they have proved to be a very successrul team 1n une advancement of the Class of '51, Twenty-one

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deeaqalalg' Friends Just pxcture an old grey halred man wlth hls great grandson on h1s knee The old man lS a retlred sea man who has traveled far and w1de to every po1nt of the compass on land and sea He's telling the lad of some of his experiences and of some of the people he s met Let s l1sten 1n and hear some of these tall tales too'0ld Captaln Will1e Leed IS just startlng another of h1s famous yarns Well slree Sovny there I was on th1s l1ttle two by four 1sland shlpwrecked and the only human be1ng there CUnless you want to count a couple of looney sc1ent1sts Glenn Smlth and D1ck Wallace who were try1ng to turn coconut shells 1nto tooth paste and v1ce versa They had another member of the1r party an archeologlst named Wildfang but I guess the heat got him 5 I was f1fteen days wlthout food or water when I slghted a sh1p off shore I s1gnaled for lt to p1ck me up but lt threw some supplles overboard for me and anchored 1D the har bor for the night When the supplies flnally dr1fted ashore they were found to be a blanket and pxllow from the Jenklns and R11ey Woolen M1lls IH Bay V1ew Texas some J ratlons compl1ments of the J Q D Bendtsen U Pack V1tam1n Company andtwobottles of Stewart s S00th1Hg Syrup whlch conta1ned 9952 alcohol and HZ Jergens Lot1on I really appreclated the supplies and when the Shlp sent a row boat to get me I was greeted by a very saddened young sailor Arnold Benson wno sa1d that dlsappolntment 1n love had forced h1m 1nto a sailor s l1fe Once on board the ship I was greeted by Captarn and Mrs Ernest Arthur Dahl who was the former Joyce Jones Their four teen ch1ldren made up the ent1re crew My boat tr1p to the malnland was a very enterta1n1ng one Wh1le on board I met many Interestlng people A tr1o of glrls who were on the1r way to a Job in a chorus line just anywhere were Hattle Sawyer Edna White and June R1chter There was a funny llttle guy you would have l1ked altho he was an escaped convict He was sent up for 1llegal use of hot rods Don Hlltz h1s name was The food on the boat was really out of thxs world The chef was an old fr1end of m1ne Charlxe Ambers Once the boat 5001494 U1 Nichols Nugget torn I asked the nearest porter Jack Taylor dlr9Ct10nS to the nearest bar the nlcest one I could f1nd was one called Learned s Lime House featuring one Connor and Ham1lton Juggllng act However one drink of Fosness Poam1ng Brew made me so t1psy that when the waltress Arlene Engdahl brought me the check I smothered xt w1th Rodewald s ROUSIHQ Rellsh and ate the whole th1ng The next day I woke up at noon 1n a place began to feel better I stopped 1n at Mrs Moody s boardlng house for d1nner and then caught a taxl for the de pot where I was golng to catch a tra1n for a larger town Under the plcture of the tax1 driver it sa1d Gerald ?retty Boy' Hughes so I asked h1m where I could get some magaz1nes He dlrected me to Neely's News Stand where I purchased two coples of Leota s Lurid Love Storles' written by Leota Polmateer Wh1le leaf1ng thru the pages I came upon a plcture of Edna Woolbright and Mary McKay as the g1F1S w1th the most beautiful legs in Chile' Just caught the tra1n 1n txme to be shown mv seat by conductor Bruce Mlller As we progressed along our trip peanut salesmen D1ck Pearson and Cllfford Olson came through the small vlllage of Johnson and Th1essen vllle whose populatlon 1S rapidly 1ncreas1ng At last I arrived in the b1g city T1red from my trip I took my thlngs d1rect ly to Ma Prltsch's Flop House and rested The room was very poorly furn1shed and 1n poor taste Then I was on the townll Throwlng caut1on to the w1nds I took my ent1re bank roll w1th me wh1ch amounted to over th1rteen thousand dollars The guady neon signs of Rowsy Rocky's Roost lured me 1nto a dusty smoky night club which was owned and operated by Rodger Fleek and Bob Shelley On the floor show b1ll was someth1ng everyone had been look ing forward to Amourous Ammetersn Bubble Dance followed up by the K1ng of Burlesque Clifford Marcoe I sl1p ped up to the bar and ordered a shot of Rochefort s Rum from the bartender Ken Thomas There must have been something ln that dr1nk besides r m because the last thing I remember was Fleek and Shelley carrying me down to the docks and taking my bank roll When the effects of the Mlcky F1nn wore off I found myself alone adrift 1 a small dinghy somewhere 1n the South Seas A large island loomed up on the horizon and I paddled for lt with all my might with the slats from a box of Anderson and Anderson Asp1r1n I was greeted on the shore by a host of beautiful South Seas women At least I thought they were nat1ves I later found out that they were originally from the U S and were trying to start a Lonely Hearts Club They were Donna Martin Donna Martinson and Louise Llndamood They directed me to the Ch1ef above all on the island Gerald Reinert who gaveme leave to roam the island at will with the warning to beware of the west side cannibals who were terroriz1ng the area. Their leader Mad Maude Slonecker' would stop at nothing to gain control of the xsland With this warning in mind I was on my way when I stopped for a minute to watch a native worshiping a beaut1ful statue which bore a remarkable likeness to Dixie Cross Closer inspectxon of the native proved it to be a very sun bronzed Merle Rahier who I found had joined the South Seas Foreign Legion after being j1lted by her true love A blood curdllng war whoop filled the air and quickly turning around I was confronted by a bevy of half crazed savages who undoubtedly be longed to the east side cannibals led by their undernourished chieftalns Boyd Omdal and Elaine Johnson They seemed very excited about somethlng and beckoned me to follow I did and saw that they were going to a native baseball game Maynard's Mad Men were playing Jensen s Jug Heads The umpire and manager for both teams was Roy Lindamood Following the game a big feast and celebration was to be held I soon learned that the main dish for the feast was to be me The native drummer Ronald Hansen started the exot1c rythym of a tribal dance and Ton daleyo Wiseman performed the Dance of the Thousand Daggers the daggers be1ng made entirely of melted down class rings- As I was about to be put into the pot of bollxng water, a voice rang out through the air H1 0 Silver! and there was Hlllis Bridgeman riding up on a pink ostrich! After he got his bib tied on and I was seasoned with 0'Bryan s Onion Salt and Wlles Worchestershlre Sauce, they lifted me over the boiling pot and prepared to drop me in.. ........ and then .......... What happened then, Grandpa?n the little boys asked. Why son, Captain Willie replied, I was et for sup per!'!n Twenty Q j . . l . . . . . , I, . . . . 1 . . ' . . ' . . . . . - y f ' , . . . ' ' called Bentz's Bunkhouse. The janitor, Troy Wiles, woke me up. I went up town and after four Peth-a-seltzers. I . , , . . . . Q 4 - ' ' ' , ' n ll ' N I I --n ' I I

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