East Canton High School - Echo Yearbook (East Canton, OH)

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MRS. AVALON BURKHARDT Faculty Editor of the 1952 “Echo [24]

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 March 12, New Orleans. Yes siree bob ! ! ! You should see this joint ! ! ! WOW ! ! ! What a time. The Mardi Gras is jist gitten inter full swing. What a gay affair this is, we had a joyus time today, dancin’ and singin in the streets. We danced all night too, all through the city and around 3 er’clock in the mornin’. we seen a familiar person standin’ on a pier with binoculars. When he approached him we seed it wuz Dale (LOVER-BOY) Miller. We chatted a spell and ast him what he wus a doin’. It seems that the Shrimp Boats wuz due in that mornin’ and it was hiz job to let the wimmin folk know it. He mentioned that Barbara Dick and Marianne Doll had a fish cleanin’ place close by where they cleaned the fish fer commercial fishermen fer a very reasonable price. But bein’ it wasn’t even light yet they wasn’t around. As we walked away, from outer the night stillness come Miller’s melodius voice, a’screechin, “Shrimp Boats.” So I guess he seen em comin. March 16, Louisville. Ky. The land of beautiful horses and “The Blue Grass of Kintucky.” The only reason we stopped here wuz because Bill Kroft, the jockey, wuz a’ridin’ “NEVER BEFORE” in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs the next day. The horse got its name because it ain’t never before won a race. Bein it wuz a 20-1 shot I gambled 2 bucks. Well, the horse didn’t win. but he come in 2nd and I got $18.80 place money. March 19, Cincinnati. Ohio. Back in good old Ohio after 14 years away. Oh, by the way, befer I ferget, on the ferry from Louisville I seen Bertha Barnes. Seems she owns the ferry boat lines. The fust thing we did wuz to see the good old Cincinnati Reds play that afternoon at Crosley field. Yessir, baseball—Reds vs Giants. Pitchin for the Reds today—Paul “Spit- ball” Morse and on the mound for the Giants “Rapid” Raymond Henderson Yessir, a real battle !! The Giants won out with a two run rally in the 7th inning, finishing ahead 4-2. March 20. Columbus. Ohio. We stopped off here becuz “JARRIN” Janice Glantzer wuz wrestling tonight against “MIGHTY” Mary. The Masked Marvel. March 22. East Canton. Ohio Home at last after 14 years and a 4,000 mile trip. I found most of my classmates that I missed on my trip around home here. Fer instance. Greg Beck is chief Brownie at Stark Brick, and Mary Nimon is a butcher at Kress’s I. G. A. Another surprise I got wuz that Phil Linerode had taken over Myers Son Funeral Home. It is now called Linerode’s Mortuary—his slogan is—You calm em! We embalm em” or You stab em! We slab em! I wuz readin today’s paper and I see where Senator Bill Lane is speakin in Canton, and the most important news item wuz an announcement that the Pumpemickle Packers and Producers Union, Local 109, had chosen Marion Finney as Miss Pumpemickle Packer of 1968. Well that’s all of my classmates. So I’ll end this spiel now. P. S. In case you are wondering—I sold the Model “A” in Denver fer 15 bucks. P. P. S. TO ALL UNDERCLASSMEN! Please excuse the above manuscript, but I had to write a Prophecy and this is it. Well, I guess we all have to go sometime, its just that some of us go sooner than others! FAREWELL. Dick Poth Olga Momirov, Asst.

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