Etna Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Etna, CA)

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SECOND PRIZE ESSAY I 4 I Hurry up - Don't be so slow - Get a move on - Take your time - I haven't got all day. There are some of the comments, besides hundreds more, that are often heard by movie custodians. I.et's take, for example, the character who was in a tremendous hurry. He calmly got out four cokes for him- self and his friends. While he was pouring the coke into cups, he unfortunately spilled one. It was hard work to keep my temper, but I pulled through serenely. I also Fund it necessary to be a walking encyclopedia. I get such queries as: Where's the gum, or do you have any in this joint? What time is it? Is there a comedy? These questions are relatively easy to answer, but when I get a question from a prowling wolf such as Are you married, Baby? , I am at a loss to what to say that would put him in his place. Perhaps you have wondered what a movie custodian does before the theatre opens. It is really all very simple: I pop corn, open pop corn bags, and fill them so that they are ready to sell. I check the cake and candy FIRST PRIZE POEM and then wait until it is time to open the doors. My work is not nnished just with selling the corn. The next day I have to sweep the theatre before it opens again that evening. Then I start all over again. Perhaps you have asked yourself: What can a person gain from a job like mine? Here are a few things that I have gained: I have learned to get along with all types of people and I have learned to meet the public in a pleasing manner. This job as a movie custodian has given me the opportunity to meet people and make new friends. I have gained the self-confidence that otherwise I would not have had until later in life. Also, my job has given me the privilege of earning my own money, which is a big help to my parents. Moreover, the money I earn will help to pay my way through college next year. I Yes, I am glad that I have taken this job, for it has given me the satisfaction of helping myself and my parents. -HARRIET SKILLEN, Senior Springs the most beautiful story 'er told- Always new, never old. Spring wages eternal strife Bringing to this old world new life. Spring's adventure--Spring's a dream Spring's a bold, unforgettable thing! -MYRNA HOLMES, Junior

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. no FIRST PRIZE STORY ' Dozen? ?aq It had been two weeks since joe Windgate had been fired from the Lost Nugget mine. Resentment still burned within him as he trudged up the Hull Gulch Trail. If he just had a little more money, Nora would be willing to go with him. They'd make a go of it somewhere else. Here it was Saturday night again-and payday! He ought to be meeting Hong Foy on his way from the Quartz Valley Mines to his cabin in Oro Fino. Hong Foy would be carrying his pay. Chinese always de- manded their pay in cash. It was getting dark now and Hong Foy was later than usual. A week later Pete jones decided to hike over the Hull Gulch Trail from his cabin in Oro Fino to have a visit with one of his old cronies in Quartz Valley. A just below the big pine on the curve of the trail, was a big pack rat's nest. What was that sticking out of it?-Looked like a hand! Couldn't be, but it was-not only a hand, but the body of the Chinaman, Hong Foy-dead-very, very dead! One Chinaman wouldn't be missed, but this one was certainly the victim of a murder for he had been stabbed. When the news spread, suspicion spread with it. What had happened to joe Windgate? He was known to dislike Chinese. Joe was in love with Nora who was visiting at the SECOND PRIZE POEM It was a chill September day Whenl watched the wild geese as they sailed awayg I heard their honking in the windy sky And I wondered what had made them fly- What transcendent Power Had made them leave that very hour! They had left the peaceful marsh To climb to heights where winds were harshg And, though they were but specks to the naked eye, George Allen home above Oro Fino. She had been acting strangely lately- As suspicion rose, Jake Peters came with his lion hounds. The chase was on! A big forked fur tree, which was near the Allen home was Joe's hiding place. Nora came every day with food and water. A little persuasion had also brought a gun. As soon as the excitement died down, Joe and Nora planned to slip away. Too bad, joe reflected, that he had had all this trouhle for nothing since Hong Foy hadn't a penny on him. What was that? Sounded like Jake P'eter's pack of hounds! For the first time panic gripped joe. He forgot Nora and all their plans for the future. In a second he was out of the tree and running like mad down the hill. He planned to hole up in some limerocks and shoot it out! I When Jake Peters came up to his baying hounds, he found joe lying with one leg crumpled under him, and the gun lay just out of his reach where he dropped it when he had missed his footing and fallen. Too late Joe had learned the bitter lesson: crime does not pay. -JANET Lewis-Sophomore I still could hear their departing cry-E Then all seemed strangely still As they vanished beyond the hill. Oh! What does Autumn do to the world, To cause wild geese to leave with sails unfurledg While we, our busy lives, go plodding on, Till suddenly we're aware the birds are gone! Then we know at last, that they And we are guided by God's will, each day. -DAVID BLACK, junior

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O HE I 1300 FIRST ROW, I. to r.: Bob Roberts, John Skillen, Jerry Reynolds, Phyllis Hayden, Arlene Dickenson, Norma Olson, Diane Farrington Myrna Holmes, Glenda Czerwinski, Barbara Wahlborg, Donna Carol Davis, Tom Edwards, Jack Burcell, John Aitken. Scott,, Joe Davis, John Berthelsen, Harvey Palmer, Jean Berthelsen. LAST ROW: Leonard Taylor, David Norris, Tom Smith, C. J. Stroud, SECOND ROW: Dave Campbell, Thais Fleck, Darleen Wolford, Lyle Facey, Jim Young, Bill Martin, Butch Black, Warren Beachler, Ted Carlson, John Quigley. Offazm PRESIDENT - - TED CARLSON VICE PRESIDENT - JERRY REYNOLDS SECRETARY - - GLENDA CZERWINSKI TREASURER THAIS FLECK .vm THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY: F L 0 Y D A . B O Y D C O . INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS - PARTS - SERVICE FARMALL TRACTORS - FARM IMPLEMENTS Carl A. Franson, Manager 100 South Main Street Yreka, California up