Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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Brown, and from what we hear, that’s quite a few. Shirley Wing leaves her singing ability to Patty Chaffee—Miss Brehm will appreciate that. Gerald Wissinger wills his basketball ability to Doug Brenner—no, maybe it’s Dave. Eugene Witt wills his title Rusty to Edna Dryer, whom the title fits better than Eugene. Edward “Cassanova” Wittrock be- queaths the love lorn looks he receives from girls to Web “Woman-hater” Todd. Marcille Zentner wills her short hand books to anyone who can decipher that code. Laura Zimmerman leaves for a better place to sleep than study hall seats, they’re too hard. Witnesses, CAROLL SCHMECHEL ROBERT LOCKARD. f

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Rholene Eickhoff wills her love for night life to Mary Lee Stout, well, she don’t exactly need it. Betty Lou Femmer confers that slow drawl to Mary Lee Zentner. Robert Fisher leaves for a beauty salon to get a personality-haircut. Mary Lou Gilliland wills her hard studying to Duane Bowers, not that it will do any good. Harold Haeffele leaves his cheer leading ability to Charles McLaughlin; we hope he will show up next year to replace Harold. Harold “Buzz” Heasley leaves having made good his reputation after buzzing around to Sabetha and giving all the girls a big thrill without neglecting the skirts of Falls City, his line being: “Are you gonna kiss me or are you a wet blanket?” Try it, boys! Donald Herbster leaves all, if he can only graduate. Betty Hicks wills her interest in sailors to Louise Beckham, or should it be vice versa? Dale Hottendorff leaves that empty backseat to one of the many underclassmen who have wanted a ride during the last snowy season. Gertrude Johnson confers her quiet dignity upon Gerald Jackson. Gregory Kallos leaves brother Tommy to carry on with his corny jokes, but, and how! Dick Kinsey wills his “muscles” to Chris Horn. James Knisely bequeaths his manly stride to Willard “Clem Kaddiddle-hop-per” Gelwick. Helen Ruth Kouns leaves some of her vim and vitality to Irma Koehler. Elda Mae Last bequeaths her rosy blush to Maxine Dryer, let’s hope it won’t clash with her hair. Vernell Last leaves with her sister Elda Mae. Mary Ann Lessel leaves that “Lessel walk” to any one who desires to copy it. Robert Lockard wills his ability to get acquainted with those Dawson cuties to Cec Bennett—not that he’d need it. Patricia Lollman leaves to join Daisy Drip in taking the Tru-Allure Charm and Beauty Course. Josua Lord and Freda Jane Spafford leave together, that’s the only way we’ve ever seen them leave. Phyllis Lundy bequeaths her little feet to Edgar Steele so he won’t have the temptation to trip everybody. Paul Meinzer leaves a lot of underclassmen without a ride, and just think, only two pairs of shoes a year now. Alta Mez bequeaths her silence to some of the big phonograph men of the Junior Class. John Morehead leaves that flashy “Chevy” to brother Kenneth, too bad he didn’t make better use of it, sigh the girls. Evelyn and Glenn Niedfeldt leave brother Kenneth to carry on the family name. Margaret Niemeyer leaves to bestow some of the knowledge learned in the last four years on pupils in the grades. Mary Ann Niemeyer leaves with a wish to make a “perfect score” in bowling. Larry “Bulldog” Noll wills his attraction for the fairer sex to Dwaine Pupkes. Edmund Nolte leaves his bow ties to Willie Ebel—we forgot, Willie already has a good supply. Robert Nolte wills his safe and sane driving to Donald Prichard. Jaunita Oberst leaves her tardy slips for all the times she’s been late to study hall to Mrs. DeWald. Virgil Ohse leaves just for the fun of it. Kathleen Reep leaves her sister Francis to carry on her chatter. Ada Richardson leaves her ability to flirt to Mary Louise Hess, maybe she can catch a man now. Colleen Ridgeway leaves her ability to keep her hair always looking nice to Mary Lou Eickhoff. Jack Roberts leaves after a very short stay at F.C.H.S. Carroll Schmechel leaves for a hospital, and NOT at Lincoln. Darold Shafer bequeaths his knowledge of farm life to Eunice DeWald. Catherine Steele leaves her Latin translations to any Sophomore who does not want to study so hard getting them. Jerre Thompson presents his great store of knowledge to the teachers of F.C.H.S. June Thompson leaves singing “There is something about a soldier.” Dorothy Waddle and Eva Wells leave chatting merrily. Carolyn Wagner leaves Mrs. Hahn minus a good basketball player. Phyllis Walbridge bequeaths her winning smile and personality to Diane Redmond. Edna Weber leaves her long hair to Betty Huston to fashion into a pompadour. Fred Werner wills his philosophy on school to anyone who slaves for grades, that is, “Take it easy folks, you’ll pass, at least I did. (By the skin of my teeth, so they tell me.)” Jerilee Williams leaves half the pictures of her masculine admirers to Yola

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 On the stormy night of March 14, The Alexander and Heasley “We Can Do Anything Company”, reported to the world that they had made a great discovery: A time machine that was capable of looking into the future as far as fifteen years hence. The first experimental test was looking into the future of their classmates of 1945. The following was recorded by the wonderful machine: Falls City, upon which the machine was focused, is shown to be a very changed place—the class of ’45 saw to that. As the eye wanders down the street, it arrives at the Army Ordnance plant that manufactures donut holes under the direction of the brilliant chemical engineer, Raymond Chestnut. Alvin Bahr is the chief operator of the huge mixing vats, mainly because of his vast experience mixing chemicals in Chemistry lab. Robert Fisher, aside from being janitor, follows Alvin around with a fire extinguisher, keeping him from duplicating the feat of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, which started the CHICAGO fire. At the intersection of Jorn Avenue and Fase Boulevard is seen radio station W.O.L.F., owned and operated by Jim Knisely who has his own program from 9 to 10 P.M. giving advice to the lovelorn. Gerald “The Groaner” Wissinger, number one swoon-crooner of the nation, became an overnight sensation on that station through his ability to combine the qualities of those two foremost singers of the past—Crosby and Sinatra. Robert “One-Punch” Birch and Glenn “Strangler” Niedfeldt, two of the toughest exgangsters of Falls City, who were reformed through the efforts of the local W.C.T. U. chairman, Betty Lou Femmer, are Wiss’s protectors from his flock of bobby-socks admirers. Elda Mae and Vernell Last are the main characters on the soap-box opera The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through his Stomach.” Rear Admiral Bill Dunn of the U.S. Coast Guard stopped in Falls City on his nation wide tour to give recruiting speeches over the station. At the top of the building is a mam-mouth sign advertising “Vitamin Dyer’s Vitaminized Sauerkraut.” Vit is pulling in money hand over fist through his ambitious methods of introducing his product into the American home. To all girls interested, Vitamin is still a bachelor. We stand amazed at the next sight on the screen—it’s Georg. Brown coming down the street in the same brown Olds and still with a back seat full of kids—not her own. she is the kindergarten teacher at Harlan School. Paul Meinzer, owing to his addiction to safe and sane driving, was unanimously elected Chief of Police by his fellow citizens of Falls City, who, after his 550th wreck, decided it would be safer if “Gopher” was on their side. The biggest and burliest policeman on the force is Jerre “Smash ’Em Dead” Thompson, who brings in the worst of the criminals for Judge Edmond “30 dollars or 30 days” Nolte, to slap heavy fines on, or jail sentences. Judge Nolte began his distinguished career at the bar with a judgment against Dale Hottendorff for pasturing his cows on the court house lawn. The screen is obscured by the dust of an ambulance driven by hospital internee Max Bonsall, who is overjoyed at the thought of doing better than 30 miles an hour without fear of his car collapsing. Max grinds to a stop before a large crowd which is gathering around three figures kneeling in the dust. On closer inspection, he finds that it is a hot “GI Dominoes” game between Gene Cochrane, Don Herbster and Jack Roberts. Max tears himself away as duty calls. He finds his accident victim to be Josh Lord severly injured in an argument with his better half, Freda Jane Spafford who wouldn’t let him explain that he was only working late and not out with his blond secretary Betty Hicks. As the ambulance rushes up to the hospital entrance, Betty Dykes and Mary Lou Gilliland, efficient nurses of Doctor Harold Haeffele, who has a secret agreement with Eddie Wittrock, the towns leading mortician, undertaker to you guys, to provide Eddie with material for his practice. The machine switches suddenly from the sadder to the brighter side of life. It takes us into the Municipal Auditorium where Blanche Cain is training to defend her title of World’s champion wrestler against Pat “Bone-crusher” Loll-man, but Blanche is favored because of hidden secrets taught her by her manager Dick “Muscles” Kinsey. The referee of this exciting bout will be Edward Eck-wert. Featured in the pool is that world famous diver, Rusty Witt, who still hasn’t learned to swim. Rusty also exhibits trick underwater swimming, the trick in that he goes all the way under and stays there. Robert Nolte and