Grants Pass High School - Toka Yearbook (Grants Pass, OR)

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THE T O K A 9C' Tressa B: “I dreamed about you last nite.” Louis V: “Shoot, sister. What was it?” Tressa B: “You were leading a jackass and singing “Me and My Shadow. Harvey J: “Is this a first-class restaurant? Bill Fitz: Yes, but if you sit over there in the dark corner, we’ll serve you. Gaylord T: “What is generally raised in a damp climate?” Roberta J: Umbrellas, of course.” Norma C: “Did you enjoy your hike out into the country? Art Simpson: “No, we had to walk most of the way.” Coots F: “Mr. Coke, if all people are made of dust are niggers made of coal dust?” M iss Walker: “ Translate: Caesar si dicat on de cur, eggesse hot uni. Hubert T: “Caesar sicked the cat on the cur and I guess he licked him. Helen Carlson: “Oh, he’s so absent minded. He’d leave his head if it wasn't tied on.” Violet Brown: Worse than that— I heard him say yesterday that he had to go south for his lungs. Mr. Swigart: “How would you graduate a thermometer? George S: “Send it through G. P. H. S. without a condition. Nellie Hamer: Peanuts are fattening.” Leland G: “How do you know? Nellie H: “Why, look at the elephant. Eddie Madden: But how do you play truant from the correspondence school? Lucy: “I send them an empty envelope.” LaMar Bell: I am having trouble with my inflections.” Mrs. Marcy: “Why don’t you have them taken out.” Fred Wallace: The acoustics was bad The construction of the room was so poor that every note I sang came back and hit me in the face. Merle Redding: “ I hen you must have suffered just as much as the audience.” Mabel Dodson: “Gee, Daphne, Moses surely must have suffered with that stomach of his. Daphne M: Why, no, Mabei. you shouldnt get that idea of him. Mabel D: What! And he always getting all those tablets!” Maxine Wieland: “Will your people be surprised when you graduate? Ernest Fletcher: “No, they’ve been expecting it for several years. Miss Gorman: “Charles, if you are always very kind and polite to all your playmates, what will they think of you?” Chuck Ostrorn: “Some of ’em would think they could lick me!” Ben Spalding: “Say, big boy, why do you comb your hair just before going to bed?” Frank O’Neill: “Oh. I want to make a good impression on the pillow.” Caroline: (At baseball game) “Oh. look, we have a man on every base!” Norma: “That’s nothing, so has the other side.” l75l

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THE T O K A K ’f Thoburn Hepp: Say, do you know an easy way lo find the horse-power of a car? Florence Johnson: No, how? Thoburn Hepp: Just lift up the hood and count the plugs. Dot McBrien: What would vou do if I should cry?” F. Deeds: “Hang out a sign, 'Wet Paint.’ Joe Klitz: “The barometer has fallen. Mr. Swigart: Very much?” Joe (with guilty look) : “About five feet.” Nellie Neilson: What is your brother in school? Katherine Wiley: Half-back. Nellie N: I mean in studies. Katherine W: Away back.” Vic V.: I can't go to class today, Mr. VanDyke. Van Dyke: “Why?” Vic: “I don’t feel well. Van Dyke: “Where don’t you feel well? Vic: In class.” Alberta Kuhnhardt: “The photographers never do me justice.” Barbara Schmidt: “You want mercy, not justice.” Ladies and gentlemen.” said lorn Palmer, “before I begin my address I have something that I want to say to you.” Bob Palmer: How were your grades last six weeks?” Earl Jobe: “Jules Verne. Bob: “How's that?” Earl: “Twenty thousand leagues under the “C”. Carlton Wiley: Did you make these biscuits with your own little hands?” Eunice Musty: “Yes. Why?” Carlton W.: “1 just wondered who lifted them off the stove for you.” Lloyd Silva: What are you studying?” Floyd Smith: “Oh. I’m taking up Scotch, French, Spanish, etc. Lloyd S.: How do you manage it?” Floyd S.: “Just push a handle up and down.” Lloyd S.: “What are you talking about? Floyd Su: I run an elevator, clown!” Laval McQuity: “You say that Judge Leslie Shaw is absent-minded? John Chipley: “Well in court today he dismissed the prisoner, sentenced the jury, scratched his desk and hit himself on the head with the gavel.” Norman Howard: “My uncle has four holes in his door for his four cats. Kenneth Carrell: “Why does he need four holes?” Norman Howard: “Boy, when my uncle says “Skat” he means it. Velma Allen: “I don’t like those new washing-machines. Mary Meade: “Why?” Velma A.: Because when you go to take a bath the paddles come around and hit you.” [76]

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THE T O K A And He Croaked and Croaked Silly frog a-croakin' In the pond; For a rain he’s hopin’ All along. What ya ’spose he’s sayin’ When he’s singin' All the lime a-prayin’ For a rain? “Why won’t it rain, why won’t it rain?” He’s singin’. But nothin’ to him his silly refrain Is bringin’. Tom Meade Jokes Eugene Lee: All rules have exceptions. Hollie Dole: Oh. no. I know one that hasn't.” F ugene L: What? Hollis D; “The world hasn’t stopped going around.” Eugene L: “Oh. that’s the exception to the rule that all rules have exceptions. Raymond Bennighl: I think I shall have to get a new car. Lowell Footberg: What’s wrong with the one you have? Raymond B: “I can’t pay for it.” Mr. Carpenter (at the beginning of class) “All who are not here, get out. Art Simpson: “And after the party I sked her if I might see her home. Fred Wallace: “What did she say? Art S: “She said she would send me a picture of it.” Mary J. Duer: “So you know as much as the teacher, do you? Where did you get that idea?” Rusty: “She told me herself. She said she couldn't teach me anything.” Ulva Coover: “Did you mail my letter with yours? Bob Palmer: “Uh-huh.” Ulva C: “Did you notice that I’d forgotten to address it?” Bob P: “Uh-huh.” Ulva C: “Well, then, why did you mail it?” Bob P: “I thought it was one of those anonymous letters and you wanted to keep the address a secret.” Lois Conner: You raised your hat to that girl as we passed. You dont even know her.” Frank Nugent: “No. but my brother does, and this is his hat. Harold Keibel: “He called me a liar, and, big as he was, I knocked him sprawling. Hollis Dole: “With your fist? Harold K: “No, with my car. 174]