Palo Verde Union High School - Echo Yearbook (Blythe, CA)

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LAWRENCE WILLIAMS lDi1ZYJ F. F. A. l-2-3-4 Football 2-3-4 Basketball 2-3-4 Baseball 2-3-4 Track 2-3-4 Lettermans Club 2-3-4 EDWIN L. WEST F. F. A. l-2-3-4 R. O. T. C. 2-3 GEORGE DEATHERAGE Letterman 3-4 Basketball 3 Dayton, Nevada 3 BlLLlE YOUNG G. A. A. 'I-2-3-4 Little Echo 4 JOY LEE BARRETT Qliilioyb G. A. A. 'l-2-3-4 Chorus l-2-3 1. C- S ' 22 Y' L ,,1. ' t s ' KENNETH HUBERT ZANDER JR. lshortyl Basketball l Swimming 'I-4 Senior Play 4 Football l-2-3-4 Track 1-2-3-4 Wrestling 3 Letterman's Club 2-3-4 JOHN G. GARNER PRICE, JR. lSonnyl Auto Shop 2-3-4 R. O. T. C. 2-3 CARMEN RODRIQUEZ lTulsaJ G. A. A. l-2-3 Spanish Club 2-4 Student Council 3 English Club 2 Band l

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THOMAS LEE SIMS Hom! Track 2-3-4' Lettermen's Club 2-344 Bus Driver 4 English Club 2 FRANCES STUBBLEFIELD CFranlue Louj Kingman Arizona Pep Club 'l-2 Band 12 Chorus l Latin Club 'l2 Bulldog St ff l2 Blythe G. A. A. 344 HUGH SOUTHERLAND English Club 2 Football 2-4 Lettermen's Club 4 Square Dance Club 4 ELINORE WATKINS fBunchieJ Thalia Club 3 Student Council 4 Little Echo Staff 4 JOYCE STERLING G. A. A. l-2-3-4 C. S. F. l-2-4 Student Council 3-4 Spanish Club 2 Thalia 3 Annual Staff 4 Square Dance Club 4 Jr. Play 3 Girl's State JANETTE WHITE lNetlie G. A. A. I-2,3-4 English Club 2 Little Echo 3 Basketball Captain 3 Glee Club 'l-2-3 21 Babel

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I'0l0AeCg It was a warm Spring day on April 29, 1960, as I, the Spirit of the Class of '5O, stood on the site of what used to be T-Bone Canyon, in front of the world famous gambling casino and night club, the Stagger lnn owned by the T-Bone Canyon Boys , Sparky Reed, and Bean Jones. ln the distance I could see the metropolis of Blythe swarming with the graduates of 50 waiting with anticipa- tion for the reunion dinner which would be held at the Stagger Inn. About an hour later the graduates began to arrive. With a roar of pipes and a cloud of smoke up slid Jack Peterson, the world famous race driver who had made it from Los Angeles to T-Bone Canyon in eight hours. With him came his pit crew, John Price and Simon Tarzan Red Shellnut. Then came Bob Cowan and Tom Sims, the local track stars who made good at the Olympic games held in Parker. Jane Kell, the famous woman doctor, arrived in her flying hospital with her assistant and co-pilot, Barbara Osbourne. According to her Mr. Joe Garcia, who married Lenore Cordova, is passing out cigars, five at a time. fAll boysj. George Deatherage, who runs the crap game in the Stagger Inn, iust reported for duty. lt is rumored that George May soon marry the star of the burleque show, Sue Blume. Doris Bergstrom, who has the drive-in concessions on the first mesa, said that she and Margie McCord are doing a thriving business. When a Greyhound bus drove up, I was surprised to see the driver, Ralph McWilliams, holding May Belle Jones on his lap. After ten years of courting Ralph hasn't gotten up the nerve to pop the question yet. Frances Stubblefield, rapped in with a roar of pipes. She and the six kinds were hanging on to Doug's motorcycle. Jackie Rice and his beautiful actress wife, the former Marlene Maxwell, who is now starring in Tobacco Road opposite Jim Green, the second John Barrymore, drove up in their shiny convertible and announced that Jack had iust won the Snooker Championship of Fertilla in a hard fought contest with Robert Richards. Lawrence Dizzy Williams came galloping up on his iackass, CDizzy is the latest thing in messenger boys,i and announced that Early Cross, who now owns one of the biggest shoe-shine stands on the West Coast at the corner of Fourth and Main in Los Angeles, sent his regrets that he and his wife, the former Agnes Cash, would not be able to attend the reunion because his business was so thriving that he couldn't leave it. Clippity Clop! Bring meaMop! Here came Joe Bradley and Woody Brown driving their Mule Train from Cibola, bringing a load of '50 graduates. The first whip-cracker was Raymond Dekens, who had been practicing ever since he saw a Whip Wilson picture. Among the passengers were the world famous Midland Globe Trotters, David Marques, Martin Rodriquez, Bob Ozbirn, Allen Ozbirn, and Kenneth Hale, who were iust returning from a championship tournament in Cibola. Etta Hoel and Tootsie Dysart iust barely caught the last mule on the Mule Train after leaving the grand opening of their new Rexall Drug Company, located on the corner of Main and Hobsonway in Cibola. Paula Creekmore and James Hamilton were just married and according to them their oil wells in Texas are out-producing thosefof Standard Oil Company now owned and operated by Raymond and Margaret Hickey and all their little well-diggers. Alex Mendoza, who had been playing left-tackle for the Ripley eleven, got a leave of absence to attend the gala banquet but since he was in training he would be unable to eat. Nancy Padgett, who has been playing the lead opposite Ken Zander, her husband, in the new series of Durango Kid pictures, arrived by horseback just in time for the first speech of the evening, given by Dick Heasley, the local representative for the Alcholics Anonymos. As more guests arrived, among them the most conspicious were Ed West and his wife, Billie Young, who were driving their large herd of sheep to pasture them on Jerry Riley's new farm near Black Rock. 23