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

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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

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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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As it was then getting late and the guests were seating themselves in the ballroom, the evening's entertainment started with the lush thrush, Phyllis Bearden, singing Charlie, My Boy, accom- panied by the wizard of the piano, Charlies Appleton, who retired at the height of his fame on the Midland Globe Trotters team. Most of the people were astonished to see Pat Lakin and Beverly Lindley working as hat check girls, but it was soon explained that they were only gathering material for their book, soon to be published, The Life of a Hat Check Girl. There was a commotion near the door and who should appear but Hugh Southerland, thoroughly soused and yelling loudly that he had been slicked by the bartender, Louie Linares, who had iust announced his engagement to Nadine Gruewell. Hugh we are sorry to say was elected from the premises by the bouncer, John Muscles Guess. To quiet the crowd after this escapade, Lois Bowen, Darnetta Love, Charles Campbell, and Janette White, billed as the Biggest Little Band in the Land, gave their rendition of that all-time favorite, The Huckle Buck. Instead of having a quieting effect the crowd arose as one person and soon the whole ioint was iumping. lt took the combined efforts of the cigarette girls, Joy Barrett, Virginia Darland, Doris Eubanks, and Geneva Phillips to quiet the crowd. Then came a wild cheer as Joyce Sterling, Georgia Dunagan, Louise Favret, Pat Guptill, Veralene McDaniel, and Minnie Burnett, the chorus line from the Burbank Theatre in Los Angeles, brought especially for this occasion by the owners of the Stagger Inn, went into their act. And last but not least to round out the evening's entertainment, Carmen Rodriquez and Elenore Watkins sang some of the hit songs from the operetta, Calamity Jane and Sam Bass. Finally, in the small hours of the morning the party, started breaking up, and as I was leaving I could hear everyone saying, I'll see you at the next renuion in 1970. fSignedl 4 The Spirit of the Class of '50 .gociaf Cadnalar September 12 .,..,,t,,,.,.... School Daze October 7 ,,,,,,,,, .,,, , ,,F. F. A. gains money by having a dance October 8 .,,,.,......,,,,,,.. Seniors get lost in the hay on their hayride November 3 ...,.,s,,s,....,. Bonfire and pep rally for homecoming November November 4 ...,s.,s, , 5 ...,,,,,,, .. November November November 24, 25 .,.... December 22 .,s...,,s, ,, December 22, Jan. 3,,. January 10, 11 s,,.,., January 17, 18 .....,,..,.,.. February 1 February 13 February 14 ,,,...,, ,,,,,,,, February 22 ,,,,,,, ., February 25 ...,,,, ,, March 2 .,s,,,.,,,,t,,,A,,,,,,, March 3, 4, 5 ...s,,,.,,,...s March 17 ..t....,,... ....,,,. March 22, 23 ...,.....,,,,,... April 1 ,,,,,......... ,,s,..,. April 19, 20 ....,... .,,..,.. April 29 .,....,....... ,,,,,... 9,10 .,,,,,,... 19 ,,....t, X ,,,,,, Homecoming game Alumni greet old friends at breakfast and at dance in the evening Study, Study, students, and maybe you'll pass the quarter exams Run, Fellas, here comes the Sadie Hawkins dance Turkey Day Holiday Juniors give annual Christmas semi-formal Santa comes and brings us a vacation Juniors become stars in Little Miss Somebody. Study time again Men's Glee Club of Redlands U. Sings to us Holiday in honor of Lincoln's birthday Get your Sweetheart for the Valentine's Dance Holiday for Washington's Birthday Sophomores give barn dance Senior Going Away Dance Seniors got to Big Bear to play in the Snow Sure, and 'tis the Time for the Seniors to give the Paddy's Day Dance Study, Study, for the third quarter exams C. S. F. Gives spring formal Seniors give the last attempt at becoming dramatic Juniors have banquet and prom for Seniors May 22, 23 ......... ,....,.. O ur final exams May 28 ,...,....... ..,, , . Baccalaureate May 29 ,,,,,.,.. ,.,,,,., S chool's finally out, thank goodness! May 29 .,,,,,,.. ,..,,.., Graduation 24