Wausa High School - Viking Yearbook (Wausa, NE)

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Na Sh 1' x K . X ff, ': 'f hs N. ' t Yr' f-4 'i S We. ,Qilzji l New York's radio city w'as one place of interest. We arrived here just in time to hear Jumpy Joe Jingersf' the famous comedian. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw '?Jumpy Joe for he was none other than Duane Kunzman. Joe's program was exceptionally funny and was made even better by the sound effects. We talked to Duane after the program and he told us that his sound effects man was Leslie Erickson. Leslie did all the sound effects by himself and he imitated a train for us just to prove it. Carnegie Hall was host to Phil Spitalny's orchestra for a week at this time. We l1adn't planned to go until we saw the advertisement. It said in large type, Lois Greenwall, featured vocalist. The concert was marvelous and Lois thrilled the audience with her solo. The Lord's Prayer. No visitors were allowed backstage so we didn't get to see her. The next day we vowed to visit the famous Powers models. As we entered the office, two girls came hurrying out and ran right into us. As we recovered ourselves from the accident, we recognized the two girls as Betty Newquist and Doris Johnson. Betty was modeling hats for Charm magazine and Doris was a model for Maybelline eye make up. We wished the girls lots of success and then made a complete tour of the place. Back at the hotel again, we settled down for an afternoon of rest. Before very long, a loud knocking at the door interrupted us. Marian opened the door and in walked four men who identi- fied themselves as F. B. I. agents. Their leader, who proved to be another member of the class of '46, James Landell, told us they were searching every room of the hotel for a famous jewel thief. Not finding anything in our room, the men left as abruptly as they had come. However, we later read in the paper that Special Agent Landell had brought about the capture of the criminal. The next day we again boarded a plane, this time for the country of England. London provided us with a wonderful timeg therefore we decided to have our pictures taken to remember the occasion. Much to our surprise, we knew the cute little reception- ist at the photographers studio. She was the former Phyllis Nixon, now married and helping her husband run his business. . When we arrived in Paris we saw advertisements for a revue of ballet dancers in which an American girl was starred. She was described as blonde and beautiful. Hoping to meet another of our classmates, we took in the revue and were not disappointed. The star was our good friend, Arlyne Peterson. Pete told us- after the show that she had toured seven foreign countries and was soon due to go back to America to make a motion picture. She also told us that Lorelei Erickson was in Paris. She was working as a nurse in connection with the American embassy. We told Arlyne to tell Lorelei hello , for we were soon to leave for India.

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X2 ?,....:.X5 K D' 1 , X nf X. ,, V W id -Yu ld-IK - I' v .xg if b P' ' X was my former classmate, De Vere Johnson. Dimps said he had been playing professional basketball for quite some time and en- joyed it more each day. He gave me some more information for my story and I then said good-by and went back to the paper. When I arrived back at the office, someone was waiting to see me. It was my good friend, Marian Prather, who was now teaching history at Chicago's East High. Marian was now wear- ing a large diamond on the third finger of her left hand. She told me that her vacation started in a week and suggested that we spend the time together. I quickly agreed to this and we began planning a long trip for our vacation period. A Week later We started our journey, by air, of course. We arrived early at the airport and were invited to make a tour of the field and its laboratories. One large room was devoted en- tirely to the development of a new space ship to go to Mars. As we entered this room, its director, scientist Donald Larson, came forward to greet us. He seemed glad to see us and offered to ex- plain the space ship in detail but we hadn't time to listen. The first place visited by us was Washington D. C. Neither of us had ever seen the Senate so we stopped there while it was in session. We were lucky enough to hear Senator Seagren from Nebraska make a speech advocating a super highway from Wausa to Bloomfield. After adjournment, we talked to De Mahr for quite some time. H.e then invited us to visit the State Department with him. This proved most interesting. A delegation of U. S. statesmen and their interpreters were just getting ready to leave for Chile. I just couldn't resist getting an interview from them. While I was busy asking qfuestions, one of the interpreters stepped up and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and was astonished to find Helen Anderson standing beside me. 'She said that she had formerly served in Paraguay and was anxious to start on this new work in Chile. Shopping in Washington proved to be a great deal of fun. One particularly fine clothing store attractedour attention and we went into it. The manager himself greeted us and offered to show us around. He, too, was a member of the class of '46-Darle Erickson. Darle said that he owned many large stores such as this and that he enjoyed doing some of the actual work himself. The next city at which we stopped was New York. We arriv- ed at night and the first thing we noticed was a large electric sign with letters 20 feet high spelling out EL DfORADO'S EX- CELLENT ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. We hardly expected to meet another of our classmates here but when we visited the store the next morning, John Ei Dorado himself greeted us. His store was the last word in all conveniences.

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bs! Y J 1-K x,....: ,Q fi- 1- UN '- :, -Vw There had been much news concerning the charming new Queen of India so we were anxious to see her for lourselves. Therefore, we went to the Palace and asked for an audience with her. We were ushered into her elaborate throne room. When we saw her, we couldn't speak a word for this famous queen was our friend, Phyllis Wrick. We also met the King, who was a charming Englishman. The King invited us to see his prize horses. During this tour, we were privileged to meet the palace veter- inarian whom we also knew. This very responsible position was held by Daryl I-llult. The country of China was the next stop on our vacation. Here we found Arlynn Mittan-a welfare worker and teacher among the Chinese. She was as cheerful and as much fun as ever and asked us to say hello to her folks when we got back home. We stopped at Manila in the Philippines only long enough to refuel. We also got a new stewardess here. This dark curly- headed girl came to greet each passenger in her friendly way. Marian nudged me and said, Why, that's Evelyn Schultz! And so it Was. She was an excellent stewardess and we enjoyed telling her of the many classmates whom we had met. Back in the good old U. S. A.-this time in California. We decided to get some real excitement, so we took in a race. The cars in the race were all jet-propelled and the average speed was about 500 miles per hour. The winner of the race drove a black car with yellow wheels and double bumpers- We weren't even surprised when Bob Peterson stepped out of the car to accept the winner's trophy. Bob invited us to the circus that night, say- ing that a friend of his was a part of the show. Anxious to know who this was, we gladly accepted the invitation. This friend proved to be Ronald Lindblad, now known as the daring young rnan on the flying trapezef' His act was very breath-taking and thrilling. ' Leaving sunny California behind, we arrived in the state of Montana. Here we stopped to see the largest cattle ranch in the state. The owner, wearing a teh-gallon hat, welcomed us at tue entrance. This was Donald Nelson. Don took us up to the lovely house and here we met his wife the former Joyce Johnson. Their cattle herd included about 7,000 head of cattle. ' Also at this time, we went to a baseball game between two college teams-Montana University and California State College. nlontana's coach was a good subject for an interview so We ,Went to see him. This man asked us if we weren't graduates of W ausa High in 1946 and when we assented, he introduced himself as Charles Mc Munn, our class sponsor. . . Soon after this, we returned to Nebraska. In Omaha we visited the Union Pacific office. Here we met another Wausa ...,, ip .....4n:,.,., A . L... .4 ,.3.M,.,,,,- A - --L..-- -L.g4.., .-......- ..., Lu.-. ,,.,., ,...-