Blanchard High School - Lion Yearbook (Blanchard, OK)

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Pete Miller.) This release was a gala affair staged at THE WaTSON-ElLERD R|TZf ONE OF THE LEADING THEATERS IN Hollywood. After the cinema, Mr. and Mrs. Watson entertaineo A GROUP OF THE ElDERADO BEACH NlGHT CLUB. THERE I MET Commander and Mrs. John Staggs, who had just docked. Genelle IS AS CHARMINGLY BEAUTIFUL AS EVER. WHILE WE WERE BEING SERVED, A COMMOTION NEAR THE FRONT OF THE CLUB ATTRACTED MY ATTENTION. I AROSE AND WENT FORWARO, ONLY TO FIND MYSELF FAOE TO FAOE WITH A REGRETTABLE TRAGEDY. A HUGE, BURLY BOUNCER WAS JUST EJECTING A LITTLE MAN, WHOSE LACK OF FORMAL DRESS WAS AN AFFRONT TO THE OLUB. I WAS ASTONISHEO TO RECOGNIZE IN THE BOUNCER THE PERSON OF BlLLY Ray BROOKS, WHILE THE UNFORTUNATE EJECTEE PROVEO TO BE NONE OTHER THAN OUR LITTLE FRIEND, ROY Lee, and he told me that he and Oelmas Erwin were operating A POOL HALL ON $LICK STREET, AND THET HAD BEOOME INDEPENDENTLY rich. Next morning I took a plane for Oklahoma City; AND AN HOUR AFTER LANDING, I FOUND MYSELF AGAIN IN DEAR Ol0 Blanchard. I found the town much improved and was happy to KNOW THAT MANY OF OUR OLD OLASS MATES HAO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS EXPANSION. I VISITED BLANCHARD CREAMERY, OPERATED BY James Butter Haynes I met Dr. Horace Soott at his office over the First State Bank; I had a long conversation with Rev. L. E. Staggs, pastor of the Nazarene Church I called AT THE HuMPTY DuMPTY GROOERY AND HAD A LONG TALK WITH Properietor Sherman IVhitakea I bought a package of pills from Mrs. Harry Hopkins, who assists her pharmacist husbano IN THE DRUG STORE; WHILE IN THE DRUG STORE, I ENCOUNTERED Juanda Dillard, who has taught Spanish in the Blanohard High Sohool for the past fifteeen years, and Maxine Philups, WHO IS 8AN0 DIREOTOR AT BLANCHARD HIGH; IN THE UP-TO-DATE PUBLIC LIBRARY, I FOUND LlNNIE BOWLING BUSILY CHECKING OUT BOOKS. A CHARMING MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN STOPPED TO SHAKE HANDS WITH ME ON THE STREET. ShE WAS BONNIE BOSHEL, WHO HAS 1,000 TURKEYS READY FOR MARKET ON HER UP-TO-NOW TURKEY RANCH,NORTH WEST OF TOWN. ShE TOLD ME THAT HER NEAREST NEIGHBORS ARE MR. and Mrs. Fred Hopkins. She said that Alma spends a great DEAL ON 00SMETICS IN ORDER TO KEEP HER YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE. I met Jean Tuttle,air-line hostess,who was at home visiting. I VISITED IN THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. JOE SOUTHARO AND Betty read to me two letters from members of our olo gang WHO HAVE GONE TO FOREIGN SHORES. ShE READ A LETTER FROM Colleen Shaw, who is leading a band of reformers in Ireland, I BORROWED A CAR FROM RELATIVES AND DROVE OUT TO A MODERN

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