Blanchester High School - Brown and Blue Yearbook (Blanchester, OH)

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66444 pw keep grease monkey appeared. lt was Paul High-two hundred pounds of brawn and muscle. Quite a surprise! They paused a short while in Missouri to hear a political campaign speech by Garland Crawford. After eight years of speeches he was still campaigning unsuc- cessfully for a seat in Congress. His opponent, Don Conover, a Republican by the way, kept getting re-elected because of Garland's speeches. Next they went through Iowa. Willodene decided her hair was a bit wind-blown, so she stopped at the Tired and Taggard, Trim and Trickey, twenty-four hours a day Beauty Shoppe. There she was ushered to a seat by none other than Madame Irene Dupre Inee Irene Grovesi. Willodene was really altered for the better and departed with a beautiful coiffure. They went onward to Sioux City and midway they were shaken up quite a bit by a traffic accident with a trans-continental truck. They were removed in an ambulance, which had trouble getting through all the glass and vehlcle parts. Their car was sent to the You Wreckum, We Fixum service station. At the hospital, where Edna Mae and Willodene lay unconscious, a pert nurse named Boyd-lMargie, that isi aided in the transfusion for Edna Mae. Another nurse, Beatrice Valentine, used miles of gauze on Willodene. The head nurse, Miss Doris Doughman, took time out to visit the aching patients when they recovered consciousness. She told them of her success as a nurse and they relived the good old times when they were mere childish seniors. When the two patients emerged from the hospital, they looked quite different. Edna Mae had her arm in a sling and Willodene looked like a mummy from Egypt. They went to the garage to see about their car. The manager, Samuel Plear, who had made quite a bit of money in his trade, said it would take only another hour or so to complete the repairs. Edna Mae went to a nearby book store to gather some reading material. She picked up a novel named Heaven's Sake by Gertrude Davis, a celebrated novelist. Of course, she bought it for sentimental reasons. She was rummaging through some poetry and found some articles by a poet named Delma Van Natta, of all people. Naturally, she bought that too. When the car was ready, they proceeded on toward the wide open spaces. In Omaha, Nebraska, they spent the week end, at a resort called the Sucker's Retreat managed by a little lady in her late, late, late thirties, a Mrs. Cartwight Inee Bette Jane Pattersonl, whose husband had died of paint poisoning. Their rooms were put in order by Mrs. Townsend lnee Mary Esther Shafferl, who was in partnership with Mrs. Cartwright. There they met a celebrity named Betty lou La Year lnee Betty Lou Culbersoni, who was an actress. They sold there was also an old maid, who had two million dollars, rooming there. Her name? Joan Ruscher! What an old home week they had! With regretful goodbyes they started off once more. This time they were going to Running River, Wyoming. A short trip through the surrounding country revealed 30

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5444 N THE YEAR OF 1968, in an exclusive district of New York, we find two middle aged proprietors of a vey select tea room. These two women, Edna Mae Hill and Willodene Moore, were preparing to take a cross country trip. During their absence, the tea room in New York was to be entirely redecorated by an old classmate, Jimmy Joe Smith, who had gained international fame as a decorator. intending to go by airplane part way, they boarded a bus headed for the air- port. Much to their surprise, they found Katie Stone lnee Wiermanl operating the bus for her sick husband. They arrived safely at La Guardia Field, where they entered an airplane en route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the plane door they were greeted by an old friend, Ann Ferneau, the hostess. She told them that they were fortunate in having as their pilot, Thomas White, who had an enviable record for safe flight. They had a comfortable trip to Pittsburgh. In this city they had planned to buy a car in which to continue their iourney. At the Tucker Automobile Sales Room, they were introduced to a former classmate, Ronald Tucker, who was the general manager. He was so delighted to see them that he gave them a one percent discount on their cash purchase of the newest iet engined car. ln less than an hour, they reached Columbus, Ohio. Here they stayed over night because they wished to see the Ohio State Fair which was then in session. looking at the annual horse show, held in the Colosseum, they spied a beautiful palomino, being ridden by a blonde, who by the way, was Beverly Villars. They found out from her that she was living near Sandusky, Ohio, and training her own herd of thoroughbreds. When the horse show was over, they roamed the fair grounds and were surprised to see Harry Ledford loaded down with five children, all wanting candy and ice cream. They learned he had a rich farm near Sabina, Ohio, and was doing quite well. Edna Mae and Willodene arose at lO o'clock the next morning for their breakfast. When they finished visiting Columbus, they drove toward Cincinnati, stopping at good Ole BIan, their home town. They were astonished to find that Blanchester had become quite a hustling city, and the citizens had to employ the use of street cars and buses to get to the downtown business districts. On the corners of South Broadway and Main, they noticed signs indicating that Vera Brown had become a successful pharmacist and was the owner of Walker's and also Spence's drug stores with a dapper middle aged man named Max Taylor as general manager of Spence's. Anne and Dick Dewey had taken over their fathers' business--once qulte profitable. Dan Garrison was situated very neatly amidst thousands and thousands of chickens -lt seems he had a hatchery, but the sales were slow. Two days later, they left for Cincinnati and continued through to Indiana. As they were crawling along at two hundred miles an hour, a traffic cop appeared from nowhere. He was none other than James Agin, who told them they were a nuisance to traffic going so slowly, but he let them go on without any ticket. A hot radiator caused them to stop at a filling station in Illinois to get water. A 29

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H6444 p'l0l4Z6Q that a Range Boss, named Lloyd Caldwell, was working hard at riding herd. They chatted a while, and then they drove on. Back in town, Edna Mae admired a trim skirt in a window and went in to purchase it. Whom else did she meet but Betty Satter- field. She was chief dressmaker of that establishment and was making over two hundred dollars per week. They went on through the state of Wyoming and when they reached the border, they stopped at a small diner for lunch. They sat near a middle aged man fiddling with a microscope. He was muttering something about the germs in all foods. When he looked up to give his order, they recognized that he was none other than Jerry Wise. He always carried the microscope with him, he said, because he was in hopes of discovering new germs. Behind the counter was a snappy soda ierk named Luke, who turned out to be the most successful soda ierk in the busi- ness, Eugene Lucas. They bade their old friends goodbye, and then traveled toward Salt Lake City, Utah. There they visited a huge salt concern and found Miss Edna Logsdon, private secretary to the General Manager, who she planned to marry two weeks later. At the Salt Lake Beach, they found a beautiful skyscraper hot dog stand, owned and managed by Mildred Long. She had made millions on soft drinks alone. That night they went to the famous fight arena to see the wrestlers match their skills. Two figures came out into the ring. Since they had front row seats, they could 'nake out clearly the faces of the two contestants. One was iwould you believe it?l Virginia Charleston, with one hundred and ninety pounds of muscular weight to her credit. She was the undefeated woman champion. They visited with her after her bout and then went to a hotel for the night. The next morning they crossed into Nevada. Stopping at Reno, they registered at the Last Frontler Hotel for the night. They were taken up to the eighth floor by a pert elevator operator, who looked familiar. It was Mercedes Kissick. It seems she had been divorced and iust stayed. In the dining room, they were dazzled by the glitter of diamonds flashing in their faces. Behind all the make-up, they recognized Patty Kelly. She had made literally millions on the stock market after taking economics in Hlgh School. They left early the next morning, singing California, Here I Come. They went directly to Los Angeles where they spent a week with an old friend, John Jones, a married man with six children. He was coaching the U. C. L. A. football team. They took a tour of all the moving picture studios. The director on the M. G. M. set of Rastus was a red haired gentleman named Clarence France, but they hardly knew him, for he had straight and not-so-much red hair. The leading actress in the production was none other than Wilma Van Natta, acting under the name of Taffy l.ouhearst. She was a comedian, and the play was about the way people acted way back in 1948 and l949. They next toured the Paramount lot. There they found the chief man, named Don 31