Brooksville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Brooksville, ME)

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lm RRI we amazement then wlth rapture H1s l1ttle face was almost t1ansformed as he hstened to the maglc muslc Some day some day he would r1se out of these sordld tene mments 1nto the great bnght world where muslc llke that was He would wrlte musrc lxke that' Oh yes he would' The business man came out more xrate than ever and drove away shuttmg off the radlo w1th a snap That day a bus1 ness deal was lost and a dream was born Why I'ad109 Mrytle Condon B H S 39 MARY GOES TO COLLEGE Mary Prow sat th1nk1ng about goxng to college She would graduate from hlgh school ln the sprlng What would she do then? She couldnt go to college b cause her parents couldnt qulte afford to send her Her thoughts wandered She thought of a few l1nes of poetry and wrote them down 1n the front of the notebook he had been look1ng at Two months later she looked 1n the front of the notebook and to her surprrse saw the llnes of poetry WhlCh she had en t1re1y forgotten She added more l1nes After careful conslderatxon she Sent the poem to a magazlne contest After many txresome days she recerved a letter from the Judges of the contest Inclosed was a twenty five dollar check and the letter al o stated that they wlshed her to send all the poems she could wrrte to them By the end of the summer vacation Mary had earned enough money to pay part of her way through college Thrs w1th the help of her parents was enough to pay her expenses So because of a few lrnes of poetry Mary ach1eved her goal and the four years wh1ch she spent 1n college were about the happlest years of her 11fe Av1s Soper B H S 41 YUKON JUSTICE Jake Melgot watched h1s last match lowly sputter and 'fo out and shlvered Gar he rumbled deep 1n h1s throat a hundred m1les frum nowhere und no matches Vat a plgglementl He hunched hlmself lower 1nto h1s hooded parka and gave hlmself over to the palnful effort of thrnklng As Jake well knew lt was no Joke to be caught on the Yukon IH m1d winter w1thout matches He also knew that unless somethmg unforeseen hap pened Jake Melgot would be a frozen corpse by the next day down the tra11 What was that move ment'P He crouched behmd a boulder and snuggled h1s rlfle butt clo er to h1s cheek Agam that movement down the t1a11 and th1s t1me he caught a gllmpse of a gray fur parka By gar' he chuckled Maybe I ll get me some matches ar ta all well arm chest spat and the man stumbled and fell 1n a heap Jake grinned an ev11gr1n Wh1Ch dls closed broken snag teeth browned by to bacco He stumbled down the trall The man came ln slght A tall bu1lt man wlth a r1fle under h1s Jake l1ned h1s S1ghtS on the mans and squeezed the trrgger The rrfle Have to hurry and get a ETB gom Thrs cold was getting h1m fast He searched through the man s pockets and after much huntxng gave a grunt of satrsfactlon He drew forth the prec1ous strlp of y . I . . - U y 1 - ' -1 ' , , , ' ' ,', D 1 . . - it 77 ' ' il Y y , 'T y . . - ' ' ' Y! - , l l Y . e- ! ' . Suddenly he stiffened and gazed intently ' A . . -. lc . s , ' , . g . U 77 ., , , . , . . . U y - , . - , . , t v 3 . . v . . u . ' - ' y . '-- ' . 1 LA ' Y H ' . , ' ' I . - , ' 7 , , .

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Illia HRM ll rterary WHY PADIOG In 'r modest home rn a tan raed Mary land town Iohn Wrrlrams rnechanrc was pr eparrnv to take hrs fannly to the movres The telephone ra rg Frve mrnutes later a drsgusted l ead of the household announced rn none too docrle tones It s all off Ive got to Hx old man Smrths radro That makes the second trme rts busted Just when I wanted to go somewhere Why do folks ne d radros anyhow' 'Ihev Just keep grvrng out and you can hear all that trrpe at the theatre or somewhere We dont have one Why radro anyhow'J On a great frozen waste of snowfreld rn northern Alaska a polar bear watched the great norsy brrd overhead and growled The brrd was Pete Hawkrns flyrng through the long Arctrc twrlrgnt to 1 tradrng post mrles north wrth supplres Suddenly there was a sputter The gas tank had sprung a leak and for the first trme Pete saw rt was almost empty There was nothln to do but land Th brg Shlp lurched downward sputtered agzrrn became unmanageable and crashed The crash was not ses ere but Pete was rn Jured and the plane drsabled By a twrst 0' fate the radro was rntact Hundreds 01 mrles farther south a young chap rn lodge lrvrng room swrtched the dral to get Jack Benny on a clearer statron From somewhere came the farnt call of wounded avrator lost rn frozen Alaska A few hours later the polar bear snrffed 333111 as two ITIOTC gleat brrds crossed the sky and lfrndeo near the first He snrffed and ,, owred and walked 'rw ly In a luxurrous Ohro lrvrng room Drckre and Janet sat lrstenrnb to the Srngrng lady The radro was mahogany he charrs almost prrceless The father of Drckre and Janet was one of the country S rrchest men A half mrle up the street an old sedan rattled through the fog The drrver was grrm and brtter hrs eyes held a desparate lrght Well he muttered tonrghts the nrght Ill get one or both of tho e krds a good wad or ransom and then bump em off The radro rn hrs car droned warnrngly Krller Johnson l cated on Sprrnfr street drrvrng south Po lrce go there rmmedrately Wrth an oath the man swung around a corn r raced rnto the darkness DICKIC and Janet sat entranced by the G mens p ogram Gee lthrs from Drckrel It mu t be a thrrll to be krdnaped' The G men always get you out Yes sard hrs srster Wonder why that car rs rn such a hurry? He must be hrttrng erghty Oh well get the program louder Drck No chance of our gettrng krdnaped tonrght In the slums of New York an rrate busr ress man parked hrs car and rushed rnto a burldrng The radro he left gorng and an rnqursrtrve street urchrn stopped to lrsten to the strains of a grand opera concert Llttle Pedro had never heard a radro ex cept for the blare rn Brll s saloon whrch he hated He heard the sound Iirst wrth 6 ' 4 . r, 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 . 4 ' L , K L 1 . ' . w nf t . 1. 1. 2 . g ,Q ' '-E 1. ' '1 ' . ' 1 Fl! FF ii , 4 , 4 , D 4 r . A Y . . 4 ' ' , ' ' . Li ' ' '- I , L . 0 ' . 4, 11 - ' fl -1- 4 1 t ' ' LL 3 Y ' , ' v ' ' . , y . . . , C . . . ,Q . . - . . . y 4 r - 9 . 1 ' ' , A - v .- .. - rs :y , 1 , 4 ' - , 1 . , 1 rr ' v ' y . . . ., K- . V . . . . Q . , Y Y? ' ' ' 1 'K 35: 5' . . M, . ., . , 0- , ,. 1 Q . . - D . , . , ' . . ' ' sr r ' ' V v Ll ' 4 YY , ' ,, ,' , D . , . D - , ,r . ' ' ' ' Z . - v i Y . , V .4 Y nt Y! ' ' ' ll - - v 1 1 A ' Q 1' ' Y - , an rs u - - v y H I ' . . H . . , I ' . . . D . . Q . V . , .. e - y V 1 - . y ' . h 1 . . ,, ' V l - y , ' . ' ' 2? lk P31 f . . . , ' . l .- L Y ' Y . I y l . at I . 1 . i . . r. 9. . 3 ' ' 1 - u 1 1 ' ' ' ' Y ' 1 x . - ,

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lm lirarur matches and clasped them trghtly rn hrs mrttened hand Gar' Got to hrde dees feller he mum b'ed to hrmself but vere'P Ah' He knew Just tloe place Gruntrng wrth the ef fort he horsted the man to hrs shoulder nd stumbled up the trarl A few moments later he stood on the brrnk of a yawnrng chasm Hundreds of feet below a whrrl pool roared omrnously Far up the can yon a wolf howled drsmally The sun shone brrghtly and the wrnd strrred the treetops gently Slowly Jake lowered the man from hrs shoulder and watched hrm slrde over the edge whrrl through the arr wrth amazrng raprdrty and splash rnto the pool far be low He grinned and lrftrng hrs arms hrgh above hrs head gave a yell of trr umph Now he would be warm' He stretched hrs fingers to relreve the cramps and then gazed Stuprdly as the matches fell from hrs hand and slrd toward the brrnk He took a qurck step forward and made a desperate grab for the precrous matches Suddenly he lost hrs balance' He threw hrs Welght backward and scram bled vrolently to get away from the rcy ledge but on the slrppery slope rt was use less He reached the brrnk and scream rng wrth rnsane fury he plunged through the arr to splash lnto the water the Hundreds of feet below the led e whrrlpool roared omrnously Far up he canyon a Wolf howled drsmally The sun shone brrghtly and the wrnd strrred he treetops gently Everythrng was he same But a murder had been commrt ted and Justlce had been done Yukon Justrce' Merle Tapley B H S 38 THRIFT 'Ihe wod thrrft has more meanrngs than most people realrze There rs no Other word whrch means the same The words development prosperrty and srm rlar Words are often used but they are only a small part of the meanrng Money savrng rs some trmes consrdered the meanrng of thrrft but that also rs a small part of thrrft All thmgs concerned rn garnrng possessron of the money also have to do wrth thrrft A man who spends hrs money rs not consrdered as not berng thrrfty rf he can afford what he spends hrs money for and gets hrs money s worth but he must see that he rs dorng hrs part toward ocrety before spendrng too fre lv There are of course exceptrons to all rules Takrng thrrft all together rt can be summed up rn the words Earn all you can save all you can and do not be afrard of grvrng Manley Babson B H S 38 NIGHT HUNTING lhe huntrng of skunks and raccoons at nrght rs legal rf the hunter uses a two cell Hashlrght and 22 cal revolver The nrgnt huntrng of deer and other anrmals 1 prohrbrted though many people vrolate thrs law I have had many experrences at nrght huntrng for skunks but none lrke the one I had three weeks ago yesterday I was standrng by the wrndow and lookrng out 'rt the moon thrnkrng what a good nrght for skunk huntrng At last I put on a coat and hat grabbed my ilashlrght and 22 rfle took a box of shells and went out srde I hunted around the barns and hen rr - . rv - ' - ra vs ' ' . , . . v . , . - . 1 r . . Q L., , 1 . U. . . ' A , - r V. Q. S - . ' . , v , .. . . . - Q ' . . V . ' 1 a . , . v ' r ' . . as . r , . . , . . . . ,, . . . . , , . . ., . .i.... -l. , - . , ' r 3 1 0' - D . ' r ' t . . l. A . - M y . - 1 v ' .. , . 'i , . . ., . .