Carrier Mills High School - Reminiscence Yearbook (Carrier Mills, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY bY Dorothy Bynum 4 One evening in the year of 1950, as 'I rode across the Sahara Desert, on a slow, plodding camel, I espied an oasis covered with date palm trees. A caravan of camels reclined around the spring. Imagine my surprise when I met the owner Billy Kirts, now a rich merchant of the desert. He told me that Margaret Pyle had persuaded the natives of South Africa to give up their war dances and learn the WBig Applen.Qwhich was the rage when she left the United States! and that Jack Thorne was the proud owner of a knitting club for men and that Charles Trammell and Cressie McNew were his best knit- ers. My next stop was at Glenn Pankey's service station fon camels. Glenn had just received the monthly paper and we spent an hour reading and discussing the cooking recipes by Marion Tanner. Next we turned to the headlines and read about how Harold Stalions, a toal inspector, rescued Lucille Tanner and Pearl Dallas from Earl Clark's desert gangz Early the next morning I arrived in Fez just as the Saha- ra Trans-desert airship was preparing to take off. The pilot was Sammy Gregg and the co-pilot was John E. Austin. Mary Baker, the hostess, was settling her passengers for the trip and keeping an eye on Harry Lee Crowder, the chef, who got seasick every time he rode in an airplane. I had lunch at a beautiful desert cafe owned by Elsie Lee Austin and Aileen Davenport. They told me that Ruby Morse and Dorothy Bynum were in Paris buying the newest thing in clothes for a store in New York. After lunch, I traded my camel to Clyde Haris for an old model T Ford and started on my journey. I was arrested for speeding by Patrolman Victor Paletis and taken before Judge Clyde E. Croslin for trial. Noel Jenkins was appoint- ted to defend me and my trial was-set for the next day. I spent the night in the same cell with Lenora Pea and Estil Nunn. Lcnora was serving a term for killing a mouse when it was not looking, and Estel was awaiting trial for attempted murder. She had been a'cook for the WEatmore Hotel' and after eating her cooking, Wayne Meler and Harry Lee Farthing had to be rushed to the Desert Hospital, where they had been saved by the skill of Dr. Arthur Ammon and his nurses, Violet Bennett and Pauline Hancock.

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4 The radio was turned on in the evening, and we heard Lo- retta Lanton announcing a program for Desert Datesz Bernice Russell was telling a bed time story. Then came dwebster Hall with news of the day. He announced that Harold Wasson was running for president on the old 'Eddie Cantor slogang that New York's leading newspaper man, A. J. Henshaw, was backing him and that Sible Tarrant had won the National Ski Jumping Contest in California. My trial came up next morning, and I was found guilty of speeding. As I had no funds to pay the board bill I had run up nor'the fine which they had imposed, they confiscat- ed my Ford, and I was left with only a well worn thumb to finish my trip.