Central City High School - Bison Yearbook (Central City, NE)

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1 made hurried preparations and left for Gene tral. I was met at the Burlington Terminal by Roy Jones, owner of the Rickety Taxi Corpora- tion.' He rushed me to the Knox Hotel run by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hensley. Mrs. Hensley was formerly Naomi Riggs. Their peppiest hell-hcp, Robert Gilley, was set to my service. He informed me that poor Dale Heuring had been killed in an attempt to fly; to Aurora with a pair of water-wings filled with helium gas, using the roof of the Court House as a run-way. The great day arrived. A huge crowd as- sembled at the Municipal Airport, owned by Chester Ryan who uses Ryan monoplanes ex- clusively. Miss Neuhofel stood by the cabin door of her ship and requested that each one of the class, now gathered in her honor, step up and tell her of their doings during the past twenty years. The first was Leonard Johnston who said he now owned 51 percent of the stock in the Grand Island Independent. Harriet Wagner had made her bid for fame by perfect- ing a new Shorthand system and taking the Worlds Championship with it. Josephine Stu- art had become a world famous pianist, noted for selections of her own composition. George Brown; once a. prominentbass singer in the Central City High Schcol Glee Club now held a position as Chief Train-call boy in the Grand Central Terminal in New York. Elizabeth Grace had become a blues singer over Station L-O-U-D, and was very ably accompanied on the Jewts-harp by Elvin Luce. Ruth Aline and John Parker were happy in their rose-covered bungalow of dreams at Havensville, Nebraska, Ruth with her lovely flowers and John with his beautiful Buff Orpington chickens. LaVerne McHargue told us she had become an actress for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. .. Hans Holtorf said he Qvas driver of the school bus at Chapman, now a city of 3,700 inhabitants. Deva Lindgreen, wife of a prominent Chicago lawyer, said she was contented to raise her two sweet little girls. Gerald Grosvenor studied music in Germany and Austria and now plays a piccolo in the United States Marine Band. Grace Schneiderheinz lays claim to the title of the only lady butcher in Utah. Beulah Johns- ,3; 1: mlw Bison 5 JF a ton married a famous actor, William Falke, and they are now playing on Broadway. Mary Miller said she could claim to be Central Cityts niftiest dressmaker. Bill Barton was the Bally- hoo artist for Lock 8x Lock Gigantic 3-Ring' Circus run by Herbert and Donald Lock. Neil XVillhoft, their strong man, was also their saw- playing cowboy singer. His best selection is Old McDonald Had a Farm. Marguerite Weigand had become a missionary in Antarc- tica. Earl Solt followed his fathefs footsteps and has never cut off an ear with a razor. The Sinsel Twins take the part of ttMary and Mar- tha, Sisters of the Skillet. 'Vincent Munger ekes out a meagre living drawing a comic strip, Coach and the Kids. Opal Rawlings, Editor of the Daily Gossip has exclusive rights to his drawings for a long period. Marjorie Dick- erson went to Honolulu where she is now, busy teaching the little Honoluluans the 3 Rts. Jamie E'off lays claim to the worlds largest feet and poses for photographs to prove that two feet make a yard. t Ruth King became a Parisian hair- dresser and beauty expert and hires Ileen Nielsen to demonstrate her famous ttBezauty Kreme. Ethel Benecke told us. she is married to a rancher in West Wyoming and is busy car- . ing for little lost lambs. Harold Gleason raises Poland-China hogs, and won a prize for the most beautifully spotted hog. Phyllis Jacobs now is an authoress of educational literature. Her latest is How to Catch Up on Back Short- hand. Eleanor Reeves and Minnie Cowell are trick riders in Gerald Mattsonts Rodeof But they cantt compare to Gerald who rides the bucking Ford, the identical one he drove to school in 1932. Georgie Stuart married an opera baritone and now spends her time sewing buttons on his shirts and darning his sockse- and her luck! He's out of a job. Edythe Stalker is an expert roller-skater, and has just come aback from South Africa where she taught the Coco-Cola tribe the art of her antics. Gwen- dolyn Clayton came all the way from New- m , 35.! '5 w W Central City Him $07500! w 'w 5.?th EL t g, r - 1 , Page 1;

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Q ':h X1 Eli n 1 mite Bison; 1' JV L m; k Grace Schneiderheinz gives her Cheer Lead! ing pep to Evelyn Chandler. Mildred Wagner leaves the school her little sister. Opal Rawlings leaves Mabel Curtis her American Government books, hoping Mabel will enjoy them. Ruth Lucas says she is sure that Thomas Whaley would like her ability to concentrate on any History or Social Problem assignment. Harold Gleason would leave his wild Ford to Bob Baird but hes afraid it will get away from him some time. Harriet Wagner is going to give her place in the Girls Sextette to Raymond DeHart so he can be an inspiration to Marcia Neil. Ethel Benecke leaves her partiality to mumps, scarlet fever, etc., to Maxine Boyd. Ruth King leaves her studious air to Donald Modd. Deva Lindgreen leaves her good natured smile to Dale McMillan because hard work and study has made him frown in perplexity. Cecil Drinkall leaves his trumpet to Eugene Yeik. Eugene received a trombone two years ago, and this gift will enable him to rival a One- Man Band. Ruth Aline Peterson Wills her ttArt of Con- versation tcommonly known as the gift of gabl to Mable Smith. , Naomi Riggs leaves tiller statue of Lincoln to: Grace Ibson, and Frank Widman. Bill Barton wills his basketball trunks to Charles Phares. Marjorie Dickerson gives Jier Normal Training grades to Hardin Eoif. Donzola Page declares her intentions of pre- senting the school with part of her ingenuity. Pearl Boelts wills her ability to make high 'grades to Alice. She explains that require- ments are getting harder and harder, so she might need this said ability. Dale Heuring leaves his clever remarks to- Tyndale Davis. Eugenia. Van Pelt willsi Harry Keefer to Gladys Stuart. Dorothy Truesdell leaves her car to Vincent Dizney because he has had so much trouble with his bicycle this year. Josephine Stuart wills the privilege of es- corting Charlotte Reeves to school to Elner Larson. Edythe Stalker wills her fine set of pearly teeth to Lee Richards, or says she would if a. they were removable. 0g So- LaVerne McHargue wills her place: as editor- of the annual to anyone who is fool enough to take it. Eleanor Reeves thought and thought and finally came to the conclusion that she would just leave her good will to all the lower class- men. We appoinb' as executors of this will Miss Kukral, Mr. Tuning and Evan Van Zant, feel- ing that they will accomplish the task suitably. THE SENIORS OF 1982. SENHGR PRQPHECYMHQSZ May 30, 1952! Twenty years ago I was a Senior in Central City High School. Now, as I sit in my office in the Great Southern Television Company Building I can recall how my class- mates looked when they received their diplomas. Strange that so .few years: can make such a difference in a group of peoples lives. But as my work took my attention I promptly forgot all about my classmates until I took; up the morning paper. A name caught my eye-a familiar name! A great aviatrix, Ina Neuhofel, was to attempt a flight to the planet :S'aturn. Miss Neuhofel had flown unaccompahied in a'rocket ship of her own invention to Mars. To see her off on the start of her lonely flight a reunion of all liv- ing members. of the original class of 1932 was planned by the Mayor of Central City, Guy Hudnalh I resolved to go at once to the old home town and see my former classmates again. x 6. i333 a 6 07311, train! City HiglinNwwaL W JEIK Page 16

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m F7lze Biyon; foundland where she is secretary to Ambassador C. A. Reed. Ruth Lucas Reed is one of so- ciety,s MOO in the capital of Newfoundland. Tom Stuart took a position as Superintendent at Belgrade, Nebraska. Pearl Boelts succeeded Velma DeBrunner as Secretary in Central City High School. Donald French became Central Cityis first man princi- pal. Gay Bartlett and Lula Mae Lambert, once art editors for the Bison, are now joint owners of the Lambertlett Painting Co. They specialize in barns, hog-sheds and chicken-houses and guar- antee the job to be artistically done. They em- ploy Dorothy Truesdell and Jean Van Pelt to experiment in an attempt to perfect a striped paint. Martha Guthrie and Mildred Wagner put on an act over station KMMJ to advertise the Donna Severance Pain Pills. Every pill guaranteed to kill the pain or the patient. Ce- cil Drinkall is still hard at work in his labora- tory at a secluded spot in Siberia trying to perfect a new type of rolling pineone that cannot be thrown by an irate wife at her hen- pecked husband. Donzola Page is Press Cor- respondent for the Associated Press in China. We found Sally Ayres, a widow, supporting her five small children by running a combined Hot-dog Stand and City Dog Pound. She says its quite profitable. Our friend, Edith Hailing, perhaps the best corn farmeress in Nebraska, is now at Omaha University teaching the best methods of growing cobless corn. Time grew short. The hour of departure drew near. At exactly one oiclock Central City Standard Time, f. o. b. Observatory, Central City, the plane standing on the runway began to move. Faster and faster it rolled, the rock- ets spouting flame and smoke. She was off and the flight to the unknown began. The crowd stood awed and watched the ship as it disappeared into the blue, leaving only a trail of smoke to betray its passing. a v Central City Higlz fclwol er a 0 Page 18