Covington High School - Derrick Yearbook (Covington, OK)

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CLASS PROPHECY ON THE ADVICE or THE FORTUNE TELLERA I GAZED INTo THE CRYSTAL GLOBE AND TOOK A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE or THE i940 GRADUATESQ MY SURPRISE wAS IMMEASURABLE WHEN I SAw A coURTRooM SCENE WITH MELVIN WYSSMAN AS STATE's ATTORNEY AND VINCENT SHIELDSI WORLD'S GREATEST CRIMINAL LAWYER9 TAKING THE FLODRQ ALTERNATELY ooNvIcTINc AND DE' FENDING BILLY LEE FYFEEI HELD on A CHARGE or STOOLTPIGEONRY. THE JURY FILED oUT AND' UAS ASToNISHEo TO SEE IN THEIR MIUST Sucn MEM' SERS A5 LEoNARo LONGLEYI JUNE FISCHERQ AND JACK BRALEYQ AFTER Two MINUTES or DELIBERATIONT THE JURY RETURNED THE vERoIcT--GUILTY or STO0L'PIGEONRY IN THE FlRST DEGREES UBSERVBNG THE cRowoIEAvINc THE COURTROOMg I SAw MAXCNE WARD LONCLEY wITH Two LITTLE LoNcLEY's HANGING ON HER SKIRT, THE SCENE CHANGED ANo I Now SAW THE INTERIOR or A vERY MooERN AND SELECT BEAUTY SHOPPES HEAD MANAGER wAS UORDTHA POWELLQ HER OPERATORS INCLUDED DORIS SHOEMAKER ANo JERREL DEAN FAUBIOBO MANI- CURIST wAS JERRY LEE HAWKINSQ MONETTE MYERS, THAT MosT EERICIENT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRES. or THE METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE Co., ENTERED:AND oEMANoEo IMMEDIATE SERVICES AFTER ALL, THIS wAS HER LUNCH HoUR AND SHE MUSTN'T BE LATE GETTQNG BACK T0 WORK. MARTHA BRIGHT, WHOSE HUSBAND OWNS A CHABN or FILLING STAnoNS, ENTEREQ LEISURELY FOR A COMPLETE BEAUTY TREATMENTQ TONIGHT wASHER NIGHT T0 IMPRESS THE SocIALLv PROMSNENT PEOPLE or THE CITY. THIS SCENE FAOED INTo OBLIVION AND I FOUND MYSELF STARINoINTo THE BNTERHOR or THE ROCKETR OCCUPVING A PRIVATE SUITE wAS IVA SMITH ANS HER TRAVEEQNG coMRANIoN, EDALEEN PHARESo Bos BAILEY,ST- ATE SENATORQ WAS IN AN ADJODNING CARg DILICENTLY PREPARINC A S ECH HE WAS T0 cIvE AT A CONVENTIONQ A JOLT INTERRUPTED HIS TREND or THOUGHT AND AT THE SAME TBME SCREAMS AND SHRIEKS WERE HEARD FROM THE PASSENGERS0 THE LBMITED EXPRESS HAD CRASHED INTo THE ROCKET. IMMEDIATELY THE scENE wAS ONE or CONFUSION AND ANXIETYQ IN THE MIDST or THIS HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE APPEARED WILMA BARNES, ACE RE- PORTER ON THE STAR TELEGRAM, HER RHoTocRARHIc ASSISTANT WAS MARY MARGARET BRECKENRIDGEA PATIENTLY AwAITINc THEM WAS THEIR TAXI DRIV' ER, ARLIE LEo LEGRANT. PEACE AT LAST DESCENDED AND I NOW SAW A SWANKY CAFE IN CALI- FORNIAA HEAD WAITRESS WAS ALBERTA DHABALTQ ABOUT 7 BLOCKS Down THE STREET WAS A LITTLE SUBURBAN HOME, WHOSE OCCUPANTS VAS THE FORMER LUcILLE MALLOY AND CHUNNY CALVERT. LIVING AcRosS THE STREETWAS VIRGINIA MCNEAL NORRISQ ABRUPTLY THE GLOBE CRASHED on THEFLOORI AND MY MENTAL PICTURES WERE ELIMINATEoo