Elgin High School - Panther Tracks Yearbook (Elgin, IA)

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pwpdecq While sitting at home alone, I decided to turn on the television set. As I focused the set, a football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears came on the screen. Some of those players look familiar! The announcer is saying, 'George Howard just made a terrific drive through the line for a touchdown for the Chicago Bears. Two other players doing a good job of blocking and tackling this afternoon are Howard Wolf and Joe Peters.' I can remember when they were playing for good old E.H.S. Next on the screen I saw Charles Loftsgard and Douglas Chapman ad- vertising their new trucking business. The channel began to fade and a 'Down on the Farm' program came in. Three of the best farmers in the community, Earl Lembke, Orran Bane and Loren Frieden were leading the discussion. Time for another change of program and I found a WP9StliU3 match between 'K1ller Durw1n Gilson and 'Mangler' Jim Cook. The announcer said that the feature bout of the evening would be a women's wrestling match between Babe CAliceJ Boyer and Hairpullin' CDonnaJ Hofer. - I didn't like wrestling, so I turned the channel. well, what's this? It looks like a dancing school. Oh, yes, here are the two Charleston instructors, Shirley Page and Ruth Tillotson. Who are they teaching? Why 1t's Earl Little. Boy, he's really cuttin' a rug! This program was interrupted for an announcement from the first woman President of the United States, Deon Pollock. 'Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to present to you my foremost general in the United States Army, Pat Minihan and Eugene Butikofer'. I was in no mood to listen to the generals, so I turned to the 'Jack Benny' Benson program. I always thought Burnell would make a good comedian. The channel began to fade and I came upon a torrid love scene. who are the great lovers? well, it's Clifford 'the Shiek' Medberry and Shirley Sugar Pie' Howard. My program seems to have changed again. It looks like a classroom. Dick Luce has discovered a new way to prove theorms in geometry and is teaching his new method to the professors of all colleges. One of those men looks familiar. It's none other than Arthur Larson, professor from Upper Iowa. A home maker's program came next and the announcer was asking, would you like to be able to make perfect soda biscuits? If you would, you'd better stay tuned to the three top cooks of the country, Carol Nickels, Lois Medberry and Shirley Shaffer, as this is their lesson for toda . ' YI already knew how to make biscuits so I turned the dial again. This time 'Russ Friederich and Jane Dennler's Beauty Salon' was demon- strating on a customer. She looks vaguely familiar. As soon as she gets that mud pack off I'll see. It's Jean Little! By this time I was in the mood to listen to some music. Here we are! The 'Texas Trio from Del Rio'. They look like Elginites. They are! It's Joe Ogle, Bernell Larson, and Wanda Shaffer. After listening for a while I decided they should go back to Texas. I've been trying to find something on my television set for hours and I still haven't found what I want. I'll make one last effort. Here is a beautiful blond gazing at me from the screen. What's she saying? 'Are you lonesome, do you need company? If you do, why don't you join my Lonely Hearts Club? Address your cards to Janice Torkelson, or come to my o ice.H After seeing all the '52 graduates of E.H.S. I really was feeling lonesome, so I decided to see Janice at once. Isn't television wonderful! ul