Franklin High School - Purrs and Scratches Yearbook (Franklin, OH)

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PROPHECYQ John Reese is a famous singer at Blue Ball. You can hear him anytime singing at Virginia's Tearoom. Barbara Owens is cashier at Virginia's Tearoom. She keeps a sharp lookout for anyone bothering the singer. Especially Virginia. The You Eatum, We Cheatumn Store owned by Dick Ruppert, a favorite hangout of the Hogtown Hobos, has been closed. A Vigilanties Committee composed of Mayor R. E. Lackens, Chief of Police Frank Lewis Dalton, and others has started a crusade to clean up the slums and Dick's was one of the first places to be visited. In a tour through the New Franklin Skyscraper we ran into Leola Chester, the eflicient and very at' tractive stenographer of Mr. Peabody, a millionaire restaurant magnet. Of the largest neon signs in the city of Franklin, one is more clearly seen that all the others, It reads: Dick Taylor f f Escort Agency Beautiful ladies escorted free. - Uld Maids S150 an hour. The We Ride and You Walk Auto Corporation today came out with the announcement that they will place a new car in the market this year. The ca.r's designer, Ronald Weaver, believes this car design will change the entire method of making automobiles. James Imes and Jack Kellis are now on an expedi' tion looking for mermaids. They found farming to be quite boring. fHere's hoping you find one, kids.j Odella Moore thanks Mr. Brown for his teachings in bookkeeping. She takes care of Tom's money very efficiently. . We hear that Boyd Alexander is the new Presi' dent of the Temperance League in Franklin. The wo' men gave him the office because they thought he knew most about it. Warren Tinch is now running a Drive Your Own Car Business. Of course he is uslng a dealer s license. Raymond Wade has finally bought out Fedders. He has changed the name to Wade, You Feed 'Em, We Supply 'Em, Company. He is also President of a certain club in Franklin. Dot White just gave up her position as President of the Old Maids Club to marry the President of the Bachelor's Club. fSomething went wrong some' where., Mayme Howard is a Secretary in a travelers burf eau, and 'ust last week she took a Slow Boat to Q l China. Pat Hineline has just completed a course in clean' ing with atomic energy. When she gets out of the hospital she will open the ollice. Barbara Tinch gave up the idea of being a bum be' cause she wore out too many pairs of shoes. She is now a farmer. fShe doesn't wear shoes atoll now., Eleanor Phillips is now giving clarinet lessons in the Squeaky Music House. l Betty Thacker and Earl Lansdale now have five sons. They are going to teach them to be star basket' ball players. Helen Brown's acting ability in the Junior and Senior Class plays enabled her to become a famous actress on Broadway. She is well known for her char' acter portrayals of little girls. Rose Plessinger is the headfnurse at the We Get You Well Quick hospital. Dot Purkey has her own dress shop now. She also makes and designs dresses for all the famous women in America. Jack Mayne is a famous daredevil. He decided since he has learned how to drive he might as well make the best of it. Manuel Cox has just discovered gold in Franklin. He didn't say where. Paul Upton caught a 100 pound pike while lishing in the little stream running by the high school. Ref ports are that he is going to have it mounted and hung in Mr. Hartzler's ollice. Warren Young is a prominent young lawyer in Franklin. Edwina takes care of the books. fHis date books, that is.j Don Updyke is now a floorwalker at Thirkields' Department Store. He also helps Boyd Alexander with the Temperance work. Clarence Taylor is owner of a new trucking busif ness- We Haul It, You Dump It -things aren't picking up too well. Eugene Glossip is one of the highest paid models in America. He models in the Toni ads, which asks, Which twin has the Toni? Fred Gray is with Ringling Brothers' Circus. He is billed as the skinniest man in the world. Marilyn Beckman and Erma Coffey have both joined the Wacs. They are hunting for two unmarf ried high ranking oilicers. fGood hunting, girls., Best Wishes from Mears' Sohio Station i 1

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PROPHECY '-652' Paul Buckley and Bob Dearth are cofinventors of a new corn machine. They now live in Moonbeam juncf tion and are producing purty good corn. Daisy Tinch is on a steamer heading for Moon- beam Junction. We hope she can stand the corn. Barbara Glossip takes care of all the sales of the corn machines in Moonbeam Junction. This seems to be a pretty busy place. Phyllis Routt is living on a farm raising little Hens-sees! Gene Murray is President in Woody Woodpeck- er's junction. The Franklin High School basketball team coached by Carl fBorisl Hathaway won the Championship at Columbus. Carl certainly used up a lot of toothpicks. Miss Helen Johnston, formerly connected with the Toni Do It Yourself Beauty Shop, is opening her own beauty shop on Main Street today. Luther fRedj Lamm and Vernon fBuckj Lynch are traveling around the world as hobos. They hope to become CofPresidents of the Hobo Union someday. Word has been received that Alexanders Bors has just graduated from Franklin High School on condif tion of boredom. This is a very special occasion and should be celebrated with great rejoicing. Bob Bottles has just broken jim Taylor's world record for the mile race in the Olympics. Two dogs were nipping at his heels in the final sprint. Nathan McMurrin has worked his way up in the world as a great singer. He now sings on the 100th floor of the Empire State Building. Bill McCabe is now wearing bellbottom trousers. You guessed it, he's in the Navy. Juanita Adams and Norma Gambill have just join' ed the Waves. Maybe they will be shipped out with a certain redfheaded sailor. Gene Egelston now sells his farm products to one of the Egelston Grocery Stores-supervised by Phyllis Owens. Millard Marshall is living out West. He is a fam' ous cowboy. fThat's what happens when you read too many cowboy stories., Bob Shockley and Ken Wilson have set a long dis' tance hitchfhiking record. They went all the way from Franklin to Miamisburg. Jerry Egelston has broken the allfworld record of pitching the most no-hit games in the entire baseball history. do Qfe Dick Noland is really a great entertainer in the world. He plays the trumpet in a night club every Saturday, and expects to get another contract soon. Pat Morey is teaching her first graders how to hitch' hike to Florida for the winter. Hope she keeps her job. Ann Simpson is giving driving lessons on Wayne Avenue. She's the only teacher who tells them to go through stop signs and then look. There seems to be a scarcity of people there now. Edith Dalton has settled down on a farm with Eddie. However, she still occasionally draws-water from the well, that is. Delores Farmer is giving courses in jitterfbugging in Middletown. Stardom guaranteed with every course. Mamie Leonard is now raising cattle out in Kansas. She seems to like being a cowgirl on a ranch. fThey call their ranch the Bar HJ Marilyn Kindred has given up the idea of being a veterinarian to be a housewife to jerry. Doris Hipsher still lives in Franklin and has a fine new home called Dixon Manor. fGood luck, Doris., Pauline Young is now the best cook in Middletown. Why not? Bob is cook at the Manchester Hotel, and with his teaching she's really made fame. fShe actual' ly can boil water nowlj Mary King lives in the center of the Red Lion com' munity. She and Edgar built their house where the community pump used to be. Betty Thomas has turned out to be a foreigner. She has moved back to a farm in Kentucky. fHope you like it, Bettyj Ray Kindred was a famous butcher until he backed into a meat grinder. That was the end. Jim Jeffery and Dick Bothe, Ambassadors to Russia and Germany, have returned home for diplomatic conf ferences with Secretary of State Robert A. Blackford. It has been rumored that they were requested to return home because of conduct unbecoming to an Ambasf sador. Miss Phyllis Bair, the second Kate Smith, sailed on May 30, to make a tour of the African continent. She plans to get a recipe for missionary fricassee. Miss June Redding, star of the Metropolitan Opera, is confined to her home with a cold caught while walk' ing to the bus station with her chauffeur, Kenneth Hinkle, who was unable to get the town car started. Marianna Clase has a lifelong job of raising little puddles into big Lakes. Compliments of Fedders Supply Company

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JUNIOR GIRLS First Row: Phyllis Sehorne, Mary Francis Priest, Betty Mynhier, Beryl Jestice, Norma Banks, Hazel Taylor, Lois Snell, Nancy Fitzpatrick, Marilyn Rutledge, Laura Lou Hollon, Edwina Preston, Joseph' ine Plessinger, Marcina Snider. Second Row: Stella Russell, Jo Ann Hoskins, Anna Stanifer, Florence Mehl, Violet Scearce, Barbara Greene, Evelyn Hensley, Rose Gabbard, Dolores Lindsay, Reda Webb, Jean Blythe. Third Row: Joyce Roberson, Virginia McKoy, Pat Scholl, Janet Klaber, Jo Ann Larick, Pat Bennett, Nancy Johns, Dorothy Allmyer, Priscilla Isabel, Lila Burdge, Mary Bryant, Maxine Royce. Fourth Row: Lillian Neff, Helen Robison, Judy Priest, Barbara Stewart, Linda Cole, Rose Ingram, Margaret King, Anna Allmyer, Juanita Monk, Jo Ann Huff, Genevieve Upton, Aleda Helton, Nelda Whisman. Absent: Lois Jean Minge, Betty Lea West. The officers of the Junior Class, 1950, are: Presif dent, Laura Lou Hollong VicefPresident, Bill Harris, Secretary, Louise Hammock, Treasurer, Jo Ann Hosf kins. The class sponsor is Miss Helen Heinselman, who teaches junior high mathematics. Miss Heinself man has given much of her time and effort in order that the Class of 1950 will be one of the best classes ever to graduate from Franklin High. The Juniors this year ordered their class rings from the Josten's Company. They were made with a special Wildcat crest, so their rings would be different from any other rings the surrounding schools may or' der The varsity basketball team coudn't have done with' out the Junior boys this year because six of them were Juniors. Earl Lansdale, Tom Kennedy, Tom Dolif boa, Bob Abrams and Don Hanes are the proud Jun' Best Wishes from Unglesby Funeral Home