Gaston High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Gaston, OR)

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Before we had t1me to talk anymore we had arrzved at Grand Central Station SENIOR CLASS PROPHWCY Can you lmagine my surprlse when from nowhere I eened to land ln the middle of a teemlng metropollso How I came to be h re I cannot relate but as I had qulte apparently arrlved I declded to wear f fo tn and see what thls lively town was llke To thls end I took one Ol the DaXlS that came screaming to the sldewalk wath a d lver shoutlnp 'rld l Once safely lnside one of these movlng p1eces of antlqu ted Juni and we bac pul ed out 1nto the llnes of ant l1ke movements of large clty trafflc, I looked a my drlver He was looking at me with an expresslon of amazement, whlch was not surprislng, for he was Johnnle Spldal, my classmate f om oaston Unlon Hlgh School, class of 'b8' Who would have thought that the boy who took the class honors would be found drlving a New York Clty t8X1? He told me that he l1ved ln an apartment ln the big clty with h1s w1fe and slx chlldren from where I had declded to take the traln for Arkansas A the crowd I ran 1nto and knocked a woman down The contents strewn upon the statlon floor and as I stooped to ald her ln belonglngs, I was shocked to flnd that I had unlntentlonally I dashed through of her bag were recoverlng her run 1nto another classmate Th1s tlme lt was J an tte Qpl1ng who was the proprletor of a small town cafe called HThe Twlnkle Toes She was on her yearly vacatlon but hadn't yet made u her mlnd where to gc Over a cuo of tea, ln one of the local 'eat a bite and leave a fortune' places so promlnent ln th1S part of the world, we declded that she should travel wlth me Agazn we started across the statlon, th1s tlme belng very careful to avold SUltC8SB8 leaded w1th th1ngs that cause undue exc1tement on floors, and boarded the traln for Arkansas I told Jeanette about Johnnle, whom she d1dn't know had ever gotten beyond the green valleys of Oregon, and about myself I, Barbara Beck, had become a prlvate secretary for the boss of The Frlsco Produce Import and Export Concern I later married the boss and now I travel around and let someone else 'pound the keys' Jeanette 1n turn told me about the peopl whom she had heard of Ray Walters, lt seems, was now a famous pxtfh He wasn't marrled and apparently had no lntentlons was qulte the 'ladles' man ' Carl Hering now l1ves 1n N8X1CO He owne a Amerlcan helress who had l1ved all her llfe ln Lex girl who s very spolled Paul Adamson, the Ca now a famous SC18Dt1St who could be bothered by out to be a regular bookworm and clalms the fal Upon 1nqu1ry concernlng the others, she sa1d sh but she had read an ltem 1U the paper som tlme r For the Brooklyn Dodgers Ol b61Hg as Jeanette sa1d he arge ranch and had marr1ed an co hey have o e 1 cle anowa of o school days, was noth nv bat tudy He's turned cr s Y re bsolutely 'taboo' hadn h rd from any of them, ago say1ng that Bernlce RHDIOH had gone to Chlna as a reporter for one of the New York papers and 55118 there had marrled a rlckshaw carrler 1n Chungklng Just then the conductor came through the traln, and true to form, a former classmate Th1s tlme lt was our frlend Albert Davis, who had tired of l1fe at AStOTla and had declded to glve the other slde of the a try Whlle we were lnvolved 1n a d1SCuSS1OH of nway back whenn, the he was grown contlnent traln, A-I . . I A . J .. u . . . ' .w . ,MJ . . . . . . U -aa. Y, V ...., . . . . . . A . . . . . , . ,- 5.7 . vi - V fx 7 -V. .- L .. J 11 -1-KA., . . . . , 1 -f . ., 9. t .- .a. - . . Q . .li ,G . . . . . ' . . . . vi A . . A 4. 0 il... . . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . . . 4 S . 0 1 ' Q . . . . ., . . . . . . I . 1 . . . 3 an . . O N, Q -.1 . H . . ., . . ' 1. . . . .- .. - - , . . . . 0 C D U 0 0 h I I o . . U . f . . ..i......- .....1. Q . 9 ' 4 . . g . . . 1,1 S ,. 9 .1 ...-..r. I I A A . . . . . . . . A -, . .. 0 D .L . . .-i.. 1.-1-. . . . . . ,, . U, M ,LL L 'Ls 1 1. . AJ. .Lu . . 5' ' Y Vi - 1 . - ..n - .ll 0 l l. .i...... 1 -L 4 Q' C ., - .. ... lc, ' .2 Q 1 x:-. Ei fl .. r . . . . . 9 u .QS . . . . . . . . Q U V . li r v , ., . . . . . ' . . . . . C ' . . . 1-1. iq. . . . . . . . l

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Senior Class Prophecy continued which I do believe was running on the reputation it had built up ll oetter days, creaked and gave a lurch that landed a very distinguished looking ventleman right in our laps. To our surprise we found the gentleman to be Bernard Adamson, the head of the biggest air line in Ar ri a He had married a once famous aerial stunt artist, but he said he in 1sted th t she qaif her work and spend the rest of her days seeing to it that Junior had no desire to fly When we reached Arkansas we went on a tour of the mountain area, where, it is said, people still think Lincoln is President Whom should we find in one of the backwoods places but Jessie Furukawa who is now the sole owner of a chicken She doesn't care She says, nI'd rather sing and go ralking Come, take a walk with me H And so we did we were to be surprised again for as we approached a field with a number of forlorn looking cows whom should appear from the far ide of one of those sad looking creatures, but Beverly Clarke, the pr sent Mrs Abe Sooter She left Oregon, and many boy friends, to come to a new state where she hoped th re would be no cows but Hthey have them here too,U she said sadly From the number of 'stair steps' who were at that moment trying to hide behind her skirts, I guessed she had quite a family She invited us indoors to Wset a spelln and as we started to do so a loud bell like sound startled us I turned to see what it was only to find it was the telephone beside my bed I lifted the receiver from the hook and grunted a sleepy, far from civil, HHe1lo, what do you wanton It ras a long distance call from a small town in the east and Jeanette Epling wondering if I would care to Join her on her vacation this ranch. Since the death of her husband, the chickens and the children run wild. year, and did I know what had happened to any of the rest of our former classmates.