Harmony High School - The Ferguson Yearbook (Harmony, ME)

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THE THIRD DIMENSION Interplanetary war is being waged on two planets we Earthmen have yet to discover. The first, similar to Earth, both in its contents and its people, is fighting against people from another planet who are trying to capture the Earthlike planet. To make the story easier to fol- low we shall call the Earthlike planet, Planet X, the other, Planet Z. Planet X is larger and has greater Wealth than Z. This is what started the war. The people who live on Planet Z are under the rule of a greedy dictator who has conquered all the countries on Planet Z and who still wants to expand his reign to in- clude Planet X. The people on these two planets are way ahead of us in the field of knowledge. They have harnessed the atom's great energy, both for war purposes and for commercial pur- poses. Most of --the war is being waged in the. air as the atomic-powered stra- toplanes of Planet X encounter the cosmic-ray Hying saucers of Planet Z. Neither has an advantage over the other and the air-war has now been waged for many months. Planet Z has decided on more dras- tic methods of fighting. The dicta- tor has ordered that all the scientists work together to build cosmic-ray guns that will destroy anything in their path. The scientists are work- ing furiously on the plans and little know what the machine will do, yet driven by the dictator's orders, they are keeping on with their work. Within a month, with the aid of ro- bot-men and atomic engines, the cos- mic-ray gun is finished and assembl- ed. Then comes the test to see how effective it will be. This planet has seven moons revolving around it. These are to be the testing grounds- Exas, the nearest moon, is their first target. It is nearly seven hundred thousand miles off, yet in a split sec- ond after the ray gun is fired, it ex- plodes into nothingness. After this successful feat on one of their moons, the dictator orders that the gun be trained on Planet X's only moon. The same thing hap- pens to this one as did to Exas. Only this time it showers hundreds of meteors Qon Planet X destroying many of the cities there. Seeing that he has a machine that will destroy everything, he sends a message by telephoto to Planet X headquarters. The message reads as follows: We have a cosmic-ray gun train- ed on your planet. Surrender or we will blow you into nothingness just as we did your moon. Rather than surrender and become slaves on Planet Z, the people of Planet X escape to another planet with the aid of their only inter-space troop ship. They leave robots clev- erly disguised as themselves on their planet to Ward off the invaders if possible. When the dictator sees them still on the planet, he orders that the ray-gun be fired. Planet X is destroyed almost immediately, but as the planet explodes it starts a chain reaction with the planets around it until their whole universe explodes. Back on this planet. Earth, in the first dimension it is the year 1945. We are at war with Japan. The place is Nagasaki, where our first atom bomb exploded. As the Planet X ex- plodes, the same instant a chain re- action in the atom bomb starts- This leads one to think that if there is life on Earth, and the Earth is made up of molecules, each con- sisting of numerous atoms, is it not possible that there may be a third- dimension? People living on the atoms as we live on Earth? It seems that this is quite fantas- tic but I know it is true for I am from Planet X. I was sent here to warn the people of Earth to stop waging wars on others before they meet a disaster like ours. Richard Braley '51

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He awoke that night about eleven o'clock and found Johnny gone. Why that no good son-of-a-gun, he said. He's gone after all. Two days later Jake heard a noise and looked up just as a plane started dropping supplies. That night, sol- diers found them and took care of them. On the Way in from the desert Jake asked, Where is -the fellow who told you where we were ? i'You know, that's a funny thing, replied the man riding next to him, He came in from the desert, told us where you were and disappeared back into the desert. Who was he anyway? Why was he with you? I've seen him somewhere but I just can't place him. I don't know who he was but let's just say he was along for the ride. Leo Mitchell '51 WE MOVE The morning was in its infant stage when a raucous voice found its unpleasant way into my dreams. Hey. Lue, get upf' I stoically ig- nored the summons. Time to get up, the voice per- sisted. ,I opened my mouth and emitted an unintelligible grunt. Get up! the voice yelled exasp- eratedly. I propped myself up on my elbow and glared blearily. Can't you see I'm asleep ? I yell- ed back and made a dive for the pil- low to pull it over my head in a vain attempt to recapture my pleas- anti' dream- The next thing I knew the covers were being yanked unceri- monionslv from the bed. We re moving today and these have to be packed, I was informed firmly. All right, all right, I grumbled. You don't have to push. I groped my way into the shower and turned on the tap. The water was ice cold and I received a practical demonstra- tion of the folly of going around with my eyes shut. I shivered into my clothes, hastily ran a comb through my hair, and went down to breakfast. Everyone had finished ahead of me, and I stared unbeliev- ingly at the table. Where's the food? I demanded aggresively. 'Right in front of you, was my short answer. That? I sneered, glancing at a skimpy dish of dry cereal and an over-toasted slice of bread. How do you expect me to live on that? VVhere's the eggs and bacon? Where's the hot chocolate? Where's . . . i' Father, in mute explanation to my question pointed to the stove spread over the kitchen iioor- I sat down and gnawed despondent- ly on one corner of the hard toast. Just then my brother came in shout- ing, Where is my hat? Getting no response he continued, Anybody seen my hat ?'l and finally, You Lue? I'm sitting on it, I replied star- ing gloomily ahead. Well, why didn't you tell me in the first place ? You didn't ask me! as I handed it to him. Thanks, he grunted, Gee, it's fiat. The rest of the day was just more of the same. Skimpy meals and not time enough to eat that. I tripped over disorganized furniture and up- set the goldfish. When night came I was exhausted. Going surrepti- tiously into a bedroom of the new house, I discovered a reconstructed bed. Piling on mattress and bed clothes, I hastily shed my garments and jumped in. With a shudder and a resounding crash the bed collapsed! A voice pierced my confusion. I recognized it as the voice that had started my hectic day. Gee, Lue, you didn't give me time to put in the bolts. You'll have to get up. Get up nothing! I shrieked. Take the headboard off me and then get out! And don't come back until tomorrow. Luella Gardner '53

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PHANTOM WOLF A group of prospectors were gath- ered around a campfire in central Alaska when off in the distance they heard the low wail of a timber wolf. That reminds me of an adventure that was told to me by my father when I was a boy, spoke up a griz- zled old prospector. It's supposed to be true, but you can believe it or not. Bill York came up here to Alaska just after the gold rush started and he, like most other men, went to work panning in the streams. He found gold the first day but he didn't get enough to amount to any- thing. He had been in Alaska for about a year when one day he came upon a young timber wolf with a broken leg. He picked it up carefully and put it under blankets on his dog sled and went immediately to his cabin where he set the wolf's leg and made him comfortable. As the weeks passed, King, the wolf, regained his strength and the leg grew strong. Finally one day Bill took King to the door and set him free. The wolf, now nearly full grown, loped swiftly into the nearby forest and disappeared. That night, as Bill was getting ready to go to bed, he heard sc1'atch- ing and a low whine at the door, which he opened. King was trying to get in. Bill was glad that King had come back because he wanted a big dog as a companion to go with about a thousand dollars in gold dust and nuggets that he had found in some nearby streams during the summer. He left King to guard his cabin against prowlers who might try to break in. Bill had been traveling for about three hours when, as he rounded a sharp bend in the trail, he saw his way was blocked by an armed ban- dit. Hold up there or get a slug between the eyes, shouted the stranger and Bill quickly brought his team to a stop. All right, Where's the gold? growled the bandit. What gold ? returned Bill with a puzzled expression on his face. 1 ll give you five seconus to tell me wnere it is and if you dont lm going to shoot you right between the eyes so that you can watch the bul- let coming, spoke the bandit harsh- .y. At that moment a grey form shot from the woods and leaped at the bandit. It was King! I-le had fol- lowed his master beside the trail and now saved his life. Une uay as he was passing a waterfall, he noticed a shelf under the falls. Jumping onto the shelf, Bill discovered, much to his sur- prise, a narrow cave leading back under the river. On both walls was a vein of gold about six inches thick and leading as far back as he could see into the daik interior of the cave. Bill started mining the gold im- mediately and when he took a load into town many people tried to find out where his secret mine was but no one was successful, not even two ambushers who had attacked him on thle trail home, for King was on the Jo . Bill didn't make another trip to town for about six months and when he did go, his trip was. uneventful but unknown to him, on his return trip, he was followed by a half-breed who wanted very much to find Bill's secret mine. Bill took one load of supplies into his cave and as he came out for ano- ther, a shot rang out up on the ridge. Running up to where he heard the shot, Bill saw the sheriff leaning over the body of a dead man. As Bill approached, the sheriff spoke, Looks like King has saved your life again Bill, I saw him tackle this man when he was getting ready to shoot you. What ? Bill almost shouted, King died about four months ago