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

 - Class of 1952

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hxm very unhappy After that he trled to be more agleeable In order to have frlends one should always be fuendly and klnd Vlrgll Dol e 55 THE VISITOR The m1d afternoon sun smlled warmly down upon the rock strevsn twenty acres wh1ch constituted the Potts farm Its rays plcked out de talls IH the constructlon O1 to put It more aptly the mlsconstructxon of the Potts farmhouse a ram shackle edliice clmglng precarlously to a rug fred crag Behmd the house sprays led a shed of sorts each sxde leanlng agalnst the others for support and all four dangerously defylng glavlty And beh1nd the shed today as any other day It found Ezra Potts lymg up agamst one rlckety slde w1th hls Jug of corn squeezlngs comfortably close He half dozed hstenmg to varlous sounds the cry of a crow a cow lowlng hls wife drlvlng an old pig and five llttle ones off the plat form He reached a languxd hand up Howdy a volce drawled at hls elbow Ezra dld not need to look up he could not mlstake that nasal twang It was Pukey Ilukey a youth from the adjacent farm and too dumb to come 1n out of the ram There were some that saxd Lukey wasnt the dumbest person ln the world but Ezra was sure they were cheatlng the lad out of a yustly earn ed tltle And he always had a cold 1n the nose hence the Pukey that coupled vuth the fact that he usually 1nsp1red the nelghbors to do Just that Hou dy grunted Ezra Whut s th noos from th x1llge He knew Iukey wouldnt get half of the facts stlalght but he felt compelled to make com ersatlon Th Deacon got hlsself bunged up Lukey snuffed That soo Yep After a long pause How bad s he hurt' Leg busted two teeth knocked out eye blacked and head bashed some Do tell' How ed lt happen? He klCk9d ah mule He klcked ah mule? An got a leg busted an ah eye blacked an two teeth knocked out'l A1r yew shore yew gut the facts stra1ght'7 Ezra squmted up at h1s v1s1tor Wall the mule klcked back Oh Another pause Wall I gotta go Ezra breathed a s1gh of relxef as Lukey shuffled around the col ner But h1s gomg out was not as qulet as hls comxng 1n Dnectly around the corner Lukey tupped ox er one of the llttle p1gS and landed squarely on the old pork er The plg emltted a hlgh pltched ternfied squeal and rose a good two feet stralght lnto the a1r Then she Y0lC9d sex eral shrlll d1scordant shrleks to the accompanlment of a SGFIBS of phenomenal leaps after wh1ch she shot down across the pota- to patch llke a Jet propelled mlsslle w1th the half stunned Lukey clmg mg to her back She swept past the house leaped the ram barrel and cleared the fence wlth 1nches to spare She dashed through the melon patch scattermg the blg frult rlght rlght and left She crossed the south pasture wlthout hlttlng the hxgh spots and st1ll screammg her pro- testatxons Ezra screamed Matllda make Lukey bl mg back our p1g' Jest vsaxt up a mmute Evra re 1o1ned wear1ly Ah m tryln to fig ger out how to make th plg brmg back Iukey Luella Gardner 53 DESTINATION X A loudspeaker blared through the assembly hall of the desert experl mental statlon one bleak after noon Volunteers are requested for a secret xery dangerous m1ss1on What th1S m1ss1on IS Where and when It IS golnff to be and how long It w1ll take cannot at the present tlme be d1sclosed Many or all may not re ' 1 7 ' . H - . . ' w sz ' 9 ' 1 1 L Q s -' , ' sc ' u . . i , ma ' , L v Y 7 7 . t . . v ' H - S . C . . . I A . -K . V . ' . . as ' i u r v - ' I ' 4 66 7 , - v . .... 1 . n . if 71 . , . c I s , L v . . Y -L ., l . . . . . X . - Y K i ' ' 1 l . v C ' ' ' . ' - . . . , X 7 L , V . L ' ' ' U ' . . . . - . u ' ' U , . . . ' v A . . . . . . . . . r . r N ' f- K . ' . s 1 g I r L . , . I A , . . K , I Y - . n s U G - uk . . . - to adJust h1S ragged old straw hat. ' f . . sc n ' ' , , , ' 4 y ' . . . . , CC lf . ' Y n u n s Y T 1 . . . K . 1 W . , t. , , u rr ' u , v 9 ,- . - n f . ' U , ' ' 91 . lr s. y 1 - . - - ' u r - 1 - K4 rv . ' ' ' . s n 1 Y . an ' A . V . . . . , u Y rs sc r , 4 . A ! Y 7' Y 77 , 1 A I D D I -- K v . . D . 7 ' . . 4 . ' . n 1 ' U l . . H, . , , 7 Q ' I st . C6 ' y, u 1 a I e I at t, ss r , , ' ' f ' ' n 1 n c c ' 15 7 za , v - VY . Q . H 1 ' A - t , ' .

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Jlm saw hxs partner suspended by h1s ankle he declded to leave h1m there and let h1m d1e so that he could have all the gold for hlmself As J1m drove hxs plck into the vem of gold a large timber toppled over onto hxm knockmg h1m on h1s DICK and pmnmg h1m there the pick dnven lnto hls stomach As he lay there screammg ln pam he reallved that the curse was real not merely superstxtlon as they had thought To thls dav everyone who has found and trxed to vsork the m1ne had disappeared Gerald Stadlg 53 THOUGHTS Its almost tlme for the bell and Im nn typmg class I have Just fimshed the lesson and whlle the others are stlll typing Im studymg thelr dlfferent expressxons It s really a most mterestmg occupatlon for first there s Luella typmg wlth a de termmed alr and a leam of fire ln her speed If she keeps on at thls rate she ll be far above my 40 wom fIf brams could type she d be domg 150 D Then comes Rodney Ah' The fierce way he attacks the keys would make Jersev Joe Jealous He s going to do or dle tWe ll hope he ll do J Next IS slow but sure Dana Hell make a fine typxst yet He has the w1ll and the ab1l1ty All he lacks IS practlce Delmont has qulte a blt of speed but he doesnt seem to m1nd where h1s flnffers strlke That ll never do Come on Vlctor' Punch those keys' You have to fimsh the lesson you know There s the bell 'mil a partlng word from Mr Tracy Center your type wuters ch1ld1en Thats all for to day he remarks sweetly And so wlth these thoughts and many others I close another hectlc school day Irls Downs 53 HEALTH Health IS the foundatlon step lead mg to happmess Health IS the state of the body processes physlcal men tal and emotional thmgs that lead to our happmess and future llfe Health IS the value of a strong and healthy body and IS an ald to success ful hvmg If you are healthy you can depend on It m emergencxes You can conserve lt for old age and you can also feel lt and enjoy lt every day of your llfe If we are healthy we can get along better Wlth our famlly and frlends To be healthy we need rest exerclse sunsh1ne a well balanced d1et Health IS an 1m portant step to happmess Gloria Curtls 54 CHEERFULNESS Ah' Go on I don t want to talk Get out and let me alone' Do lt yourself I haxen t time You must haxe heard these statements some txme or other or some slmllar to txmes we dont feel too well after we say them Llke the experlence of one boy of whom I shall tell you Tlmmy ww as a good boy sometlmes But almost always he was very hate ful and always ready to start a fight w1th anyone He was dlsagreeable to h1s parents and also h1s classmates Therefore he wasn t too popular He stlll had some frlends however but he dldn t use them well One day the telephone rang Tlm mv was there alone He was busy when he heald It and It made h1m angry When he went to answer It the vo1ce sounded hke one of h1S school chums Tlm aid some verv unk1nd thlngs to h1m then he hun up He was st1ll angry Later on he found that the call was from hls best f11end He had wanted T1m to go on a trlp wlth h1m whlch T1m had really wanted to take Be cause of the telephone conversatlon T1m s frlend hadn t asked h1m to go When Tlmmy heard of thls It made . . . . . . I ,' - , ' I u, 0 ' c 1 Q , . . r , v . p , . . Q , . . . V , ' 5 I . . l , ' . i ' . . 1 . . , , . , . . . . . I , . ' u 9 I !, . . -, 7 U M , , U ' , . . ' . , 9 ' 1: , L Q 1 a . 7 ' I 0 , g n I , . . her eye. She's striving to build up them-most of us have' And Some' Y . i . . . , '. , 0 , a 1 . 9 ' . , . I . . u , , . y . . l . V- - , L. y . ' I -' 9 y - ' Y , A ' , 7. . 1 u 1 . K . A , . s , D , , . . . -V l . . ' 0' , . . 1 ca - ' s c 3 A O ' il 1 . , 1 ' ,. . a , , , - . g. 77 ' , , . . . . . A . , . , . , . , . , . . . 7



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turn but rt rs for the advancement of scrence and the country as a whole that thrs mrssron must be conducted Anyone vxrshrng to volunteer should report to lVIa1or Blake before tomor rovx at 1200 hours For a short trme after the an nouncement ex erythrng was quret but soon they began talkrng about xx hat the mrssron mrght be gomconc. strrted the rumor that the mr sron xx 1s to le an expedrtron rnto Russra to trv and lotate and rf possrble dcstrov the plant where the Comrnumsts xx e r e cxperrmentrng vxrth rtomre energy The talk soon came rrouncl to the serret pror ct that was berng, crrrred on rn hangar seven Wo one hrd been able to get near rt for the last year except the were sxvorn to secrecy Next mornrnff at 0900 hours ten men reported to Major Blake to vol unte r for the mrssron Thev vxere sxxorn to secrecy and then taken to hangar seven xvhere they vxere told what they xx ere to do Late one nrght about two months later few people pard much attentron to the roarrng blasts of rocket en grnes thrnkrng that rt was only another routrne patrol squadron go mg up After a few days lrttle more was thought of rt as the statron xxent on rn rts normal manner HF if :F if rr The space shrp was performrng even better than had been expected and noxx three days after leaxrng the Farth they were more than fixe hun dred thousand mrles from Earth At thrs rate and barrrng drfficultres they would reach their destrnatrorr rn a lrttle less than seven months Therr destrnatron vxas now made known to the men It was the planet Mars' As the space shrp roared upward the atomrc poxxered rockets roarrng smoothly the men were wonderrng what they would find vxhen and rf they reached the planet The shrp wa equrpped wrth auto matrc radar that would spot and steer the shrp around any obstacles that should be rn the path of the hurtlrng space shrp The men were relaxrng rn the control room when suddenly a lrght flashed and a buz 7er sounded The radar had gone dead' Immedrately they cut the rockets and began tryrng to find the trouble xxrth the radar apparatus Ex ervthrng checl ed rnsrde the shrp so they knexv th xt the troubl xv ts outsrde the shrp Donnrnfr space srl that rncluded mrgnetrc boots to hold th m to the hull of the shrp rnd rn orcygen sup ply Muor Plrk rnd the electrrcran Kellv stepped rnto the urlock and from there out onto the hull ot the hrp Moxrrrf sloxxlx and crrefully toxvarl the front they sxvx noxv what h rd h rppened X meteor that had been travelrng of the shrp had not been prcked up bx the radar and had struck the an tenna breakrng some of the spokes and puttrng rt out ot commrssron Takrnff a mall portable Welder from the reparr krt they soon had the an tenna reparr ed and then they return ed to the rnsrde of the shrp The rockets were fired and the shrp con trnued rts course through the vord Now after flyrng for nearly seven months they were crrclrng the planet Mars the first Earth people ever to be near rt After settrng the shrp down the men tested the atmosphere and were surprrsed to find the pres sure and oxygen content almost rdentrcal to that of Earth As thev stepped from the shrp they were astonlshed at what they saw for about a quarter of mrle off was a crty no drfferent rn looks from an Earth crty Takrng the tvxo Jeeps that they had brought xxrth them out of the shrp they armed themselves wrth hrgh poxx ered rrfies and started toward the crty As they neared the crty they could see automobrles com parable to the ones on Earth movrng about on the streets As they came even closer they were bewrldered to find that there was no one rn the movrng cars and nobody on the srde walks They were even more bewrld ered to hear strange xorces from r . K , . . r A - v' 1 ' I ' . . - ' K . 77 1 V ' K I c , I v 1 , - V V ' S 1 Y 1 'C 1 C ' - Y 5' -' c , i . ' ' ' - S . 2 e z. s ' . K ' X S 2 2, s S -f ,s - ' S ' 'Z .' I ' 2 ,' 9 ' s w'- . ' ' , , , ' ' ,, Y ' V . ' x C C 1 n ' r, t . , . y Z' J ZA 92 x , , ,. A 'Y ,J ' 2' Y' z ' , X p . s ' 1 , - - L ' P 1 4 kv s A je H ' ' v' cz. Y , ,Z 1 4 Aw ' T E -' ' 6 C 5 3 , sz v 1 , . . z Q Q , C L 1 X 1 I , ' men who xvere workrng on rt and they a course at a rrght angle to the course 1 is - 1 ' ' .. - ' D f 1, 3 s - . - p , ' v L ' . ' . ' ' - ' ,, s ' to . y y A - 1 V . ' 1 Q ' 4 A s A I I 1 4 W l. D J 4 ' g ' 9 , A - - - , . , , ' 9 ' if ' - . A . ' I r, 1 f , , C 3 . ' c ' 'Q . - v , - ' r v 1 1 , ' ' , ' 'I -, s n n u ' , ' S, , 1 n n n Y 'W - I vt N , 1 ' A L . r . C sr I v K W - ' r . , . ' I . Y - , K x - it , ' , v ' ' ' . . ,I . 9 . L S - T . Y '

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