Hayes Center High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Hayes Center, NE)

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Prophecy I got so tired of sitting on a cloud and playing my harp day after day. I had played every song I could think of, even 'Open the Door Richard. So I asked permission from Saint Peter to visit my old high school friends. I started to earth and before I knew it I was in Hayes Center. W! how that town has changed. The bank now covers one whole block. I had just started up main street when I was accosted by a dirty, ragged bum. I recog- nised Iarly Richards. He had lost all of his money at Culbertson when there was a fake gold rush back in IQO. New nom of his friends would help him, due tc his mrriage to a fan dancer back in 1955. Ilhen I was about tc enter the drug store I noticed a sign on a near-by tent--'Have Your Future Told and See Old Solomon, the Trained Owl. lly curiosity got the better of me and I entered the tent. Imagine my surprise to see hrcella Palic making her living by crystal gazing. She has her pet owl with her, who sits on her head and helps her read the crystal ball-- she claims she has made a fortune at her profession. As it was getting near lunch time I went into one of the cafes and saw a man sitting there, who looked very familiar. It was Jack Schuman, he is one of the guys most in de- mand in Hollywood, as a director and modern Romeo. From the looks of things,i.t appears that Jack's quiet days are over. Ncticing a hand bill for a girls' baseball game in the afternoon and having never seen one I decided to go. After finding my seat in the huge stadium, which Hayes Cen- ter had built, I noticed the line-up and of all people Charles Petersen was the manager. His star pitcher is Donnm Strcp and has she ever got curves to her pitching. V As I was just departing from the stadium I saw a man completely surrounded by girls Ae I got closer I recognized him as Carl K.1.ttle,who has taken the place of Frank Sinatra. The girls really swoon when he sings. I passed by an air-conditioned theater and as it was about 100 in the shade I decided te go in. The main star was, you guessed it, Bryce Fcrnoff, the hammiest, ham actor en stage and scree. The big movie producers say Bryce is so valuable, they have to give him three meals a day, a park bench to sleep cn, and a ticket to the movies so he can see his idol of the screen, Louise Mchhtt, who has taken the place of lhrjorie Maine. I bought a mwspaper and turning to the society column I found that Charlotte Snoke was suing her Sth husband, the great-grandson of Clark Gable for divorce. He had the habit of eating crackers in bed. In the very same paper I was reading some very wise answers to the love-lorn. The name at the conclusion was a very familiar one--Corrinne Burkert. She seems to know all d' the answers, guess that her experience in high school must have been a big help to her. Seeing a mw building which I had never noticed before I decided to investigate. Norma Curran greeted me at the door and told me that she was ruxming a very successful school for girls. In this school girls learn hcw to treat their boy friends. It seems she always treated llarvln pretty badly, and he finally got fed up and left so she is still mold mid. Norma told me that Joyce and Jerry Anderjaska are now multivmillionaires and living in a swanlcy pint-house in Florida. They recently had qulntuplets and the large business houses are paying huge sums to use their names in their advertisements. I watched a mn walking down the street, bent over until his head almost touched the ground. 0f all people it turmd out to be Dale Fagerstone, he said that he was a scien- tist, and had recently counted the grains of sami in the Great Sale Lake, which accounted for his humped position. He says that he owes all of his scientific lmowledge to his for- mer chemistry teacher, the Honorable Joseph Hansal.