Honaker High School - Torch Yearbook (Honaker, VA)

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Class Prophecy ( Continued ) Then I saw a handsome man pecking away on a typewriter. It was the one and only Bill Justice, editor of the Justice Fix-it-up Lovelorn Column, writing to Dorothy Dix. He wanted to know what to do when you asked a woman five times to marry you and she still refused. Fred Rasnake, still an eligible bachelor, was grinning from ear to ear as he watched Lois Jackson perform in Don Ray’s “Rare Dance Club.” In the John Hopkins Hospital I saw Charlene Martin, a pert little nurse, smiling as she helped Dr. Louise Jackson perfrom an operation on a handsome boxer, Curtis Steele. Curt had won the Featherweight Championship of the Universe by knocking out the “Mars Marvel,” the boxer who had won all the bouts on Mars, the Moon, and Jupiter. The office of the Roanoke News was the next scene. Fern Musick, the editor, had her star re- porters, Monica Miller and Doris Tuggle covering the “Big Hess Story.” Some one had broken into Shirley Hess’s mansion stealing all the family jewels. Shirley’s husband, Glen Vance, who is ambas- sador to Mars, was on vacation when the robbery occured. Gene Stump had crashed the Grand Opera as the first hillbilly star to ever sing “I Ain’t Gonna Take it Sitting Down” in the Metropolitan Opera House. The “Hess Farm” located just outside of Honaker was advertised in the Progressive Farmer as the only farm in the world which raises all-steak cows. The owner, Curtis Hess, was beaming proudly as the foremost photographer of the time, Herman Miller, snapped his picture. Under the shade of an old apple tree I saw Mildred Taylor, still as lazy as ever, but she told me she had a job in Peggy Hughes’s bakery as the Chief Pie Taster. At the annual Lawyer’s Convention in Philadelphia Dorthy Plaster, the foremost lawyer of her time, smiled proudly as a badge was pinned on her by Charles Ray, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The Wac’s of Los Angeles, California were very fond of their new Commander, Bernice Whitt. I was also told that in her spare time Bernice was a model for Betty Smith’s Space Modeling Agency. The Honaker Zoo had just received a shipment of wild animals from Edd Deel and Bud Gent, who were now on the moon capturing queer animals. Douglas Jamison and Jimmy McGlothin were having great sales with their new rat killer, Pew-Dead, an instant rat killer which absorbs the rats. My eye caught a view of a great wedding feast near Richlands. As I looked closer, I saw that the bride was Mary Elizabeth East. The feast was being held at the mansion of Zetta Wayne Sword; and the great Jimmy Rickman, the Producer of the movies in the Sky Theater, was chatting gaily with Margaret Fletcher, successor to Emily Post. The hold-up business had been taken over completely by Mr. and Mrs. Burl Wyatt (former Patty Wysor). They were selling a new kind of belts and suspenders. I clicked off the dial and sighed with relief. Ah, my classmates had done well for themselves in the past years; and I must say I was very proud to be one of them, even if I am only a flunky coping notes for those who are great. I aroused my companion who was sound asleep by my side and started telling her about our former classmates. Louise Jackson Zetta Wayne Sword — 21 —

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