Hoquiam High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Hoquiam, WA)

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By l4lVlI'S STI' VILNS Ed1t0FS Note We would like to express oul slncele thanks to James Stey ens for wrltlng especially for the HESPERIAN a thousand words of new Paul Bunyan havlng a Grays Harbor theme wlth a thanky from Paul and a moo from Babe l was the thlck grow th of tht blg tlllllN.l' Ill the blays Halbor COUITUX that curled the horns ot Babe the Blue Ox and put a permanent w aye III hlS tall You all know Babe how he grew, lnd where He had hls growlng palns ln the I ake States plnerles, then back Maine w ay and finally, out Xvest ln Blg Cay e Nlountaln l lrst the ox calf would grow too blg for 1 barn oy ernlght, and on the morning attcl, Boss I ogger P lul Bunyan would find the calf cavortlng w lth the barn roof stuck on hls back llke 1 broken egg shell it last Paul Bunyan brought the huge creature out to the biggest cay e ln america and made that lHf0 1 b lrn for hllll But again Babe had a sudden spurt of tremendous grow th lhls time he broke aw ay w lth the w hole moun taln on top of hlS back He left bchlnd hlm 1 monster cratel and a lot of blue halr, for It w as sheddlng tlmt Today Babe s I ast Barn IS called Lra ter I ake, and ltS water IS yet blue from B lbt s halr I'he lo c a tl on IS Ill or what the hlstorlans call Babe s l ast Barn I ong, long afterward Babe the Blue Ox w as brought by Paul Bunyan to flrays Harbor Babe w as really old then Paul had used hlm to log off all the plne lands The plne forests were open leay lng room for Babe to grow long horns and a straight tall But III the dense tlmber ofthe Clrays H lrbol country Babe had to pull ln hlS horns al d curl them close to get through the t1ll trees Xnd he h ld to sn lkc hls tlll through them So Old Babe had short horns w here Y oung Babe lb llw ays pictured wlth long ones md had a tall wlth 1 permanent waye lnste 1d of 1 strzlght tlll It was here that Paul Bunyan IN'ldC his last and greatest discovery. One day Paul cruised into some country that was strange to him. It was into mountains now' called thc South Olylnpics. VVithout thinking laul picked up a peculiar kind of rock ey ed it smelled it felt to work out what it might be, and then he tried lzilizlg it. He had no notion that thc rock was uranium. But so it was, and Paul Bunyan had such 'l powerful bite that be- fore he knew it he w as the first in history-to split thc atom. The explosion blew out a tooth for him. Down in California Paul tried his discovery on he mmoth stumps of big flIT1bCI' that he d logged on a lnountain range. l lew the stulnps out of sight but left the mountain range a val- l nth Y alley, it s called nowadays. That s how modern l aul was but eath Valley he split no more atoms. ' Bunyan invented the tourist industry as one of his modern ideas, - cn he was getting old on Grays Harbor. He depended on the aristocrats Q A J L' I ' ' 7 V' , 1 1 n ' l , ' , A s ' ' Q ' 1 B -I v t - -'v . .V 4 4 ' vc i . i i . ' 7 c -1 7 v 1 ' . c D t v . , l 4 A Z 'Yr v . 4 c V I I ' 7 - . 1 1 ' ' . . .' . . I ' ' 'L ' , . .L ', .' . - . ' ' . ' i i 2 ' ' 1 . i . ' ' I . in I V . 41 5 . 1 i - - . . . Southern Oregon. People travel from all over the world to see Crater Lake 1 v I - I ' 4 f 0 .4 1 ic , .Y i -Y s -Y vi K -Y n vi C -V p I K I A- . . v ' v. t - L c L . 4 i . D x . Q if 2 l 1 m U ' ' N 1 ' I C 5 I I 2 '. .' ' z ' 1 ' ' 1' . .B , ' . - - 1 '. ' ' ' z 1 z ' 1' 2' . L X 1 K l YI C l L I 2 Y X 1 7 l V L If 1 J I , , 2 4 4 , 1 ' 1 v Y y I y v 1 I C C X C K 4 I I lc C I I V V .1 ' 5 C r . ' . . lt n , . . I If 7 y 4 I Y B ,I 1 Q L C I Y I 1 ri Y Y J 4 K .iff 8 'B v 5 X K X 'Q' . xx-.Y , p .LJ

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him with loggers. So he'd bring a bunch ot aristocrats ox er ever A 0 V of Europe, from King Pete on down to the Duke of Bulgaria. if 'pr X t X . . . v X, .X to take a tour and see the sights. lhe favorite attraction was a 1 the throat of Babe the Blue Ox, as far as his tonsils. Paul inv nted elec ric lights to turn Babe s throat into a great white way for that to ' well until Babe was put out to graze on grass that had grown on x ' lf, .. X ,V- land. Ihe grass had few vitamins. Hungry for his minerals, n l xbr g y into Iaul Bunyans cache of hunting ammunition and swallo 1 .- ' Q If I shells of his scatter-cannon, a full 47 tons. Then a bunch of tourists came along and Babe w as hooked up to his light system again It short circuited on the shells the powder exploded and Babe belched cannon shot ill over the country lhe red hot balls started a thousand forest fires Paul finallv got them put out but ex er since then the tourist business has been 1 big for est fire menace Paul Bunyan had more trouble with forest fires in the Grays Harbor coun trx There were terrible fire beasts here l'lze dotard had hides like asbestos and their bristles were inflammable Xny dotard liked to scratch his ribs against a crumbly old snag Ihen his bristles would bla7e and set the snag afire The natural enems ot the dotard was the clzammx tru which had swn el limbs and would crack one down to break a dotard s neck at ex ery chance Paul planted whammy trees every w here to do aw av with the dotards I he plmeplmmt w as bigger th in a bobcat but littler than a panther He would start winter fires for he loved roasted bear Ilo get it the phosphorat would drop his long ropy tail down a bunkhouse chimney hook up a bi r ember, then run foi 1 hollow tree in which bears were hibernating He would set fire to the tree roast a be lr or two and feast Paul Buns an starx ed orf the phosporats bv plugging up all the hollow old snags that he d left stand mg on the cutox ers FI o this day lumbermen generally fall snags in logging for fear of surx ix ing phosphorits flu unbtr vnaltt had one fatal weakness else this fire critter would prob ably have burned young trees faster than Paul Bunyan could haxe grown them ust as the ratler of today warns before striking so the ember snakc would w irn that he w as about to come up from below and start a forest fire lhe ember snake did not rattle he would gobble Yvhen a logger would hear gobbling underground he d know it w as an ember snake and then dig the fiery reptile up and slay him The ine fads were the worst hre beasts of all Ihey were a man like ape that ow ned such a mean destructne spirit that they burned trees just for pure cussedness Paul Buny an killed most of the tree cads of his time off but their breed is still to be found in the w oods VVe still haxe use tor the pgan Paul Bunyan used with loggers DON I BI X TRII C, ,BF I XVOODSNI XX XVI IH I- IRI Paul Bunyan ex en Paul Buny ln, could not stop the burnin ,Nw X But he did manage it so that more trees grew and fewer trees ne Il t Um UIUC, pF0mlSlHg XYTICTICI 1 forest l.0l'CX CI' W fa JN v 1 H jj X Q I l L 1 v U 1 1' f V 1 Q 4 L V ' 4 g ..-- 1 J If .J q- , 1 J . . I - I ' ' 4 5 C ' Y K 9 ' H I , l K ' 7 4 u a V l ' l 9 I. 1 v I ' c c I I ' , . . . . . . .V 1. 4 ' 4 . . . . . , V V f L 1 . . v . Y . . a . V ,.. V - 1 f V V V V V ' V 1 1 L V V Vs V. V V V K U - , V . V ' ' ' '. 1 V V. . V . y . , L - . . . v r v r 1 . ' Is - V V V l l u , 1 4 I , . 'lc A I . v , t - v . 1 V I ' 1 S. , n 1 1 1 f I 1 v . . ' - , . , V V V 1 V V 1 . I , V V: V V ' . , . . V V , ,V , V . , V . 1 - - V V V - K V V V V -V v Y .. -n ,V . 4. L 'V 4. V. - . I , I , . V. V! A Y , V V 4. I , . J. 1 ' 2 'Z f I Y ' ' . 'K 1 , , V . x 4 , 1 . . . V Q ,- , . I 1 . U I kr' I , 1 x K -by 1 hr? I 1 , rail. x V 'Q .., if s , , V 7 ,D - ' XV fix XA f '.