Independence High School - Wapsie Yearbook (Independence, IA)

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662 We had Just become acquarnted wrth the vehrcle when 1t stopped 1n the heart of Inde pendence The top speed was only 450 mrles an hour As the doors swung open and we stepped out l bumped my head on a s1gn lt read Th1s r1de IS furnlshed free by the owner lrcensee and rnventor Erva Strerttmcmer and by the courtesy of the people who so krndly let therr pockets be prcked whrle r1d1ng 1n th1s veh1cle That d1d rt' We decrded to get our own car and df1V9 around to see some old landmarks 1f there were any left Dr1v1ng west on hrghway 20 we soon came to a s1gn that sard State Hosprtal 1 Mrle We were cunous to see 1f thrs place had changed because we remembered that the class of 49 had spent a lot of tlme ln that v1c1n1ty7 As we drove by Farmer s Lodge we notrced two old men s1tt1ng on a bench by the door They looked vaguely fam1l1ar so we stopped to speak to them To our surprlse we recogn1zed M1ke and Txm Mclnteer' They both looked rather blank for a m1nute Then T1m got a trapped look rn hrs eye and began to mutter Mr M1lls Mr Mrlls F Suddenly he burst mto tears and stumbled mto the burldmg Mrke expla1ned to us that T1m never could pass Government and after WCI1l11'1Q 30 years 1n the hope that Mr Mllls would pass h1m to encourage the rest 1t fmally affected what was left of h1s rnmd We began to wonder why M1ke was m the hospltal as he seemed Just as mtellrgent as he used to be We had talked but a few mmutes more when two whxte coated men darted from a S1d9 entrance and pulled a sack over MlkGS head You were certalnly lucky' they panted when they had h1m subdued He s very dangerous Dangerous? In what way? we asked He s always runnlng and tackllng somebody Seems as though he couldnt get away from playlng football they explarned Our next stop was the now famous Waps1e Mrll where Exleen Workman drscovered gold whrle workrng as rat extermmator rn the basement We 1mmed1ately rnvestlgated the h1stor1cal spot There to greet us was the mrll owner V1rg1n1a Wmg She showed us around the land mark where among other thrngs we saw Helene Muench drvmg for nuggets We came upon some more clalms as we walked up stream and we saw two women stoopmg over pannlng gold When we slapped them on the shoulder they turned around and we were surprrsed to fmd ourselves face to face wrth Marge Gerdes and Dxcme Rowland. When we left they soon began annoylng a man dr1v1ng a truck rushlng to a nerghborrng clarm we found the frerce Fuhnncm s1sters Pat and Agnes tryrng to Jump Pat Nerlson s clarm They had succeeded rn chasrng Pat up a tree and were pelt1ng her w1th buckshot Not wantlng to get mlxed up 1n any dangerous srtuatrons we began fol low1ng a s1gn that sald Frllmore Rabblt Stables Entermg a Iona shed we found hundreds of cages of huge whtte rabbrts Helen Dewey Flllmore emerged from a Slde room and rushed to greet us She showed us around the stables and expla1ned to us that she was feedmg her rabbtts gold ore so that they would lay golden Easter eggs We were a b1t doubtful at f1rst but Helen showed us a basket full of them and we left thoroughly conv1nced The day we dectded to leave we sold our old Jallopy and bought a duoplane whlch was an arrplane and car bu1lt together As we left the huge Independence Natlonal Arrport we nottced someone who had a famrlrar walk lt was Mcxncxn Butch Iackson who was now a Janltor rn the garage she scrubbed the planes We departed reluctantly after v1s1t1ng wrth Manan and were off for home We had our radlo on and recogmzed the vo1ce of an announcer who was none other than Betty Stepctnek. She was now operatlng a radro statton 1n Independence and had to do all the announclng s1ng1ng etc by herself because she changed the program from 3 m1nutes of advert1s1ng 1n every 15 m1nutes to l2 mmutes of advert1s1ng m every 15 m1nutes Thrs was because every one was so concerted that they wanted to spend therr money advert1s1ng themselves The brg gest advertlser was Peggy Cates who pa1d S5 OOO cr mlnute for 5 m1nutes of advert1s1ng whrch was to be g1ven every hour Here IS the advertrsement as we heard rt then Lonely? Then get rn contact w1th th1s advertrser They wrll frx everythmg from a broken heart to a date wrth a mov1e star Phone or wrlte to presldent secretary and treasurer of th1s company Peggy Cates Box 569 Avenue 157B Independence Iowa Th1s was repeated 5 trmes w1th1n the 5 mlnute perlod Then we heard another adverttsement Low on Gas? Then fly to latrtude 36 long1 tude 42 altrtude l OOO feet We sell everythlng from sandwlches to submar1nes Th1S we had to see a frllfng statron l OOO feet above the earth' We realrzed th1s was rather hrgh to fly 1n our httle plane but we frnally made rt As we approached the spot rndrcated by the radro an nouncer we saw a garly decorated s1gn frashlng You want rt weve got 1t contxnued on bottom of next page 0 0 0 Q I C O C I I I - I I ' . 1 As we continued our way up stream we suddenly heard shots ring out close by, and , 1 n I ll ll I. n 1 . . . . . 1. .1 1 I I . ' l 1 1 I 1 1 1 ' 1 1 - I I l l . - If ll 1 n I I ' 5 I , 1. 'I I xr' Il - I 1 ll T Dag? seventeen

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Wed Zawe a M6 QLD' Gold' Gold' The year rs l989 and gold has Just been drscovered rn the Wapsre Valley near Independence All the old resrdents of Independence rncludrng the class of 49 are rushrng back to stake out Clarms The frrst 49er to arrrve back rn Independence was Vemle Glen Krrkendall We drscov ered that Gerald Stnckel had put a Jet unrt on Vernre s old hot rod and they d been tourrng the country lookrng for grrls ever srnce The next member of our class we met was lack Wrlhams He was takrng a few days off from hrs presrdentral campargn tour He sard he owes hrs success to hrs wrfe the former Mar cella Flsher who supports hrm by workrng nrghts rn a hosprtal The shrrll blast of the trarn whrstle made us realrze We d have to hurry rf we were to meet any of our old classmates at the statron Beautrful musrc frlled the arr Why rt was Holae Harold Hokenson s orchestra We could remember back when Harold grew hrs frrst whrsker' To our surprrse we saw Helen Dunlap as engrneer ot thrs shrnrng streamlrned locomotrve She had frnally found a way to let of'f steam Whrle we anxrously warted for the famous movre queen our old classmate Burmta Starr to step out of her prrvate car wrth her manager Alfred Beatty we notrced that the porter was Lester Cherry How he had aged' We hardly recognrzed hrm wrth hrs mustache and beard As we watched tl'ere was a loud crash behrnd us Upon rnvestrgatron we saw Iudy Sheehan crawl from a prle of wreckage ther l3th helrcopterl In a few moments another head appeared whrch proved to be Mary Atchrson A doctor Gene Hlggms and two nurses Nancy Lee and Margaret Mugs Hanna soon arrrved on the scene and were busrly grvrng frrst ard to Nadme Wllson who had the mrsfortune to be flattened by Sheehan s fallrng vehrcle Iudy parked too close to the edge of the roof agarn After thrs unexpected excrtement we decrd d to go down to the clarms to look over the mrnes We drscovered that no one WGS USIDQ prcks or shovels but they were usrng some new type of mrnrature atom bomb developed by none other than Darrell Scott tlrat used to be chemrstry brarn now Buchanan County s top screntrst After vrsrtrng a short trme wrth the mme boss Ray Logan we began to realrze that a few of ou old classmates were as lazy as ever We saw Ixm Hersey srttrng rn a small burldrng pushrng buttons whrch controlled hrs robots and not only that he had a mechanrcal affarr that fed hrm and put hrm to bed GGIHQ Ilm S fOOd milde US fgiher hungry so we started out rn search of a place to eat As we were gorng down the street we saw lean Cole carryrng her grocerres home We should GXplCIlI'l here that Kerth and Dallas Bttnlz Wl'rO are C0 Workers wrth Darrell Scott mvented some small Bantzatomrc prlls whrch turn rnto food when they Come rn Contact wrth morsture These prlls came rn varrous srzes 2 tons 3 tons Gnd 5 tons Iegn had Q box Qi the 5 ton S129 Hrght before our eyes she slrpped on a banana peelrng and dropped her small package of prlls rnto a puddle of water Immedrately these Bantzatomrc prlls sprang rnto actron Bananas COOk19S Grapes and cakes began DODDIHQ up rn the mrddle of the street The thunderrng traffrc of Independence was stopped' Polrce srrens whrstled and to our surprrse polrce captarn Blll BIOWII Came OVGI 'tO 1I'lV9SllQGl9 the Cllsfuroance Meanwhrle we ran to the phone and contacted the Basqum and Glssel Frerght lrne In less than 2 mrnutes the frrst semr colossal truck drrven by Paul Megorugle pulled up to the st ll growrng stack of grocerres We left soon after the trucks arrrved but we heard later that rt took nearly 2 days to haul away Iean s groc erres We drove down the street passrng more Clarms untrl we were rn Wrnthrop now a suburb of Independence Here we entered the Gold Nugget Saloon run by Iacky Van Ree and Connie Keleher There standrng behrnd the bar was Georgla McCalley servrng beer and pretzels Leanrng at the end of the bar stuffrng hrmself wrth free lunch was Dean Hayward Hrs wrfe Maxme Groskurth was pleadlng Wllh hrm to stop eatrng but to no avarl lust as We frnrshed orderrng our meal the floor show began and dancer Sherla Satterlee appeared on the stage Accompanyrng Sherla at the prano was Phyllxs Weber Sherla and Phyllrs who had formed the famous team of Weber and Satterlee were now tourrng the country wrth therr famous act lust then the wartress Donna Gosse arrrved wrth our food Next on the program was the Mrller comedy team Luella and Keith Whrle we were eatrng Connre and Iacky arrrved to vrelconre us and rn the course of our conversatron we learned that Howard Muller had a hot poker game on wrth B111 Coulter rn the back room Brll was gettrng the worst of rt and rnc1 dentally we notrced a few extra aces up Howard s sleeve We frnrshed our lunch took a brcarbonate of soda and contrnued on our tour Srnce our automobrle whrch was brought wrth us from the Mrssourr Ozarks our home was not fast enough we called a taxr These taxrs were drfferent than the krnd back rn 49 They had no drrvers but were 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Lf 7fza6Z aacvzdlec ..... Best Looking Best Looking T1m Mclnreer Phyllis Weber Best Athlete Best Athlete Glen Klrkendall Pat Fuhrman Curiosity prompted us to land on this strange looking obiect We taxied to the qas pump and to our qreat ama ement we saw Ken And ews approaching our plane After a lonq con versation N9 found he was the owner of this fantastic oddity made our Way into our old homestead in the Qzarks Althouah the rest of our classmates had i made names for themselves both noted and o torious and although the rest of the U S had advanced we were not dissatisfied to return to this part of the country that had been left so that people like us Could live as stupid and as ignorant as we were back in 49 htm l V A sk X4 l Y X5 2 2' ' I . - Two hours after we left Kenny and his filling station hanqinq in the air, We eventually 'x , n - --1-ig -on