Martin Boots Junior High School - Sketch Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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45 THE SKETCH Jokes The 3 R's- at 16 it's Romance. at 48 it's Rent. at 70 it's Rheumatism. A sign on the door of Jack Sutters room- If I'm studying when you come in, wake me up. Heard between classes-Bill Ormsby: Let's cut classes and take in a movie. Floyd Meyer: Can't do it, old man, I need the sleep. Miss Modlin: How far off are you in your first problem? Ray Beard: just about four seatsf' Miss Nussbaum: In which battle did General Wolfe cry, when he heard of the victory- I die happy? Kenneth Timmons: I think it was his last one. Writing the Sketch is so funny. The school gets all the fame. The printers get all the money, But the STAFF gets all the blame. Jackie Wilson: Don't you know why I refused you? Harry Anderson: I can't think. jackie Wilson: You guessed it. Mrs. Curless: Name three strong nouns. Jean List: Onions, garlic, and limburgerf' 20 Ynmxs Fxom Now Jane Randolph: I studied painting abroad. Wendell Smith: That explains it, I knew I'd never seen a cow like that in America. Miss Kanter: Who is that strange looking man, a teacher? Mrs. Anderson: I doubt it, he looks so busy. CONJUGATION I think, you think He thinks, all think. I copy, you copy, f He copies: all flunk. Doctor: You should take a bath before you retire. Don Faulkner: But, Doctor, I don't expect to retire for another twenty years.

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THE SKETCH 45 Strange Facts 1. In a little American backwoods town is a clock with no machinery except a face, hands and a lever. The lever is connected with a geyser which shoots out an immense column of hot water every 38 seconds. Since the spouting never varies the tenth of a second, the clock keeps perfect time. 2. Fox hunts in England, during the hunting season, have the right of way over railroad trains. Not long ago, an inconsiderate fox led a pack of hounds across the path of a crack London express and delayed it for eight minutes. 3. The big Eye, the 200 inch telescope being built by the California Institute of Technology, is 640,000 times as farsighted as your own eyes. To appreciate its vision, imagine that you are standing in New York looking at a sign across the street. With the Big Eye you could see that same sign clear across the continent to San Francisco. Astronomers expect the telescope will reveal 100,000,000 new universes, most of them galaxies of suns, each as large as our own. 4. In 1876 the late Meville E. Stone, founder of the Associated Press, decided that Chicago should have a penny paper to compete with the nickel ones. The stumbling block was that there were no pennies in circulation there. So Stone, then 28, went to merchants to argue that in the average person's mind 99 cents was a much smaller sum than one dollar. He begged and pleaded and finally convinced them that odd prices would increase their business, and incidentally start pennies in circulation which would buy his paper. He sent to the Philadelphia mint for several barrels of pennies and became Chicago's first penny importer. The idea took hold, his Daily News was a success, and odd price bargains were born. 5. American Scientists have developed a substitute for wools from skimmed milk. 6. As much as two pounds of sludge, dirt, and foreign matter is re- moved by the oil filter of an automobile in 8,000 to 10,000 miles of driving. 7. Only 100 years ago there was not a public library in the United States, almost all furniture was imported from England, an old copper mine in Connecticut was used as a prison, Virginia contained a fifth of the popu- lation of the country, two stage coaches bore all the travel between New York and Boston, and a day laborer considered himself well paid with two shillings a day, the equivalent of S .50 American money. 8. Early North American Indians are known to have used more than 1,100 different kinds of plants for food. The lily family contributed ninety varieties, including eighteen species of onions. 9. One of the most unusual feats ever performed by any animal is the threading of a needle, which was accomplished recently by Chinee, a chim- panzee in the London zoo. 10. The saluki, a hunting dog that has been bred in Arabia, Persia and Egypt for more than 6,000 years, has the oldest pedigree in existence, some- times dating back for a thousand years. They are never sold, only presented as gifts, by their Arab owners. 11. One of the most highly scented flowers is an American cactus. -SELECTED

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THE SKETCI-I 47 Pet Peeves JOSEPHINE YARGER: Groan! After effects of going roller skating. ELIZABETH SELL: Latin verbs. TOM SMITH: My exceedingly big mouth. ELMER EISAMAN: People calling me 'Henpecked'. MELVIN BLUE: People calling me 'Tiny'. BONNIE SMELSER: Jitterbug jackets. JIMMY MICHOS: Exercising my mind. fwhat mind?j JEAN LIST: People saying I'm 'timid'. JOE PFEIFFER: Not being a 9A. CAROLYN GARTHWAIT: Being called 'Toots'. ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE: People calling me 'Giggles'. ROBERT TRUSS: Bein' called 'tall, dark and hanclsome'. JACK PAYNE: Flattery. PHYLLIS YORK: Too little basketball playing. JOE WOLF: This new-fangled jewelry that the 'wimm 'wearin'. ANNA MARIE DUNN: The nick-name 'Mousie'.,' LOIS FUNDERBURG: Being mistaken for 'Shirley Temple' NORMA VOSSLER: Flirting boys. JANE RANDOLPH: I'Ial Smith. MR. STAFFORD: VVooden shoes. MARY E. WITMER: Being called Philip G. MISS BRADFORD: Pupils who don't have their lessons. D: Q in-folks are MARGARET SCHEERER: People telling me their troubles. LEONARD LASKY: My feet requiring such large size shoes. MISS DANIELS: Paper wads. JOSEPHINE DIXON: My pet peeve is Robert Goff. MR. CUSHING: My pet peeve is charm bracelets. ROY VOGEL: My curly hair. BARBARA LOOMIS: People calling me 'rusty'. MRS. CURLESS: My pet peeve is swing music. MR. CAMPBELL: My bald head. BARBARA MERRITT: Miss Scudder's Algebra tests. HARRY ANDERSON: My numerous 10th periods. MISS SCUDDER: Pupils sharpening pencils during class. JACK SILVER: People calling me 'Shrimp'. BETTY SPRECHER: Being described as 'flighty'. MISS STURGIS: Getting up early. MISS KANTER: My ability to lose things. RUTH ANN PAPE: Anonymous phone calls. BILL ORMSBY: Library fines. .4