Meigs County High School - Tiger Yearbook (Decatur, TN)

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PROPHECY CONTINUED Oh there rs a new heavy weight champion Tommy Fmnell knocked out the heavy weight champ rn a one half round last night Arrplanes are getting cheap Here s a sale on them Sl 69 each That new invention of Julran Judd s certainly gave everyone an au plane They re thrcker than H195 now Thrnk what they used to cost, Jrmmy Lane and Wayne Cartwright famous engrneers have been employed to bu11d the new auport on Venus The unlque airport was designed by the well known archltect Donald Thompson and lus assrstant Raymond Buchanan Several persons have just announced they are charterrng a specral space shrp to explore the canals of Mars next summer They are Crndy Matlock Harold Layman and B1ll1e F Ford Blackre Colbaugh and Jack Gregory are rn the government Servrce as Patrol A troupe of entertainers has left for a tour of the work camps on the secret government projects on Mars The group included Smger Dean McKenz1e Comedrans Jack Srnk and J C Swafford and Musicran Randall Curtis I L Perkmson rs one of the world s most famous basketball players for the Spacenotters of Mars and America Sarah Carter Buchanan Jacquelme Grubb and Dals Ann Dennis are working rn the STARLITE Nlght Club on the planet where Mattie Sue Harmon and Muriel DeBusk are responsible for the magrufrcent music Claudrne Drxon rs a famous play wrrter and has become very famous Betty Carolyn Ward rs sull workrng on some famous lnvenuon to slow the world down untrl she can catch up wtth lt. Dorothy Wrlson and Betty Melton are models m the Mars Star Fashlon Store Lourse Ledford rs a dretician and sull llvmg as a happy old mard. trainers of Space Ship Cadets, They have been on the Milky Way

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?fza When the class asked me to predtct the future of the graduating class of 1954 I qurckly sent my WHEATIE box top and 10 cents to the Wheaues Company and very soon I recerved my Crystal Globe I peered 1nto the globe and set it to the year of 1974 This rs what I saw I Jo Anne Edgemon was on a Rocket Plane to Mars As I was Sllllllg there I heard the Atomic Newscast This was the cast I heard Tommre Hope a leadmg chemist of today wxth laboratorres rn an obscure rsland rn the Pactfrc reports Ln an off1ci.al news release that an rmportant new flurd has been drscovered near the rsland whrch screnusts have stated closely resembles water and has the class letters 2 6 H O At the rocket shrp races today H C Howard won the thousand mrle dash by defeaung hrs nearest competltor Tom Goodner 190 000 people taxed the capacrty of M J Rocket Stadrum San Francrsco Calrfornra to see the run off One of the biggest real estate deals of international Importance has 1ust been closed Charles Skelton capitalrst of New York purchased a ranch 111 the Amazon Rlver Valley rn South Amenca Consrderatton 15 reported to be nrne mrllton dollars N C Cartwright Mayor of Rock City Mars wrll run agam for offtce He rs closrng hrs second term whrch has been marked by petty brckering among his offrcral famlly the city treasurer accusrng the crty clerk of stealrng f1VC postage stamps from htm Willrs Carter IS the presrdent of Haskm Unrversrty and has announced that the school w1ll no longer requue students to attend classes Recent surveys have shown that rf students attend classes the teachers must also attend classes Thrs overworks the teachers Most rmportant person of the year accordrng to the Natronal News poll whrch has just been completed 1sJ1rnmy Kyle Basrs of the award rs the wonderful servrce that Jrmmy has rendered to fteld mrce rn seerng that farmers rarsed plenty of crops to feed them 1 Q . 1 1 0 Q . 1 1 1 1 1 o 1 o a 1 u 1 0 U I 1 1 u I 1 1 . a 1 e o 1 1 . 1 n 1 a 1 . . 1 u 1 .

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PROPHECY CONTINUED Wmme Chrlds Emma Sue Nance and Greta Pruettt are among the leading actresses of today Frankle Reed and Betty Redmon are the most famous comedrans ever known rn hrstory Wanda Pettit Eleanor Rose Roberts Enzena Lewis and Kay Shackel ford are happtly marued and are enjoymg housekeepmg and their chrldren Io Anne Edgemon Prophet dale 1704111 The members of the Sentor Class of Mergs County Hrgh School belng of unsound mrnd of weak heart and betng on the verge of departrng for thrngs unknown do make publrc and declare thrs our last wtll and testament Havrng spent all our money on senior class rmgs commencement 1IlV1l8l10I1S and rental on graduauon gowns we are tn bankrupt crrcum stances we earnestly pray that we shall have enough frrends to take care of all our unpaid debts Those debts wluch are not pard wtll become obligations for the Junior Class To the student body as a whole we leave our knowledge to thmk up excuses to leave school To Mr Heifner we leave all of those excuses so he can read them over and have somethtng to remember us by tn the future To Mr Overley we leave all our unserved tune in the detenuon hall and we smcerely hope that he won t have to stay too many evenlngs after school to get all of the ume made up To the Jrmxor Class we w11l our front seats rn chapel that tncludes all the chewing gum that IS stuck on the bottom of them too and would advise them to buy new gum because most of that on the seats 15 getting pretty old Franlue Reed and Junmy Kyle w1ll therr ability to play basketball to Marjorie Ereckson and Bobby Nelson and hope then the best of luck wtth rt