Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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26 THE LIGHT SCHOOLMATES Here I sit on this lovely sunny day With pen and paper in hand, Trying to think of something to say. On my left is Donna Burke, Gracious, does that girl work! She has brown hair and hazel eyes Ask hier all the where and whys. And what about that boy in the Navy? Ile likes her like potatoes do gravy. Right ahead there sits a girl Who has blonde -hair, and does it curl??? She just loves to go over to the Eastern Spa, Most of all in a Harrington car. Almost in hack whom do I see But the girl I would most like to be? Shi-'s a goozl personality and complexion is light And when she plays basketball. you see some fight. Everyone likes her, even me- She's iust as nice as she can be, lt's Slu':':'v Mai-l.e:tu--coul 'n't you guess? Wi- hope she always has the best of happiness. --Elsie Faulkner, 517. PLANS It was all planned and settled. They would bm- marriecl soon, ' think that Elsie had decided on an early day iw June, N ' Pifzer chuckled as he watched her in In-r clficient way Plauni nt 1-Qirlj-J for that coming wedding dav. I sat bv a d watchel. and I chuckled to myself As l'Il'fi-- tol.l what pots and pans would fill the pautry shelf, And I chuckled as shi- tall nu' what furniture they would buy, Or what things friends and relatives might supply. And when the little house is linished it will be a dwelling grand, Which Elsie and Roger had for a long time dreamed and planned, And when they turn very old and gray, They will still have their little house on the south side of Dow Bay. -Janice Upton, '47, THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION- WILL IT SUCCEED? Will the United Nations Organization succeed? This is the question that is foremost in the minds of the American people. On this organization lie our hopes of world peace and security. Its success will decide if civilization is to continue or be extcrminated. The United Nations Organization is the most important and the most necessary organization ever to have been proposed. If it succeeds it will surpass the League of Nations by far. Its success depends on the nations' ability to settle disputes by peaceful means, as arbitration, rather than by force. Will the nations abide by decisions handed out hy the Security Council? The United Nations Organization is just an infant and yet it was confronted with disputes before it was organized. Iran and Russia have appealed to the Security Council for aid. If the Council decides in the favor of Russia in the Iranian dispute the smaller nations may say, Well, it's no use for us to stay here, we might as well go hom:-.H If, however, the Council decides in Iran's favor, Russia may have the same attitude. This is what must be prevented. Another had feature of this organization is the vc-to power which the Big Five hold. Any one of these firm- can stop an act of the Security Council bv vetoing it. For instance. if the Council decides 'fi order Russia out of Irm Russia can veto this move and it r-an't be dove. It is dubitable if any of the Big Five would dare oppose the other four. New-rt-lu-less, this is a possible source of discord in thc organization. If the organization is to succeed the American people nmst be behind it one hundred per cent. Every time that difficulties arise we must not get discouraged. Tyding's attack on the U. N. O. is an exam-ple of this. President Truman's speech sums it up If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. -Evelyn Sawyer, '47. UNEXPECTED CALLER As the bus came to a standstill at Union Sta- tion in San Diego, a young, attractive girl fRutl'l Lewis? descended from the rear of the bus and stepped off, onto the platform. Ruth's parents had been recently in an auto- mobile accident and she was going to live with

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TI-IE LIGHT 25 HAUNTED HOUSE In a small village where there were many de- serted houses lived a little boy. Many of the older folks of this town told him the old mansion was haunted. The old mansion was a large house at the edge of town and Jimmy, the little boy, had to pass it on his way to school. The older people told him they had seen shadows moving by the windows of the old house at night. One night as Jimmy was on his way home from the movies he saw a light passing by the window. This filled him with curiosity. He started toward the house and as he neared it he heard voices. He listened and found out the voices were of foreigners. He immediately recalled his father's telling him about some German prisoners who had escaped several days before. He crept closer and looked in the window. On the floor he saw many rifles and much ammunition. He started toward the police station immediately. He told the police what he had seen and they investigated. They captured the spies and broke u-p the spy ring. Jimmy, a thirteen year old boy, had aided the police in smashing the most danger- ous spy ring in America. -Earl Dow, '47. V-I DAY August fourteenth, nineteen hundred forty-five is a day very few people will ever forget. It was August twelfth, however, that the Japanese began to talk peace, causing the people here in the United States and our armed forces to go into an uproar. Many of our citizens remained on the VVhite House grounds waiting for President Tru- man to give the official announcement. Many of those people slept on the ground or on the park benches. Everybody's heart leaped with joy when, at seven o'clock on the night of August 14, 1945, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, gave the official announcement that the Japanese had accepted the unconditional surrender terms of the Potsdam Ultimatum. Almost a second later the United States Went wild. Boys and girls danced in the streets, went on drinking parties, and made all the noise pos- sible. This was carried on all through the night and part of the next day until everyone grew weary. The negotiations were signed by the Japanese on the battleship Missouri on September 2, 1945, thus leaving the world to rest in peace with the excep- tion of worrying over the atomic bomb, which forced the Japanese surrender. -Robert Sprague, '47. A MANIAC IN NEW YORK Archie went to a butcher's to purchase some meat, But ,twas there Archie met defeat, Said the butcher, 'Tm sorry you're out of luck Alas! Some workers' union has struck. To cool off his temper and settle his strife Archie decided to call little wife, He dropped in his nickel but what did he hear? 'Tm sorry we are picketing here. This threw Archie into a great turmoil, VVhen wifie heard this her blood would boil. I'll get her a souvenir to please her, thought he, 'Tll visit the Statue of Liberty. He rushed to the waterfront to hop on a tug When he was stopped by a Brooklyn thug, Listen, youse squirt, youse out of luck Hadn't you heard that we have just struck? Strikes, strikes, that's all I hear I expected things to be different here, You can have New York, for here nothing clicks, I'll take Maine and stay in the sticks. -Evelyn Sawyer, '47. SCENES Beneath the rambling trees was heard A whistle, a shrill and the singing of birds, And far below was a shady nook, VVhere bubbled along a tiny brook. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, It adds splendor to its opening flower As each petal drops hour by hour. Each tree is' painted green and brown, With the branches falling straight to the ground, The flowers soon hang their heads in despair, For soon they knew winter would be there. Scenes will change like day and night, The earth will be green and sometimes whiteg As time goes on we will see The change in flowers and in the trees. -Jean Leighton, '47.

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TI-IE LIGHT 27 her aunt and uncle in San Diego. She didn't espe- cially like the idea of leaving all 'her friends but as she did not have any relatives in Detroit, she didn't have any choice. She was going to stay at a hotel for a week be- fore going to live with her aunt. Ruth went into the station to End the informa- tion bureau. She asked the attendant at the bureau where she could find an inexpensive hotel. After listening to the directions very carefully and thanking the woman, she left the station. Once outside the station she got a taxi and gave the driver the address. A few minutes of riding brought Ruth to the place the attendant had de- scribed. The next evening Ruth was getting ready to go to a dance. when the doorbell rang. She was startled at first because she couldn't imagine who it could bcg she didn,t know anyone here but her aunt and uncle, and she hadn't informed them that she was coming. Who could it be? A few seconds later Ruth was standing in the doorway, looking into the face of a strange man. lle 'had dark hair, dark complexion and was about average height. She could see at first glance that he seemed nervous. She asked him in and he quickly accepted the invitation. Once inside the apartment he apologized for coming to her door and introduced himself as Don Conley. Ruth was the curious type so she asked him if be was in trouble. She convinced him first that he could trust her. Don briefly told his story to his confidante. He had been blamed for a murder he did not commit. He said, I was walking in a residential section of the city two nights ago when I heard a gun shot. I couldnit tell exactly which house the shot came from but I was going to find out. The first house I came to was the right one. When I got near the window, I stumbled over something and fell against the house. The real killer must have heard me for when I got up and peered through the window he was gone. I wcnt into the house through the window with the intentions of finding who was hurt and calling officials on the case. I had just found the body of a well-known society woman, when the police came. They found me standing over the body and naturally thought I was the murderer. The officers left in about an hour and left me with one policeman. I got away from him and have been dodging police ever since because I've got to prove my innocence and that would be impossible if I were in jail. I canit go down to the police sta- tion and plead my innocence because there is nobody to confirm my statement. Ruth sympathized with Don and told him she would help if there was any possible way. A week passed and Don had no clues that would clear him. Ruth advised -him to tell the truth 'ind if he were innocent something would surely turn up. So after Ruth convinced 'him that it was the right thing to do, they went to the Dis- trict Attorney's office together. Don told his story to the D. A. just as he had told Ruth. The D. A. let Don finish before he told him that the real murderer had been picked up a few nights after the murder. Don was relieved at what the D. A. told him and Ruth was almost as happy as DmL They went back to the apartment and Ruth made preparations for the trip to her auntis the following day. --Ramona Kinghorn, '47.' SCHOOL School is the most tiresome place to me that I know of. Itis the same old routine, day in and day out. In the morning I have to get up and hurry to get ready for school. Then when I get here I hang around for a few minutes waiting for the bell to ring. Then after the bell rings comes the worst of it all. I have to study and prepare classes. Period one I have U. S. history and most of the time Junior Weekly News Review, which Mr. Stinchfield hardly ever lets go by without a little test, which I nearly always fail. After I get over that episode comes thc worst headache of all--period two, Chemistry, and I guess I will never get that through my head. We generally get a test over that too. Then after that class is over comes the best one of all, period three, that is the class that I can really rest in and have a good time. After that class comes noon hour. That is a time to rest up in. In the alter- noou there are two spare periods to study in and prepare lessons. When these periods are over I can go home after a tiresome day. -Keith Leigh ton, '47,