Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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NEW PORT HIGH SCHOOL Tonight my pulse throbs to the Wlld Spanish muslc of Juan s mandolin The R10 fiovls IU the near dlstance and beyond It lles that romantlc land of dreams Mexico Overhead the stars of the Lone Star State gleam Ill thelr WhlC8 splendor and ln the mldst of all thlS natural magnificence my fray ed clothlng seems not to matter nor does the fact that IH my pocket reposes one lonely peso A fellow herdsman makes a sleepv lnqulry ln low mellow tones a good natured dlg of the dreamy eyed young Texan beslde hlm Chlqulta she Walt across rlver no? You llke Chlqulta much Hah' You no fool Jose The herded cattle are qulet save for occaslonal lowlng or cllcklng of horns Juan S mandolln falls from hls hand the danclng flames Softly across the cool pralrle drltts the com boy s long low whlstle and the DldlIIt1V8 lay of the rangelands And some day I ll be called to that roundup Where that wonderful plcture I ll see But each nlght as I Walt by the camp re The range IS heaven to me The cool breeze sweeps ln from the plaln and filckers the campfire now dylng to a bed of glovxlng embers Juan startlng from hls drou sy con templatlons yawns p1CkS up his man dolln and strldes off IHtO the darkness leavlng me alone From afar comes the Wall of a coyote lonely and welrd It IS answered by another howl from a nelghborlng hIllOCk The splrlt of the western nlght IS embodied ln the wall of the coyote It has a strange uncanny fasclnatlon about lt and wnoex er has once heard lt vslll return agaln md agaln How true thls half remembered statement IS As I recall the he lt of the Sahara the cold emptlness of the Yukon the It'StfLllUQSS of sunny Italy or the dashing romance ot Spaln for I have known all tnese I gaze around me at the sleepy RIO the boundless plaln ever dlpplng to meet the horlzon and at the whlte stars overhead Truly thIS IS the ansvser to a Wanderers ldeals At last I am content Lena Cookson 36 SPORTSMANSHIP IU you ever stop to thlnk that school IS lust a game to better the thlnklm, power ot the aln' Well that IS all t l r you a good sport ln pl ly H12 th1S game? Are you worklng as hard as you would ln a game of basketball for instance? Let us take for an example just one school day and see what the game IS llke We come lnto the bU1ld1IlgII1 the mornlng and get acqualnted Wlth the atmosphere that we are to play our game IH Soon the game starts and we should be ready for anythlng that comes our wax Say we have a chance to study the first thlng ln the mornlng We should use that chance to better ourselves ln one of the games we wlll have to play later on ln the day If we do thls as we should we vxlll come out VICKOYIOUS ln the end If you get beaten IH the first game -L I 15 1 1- .Q . , . I . I '. . ' ' 9 . . . . I '. ,, . H C . . I n . , , . L . . . ' . . A 1 1 . k -.I ' , ' ' V y . s s , - ' I - . I ' y . . . , Y M- u . S x D . - n . .L ' Y I , V ' Y 71 Y , . Y . I K. as he gazes into the fire, fascinated by , . 1 A- . ' 9- . D T . Y .. br '. , ' ' ' i 's. A e so 1 I ' L 21 I ' 7 . 2 7 ' , . 7 D . ' , . , . 1 1 ' , t . . 1 ' I , u , , Y ' ,

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THE LIVE WIRE WILL ROGERS MAN Whom the whole world wlll always remember IS Wlll Rogers Rogers was born on November 4 1879 IH Ologah Indlan Territory I-Ils mother was Mary Schrlmpshere Rogers and hls father was Clem Van Rogers Rogers was well known as The Cherokee Indlan cow hand from Ologah As he was equlpped wlth only a mlnor grade school educatlon he was unable to spell and lacked the ablllty to turn outa paragaaph that would pass the Engllsh teachers And yet he was one of Amerlca s hlghest pald authors He falrly grew up on a horse At fourteen he won a rldlng contest IH a home talent Wlld west show And at seventeen he was earnmg hls own llv 1ng He declded to settle down at twenty three So he returned to Ologah Here he met Betty Blake who later became Mrs Wlll Rogers Not long afterwards he entered the movles In hls early best days asa cow puncher he made about twenty five dollars a month Wlth a volce utterly untralned and untramed Eng llsh he was a star who recelved as much as one thousand dollars a mlnute for a twelve mlnute talk Hls average mcome for the last three or four years was more than one thousand five hun dred dollars a day Mrs Rogers was always a great help to Wlll bhe always traveled Wlth hlm when pOSSlble They had three chlldren W1llJr Mary and Jxmmy Rogers first b1g hlt was called They Had to See Parls After that he made So Thls IS London Llghtmn A Connectlcut Yankee Young as You Feel Buslness and Pleasure Ambassador Blll Down to Earth Too Busy to Work D Bu state Falr Mr Skltch Davld Harum Handy Andy Judge Prlest The County Chalr man and In Old Kentucky whlch was hls last one Rogers always llked to fly He flew many tlmes wlth Wlley Post And one day there came that last fatal fllght In speaklng of his plans to fly wlth Wlley Post who was golng to Alaska and on to Slberla Wlll Rogers grlnned IH the way mllllons loved and sald Alaska w1ll be the end of the Journey for me And then a few davs later on August 15 1935 the news flashed all over the world that Wlll Rogers and Wlley Post had crashed and were both kllled at Polnt Barrows Some people have trled to take hlS place but there w1ll never be another Will Rogers Ida Dwelley 69 WANDERLUST AOMEWHERE ln my not too 1 dlstant ancestry runs the tang of gypsy blood Tne strum of gultars across a waverlng campfire never falls to thrlll me as I sway wlth the tempo of the muslc Always lt has been so and always It wlll remaln the same I am a tramp a vagrant a professlonal hobo lf you w1sh I have been endowed Wlth all of these epl thets from tlme to tlme -r L 14 1 1- ii ' ' C6 ' 1 U 79 as ' 9 77 ' 77 55 9 Y ' ' ' lb ll 4 , , r. 117, 45 '57 if ' 77 ' Y I ' Y ' ' 66 ' if 1 .9 7 1 Y ' ' ll ' Q7 CL ' . , ' - ' n li 77 , ' Y U ' ' . , . l Y Y ' 5 ' 7 - ' 77 o 9 I 9 . - u 0 , . . . - , . . . , . . , . ., v , ' 7 U , . . . . . ' 9 Y 65 ' ,Y ' '

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THE LIVE WIRE that should glve us all the more reason to wm the second when lt comes along Don t be satlsfied wlth wmnlng Just three games but try to w1n all the games you enter When you have ac compllshed thls once do not be satls fied' Try to do lt agam and agam Soon you w1ll be able to do lt all the tlme Do not stop trylng untll you can wln the game all the tlme If thlngs do not go Just right ln one of the games the teacher may have to have you stay after school because you were not prepared to play the game If thls happens once do not let lt hap pen agam Just show the teacher that you have the stuff It takes to make a player Show her that you are Just as good as 1f not better than the ordlnary player If you are not quite as good as the other fellow are you a good sport and w1ll you keep If you do these thlngs you may hon estly conslder yourself a good sport V Colby 37 TREATING THE GANG AEY fellers com on qulck Fun ny Face s got three cents excltedly shouted the leader of a tough and ready gang ln the slums of a large clty Butcher the lead er was a regular bully and touble maker Aw yer crazy p1ped up a volce lf Funny Face had any sense he d go stlck h1s face ln a ram barrel and leave It there All right ' came Butchers VOICE agam don t belleve It lf ya don t wanna but I saw h1m Just a second C m on gang let s go ' It sounded llke a stampede as about a dozen dlrty faced bare foot ragged chlldren shoutlng and WhOOp1Ug for glee ran down the pavement of the narrow filthy street Walt guys came the leader s VOICE we d better Walt t1ll he gets here or he may get s plclous and go a dlfferent way Where ln the heck d1d he get three DSHUIGS? asked a freckled faced llttle fellow they called Carrot Top Aw I don t belleve he s even got any came Jane Ann s qulck answer Jane Ann was the only glrl among that crowd of roughnecks but she was fully as capable of stlcklng up for her self as the bully of the gang Butcher Before she had tlme to answer Golly I ll bet he knows we re look mg for 1m Sald Toothless Look there he goes back Com on gang let s get 1m Poor Funny face was soon sur rounded and lmmedlately questlons started pourlng ln on hlm Where d ya get em? grinned Toothless Yeh whod ya steal em from? ' came the leader s volce I dldnt steal em and beSldeS wot s It to ya anyway where I got em?77 You probably SWlp6d em off n yer stlngy old grandmother accused a tall lanky fellow they called Skinny Well what d you care dldn t you swlpe ten cents offn bllnd old Mr Jones once? -r L 16 J 4- . . ,, , , . . , 7 ' I ' ' ' ' ' ' ago. o ' , ' . - ' ' 1 ' 1 7 A- . . . ,, . ,, , ' 9 Y . . . ,, , . . ' 7 . . . . , . . ' 77 , . . ,, - . . . ,, ,, 1 ' 1 ' ' . ., , . , ' 7 ' 77 7 ' , 1 . . 7 . 7 7 . 7 7 ' Y I trying to better yourself every day? someone whispered, Here he comes. - , - u , y y - . . ,. ,, . ,, ' 7 ' 9 t 7 7 ' ' 7 ' 7 7' 77 7 C4 I 7 ' H , . . 1 1 9 ' H , , , 4 - 1 77 , . 7 , u . ll ' 7 7 ' . U ,, - 7 ' ' 7 Y 7 , L ll ' , 1 it 0 ,, . . ' 77 1 1 1 ' . 44' - 7 , . . . . . ,. , . , 7 D . ,, . , . . , . It ' 7 7 ' 77 , .