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

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THE LIVE WIRE What was that? Yes' xt was h s tram whlstllngl An unhuman wave of strength swept over hmm he rose stubbed hls toe fell struck hls head on the ralls Wlth such a blow that a freely bleedlng gash resulted Al though weak from loss of blood dazed wlth pam and stunned by the blow to the head he rose and as lf w1th super human power and God s grace h raced around the corner The Stfalght of way lay ahead of h1m and the tram hls tram was there he had suc ceeded that fact pounded upon hls braln for one brlef moment then all was obllvlon The tram crew looked Wlth molsten ed eyes at the hfeless form of Perclval LeGoonsky the hero of the century Llttle dld they reallze that the boy who lay dead at thelr feet had saved people but had also saved himself from the agony of a llfe more tortur ous than any had lmaglned for he lf he had llved would never have walked agam' E Rlch 40 THE PRISON ER omorrow IS the blg day He IS led from hls chamber bllndfolded to a huge room wlth creaklng beams and large strong lron bars on the small wlndows Thls would be hls only chance to show what he really was He knew hlmself the value and advantage of a qulck getaway and de clded to do Just thls That nlght was a long and tlresome nlght for h1m It seemed as though day would never come but at last the llght shyly fllckered through the small cracks ln the floor Then sud denly a loud trumpet blast and the 1ron door of hls cell sprang open At this lnstant two rough looklng men entered and grabbed hold of hlm and oh' what a feellng It was to smell the fresh alr once agaln after belng penned up for years lt seemed After all It IS qulte an honor for a thorough bred horse to be escorted to the track by a band and a large multltude of people who really belleved that he would Wm the Kentucky Derby Dw1ght Fraser 41 WHAT AMERICA OWES ME AND WHAT I OWE AMERICA N H th A M g In thls dav when one looks across at the troubled waters of Europe and the Orlent bolllng because of power drunk and power crazed manlacs It IS qulte opportune for me an Amerlcan to balance my account wlth Amerlca Looklng at bllls recelvable 1 find three maJor documents blndlng Amerlca to pay me as follows CD Freedom fZDProtect1on and 131 Op portunltles for an educatlon From ev ry mountam Slde Let freedom rlng ' Yes IH vlew of the snatchlng of the rlghts of the German people by Hltler IH vlew of the usurpmg of the rlghts of Itahan people by Mussollnl I want to hear freedom rlngmg from every mountam Slde ln America Freedom -1 I 22 J 1' . .. ' H i ' ' ' : , , 1 1 . . , ' ' ' 1 1 , . . . , . 1 ' 1 ' , e . -H . ,, . A - - . . . . - 7 PF FF X I o ' 1 not only the lives Qf hundreds Of Uissay winningtheCertificateofAchievement - for . . S. from e merican a nzinel , . ' - .1 1 ' l 1 , . . .- . . - , ' 1 1 1 . H . . 7, .- 1 5 f ' . 1 1 ' 5- . . - , . . ' H, 1 - ' 1 1 . Q ' -Q 7 V , , . . . L s , n 1

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL Agaln hls gaze shlfted to the tum ultuous rlver roarmg past as though charglng some unseen foe Debrls belng tossed about ln the r1ver hke people stampedmg from a burnmg audltorlum gave vent to the fact that localltles above Montlflpso had not been as fortunate as thls town on the hlgh banks of the rlver Washemdown Slowly yet surely hlS eyes crept up the raglng torrent to the rallroad brldge that spanned the rlver a httle north of hls home Some unexplaln able cur1os1ty led h1m to follow the tracks down the hne for about SIX hundred yards to where they were abruptly shut from VIGW by thelr curv mg sharply around a small hlll Even as he gazed at the h1ll he was struck wlth the thought that a tram comlng around the corner could not posslbly weak a But of course thls brldge was safe so worry was needless He had no more than declded that all was safe when the crash of splln terlng wood and falhng rock snapped hls attentlon back to the brldge N tlme was needed to see what had oc curred a glgantlc tree had been smashed agamst the much weakened mlddle studdmg The lmpact had completely demollshed both the tree and the studdlng leavmg the brxdge to wabble and sag llke an elastlc band therefore lf the brldge were tragedy could not be avolded As he gazed at the brldge Perclval suddenly reallzed that hls Luxury Llmlted would be tearlng down the tracks ln about an hour and that no means of warmng the tram s crew of pendmg dlsaster except by Haggmg 2 them 9XlSt6d A qulck glance dls closed to hlm that no one else Montxfipso s only street was aware of the condltlon of the brldge Crazed wlth fear of the destructlon of hls tram and the passengers he unconsciously Jumped from h1s chalr and started toward the xallroad After taklng several steps he vsas aware of sharp cuttmg palns ln hls legs but now that he had started he d never turn back desplte any physlcal tort ures he mlght have to meet Because the wobbly state of hls legs and his returnlng senses had left hlm unable to walk steadily he staggered and stumbled down across the field not once allowmg hxmself to rest By the tlme he had reached the brldge an eternlty seemed to have passed palns now reached hls chest and were stead kept falllng hlm at regular lntervals Intense suierlng was plamly wrltten on hls face The spaces between the tles 1nv1ted hlm to fall Into the torrent below as he pulled hlmself hand over hand fashlon onto the brldge The sway mg and sagglng of the structure was slckemng and the DOSSlblllty oflts col lapslng before he reached the other Slde frlghtenlng Spllnters plerced hls hands hls clothes reddened wlth blood from gashes on hls chest and stomach whlch he recelved from the sphnters of the tles he was draggmg hlmself across Inablllty to walk was upon hlm when he had reached the opposlte shore so It was necessary that he contlnue to pull hlmself over the road bed for the sxx hundred yards to the corner An unbroken red llne marked h1s path -r Q 1 J 4' . . . on . . as - H ' Y V , 9 ' I 9 stop before it reached the bridge: ily growing worse, and his eyesight 9 s ' 1 - . X , ' ' I ' O . . . . - . Q , 1 I ' ' H ' 7, . . , .

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL as set forth ln our Blll of Rlghts ' Freedom of speech unhampered by a fear controlled rad1o as descrlbed by Stanley Hlgh ln Not So Free Alr Saturday Evemng Post for February 11 1939 Freedom of Speech unhampered by a Fasclst mmded Amerlcan populatlon who would also deprlve us of our rxght peaceably to assemble unless the purpose of the assembly was for one thlng Amerxca The reactlon to the recent German Amerlcan Bund meet mg shows that some Amerlcans would gladly Ilmlt that rlght Protect us by thy mlght Great God our Klng Let Amerlca too protect me but let her not protect me by her mlght lest I find myself ln a Fasclst natlon Let her glve protection from the by glvlng the Amerlcan people an un blased democratlc educatlon Also I want protectlon from the lawless whlch we have ln our mldst protectlon unhampered by lncompetent pollce or lnvestlgatlng forces and an unrellable Jud1c1ary system Lastly Amerlca owes me the oppor tunlty of gettlng an educatlon from free publlc schools and dlslnterested lnstructors and textbooks as well as from newspapers magazlnes and rad1o My Country' tls of thee Sweet land of llberty Of thee I slng Yes I do slng of Amerlca but do I know what I m slnglng about? Am I famlllar wlth the orlglnal ob Jectlves of our democracy what It has been what lt IS and 1ts posslble future? 2 Have I sufflclent knowledge of the soclal problems race natlonahty sec tlonallsm and labor that have faced and are faclng our government? Do I know what condltlons our law enforcement agents have to cope wlth ln order to protect us here as well as how Amerlcans are protected when abroad? Is my knowledge of these problems as great as It should be for a cltlzen of my age? Thus It may be seen that my one blg l1ab1l1ty IS to get as thorough an educatlon as posslble from the oppor tunltles whxch Amerlca affords me through her pubhc schools colleges and un1vers1t1es and as my means al low As a cltlzen of Amerlca lt IS my prlvllege as well as my duty to get th1s educatlon as well as to broaden happenlng today as may be Obfalhed from rellable newspapers magazlnes and lecturers An educatlon based on and for the purpose of malntamlng and bettermg our system of protectlon and freedom and preservlng our dem ocracy TIllStI'alI'llI1gg'3.lU9d I must traln myself to act upon the know ledge acquired that I may become an lntelllgent voter a self supporting law abldlng cltlzen lnterested ln all that IS Vltal to the welfare of my com munlty and my natlon and glV6 ID telllvent ass1stance to Amerlca 1n solvlng her problems Then and only then shall I have pald my debt to Amerlca My natlve country thee Land of the noble free Thy name I love Elton Rlch 40 4 1 3 J 1- . ,, . . ,, . i . , s . . Y - ' 9 1 . . ,, . ,, . L- 9 . , ' V' i I Q ' . ll Q, . - - , ' :si l ' . . . I , . - , I ' rr , . ' ' 9 1 ' 1 1 1 . . I , D - . ' D . . 1 7 l 9 1SYTfS'.'f buflet tha? Protection Come it with an acquaintance of what is . , . l . I u, l ' , v ' . - 7 . ' Q 'Al . u U .1 I :- . ' , D f ' I ' .,-77 . , , n 0 I . . H- . Y s I ' s . ' r