North Junior High School - Northern Star Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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Vol. X No. 6 Friday, February 17, 1961 North Junior High, Salina, Kansas' Oh. Jeepers! V exclaims Lois Ellis. Mike Stano watches the surprised, excited reaction of Lois that many other girls will have when they receive something special from that .someone special on Valentine's Day. LOCKER CHECK A GOOD IDEA Locker check, held by the school each semester, is one way to get lockers clean -in a hurry. It also helps to find- lost books and clothing. During the week .of January 16-20, alocker check was held which revealed aroundfifteen misplaced library books in Lincoln alone. One boy found, in his own locker, a book he had lost ia month. before. V 1 ' ' Lincoln was H relativiely lucky, be- cause' locker check' was held only one day, while Rooseveltiihad one contin- ually through the week. The policy of Roosevelt was that a person whose locker was found to -ba littered with unnecessary papers 'T and trash would lose his locker privileges fgfhone week. 'Isn't it easier-to just keep our lockers clean in the first 'place?V ' V ,. ffl 1 .,.1. TESTS EVERYWHERE A , V . A double load has been put on many of the top students ,these past -weeks as they have studiedfor both,semester- finals Hand the Emporia , Scholarship eliminationitests, -A 5.9 I , , - Each I teacher., hasdgiven a., series of Gllminaiiwl 16555- and ' has chosen ...his top students. He will then hand in this list to the Scholarship Committee and the committee will choose the three students to take the test from each department in the three grades. It -is a--great honor to qualify to take these tests. Students will compete against other superior students across the state..,The winners and receivers of honorable mention get certificates from the state and statewide recognition. The finals' win be taken in early April.. E , A . To the students taking these tests we say, Keep your noses to the grind- stoneand good luck! DECISION .AT DEATH By Jeff Rees ' ., I've got you now! You're cornered! Don't try to .make excuses! No, Iiwon't give you another chance! You must die! 'fWhat shall I do with the corpse? I-,thought . awhile. 'Now I' know! I picked him up very carefully, so asnot toaspill' any blood on the rug. I opened the door, and, put .him outsider, with the grestviofnthe flies, I ,gg 2 J, Q A CANDIES WITH BOWS. GIRLS AGLOW By Meta Adams The day dawns bright and sunny. She wakes with face aglow. Not much time to daydream Of Valentines and beaus! Quickly down the stairway, She hurries through her meal. Can't miss the bus today, she th What a wonderful way to feel! Soon on her way she wonders, Did he really mean his words?' But busses travel quickly To the land of nouns and verbs. So begins her school day. For still the school bell chimes, Even though the calendar says its for Valentines. The hours pass like rain clouds, But soon she's out-of-doors, Waiting on the corner By the five-and-ten-cent store. In six or seven minutes, He comes and finds a place, And giving her a package, He sees her shining face. The candy isn't much, he says, What I really meant to say, Was 'Will you be my Valentine? and 'Happy Valentine's Day!-ff WHO WILL BE YOUR VALENT 9 inks g time -fl IKE? Be my valentine! This is the time -.of the ninth grade Sweetheart Dance to be held February 14. At this dance the ninth graders will choose a and 2. queen to reign over the freshman, class. m Dancing games and refres ,ents held at the Barn right after school All ,,, , , h will be provided. The dance will be VG , ninth graders are invited to the TS heart Dance. So-Come one, come all, And have a ball! ZERGER coIvIPE'rEs ' .. A AGAINST JOHNSTON,- Mr. Zerger, ninth gradescience eet- tea- cher, after hearing of Mr. Johnston and his-p weight-lifting talent, decided he should try it, too .',' Heneeded a willing student to that' carry down the hall, so, of course, Jeff.Rees was the victim. After carrying I think.Mr. Zerger has almost weight-lifter also. . 5 . Jeff, oven 1 t , -,pr himself to -be worthy of the title of: ,Which one of these two,-shall becomes the champion? Lay your bets,-and we, Will bring ,you additionalwinform later as to which-man Wins .,-, if, ations: 'H .,.f.'i

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EIGHTH GRADE BASKETBALL ROSTER The following eighth grade boys have been selected to try to give us a winning score at every eighth grade basketball game: Milton Van Gundy David Page, Jim Cruce, Bob Wehling, Kenny Long, Bruce Hocking, Denny Culley, Allen Faring, Terry Thomas, Thomas Sneath, Dudley Bush, Allan Jones, Bob Jones, Craig Roberts, Jim Kent, John Block, and David Fosbinder. The person who will do the most to give us a good score each game is the coach, Mr. Hewitt. Manager is Bob Caldwell. SEVENTH BASKETBALL SQUAD The following boys are on the 7th grade basketball squad: Lynn Buehler, Mike Smith, Robert Montgomery, Bill Woods, Dennis Davis, Melvin Daniels, Mark Miller, Jim Bary, Dan Magathan, John Tilton, John McCormick, Charles Gadson, Richard Dahl, Charles Booker, and Richard Schmidberger. The managers are: Gary Riedel and Roger Lawson. Their coach is Mr. Tally. Although these boys do not get much of a chance to play this year, they will get good experience to make a good team next year. SCREAM LOUDER! By Marsha Kresge The other day when I attended our basketball games, I noticed that stu- dents from the school we were playing against were screaming much louder and had much more pep! They had a smaller group, yet they were being peppier and yelling with the cheerleaders more than our group was. It just makes me feel like a mouse! The basketball team needs support to be able to win its games and if we don't, give it to them, who will? Let's really show pep, energy, and really root for our team next time so they will know that somebody wants them to win the game! DIGNITARY VISITS BOYS' GYM On December 13, Mr. Weidmer, who teaches boys physical ed. in the barn received a visitor. This visitor walk- ed on four legs and had a long tail with shaggy fur.'You guessed it--it was a cat! He just came in to get warm, we called him--or her Cwe were not sure what he wash our portable mousetrapf' said Mr. Weidmer. Apparently the visitor got 'tired of Mr. Weidmer's company, or perhaps it thought it warm enough to go back outside, but he has not been seen since. We hope he enjoyed his stay. l l Weston Sampson stands next to his valuable collection of American and foreign gold coins. GOLD SUPPLY NO PROBLEM FOR SEVENTH GRADER Weston Sampson, seventh grader at North, has a hobby which everyone likes, he collects money. Weston has built up a collection of gold coins worth over 5500. This has taken him four years to do. He believes it has been worth it. Today he has a complete type set of all the varieties of liberty and In- dian-headed gold coins ranging in date from 1854 to 1926. He also has a few French and Egyptian specimens his father brought him. Weston's favorite coin is a three-dollar piece which is valued at 35100. Weston's collection started four years ago when his father found a twenty- dollar gold piece and gave it to him. At the moment, Weston is still trying for a perfect collection of American gold with a quest for a rare two-dollar coin. This is one person who is not worried about our gold supply! SEVENTH AND EIGHTH WIN OVER JUNCTION CITY The seventh and eighth grade basket- ball teams won over Junction City, Monday, December 19. The eighth grade team won 30-24 and the seventh grade won 23-21 in an overtime battle for their second straight triumph. NINTH GRADE BASKETBALL SQUAD The following boys are on the ninth grade basketball squad: Othello Mead- ows, J erry Decker, Duane Cain, Charles Roth, Frank Roth, Ted Coff- man, Junior Crawford, Pat LaOrange, Vernon Tillberg, John Law, Daryl Wil- liams, Steve Greenough, Carl Cooke, Bill Eubanks, and Ronald Rivir. Coach for this team is Mr. Trimble. Managers are Richard Rice and Dennis Haynes. NINTH GRADE OPENS SEASON WITH 28 to 37 DEFEAT BY SOUTH December 8, 1960, proved to be a black day for the ninth grade basket- ball team when the A squad lost to South, 28 to 37. The coup de grace fol- lowed when the B squad lost also to South, 27 to 17. The starting line-up for the North A squad was as followsg Charles Roth, Frank Roth, Duane Cain, Jerry Decker and Othello Medows. The starting line- up for South was: Mike Lamone, Dave Tufte, Gary Dodd, Steve Walsh and John Martin, Othello Meadows was high scorer for North with 11 points. The high-point man for South was John Martin. TEACHERS GET HOME AT 4:30 A. M. Snow turned a shopping trip for Miss Boyd, Miss Cloyes, and Miss Davis into an unforgettable experience. Leaving Salina at noon, December 10, they planned to go to the matinee performance of Music Man. Howe-Ver, rain slowed them down, and instead of seeing the show, they spent the afternoon shopping, despite the rain. After trudging to about five shoe stores, they finally purchased some shoes. Before going to the evening Aper- fcrmance of Music Man. they decided to rest their weary feet at Innes's Tea Room. However, all three forgot the time and when they looked at their watches, it was 8:20 p. m. and the show started at 8:30 p. m. So there was noth- ing to do but go out in the falling snow and run Cin high heeled shoesb three blocks to the Forum, where the Music Man was playing. Fortunately, they made it just in the nick of time. Upon leaving the musical, they dis- covered the snow was about an inch deep, but they decided to try to make it to 'Salina anyway. N- After five hours of slipping and slid- ing on icy roads, they finally got home at 4:30 in the morning. il 1 ,. I'm sure you will agree that this was a very unusual and eventful day for our three teachers from Salina.

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9 L- NORTHERN HIGHLIGHTS Published every three weeks by the Salina Junior High North's Publica- tions class, Salina, Kansas. Editor, Elaine Tanner, assistant editor, Meta Adamsg society editor, Betty Rollins, feature editor, Jeff Reesg sports editors, Charles Roth and Sue Hinkley reporters, Marsha Kresge, Kathy Engstrom, Carol Christensen, Elizabeth Hoover, John Tisdel and Dan Austing photographer, Dan Austin. Faculty Sponsors: Beverly Cloyes, supervisor Robert Caldwell, printingg Lillian Cooke, artg C. O. Scott and A. G. Williams, advisors. SECOND BELL BLUES This editorial is mainly for the tea- chers. I think teachers are not strict enough in that they let their classes run out on the second bell without the teacher saying, You're excused! Mr. Symington, who used to be a shop tea- cher at North said that the last bell was not an automatic dismissalg it merely meant that the time alloted for the period was up. This problem, I have no- ticed, is mainly prevalent in mathemat- ics classes. I firmly believe that the student should show more respect to the teacher, by not leaving just as soon as the second bell rings. THE GATHERING OF THE NUTS Every morning before 8:30 a. m. the nuts seem to gather in the east end of Lincoln on the second floor. These nuts are of a very strange variety. They are known as teenagernuts. 'These nuts gather in a group and just gget in the way. It is all right to visit in the halls but not in such large groups. I also think that the library is much 'too noisy in the morning. As you may ihave heard, the nuts hold their screaming contests in the library. The library is a place to study not a place to see which nut can yell the loudest. I think the libraries should be a little more quiet, and the halls should be less conjested. So, quit gathering, NUTS. DON'T KNOCK IT This editorial will :be worth your time to read, because it is not like the usual editorial. If you are one of the people who complain about the food at the cafe- teria, I suggest you look around and see where you can get a main dish, a vegetable, always bread of some sort, a dessert, and one carton of milk for thirty cents. For three years I've heard too many complaints about the cafe- teria. The people in the cafeteria are trying to break even on the lunches, not make a profit. , I think that people should use their heads a little bit and wake up and realize how good our lunches are. TI-IE DREAM OF A VALENTINE Icame from a forest, tall and large, I floated down the river, in a barge. My next stop was to the saw mill paid, And then in a sheet of paper, I was 1 made. Now, as I lie on the artist's table I hope that I will be able To bring someone a little joy, Man, woman, girl, or boy. The artist upon his work is set, For there is a deadline to be met. On that day, cards are sent of all kinds. It is the day of Valentines. He made me gay and bright, The verse on me is just right. I am feeling happy, too, Since my dream has just come true. A valentine is what I've wanted to be, So that everyone might know and see How pretty and cheerful I am to behold And the message of love I have to be told. TO MARS OR NOT TO MARS- THAT IS THE QUESTION By Jeff Rees Are flying saucers real? According to Cedric Allingham, they are. Cedric Allingham is a writer who makes as- stronomy his hobby. He claims that 9076 of the saucer sightings are falseg how- ever, he says that the other 10'Z1 must be real. He also claims that he has talk- ed with a saucer pilot from Mars. In his book, Flying Saucers From Mars. he says that a Martian looks very much like an earthman except for a higher forehead. His colleague, George Adam- ski, says that he has talked with a man from Venus. . - - However, Mr. Zerger, the ninth grade science teacher at North Junior High, says that the earth is probably the only inhabited planet' in 'our solar system. This, he says, is because of the lack of air on Mars and the poisonous gases on Venus. , Whether or not there are men on the planet has been a subject for controver- sy for many years now. If we ever go to Mars will we find thriving cities or barren deserts spotted by meteor crat- ers? I would like to have your opinion on this matter. Please send your com- ments to'Publications class, room 15, Lincoln. I'1l have to end this nowg I just saw something land out on the school ground. SECONDS I-'OR SURVIVAL Seconds for Survival was the title of the film shown to the Eighth and Ninth Grade Boys Club meeting held January 19. This film, put out by the Bell Tele- phone Company, showsd the boys how Snooper The snooper has been quite busy this time getting timely little tidbits of in- formation. First thing I noticed was that there was an out-of-order sign on the girls' restroom in Roosevelt. Was it really out of order? What great deed did Jerry Decker do that he should receive all the con- gratulations? How about that, Decker? It's geting so Mr. Zerger's science class is not a safe place anymore. Nice Girls don't kick gentlemen, Karole Lull and Betty Summers. Are your shins still badly bruised, Loren Peif- fer? Sensible people just don't perfume their underwear, Jerry. It seems as though Barbara Iliff and Vickie Agin had something in their eyes during Miss Cloyes's fourth hour, or were you winking at each other? Ask Robert Gobat who he was think- ing about when Miss Boyd caught him day dreaming, or should you ask, Deb- bie? AND THE SEASONINGS GO SLIDING ALONG Let us halt the sliding of pepper andi salt. Salt! yelled someone trying to- season his food so it would be worth eating at the lunch table. Zoom! came the salt like a bat out of noWhere. ' It hit the end of another table and pow- ie! It spilled all over another person's food. This should not have happened This is a case history of what happens when someone, very innocently, asks for salt Cor pepperl in our cafeteria. The solution is quite simple. Everyone should hand the salt to one another very politely, being careful not to drop- it on other people's food. Another thing that often happens when someone does pass the salt polite- ly, is short-stopping. This is when one person asks for pepper for salt! and. several other people use it before passing it on. This is had-manners. and should be stopped. A SHARP TANGO If you saw some ninth graders come- out of assembly January 13 doing the tango, don't think they're a bunch of odd-balls. They had just heard a very catchy tune played by the North Jr. High Band under the direction of Mr. Watters. - -- Besides the tango,,the .band played some marches and classical music. They also demonstrated. some of the unusual instruments. Most of those hearing the band which is made up of seventh, eighth and ,ninth graders seemed to me United states is prepared to take ,t11ir1k,that We have an exceptional band action if weiare ever attacked. for the junior high age.