Olds Consolidated High School - Raider Yearbook (Olds, IA)

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May 19, 1974 I was a television set On my S3 3fl6 inch screen were often seen many strange and unusual personalities Of these none were more strange, unusual, or horrifying than those nine notorious contributors to the field of TV entertainment who by coincidence graduated from O H S in '64 Only last night they drove my owner to insanitylpoor guyl At 7 P M , he tuned in on channel 2 For almost e min ute my owner endured the digressing comment of the noted literary critic Richard lS1r Cobb! Peterson, author of such stimulating novel as, 'For Whom the Horn Fonked' and 'From There to the Drugstore' Then came a quick flick of my tuner and he was enduring the 2 onles of channel 5 Here, through a cloud of dust he saw Shiftless' Mullin SPUPP1nS his faithful rotrod on in the interests of law, order, and gravel spreading After watching this modern western melo drama for exactly 55 and 3 4 seconds, another quick flick of my channel selector brought us to charnel 4 and the heart rending episode of 'Older Brother , starring none other than that famous husband ard wife team, T Hugh De Yarman and his famous actrea wife Janet Miller This is the true story of Hugh and Janet in their e rliex days when he was a profess lonal pickle packer This was followed by a tube jarring change to channel 5 Here the distinguished president of Sing Sirg U , Dr Brant Abrahamson was lecturing on the prob lem of absenteeism in our public schools Fifteen seconds later I was tuned to channel 6 and my owner wa watching 'Wild Red Peterson and 'Horrible Helen Ol on After a glimpse of this brawl and one good look at the contestants, my owner was so scared trat he could hardly change to channe 7 There, the Marilyn Tindlll show, 'Prison to Prison was in progress This 1 the show on wkich Miss Tindill inter views notorious criminals from their prison cells The guest celebrity was 6534l29, who is called 6 by 9 by her closest friends She was known during her earlier life as 'Mona the Menace' Ahlsclager She said that her ambition was to be the first per on to serve out a 99 year term, which she re ceived for hunting pedestrians out of season M owner was not prepared for the hock of seeing 'The We ace on my screen When he saw it, he ment completely berserk Trying to run away from this terrifying spectacle, he bashed his head into my picture tube, ruining thirteen tubes in the pro- cess Yes, I was a television set, The men wko came and pulled my owner's head from my chassis weren't TV repairmen They wore white coats and they tookhim to a padded cell I was the first of these 57 million sets dumped into the Grand Canyon by friends of people who had watched TV that fateful evening We are a grim memorial to those nine, now departed people who wrecked the TV industry 5 - 45 x49 9? ,ui X mga lj , , , A we . - X A , , II l - I O ' O 'Greatest Fights of the Century' with the battle between w Q n. - A 1 . n n S y .- 3 s Q. X .A O 0 TN 5- Q3 '- L or r ' . 97 E4 f 1 --'s'-'.:'g:gj ,-- 'dixlf' ' s-TT .f-23