Oxford High School - Clarion Yearbook (Oxford, ME)

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22 The Clarion Tl-IE MODEL AIRPLANE REVOLUTION Wlth the advent of plefabrlcatlon ln model an plane constructlon the field of ChOlCC for the modeler has wldtned tre mendously The klts now on the mar ket come ln any S126 shape tyle or manner vou could thlnk of from small one half A to large stunt ShlpS and beautlful scale models The tlme element has been reduced tremendously Mo t of the smaller planes can be made ln a couole of hours whlle the largel SHIPS can be bullt ID thl ee days or so Thls tlme IS consld erably less than It used to be For ln stance the stlck 'md bulkhead model of a few years ago used to take up a week or two of the modeler s flme As you can see more bulldlng tlme means less spare tlme and also less flvlng tlme Now you can crack up one plane and be Hylng another wlthln a few days T me 1GVO'l.ltlOl'l of the model lndustrv has not changed ln the way of puttlng scale mod ls on the malket as much as ually haldet to bulld than anv other and so XVlth the stlcss on plefabrlca tlon thcle have been less scale models on the mwlket Beauty has b en lntro duced to a large de ree bv the manu fE1CtLll9 of seml scale models whlch look almost llke the orlglnal but keeps the easv to bulld chalacterlstlcs of the tralnels and stunt planes Thls allows any modeler to fly a plane that looks llkc a plane and not llke a P1906 of YY ood wlth a motor ln lt As constructlon and beauty have ad vanced so have flylng chalaftellstlcs Just as the aeronautlcal englneers have advanced wlth the tlmes wlth Jets rock ets gulded mlsslles so have the model deslgners kept up Wlth the tlm s They have found new ways of gettlng strength wlthout addlng XV9lghT Planes have mole wlng area for englne slze Englne performance and power to Welght ratlo have lmproved tremend ously Thls makes fol b ttel flylng U control has been lnvented Thls brought ln the stunt pattern The only maneuver not posslble mth a model 19 a roll Combat flylng has become the most popular event at meets not only to the flyers but the spectators as well Wlth all that has happened and the speed at whlch new ldeas are bemg developed the modelel has fl bl lght fu ture tow ard whlch to look Althul Bellu ood '56 THE DREAMERS Wmter IS over Sprlng IS hele Summel IS comln Flshlng IS near The trout Vlflll be leaplng Fl hermen Will bt C lStlIlg For the flsh of then dltalllx Beln'1ld John COM ING SUMWIER Nova that summer IS draxxln neal d I XVe look forxx r tx Next mom well wake and fear t ofhel Vxl b full ol at But when wt go slowlx down th stall And mothel IS standlng tht re She looks as though she hardlx L'1ILb -Xs she slowly does up hex halr Lorralne Ball tt .J . . X . v - 1 V ' L . . . Q 0 r ' , , ' - . ' 3 ' ' . , , S , an - rv ' ' . 1 ' ac - n - ' ' I . . . . 3 , v A v ' - 1 . . . ' , ' ' M D . . .I . - , . I . - Q , - , ' - ll ' UI r C 1 - . V . 'K l ' l-- . Y - 1 , . - Cl 77 Y 1 . ' - - ' , , . 1 . ' ' ' ' .O ' gr , . ln construction. A scale model is us- In the lakes and the Sil'9L1lllS2 s s ' .S Y x C . v ' ' .. ' L' . ' 1 . ' - ' t' son. '5' ' . . . 9 ' - of - 4, 7 Y 1 ' ' Y , ' g ' '. C t - 'fl rl stzjing out late: 1 v ' . . - X ' ' 7 ' lm l ' ll e ' h In . ' . . , , i 5, , . . L, V . ' .5 ' . ' ' n x . - A x ' Y x ' ' . . ' , ' .5 '- .. ,. - - L. ' 'fq'

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The Clarion THE OLD FAITHFULSU-and Coach Day

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The Clarzon 23 MY LITTLE POEM A little poem I must write It may be wrong it may be right I must write it this very day Or after school Ill haxe to stay This poem Im wrxtlng IS not ve y good Because Im not doing the way I should I know this poem is very rough Eight lines Ive written thats enough' Arnold Tyrrell 57 MY FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE The date was October 1951 I was thirteen years old then and in the eighth grade My girl friend Janice Avery invited me to stay at her house for the night Her parents were going to be away until quite late and she d1d not like to stay at home with only her younger sister She had told me of times when all alone in the house she had seen strange things and heard weird sounds This had always happened when her parents weren t at home These tales had nev er scared me and so I agreed to spend the night with her During the first of the evening we made some fudge Then after being unsuccessful with that we made anoth er great concoction We put every thmg in lt including th1ngs whlch couldn t be eaten such as ink We fin allv ended up by throwing it away We had a really wonderful time doing those crazy things About ten o clock we declded it was time to start cleaning up the mess we had made This we did and afterwards we went out of doors to get some water from the well We had two DHIIS in which to carry it After Jan had filled the first pall I carried it in and was about ready to set the pall down when I heard the most frlghtenlng cry that I have heard 1n my life I dropped the pall of water and ran out to where Jan stood She looked as though she had seen a ghost How near the truth I was' In a stammermg voice she told me that when she was bringing up the second pail of water a ghost had come out of the well I did not believe her So the only way I could prove to her that she must be seeing things was to get a pail of water myself I pulled up the pall of water and suddenly I stopped I too saw what appeared to be some sort of an image down in the well I dropped the pail down the well and we both went screaming 1nto the house I stood behind Jan with a stick of wood while she locked the outside door What ever was out there was going to get a to come in We went into the llVlflg room both of us trylng to forget the incident when we heard someone mov mg around upstairs The room in which this noise came from had been closed for years After a few minutes of silence we decided vue must be hear mg things Suddenly the sound came again' Now we were really frightened' A few minutes later Jan s mother and father came home We told them what had happened and they 1ust laughed and told us It was time for us to be in bed Maybe the reason I heard and saw these thmgs was because Jan had told me so much about simllai things hap penxng to her Nevertheless this is no he it really happened to me and I do not think I can ever forget it Valerie Winslow 06 . y . . . .Il , Y . , , x v ' 1 A ! I ' stick of wood over the head if it tried , 4 9 I . . '. 7 - - . ' ' y - Q . . 1 . . . . . : . I . ' I D v , - D - 1 I C Y ' Y ! ' 9 . ' ' . - V.. n n W '