Paris District High School - Yearbook (Paris, Ontario Canada)

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, 1943 15 ca,tzi..e4 By Willard Price Jt was a Sunday afternoon in No- vember and a wet mist hung heavy on the street. The uniformed man in the room backed away from the window. He shrugged his should- ers like a very tired and worried per- son. Those cursed Germans have COTTA- pletely surrounded the city. They outnumber us ten to one in equip- ment and men, but we will hang on until every one of us has been elim- inatedf' He sat down and reached for a te- lephone. With chest out and should- ers back he barked into the mouth- piece, This is Colonel Shansky. Tell every man, woman and child to keep fighting! Do not give one inch of ground to the enemy. Answer their cannon and machine guns with rifles and hand grenades until all you can answer with is your own blood. He looked up and spoke sharply to his aide for the first time, As soon as I finish writing these orders, de- liver them to Captain Tim O'Shenko on the left bank. He wrote quickly. Suddenly a drone of aeroplanes, high overhead, pene- trated the thick walls of the room. The blitz was well underway, too well underway. The colonel's terrified glance met the horrified expression of his aide. The aide shrieked with horror. Oh colonel, they have come. They have broken through! Footsteps clattered down the corri- dor of the building. There were four of them in their greyish uniforms. Two seized the colonel while the other two threw the aide to the floor and bound him up. As they went out the door one spoke, Every two weeks you two guys go on the blink and have to be straight-jacketed. Between you two and Mahatma Ghandi down the hall, we don't get a moment's peace! The footsteps died away, and peace reigned once more. .fbawning ,Cove By Betlh Holder 0 swald had just turned the corner of Grand River Street into Bau- field when he saw her. Although he prided himself on being a gentleman he could only stand still and stare. Gliding gracefully, toward him, her lithe body swaying ever so slightly, was the most beautiful creature he had even seen. She had beautiful jade green eyes with sparkling amber lights, a well- cut and sensitive nose, and a soft, pink mouth. With an effort Oswald controlled himself, but he could not quite man- age to suppress the gleam of admir- ation in his eye. Perceiving his boldness, the lady gave him a glassy stare from her cool, green eyes and minced arrog- antly past without so much as mov- ing an inch to avoid rubbing against him.

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14 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, 1943 Ute ueat By Eva. Scott I Jsclund trickled into the empty room. There was a scratching at the lock, and then the door open- ed and two people came in. The inky blackness was suddenly illuminated by the flare of a match. Its flickering light revealed a dus- ty, gloomy room with furniture shrouded in rumpled, gumy dust- sheets. It cast weird shadows on the dark, grim face of a tall, thick-set man and the pale, lined features of a small woman. The man's dark, heady eyes peered intently into the moving shadows. The woman trem- bled by his Side. It's sure cold and eerie in here, Tiny, she whispered. H-m, assented her grim compan- ion. Now, where did you say it is? She hesitated, but the hard face of her companion, almost ghostly in the semi-darkness, compelled her to speak. O-o-o-ver there by the door-the one leading into the hall, by that pic- ture. Oh, yeah, muttered the man. Eagerly he stepped towards the door. But suddenly the match burned out, and again left the room in a silent, heavy darkness. The man swore. And my last match. Nevertheless he crept unhesitantly forward, nearly forgetting the wo- man, now bent only on his quest. His steps never faltered. Stealthily he approached his go-al. Suddenly, shat- tering the dark silence, a smug, well- pleased sigh escaped his lips, then . . I've got it, he cried joyfully. The room was flooded with a quick, bright light. He turned smilingly to the woman, It's a wonder I found tne switch at all, darling-especially after a two months' vacation. al w.,..1.1.Jse werent .No one saw Lola come down the stairs. She had a way of going about unnoticed. As she placed her trembling hand on the brass door knob she hesitated for a moment, glanced behind her at the closed liv- ing-roc-m door, then resolutely walk- ed out of the house. Her mind was made up and she was not going to weaken now. The army needed girls like her. Lola had wanted to join the army for a long, long time but her mother had objected. There was plenty of time after she finished school, her mother had said. Anyway, Lola was far too young to go away from home. But after turning the questions over carefully in her mind, Lola decided that she was not too young. As she hurried along the frozen walks to the station, Lola thought of how proud her mother would be when she saw her in her army uni- form. At last she reached the station just as the train was pulling in. When the conductor came around to collect her ticket, she handed him her life's savings. How old are you little girl? ask- ed the conductor as he eyed the well- worn dime. Pm eight and I am not a little girl, replied Lola indignantly. Pm going away to join the army. ' At the next stop, the tearful Lola was left with the station agent to await the arrival of a train horne- ward bound.

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I5 Y 5 A PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, I943 This will never do! thought Os- wald. I can't allow' so beautiful a dream to flee away like this, I must speak to her. So in his most entic- ing' manner he began: Pardon me, but are you Miss Tabitha? I have been looking all' over for you to- night. l'm sorry I could not. meet you before. With a disdainful shrug of one Ii- thesome shoulder she told him quite politely that her name was not Ta- bitha and that she' was looking for nobody. However, if he would be so kind as! to accompany her until' she- found something to eat- Would he! Nothing' could make him happier. And so, as together they proceed- ed down the street, Oswald listened happily to her soft' purrings and now and thuen interjected a low meow of his owng for you see Oswald and his dream girl. were both Persian cats, i.-im......i.i al Sadkatclzewan Sheep Ranch By John Nesbitt 0 ften. people, when asked how large a flock they have seen, reply, ron, I have seen quite a large flock?', and then proceed to give an estimate. Usually the number var- ies from 50 to occasionally 200. On most sheep ranches the number will vary from 1000 to 3000, or perhaps more. Another factor easternsrs find 'hard to visualize is the vastness of a wes- tern ranch. It is not uncommon for a ranch to have a total area of 36 square miles. Our particular ranch has, in round Hgures, over 4000 ac- res of grazing land. On this area we feed from 1200 to 1500 sheep, 20 head of cattle, and 18 horses. I im- agine a block of land that size in the East! The herder really has quite an easy time. He has only to watch out for coyotes, keep the flock from spreading out too much, and keep them under control in a storm. Gen- erally, herding consists of taking the sheep to the better grazing areas, and seeeing that they get plenty of water. The sheep dogs save the herder thousands of steps a day. The herd- er, standing on a hill top, signals to the dogs, often half a mile away. These dogs acre usually a very intel- ligent border collies. Contests are held annually at the Moose Jaw Breeder Show, to try the dogs one against. the other in ability to hand- le sheep. Perhaps you have heard cf, or even seen, Martin and his fa- mous sheep dogs. The lambing season, coming in May, is the busiest time of the year, It is still pretty cold, but it is sur- prising the amount of cold the lambs can stand. Most of the lambs are born around the home corral. Those born in the hills are brought in in a wagon. When the lambs are two to three days old, their mothers will do all the looking after them. By this time the 'bad actors' are picked out and put in pens 3' x 3 until they like their offspring better. For this reason We try to keep each day's lambs in a separate bunch for at least two days. Then they are put in with another bunch Csmall flockb, and so on until they are finally put into the largest bunch.