Safford High School - Ocotillo Yearbook (Safford, AZ)

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Ordell Larson has been delving in politics. He has just been elected mayor of San Jose, fast-growing enchilada manufacturing center. Chief street cleaner and dog catcher of the fair city is Roy Jacobson. Marjorie Puller has shocked us all and is advocating back to nature in one of New York's classiest night spots. Her latest admirer is Gigolo Arthur Todd, king of the gin bottle. Spencer Hoopes has given up the show business in Safford and has reformed. He is on a mission in the South Sea Islands and seems to be enjoying himself. Caroline Van Order and Rex Rapier are a famous dance team in Holly- wood. Their latest dance creation was the Boogie Woogie Floogien in which Caroline was a picture of grace and Rex exceeded all other dance artists by standing on his head for ten minutes. Cherrill Brown has given up her books and is giving lectures in better places on How to keep your girlish figure. Her able assistant is Ruby Foote who teaches the weaker sex the art of ju-jitsu. Betty Anderson has become a famous ventriloquist. Sitting on her lap is the famous king of the wooden heads, Fred Thomas. Lucille Nash is teaching a school out in Lone Star and is fast becoming an old maid because she can't decide which one of the Tidwell twins to marry. J. W. Steurmer has given up his Coca-Cola truck and has sought the he man life of Tarzan in Africa. Going along to protect him from catching cold is his wife, Marsha Mae Root. Dora Kirkham has organized an all-woman baseball team who just re- cently won the world's championship from the New York Yankees. Her star players are Wilma Curry, Julia Nulton, and Myrtle Hancock. Curtis Ligon and Herbert Skinner, two of the world's greatest scientists, have disputed Darwin's theory on the evolution of men. After years of research they declare that, judging from the human specimens they have seen, men sprang from something worse than monkeys. Helen Wackerbarth has forsaken her tennis racket for the more exciting life of a night club. She now slaps that bass for Ted Harris' We Like lt Hot band, while hubby Arthur Carrell cooks the meals and works on the WPA. Melvin Powell has climbed high. Starting out as a mere paper boy, he is now the star reporter of the Arizona Republic in Phoenix. One of the more unfortunate paper boys, Tommy Blake, still resides in Safford as a confirmed bachelor and the Government and Sociology teacher of Salford High School. Clarice Maloy and Mary Jean Kennedy are in the local jail at present on charge of espionage. The two unfortunate girls were down in Mr. Mitchell's chemistry room working on a very dangerous experiment when Clarice mis- took a stick of dynamite for a piece of chalk. The Safford High School will have to be rebuilt. Pngflwulfy-1i1'0-TI111 Oz-olillo

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CLASS PROPHECY I went to the great fortune teller, Allah Hokum, the other day and. being curious about the old Senior Class of 1940, I asked him to peer into his crystal ball and see what he could see. This is what the crystal ball revealed. Spencer Morris and Graham French did so Well selling hot dogs at the Senior Frolic that they decided to make it their life's work. They have taken over Ted's and Kal's Driv-in and use as their motto, Indigestion won't happen here. Their efficient waitress is Lorraine Richardson, running in and out between the cars collecting tips and flirting with the good looking men. Ernest Taylor has risen from the masses and is now one of the country's leading capitalists. He started his blazing career as a mere garter salesman and is now holding the nation's socks up with a piece of elastic. His janitor and oflice boy is Wallac.e Hitt, who dreams of the day far off when he will be a garter magnet like his boss. The Vernon Jensen-Margie Taylor romance has finally gone on the rocks. fThey are married now.j Vernon has recently been elected president of the Woman Hater Club of Arizona, while Margie is filing suit for divorce in Reno. Jean Crandall is having a hard time driving trucks for uno who. In her spare time she is teaching Paul Jr. how to be a soda jerker and tap dance just like his mother. Nick Gardia has just lately become the proud owner of the valley's most popular night spot, Whoopie Hall. As his entertainers we find Teresa Guitterez and Alfrel Figueroa jitter-bugging all over the place. Terrell Blake is in Hollywood serving behind the scenes as a' makeup expert. He gives the actresses that delicate blush which he possesses from telling all of those none too nice jokes in study hall. He has just made up Leona Holitza, who has taken Ann Sheridan's place as the new Oomph girl of America. Betty Baker has had so much experience in editing the annual that she was appointed editor-in-chief of the True Confession magazine. The principal writer on her staff is Sarah Mae Clifford who has made up some real good confessions. This is no time for obituaries, but Lavon Blake, the tennis champion, was just bumped off in Chicago by Playboy Irving Plotkin while in one of his famous rages. The great criminal lawyer, Brainstorm Hugh Morris. saved Playboy Plotkin from hanging by the neck until dead on the plea of insanity. The Barney girls, Velate and Norma, are running a boarding house near Solomonville. Their star boarder is Norman Johnston, who is now a success- ful Fuller Brush salesman. Romance seems to be developing between him and Dorothy Layton, who still lives on her father's dairy farm. The U1-ufilla--Pugie I Il'I'llf!j'f0 u r

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Gordon Scarlett is running a barber shop in Pima. His slogan is Shave and throat cut, six bits. As his assistant we find Kay DeSpain, senior chief scalper and toupe arranger. Both boys seem happy in their butchery. Merna Layton, now a fat, buxom opera star, is making a concert tour of the Canary Islands. Della Rogers is her accompanist. Eugene Holfield and Earl Price are running a Whiskey Cure Hospital out in Cactus at present. Their nurse is that pretty red head, Reva McBride. One of their last clients was Gilbert Whveelock, better known as the Fire Crief of Lizard's Bump. He is following in his father's footsteps. Mildred Smith is the new charm expert and dean of women of the Uni- versity of Arizona. She teaches the girls all the secrets of getting a man and holding him. Norman Bingham has become one of Safford's leading business men. He owns a chain of pool halls all the way from Ft. Thomas to San Jose. His wife, the former Lenna Phegley, is the leader of the elite in Safford's society. Myron Kisselburg is the leader of a communistic group and is definitely un- American in his ideas. He carries his traditional soap box and time bomb, trav- eling from town to town in his old jalopy. Alene Johns, who has been to Reno five times since her first marriage, is now the wife of Harold Merrill, owner of the Valley Bakery. She seems quite satisfied because he gives her all the doughnuts she wants to eat. Ruth Richmond. the great geometry student, is designing a road from Saf- ford to Ft. Thomas so her boy frienl can get down to see her quicker and more often. Her chief engineer is Ivanelle Lance who was fired from the Five and Ten recently for flirting with the customers. Sam Foote, by the way, is still in college as almost a full-fledged Sophomore. He declares he will keep on plugging along until he finds a beautiful girl worthy of his affections, and having one million dollars. How correct the prophecies of the crystal ball will be, only time can tell. The Ocatilla-Page twenty-sin: