Sumner High School - Sumarian Yearbook (Sumner, IL)

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to have a party. We informed our maid of our plans, and she wanted us to leave all the planning to her. We followed her suggestions, since we had so many things to attend to. Finally the night of the party arrived. We were scheduled to leave the following morning. Every- one was in high spirits with thoughts of the coming day. Before we Knew it, morning was here and it was time for us to so to the nSaucer Field.W After many farewells and hand-shakings, we were in the nsaucern ready to pull out. Suddenly we heard someone call our names. There was Betty Thomas running towards us. She was now a famous hill-billy singer. She wished to go with us, and we were glad to have her company. When Betty wasn't singing, she was listening to the radio. Finally, we came to the first Wsaucern field at which we were scheduled to stop. Doris and I took the attendant aside and ask him i. he would disconnect the radio as he checked the Hsaeccr H There was a fair going on about e mill down the read, and since it would take quite e while to check the 'saucerF, the three of us set out for the fair grounds, On reaching it, we saw a sign saying: WFEATURTNG KATHY BUHFET AND HER FAMOUS TIGHT ROPE ACT.' At once we hecame interested. Just as we got inside the tent, Kathy was going into her act. After it was over, we rushed to meet her. She had read of our flight end miehei us lucky Uv +hie time it

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was getting late, so we hurried back. When Betty learned of the disconnected radio, she became angry and refused to make the rest of the trip with us. The next morning we stopped at another field and had the Nsaucern checked again. We were suppose to have it checked at least once a day. Being hungry, we decid- ed to look for a store. Soon we were standing in front of a Kroger Store. It was very large, covering a whole block. We went inside and looked around. To our amaze- ment we found that Gilbert Deimel was the manager, He gave us all the food we wanted free, so we took advantage of his kindness and took enough food to last us on our flight. Gib was so overjoyed at seeing us that he didn't mind though. He told us where we could find Philip Clark, another classmate. In school, Gib and Philip had been close friends and still were. .'. Gib livci vith Philip at Philip's large ranch. At ones we vert no :ee Thi ip. He invited us to stay verniaht, ani U: accepiod, Early the next morninp we var, back on our wav. As ve were trav ling along, we notieed a heautiful xeke below us, We landed and decided to av rvimnifs, vfv. ln a short time three boys and four rirls came running touariw The lake. The boys looked exactly like Harold Horner and the girls like Helen Roberts. We asked them what their maria were and they told us it was Horner. We went home with the