Sweet Home Union High School - Timber Echo Yearbook (Sweet Home, OR)

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Senior Blass f' '5 l The years have flown by, and it is now the winter of 1959. The newsroom of the Utopian Enterprizer, Inc. lincomplete, that isi building in Utopia is bustling under the able guidance of the editor, Dixie Reynolds. The paper comes out hourly and Dixie is busily flicking on scenes with her television teletype machine, in search of fresh news for the next edition. Suddenly Dixie comes upon the wild country of India. A familiar face appears and soon she realizes it is Barbara Gabriel, an old class- mate, giving a campaign speech. She wants a petticoat government in the far eastern country. Viola Crenshaw is now her head con- sulate, who studied law in college and is now out on her tour of isolated parts of the world. Dixie suddenly becomes reminiscent of what has become of the others in the class of '49. Sweet Home, she decides, is the best place to find out. Flicking the buttons on her televis- ion tedetype she sees a town council meeting in progress. Who is the Mayor? None other than Don Rice. His close associates are Leo Bennett, Chief of Police, Wilbur Montgomery, Chief mender of muffin pan roads, and Dannie Simons, Justice of the Peace. The problem at the moment is the coming carnival. lt seems the tall man for the show, iJesse Barri and associate fire eater iTom Conwayl think that the doors of the business houses should be raised to 10 feet so Jesse could enter without stooping. Toni Permanent's, owned and operated by Shirley Slater, have moved their main office to Sweet Home, and we find Ralph Loveland as their head model for Which Twin Has The Toni? advertisements. Dixie finds Janice Weber still taking piano lessons and hoping to play in Carnegie Hall prophecy soon. In the meantime, she is busy helping Ken manage Cardwell's Department Store. Suddenly Dixie realizes the television tele- type has turned by itself to a penthouse apart- ment in Hollywood. Joy King has been going through her lines for the coming performance. She is Master of Ceremonies on the lt Pays To Be ignorant show. Joy is at the moment look- ing over the line up for the Poppy Bowl where she notices Tex lDonJ Stevenson on the starting line up for Oregon's football team with Gigs Wilkening as his right hand man. The country is taking notice of the great team these two make, and they are winning trophies all the time. Then Dixie looks to see who is at the Green Fedora. She sees Margie Birdsall as vocalist for the coming show. Latest showing at the Club 13 ballroom is Jack Jeppson and his Melodymen. A few of his old classmates are among the crowd. They are Jackie Brown putting in her ardent call for western music, and Judy Brown ther call is different- it's for a manl. Always together are Freddie Smith and Edith Stanton. We find them still together in 1959. Their ambition seems to be that of run- ning a huge chicken ranch. 5,000,000,000,000,- 000,000 super colosal speed laying hens is their goal. The next stop is Fairbanks, Alaska. There Clara Miller is busily tending her 13 children. ln her spare time she is writing for the world- famous magazine, Stare, edited by Betty Murray in Sweet Home, Oregon. Theron Haley, Dixie finds, has gone intel- lectual on us. He is hidden away in the Adair- andak Mountains learning the 5th edition of the encyclopedia Britianica. The first four were a whizz, but Charles Barker, new editor for the series, has used to many long unpronouncable words that Theron is having a little trouble. Over a couple of hills Dixie notices James Riggs. He is the successful owner of a iackrabbit ranch. He does his herding on foot. Dixie dreams a while and when she awak- ens she suddenly notices her television teletype has moved to New York City. There on the markee she sees where the current production is My Grandmother Cut Her Foot Off lor One Toenail Too Shorti. In the smaller print she finds Producers, Curtis and Hall, Directors, Curtis and Hall, Writers, Stars, etc., Curtis and Hall. ,lKeith and Morris that ist. Among their leading women stars are Rachel Boyer, Arlene Chastain and Nola Kelly.

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LELA PADDOQK lLeeJ -Lettervvomen, F.H.A., Photography Club, Intramurals. BETTY SEIBER lBeal- Her dreams are The blucprint for her future. Lefterwomen, F.H.A., Photography Club, LORRAINE WISHON CLaryl- Don't ask me, ask Gene. F.H.A., Scitamard Players, Junior Class Play, '48 Spring Play, '49 Spring Play, Chorus, fl thjclitlier CTTJ is Som So you're graduating now, my son, You've reached one great divide, And now There lies before you An abyss dark and wide. There is a board across it On which a man can walk, But many Things can Trip him up- Yes, one is idle talk. Now, on the other side, my son, There's not so much in sight, Because in front ot all The wealth There shines a college light. But back behind The college You'll find if you pass Through That There are loads of riches That can be reached by you. Not iust in coins called money, But love, and Toy, and pride, You'll find in that Utopia, The world is on your side. But down inside The abyss You can see some wealth Today, I Yet iT is only money So it's best to stay away. Why sure, I know there's iobs galore, Why even go To college When you can make an honest cent Without a bit of knowledge? Yet Times won't always be so good And wages quite so high, And bills will pile in front ot you Until they reach The sky. So don'T tall in The abyss, But walk across, instead And go through college, and learn a And think of what l've said. And when you're ready tor this world The doors will open wide. You'll see Those stacks ot riches Piled 'round on every side. You'll be a man that day, my son, You'll not need any boss. lo So now, chin high, raise up your head Son, go and walk across.

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Speaking of Halls, Dixie thinks of Leroy who now runs a winery. Leroy has bought out Roma Wines. Seems as how Larry Hall has continued his liking for Buicks. He is now testing them and owns one of every possible color. Harlin Lovely is in the automobile line too. He owns a used car lot. lModel A's are his specialityl. Leida Williams is his head saleswoman and partner. Her teletype machine has gone on the blink, and in a frenzie Dixie yells at the top of her voice for the repair man. Meekly Ken Lindsay comes in to overhaul the convenience. When he is finished and the machine is working auto- matically again, it turns to the Pacific. Betty Lawrence Marker iwho joined the Navyl is spending her time washing and sew- ing on three little pairs of bell bottomed trousers. Joann Lehman and her guy Bill are now making a tour of the world with Joann dcing doing brilliant, startling speeches on Why Socialized Medicine is Bad Medicine For The People. The teletype travels to the mountains where Norma Latimer has purchased Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood and stays there the year 'round improving her skiing technique. It is rumored that next year she will be the U. S. contestant for the Olympics. Evelyn McMurray has lust graduated from her fourth college, and has now founded one of her own called The McMurray Institute. She has iust engaged Fern Larson Olson to teach home economics, and Dora Lou Pitsley for commerce. Teaching mathematics is Shirley Mabee who is now crowding out Einstein. She has just discovered the fifth dimension. The chemistry instructors are Arlin Moore and Ivan Womack. They have lust split the proton, but Arlin got the biggest half so Ivan is mad and is going to Alaska to mine gold. Delores Port now has a string of ten skating rinks and is making a handsome living off of them with a certain Lebanon fellow for man- ager. ' Clella Alexander has gone into Home Ec. field. She is in her testing plant trying a new revolutionary cake recipe. lt is a twenty-five cornered cake so everyone can have an equal amount of frosting. amor We, the Senior class of the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Forty-nine, being of sound mind i?J and body, do herewith be- queath our fortunes, both personal and real, to the ones remaining in Sweet Home High School. Suddenly the television switches to Southern California. Eula Coulter now owns the Eureka tourist hotel. Obviously she is tired of Oregon rain. Among her workers we find Paul Greg- ory and David Walker as guides, Roy Butler as desk clerk, and Allen iblindmanl Walling- ford as chef. Allen still takes the opposite side of any question lust to have an argument. Shirley McCarthy Smith is the outstanding guest at the time. Gordon Wright and Lorraine Stark are collaborating their knowledge in the new edition of Why Teachers Get Gray. Their experiences at SHUHS seem to be helping a great deal. Another couple, Lorraine Wishon Storey and Eugene are now busily raising three little second Storeymen. Pat Cooksley is now an outstanding author. Her latest book is The Love Life of Niiel Shock- ey. Head of her publications department is Betty Seiber. Carla Christianson and her husband, Ad- miral Healey, are now living peacefully on their 75-foot yacht. The current visitors for the past week have been Betty Stokes and her husband. Busily Edith McElwain is practicing her voice lessons. Soon she is planning to start on her tour of the world. Dixie hears an exclamation unprintable and looks on the screen to find Joyce Dahlenberg Rice and Mary Arleen Reed who have iust been evicted by Rose Green. Rose is a high powered landlady who is charging the outlandish rent rates of S25 per year for her swank I5-room apartments. Bonnie Welch is touring the schools of the United States giving demonstrations on how to write 25-page letters during school time. In the sports world Dixie finds Darrell Miller playing baseball for the New 'York Yankees. The hunters of the year have lust been chosen. They are Wayne Merrit and Melvin Pederson, who have killed 150 Cougars and one human imistake shotl. Elva Sommers has fallen heir to a great fortune and is now living in her 50 room house in Miami. Lela Paddock is her personal maid. Dixie's night editor, Byrdene Nothiger, comes in to tell her that the 3:15 edition if ready to proof read so she leaves for her n-an-' duties again. glass Will To the Junior Class we hereby bequeath our place as the cocks of the walk and our superior manners, as they will need them in the coming year. To the Sophomore class we do hereby bequeath our intellectual views and our good