Valley High School - Highlights Yearbook (Elgin, IA)

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The next orninp found us at th fair grounds bright and early Je de cided to tour the ncience and Phrsics building lirst and found it withou oo much difficulty In the main h ll I ras attr ct d by a post r bearing the picture of a faintly familiar looking sentl man Hy astonishment was complete when I r ad the caption HNoted solar explorer, Professor Dean Torkelson will le tule this afternoon at 2 OO on his spectacular visits to the Noon and Mars ' Unfortunately, we had lr ady secured tick +s for the anphith ater so had to miss Dean's 1 cture We were iust leaving the building when ve vere accosted by a hurried young man whom I recognized immediat ly as Ted Jacobson Pe invited us to see a dis play that he was showing and, as curious as we are, we simply couldn't r fuse He had a strange and colorful display of rare moths and butterflies that he had Cpersonallyj obtained on an expedition through the qungles of deepest Africa After observing Ted's scrumptious butterfly display, we found lt was time to go on to the amphitheater to see the program First on the program was a bea1t1ful display of HO trained Albino horses and costumed bareback riders Their ovmer and trainer was none oth r than Lorraine Miller I understand Lorrain spenis all of her time dur1nP the win ter training her troupe in Florida we watched several other acts and were al.ost ready to leave when we heard over the P A system 'Bill and Lulu, America' for most tight wire t am coming upln That sounded pretty interesting so we decided to stay for one more act We found to our surprise that they were B111 Minihan and Luella Little especially when B111 carried Lulu on his head for no feet across the high wire A queer looking funambulist tean who were twisting themselves in contor tions and were carrying out their capers on a huge platform caught our atten tion next The applause was deafening A glance at our programs confirmed our suspicions that the tumbling and wuggling team was composed of our old friends, Marilyn and Karolin Falb I imagine it was a pretty soft job for the girls after being toughened for it by playing basketball at Elgin High Lat r, as we were saunterin down th midway, we heard a terrific war whoop Turning, we saw Peg y Helms chasing madly aft r us She had to hurry back to her stand, so w went back with her to visit Aft r treating us to her specialty, two toned cotton candy, she told us that she and Marian Gehring had resided in Des Moines for several y ars as pro essional baby sitters, but that they usually found jobs on the midway during fair week we interrogated Peggy as to Mar1an's whereabouts She told us that she was operating a nKlSSSS for Charityn booth, and also gave us minute instructions for locating her Howeven when we did find Mar1an's booth, we d1d 't even get a glimpse of her for there was a group of MS to SO young men crowded around the booth It would have been suicide to try to get through that crowd so we went on our way After making our circuit of the merry-go-round, ferris wheel, small cars and other Nmustsn for our youngsters, we headed toward the motorcyle silo. I nearly fell 1nto the pit when I saw that the dare-devil rider who was gust com- pleting her ride up the side of the silo was th t ever venturesome girl, Eunice Gehring. Because it would have been late when she finished her act, we decided it would be better if we didn't wait to see her. W . D V. . ,, ..A ,J A A - V A J . . Q I .4 ,- . 5. . . . . 9 . . . L .- . e ' . t X 7 . V t 0 5 ' ' ' w ' '1 -' fo fa 1 Q , r , Q . - Q. L I c- V 1 ., . . . . . . D . .A . ,J ', .a 0 A1 , 3 ' Q .f . . I A ., , a . , . W . 0 . . . ,C ., . ., - , H v , - v 4. - . c, .. E! 21 ' , Q o .. 9 X '3 . . . . . . I? Y Q S ji ' u . . . D . . . . . I v 0 A ' . . . fa , - , k, g . . . . . . . ' w . . 9 . . . . . 1 A 1 4 A J ' ' I 0 1 J I 0 v 1 x A I . A L . . . . rm I I I ' 1 . . . . . . . S ' . ,. , - . . . . 0 17 Y .. ., ' . . . . J - -..-.... I 3 A Q .. g ......- . v . . . A ., . . . . o 0 . . . . . . a , e . . . . . 1 5' , 1 o Q . . . .1 I 1 7 . . . I DC K A L .1 . . . . . ' 1 m .w 3 ' . . . . . . . .-A . V , . . . . . I A i . D . . . . V Q 9 . V, . Q ' 'aa ' ' Q . . . . V . . 9 , ' 0 I - A ' . . . 0 . . 'B 1 . . . . . Y - o , . . . , Q . - . . . . Q o . . . . . .1 1 Y I . . 0 1