Wenatchee High School - Wa Wa Yearbook (Wenatchee, WA)

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Sir lsciolc Newton and an Apple Did you ever hear of Sir Isaac Newton? Just in case you haven't, he discovered the law of gravity--if you might call it a discovery-when an apple fell on his head as he was lying under the old apple tree.', And have you ever known anything more about apples than that they were a red or yellow or green species of fruit and that they grow on trees? They are also made use of in what is worse than hnding a worm in an apple-half a worm , and in An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Even if you know more about apples than what I have just mentioned, you probably never knew that if it weren't for Sir Isaac Newton and an apple we might not have the law of gravity today. fI.et me see, now, gravity is that invisible force which holds a balloon up in the air, isn't it?j just to show you how important the law of gravity is to us, try to imagine how the world would be without this law. Imagine this work-a-day world, going about its daily business without the law of gravity to hold it to its regular course. The houses would be Heating around in the air, and other articles such as toothbrushes, shoestrings, and nightcaps could be had for the grabbing. Or some night you might go to sleep with your bed on the ceiling, or you might even find yourself in Arabia. fThis is how the world would be if it weren't for the apple.j just think how disastrous it would be to the skyscrapers if they were tipped at all angles with no law of gravity to help them retain their dignityg or if we didn' t have this invisible force called gravity, it might literally rain cats and dogsf, And let us take a look at this: Mr Brown is exchanging a few words with Mr. Smith on the business of manufacturing weights to hold clown the toupes of unfortunates such as they who have not had success with the new hair-growing tonic Gromore that has just recently been floating around on the market. Mr Brown has just remarked that he thinks they are living in a very unfortunate age, when, without warning, he becomes elevated a few feet in the air so that he can no longer continue his conversation with Mr. Smith. Very unfortunate that we can't finish our little chatf' says Mr. Smith, but I'll see you the next time that you come down to earth, if I'm still here then. Sounds like Maunchausen, doesnlt it? But that is what the world would be like if we didn't have our good friend, the doctoris friend, and everybodyfv friend-the apple. VIRGINIA MEIXNER. lokes MYSTERY SOLVED Arriving at school on the very first day, I was astonished to see a great many queer green creatures wandering around the halls. I stopped and asked several people about them, but no one seemed to know who they were or where they came from. Ir was a mystery to everyone on those first few days of school. Ir was causing so much wonder, that Mr. Pegg called a meeting of all the scientists of the school to pronounce a name for them. Finally it was an- nounced in assembly that these green bits of humanity were to be known hereafter as Fresh- men. ar lk if 4: ak There is always that frosh in a school who thinks smelling salts are sailors with B. O. ar sf wk ik ik The Debate Banquet uncovered the fact that Howard Mann fYorgie Yorgisonj, could cat four pieces of Apple pie on top of a big dinner. This is .1 fact-and not some more of his magic. 14: :sf at ek Pk A person who should happen into Wenatchee High on a certain clay in April, might think he had made a mistake and had arrived in a kindergarten. It was Sucker Day, and every- one-yes, even the teachers, were sucking suckers. Who were the biggest suckers? King Sucker Moodhe, and even Queen Lollypop, Bertha Panger. pgs!

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Fall in Wenatchee Valley In the Garden of Eden grew a tempting fruit known as the apple. It was so delicious that pretty Eve must taste it regardless of the penalty. Where it came from, what its variety was, we do not know, but it proved to Eve a delicate and refreshing morsel. The original home of the apple is not definitely known. In prehistoric times it existed in Europe, both wild and cultivated, over an area extending from the Caspian Sea to the .Atlantic Ocean. When the Europeans came to form settlements in this continent they brought with them seeds of selected fruits to plant about their new homse. Thus the introduction of the apple began nearly three hundred years ago, and in these modern times the apple has developed into an industry important to domestic and foreign commerce. Instead of planting seedling orchards, seeds of different varieties of apples are planted by nurserymen. After the seeds come up the French Crab variety is used for the roots of the tree and then the variety wanted is grafted on this root. The trees are ready to be sold when they are one or two years old. The first few years the soil is cultivated and cared for and the trees are pruned according to the shape desired. The fifth year the trees begin to bloomg the sixth year there is a small crop, and the eighth year the trees bear heavily. Fall is a busy season in the apple industry. Boxes are made and assembled conveniently in the orchard for the pickers. Picking for commercial purposes usually starts the last of August with the King Davids. Ar the first of September the Jonathans are picked, followed by Delicious, Rome Beauties, White Winter Permains, Vfinesap, Staymans, and other late varieties. The apples are picked by hand and carefully put in a canvas bag. When the bag is full it is emptied into boxes which are conveniently placed, and then are carried away by trucks to a nearby warehouse. The apples are usually picked by the first of November and are in the sheds awaiting the process of washing, drying, sorting, packing, and lidding. In the warehouse the apples are washed by going through a solution consisting of water and acids, and are dried by revolving cloths. Moving belts carry the apples to the grader, and sorters, who usually sit about four to six at a grading table, pick the apples according to grade: extra fancy, fancy and C grade. The culls are discarded in boxes and carried away, some to vinegar works, canneries, and various places for disposal. After being conveyed to bins the packers wrap each apple in waxed paper and pack them in layers according to size. When the box is packed it is put on a roller and conveyed to a lidding machine which is operated by one man who nails on the lids and stamps them. This completes the warehousing. A rigid inspection force keeps in touch with apple operations during picking, packing, and selling seasons to see that the apples are up to standard and test for unwashed apples. Thus the fall season closes in the valley with the apples packed, stored, and ready for marketing. -Peggy Wilbzcrn RAIN Raindrops dancing like transparent pixies before my startled eyes- Rain falling in a hazy mist like gray powder dusted by some fragrant hand- Rain in slashing, whipping curtains, which envolve one ard trail away to the ground - in a streaming rolling fold- April rain sliding down sunbeams and then disappearing as suddenly as a misty breath, breathed on a cold day. --Alice Snodgrass P. K. Jr.: Therels a maniout there with one eye named Higgins. Editor Kechley: Find out the name of his other eye.

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Page Eighteen The History of the Wenatchee Valley The history of the Wenatchee valley prior to the coming of the white man is very largely one of conjecture, field observation, and deduction. When or whence came the men who peopled it before the whites is an untold tale. The Indians found here by the first white visitors were a branch of the great Salishan race, known as Flatheads to the white people. About the year 1866, or sixty-nine years ago, two men came into this valley on horseback and established a trading post with the Indians, this trading post was the first building in the valley. Five years later Sam Miller and the Freer brothers entered the valley and bought the trading post from the two men, who immediately left the valley. Sam Miller and the Freer brothers may well be called the fathers of Wenatchee because they were the Hrst three permanent white residents of this valley. The earthquake of 1872 left its greatest scar at Ribbon Cliff. Here vast quantities of rock were torn from the lofty and perpendicular cliff and hurled across the Columbia River, com- pletely damming the stream for many hours Mr. Miller declared that to go to the Columbia for water as had been the custom and find it completely dry was a most paralyzing experience, and that he would have given every gray hair in his head to have been out of the country. Settlers did not arrive in this valley very fast because it was described as being almost unfit even for rattlesnakes and jackrabbits to live in. One pioneer, when asked what his first view of the valley was like, answered, My first view of the Wenatchee valley was not very enticing. All you could see was a few large rocks, sagebrush, sand, rattlesnakes, and rabbitsf' Another obstacle in the way of settlers was that the valley was next to impossible to reach by wagons, as it was surrounded by lofty mountains. All wagons that first came into the valley had to be let down the mountainside by means of a rope paid out from pine trees. Sam Miller planted a peach seed, and when the tree grew up and bore fruit, the fruit was the fairest and largest seen in the West. The story soon spread and soon apple orchards began to dot the landscape as settlers began pouring in. By 1888 there was quite a large group of settlers here and the townsite of Wenatchee was started on North Miller Street in the vicinity of Springwater Avenue. The town was named Wenatchee after the Wenatchee valley, which in the Indian tongue means great hole inthe mountains. ' After this things began to happen fast. After the town site was started, the railway was built through here and the townsite was moved to its present location. The postoffice was established in the Freer-Miller Trading Post on Miller Street in 1887, merchants began to build stores in the new town, and the Columbia and Wenatchee river bridges were built. From 1893 to 1936 Wenatchee has grown slowly but surely until it is as we see it today. Most of the pioneer families have continued to live here and more than half of the students of Wenatchee High School are the grandchildren of the pioneer settlers of the Wenatchee valley. Let us look upon the Wenatchee valley as our valley-as the valley our grandmothers and grandfathers changed from a desert waste to the thriving metropolis it is today, and with its deserved title- The Apple Capital of the World.', , A. L. PARKER. SONG OF MY HEART In simple things my heart delights: In songs of birds, And star-filled nights, In fragrant blossoms on the breeze, And winds that rock the tops of trees. I shall not notice noise and crowds, But watch some far-off feathered clouds, Or on a mountain crest I,ll stand To look out over sea and land! The wonders nature holds in store, For these I ask- And nothing more. -Betty Keim BIOLOGY FEVER I must trek up to the hills again, to the lovely hills and meadows It's an assignment and a teacher's call that dare not be neglected, And all she asked was fifty flowers and said that might get me by, But I failed that class- for the most I could find was ONE LITTLE BUTTERFLY. -Katherine Coull