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ROGUE MEWS
FRL. MARCH 30. 1956
ROGUE NEWS
1955 196S
Published every month fey the Journalism class of the Ashland
Senior High School, Ashland, Oregon
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NANCY NORBURY
ASSISTANT EDITOR LYNN SUSEE
NEWS EDITOR DOLLY JACK
FEATURE EDITOR BARBARA TURNER
SPORTS EDITOR STUART BAKER
BUSINESS MANAGER RAY BOHN
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER PAT LANE
CIRCULATION MANAGER PAULA PHILLIPS
EXCHANGE MANAGER WILLIE GIBBEL
PHOTOGRAPHER .. KERMIT THOMAS
REPORTERS JOURNALISM CLASS
TYPISTS: Margaret Calvary, Marianna Fletcher, Sandy Gib
bel. Sandy Drew, Marilyn Brock, Willie Gibbet, Sharon
Winkelman, Pat Lane, Sandy Thurston, Cam i lie Thompson.
ADVISER MISS VERNA WICKHAM
Printed by Iverson Printing, Ashland
I'M A DUMMY
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE
On Feb. 16 the student body
of Ashland High was entertain
ed by Glenn Haywood and his
partner "Freshie."
Jerry introduced Mr. Hay
wood and soon the building re
sounded to the wild laughter
of teenagers. After showing
many tricks of magic, with
cards, ropes, and scarves, Glenn
Haywood Sr., his father, then
brought out "Freshie" from his
suitcase. "Freshie" is nothing
more than a dummy, but h
seemed very alive through the
excellent ventriloquism from
Mr. Haywood. Shirley Jackson
and Don Barr were called upon
to help with a few tricks, but
BILL PASSED
TO LENGTHEN
SCHOOL YEAR
A bill requiring school to be
held twelve months instead of
the customary nine months was
passed by the State Legislature,
Thursday, March 29, 1956.
The votes of the representa
tives were strongly influenced
by a lobbying group from Ash
land Senior High school. The
group, headed by Jerry Miller
and Mary Ann Anderson, pre
sented somp vrv ctrnnff nron.
both left the scene more or less 'ments for the paSsage of the
confused. Jerry also received bill Th lr.h.vit. mh
quit a bit of recognition from 'students feel that education of
"Freshie" who seemed to have European students is far super
a strange dislike for his face 'ior to ours and tnat America
Mr. Haywood has appeared wU1 soon be ieft j,,,, jf
on radio and television in cit- ,, hnrrv nr. nH Hn ,nt.
ics from coast to coast and has
guest starred with Peggy Lee,
Herb Shriner, and other great
stars.
For three years, be had his
own television show, called
"The Comedy Hour." He has
also been to Japan where he
cave U.S.O. shows for the en
tertainment of our GI's at Rest
Camps.
Mr. Haywood and "Freshie"
are now sponsored by the Na
tional School Assemblies Agen
cy, giving educational enter
tainment. "Freshie's" philosophy of
life is "I'm a Dummy; what's
your excuse?"
PLAZA GROCERY
On the Plaza
thing. It was also stateo that
the students just waste their
summer vacations and get in
their parent's way instead of
doing something worthwhile.
This bill means that the sen
iors will have to remain in
school for an extra three mon
ths and will graduate next fall.
The Ashland seniors are over
joyed with the passing of this
bill and are enthusiastically
planning their post-graduate
course because they know the
value of a good education.
Some of the other students
who reported to have been
very active in the loobyins
group were Bill Bebber, Jim
Busch, Donna Bibeau, Stuart
Baker and Ken Dye.
a
Life is an eternal struggle to
keep one's earning capacity up
to one's yearning capacity.
INVADERS LAND
ON OLD AHS
On top ot our ivy-colored A-
HS building fleets of Martian
saucers came swooping in tor
a be-bop landing. Now, it has
often been thought that Mar
tians are a rather homely spe
cies, but to the contrary, they
are quite handsome fellas. As
they revealed themselves from
their saucers, many whoops
and hollers were sent out from
Martian lungs as they discover
ed that Grizzly students wera
equally as intelligent and strik
ing in appearance as they them
selves. They were quite pleased with
this, because prior to their
landing on ivy-colored A.H.S.,
they had slid in on slimy, slith
ering Medford High (The green,
greasy tomatoes). Much to their
disgust the Martians found
Medford students quite ignor-1
ant (or shall we say, lacking in
intellectual qualities) and to top
it off, revoltingly sloppy in ap
pearance.
They found principal Parks
waiting with open arms in wel
come. He quirped "I thought
perhaps I could kidnap several
to take to Bandon."
Champagne, caviar, and Ash
land High Flag Girls were very
well liked by the coruscating
Martians. But president Jerry
Miller fascinated them with his
charming face and intellectual
but unintellegible vocabulary.
They were intrigued by the
Klamath spectators, which we
kidnaped at our last game and
caged. One Martian was heard
We Just Couldn't
Resist - April Fools
Popular Teacher
Plans To Return
FADS AND FASHIONS !
I
The Medford and Ashland I
game brought some very beaut
iful and fashionable outfits out
of mothballs and into the seen. Miss Verna Wickham, Ash-
of the packed Ashland High i land's commercial, senior Eng
gym containing 1,000,000 per- lisn and journalism teacher
sons. I has marl the startling statp-
The varsity team came out ment that she is returning to
on the floor dressed in their teach lovable Ashland students
new suits of red flannel pegs for the rest of her teaching
and white dress shirts. They al- : years.
so wore their Howdy Doody -After teachine the kids this
beanies that Mr. Parks tried so Vear" stated Miss Wickham. "I
hard to get. can hardly wait to get back
The first yell was led by the next year to help these respon
members of the yell squad, sive students, especially the
They were wearing their 1819 journalism class. The little
Bikini bathing suits that Ran- darlings this year were always
dy Root had designed just for so enthusiastic and willing to
the occasion. do things. They accomplished so
The most outstanding coud1 'much and gave me the least
was Nancy Norbury and Bruce trouble of any of my classes."
Everett. Nancy was wearing I From the litle things Miss
her latest Import from Talent, j Wickham has said in her class-
backless, waistless, wool eve- land High boys are the most re-
ning gown. Bruce wore his lav spectful of any she has ever
ender tuxedo and derby to : met that they are all so man-
match.
This outfit was designed by
Marty Clary who is now spend
ing most of her time at Salem.
Jane Yaple and Susan Weller
wore outfits that they had
made themselves. They had on
a backless blouse made from
white pipe-cleaners, and a skirt
made from some poor horse's
hair and on these skirts they
had pinned the lifeless bodies
of 20 butterflies. (The butter
to say that they resembled Mar- flies were Iurnjshed by Gene
uan Dims, reierrea 10 as giicn- 1 Parent )
iegobblergicks.
Ashland faculty were charm
ed by the creative, immoral,
Martians. The only thing that
seemed to bother them was the
well-known Martian lisp.
The two boys showing the
r-ost school spirit were Bob
Wright and Mort Scripter.
They wore their matching red
and white space cadet outfits
that had arrived straight from
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Medford High students, pre- 'Mars VIA space ship.
viously referred to as the gre- At the half. Sherry Taylor
asy green tomatoes, are now .and Louise ward came in
greener, because the Martians, w:m tneir new Mohawk hair
who are known to be the great- do's. They were also wearing
est football, basketball, and .Dior's latest creations of black
baseball players, are now on denim trousers and motorcycle
A.H.S. teams. An almost hu- 1 boots.
man Medfordite was quoted a ! That is all the news because
lAth and inct host Mfn,J inn
I bet it was because of the
team's new outfits. Don't you?
saying "We expect another de
feat like the one in 1899" (the
score was 96-0, in favor of Ashland).
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Not only is Miss Wickham go
ing to return to teach here next
year, but she has also stated
that she plans to cut down on
the work given to the , English
classes. Spelling words will be
orly 100 a week rather than
the former 1,000; English as
signments will be limited to
only 15 a week (This year she
gives at least 30).
Miss Wickham plans to let
next year's journalism class
have freedom, because she feels
she has been entirly to strict
with the little angels this year.
If next year's journalism
class can have half the equip
ment we had this year." said
Miss Wickham "we will cer
tainly be fortunate. Many jour
nalism teachers have to steal
orange crates and things. I'm
certainly glad I don't."
Miss Wickham loves our Ore
gon weather and whenever the
school has a dance or party, she
insists on being one of the chap-t-rones,
as she loves doing It so.
When hotrodders go roaring by
her room, she grins in fascina
tion at the sound of the pipes.
(She loves their mellow tone,
es-pecially Harold's).
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