Scranton Central HS 1958 Yearbook (Scranton, PA) - Full Access

GOLD AND SNOWY Two veteran yarn pinner outdo each other. Thoma1 Al!;lHl, '59. and Ruth Arlaska s, '59 "H LD on thar. you old cally– " ag ! Who ever heard a tory like that?" It ''a ]em John on who poke out. He and eon?;e lark were itting around an old pot-bel– lied tore in Hanley' General tore r mini cing about day gone by. Clem continued, ··Why I don't e\·er belie' you, George lark." ··well now, you lookie here, lem. I don't care if'n ·ou belieYe me or not, hut when I ay it' the hone t o' goodne truth. ah mean it." ··Hold on thar a econd.'' poke up Clem. '"we're actin' a bad a ~lr . chultz' younaen . Any..,ay ah don't ~ e's why you're frettin' o. Ah can recollect a more excitin' experi– ence than the one you ju t told. ··It all tarted back in '63 when th · government got the notion o' buildin a railroad right aero the middle o' the l:nited tate . Bein' as I wa in charge o' hiring ome men . I ran aero . a guy by the name o' ·'Goldy" Car on. He wa a giant of a man who tood 'bout e.-en fe t tall. One of hi noticeable feature wa. a great big gold tooth right dana in the middle of hi mouth. ··well. bein' a he wa low on ca. h and trong. ah hir d him. Well, no' , wa. ah e'er glad ah did. Oh man, could he e\ er lay them track . Ye · ir, old Goldy could lay two mile o' tra k in one hour- that o' cour e cl •aring the way o' tree and bru.h fir t. ~Ian, what a ight: Goldy rip– pen' up tree and layin' track with that big gold tooth a- hinin' in the sun. ··r t weren t long b fore the Pacific group o' men met th . tlantic group an did the Ia t track. Bein' that there were dignitarie around, it on!} . e med fit an' prop r to haYe a cere– moo~. uddenly Goldy got an idea. He jumped up. put hi big hand around that th r gold tooth of hi . and ga,· a big hank. 'Vell, now, JL -E, 1958 Goldy pulled that tooth out and u.ed it a the golden pike to fini h our fir t coa t-to-coa. t railroad. Y - ir. it all happened there on ~Iay 10, 1869, at Promonto11 ~fountain, ju t north o' that Great alt Lake." ··- ·o" there. eorge lark, ah b t that th r tory beat any o' your ." A Clem at ba k in hi rocker; pride howine, all O\er him, Geore;e turn d red with fury and defeat. uddenly orge jumped up exclaiming. ··r, e got you. 'lem, l'\e got a tory that '"ill beat any one you could tell in al1 your born day. . ..It . th tory o' the time that I wa. li,en' up in the Yukon territory. A you mighty well know. !em. I lo\t' the "inter weather. \\'hile I "a. in the Yukon, ID) friend named me ··\\"indy \\'inter." \\'h~. th re jut ain't nothin' ah ouldn t do. Ah \\a ' the be t kier. kater. led-rider and now . hO\·eler north o' the t. Law– rence Ri\ et. ~find you now. ah ain't bra!!gin' cau e it' the plum truth: fer example. here' .om thin' that prO\e it. '"One month it nowcd fer ten day and ten night . \\'ell. that dana now piled ri ht up to the roof. The only thing howin' wa the top of my attic window. I had plenty o' food but "a runn in' low on coat and it \\Ould take day b fore ah could u.e th front do01 again. ··finally, on the fifth day. after u ing up all the coal and burnina e' eq piece of I umitme. ah decided that it "a time to find orne coal. C ine, the attic window to e;it out– side I, "ith m) kii . kimmed O\er the . now which tretched for mile . ··After two hour of con tant ki– in', I had not found any fuel: o on ah trO\ e. Finall). at three o clock, I reached a high hill that had not been completely co,ered with now. • ear th top wa an entrance to a mine, a coal mine. The elevator to the depth of th mine, containina the coal, wa out of order. and it eem d that the neare t depo it of coal wa. fifty feet down. Ah figur d ah would haYe to u. my kiin abili– ty, and usin' the . haft a a ort of ki jump. ah arriYed at the bottom within a few econd . Finding the coaL m next problem wa to t it to th top. Luckil}, I had with me my tm t} hea\) rubb r band. U in' it a · a lin a . hot. ah hot th coal to the top. piece by pi ce. The prob– lem of ~ettin' my. elf to the urfac wa . till un oked. I wa aaain lucky that I had \vith me my \er-faithful . tick of Double tick) chewin' aum. After chcwin' it thoroughly. I put :orne on both fe t and walked right up to th top. ~ eedle to ay. I got the coal home and urvh·ed th now torm." .., \'ell, ya kno\\, Georg-e," ex– claimed !em, ..ah think that ah ha\·e met my match. You haYe ac– tually out tory-told me. George. Anyone who could it there and ac– tuall) tell a tory like that de erYe to be champion. Ah urrender ." it– ting back in hi chair. G orge proud– ly grinn d, and the two gent! men continu d rocking away the time in front of Hanley' black pot-bellied tove. I Stood Alone Jfa1ianna Bi!.!,lan. '59 I tood alone in darkn Knowing neither ound of mu ic nor of laughter, eing n ither the color of a un et nor the beauty of a ro e: I tood alone. without feelin!!. Po e ing neither happine. nor P;rief. om one came and tood with me; Togeth r we aw, And th re wa light. 15