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Vol. 52 OCTOBER, 1942 No.1 Published by the Students of Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine October, 19 T Eastern Trust and Banking Company Auto Elect CAPITAL ARVI $200,000 61 Beau.ty Sa SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS EARNED DORl $1,051,000 1! Beverages BANG fJJ Personal checking accounts are welcome 6 at this bank. If you are not already using Fruits & 1 this convenient feature of our service, we C. H. 6:i suggest that you call and arrange for an Funeral D! account for your personal requirements. WIDT 4~ OFFICERS WILLIAM P. NEWMAN, President Grocers HARRY A. LITTLEFIELD, V. Pres. and Treas. C. E. KARL R. PHILBRICK, Sec. and Trust Officer 2~ LINWOOD M. COFFIN, Ass't. Treas. 0. E. OLDTOWN BANGOR , MACHIA~ 8 Page One ine The Oracle's Classified Business Directory he )8 The forgotten man of tomorrow is the man who failed to advertise today. y, )I" Phone No. Phone No. Laundries Auto Electric Service b NEW· FRANKLIN LAUNDRY. 3303 t ARVID L. EBBESON O0 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3870 s 75 So. Main St., Brewer )" ~ 600 Main St. Paint Beau_ty Salons R. H . KAVANAUGH . .. ......... :...... 9892 39 Park St. DORIS E. DUTCH 0 0 0 0 0 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 4013 151 West Broadway Phonographs & Pianos MELVIN'S 0 0 •••• •• 0 •••• 0 •• 0 ••• •• • 0 • • 2-1082 Beverages 88 Central St, BANGOR BOTTLING 0 • 0 0 •• 0 0 0 0 •••• • • 0 • 2-0668 Printers 6 Spring St. CONNERS PRINTING CO.. 3319 179 Exchange St. Fruits & Produce H. P . SNOWMAN ....... ....... ... .. 0 3841 C. H. SAVAGE CO . .............. ..... 5661 40 Central St. 62 Pickering Sq. Radios & Pianos RICE & TYLER 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3351 Funeral Directors 98 Central St. WIDTE & HAYES ................. .. 2-0294 Rugs & Art Goods 46 Center St. WILLI,AM CHRISTMAS 0 0 . 0 0 0.... .. 6037 34 Main St.- 37 Columbia St. Grocers C. E. LEACH & SONS ... ...... 0 • • • • • 6183 Shoe Repairing 266 Hammond St. PALMER SHOE MFG. & REPAIRING CO. 5479 0 . E. MILLS & SON . 8534 35 Central St. 168 Center St. Super Service Station SPANGLER'S Q NOT Q FOOD SHOP 8268 CRONIN'S SERVICE STATION . 9244 8 Broad St. Comer Otis & State Sts. Page Two The Oracle 0 Office: 9 Hammond St. Wharf: 146 Front St. Telephone 2-0043 Telephone 2-1554 EXPERT REPAIRING I J. F. WOODMAN & CO. ALL MAKES OF CARS BODY AND FENDER WORK Anthracite COAL Bituminous Storage-Washing-Greasing AUTOMATIC COAL STOKERS RJ NEW ENGLAND COKE The S. L. Crosby Co. York St. Your patronage is appreciated -so Bangor, Me. Pearl & Dennett Co. W m. F. West, Pres. Brockway's eiNSURANCE Flower Shop e APPRAISALS Corsages e REAL ESTATE EASTERN TRUST BIDLDING Floral Designs Bangor, Maine Phone 2-0053 I 15 Central Street Bangor, Maine 25th Anniversary of Dunham-Hanson Co. STE 31-39 Mercantile Sq. Bangor COLE'S EXPRESS Building Material I 76 Dutton St. Bangor, Maine HARD'WARE Tel. 7358 Paints • Windows Asphalt Shingles REPj Doors Insulating Board l DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1917 Cutlery Carpenter's Tools ' October, 1942 Page Three Louis KIRSTEIN & Sons TIMBERLANDS Realtors and SURVEYING REAL ESTATE - INSURANCE SERVICE Prentiss & Carlisle Co., Inc. 44 Central Street Kirstein Bldg. Merrill Trust Building Bangor, Maine ESTABLISHED 1894 COMPLIMENTS Compliments of OF I Pine Tree Restaurant, Inc. IT. R.SA VAGE CO. 114 Main St. AND 1 Wholesale Grocers Marsh's Pine Tree Lodge I BANGOR CARIBOU 58 Cedar St. I MAINE I • e I GOOD PLACES TO KNOW ABOUT '· STEEL SHEETS AND METALS ..,. >r N. H. BRAGG & SONS I BANGOR, MAINE CARS • • • TRUCKS es REPLACEMENT AUTOMOTIVE I WEBBER MOTOR CO. PARTS EQUIPMENT I rd 499 Hammond St., Bangor, Maine •ls Published five times a year by the students of Bangor High School, Ban gor, Maine. The Oracle Ed VOL. LII N0.1 October, 19 4 2 , __ _ v STAFF Editor . ............ Marydel Coolidge CONTENTS Business Manager .. ..... John Ballou Cover Design-by Robert Cardin ( Anita Broder Editorials .................... ........... Page 5, 7 I I Literary Editors . .. 1Edith Strout l Richard Sprague FEATURES: "incl Destination: Kingsgate .... ......... ... Page 6 part • ( Joyce Marsh by Edith Bettelheim in th Activities ...... 1Barbara Andrews Look Who's Laughing your l Jack Nickerson by Sandra Ginsberg ....... ......... Page 9 Scho< It IBO m Pleasure to Present ...... ...... Page 10 publi· Fashion Editor . ....... Barbara Mills Something New Has Been Added ... ...... Page 15 much really Ass't Fashion Ed .. Carol Chadeayne by Barbara Buck Advice to the Love Bugs .... ............ Page 17 Yei Alumni . .............. Hope Redman by Aunt Jit taken Idiots' Delight ... .. ............ .... Page 37 sopho Hokum . ....... {Sonya Cohen IS ver Gardner Moulton PoEMS: new [ . Betty Higgins Metaphoric . .......... ............ Page 13 fill up Passing-in-Review.· · · { Robby Speirs by Richard Sprague to ma Little Ben ................ ........ ... Page 7 were: Book Reviews . .. ..... Roland Mann by Maggy McGlew t.ions · all wa Radio . ..... .......... Robert Berry FICTION: encing Movies . ............. Shirley Castner Bums Along the Mobawk .. ..... ... Page 11 gracef by Brennan and Cohen We Boys' Athletics . ..... Robert Saltzman Once I Knew a Boy .......... ... Page 14 we've Girls' Athletics ....... Connie Coleman by Lucille Powers you; ' Motive for Madness ... .. .Page 16 this la: Staff Photographer .. Tommy Flanagan by Dolly Ann Averill By par (James Power you at Fall Fashions .............. .... .. .· ..... Page 18 Art Staff. .... ... Joseph Petterson of the 1 j Outside the Classroom ................. ... Page 20 The l Robert Cardin Alumni ................... ............. Page 22 better. Richard Giles Hokum .......... ...................... Page 23 the me Prudy Speirs Spinning Reel ............................ Page 24 Throu~ Business Staff.. .. ~ John Chapman Passing-in-Review ................ ....... Page 26 to the 1 Fay Jones On the Bookshelf ......................... Page 27 sure to Alfred Frawley Record of the Rams ... ..... ...... ...... Page 29 one ca1 Carro Davies With the Sportingals ............... ...... Page 31 sophorr Radio ................................... Page 33 Circulation . ... ..... William D1i_sko The• in orier most a • Editorials VOL. Lll NO.1 THE ORACLE OCTOBER, 1942 ORACLE AND SOPHOMORES, INC. Bangor High is to show us your support. Your N these days of initial success and abbreviated year's subscription is certainly worth the eighty-five I messages, we of the Oracle staff address to the cents you save by not purchasing each issue separately. class of 1945 a concise "Inc." And we do mean And it is not too late. ' "included." Just as you sophomores are an essential Perhaps it will bring more vividly home to you the part of our student body, so you are essentially included importance of your connections with the magazi ne if in the Oracle. In urging you to subscribe 100% to you can see yourselves in our places. Try standing on your school magazine, we are selling you Bangor High the stage in the assembly hall, as we did, and look over School. For the Oracle is the school. Yes, the student the faces of your classmates; in the second row you publication of any school represents that school as glimpse the editor for 1944-45; to the left and back is much as the writing of any man presents the man as he seated the manager of the business staff for that same really is. The Oracle is the autobiography of B. H. S. volume; across the aisle you_can point out a very tal Yes, it is true that no sophomores as yet have been ented literary editor. Each one is a member of your taken onto our staff, but that is no indication that no class, sophomores!' Don't wait; makes news for us to sophomore wili be included in time. The class of 1945 print. about you. Show us your interest. Back is very necessary to us; with your arrival, sometl;ling it up with enthusiasm, contributions, and suggestions new and different has been added. We need you to you'd like to see in our columns! fill up the emptiness left by the class of '42; we need you Contrary to the old adage, no news is bad news when to make us laugh when you ask the same questions we it's no news about the sophomores, inc! were asking in the fall of 1941 . the same ques tions for which we suffered agonies. It makes us feel • all warm and good inside to know that you are experi ROUND TABLE ON MARRIAGE· encing the same embarrassments. and taking them A panel discussion was conducted by Mrs. Garry gracefully. Cleveland Myers, PhD., associate editor of "Children's We Oracle Boarders have put our best foot forward; Activities" and widely known psychologist, at the con we've introduced ourselves to you; we've entertained vention of the Maine Congress of Parents, Teachers, you; we've even come to you for contributions. In October 2. Six Bangor High School students expressed this last instance many of you have come to us first. their opinions and exchanged their ideas on "Looking By participating to your fullest in high school activity, Forward to Marriage." Mrs. Myers so put her ques you automatically incorporate yourselves into the pages tions that the resulting consideration of the subject of the Oracle. was as informal and as natural as if there had been no The one thing left to be desired is that we knew you audience present. It was as if the three boys and three better. The sooner you make yourselves known to us, girls had been sitting and chatting around the fireside the more obvious will be your incorporation with us. whose hostess Mrs. Myers was. In her presence and Through "Passing-In-Review" we try to introdu.ce you that of such a topic, sbe made them feel at home, put to the rest of the student body as boys and girls they're them immediately at their ease. She drew forth some sure to want to meet.