HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN, November 15, 1957 If Sputnik II Landed Cont. He’ll feel highly honored to be able to more informed and possibly more receptiv be the first earth man to examine me. the next time that this notice appears o All I have to do is go up to him and wag the bulletin board., ray tail.... As I approached the building;. He doesn't seem to notice me. He's pre- church, I could not shake tne fee":u.K' occupied with something. The strange the building somehow resem.bj.ed a 'bomb words he's muttering seem to be, stone* My stomach was also in a pecu t.ia. "Now where did I put that tttttt schedule position, lodged between the heart and of mine. Scram dog, what do I look like, lungs and protruding between the 3rd and a doghouse?" 4th ribs on the left side. The location ef the churchy across the street from Startled at this treatment, I decided to a cemetary, did little to settle my look elsewhere. Someone else would get a rising stomach. However, I had already chance to make history, and then this gone too far to turn back, nasty man will realize what he had missed. let such luck was not to be mine, for I was thrown out of the main building by a man who was armed with a duffel bag. In another building, I was chased by an 'fencer who ?ras examining toy airplanes. I never managed even to gain entrance to the two other buildings from which great noise emerged. It seems that one of the buildings is a "rec hall", and the other a library. However, my trained ears f o\ ...„d the activity to be more intense in the library building. Rejected! That's what I am. But wait a minute; I'm going down into the valley. "Why?" you ask. I'm going hunting, you idiot. At the table I sat directly in front of a nurse, whom I immediately noticed was trying to distract my attention* She wh young, had a pretty face, a charming sex She succeeded* Then, it happened-. From beneath a piece of gauze., no bigger than an inch square, she withdrew a knife blade, the size of which made the famed Many of you probably read the notice that "bowio knife” look like a hatnin for appeared on the bulletin board several grasshoppers. With one sweep of this weeks ago. In essence it said that the mighty weapon, she pricked my finger, blcodmobile would be in town and that My sense of feeling said that it had volunteers from our Center to give blood not hurt, but my common sense said that were wanted. Also, many of you were it must have) so I screamed. At this informed of this in the ROTC class. point another nurse came over to help Several of you volunteered. Some others calm me. She had a startling effect on either because they did not know exactly me, but it certainly wasn't calming, what it was all about, or because you Neither of the two nurses could stop tho didn't have time for such trivial things bleeding; therefore, they made me hold you did not go. For those of you who did a piece of gauze over the cut so that I not volunteer, I am going to relate my couldn't watch myself bleeding, personal experiences so that you will be Legal Blood Bath in the United States John Bodnar y'j rU.-ihaeres Volume I Yilhen I entered the building, I was met by a sweet elderly lady who immediately went into a monologue about how many times she had given blood and also, how happy she was to see that I had volunteered. To me it seemed that she was happier over the fact that I was-i giving blood, and not she, than aoout anything else. Very quickly, a trorp of well-trained volunteers and nurses aides took my name and address; fed me one small glass of juice; took my temperature and pulse; weighed me, and led me to trie next table. Here is where it really begar. Number 4 which wc-:
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