The Morrison Chronicle
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Summer, 2001 Vol. IV no.7  END OF SUMMER EDITION
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MORRISON  SCHOOL
LOSES DR.BENES!!
  Total chaos now reigns at the Morrison Public School with the announcement that their Instructional Technology Consultant, the legendary Dr. Clarance Benes, has left to teach history at rival school Frontier High School!  Superintendent Dennis Casey is devastated with the news..."I just don't know what to do...I mean, you know, he advanced us up here several decades in our computer and tech skills (now computer skill levels at Morrison are approaching the year 1987 standards) and he was the greatest thing that ever happened to this school, except of course, me winning all of those football games..."  Casey's concerns are that now that  Benes has left to work with a school that is at the 22nd century level with their technology that his teachers will fall back into old habits..."I saw DAVID CARTMELL coming into the office asking for a supply of white-out in order to do some word processing and then there is JOE SINDELAR,,, well, he is starting to look at his computer kind of funny and is asking RANDY SHIEVER how to turned it on!"  PAT WAYMAN thinks the crisis is a bit overrated.  "Now that I am Eaglet 1st Class, certified by Dr.Benes himself, I can handle most computer problems, especially those web pages problems."  Of course we have Janice and Diane but they are overworked with their current duties so I can help.  I still have Dr.Benes on Yahoo instant messenger and I have gotten real fast at typing HELP!" 
HOW FRONTIER 
SCHOOL STOLE BENES
  Before Casey gets into big trouble for losing Benes to rival school Frontier, the details of the transfer might help Casey in his defense before the board of education.  You see, Morrison Schools couldn't afford to hire Benes in the first place, I mean a professional with all of his credentials, etc. so Benes agreed to work for peanuts...out of loyalty to his former school and the opportunity to keep a eye on JOE SINDELAR for more stories.  There was just one catch... besides the pathetic token amount of money he received each month, the Morrison school, or its employees, or Casey himself had to FEED HIM!  He literally "will teach for food." Well former Morrisonite and now Superintendent STEVE SHIEVER of Frontier Schools knew better than to offer free food with the job offer.  "We offered him a ton of money BUT no free food...  We may be rich up here but not THAT rich!" So while the peanut salary and free food at the Morrison School had nearly busted the budget (they did have a special bond issue) STEVE SHIEVER who always had several more bricks to his load than DENNIS CASEY, negotiated the trade of the millennium and got Benes for a fraction of the nation's GNP! 
ELDON BURK WILL CUT HAIR FOR TOMATOES!
  Speaking of working for food, ELDON BURK has been known to cut hair for tomatoes!  It is not known how long this offer may last so you had better hurry and take your load of tomatoes down to his Lela suburb Barber shop. He might even take them in on a trade for a new saddle!
Be sure to visit Dr. Benes's Murder Mystery home page.
SMOKEY RETURNS TO OKLAHOMA!
  The editor feline buddy Smokey has return to OK after 6 years of devouring Kentucky's state bird, the Cardinal.  OK residents have nothing to fear since the state bird, the Scissor-tail Flycatcher, apparently has a bigger bird brain than the Cardinal and most Kentuckians and can't be captured by the incredibly fast Smokey.
J & J AUTO'S BUSINESS UP 25%!
  With the return of Clarance Benes to the area on a more permanent bases, business has jumped at least 25% at J & J's AUTO.  "There for awhile he had two Ford pickups and now he's got a Honda, and it is all we can do just to keep one of them running.  He's traveling all over the states for his businesses and extra curricular activities and it may require hiring more help.
DWIGHT RYMER HOLDS NEW RECORD FOR KNEE SURGERIES!
   Morrison has always had its champions and heroes, well we can add yet another to the list.  RETIRED BANKER DWIGHT RYMER holds the undisputed title of having the most knee surgeries in the shortest time of any human on earth!  (Well, at least in these parts)  His weekly knee surgeries earned him this title and came as a result of the old saying, "You can't keep a good man down." although his wife MARY RYMER wonders what that saying has to do with him.... 
ITS BEEN HOT!!!
  With temperatures over 100 degrees most days recently, the editor is reminded of the, "It's hotter than _________" lines.  Well, lately it has been hotter than JOE SINDELAR after getting hit in his big ugly nose by a RANDOMLY THROWN snowball a few years ago!