Gazing into Star Number One, the vision became more clear of Phyllis Ritchie busily sticking together the new style of paper throw-away clothes.

My eye, straying just a jaunt to the right saw another star with an exceptional twinkle. Sure enough working decipheringly long on a light for the inside of a woman' purse was Harold Foland. Sure hope he succeeds!

Harold guided me to the Milky Way, and just as I was about to enter the winding path into it, I saw a large sign bearing the name Julie Hunt . Inside I found Julie sitting calmly watching three children while her silverware was cleaning. Yes, she had invented "Julie's Silver Polish" for dishwashers.

Wandering a bit further I heard the strangest sound and even the Milky Way tremored. Knocking on the closest door, who answered but George Sego. After rattling off my story George calmly told me that was his invention -- the alarm clock. I had not noticed, but George was in his bathrobe. George's alarm shakes him at twelve-noon everyday. An alarm clock with electronic hands! I declare!

George told me that Suzanne Sissel, the girl with the sore throat, lived down on the fifth star of Milky Way Street. Suzanne hadn't changed a bit. She invited me in for a short visit as her throat was collapsing again. But the main thing she managed to say was she had invented an electronic heat pad for throats. Handy?

Suzanne told me I could find Duane Mooberry on Star 26, Milky Way Street. I was very, very tired by this time. I journeyed to Duane's by Stratoplane. After arriving at the airport, I decided to eat before going any farther and who do you suppose was behind the good counter? Yes, Barry Walker! When I asked for the menu, Barry said they had no menu for he had invented Walker's One Pill Meal. This was certainly different, but it did do the trick.

When the Cloud Pad pulled up behind Duane's car which was sitting in the driveway, I heard the most terrible racket. Duane darted out of the door of his home and stopped abruptly when he saw it was a "Cloud Bab." He said that shrieking stopped people before they ran into the back of his car. Very clever?

While Duane and I were gabbing, the telphone rang, and she wanted me to call at her home. As I stepped outside, there was Anne Still. She urged me to sit out on the lawn with her, and sip iced tea. I commented on how pleasing her lawn appeared, and she said it was artificial. No mowing, no weed pulling, and no dandelions.

I finally got away and ran the doorbell at Sharon's. While Sharon and I were ------------- the telephone rang. On the telephone screen it showed every listener-inner. The listener's surely hung up fast when they knew they were appearing on the screen. Quite an invention, a televised listener-inner telephone. Retiring for the night was really a relief after a day of exhausting travel.

After chatting over breakfast, and several cups of coffee, I headed for James Harris' farm at Constellation Perseus. I found James sitting under a tree while he watched his potatoes being dug by his new invention, the potato digger. It digs, washes, dries, and sacks the potatoes all in one process. It was a necessary invention with a 100 acre potato farm. James told me that Raymond lived on Constellation Regal.

Even though it had begun to rain, Raymond was picking corn. I hated to delay him, but he said it would make no difference because he invented an all-weather corn picker. It had an aluminum electronic heated cab; and it would go through ice, snow, sleet, and rain. This would come in handy.

After standing out in the rain, I began to sneeze and cough. I remembered Raymond mentioning something about Darrell Hall being on Planet X. Taking off in my strato-plane, I decided to locate Darrell. After landing at the airport, I wandered around and enjoyed the sights.

I went by a stand in the airport and there was Gary Grose selling air-conditioned pillows for cushioned-cool flight. Gary said he enjoyed his work immensely, because there was an air-line hostess that stopped off at every flight. Gary said that on the third floor of the airport Kent Kirkpatrick sold built-in shoe shiner for shoes. I took the elevator up to the third floor and located Kent. He had several customers at the time and I sat down to wait in line. As the sales slowed down, Kent identified me and sat down to visit. He said his shoe shiner, which was carried by the main shoe line, had really been a success. There was even a chain store in each section of the country entitled Kent's Shoe Shiner. Sales started picking up again as a new flight had landed.

I reached Darrell's home in a short time, he invited me in to introduce me to his wife and family. Darrell noticed my cough and sniffle and told me of his great discovery of medicated pop-sickles in place of cough drops. Darrell always was a great hand at cough drops!

Darrell told me that Jean Baker was an English teacher at Milky Way High. Knowing that school was still in session I went down to the school and tried to locate her. In all the hub-bub I wondered if she could possible be a teacher here. But she was and a great success at that. She had invented the thing many teachers need; a knowledge funnel, just place the funnel in the student's ear and pour in the information. No wonder Jean was a success!

Jean told me that Judy O'Dell was the secretary for the high school -- I could hardly figure this out, but as I talked to Jean I learned of her new key on the typewriter, the eraser. Now she and her family can live happily.

Judy mentioned the whereabouts of Maurice Gillespie He was situated in a department store in the linen section. Finally getting his attention for a moment, Maurice told me he had invented the new electric blanket for proportional body heat. It heats cold feet and shoulders.

Maurice told me that Dola Mercer also worked here in the hardware department. Dola was having her noon hour, therefore, we went out for lunch. In my conversation with Dola I learned of her family of five and Dola had also made a success at selling split triangular mops to get into all of the corners of your house.

I went shopping awhile. I hadn't gone far when a sharp flashing sign caught my eye -- "Bedier's Electronic Eye." Remembering Lloyd, I went in; sure enough there behind the counter was the big six-footer. Inquiring about his electronic eye, he took me back to basketball days and those good old referees. Ha! Ha! His electronic eye now refereed and saved a lot of games for people from bribed referees.

As Lloyd looked rather tired, I decided to go visit Ronnie Brown, who was, I gather, also very tired because he staggered to the door to greet me, and he had a real bad time staying awake as we conversed. After finding out his accomplishment, a non-disturb connection on the telephone, I was surprised that there was not one connected to the door. There'll probably be one there tomorrow morning after my visit tonight.

In Ronnie's sleepy conversation with me, I remember him mentioning something about Marguerite Priest. Looking in the telephone directory for her location I found she lived on 3rd and Little Dipper. Maggie was busily attending a set of triplets. She had invented a warming and cooling bottle compartment for a baby buggy. Very necessary.

While thumbing through a magazine, I saw an article written by Jerry Hightshoe. I decided to visit him first thing in the morning; now I went to a hotel where Irvin McDannel was the clerk. He told me that he had discovered a pill that made you just sick enough not to have to go to school and well enough to go bowling.

Arising early in the morning, I went over to the Big Dipper to see Jerry where we had a pleasant chat over hot chocolate. He said that he traveled a great deal. He had invented a pocket tape-recorder to get good information for his "Galaxy Gazette." He told me that Danny Hosfield would be in his office about now, so I ran down to see him.

Wow! What an office. After making an appointment to see him, I sat down to wait. Although he had invented a pencil that took dictation, he still had a young secretary. Still Danny.

Coming out into the world again, I was dazzled by the sign on Jan Holmes' woman's shop. W had a nice chat. She revealed her GREAT invention to me -- it is a spray that makes males invisible if sprayed with it. It could be handy or disastrous.

Jan Holmes told me that Peggy Baker lived on the opposite side of the Big Dipper. I took off for Peggy's where i found her working strenuously in her garden, which proved to be doing fine. Peggy had invented some beautiful flowers, she said she had planted with her invention, planting tool for bulbs, which worked like a miniature post-hole digger. I spent the night with Peggy, and while we were watching T.V., we saw that Kenny Baker was leaving on [a] foreign (planetary) affairs mission the next morning. I flew to his hotel immediately.

It was the Hotel Saturn. Kenny met me at the door and we were soon engrossed in a deeply intellectual conversation about his invention. Kenny said he rally enjoyed his work as a Plenipotintiary. His invention was a peace-maker, and is the greatest invention ever.

I headed for home as the end had come to my star gazing. The Stars of the SENIORS of GRAND VALLEY surely held a great future in store. I wish each Senior the most of happiness and success throughout his life.