Pauls Valley High School - Panther Yearbook (Pauls Valley, OK)

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N will 1979-80 Volume 52 Published by The Yearbook Class Pauls Valley High School Pauls Valley, Oklahoma 73075

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ko GN 5114! gf. and bad news be- M iwiss Unconcerned with the problems of the world, Shelley Ford always has a smile a mile wide. With rising gasoline prices and new unleaded requirements, Leisa Woods finds 'Fill'er up gets costlier each time she visits the gas pump. 2-opening ba comes no big deal Have you ever listened to the news? Do you know what you hear? Bad News, Bad, Bad, Bad. I The world has problems as nation upon nation begins to starve economically, Money value drops worldwide. I The US. has problems, hostile Iranians with outrageous oil prices and American hostages, I Oklahoma has problems with teacher walk-outs and senseless killings. I Even Pauls Valley, the Valley of Promise, is affected. In spite of its location in the center of a top oil producing area, the 40'X1 increase in energy prices settled upon Garvin County too. But if you think that's bad . .. How would you like to go to a school that has been called everything from a space station to a dairy barn? With a school like that, who could worry about problems? X

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Those in love with the Valley as an agricultural goldmine continue to find familiar fields slowly replaced by cement and asphalt as industrialization creeps city-vvide. eff ' if ' Q31 -1-,,,,,,,, 1 Local grocery stores provide jobs so necessary to the social survival of students. jon Mackey puts in his eight dealing with carts and produce. Valley of Promise signs on each major highway told visitors what they could expect from the town. While the signs brought both chuckles and snarls in reaction, Ben Bosworth, Bubba Byrd, and Cindy Huckabaa agree they wouldn't want to be anywhere else but home. opening-3