Pinson Valley High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Pinson, AL)

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i • food • food • food • food That Good Food That We Eat From the time people are old enough to stop eating baby food they have been fussed at, talked to, and taught about the foods they should and should not eat. Depend- ing on the persistence of individual parents, they may or may not win the war with their kids. But by looking around any given school campus, it is obvious that no one is making a clean sweep of the battles. It seems that virtually everyone, young and old love to snack when they get the chance. Many authori- ties believe that the diets of most Americans are unhealthy. This very well may be true. Possibbly the day will come when diets are under- stood to the point that eyeryone will know the poison from the nutri- tious stuff. But, in the meantime, junk food tastes good and many economists would agree that the money young people spend on it is great for the national economy. So Pinson, enjoy your poison!

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In the life of a school, growth and change take a large toll on Its charac- ter. Such change is evident at Pinson Valley as the still young building begins to feel the consistently growing squeeze of overcrowding Like a snake, it gradually takes up slack in our building ' s frame While Pinson Valley may be far from being too crowded, its fate seems to be inevitable as the com- munity grows and freshman classes become bigger and bigger Evidence of such change is not diffi- cult to see One does not need a sheet of statistics to understand A trip to any stairwell, hall, or door will provide all the needed evidence Students attempt to go to their lockers while hustling traffic stumbles over them. As one, certain, anonymous person said. This place is getting to be wall-to- wal

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