Prince George High School - Peerage Yearbook (Prince George, VA)

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of information to headline evening reports. Chemical Capital of the South signs changed to Kepone Capital of the South!! Keep on Truckin'! turned into Kepone Truckin'! Big named Congressmen even came to town for first hand information and set up shop in Hopewell High School auditorium to add to the Kepone deluge. Picking out their own obstacles, suddenly everyone became clumsy. Crutches, arms in slings, and conspicuous limps invaded halls, upstairs and down. Whether they came from cow pasture football or legitimate sources, aches and pains accompanied the accident equip- ment. Five minutes early with crutches to beat the hall rush no longer beat it. Weather forecasts didn't cooperate either. For the first year ever, snow flurry promises turned to rain. With no snow before the groundhog saw his shadow, hopefuls couldn't even pull off a day or two for flooding when semester break rains threatened low lying county roads. ln a year when it all turned upside down, PG'ers found they had to condition themselves for any- thing since the unusual became the usual and visa versa. MIDSEMESTER BREAK FLOODS bring rain up to the hubcaps of workhour rush vehicles on route 36 roadway. All ALONE, bus 421, crumbled from first semester wreck, sits abandoned in bus shop lot waiting for insurance adiusters. 22? gg Sssa Qt

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BLACK TOPPING, brick laying, and window replacing accompanies surprise shop blow up. The demolished building slowly returned to its old self as workers began repairs. PORPPER UP AGAINST LOBBY WALLS, cripples crowd the hallways for publicity photo as casts and crutches came into season. Terror seized bus shop work- ers and concerned onlookers as they watched the wrecker pull in the Prince George County Public Schools bus Ml. Everyone out, no one could believe the no injury report, especially after look- ing at the damages. Amazement lingered on faces as they gazed at the one-time shop. As local fire officials roped off the damage, the administration set up temporary changes. The sudden explosion left car drivers without regular beside-the-shop parking spaces and moved the smoking area to the front of the school. Vocational students evacuated to the library, lunchroom, orjunior high substitue workshop. KEPONE. . .that's what everybody talked and talked and talked about. lt's in the water, it's in the air, is it in me? The pesticide ingredient publicity put Hopewell in the news and on the national map. Nightly newsmen found a new bit ALL A CLUTTER! Hopewell High's auditorium houses Kepone Congressional Subcommittee one day hearing before returning to big city Washington. MASKS A MUST, chemical testers bundle up for protection to keep out stray Kepone contaminants.

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sion, Q o I GLIMPSE OF APPROVAL, lohn Randolph checks over just handed plastic package contents. MATCHED UP. Dancing partners Wayne jones and Susan Dubberly mix into junior crowd. PICKET WORK. Paul Linton nails up mini white fence decorations before final set up. PUNCH TALK. Server Eileen McCoy directs thirsty partiers to food and drink refreshers. 30 Ring Dance