Missouri Western State University - Griffon Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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CRAIG DRATH CRAIG DRATH CRAIG DRATH j , if it B B JOHN CARMODY flower leftj As the pillars have been set in place to form the base of the West Belt highway bridge, St. Joseph will soon have a new major access route. Providing the only means to reach the popular night spots of Kan- sas, the Pony Express Bridge fupper leftl has always been a much traveled thoroughfare by some MWSC students. The Sphinx immor- talized on a relief in the Missouri Theatre fupper rightl has years of heritage in this city. Architecture of years-gone-by can still be seen ador- ning edifices of local homes, such as this lion's head sculpture fcenter rightl found on a home on Hall Street. Winding expansions of the West Belt highway yet-to-be, create a dizzying effect as viewed from the west part of the town, looking towards the Missouri River flower rightj. BEN WEDDLE lf

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1979 and beyond? Good news was hard to find in 1978-1979. As the world turned, sometimes so did the stomach. Overhanging the economy like a burgeoning radioactive cloud, infla- tion burned away the dollar's value causing an abandonment of the neo- Keynesian drive for more growth and full employment. Tight money became the cry, as liberals in Congress caught that old time finan- cial religion from the tax revolt that swept in from the West. The Proposition 13 rebellion was first attacked by California Governor Jerry Brown as a . . . ripoff. . .a consumer fraud! Brown then flip- flopped into a born-again tax con- servative to try to ride fiscal restraint into the White House. The Administration moved to con- tain churning inflation with Carter's seven percent solution. Alfred Kahn, the nation's number one infla- tion fighter, when chided for even saying the word recession, began substituting the word banana George Meany, labor leader supreme, growled and snarled defiance at the so-called voluntary guidelines. The White House collec- tively sighed and blushed in relief as it announced the first major labor settlement was within its seven per- cent per year guideline - and that 7 !0 x 3 years equaled 2706. Through this period, OPEC lpetroleum exporting countriesl kept pressure on the superheated U.S. economy by periodic price increases until gasoline at the pumps in some places reached 99.9 cents per gallon. Americans suddenly awoke to find that foreigners were buying up the country - ranches, banks, super- markets, department stores, fac- tories and farms. Such diverse things as mustard, Kool cigarettes, Foster-Grant sunglasses, Libby canned goods, Alka Seltzer, Clorox were now the property of people who did not even speak English. By Christmas of 1978, inflation hit ten percent and the anti-inflation Czar Kahn was quoted as saying - lt's God-awful! Those words of wisdom, however, failed to slow the insidious climb to over 13 percent by the first of May. Egypt's Sadat and lsrael's Begin continued all year to waltz back and forth between peace and war with Mr. Carter calling the tunes at Camp David summit meetings. The nuptials were finally posted, after a fashion, when Uncle Sam donated the dowry in the form of some five billion dollars of additional aid and a guarantee of all the oil needed by lsrael for the next 15 years. For his efforts, Anwar Sadat was roundly cursed by his former Arabian bedfellows as they turned another screw on the price of petroleum. Joy radiated from the White House as Jimmy Carter's full-ivory smile reflected the Near East agreement. In the Eternal City, a dense crowd in Saint Peter's Square murmured. The sound crescendoed into a roar. The smoke is white - we have a Pope! It was September when John Paul I slipped into the shoes of the fisherman. Thirty-four days later he was dead. The world was shocked. The Cardinals met again. After seven ballots, the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years emerged on the balcony to the cry of 100,000 voices - Polonia! Polonia! Karol Wojtyla, Cardinal of Poland, became Bishop of Flome and the 264th successor to Saint Peter. His chosen name: John Paul ll. The world, except perhaps for the puzzled Communists, was happy. In an insane fit of jungle madness, one Reverend Jim Jones, self- appointed Messiah of the People's Temple cult of San Francisco, led 900 of his followers in drinking strawberry flavor Kool-aid laced with cyanide. This orgy of murder and suicide took place at the settlement at Jonestown Guyana. Gentleman Jim insisted that women and children go first on this pilgrimage to heaven. Echoing across the world from Iran was the roar of Marg bar Shar! lDeath to the Shahl as the Moslem religion resurrected its strength to overthrow that country's powerful dictator. The Ayatollah Khomeini prayed and plotted in Paris as a