Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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T.V. Or Mot T.V. . . This year old man inflation touched us all where it hurt the most—in our pocket- books. The four dollar plus ticket price to see John Belushi snarf jello made us won- der if it was really worthwhile. Many of us sat through class wondering how the girl with the overbite and frizzy hair always saw the latest movies. We didn’t know that she could watch them in her home on Channel One. Channel One is a subsidiary of Skaggs Telecommunications Service, Inc. It is a non-cable pay t.v., that runs movies before they are shown on the networks. Channel One has been in the valley for several years, but just this year has dramatically increased its number of subscribers. “It’s better than going to the movies and spending four-fifty. Besides I can sit home with my own popcorn and coke, said Becky Paul. Channel One cuts inflation down to size. Costing $15.75 per month, there are approximately twenty first-run movies each month. The offerings of Channel One are not just limited to the people who enjoy mov- ies. Classic pictures and concerts are of- fered for those who enjoy culture. Boring Saturday and Sunday afternoons can be combated by watching WGN, Channel 9 from Chicago, that runs during Channel One off hours—2:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Channel is similar to KSTG Channel 20. Many students that had insomnia and could only sleep through classes and not at night, enjoyed the all-night movies offered. The last movie on Channel One begins around midnight, then Channel 9 continues throughout the night. One of the biggest controversies that surrounded Channel One concerned alleg- edly pornographic movies. Porno movies did not appear on Channel One as many believed. However, semi nudity and harsh language are not edited from the original version as on the networks. What one sees in the theaters he gets on the home screen. The strongest rating an offered movie will have is R”. Every month there are ap- proximately 11 R's , 15 PG’s , 10 G’s and 7 NR’s . Channel One maintains a firm policy of not running R movies be- fore 8:00 p.m. On-air previews and printed schedules are available to help the viewer decide what to watch. Libby Doddridge replied, I think it's a good deal. I wish I had it.’ So when you are tired of watching a rerun for the third time and commercials are getting you down, you now have a third choice: turn off the tub, put on the Atari, or turn to Channel One. You must decide: T.V. or not T.V.? Ron Jacobsen Janet Jacobson Ken Jacobson Art Raider Shirley Jake Steve Jansen Claudia Jensen Clinton Jensen Doug Jensen JefT Jensen Lisa Jensen Sherri Jensen Wendy Jensen Les Jenson Karalee Jewkes Jay Jimenez Thomas Joel Bryce John Dirk Johnson Leslie Johnson Michelle Johnson Russ Johnson Catherine Jones Cory Jones Glenda Jones John Jones Melanie Jones Ron Jones Scott Jones Mark Jordan Sara Jorgensen Gerald Ju Godfrey-Ju • 143

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From Radar To Blackboards . . . “I do it to keep out of mischief, said brand new physics teacher. Mr. Rod Grif- fin. Mr. Griffin is a meteorologist for Chan- nel Four on the weekends; he finds his schedule busy, but satisfactory. This is his first year of teaching high school; he has spent thirteen of his four teen years of teaching at colleges such as the University of Nevada. Las Vegas, Mis souri, and Texas. Question: Snow is very important to the economy here in Utah, and it seems that we had a very early snowfall in the winter of '80 '81. Did it fall unusually early? Answer: Well actually, the snow has fallen much earlier this year than it did last. Last winter ('80- 81) the first snowfall came on the twenty-second of October, and it was a big one! There were about six inches of snow in the valley. That was the biggest one of the year. Question: What was the most unusual weather conditions of the ’80-'81 winter? Answer: It was the fog which we started to get late in December and we went for about a seven-week period where it was foggy all the time. In fact, last year is the worst winter on record for fog. Question: Do you think we will get a lot of fog this year like we did in the '80 81 year? Answer: This year I don't think that we re going to get much fog, because the weath er will be more active; we will have more storms, and when there are storms there is no fog build-up. Question: What is a typical Utah winter? Answer: It consists of cold, crisp air, and stable conditions interspersed with some pretty good storms that dump quite a bit of snow in the mountains. We don't get a lot of valley snowfall here, at least we haven’t for the past twenty years. Question: What are some typical sum- mer conditions here in Utah? Answer: We don’t get much rain in the summer, except in the form of scattered thunder showers, and they go from May through October or so; and the rain is very spotty -in one area, you may get a whole lot of rain, and in another area, you may get none. It really aggravates me in a way because at the airport, where the rain fall is recorded, they may not get a drop of rain, while in the valley, we may be getting two or three inches dumped on us so what gets recorded? No rain! Question: Which area in Utah gets the most rain? Answer: The mountains get a lot more than the valley, both rain and snow; and since most of the moisture comes from the mountains, that’s what keeps us going around here. Question: What is the most dangerous weather occurance in Utah? Answer: In terms of damage and loss of life, the most dangerous thing in Utah is not the tornado, not the hurricane; it's the flash flood. Question: What causes flash floods? Answer: Flash floods occur with thunder- storms usually, when a whole lot of rain comes down in a short time and it all goes roaring down the canyon or roaring down the river bed. Every year we have several people drowned by flash floods. Another dangerous condition in Utah is lightning. People don’t fear it enough. This summer, two people were killed by lightning. Question: Which month usually has the least amount of rainfall in Utah? Answer: October is usually about the dri- est month of the year. This October we have already had over two inches of rain which is almost double the normal amount. We're having a strange month! Darlene Kasper Lorena Kasper Heidi Keefer Mark Keegan Kevin Kener Darrell Kenneth Donald Kimball Deeann King Brian Kochevar Dee Kohlschein Kristin Kone Sonja Koning Chris Krohn Peter Kuhn Tonya Kurt Willie Lambert Dean Langston Shawni Larsen David Larson Paul Latimer Todd Lee Jayne Lehenbauer Kelli Lehman Sharon Lemon Michele Leonard Tina Leyba Tom Lighthiser Chet Linton Douglas Lloyd Linda Lloyd Mark Logan Monique Longstaff 144 • Seniors