Burns High School - Blazes Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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When you go to get your class ring, you just might notice that the average price on a good day would be $169. However, this was when gold was going for $325 an ounce. That's a lot more than Mr. Craig Jenkins paid. When he got his class ring in 1972, he paid $32 for it. : Now gold is going for around $600 an ounce sf pombe after it dropped from over $800. Jewelry stores L pA tal and collectors are trying to buy gold and silver from those who will sell, for average prices. With the falling of economy, the value of the dollar bill continued to decrease. People lost faith in paper money and began buying more and more gold. This along with other things in the inflation crisis create a very complex situation, that is hard to understand. Some say — you can’t have low unemployment without high inflation. 79 This is what we have now, so get your class ring while you can! 99¢ Gold ——— ee Sitting in gas lines, waiting for your turn. Rising A newly organized hockey team performed prices take every penny you have. First your brilliantly at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid allowance, then your paycheck, and now your this past year, defeating Russia, and then lunch! What will go next?! Finland, to win the gold medal. In 1979 gas prices rose steadily from 65 cents Zooming by in his gold suit, Eric Heiden of the to well over a dollar and they are still climbing. U.S., set a world record by taking first place in Students at Burns began to feel pressure because every men’s speedskating event and bringing of driving to school and home, and of course home five gold medals. ‘taking laps’’ on the weekends in Shelby. 70 “The Year In Review’

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ALL WRAPPED UP BOTTOM ROW: Richard Carson, Kevin Davis, Ron McKee, Todd Davis, Loy Hoffman, Larry Goodman, Kevin Rankin. TOP ROW: George. Rost, Greg McDougal, Mr. Cabiness, Rufus Thompson, Johnny Thompson, Tim Green, Barry McKee. TOP LEFT: Victor Smith attempts to break down his opponent Greg Everhart of East Gaston with a near arm far ankle. LEFT: Charles Brooks stacks Devaugan Howell of Shelby for a pin in the first period. Wrestling 69

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EC a ee ee the “Year in Review’ xx -——— | Sapa ms, spree clemson micas H | ] Ry ares ey Y a 33 at phe Reunited | Pledge My Love — Peaches and Herb What a Fool Believes Minute By Minute — Doobie Brothers | Know I'll Never Love This Way Again — Dionne Warwick We Are Family — Sister Sledge The Devil Went Down To Georgia — Charlie Daniel’s Band After The Love Is Gone — Earth Wind and Fire Bad Girl Hot Stuff — Donna Summer She Believes In Me The Gambler — Kenny Rogers Chuck E.’s In Love — Ricky Lee Jones Honesty — Billy Joel My Sharona — The Knack Don’t Bring Me Down — ELO Second Time Around — Shalamar Along with the big hit ‘’Rocky’’ came the physical Just Another Brick In The Wall fitness craze. Books on exercise and living longer — Pink Floyd were published and they really got people into Are You Ready their sweatsuits! Junior Randy McKee gets into — Teri DeSario and H.W. Casey the act as he jogs around the track. “The Year In Review’ 71