Burns High School - Blazes Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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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

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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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Kk Kk kk kk Kk The Decade TE 70 The first year of the decade was one focused on war. January | a lottery drawing was held for the selection of men to be drafted into service in the Vietnam War. Many U.S. students opposed military advancements into Cambodia. On May 4 four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio as National Guard men fired their M-1 rifles into a group of antiwar demonstrators. All U.S. ground troops were withdrawn from Vietnam on April 29. It was time to “Let the sunshine ina On the 50th anniversary of their winning the right to vote, American women pressed new demands. This old but new movement was called ‘‘Women’‘s Lib’’ and later became a major U.S. issue. TI Busing, among other things, was a big issue in 1971. On April 20 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld busing of children as a means of achieving racially balanced schools. Patricia Nixon, President Nixon’s daughter, and Edward Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden. The minimum voting age for all federal, state and local elections became 18 years as the 26th amendment was ratified. Charles Manson and three women members of his ‘’family”’ were sentenced to death in March in Los Angeles for the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others. The grading periods changed from six-weeks to nine-weeks in the Cleveland County schools. Fashions consisted of hot pants and mini-shirts. 72 President Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit China while in office. As a result of this trip, the Chinese gave President Nixon two giant pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing. Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama was sho t and seriously wounded while campaigning for the Democratic Nomination for President. Hurricane Agnes caused extensive flooding in the upper Piedmont region of North Carolina. President Nixon in a landslide victory, won re-election to second term. Spiro T. Agnew continued as vice-president. 1971 saw the deaths of J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, Dan ‘Hoss Cartwright”’ Blocker, and the 33rd president of the United States, Harry Truman. 73 The Watergate scandal highlighted 1973. On February 7, by a 70-0 vote, the U.S. Senate adapted a resolution establishing a seven-member select committee to probe the Watergate bugging case and other, purported acts of political sabotage in the 1972 presidential campaign. As a result of this, many top officials either resigned or were put out of office. This included Vice-president Spiro T. Agnew who was replaced by Gerald R. Ford. Inflation and the energy crisis touched lightly in North Carolina. Most service stations closed on Sundays and Americans also boycotted meat. 1973 brought the deaths of Lyndon B. Johnson, Betty Grable, and Jim Crose. Also ‘The Waltons” aired and became an American favorite. 74 All American David Thompson of Shelby, Tommy Burleson, and Monte Towe, led the N.C. State University basketball team to the NCAA championship. After much criticism and many accusations concerning Watergate, President Nixon resigned. Vice-President Gerald R. Ford then became the first president who was not elected. An Eastern Airlines DC9 jet plowed into a wooded hillside three miles short of the runway at Charlotte’s Municipal Airport, killing 72 people. Patty Hearst, the daughter of Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped February 4 by the SLA. Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record with 715 hits. String bikinis and t-shirts were the “latest things”’ in fashion. rT 72 ‘The Decade In Review”