Burns High School - Blazes Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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in Review’ K Kk KKwn«x x» 75 The varsity football team had the most successful season in Burns’ history. The team finished 6-3-1 and defeated both Shelby and Crest during the season. The Burns High School Band with 125 members and under the direction of Micheal Matheny, placed first in the Carousel Parade and recieved its first superior rating. “Jaws”, the movie about the shark who couldn’t get enough to eat, broke box office records. After an internationally publicized trial in Raleigh, Joan Little is acquitted of murder in the icepick slaying of a Beaufort County jailer accused of forcing her to perform a sex act. U.S. Postal rates went up from ten-cents to thirteen cents on December 31. C—O OOOOOEEw, Ee 76 America celebrated its 200th birthday with a year-long celebration. The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina death-penalty law, sparing the lives of 116 men and women on Death Row in Raleigh. Excelling in athletics at Burns were the Lady Bulldogs who took the Southwestern Conference title and the baseball team who finished second in their conference. Jim Hunt was elected governor as Democrats regained control of state government in November elections. In the presidential primary, Republicans boosted Ronald Reagen, Democrats favored Jimmy Carter over George Wallace. Nine inmates die and 2] others are injured as fire swept through the state prison in McDowell County. 77 Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt was shot and paralyzed as a result of pornography. Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president. “Rocky” starring Sylvester Stallone won the Best Picture Award and inspired a physical fitness craze in America. “Roots” by Alex Haley gave many Americans the desire to find their own ‘roots’. Condemned murderer Gary Gilmore was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison. The ‘‘Son of Sam” suspect, David Berkowitz, was arraigned on murder charges. Horacia Goycoolea, an exchange student from Chile visited Burns. Bjorn Borg became the youngest man to ever win at Wimbleton. On August 16, the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, died. 78 The Lady Bulldogs basketball team placed second in the state with a 30-2 record. The deaths of two popes, “Granpa Walton”, and “Morris the Cat’’ and the birth of the world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown accompanied 1978. Also, Mickey Mouse turned 50. Disco music and dancing became very popular. The Bee Gees and John Travolta were the front runners with “Saturday Night Fever’. Lawndale’s own Alicia Bridges gained national fame as her disco song “’| Love the Nightlife’” made the Top’ Ten according to Billboard Magazine. Favorite movies were “Animal House” and ““Halloween”’. Knobby made his (or its) appearance. Jim Jones led 913 people to death in Guyana. 719 Tragedy came to Shelby in 1979 as a city block exploded killing five persons, including four firemen. James W. Hutchins, a 50 year-old textile worker was given the death sentence on charges growing out of the slaying of two Rutherford County deputies and a highway patrolman. Fifteen members of the Klu Klux Klan faced charges in the slaying of five members of the Communist Worker’s Party during an anti-Klan rally at Greensboro. Cleveland County students found themselves going to school on Saturday in order to make up snow days. The gasoline shortage plus sharply rising fuel prices reduced travel to North Carolina resorts and sparked a strike by independent truckers which hindered marketing. “The Decade In Review” 73

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