Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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he year produced a great deal of activity on Capitol Hill. The 95th Congress has enacted several major pieces of legislation which affect the State of Michigan. Included are the Clean Air Amendment, The Water Pollution Control Act, The Public Works Jobs Bill and The Housing and Community Development Act. Solar energy is fast becoming a part of Michigan as shown by many buildings converting to that source of energy. The Saginaw Federal Bui1ding's solar collecter has beenproviding all the hot water and half the heating and cooling needs for the building. Solar energy will work in Michigan. Signs proclaiming Tests of drinking water in this establishment exceed a maximum contaminate level are being plastered on buildings throughout the state. Under new state and federal legislation public water supplies are required to have the quality tested every three months, and to notify consumers if test results exceed specific levels. Michigan ranked second among the states in the total number of state fishing licenses, tags, permits and stamps sold last year, and third in the sale of hunting licenses. -' The bowfin and gar, both found in Michigan waters, are a real pair of oldtimers having survived as a species without much change for '200 million years. Michigan will grow warmer in the next ten to twenty years claims Dr. David Gates of the University of Michigan. Gates also predicts from climate patterns that the Great Lake levels will fall and that Michigan's agricultural zones will shift northward during this period. B lk. ,. mf-alumnus

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Tourists find time to relax on Capitol Hill and admire our nation's Capitol in Washington D.C. Mr. Tobin and Principal Mr. Curtis break from their hectic schedules for an amusing chat in front of student Services. Students get away from classes and meet friends in the hallways. Here, Helen Johnson, Anne Niergarth and Caroline Liken talk about the latest news during their lunch hour. Northeast paralyzed many under sheets of ice and blankets of snow. Rampaging floods in Kansas washed away homes, cars and possessions. An erupting volcano in Hawaii lit the sky with fiery lava shooting 400 feet in the air. Man made catastrophes hit hard too. A night club fire in Kentucky killed 164. New York suffered its second blackout in twelve years. An elevated train plunged to the sidewalk in Chicago's downtown Loop, killing a dozen and injuring 160. Cheryl Teigs was named the highest paid fashion model with a fee of one-thousand dollars an hour. Anita Bryant fought the gays and was hit in the face with a pie. One after another the states are changing rape lawsto reflect the heinousness of the crime. Volunteers have established rape clinics and facilities for battered wives. Showbusiness staged a final act like none before. Elvis, the King of Rock, Bing Crosby, famed singer of White Christmas, Guy Lombardo, usher of the New Yearg Graucho Marx, whose mustache and bitten cigar were legend and Joan Crawford, famed actress and leading lady of 80+ movies all took their final curtain this year. Sports, movies and exhibits were among the entertainment sources for many Americans. The World Series was excitment for all as the batting sensation Reggie Jackson lead the Yankees to a win over the Dodgers. The young Steve Cauthen rode Affirmed to an exciting win in the 104th Kentucky Derby. Among the top box office movies in the nation were Star Wars, with its irresistible R2D2, C3PO, and the Lord Darth Vadarg Rocky, with its theme music and star Sylvester Stalloneg Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with its miraculous space ships and creatures which upped UFO sightings across the nation and Annie Hall, Woody Allen's new film. Americans all over the nation stood in lines for many hours to view the treasures of King Tut's Tomb exhibit which toured the U.S. Record albums were one of teenagers favorite buys. Such albums as Fleetwood Mac, Rumoursg Eagles, 'fHotel Californiaf' Led Zepplin, The Song Remains the Same were all top LP's in the charts.

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F 'NPW5' ...s Semors Kathi Curtiss and Heidi Higgs discuss the coming graduation events on the way to class. Tena Straub carefully copies notes during a lecture. Large ships from the world wide are a familiar sight in Michigan's Great Lakes. Dave Mielens anticipates naming clubs trump on his next turn during a lunch hour euchre game. . i. iti' . at 1 h I . ..v, - l x l Michigan will raise the drinking age to nineteen on December 3, 1978. This will be a trial one year run. The age may then either go back to eighteen or possibly up to twenty or twenty-one, depending on the outcome of this trial year. PBB trials went on throughout the year. Burial of the contaminated cattle in Oscoda County, particularly in Mio, has been fought by the citizens of that county, but Governor Milliken has stated that it will still be in that area. . The Michigan Wolverines once again made it to the Rose Bowl and once again came home very disappointed after losing the game, this time to Washington. ' The Upper Peninsula wants to become a separate state, but Governor Milliken desires to unite Michigan's Peninsulas in the State Motto. The current motto implies that there is only one peninsula. The current motto, Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoinam Cirsumspice translates from Latin to English as, If you seek a pleasant peninsula look about you. The motto dates from two years before the U.P. was tacked on to Michigan. The new motto would read, Si Quaeris Peninsulas Amoenas Circumspice, which translates, If you seek pleasant peninsulas, look about you. The seal was adopted by a constitutional convention in 1835, and the U.P. was added to the state in 1837 as a compensation for the loss of the so called Toledo Strip in a boundry dispute with Ohio.