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

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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.

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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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he 1977-78 academic year for the Bay City Public School District got off to a late start contemplating a teacher strike which lasted two weeks. The main issues were class size, salary and family health care. Teachers wound up taking no pay increase for the next three years, class size soared until courts ordered Elementery class size to be thirty students or less and final settlements on health -insurance was to use the same program as in previous years. The day after Thanksgiving Bay City greeted the joyous Christmas season with a dynamic new light display in Battery Park. The morning of December 10, a tragedy beyond belief occurred in downtown Bay City. The famous Wenonah building erupted in flames which destroyed the complete structure. The disaster resulted in nearly a dozen fatalities and over forty casualties. , The new year gusted in with freezing temperatures and plenty of snow. January marked the worst blizzard in Bay City since 1967, coincidentally on the same day. Just five years ago the Board of Directors of Mercy and General Hospitals decided to merge as one. This year the opening of the new Bay Medical Center was celebrated and full services for the community were made available. The widening of Trumbull was blocked by petition and even the widening of the intersection was opposed as too much. Bay City hired a consultant to come up with a design for a revitalized central business district. Working with the Downtown Authority a plan will be drawn up with recommendations for better building and space utilization, parking facilities, street alignments and transit service. A grant of 519,974,375 was given to Bay City for construction of sewer facilities by the Environmental Protection Agency. This money will ,Ji g N help finance the S333,400,000 Phase Two of the project to upgrade sewage collection and storage facilities. These funds are in addition to 3.5 million for federal funds for the project. The state is to furnish S22 million with the rest coming from the tax payers. eg!