Columbus High School - Cohiscan Yearbook (Columbus, GA)

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26 Spirit Boosters All the Way This year’s varsity squad is composed of ten girls. They are under the leadership of Mrs. Faulk, captain Stacy Grantham and co-captain Angela Williams. This summer the girls attended the National Cheerlead- ing Association Camp at the University of Georgia, the largest NCA camp in Georgia. While attending the camp, our girls won the spirit stick every night, 4 blue superior ribbons, and 1 red excellent ribbon. These girls continued to generate spirit throughout the school year by their enthusiastic contributions to pep ral- lies and games. Captain — Stacy Grantham: Co-Captain Angela Williams. The varsity squad: Linda Wilbom. Stacy Grantham. Rhonda Clenney. Angela Williams. Kim Whitehurst. Kyle O’Dell. Elaine Clayton. Mary Zimmerman. Quinn Harris. Susan Blake. Sabrina Berry and Lauren Brown were a new attraction appearing with the varsity cheerleaders this year.

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Happening his masses. LOCAL NEWS. . . Locally, in the past year, there have been many changes. To start off the school year, three new schools opened: Shaw High, Spencer High, and Fort Junior High. Columbus also has a new mayor — Harry Jackson. Down- town was renovated and a new trade center built in an attempt to attract trade to the downtown area. In North Columbus, the new interstate, 1-185 has been com- pleted giving us a faster way of getting to Atlanta. The Columbus Metropolitan Airport has been expanding. Its expansion has meant the closing of Morningside Elementary and the relocation of many families. It has brought many protests and petitions against the expansion plan. STATE NEWS. . . Busbee was re-elected, and for the first time in Georgia’s history a governor has succeeded him- self. Norwood Pearce and Her- man Talmadge have had prob- lems. Pearce lost to Ted Land in the election and he failed to file his tax returns. Talmadge had unaccounted for campaign funds. The 1978 year has been action- packed for the sport’s fan in Georgia. The Altanta Flames, Hawks and Falcons made the play-offs. The Falcons had their best season yet, making it to the play-offs as a wild card team. They pulled off quite a few mira- cles this year and are looking for a better season next year. In the play-offs they were finally stop- ped by Dallas. Georgia and Georgia Tech went to bowls, and Alabama was ranked 1. There was a massive tractor- cade to Atlanta by farmers who were being hard pressed by rising prices. quers Dallas 7? U fiFdUST NVENTEDTH ■IRE3T0NE 00... Steeler Passing Game Provides the Edge In 35-31 Super Bowl Win ’sNot Distant, WASHINGTON (AP) - Starting today, Piuto is n longer the most-distan planet in our solar system The smallest known plane is edging inside the orbit o Neptune, and will stay then for the next 20 years. Th shift in positions will mak Neptune the planet mos distant from the Sun. The U.S. Naval Observa tory says scientists believt this event takes place even 248 years. But since Plutt was discovered less than 5( years ago, this is .he firs Anti-Smoking Report Ready For Release WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve months after HEW Sec- retary Joseph A. Califano Jr. launched a war against ciga- rettes as “Public Health Enemy No. 1, skeptics are saying he has produced a lot of smoke but not much fire. Califano will try to light a fire Thursday when HEW releases a second Surgeon General’s Report on Smbking and Health. The 1,200-page second edition comes on the 15th anniversary of the Jan. 11, 1964, surgeon general’s report that linked smoking to lung cancer and sent shivers up the spines of millions of American smokers. But officials at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare say the new report will not include startling new scientific evidence about smoking, nor will it provide any breakthrough on ways to quit smoking. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., castigated Califano Tuesday for not letting Congress see the report in advance. Few of more than a dozen initiatives against smoking that Califano promised a year ago have produced visiole results. No new federal taxes or regulations have been imposed on cigarettes. However, the Agriculture Department has reported a drop in Americans’ cigarette consumption in 1978. and Ca- lifano is likely to claim credit for that. Americans inhaled 615 billion cigarettes in 1978, down 2 billion from 1977 and the first drop in 10 years. Per capita adult smoking was the lowest in 20 years: 3.965 cigarettes, down from 4,051 in 1977. Califano’s anti-smoking drive created a political storm in tobacco-growing states. Kentucky’s state legislature called for his resignation. But anti-sfhoking groups and th Tobacco Institute agreed at the start that Califano’s program was less sweeping than expected. “As far as 1 can tell, the war hasn’t even started,’’ says John Banzhaf, director of Action on Smoking and Health. Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe of the Health Research Group says the problem is not the HEW secretary, but his boss “President Carter made two outrageous speeches sup porting tobacco. He’s taken an irresponsible stand or smoking,” charges Wolfe. At Winston-Salem, N.C., last March, Carter said there was “a well-balanced campaign to protect the health o our nation, which is Joe Califano’s direct responsibility .. and to preserve the health and stability of the tobacct industry, which is under Bob Bergland. the secretary ol agriculture, and myself.” “I don’t think there needs to be any concern about that and nobody need fear the facts about tobacco use,” sai( the president, adding that the research “will make the us of tobacco in the future even more safe than it has been ir the past.” Carter toured a tobacco warehouse in Wilson, N.C., or Aug. 5 and made similar remarks. 25

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We owe much thanks to the varsity cheerleaders for promoting spirit. Rhonda Clenny puts her all into cheering.