Dalton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dalton, GA)

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As American citizens, Daltonians kept up with (or couldn't escape) national and world issues. On May 14, 1973, Skylab, America's first experimental space station, was launched into orbit to make studies in solar—physics, geography, and medicine. Meanwhile, the South was excited by frequent reports of the mysterious Uniden- tified Flying Objects. For over a month in the fall, strange sightings of outer space ships thrilled people to the point of having U.F.O. parties and staying up until 12:00 or 1:00 a.m. to catch a glimpse of the multicolored light in the sky, Winter brought the anticipation of the light that would cover one tenth of the midnight sky-Comet Kohoutek-later nicknamed the Edsel Comet for its failure to show. Its only display was a whisper of light for those with special viewing instruments. In the meantime, the Watergate Affair was being thoroughly driven into the ground, but fresh offspringing scandals occurred every few weeks, relieving the monotony. Vice- President Agnew resigned October 10, and was replaced by Gerald Ford, while cries of Impeach Nixon! resounded throughout the nation. The general attitude of the public was The White House is in a mess and the people turned to more pending matters . .

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As the year progressed, people were startled by the soaring prices of almost all products. Terms such as in- flation , cost of living , and second depression were com- mon-and haunting. Shortages of meat, milk, paper, and many other products raised prices even more, and forced family budgets to tighten considerably. Then came the biggest blow of all-the Energy Crisis. Because of poor relations with the Arabs, much of America's oil supply was cut, causing a reduction of energy supplies, including auto- mobile fuel, electricity, and gas heating. Innumberable compensations for the gas shortage had to be enforced. The Georgia General Assembly passed the bill em- phasized by the Federal Govern- ment to lower the highway speed limit to fifty-five miles per hour; schools and factories had to honor the demands to save electricity; thousands of Ameri- cans traded in luxury cars for small foreign cars that used less gas; others stubbornly refused to believe the presence of a crisis and carried on their usual way of life. As a whole, how- ever, there lay a common con- cern for the livelihood of the country. 13