Dalton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dalton, GA)

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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

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When the country's time zone was moved back an hour earlier than usual because of the Energy Crisis, Dalton High became one of the hun- dreds of schools that began each day before dawn. Although the whole idea seemed purposeless to many, and driving hazards increased in- stantly (remember the four strange poles in the parking lot?), most stu- dents enjoyed the change of being greeted each morning with a sunrise. This emergency, that doubled gas prices and required low-temperature heating and conservative lighting, fi- nally brought the arrogant public down to reality, and, for the first time since World War II, through a winter of caution and concern, the American people were truly united. M