Glass High School - Crest Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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SRE NFSS SO hy ‘ bh, ‘ He re “eit Xe ae % 1 ! 4 “ es % WHAT'S AFFORDABLE |; ar WHAT'S NOT ; Stamps — $.25 Yearbook — $22 GTI — $14,000 Can drink — $.50 Pack of cigarettes — $1.20 Blank cassette — $2.50 Average college tuition in Va. — $5000 Movie — $4 Gallon of gas — $.89 Nike Air tennis shoes — $75 Concert ticket — $15 Rented VCR movie — $2.50 Big Mac — $1.49 Haircut — $15 girls $9 guys Roll of color film (24) — $4.75 Developing — $10.00 Hallmark Greeting Card — $1.50 Newspaper — $.25 Tuxedo Rental — $70 Prom Dress — $100-125 Prom Tickets — $15 Computer disk — $1 i 4 ‘ j | | | THE LEGAL CORNER In a unique and changing year the Virginia General As- sembly made some radical and somewhat surprising decisions. In the interest of most people (students are people too!) was the lottery bill proposed by Northern Virginian Delegates. To the surprise of many this bill was easily passed and adopted by the people in a referendum. The lottery is scheduled to be- gin July 1. Another controver- sial bill that was surprisingly successful at the Assembly was the 65mph speed limit bill. This law will go into effect July 1 also. To counteract the accidents that legislators saw the bill caus- ing, a new seat-belt policy went into effect on New Year’s Day requiring all front seat passen- gers as well as the driver to wear seat belts at all times. Other bills passed included a bill calling for a referendum of Para-mutual betting and on increasing the cost of postage from $.22 to $.25. Many legislators felt that this year’s assembly was very unusual but productive. — Chip Tucker Mini-Mag 29

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ON 7 D IN SMOKE On Saturday, January 30, smoke bellowed from the school walls as spectators helplessly watched. When the thirty fire and rescue workers and twenty policemen had toiled for about forty-five minutes to control the blaze, the north pod of Linkhorne Elementary School had burned. The fire destroyed six classrooms and did heavy damage to four others, leaving the stains of black smoke all over the school walls. Working through the night and all day Sunday, and giving up their Super Bowl time, workers prepared the school for the next school day. Despite their brilliant effort, 180 of the 630 school students had to be moved to the 28 Mini-Mag Villa Maria Academy, vacated ever since the Catholic school was closed several years ago. Students were back in school on the following Monday and those students moved to the Villa were asking questions and breaking in their “Linkhorne Villa.’’ Teachers from other schools donated textbooks and teachers at their “new” school each received a “care package” of sup- plies, including glue, scissors, chalk, and other items. Said Merle Herndon, principal of Linkhorne Elementary, “The school climate really has been positive. Everyone worked together. They’ve rolled with the punches.” — Jason Campbell ” UTSIDE THE LONG SHORT OF {7 In the fall, the fashion world predicted that skirts would be shorter by spring, moving to- wards the mini-minis of the ’60’s. But people didn’t accept this wave of fashion. Although some hemlines decreased, the mini tended to get longer, showing more knee and less thigh. Long skirts were also in style again this year for those who chose not to wear the mini. Wool, or wool look-alikes, re- placed denim as the popular material for those longer skirts. Paralleling skirt lengths, long hair seemed to be the fad. — Molly Howerton

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IN “ UTSIDE BLACK MONDAY If somebody said, “The bot- tom dropped out of Wall Street,” one would immediately associate the 1929 Stock Market crash with the statement. But on Octo- ber 19, 1987, the bottom again dropped out of the stock mar- ket. Many reasons were given for the 508 point drop to nearly 1700, including high interest rates, the budget deficit, the low dollar, and the trade deficit. There was talk of a recession, even a depression, but that was not to be. Black Monday wore off rather quickly and in April the market was hovering around 2000 points again. But the crash did not go unnoticed. A flimsy budget package was immediately Unimvated developed by Congress and the Administration. A man in Flor- ida, after losing nearly all his fortune, went into the Merrill- Lynch brokerage firm and shot and killed his broker and him- self. Even though there was a 23 percent drop in stock market prices and the destruction of approximately 500 billion dol- lars in stock market wealth, much of the excessive trading which had played the market was eliminated. Several months after the crash, the economy proved to be fairly strong again and more balanced than at the time of the crash. — Jason Campbell Guests The Texas Inn, better known as the Tea-Room to students who eat there regularly, had a very large guest thrown through the front of the building on February 11th. No it wasn’t a person, buta pick-up truck. This occurred when a semi-truck loaded with lumber lost control going down Fifth Street and barreled into the parking lot hitting three parked cars. One of these cars was knocked through the front wall of the building, stopping 30) Mini-Mag only a few feet in front of the counter. Luckily no-one inside or out was seriously injured. The driver of the truck had a slight back injury after his truck stopped, hanging sideways off the side wall. He was treated and released from the hospital later in the day. The accident kept customers out for five days and much to the students’ relief, the Tea-Room re-opened for busi- ness once again. — Stephen Royer OCT.19, 1987 ©