King High School - Clarion Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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by Martha Sunion Each year of our lives we see products double, triple, and even quadruple in price. For example, a piece of bubble gum. once a penny, is now three cents. This list will allow you to see the 1982 prices of popular goods. Using this list in the years to come, you will be able to readily compare prices. Note, however, that some of these items may not even exist then! 16 oz. Pepsi 40C gallon of milk $2.27 candy bar 35C loaf of bread 93C Levi jeans $23.00 piece of bubble gum 3C Tampa Tribune Sunday edition 50C concert ticket $13.00 gold (per oz.) 332.00 paperback book $1.95 silver (per oz.) S7.28 tennis shoes $19.99 gallon of gasoline $1.19 lopsiders $26.99 school lunch $1.00 movie ticket $3.50 McDonald's hamburger 59C car S8000.00 postage stamp 20c record album $8.99 tea a toaa by Martha Sunt on Every weekday people tuned in to the three major networks from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to watch their favorite soap operas. By far General Hospital was the most popular soap for millions of viewers. Luke Spencer. Tony Geary, and Laura Baldwin. Genie Francis, drew a large following as they went from rapist and victim to hero and heroine to man and wife. Elizabeth Taylor made guest appearenccs on several episodes during the wedding festivities. Luke and Lara's wedding proved to be almost as popular as that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana's. Luke and Laura's imense popularity began in 1980 and peaked at the point of their marriage. Luke and l.aura were never the average soap opera couple. They first met when Luke raped Laura on a disco dance floor and they stowed away on a private yacht cn route to a south sea island while uncovering shady diamond dealings. No matter what, their lives provided an exciting, exotic slice of life. Luke and Laura may fade into the woodwork, however. Both Tony Geary and Genie Francis plan to leave General Hospital when their contracts expire. ON STRIKE f By Robin Payne Strikes brought about by miyor conflicts in ideas, opinions, and sometimes national welfare, became prominent in the past year. Baseball owners and players clashed in a strike that lasted fifty days and forced the cancellation of 713 games. The major disagreement that resulted in the walkout was the players' belief their salaries would be limited by the policy of owners to protect only fifteen to eighteen of their players. Another main issue involved was the compensation an owner should receive when one of his players becomes a free agent and then signs with a different leant. A settle- ment agreed upon by Kenneth Moffett. Federal Mediator, and Marvin Miller. Players Association head, was reached on August 7. 1981, at 5:45 a.m.. after sixteen hours of bargaining. Even though the settlement did not end the bargaining power of free agents or the amount of their salaries, the contract will bring peace to the sport for at least three years. On August 3. 1981. 13.000air traffic controllers left their posts, demanding from the government raises and benefits which would equal $34.000 a year per person. Robert Poli. head of the air traffic controller's union. PATCO. con- tended odd hours, tension, and demanding responsibilities caused physical and mental stress to the controllers. President Regan stood firm in his refusal to recognize the strike on the grounds that striking against the federal govern- ment is illegal. After a 68 hour ultimatum was issued, only 1.200 returned to their positions. At the end of 68 hours, the government began further actions which included the jailing of five union leaders, and fines against the union that would equal as much as 32 million within a week. Although companies supported by air traffic suffered losses of up to 50.850.000 dollars a day. within days most flights were operating on schedule. One airport official reported two days into the strike that 80% of all flights were operating as scheduled. Hunger strikes organized by the Irish Republican Army took place in May at The Ulster’s Maze prison in Northern Ireland. The strike protested the treat- ment by the British government of people the IRA believed to be political prisoners. But the British Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher, viewed these men only as common criminals. Nine men died over a three month period for the demands of the IRA. A potential tenth victim was saved by doctors ordered by his mother to intervene. After four families saved their relatives from death, the remaining six hunger strikers reluctantly agreed to end their ordeal. Even though the strike was not truly successful, it resulted in favorable reactions toward the IRA. including a surge of contributions and reemits to bolster activities planned in the future. F'car of the growing power of Poland's Solidarity union caused martial law to be imposed on all of Poland the week of December 28. 1981. Lech Walesa, the head of Solidarity and a hero of the Polish people, was arrested along with many others. General Wojcicch Jamzelski of the Polish army believed he had little choice other than martial law to stop Solidarity's growing demands, including a call for a national referendum on whether or not the current government should remain in power. Strikes began in August to protest the meager rations of food throughout the country. On August 17th. 100 tracks, buses, and taxis paraded through downtown Warsaw toward Communist party headquarters, where they were halted. But the crowd remained for fifty hours until a planned strike closed virtually every office and workshop in Warsaw. Strikes had taken place in at least six cities and in Silesia, an industrial and coalmining center, approximately one million workers refused to work. Protests and strikes ended as tanks rolled across Poland and the entire country lost communication with each other and the rest of the world. 240 Magazine

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Having Most Leader- ship is the ability to moti- vate those around you. This year's male winner of Most Leadership. Warren Smith, helped his fellow classmate as President of his class his sophomore and senior years. This year’s female win- ner. Alexandra Burke, ex- hibited leadership in activities she was involved in. Some of these include Junior Civitan. Thespians. Student Council. and Learned Lions. ( po- (j yJeo u Involved in being Most Courteous is a cheerful smile for a newcomer and a warm greeting for a fellow classmate. This year’s male winner, Dung Ngo, partici- pated in the science club, National Beta Club, and National Honor Society. This year's female win- ner, Margie Mcitin, exhibi- ted her cordiality in the many things she did. Some of these included swim- ming and diving, participa- tion in Student Council and membership in Ki- wanettes. Senior Notables 239

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 7 by Mantu Sunloo On Wednesday. July 29. 1981 at 11:00 a.m.. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was joined in holy matrimony with Lady Diana Spencer. One out of every six people in the world viewed the telecasted wedding. Two thousand five hundred people attended the affair which was held at Saint Paul's Cathedral. London. England. The ceremony lasted approximately seventy minutes and was offici- ated by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Saint Paul's. Prince Charles worked with Barry Rose and his two hundred and sixty- four member choir to compose several of the anthems and hymns sung at the wedding. Diana's ring was forged from a Welsh gold used only for the royal court’s wedding bands. However, the event was not a double ring cere- mony. due to strict Anglican practice and royal tradition. From the wedding sprung the Charles and Diana industry. Two British comcmcrativc wedding stamps were issued in honor of the occasion. A silver crown with the silohuettes of Diana and Charles embellished upon it was cast. Plates, mugs, vases, and silver sets depicted the royal event. Souvenirs ranging from beer mats and coin watches to 45's titled Di- ana” and tin badges marked Don't do it. Di were seen in shops all over England. The ceremony was nicknamed The Wedding of the Century. Like- wise the details of lady Diana's gown were labblcd the secret of the century by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, the designers. The Prince and Princes of Wales. Diana will never be called Princess Diana because she was not born into the position, arc expecting their first child in June of 1982. ulnlcs CUBE by Trey McDuffie With a staggering 43,252.003.274,489.856.000 possible combinations and only one solution. Rubik's cube has captured the minds of millions of people here and abroad. The six-sided challenge which consists of twen- ty-six smaller cubes became a national fixation over night. The object: scramble the six colored sides of red. yellow, blue, white, orange, and green and return the cube to it’s original form, with each side a single color. Simple as it sounds, Rubik's device possesses a will of its own. Through twists and turns it mutilates its faces until they become multi- colored impossibilities. The cube was invented by Hungarian architectural engineer Emo Rubik. In the summer of 1974, Rubik began toying with the idea of a three dimensional object that could rotate about three axes. Turning the thcoictical design floating in his head into a reality posed a problem: how docs one devise a mechanism capable of converting complicated move- ments into simple twists and turns that will change the arrangement of squares on the faces of an actual cube? When Rubik finally developed a working model, it took him several weeks to solve his own puzzle. He obtained a patent in 1975 and by 1979 at least one version had been introduced to the United Stales. By 1981 cubes were the rage and cubists began popping up all over the country. on nsw F3onuiE3 by Shuoo Edwardi On the morning of April 12. 1980. the dawn of a new space age broke when the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Florida. Nobody could believe that it had finally lifted off. The shuttle was scheduled to make its first flight over a year ago, in March of 1979. However, the flight had to be postponed because of problems with the main rocket engines and with the heat insulation tiles, which protect the craft from the extreme heat of friction caused by re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. These problems were finally resolved, and the first flight of the shuttle was highly successful, with only a few minor complications. The main purpose of the first shuttle flight was to test the craft to make sure all systems were in perfect working order. The Columbia was piloted by John Young and Robert Crippen. who spent 55 hours testing all systems of the craft. After circling the world 36 times, the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on the Mojave Desert in California. The Columbia is a reusable space craft that can be used to carry into orbit such things as communications satellites, military surveillance hardware, scientific laboratories, earth-scanning cameras, and a giant telescope. It is possible that the space shuttle will be making twelve flights a year by 1984. and as many as 40 flights a year by 1990. Already three new crafts. Atlantis. Challenger, and Discovery arc being con- structed. Many plans have already been made for the Columbia throughout the 80's. It is scheduled to take up a tracking and date-relay satellite in 1982. Eventually, the shuttle will replace all other American satellite launching vehicles. It will even be able to bring a satellite that has failed to work back down to earth for servicing. In 1983. there are plans for the shuttle to carry a flying laboratory into orbit. Many industries want to conduct experiments in space to discover what effect zero gravity will have on the results. In 1985. powerful, remote-controlled telescope is to be built in space. With this telescope, astronomers expect to see 350 times farther into space than is possible with a telescope on the earth's surface, because their view will not be obstructed by the earth's atmosphere. The shuttle program intends to put some 200 Americans into orbit by the end of 1987. The astronaut corps will include women and minorities for the first time. Some officials even speculate that by 1990, people will travel on the shuttle routinely — as on an airplane. The shuttle was built at the Rockwell Corporation Facility in Palmdale. California. After the shuttle was completed, it was transported to Cape Canaveral on top of a Boeing 747. The total cost of the Columbia was nine billion dollars, and each flight it makes costs another 25 million dollars. The orbitcr. external fuel tank, and solid-rocket boosters stand 184 feet tall — a little longer than a jet airliner. It weighs about 4.5 million pounds and has a 60 foot payload bay that can stow up to 65,000 pounds of cargo. The shuttle bums more than four tons of fuel a second — enough to fill 18 backyard swimming pools in just eight minutes. The Columbia’s first historic flight marks the beginning of a new space age for man. The dream of traveling to distant planets and perhaps even colonizing them is no longer a dream. It is only a matter of time until technology will enable man to travel to other planets. At the turn of the century, nobody would have have believed it was possible to travel to the stars. The thought of using the airplane as a common means of trans- portation was unheard of. None could conceive of a craft that could orbit the earth and travel to the moon. These advances took place in less that 70 years; it is difficult now for us to imagine what advances may occur during the next century. The gateway to the final frontier has finally been opened. Magazine 241