Logan High School - Amphion Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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that first game was finally played, Baltimore won. The next four games were won by Pittsburgh with the help of Willie Stargell, MVP of the series. The Utah Jazz, originally the New Orleans Jazz was a new NBA franchise to Utah. In New Orleans they had the worst record in the league, but after many trades by the management they improved steadily by midseason. Unexpected visitors The Christmas invasion of Afghanistan by Russia sparked a major controversy, not only about the consequences of the Russian act, but also doubts of Russian integrity. For this reason President Carter protested the holding of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He urged the International Olympic Committee to consider canceling or moving the games. Possible sites for the summer games included Greece, the original home of the Olympics, and Montreal, site of the 1976 Olympics. With the summer Olympics still up in the air, the Winter Olympics went on in Lake Placid, New York. Even here the news was not all good, for two of America’s hope for the gold, Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner could not compete after Gardner suffered a torn muscle in practice. Eric Heiden won five gold medals. Top stories of the decade: National 1. Watergate, Resignation of President Nixon The scandal of the Watergate break-in led to the first resignation of a U.S. President in 1974. 2. Energy Shortage, Price of Gold A shortage of oil caused long gas lines and lower temperatures as the price of gold soared past $800 an ounce. 3. Kent State Four Kent State students killed in an anti-war rally by the National Guard. 4. Guyana People’s Temple Leader Jim Jones caused the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan then coaxed 900 followers into mass suicide. 5. Test Tube Baby Test Tube Baby’’ Louise Brown born in England in July 1978. Utah Sophomore Paul Cazier. USU President Stanford Cazier and Senior John Cazier 1. Execution of Gary Gilmore Gary Gilmore, executed at Utah State Prison in 1977, was the first man to be executed in the U.S. since 1967. 2. Black’s Priesthood Announcement from LDS Church on June 8, 1978, that Blacks would be admitted into the Priesthood. 3. Mass Suicide Seven members of the Immanuel David family killed in a suicide leap from a Salt Lake City hotel. One survivor. 4. Hi-Fi Murders Three people brutally murdered in the basement of an Ogden Hi-Fi Shop during robbery. Two survivors. 5. Howard Hughes’ Will A number of ’Hughes’ wills showed up, including one stating Melvin Dummar, Utah gas station attendant, heir to Hughes’ estate. New USU head In less than a year of living in Logan, University President Stanford Cazier has given 55 talks, an average of two a week. Cazier was named new President of Utah State in 1979 after he and his family lived in Chico, California, for eight years. His sons, John, a senior, and Paul, a sophomore, attend Logan High. They admit that returning to Logan was different, but they really like it. John and Paul, who are involved in football, track and jazz band felt that it was much easier to get involved at Logan than at Chico. Pres. Cazier spends about 95% of his time on the job and enjoys living on Campus because of the easy access to the University where he spends his time. Current Events 29

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r r rvt. EE v en t s Sports State and local stories 1. PCB — Due to the mistake of a Montana packing company that let PCB into chicken feed, Ritewood Egg Corporation destroyed thousands of chickens. 2. Record Precipitation — The long awaited rain finally came but left many Cache Valley occupants wishing for not so much. 3. USU gets a new president — Stanford Cazier named President after Glen Taggart’s many productive years. 4. Fund raising for Logan Hospital — Logan Hospital’s fund raising was the largest in the history of the valley. 5. Intermountain Power Project — Proposed coal-fired power plant brings controversy between local and state governments. 6. Widen U S. 89 — The Logan efforts to widen canyon road brings opposition from environmental groups. 16-hour operation Five months before their second birthday, twin girls were able to see each others faces for the first time in their young lives. Nineteen month old Lisa and Elisa Hansen who were born joined at the top of the head were separated in a 16-hour operation at the U. of U. Medical Center. This operation had never before been successful with Siamese twins joined at the top of the head. Doctors divided the brain tissue shared by the two girls, and they were soon learning to walk for the first time. Floods When the long awaited moisture finally came, many wondered if it would ever leave. After years of drought, a year of record precipitation and the ensuing floods served to be quite a surprise. After the first flood, which washed out roadways and eroded farmlands, Cache Valley felt it had had enough. Though the Valley was not named a disaster Super Bowl XIV was a confrontation between the Los Angeles Rams and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rams were in their first Super Bowl appearance. Pittsburgh in their fourth Super Bowl came out triumphant for the third time as Terry Bradshaw proved too good for the Los Angeles Defense, and Pittsburgh won the game 34-17. The World Series got off to a poor start as the first game of the series was rained out, a series first. When Football thrilled sports fans across the nation. v' : Heavy rainfall caused problems for vehicles throughout the valley. area, aid was applied for. When the second downpour began in February, basements were flooded and 30% of Clarkston’s townspeople could not leave their driveways. The flooding was worse the second time around as First Street in Mendon turned into a river. But the long-awaited rain had come. 28 Current Events

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 Undisputed fact: Seniors are awesome! remarked Kip Meacham when he was asked about this year's stu-dentbody. Juniors and sophomores would undoubtedly think otherwise, but that's all because of class pride. While sophomores spent their first year trying to fit into the unfamiliar world of high school, the junior class took pride in announcing, The best has come — we re 81.” Seniors summed it all up simply, but strongly, with 80 Has Class.