Maur Hill High School - Maurite Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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Royal’s Victorious in World Series In Kansas City, you could hear the blaring of car horns, firecrackers, screaming, singing and painting their faces blue and white as people jammed midtown to celebrate the Royals 11 -0 win to the St. Louis Cardinals. This win helped the Royals clinch the World Series Title. The Royals refused to die in this series. This team has something extra inside them. George Brett said “this team should be remembered as a team that wouldn’t give up Survey Shows Students Profitable to Area Merchants In the fall the Maurite staff did a survey of the Maur Hill and Academy students. The survey showed how much money the students spend around to area merchants. The following is the results of the survey. Percentage figures are given based on 294 returned surveys. 1. Do you get an allowance? 56%, yes. If so, how much per week? Under $5, 5%; $5- $10, 19%; over $10, 37%. 2. Do you have a job? 40%, yes. If so how much do you make per week? Under $20, 10%; $20-40,12 %; $40-60,9 %; over $60,12 %. 3. Do you have a personal charge acount? 19%-yes 4. Do you use your parents’ charge card? 30%-yes 5. Do you have a checking account? 38% - yes 6. Do you have a savings account? 75%- yes 7. How much per week do you save? $7 8. Do you own a car? 27%-yes 9. Do you use another individual’s car on a regular basis? 45% yes 10. Do you own: a stereo, 65%-yes; a motorcycle, 4%-yes; a typewriter, 43%-yes; a camera, 60%-yes. 11. How much do you spend on clothing per month? $45 12. How much per week do you spend on entertainment? $19 13. How much do you spend a week at Pamida? $15; TG Y? $7 14. How much per month do you spend on: tapes or albums, $12; books, $3.25; magazines, $4.50. 15. How much per week do you spend on grooming (hair cuts, hair-styles,etc.)? $33 16. Do you use the coupons you find in the newspaper? 55%, rarely; 23,%. sometimes; 6%, usually. 17. What amount per month do you spend on: car and cycle expenses (gas, etc. maintenance, etc.) $30; gifts (Christmas, showers, birthdays, etc.) $17; hobbies (horses, stamps, etc) S6; school supplies (notebooks, paper, pencils, etc.) $6; florists services $6. and as a team with a great pitching staff.” They won the American League Champion- ship Series after being behind three games to one. They did the same in the World Series, they won the Series after losing two games at home. No team has ever done that before. The Royals or anyone else never dreamed that they would do this. They were survivals of two teams that were substancial favorites because they were rock solid teams, compared to the Royals who had lots of problems. The fans were maybe the only ones that believed a little. A sign was carried through the stands saying “Oh Ye of Little Faith.” This year’s World Series was special since both teams were from Missouri. The series was named “1-70” or “Show Me State Series” by many people. The game results were: Oct. 19 Cardinals- 3, Royals-1, Oct. 20 Cardinals-4, Royals-2, Oct. 23 Cardinals-1, Royals-6, Oct. 24 Cardi- nals-3, Royals-0. Oct. 26 Cardinals-1, Royals- 6, Oc. 26 Cardinals-1, Royals-2 and Oct. 267 Cardials-0, Royals-11. Brett said, “I couldn’t have taken one more close game, after winning the sixth close game 2-1.” Holiday Honoring King On January 20, 1986, Many Americans celebrated the first federal Holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Thousands of people have gathered and marched to honor this great man in Washing- ton, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Honolulu and New Orleans. In Illinois, Rhode Island and Minnesota church bells rang and the speech “I have a dream” by King was recited by radio stations. There were three nationally tele- vised birthday parties for King many stars participated in the celebration. Some of the stars include Bob Dylan, Joan Glaz, Bill Crosby, Harry Bellofonte, Quincy Jones and Reverend Jesse Jackson. By law the third Monday of January is in honor of King. He was born January 15, 1929 and assasinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. In Memphis, people gathered at the place where King was killed, it was the parking lot of the Lorraine Motel. It was announced that there would be a moment honoring King on the Southside corner of Chicago where King with the poor during the mid-60’s. People marched in Birmingham, Alabama to Ingrant Park where a monument of King was unveiled and where King spoke and marched in the 1960’s. The King holiday symbolizes “that we’ve finally recognized legally that we are all created equal,” said Judge Alberto Mieca St. Paul. Some people protested the holiday. Ku Klux Klansmen held a parade and cross burning at Pulaske, Tenn. where the original Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1965. DISASTER SWEEPS SPACE TECH. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Challenger exploded into a giant fireball in the sky moments after liftoff on January 28, apparently killing all seven crew members including schoolteach- er Christa McAuliffe. There was no announcement of the fate of the crew but it appeared there was no way they could survive the exposion. The 1.2 billion space-craft, one of four in NASA’s fleet appeared to be completely destroyed. This was the first in flight disaster in 56 U.S. manned space missions, although three astronauts were killed in a 1967 launch pad explosion during the Appollo program. The explosion was a devastating setback for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This mission would have been the 25 successful mission in slightly less than five years. Among those who witnessed the explosion were McAuliffe’s attorney-husband Steve and their two children Scott and Caroline, who were watching at Cape Canaveral. Also at the Cape were Scott’s third grade classmates from Concord N.H. McAuliffe’s parents, Ed and Grace Corrigan, of Farmington Mass, were also at Cape Canveral. McAuliffe, 37, had been selected from 11,146 teacher applicants to be the first to fly in the NASA (Citizen in Space) program. All 1,200 students at Mrs. McAuliffe’s Concord High School were cheering the televised launch when the teacher yelled for them to be silent because something appeared to be wrong. The ship had risen spectacularly off the launch pad at 11:38 a.m., after a series of weather and technical delays, and was climbing smoothly trailing a 700-geyser of fire when it suddenly erupted into a huge fireball and shot out of control. There were seven crew members aboard, includ- ing Mrs. McAuliffe, selected from the more than 11,000 applicants. The other crew members were commander Francis R. Scobee, 46, pilot Michael J. Smith, 40; Judith Resnik, 36; Ronald E. McNair, 35; Ellison S. Onizuka, 39; and Gregory B. Jarvis, 41. Ships and helicopters raced to the area and the control center said paramedics had leaped into the water. There was no indication of how much the shuttle was intact. After the explosion the shuttle appeared to still be flying and suddenly jolted out of control and plunged toward the ocean. This flight was the second of a record fifteen flights scheduled for this year. It will now be months before NASA will be able to determine the cause of the malfuncation and they must do that before they can send another shuttle up. NASA said the explosion occurred about 60 seconds after lift-off when the astronauts began to throttle their engines to maximum power. After throttling them down to a 60 percent level at 35 second in order to reduce the forces of gravity during liftoff. (Story By Mike Lasater.) 25

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World and National Review Star War Killer Earthquake Aggrevate Soviets Shakes Mexico In a war that has grown much colder, the United States Strategic Defense Initiative or in other words, “Star Wars”, defense plan has done nothing to in- crease the climate. In the eyes of the Soviet Union, Star Wars is a plot the Russians say that is against them, to accelerate the arms race and move the battle into outer space. Yet the White House argues that it is only trying to catch up with the Soviets. Though we are working on a more sophisticated type of weapon, it is not completed so the Soviets remain ahead by a considerable margin. Who knows, we may be wasting billions of dollars for nothing because we aren’t even sure that the sophisticated piece of weaponry will even work. Though Star Wars is called a weapon, it is really just a type of sattelite that will prevent Soviet missiles from entering U.S. air space. You see, the sattelite is being developed to disarm the warheads practically before they leave the ground. With a defensive weapon that will destroy incoming missiles before they “come in”, the United States has taken a giant leap up to the Soviets. The Star Wars plan is a more peaceful weapon that it seems the Soviets want to get involved with. Reagan feels it is a weapon to try and stop the arms race and not to increase it than the Kremlin feels it will. President Reagan insisted that Star Wars was a bargaining chip for the summit. Well, the meeting was had and the topic of Star Wars was discussed, but when the summit between the superpow- ers Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorba- chev came to a close in Geneva, the Soviets said no arms agreement would be possible unless the United States alters the Star Wars plan. What they are really saying is that they don’t want us to put them in a position where they have no way of winning. As it seems, the Soviets are on the run. The Star Wars defense plan enables the United States to drastically catch up in an arms race in which it was so far behind. What bothers the Soviet Union so much is the superiority of the United States technology. Once the United States makes a firm commitment to build a strategic defense weapon, as it did to put a man on the moon, the Soviets will inevitably lose the race. And in the Star Wars plan that the United States has already started to develop, the United States has a huge advantage. So in an arms race that has been Soviet dominated for years, Star Wars is help- ing the American Empire “strike back”. (Story by Mike Lutz) It is said to be one of the worst disasters in Mexico’s history. It de- stroyed as much as half of Mexico City’s metropolitan area. In case you can’t figure it out, the disaster is the Earthquake that happenen in late September. The earthquake struck on Thurs- day, September 28, measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale causing incredible damage and an innumerable number of deaths. Then as rescurers were rummaging through the rubble trying to help people trapped under all of the collapsed buildings, another quake struck, this time measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. Just big enough to delay the rescuing and topple over any half way falling buildings. After the second quake the death toll was predicted to be between 10 and 20 thousand per- sons and possibly more than that. There is one big problem that Mexico is going to have to face when everything gets cleared up, and that is the effect that the quake will have on Mexico’s already severely bad econo- my. All is not lost though, as many nations are trying to help by sending money and supplies to the crippled nation. In the United States, two senators put in bills to give Mexico up to $75 million in aid. Another problem with Mexico is the fact that in Mexico City where the earthquake seemed to have done the most damage, there is an ever present population problem. Mexico City is ithe worlds largest metropolitan area with a population of 18 million, and it continues to grow by about 560,000 per year. Recently some people have been moving out of the city because of the lack of work and other things such as food and shelter. But with the recent disas- ter, more people are moving back to the city for the first time to try and find jobs. In fact, the number of people moving back to the city is about 30 percent greater than the number of people moving out. Many people were already leaving Mexico City because they knew about the threat of the earthquakes.You see, the city is built on an ancient lake bed which is actually just water logged clay. That is one of the main reasons there was so much damage done. Whenthe earthquake hit, Mexico City bounced around like a big bowl of jelly. Even before the quake buildings were starting to give in to the soft soil. Some buildings have fell as much as six feet into the earth. Maybe the worst thing to come out of the disaster was the fact that two of the city’s hospitals collapsed trapping thousands of helpless people. Overall Mexico is surviving. Many of the city’s aspects re- turned to normal. But the suffer- ing will continue for years to come, and many of the dead will never be found. (Story by Mike Lutz) PEOPLE YOU KNOW People are crazy. You bet they’re intriguing. Of course they are famous, and rich, they’ve undoubtedly got to be rich too. Their names and faces were all over 1985 magazine covers, front pages, and billboards. And perhaps most commonly seen on home and movie screens. And what’s more, each of them, in his or her own special way are severe pains in the you know what. Maybe it would be nice to bring some of these faces into the open, as if they already aren’t. It is almost impossible to avoid them. Joan Rivers: You can dress her up but you can’t shut her up. Robin Leach: “Slithered his way to the top by elevating glitterati voyeurism to a new low”. George Will: “Most prominent of the seasons knee-jerk neo-cons.” Hulk Hogan: “At last! A white Mr T!” Lionel Richie: “At last! A black Barry Manilow!” Phil Donahue: “Phil is ... what’s the word I Want? Smarmy? Patroniz ing? Pandering? Help me out here You in the back.'A push wimp?’ Sure but ... yes? ‘An unctuous nerd? Thank you” Rainbow brite Dolls: “Smurfs weren’t squeaky enough. Carebears weren’t icky enough. He Man wasn’t sufficiently dumb. Oh, no! We needed this. She’s so good and cute and nice that Strawberry Shortcake wants to put spiders down her dress. (Story by Mike Lutz)

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