Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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The Lady Producer David L. Wolper, who staged the extravagant opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics, planned the star studded celebration of the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday (July 4, 1986). At the ceremony the newly renovated Lady Liberty was unveiled. A 30-barge fireworks display and the simulta- neous swearing in of 25,000 new U.S. citizens were two of the highlights of the ceremony. Hands Across America On Sunday, May 25. 1986, the Hands Across America project (a monumentally ambitious plan to form a human chain from New York to California) took place. The pro- ject hoped to raise $50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry. It would have taken 55 million people to make a complete line along the looping, 4.152-mile route. Whether their contributions of at least $10 apiece and massive corporate assis- tance got the drive to its $50 million goal was not known. Ken Kragen. organizer of Hands Across America and its predecessor. We Are the World, said, It'll probably be three months or four before its all in. Information on local homeless and hunger organizations was passed out to people so that they could get involved. Organizers indicated that 60 percent of the profits would be donated to establish groups and 40 percent would be used to examine the causes of poverty. The line began in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty at New York's Battery Park. It meandered through 16 states and the District of Colum- bia, where it ran across the north portico of the White House and end- ed at the Queen Mary’s dock in Long Beach, California. In between was a cross section of American civilization reflecting the democratic as well as the bizarre. In Battery Park, a priest held the hand of a youth sporting a punk haircut. At the California-Arizona border. Senator Alan Cranston held hands with actress Bo Derek. In Maryland, more than 550 boaters lashed their crafts together and 100 scuba divers held hands underwater to keep the chain intact across the Susquihanna River. Even marriages took place as cou- ples got married in the line in Balti • more. New York. Phoenix, Ham- mond. Indiana, and in Memphis. The caplet replaced the Tylenol capsule. Tylenol Capsule Poisonings After the death of a 23-year-old woman who had taken cyanide-laced Tylenol. Johnson Johnson pulled Tylenol capsules off the market, stopped production of its other cap- sule products, and announced that from now on it would sell its non- prescription products only in pill form. The decision cost Johnson Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their pro- duction. To make up for its loss, the com- pany began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that John- son Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven people in the Chica- go area were poisoned by tainted Ty- lenol capsules. After that incident J J spent $50 million to recall 31 mil- lion bottles of Tylenol capsules. When it reintroduced the product two months later, it was in a more costly, triple-sealed package J J's sudden decision prompted the pharmaceutical industry to re-ex- amine its wide spread use of over- the-counter capsules, which now in- clude dozens of preparations ranging from Contac Decongestant to Dexa- trim diet formula. As J J's night- mare began to subside, another com- pany's may have begun. Consumers in several states reported finding bits of broken glass in Gerber baby food and fruit juice. National News-165

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National News The Challenger America's innocent vision of space travel is gone. It went in a flash and a fiery ball at 11:39-13 a.m., on Jan. 28, 1966. In that instant, seven men and women who dared to break the bonds of Earth simply vanished, their passing marked by a 10-mile-high cloud that hung in the skies for hours. The flight itself was unique. Not only was it the 10th orbital mission ol the shuttle Challenger, but also it was the first flight to carry an ordinary” American into space. Christa McAu- liffc was to have broadcasted lessons from space to televisions across America. It has been said that Christa brought a different kind of lesson into our lives — one of how to deal with death. Many important shuttle projects, in fact all space flights, were can- celled until a special commission ap- pointed by the President could ana- lyze what went wrong with the Chal- lenger and what kind of reforms NASA needs to undergo. The com- mission released its reports in June and NASA has projected flights as early as June. 1987. Charles And Diana In November 1985 the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the United States for a 3-day visit. After weeks of feverish anticipation and frenzied publicity, the world's most glamor- ous and relentlessly observed couple arrived in the capital of what was once their kingdom's richest posses- sion. After Washington, they were set to jet down to Palm Beach, Fla., for a game of polo and a charity ball for the United World College of the American West. They also paid a call to a suburban JC Penney to give the royal seal of approval to the store's Best of Brittain merchandising campaign. East year oil and gasoline prices fell to a surprising low. These prices were welcomed by American citizens, but had damaging effects on various gas and oil companies. Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Astronauts: Ellison S. Onizuka. Christa McAuliffe, Gregory B. Jarvis. Judith A. Resnik, Michael J. Smith. Francis R. Scobec. and Ronald F. McNair. AIDS Epidemic The grim statistics accumulating with the spread of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) has made it medicine's biggest mystery — and challenge — since the lethal virus was first recognized in 1981. Laboratories across the United States and Europe are searching for drugs to combat the AIDS virus. But meanwhile the virus is demonstrating features that can complicate drug treatment and that will have to be overcome if the U.S. Public Health Service is to meet its goal of control- ling and preventing AIDS by the year 2000. The name AIDS comes from the fact that the virus destroys the body’s immune system, the collection of tis- sues and cells, mostly in the blood, that attack invading microbes such as bacteria and viruses. Some people are born with a genetic defect in their immune system, but those infected with the AIDS virus the immune de- ficiency is said to be acquired. No one knows if AIDS will ever go away. If an effective vaccine can be made, it should be possible to slow or stop the spread of AIDS, though perhaps not eradicate it en- tirely. Until there is such a vaccine — or if one is never developed — AIDS could become a vastly greater scourge than it already is. 164-National News

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State News Capital: Biggest City: State Flower: State Animal: State Bird: State Tree: State Nickname: Salem Portland Oregon Grape Beaver Western Meadow Lark Douglas Fir Beaver State Rajneeshies Leave To the utter dismay of most Or- egonians. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his 5.000 followers have practi- cally vanished from Oregon. Only a few remain to liquidate the vast es- tate and $35 million in debts. It all began in the fall of '85 when Ma Anand Sheela fled Rajneesh- puram after the Bhagwan accused her of attempted murder and imbezzle- ment. In October. Rajneesh and several aides left the commune in two Icar jets after he was indicted in Oregon for violating immigration laws. He was arrested in Charlotte. North Carolina, and sent back to Oregon. He then pleaded guilty to two of 35 counts in the indictment. Paid $400.000 in fines and was ' allowed'' to return to his native India. Since then the Bhagwan has been globe- hopping in search of a country that will appreciate his utopia. 85 of the Bhagwan's 94 Rolls Royces have been purchased by Tex- as car dealer, Robert Roethlisbcrger. Mt. Hood Tragedy A springtime survival hike to the top of Mt. Hood turned into Or- egon's worst mountaineering disaster when a sudden storm engulfed a par- ty of student climbers in a freezing white out - a foggy, blizzard in which it is impossible to tell up from down. Nine people froze to death in the tragedy, and two people were left hospitalized with severe hypothermia after spending four days trapped in a soggy snow cave. The purpose of the hike was to give sophomore students at the Oregon Episcopal School an appreciation of nature and to teach them survival techniques. The hikers set out Monday. May 12, 1986 on a day-hike to the top of Mt. Hood. The party was hit by a freak snow storm with 60 mile an hour winds and blowing snow and fog. The wind chill factor was esti- mated to be 55 degrees below zero. They tried to retreat back down the mountain, but finally dug into a cave. The next morning the mountain guide and one student left for help. Early Wednesday the rescue effort began. Three students were found that morning, nearly lifeless, and were flown to Emanuel Hospital, but doctors were unable to save them. The others were found Thursday when searchers uncovered the cave. Brinton Clark, and her fellow class- mate. Giles Thompson, were still alive; the others who had frozen to death, were pronounced dead. Doctors succeeded in restoring the body temperatures of both Clark and Thompson, unfortunately, both of Thompson's legs had to be ampu - tated below the knee. It is not known whether the students will have any recollection of what happened to them and their hiking companions. It was the Vkh year students from the school had scaled the mountain. Mt. Hood is the second most popu- lar climbing mountain in the world, next to Mt. Fujiami. Some 10,000 people climb the mountain every year - fifty people have died in the last 80 years. The school still plans to con- tinue the Basecamp program, and a memorial fund has been set up to buy radios and emergency beepers to prevent another tragedy from occur- ing. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 166-State News