Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Signs...Farmers Protest. 4) Artoo-Detoo and See-Three-pio, characters from the year's most successful movie, Star Wars, were partially responsible for an upturn in trading and price of Twentieth-Century Fox stock. A second success titled Close Encounters of the Third Kind reinforced Americans' belief in contact with alien beings. 5) U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the controversial Panama Canal Treaty during a meeting of the Organization of American States. The treaty, which will enable Panama to eventually take complete control of the canal, faces stiff opposition in the Senate where a two-thirds vote is needed for ratification. 6) Farmers making up an alliance known as the American Agriculture Movement went on strike Dec. 14 to protest low farm commodity prices. The above tractorcade in a Kansas town was one of many staged to call attention to farmers' plight and promote the idea of parity prices for grain and livestock. Photos Credit United Press International