Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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Current Events: Sports it I Cardinals win Seriesg Porter named MVP The St. Louis Cardinals, molded by Manager Whitey Herzog in his own feisty image and driven by the persistent bats of Darrell Porter, Keith Hernandez and George Hendrick, ended 15 years of frustration by beating the Milwaukee Brewers, 6-3, to win baseball's 79th World Series. Porter, who was I-Ierzog's catcher at Kansas City, drove in one of the St. Louis runs in the decisive seventh game and had five runs batted in for the Series, which earned him the award of Most Valuable Player. The victory gave the Cardinal club its ninth World Series Championship and the fourth straight win for the National League. ii' 'Cr 'lk Washington Redskins win Super Bowl XVIH Setting three Super Bowl Records, Washington Redskins' john Riggins was the unanimous selection as the game's Most Valuable Player. By having 38 carries, 166 yards rushing and a 43-yard touchdown run from scrim- mage, Riggins led the underdog Redskins to a 27-17 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVIII and climaxed a most incredible season for both Riggins and Coach joe Gibbs. The 33-year-old Riggins, a native Kan- san, ran over the Dolphins, just as he had in amassing 444 yards in playoff victories over Detroit, Minnesota and Dallas. Riggins broke the Super Bowl rushing record of 158 yards on 34 carries set by Pittsburg's Franco Harris' in 1975 against Minnesota, and his 38 carries were one short of an all-time National Football League record. It was a sensational end to the last year of Riggins' contract with the Redskins. His season began in acrimony when he was rumored to be possiblelirade material after sitting out the 1980 season because the, Redskins would not guarantee the final year of his contract. Riggins was not all the Redskins had. They also had joe Theismann, who com- pleted 15 of 23 pass attempts for 143 yards and two touchdowns and two passes in- terce p ted . , . The Redskins were the best team in the National Conference with an 8-1 record, one victory more than Miami. Never- theless, they came into the Superbowl as three-point underdogs. They are now 12-1 and Super Bowl Champions only two years after Gibbs took over a losing team devoid of draft choices traded away by Former Coach George Allen in the early 197O's. si' 'iff 'Z-X' NFL players conduct 57-day football strike After months of off-and-on talks, the result of the contract negotiations bet- ween the National Football League Players Association and the team owners was the longest strike C57 daysj in U.S. sports history and the first regular-season walkout in the 63-year existence of the National Football League. The players were irritated by the news that the league had completed a record television deal: S2,100,000,000 over a five-year span. With the slogan We Are the Game, the players' union made as its paramount demand that 55 percent of the league's gross revenues be placed in a central fund and paid to the players under a salary-bonus system. Matters were at a standstill as the season opened, and after two weeks of play a strike was called. An estimated 94 percent of the players concurred with the union's decision to strike. The end of the strike brought a higher wage scale for players, a new bonus plan, a severance plan and other benefits. Carr ends WSU career, sets new Shocker record Antoine Carr closed out his career as a forward for the Wichita State University Shocker basketball team by being named Missouri Valley Player of the Year, and an All-American selection nationwide. Carr rewrote the WSU record book in his last season, becoming one of the best players in Shocker history. His most memorable record was the last game of the season where he scored 47 points, a new all-time single game scoring record for a Wichita State player. Carr was a local favorite in Wichita, graduating from Heights High School and being a top draft choice in the National Basketball Association. His accomplishments include being ranked first in career field goal percentage and field goals at Wichita State, and was the first Wichita State player to be named as Missouri Valley Player of the Year. Carr led the Wichita State team to a 25-3 season record, the best winning record of any Wichita State team. Despite this, the Shockers and Carr were not allowed to participate in post-season tour- naments due to the final year of NCAA probation. 'frufrufr KU fires Ted Owens after 19-year tenure Ted Owens reign as coach of the University of Kansas basketball program ended when he was fired after the jayhawk's second losing season in a row. Owens, the school's fifth basketball coach in 85 years, compiled 348 victories, six Big Eight Conference titles, ap- pearances in seven NCAA tournaments and two NIT berths during his 19-year reign at KU. He was also named Coach of the Year five times for the Big Eight Con- ference. His career won-loss record was 348-182 for 65.7 percent. He became the only basketball coach ever fired by the University of Kansas. Prior to the firing, Owens had received much criticism for his team's records and for the decrease in attendance at home games. 'iff it 'fr Ted Bredehoft resigns from athletic program Ted Bredehoft resigned as head of the Wichita State University athletic depart- ment at the request of University Presi- dent Clark Ahlberg. The resignation came after Bredehoft found himself under heavy fire for reigning over an athletic program that had become the most fre- quently penalized in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association CNCAAJ The resignation ended weeks of speculation, rumor and tension at the university over Bredehoft's job status, and it came as the university was investigating alleged NCAA rules violations by the football and basketball programs. ifrifrifr

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3. , j Q 5 1 F f x - x Current Events: ational 'Challenger' satellite lost through mishap A 3,000 mile error deployed the world's most advanced communications satelite from the space shuttle Cbaflenger, leaving the United States space agency wondering what to do with this S100 million tracking station lost in a useless orbit. The mishap appeared to be caused by a propulsion error in the second stage of an Air Force developed, Boeing-built rocket booster. The rocket was supposed to move the satellite into a higher orbit after a suc- cessful launch from the space shuttles' cargo bay. The satellite, one in a 32.5 billion government space communications net- work was in no immediate danger, but its off course orbit was not even close to the 22,300 mile high calculated parking place for the satellite. After a day of extensive investigation, mission control officials in Houston said they hoped to get the two and one half ton satellite back on course by using small gas jets put on board for minor ad- justments. The only problem was it would take days or even weeks to accomplish the task. tiki Artificial heart recipient dies from organ failures Barney Clark, the world's first artificial heart recipient died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device. He died from what was termed as, by doctors as, circulatory collapse and secondary to multi-organ systems failure. Clark, in his first interview with reporters about the implant said all in all, it has been a pleasure to be able to help people. Clark's heart ran on a power source plugged into an electric outlet with a backup power scource and ran, with an electric bill of 1520 a month. The heart, designed Robert jarvik was made of polyurethane, Dacron, Velcro, metal and graphite and was slightly larger than a normal heart. The artifical heart was first tested on animals and one of them is cur- rently running after four and one half years. Wiki: House cuts S60 million assistance to El Salvador President Reagan's request for 1560 million in military aid for El Salvador was cut in half by a House panel after a special plea was made to Congress and the nation to support his Central American Policy. The House Appropriations subcommit- tee on foreign operations voted 7-5 against the proposal to slash the aid after defeating a move to approve the entire 360 million. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee already had settled on an identical cut. Subcommittee Chairman Clarence Long, said the compromise was part of an agreement with the administration on four conditions he proposed earlier, in- cluding appointment of a special envoy to El Salvador to seek an accord with all fac- tions leading to open elections. tiki? Tylenol, cyanide deaths create national scare The Tylenol scare, was one of the major scares of the 1982-83 year. The incident started out as a simple attempt to ease a little child's pain. Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Ill., awoke at dawn one Wednesday complain- ing of a sore throat and a runny nose. Her parents gave her one Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule and at 7:00 a.m. they found her lying dead on the bathroom floor. Mary Reiner, 27, of nearby Win- field, Ill., died within hours of taking one of the Tylenol capsules for a mild headache. Paramedics found 27-year-old Adam Janus collapsed in his home, his pupils fixed and dilated. Despite emergency room efforts to keep his heart going,janus died. Later that day his griev- ing relatives shared a bottle of Extra- Strength Tylenol they found in his home. Adam's brother Stanley, 25, died that evening. Theresa, 19, Stanley's wife of three months, held on for two days until doctors abandoned efforts to save her. By that weekend seven Chicago-area residents had died and authorities braced themselves for still more victims in what was to become the biggest consumer alert in memory. It's source, capsules of Extra- Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide, a poison so deadly that it kills within minutes. Tylenol's manufacturer, johnson 8: johnson, a subsidary of the McNeil Consumer Products Co., recalled two batches of the medication, some 264,400 bottles nationwide and the Federal Food and Drug Administration warned Americans not to take any Extra- Strength Tylenol capsules until the case was solved. Shortly after the cyanide incident in Chicago, several other similar incidences began to take place in other areas. Traces of strychnine were discoverd in three other bottles of Tylenol capsules in California, and Hydrochloric acid was found in both Visine eye-drops and Lavoris mouthwash. ,Some experts feared that the episode might set off a widespread panic among American consumers. Many people mar- ched into local stores demanding their money back or another product in place of the Tylenol. In cities across the country, consumers threw away all the Tylenol on hand, and many discarded other drugs and household products as well. The Federal Food and Drug Ad- ministration passed a law requiring all companies to use tamper-proof packaging for all over the counter capsules, Congress also began considering a law designating tampering with over the counter food and drugs as a federal offense. Wiki? Senate, House approves Reagan's MX Missiles President Ronald Reagan won surpris- ing victories when the House and Senate both approved his MX missile plan. Within two days of the approval the Soviets responded to the plan. The Soviet Union announced that it will develop a new nuclear missile to match the MX and accused Washington of Using the weapon to blackmail the USSR at the Geneva arms talk in late May. A new round of of the arms race was predicted. The commentary by the Novosti news agency was the first reaction in Moscow to the vote in the Senate endorsing President Reagan's plan to store 100 MX missiles in underground silos in the western United States. 13' 'iff 'KY

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