Paoli High School - Hillcrest Yearbook (Paoli, IN)

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OUR TIMES Earth 1985 Technology cannot prevent disasters

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Jobs become most popular after-school activity Below — Going underground might sound -like Laura Andry has something to hide, but she was only leading people through Marengo ' Cave Below, Left — Caught with her hand in A the bag makes you wonder if Lisa Piper was taking out more than she was putting in as she Ithougn most people s ideas of sacked an order at the Shakeburger afterschool activities are sports and clubs, many teens today spend time after the bell earning extra money. Independence urges more kids today to face up to responsibilities and enables them to live up to their expectations. Instead of toting barges, junior Paul Ford lifted those grocery bags to earn extra spending money. Putting gas in other people's tanks helped senior Doug Powell keep his Mustang filled up for the weekend 14 Student Life

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World A Look Around in 1985 Elections, human nature highlight world news As the 1984 Olympics wound down with the United States capturing a record number of gold medals, the country beamed with a new sense of patriotic fever. Politicians dragged out their soap boxes and presidential can- didates were off and running. Ronald Reagan kept his loyal supporter, George Bush, at his side. Walter Mondale gave ERA a charge by picking Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. In the Reagan campaign, the American people were again asked if they were better off today than they were four years ago. Apparently they were quite pleased as national newscasts told of Wall Street gains. Chrysler’s Lee Iacocca became a national hero as his company hiked its 1984 earn ings 204 per cent. And he did it with millions of dollars lent by the US government. As we settled down to reruns of Ronald Reagan and Nancy, city-dwellers argued over whether Bernhard Goetz should be proclaimed a hero or a vigilante for shooting four teen-aged youths in a New York subway. A radical back-to-nature group in Philidelphia staged a shoot-out with city police that ended in the burning of over 80 neighborhood homes. And a bizarre rape recant story left a question of how to decide truth in all such cases. As the nation continued on the road to wealth, farmers felt abandoned. Many farmers had borrowed large sums of money on a weak dollar only to see the dollar rise in value while farm commodity markets declined in price. Some experts estimated that rural banks would be crushed when foreclosures were necessary on many family farms. To many Americans the roughest days since the depression had arrived. While most Americans had plenty to eat, brothers and sisters in Africa were not so lucky. Over 200,000 people died of starvation in Mozambique. This was surpassed by Ethiopia, which lost 300,000 people from hunger while the US government tried to figure a way to eliminate overproduction in US agriculture. In one of many acts of charity, British, American, and Canadian rock stars donated proceeds from record sales to their neighbors in Africa. Election officials at November polls Mi mi Weeks learns government first-hand 16 OUR TIMES, 1985