Sandia High School - Crest Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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New year brings advent of new decadep With the advent of the new decade, students returned to school to complete the first semester of studies and activi- ties. Amy Shaffer, American Field Service Americans Abroad student from Sandia, left for a South African home and a year of study in Paarl, South Africa, Jan. 12. Seventeen students, including four Sandians, from four Heights high schools were arrested in narcotics raids on charges of selling marijuana and LSD. Information leading to the arrests was supplied by Narks, undercover police in the schools. John Fannin was named Mr. Teenage America in an AFS assembly Jan. 16, winning the honor with his guitar playing and singing in competition with 12 other finalists. Five local bands, Gertrude's Blues, Bounty Hunters, Heart, Family and Rush were featured in a Rock Festival put on by the junior class Jan. 17. Seniors had their first real visions of graduation when they ordered announce- ments at the end of the month. Three days of semester tests and a one day vacation marked the end of the first semester, which closed Jan. 23. Introducing a new era in aviation, the Boeing 747 superjet made its first pas- senger flights from New York to London. The new craft, reportedly quieter, cleaner and safer than earlier jets, im- mediately presented the problem of mass luggage and local transit burdens to conventional airports. Despite objec- tions concerning the slow takeoff and faulty escape methods, the first flights occurred safely. Convening for the regular 30-day ses- sion, the State Legislature met in Santa Fe. Even before Governor David Cargo's opening address, the Senate introduced a state income tax cut bill. Major issues of the session were pollution control and Sunday liquor sales. Three Alamogordo children were hos- pitalized with severe mercury poisoning after eating pork from locally raised hogs. An intensive search was made for the carcasses of other infected hogs, and 150 hogs being fed the mercury-treated grain were quarantined. Joseph Yablonski, defeated candidate for United Mine Workers Union presi- dency, and his wife and daughter were 44 found murdered in their home Jan. 6. Three suspects were arrested later in the month. Yablonski's defeat in the UMW election was a subject of much union controversy. After 32 months of existence, the revo- lutionary government of Biafra crumbled Jan. 12 and surrendered to Nigeria. At the end of the conflict over two million had died and another million were ex- pected to die of starvation before ade- quate relief was available. H. Ross Perot, Texas millionaire, failed in his attempt to deliver Christmas pres- ents to American servicemen in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps. A number of the prisoners' wives traveled to the Paris peace talks to get informa- tion about their husbands. Birth control pills were the subject of Senate debate during the month, with factions differing over whether the pilI's side effects outweigh its useful- ness. Also in Washington, President Nixon vetoed a Health, Education and Welfare appropriation bill in yet another effort to curb spiraling inflation. Four days of closed door inquests were held to clarify the details of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in which Senator Ted ,Kennedy was involved. Triumphing over the Minnesota Vikings Purple Horde 23-7, the Kansas City Chiefs brought the Super Bowl Trophy l to the American Football League for the second straight year and last time, as the two professional leagues will merge next year. Movie-goers listened to Venus and Arizona on the car radio while driving to see Paint Your Wagon or The Reivers. .vkij , Q ,A l is s. l

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students complete semester to x...We.... Www 0 I C I 3 C far, right: Hutch Hutcherson and Marcia Lundberg enioy inner-tubing at the sophomore snow party. above, right: Ginger Walhood hugs Amy Shaffer goodbye as she prepares to leave on the first leg of her trip to South Africa. lower, right: The Matador wrestling team is presented before they go into action at an assembly match. above: Sharon Kirkpatrick escorts Rick Bozone, a candi- date for Mr. Teenage America, into the assembly. January 6 School opens -' 15 Sign ups for'T-'V-I classes 16 Mr. Teenage America Assembly I7 Rock Festival Second Semester activity tickets go on sale 28 K 29 Report cards issued Activities 45