Skyline High School - Origin Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Hell's Angels it's not. Some students trade their cars for bikes, a much cheaper form of trans- portation, to get themselves to school. Help yourself. The sign used to mean cheap gas, but this is no longer true as self service gas nears the $1 mark. Painful purchase. On a Student's pockelbook sophomore Ron Shipp is less than happy about paying the price. People 15

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Who put the gasoline? ine in Summer, typically a time of enjoy- ment for students, turned into a time of frustration too, as gas lines formed in ever increasing lengths. As the summer wore on, econo- mists and energy specialists pre- dicted that gasoline prices would hit the $1 mark before the end of the season. As prices soared and gas tanks ran dry, a number of restrictions were placed on consumers in an effort to alleviate the effects of the energy pinch. Gov. William Clements insti- gated an odd-even system for pur- chasing the precious fuel, using license plate numbers to determine who could purchase fuel on what day. Holidays and the thirty-first day of the months were a free-for-all. Also a $6 minimum purchase was placed on all motorists. Though prices remained high, in some places as high as $1.05 per gal- lon, lines dwindled because of the restrictions. The odd-even plan was abandoned in September, nearly 30 days before its originally scheduled demise, and the $6 minimum pur- chase limit was lifted Sept. 30. The final vestige, an empty pocketbook, was the lasting reminder of the frus- trating weeks. The outlook for the future was not bright, and students winced at Octo- ber predictions that storage of heat- ing oil would cause a similar situation in the spring. Tanking up. With a $6 minimum and a 20 gallon maximum, purchasing gas is no longer easy. 14 People

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Helping newcomers, junior Grady Catterall aids freshman John fox in finding his home- room section as orientation begins Nervous and impatient, a bored student and a concerned parent wait side-by-side in the counselor's office to correct schedule prob- lems. Taking a break from classes, students wait in line to pick up textbooks. 16 People