Titusville High School - Optimist Yearbook (Titusville, PA)

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Youth-turnout for elections is sub-par Do people really know the issues? Does a seventeen year-old student know what stand Gov. Milton Shapp takes on his no-fault insurance plan? Or are politics just brushed out of the way by people who either will not care or do not want to be bothered. There appears to be an alarming growth rate of apathy towards politics throughout the nation. Only 56 percent of the people eligible to vote in the 1 972 presidential election went to the polls. This was the lowest percentage of voter turnout since 19481 As of this year, 44 percent of all the voting age citizens are not even registered to vote. National statistics indicate President Nixon received 61 percent of the na- tional vote and George McGovern re- ceived 37 percent. The other two per- cent was split among various other candidates. Local statistics showed President Nixon receiving 70.5 percent of the vote, Senator McGovern 28 per- cent, and the other candidates 1 .5 percent. Uncaring as people may be, no one can say that they are not affected by government, and politics determines the type of government in power. Some people may say, Why should I core about my government? We wonder if these people realize that in Marx ' s Communist Manifesto, it was stated that the way to take over a government was to get the people apatheticol to- wards it. Is this goal being reached in the United States??? Flanked by allies Gov. Milton Shapp and Sen. Ed- mond Muskie, Sen. George McGovern (above right) pkvis his Pennsylvania election strategy. The President of the United Slolej (above) points out his views to on interested bond member during a specid victory campoign swing in Ohio. T.H.S. ELECTION RESULTS ■ Candidates Total Votes H 1 . Nixon-Agnew 594 2. McGovern-Shriver 103 STATISTICS Nixon-Agnew Senior Boys 84 82.50% Junior Boys 112 83.50% Soph. Boys 114 80.75% Senior Girls 77 91.50% Junior Girls 102 95.30% Soph. Girls 105 91.30% McGovern-Shrlver Senior Boys 18 17.50% Junior Boys 22 16.50% Soph. Boys 27 9.40% Senior Girls 7 8.50% Junior Girls 15 4.75% Soph. Girls 14 8.60% I Hl

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m ' r w Hurricane Agnes devastates eastern u.s. Homes were destroyed and property was ruined, as Hurricane Agnes spread her destruction over the Eastern Coast of the United States. Hundreds of people were killed and many thousands left homeless by one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of Pennsylvania. The Titusville Salvation Army did not give directly to the Disaster Relief Fund initiated because of Hurricane Agnes; fviwever, they did donate $2,300 dur- ing the year to the Emergency-Disaster Relief Fund. The Titusville Red Cross raised $1,480 for victims of the flood. Their quota, set by the Erie Headquar- ters, was $1,480; all of the money came from private donations. Yet, how many area residents lis- tened to the disaster news and then brushed it aside, forgetting about the needs of others while rushing through their selfish lives? How many youth in our areo offered assistance in any way? Why??? flooded by Hurricone Agnes, the Horrisburg Gen erol Hospilol (above) receives patients by boot Fire breoks out ocross from the governor ' s mon- lion (left) OS firemen orrive by boot to combot it.