Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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Entire Township Has Centralized Post Office on MacArthur Road Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy delivers a speech by standing on a tree stump to persuade citizens to vote for him. Involvement is a key factor in the progress of today’s fast-moving world. An interest in local, state, national, and world affairs is developed through reading journalistic articles and listening to radio and television. More and more high school graduates each year attend colleges and universities. Lehigh County Community College had an enrollment of 500 within its first year of operation. A steel strike in September spread to Pennsylvania from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and New York. Whitehall Township merchants and the state highway department disputed the improvement of conditions on MacArthur Road. Several suggestions were offered in November. In March Whitehall residents received their first mail delivery. A centralized post office was established on MacArthur Road with one zip code for the entire township. Norman Yoder, a Pennsylvania government official, unjustly accused an unnamed western Pennsylvania college of having several students who were blinded by the use of drugs. Area teachers, members of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, marched on the state capitol in Harrisburg March 4 for a pay raise. Dr. Frances Schaeffer was injured at her Allentown home in May when a bomb wrapped in newspaper exploded as she picked it up. News 23

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Senator Robert F. Kennedy greets workers at a produce market during his campaign. After his assassination June 5. churches all over the nation had services where grieving Americans came to pray for the fallen leader. Achievement is shown in Governor Raymond Shafer's face as he signs into law the 1.7 billion dollar general appropriation bill to run the stale government for the new fiscal year. Another bill was passed which provided 4.3 million dollars to nonpublic schools. News ii

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Not every minute of graduation means stiffness and seriousness. Once in awhile someone gets all undone and needs some straightening up. Overlooking the majestic view of Whitehall as seen from the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company building, seniors Karen Semonis and Melody Kosits wait nervously before their interviews. Both girls were employed here under the school work program. Typical Day 24