Ysleta High School - Otyokwa Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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tion program initiated by Congress in the ' winter of ' 76 to combat the Swine Flu, a dis- ease that took millions of human lives throughout the world in the mid 60 ' s. Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford both stopped in El Paso to deliver speeches during their cam- paign for the presidency. The economy slowed down, three million people lost their jobs temporarily, the price of produce skyrocketed, and fuel shortages shocked central and eastern portions of the country, all a result of the severe winter weather caused by sidetracking artic winds. While the northeast was gripped by tempera- tures that plunged unbelievably to 85° below zero in some places. El Pasoans felt several days of severe cold, but many were warm and filled with sunshine. Temperatures drop- ped to one below zero; although this was mild compared to temperatures in the east, it was a rarity for the desert climate. The worst thing brought to El Paso by Old Man Winter was a small boost in electric bills resulting from the increase in the price of natural gas, the fuel used by El Paso ' s elec- tric generating plant. The price of fruits and vegetables did not rise as much on the bor- der, since many were imported from Mexico, a close supply. ' ives her controversidl ABOVE: Senior Susac i • ■ Swine Flu Shol niOMT liiririiv Carter departs from the El Paso Interna

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— Peace Corps created — First Soviet cosmonaut orbits the earth — Berlin Wall built — First American Astronaut orbits earth — U.S. Troops ent er South Viet- nam — Cuban Missile Crisis — Kennedy assassinated — Congress passed Elementary and Secondary Education Act where one billion dollars of federal money is provided for the nation ' s public and elementary schools — Racial disturbances breakout in several large cities — Cultural Revolution, Hippies, Flower Children, Drugs — First Mexican-American sur- named teacher hired in YISD 1967-1977 — Robert F. Ken- nedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated — American troops begin with- drawals from Vietnam — American astronauts land on the moon — Voting Rights Act enables eighteen-year-olds to vote in fed- eral elections — Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office as a result of criminal activities charges in Mary- land — Constitution challenged when Watergate Scandal is discovered: President Richard M. Nixon resigns — First Mexican-American, Mrs. Alicia Chacon, elected to the YSID School Board. — Chamizal land settlement between the United States and Mexico on the El Paso border causes relocation of American families and brings new students toYsleta — YHS students walkout in pro- test of dress codes; dress codes for the district changes in March — Chicano Walkout; YHS has its first taste of racial disturbance, involving about 20 students — Energy Crisis: Arab Oil Embargo pushes price of gasoline from 23 cents to over 58 cents a gallon Changes in the world and in America affected each and every person at YHS. Students witnessed the advance of Woman ' s Lib on a grand scale, the entrance of pornography and more open homosexuality, more energy crises, and the worst political scandal in American History. These drastic changes have changed lifestyles, morals, values, goals, religion, fashions and society — perhaps a bit later here — but inevitable. ,,MM||6erous senior co-eds join together to itiake a square dancing lesson fall in per- Tect timing. INSERT: Grace Moreno and Chuy Ulloa fol- i low through dance techniques as a part of ' class requirements. 5 Fifty Years

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