6. 1973 U.S. Statistics
•President: Richard M. Nixon
•Vice-President: Spiro T. Agnew
•Population: 211,908,788
•Life Expectancy: 71.4 years
•Median Household Income: $10,512
•Inflation Rate: 6.16%
•Year end Dow Jones Industrial Average: 850
•Average cost of a new house: $32,500
•Average Monthly Rent: $175
•Gas per gallon: 40 cents
•Average cost of a new car: $2,822
•Movie Ticket: $1.50
•Federal Minimum wage: $1.60

10. Sports in 1973
American football Basketball
O.J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship –
for more than 2,000 yards in a single season. UCLA wins 87-66 over Memphis State. Bill Walton of UCLA
scored 44 points in the Championship game.
Super Bowl VII – Miami Dolphins won 14-7 over the
Washington Redskins to complete the only unbeaten NFL NBA Finals –
season New York Knicks won 4 games to 1 over the Los Angeles
Lakers
1973 ABA Finals –
Indiana Pacers defeat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
Golf
Baseball Men's professional
January 18 – Orlando Cepeda signs with the Boston Red
Sox, making him the first player signed by a team specifically Masters Tournament - Tommy Aaron
to be a designated hitter. U.S. Open - Johnny Miller
British Open - Tom Weiskopf
The American League uses the designated hitter rule for the PGA Championship - Jack Nicklaus
first time. Ron Blomberg is the first player to bat as a DH. PGA Tour money leader - Jack Nicklaus - $308,362
World Series – Oakland Athletics won 4 games to 3 over the
Ryder Cup - United States won 19-13 over Britain
New York Mets
& Ireland in team golf.

15. Pop Culture in 1973
Elvis Presley’s “Aloha from Hawaii” television special
is seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewers!
Popular Films in 1973
- The Exorcist
- The Sting
- American Graffiti
- Papillon
- The Way We Were
- Magnum Force
- Robin Hood
- Last Tango in Paris
- Paper Moon
- Live and Let Die

19. Top Songs from 1973
1. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
2. You’re So Vain, Carly Simon
3. Touch Me in the Morning, Diana Ross
4. Sing, Carpenters
5. You are the Sunshine of my Life, Stevie Wonder
6. Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight & The Pips
7. Daniel, Elton John
8. Papa was a Rolling Stone, Temptations
9. My Love, Paul McCartney & Wings
10. Yesterday Once More, Carpenters

21. The Junior Class of
Drumright High School
request the pleasure of
your company at the
Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom
on Friday, May eighteenth
nineteen hundred and seventy-three
at seven o’clock in the evening
Drumright Elementary School
R.S.V.P.

24. In
Memory
Ricky Norman
of… Randy Paul
Randy Norman
Karen Cahoon