European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 24, 1977 Lynn is chosen for miss teenage Competition Lynn easter Ideal candidate Story photo by Dan Synove Nurnberg Bureau chief Ansbach Germany is a 17 year old Ansbach american High school senior has been named Europe s Candi Date at Large for the miss teenage Ameri Ca  easter a member of the National Honor society Learned of her selection when she was telephoned at her Home Here by officials of the miss teenage America National Headquarters in Dallas Tex. She will leave Germany nov. 15 and Fly to Dallas accompanied by her Mother who is acting As her chaperone to take part in the 1978 miss teenage american Competition. The finals will be nov. 25. I m extremely excited. This is the third year that i entered the Competition easter said adding that one other Over seas candidate at Large to the miss teen age american Competition is coming from Singapore in the far East. My official title is miss teenage ans Bach 1978," said the straight a student. She said there is no local Competition for girls to enter overseas. However girls be tween the Ages of 13 and 17 can enter through the overseas candidate at Large program to miss teenage America Competition she said. I sent my entry form in late in August said easter whose father two Benny r. Easter serves As bandmaster for the 1st army div band Here. I was notified later that i had been selected As a Semi finalist in the 1978 Competition. Then they called and told me that i had been selected As one of the two overseas Candi dates at Large she said. I m very  miss teenage America is not a Beauty contest easter continued. Judging is based on personal and Scholastic achieve ment and awareness As Well As poise appearance and expression and individual accomplishments. Extracurricular activities Are also considered she added. Also the Competition does not include swimsuit Competition. While my official title is miss teenage Ansbach 1978, i am also representing All the american teen age girls who Are living in Europe she said. Easter who serves As a co editor in chief of the Ansbach american High school yearbook staff reporter for the Ansbach american High school newspaper and a red Cross Volunteer at the Ansbach army health clinic first entered the Competition As a candidate at Large when she was 15 years old at it. Rucker Ala. She competed against More than 10,000 teen agers and made it to the top 35 finalists. She said that last year she entered the overseas candidate at Large program and was notified that she was named a Semi finalist. In order to make it to the finals easter had to take a one hour written examination supervised by school officials that covered such topics As current events science social studies and Fine arts. She also had to submit references with a questionnaire and Send miss teenage America officials two photos verification of her Scholastic standing and proof of age she said. Teachers called vital aides against child abuse by Clint Swift staff write Munich is schoolteachers and Counselor can be the most important weapons in the Battle against child abuse a defense department school psychologist said sunday. Eleanor m. Wagoner of Stuttgart said half the estimated 250,000 american Chil Dren killed and battered by their parents each year Are of school age. Teachers and Counselor who know what to look for and who Are in constant Contact with students Are in a unique position to identify children and families that need help she said in the tuesday and wednesday editions of the stars and stripes reporter Jim col Onna takes an in depth look at child abuse in the military Community the psychologist outlined forms and symptoms of child abuse during a work shop at the International conference of the european Branch of the american person Nel and guidance association. School staff members should learn to Italy museum robbed of nearly $3 million in Art Florence Italy up thieves stole $2,840,000 Worth of ancient paintings weapons and jewels saturday from a museum founded by a 19th Century British ail collector police said. They said the thieves probably four or five persons of High professional skill entered the suburban Stibber museum through a skylight and carefully selected the More valuable items on display including a baptism of Christ by 18th Century master Giovan Battista Tiepolo and a Madonna and child attributed to re Naissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Also among the loot were a St. Dominic by 15th Century Painter Carlo Crivelli a Madonna with child and saints by an artist known Only As the master from ver Rucchio and nine other paintings. Also stolen were 44 Indian malaysian and other daggers 15 chinese and Japa Nese swords 200 other sidearms 11 ancient firearms about 500 medals medallions cameos coins and the like. Experts said it was hard to put a Money value on some of the exhibits but $2,840, 000 was a reasonable estimate for the entire loot. They said All items were catalogued and photographed and the thieves May therefore have trouble finding buyers for the paintings but the smaller items should sell rather easily. Recognize welts raised by electric cords or belts Burns from cigarettes and Back or face bruises and to notice whether a child s clothes Are habitually unkempt or soiled she said. No single indicator necessarily Means abuse she said. But a pattern might be  emotional abuse also can scar children making them aggressive disruptive nervous or even suicidal she said. The problem is a real one among Mill Ken of. Demonstration broken up two injured Kent Ohio up two people were arrested and two others suffered minor in juries saturday when club swinging police in riot gear tossed tear Gas and broke up a prohibited demonstration against construction of a gymnasium Annex on the Kent state University Campus. Neither of the protesters arrested were identified. One of the injured was Peggy Watts a student at the new York University at Stony Brook n.y., who was treated at the scene for tear Gas inhalation. The other person injured was treated and released at the scene for a head wound Usu officials said. Trouble began when police some mounted on horseback moved in to push the estimated 1,200 demonstrators off Campus at the close of a rally sponsored by the May 4th coalition. The coalition opposes construction of the gym near the site where four Usu students were shot and killed by Ohio National guardsmen in 1970 during an anti Vietnam War demonstration. Members of the Vietnam veterans against the War led the protesters to an area on the South Side of the Campus about 600 Yards from the construction site near a nursing student s dorm where portable loudspeakers were used by several protes ters. We re Here to reaffirm that we won t see them spit on the grave of those Stu dents and that our opposition to the Viet Nam War was right said one speaker. They re telling us you can t come Here because they re scared of us said another. But we Aren t going to let them get away with it. They Aren t going to get away with tearing this Page out of  final speaker said the rally which had been barred from the Campus by Portage county court restraining order was Over but the demonstration would continue. At that Point police moved in to Force the demonstrators across the Street and off  250 armed police in riot gear had been assembled As a Security Force by is officials. A Large contingent stayed near the construction site to keep protesters from occupying the area. Others ringed the rally. Late saturday afternoon several Hun dred protesters tried once again to March on the gym site but were dispersed when police fired about a dozen tear Gas canis ters into the group. Transient hotel fire in Chicago kills 7 14 Hurt Chicago a seven people died and 14 were injured sunday when fire swept through a South Side transient hotel known As a trouble spot because of the prostitutes and drifters who frequented it a police department spokesman said. The fire apparently started in a first floor apartment of the hotel Toledo and quickly engulfed the two Story Brick build ing driving residents some of them Only partially clothed out upper windows in desperate efforts to escape authorities said. That place was a death trap said a patrolman who asked not to be identified. One fire fighter was knocked unconscious when a woman jumped from the hotel s second floor and landed on him As he was climbing a ladder to Rescue  took one lady Down the ladder and was climbing up to get another when she came Down but not by the ladder the fire fighter William Olson said  hotel displaying a sign Reading transients Welcome. From $5," is in a neighbourhood of decaying commercial buildings pockmarked by boarded win Dows and scars of earlier fires. Fire fighters from a station just three blocks away found the hotel consumed in smoke when they arrived. The first floor already was blown out they said. Tary families. The department of health education and welfare has identified the military As a High risk population for child abuse due to stress from constant uproot ing and disruption of support from Community sources she said. The Volunteer army also May not be attracting enough professionals in the helping services she said. Teachers have a big stake in fighting child abuse Wagoner said. As Many As half of the victims become slow to walk talk and learn in general. Victims of such abuse May include generations unborn since mistreated children May grow up to abuse their own sons and daughters she said. Teachers who suspect abuse should inform the principal who May have the report checked by a team including the classroom teacher a school Counselor and a nurse Wagoner said. It is the principal s duty to report the Case to the appropriate  can also help with input into curriculum. Wagoner said Parent skill courses could teach baby sitting How to discipline a child and what to expect froma Normal child. Host for the three Day conference waste University of Maryland s Munich Campus. 6 new legionnaires disease cases confirmed in East Tenn. Kingsport Tenn. Up six new cases of legionnaires disease have been confirmed in East Tennessee for a total of 23 since aug. 1. Sullivan county health department officials said the newest cases were confirmed Friday in patients who showed symptoms of the mysterious respiratory ailment before sept. 28, when an outbreak of atypical pneumonia was re ported Here. Three deaths have been reported among confirmed cases in East Tennessee. 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