European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                No d i rect non Public school Aid Washington a the Senate re fused wednesday to set up a new program to funnel billions of dollars in Federal Aid directly to the nation s private and Paro Chial schools. Senators voted 60-30 to delete the pro posed program from legislation extending existing Federal Aid to education programs for the next five years. The Bill which Calls for spending of up to $52.5 billion still awaits final Senate approval. Supporters of Aid to private and parochial schools wanted to create a new program As part of the mull billion Dollar annual Federal Aid to education Effort launched under the great society in the mid-1960s. Opponents led by sen. Emest Hollings d-s.c., said it would violate the constitutional requirement to keep Church and state separate. They also said it was a budget  backers of the proposal led by sen. Claiborne Pell d-r.i., sought authorization for a five year $2.5 billion program to provide Aid directly to non Public schools with disadvantaged students. There Are an estimated 18,000 non Public elementary and secondary schools nation wide roughly 11,000 of them Catholic run. Pell said about 9 percent of the nation s school children Are educated in non Public schools. Secular textbooks he proposed making Federal funds Avail Able to private schools for secular text books counselling and testing services transportation and other assistance in areas where there Are disadvantaged Stu  House has already approved a five year Extension in the Aid to education pro Grams without the proposed new program to help private schools. Current Federal Law permits the govern ment to provide assistance to students who attend private and parochial schools but does t make the Money available to the schools  some parts of the country for exam ple students at parochial or private schools spend part of the Day at Public schools where they receive federally funded , when senators voted to provide tax Breaks to partially offset the Cost of education Hollings led a successful flight to limit the Breaks to Post secondary tuition  measure originally had called for tax Breaks to the parents of non Public elementary and secondary schools but hoi Lings and other argued that the proposal was unconstitutional. Smithsonian Regent quits Washington a rep. Lady Boggs. A la. Has resigned As a Regent of the smithsonian institution and House speaker Thomas p. O Neill has appointed rep. Leo j. Ryan d-calif., to fill the vacancy. Friday August 25, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Polar Bear snares solar Glare Polaris a in year old Polar Bear Sta refreshing pause from Bis duties at the get out of his Winter uniform he bad to tinned at the to Angeles zoo takes a Bear compound. Since Polaris could t swim to Bear the Glare. Dpi photo not calling it a weapon a Pentagon confirms laser Success Washington a the defense department confirmed wednesday that Navy scientists recently wiped out High Speed anti tank missiles with laser beams pro Viding dramatic proof of the Power of harnessed Light but Don t Call those beams weapons department officials add. High Energy lasers have been used to shoot Down slow moving unmanned air Craft in the past but the Navy s successful tests earlier this year were the firs against Small High Speed targets Accord ing to a defense department statement re leased wednesday.  of the tests Are classified but the department made a Point of saying the de vices used were not weapons and that no S.C. operational weapon systems Are near to being ready. The tests were not conducted with a laser weapon but rather with testbeds using items. Technology developed in the big Energy laser programs the state ment said. It said the experiments were designed to Gato Erien with problems of using a powerful laser with an aiming and track ing device. That there is no Assurance that the re search will prove successful and that we will develop a  the soviet Union and the United states Are financing expensive research into the potential of S.C. a futuristic Wear  S.C. a weapon proves practical scientists believe it can greatly affect aerospace warfare by quickly neutralizing attacking aircraft and missiles. Beams travelling at the Speed of Light theoretically could de stroy Distant intercontinental ballistic mis Siles icbms and change the balance of nuclear  that still remain include the Large Power supplies needed to run big Las ers limiting their mobility and atmospheric effects S.C. As R.I. and fog which limit the laser s Range and effectiveness. Family gets a Jolt out of firm s Power line Pittsburgh a Winfred Higgins and his family say life is rather shocking in and around their Home. They say it has been since 1973, when West Perm Power co. Energized a 500,000 Volt Power line across their property. The shocks come when they Brush against Tomato plants in the Garden get on the family tractor or take a Shower the family says. The Shock is Seldom a Jolt they say. More like the sting Felt when touching a Abbie has t lost face in big Apple new York a police sgt Joh Devlin looked around his precinct House thursday sighed wearily and said i go just about everyone in town Here but not win was former Yoppi fugitive Abbie Hoffman. Some they saw Hoffman at a rally in Hulhon wednesday night. Attorney we Ulm Kunstler for instance hinted that he had. Toward the end of the nearly five Celebration Kunstler told the crowd woo i think the Man you came for Nearo and saw everything.". So maybe Hoffman came in disguise As  bad trouble if they had  one t linger. Jonnie Davis were there. For another sum for Hoffman was pot puffing Many said they believed Hoffman had been framed when he was charged with Selling cocaine to an undercover drug agent 44 years ago. Many said they wanted to see him allowed to return with out having to go to prison. The bring Abbie Home committee did make sure the crowd of self pro claimed Yipp Tes and older political activists could hear if not see. Hoffman. In a tape recorded message purportedly made by Hoffman from out Here in the  he said you can actually disappear drop out and still have a pretty  door Knob after walking across a Wool Rug. It s irregular and it s not As frequent outside As it is in the House Higgins said. You have a constant crackling like Weld ing. Sometimes it s real bad but we be Learned to live with  Higgins. His wife. Sheila and son Winfred Iii testified at a state Public Utility commission hearing requested by the fam ily. Their complaint was taken under advisement. Higgins said the family sought the hear ing alter the commission told him by letter that be was experiencing typical shocks associated with Power lines and that the shocks were not necessarily  Higgins told the commission that before the Power line was installed. West Perm said that it would have no effect on the family. When we were negotiating on this Origi Nally they told me i would t even know the line existed unless i looked up he said. Higgins said West Penn paid him $1x500 for a 208-foot easement across his property which totals Jav acres. "1 had no Choice in Selling it to  the thing that prompted me to com Plain was when i was trimming a Pear tree it has since died and i blame it on the Power line 1 got a tremendous Shock. That was the Straw that broke Camel s