European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 1, 1978 judge withdraws South Boston High from . Control Boston a South Boston High school once the scene of racial violence was removed from Federal receivership wednesday by the Federal judge who has virtually run the Boston school system for four  move by . District judge w. A thur Garrity or. Was the first step in what Lofe returns give Edge to Hammond Jay Juneau Alaska a late returns from Alaska s eight Day old primary elec Tion have yanked Republican gov. Jay Hammond from a 9do-vote deficit to a 36 vote Lead Over former gov. Wally Hickel. The final Winner however May not be known until mid september. Hammond who never had led since the first precincts began reporting on election Day moved to the front wednesday night following the tabulation of about 6,700 Absentee and questioned  Alaska ballots of voters who went to the polls in the wrong precinct Are set aside for counting the week after an elec Tion. The so called questioned votes Are not allowed to be counted in state legislative races but Are tabulated in statewide con  officers said the returns were neither final nor  said there still May be a few scattered Absentee ballots in the mails and a formal review of returns by state canvassing boards probably will result in a change of several Hundred votes Between  boards began work wednesday by were not expected to report the official election results until sept. 12.Alaska Law provides for an automatic recount when there is one half of one per cent separating candidates. Officials a recount appeared inevitable but not be completed before sept. 15. Hammond a former Bush Pilot trailed Hickel a self made millionaire Developer by As Many As 901 votes on election night. But the Republican challenger s Lead has shrunk steadily Over the last week As returns from unreported Rural precincts began to trickle into election Headquarters and disappeared altogether when the questioned ballots were  the associated press and Ancho rage daily news had declared Hickel the Winner based on his big election night Lead. School officials Hope will be his eventual Complete withdrawal from the process of integrating Boston s schools. The school system has about 71,000 pupils 45 percent of them White. Garrity imposed the unprecedented fed eral receivership taking control of the school from the school Board on dec. 9, 1975, in an attempt to end alleged attacks there on Black students. The High school had been a Symbol of White resistance to the busing that began under Garrity s or Ders in the fall of 1974.in court wednesday the judge said the conditions that brought it the receivership about no longer exist and the gains made can be preserved without the extraordinary  said he visited the High school 10 Days before summer vacation and found it much different than it had been during the busing related turmoil three years ago. The difference was so Clear that it was More than just impressive the judge said. There were no Idle hands Down there. Everyone seemed to be enthusiastic. The pupils seemed to be proud of what they were doing. There was a real vitality to the  70,000  pupils absent due to drug abuse new York up drug abuse is the reason about 70,000 pupils out of new York City s 1 million Public school students Are absent on any Given Day state officials re  Klepak director of the state Divi Sion of substance abuse services said wednesday chronic drug abusers account for 70 percent of the 100,000 Junior and be a time to smile Maria Elaine Pitchford left smiles while answering questions at a news conference after she was freed of a self induced abortion charge in Bowling Green by. Beside Pitchford is her at Torney Flora Stuart. A woman found innocent on self abortion charge by Diana Taylor Bowling Green by. A a 22 testimony of Dwight Mundy Pitchford s former Fiance tipped the Scales on our  Mundy who testified tuesday under Oua Cill. A illegal abortion on herself was found in immunity from a complicity charge in the Klepak appearing at the first of three Nocent on grounds of insanity wednesday Case told the jury that he had nothing to do Days of hearings by the . House of rep after the defense said she thrust a knitting with the Al eged illegal abortion but that it relatives select committee on Narcot Needle into her body during a moment of had been his idea to visit abortion clinics in a Al i v is a \t4 in i l or  Evv i Kaawa 1411vi my a lev of  Ujj j. Vaia in 1 p "�7 / Nior High school students who Are regular year old woman charged with performing 1__.l.___a.  no. A a i n a i Al a Awn of Venris ims 1 Vly absent. Is abuse and control said More than 20 percent of the approximately 500,000 seventh through 12th graders in the City school system fail to attend classes on a regular  70,000 of those youngsters Are chronically absent and abuse drugs at a rate two to four times greater than those who attend school regularly he said. Klepak cited figures showing that More than half of new York state s students be tween the age of 12 and 17 had tried Mari Juana.  hearing the verdict from a Warren county circuit court jury defendant Maria Elaine Pitchford burst into tears. She is believed to be one of the first women to stand trial on charges of performing a self induced abortion. The slender red haired woman was indicted june 14 on a charge of performing an illegal abortion on herself. She could have been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted. Flora Stuart a Public defender said the Wii vet plays japanese postman Jacksonville Fla. A after 34 years the Unm ailed postcards army sgt. Ken Musselman found on a dead japanese Soldier in new Guinea during world War ii have been  was t As simple As dropping them Down the nearest mail Chute but the cards reached their destination Musselman in return received the thanks of an Uncle and brother of the dead  and the cards returned to Jacksonville after the War. I intended Tomail them when i got Home but they were misplaced he said. Recently while going i at. A. M.nljan6 an nay left Musselman sought help from mrs. Jon Sterkenberg a Jacksonville housewife of japanese descent in returning the cards. I sent them to the City Hall near the town which was in the address Sterkenberg said. I wanted someone to get the cards. I hoped that at least one would still be  was a delay since the name of the City had changed but eventually Mussel Man and Sterkenberg received letters of  Nakajima the younger brother who lives on a farm near Yajima City mis Dicea. Saiu. New Cury it. R i a trough War souvenirs he relocated them. Sent clippings from a newspaper published in Kanazawa that told the Story of the Long lost  said a reporter for the news paper had helped locate him and deliver his  dead Soldier s Post card to his brother said in part i Hope you Are get Ting along Well. Today must be your graduation Day. Will you work hard even including my part and please carry on a Happy Good life with  later Sterkenberg and Musselman received thanks for preserving the cards from the Soldier s Uncle Minoru Matsuhara. Nashville tenn., and  Mundy sold himself for convenience. It was t convenient for him to have a child Stuart  sought to convince the jury that the defense merely wanted to divert blame to Pitchford s former Fiance. In a statement Pitchford gave police a Day after the june 9 abortion she said she had turned to self induced abortion after being turned away from a Louisville clinic because her pregnancy was too far and  1974 statute under which Pitchford was prosecuted allows abortions to be per formed Only by a licensed physician except during the first three months of pregnancy when a woman May perform the opera Tion herself under a doctor s supervision. Pitchford was five to six months preg Nant according to  Kentucky Law was enacted in response to a 1973 . Supreme court Deci Sion that said states May not prevent 1 abortions during the first six months of pregnancy but May restrict abortions beyond the first three months to protect the woman s  defense attorney recalled testimony by two psychologists and a psychiatrist who concurred that Pitchford was not in control of her actions at the time of the in  defendant does not remember de tails of the incident Stuart said