European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday september 14, 1978 private tutoring of pupils san Fernando Valley anti bus plan pushed by Roberta g. Wax los Angeles up i did t want to be bused so far away 11-year-old me Lissa Loveless said. Melissa did t go to school tuesday. In Stead she and five other children As signed to be be bused under a court ordered integration plan went to a neighbourhood Home to receive private tutoring. Angry feelings had been brewing through the summer in the mostly White Western end of the san Fernando Valley a stronghold of opposition to the busing plan. Many of these parents can afford alter native education for their children and have enrolled them in private schools and tutoring programs. One anti busing group United parents against forced busing set up 71 at Home tutoring groups each with six children. There is a waiting list for additional Tutor ing groups. Scholastic level basis the pupils were All tested and assigned according to Scholastic level. Parents paid $20 per week per child. Classes meet 175 Days a year for at least three hours a Day and Are taught by accredited teachers As state Law requires. Bonnie Gompert said that when she moved to California from Iowa she wanted an area where her daughter Deanna would be part of the neighbourhood. I Don t like them busing her to a Junior High school Gompert said. I did t want her going 14 Miles away when we have the school right Here. I like her to walk to  Deanna in the sixth Grade added i Don t think busing matters but i did t want to be in with seventh and eighth  i m in favor of Quality education but not in busing said Bonnie Shubin who made her Home available for the group in which her son Allan is being tutored. I want what s Best for Allan Shubin she said. My child has no motivation in the Public schools. He is involved in after school activities which he could t be if he were  Allan said he did not want to be bused because there were too Many children in the classes. Another boy Dion Roban said there was too much  busing is an emotional situation mrs. Shubin added. The tutoring program is giving us a  assemblyman Robert c. Cliner North Ridge a supporter and organizer of the Valley Boycott said he feels busing will eventually bankrupt and ruin the los an Geles Public school system. Parents in the West Valley have been the largest supporters of the Public school system Cline added. The schools Are losing that support. Within five years busing will make this into a poor people s school  new career Doris Day a Singer and actress for years is entering her third career at age 54. She is heading the Doris Day pet foundation dedicated to helping the pets of America survive the Igno Rance carelessness and downright Beas Liness exhibited by some members of the human  she her third husband Barry Comden and their accountant Are the three officers of the non profit organization. Up House oks Calif plan snubs bailout charge Washington a the House ignoring a complaint that the Federal govern ment is bailing out California after proposition 13, agreed tuesday to save that state millions of dollars by allowing a switch from food Stamps to Cash for some Blind disabled or elderly persons. On a 304-to-69 vote the House approved changes in a Bill that had earlier cleared the House but had been heavily amended in the Senate. The measure now goes to the president. One of the changes made in the Senate would permit California to save administrative costs of a food stamp program by making Federal Cash payments equal to the amount of food Stamps to recipients of supplemental Security income ssi who live alone. Ssi is a program of help for the needy. California requested the change after passage of proposition 13, which drastically Cut the state s property taxes and led to budget tightening by the legislature. In the Wake of proposition 13, we Are stepping in and bailing out the state of Cali fornia charged rep. Robert e. Bauman red. However rep. James c. Gorman d calif., said the gentleman May Harangue All he wants about bailing out Cali fornia but All we want is to allow pay ments in Cash instead of food Stamps to save administrative  staff members of the House ways and Means committee estimate that California would save $20 million in administrative costs under a food Cash program for the elderly Blind or disabled. California has had a food Cash program for ssi recipients since that supplemental program for the elderly Blind and disabled began in 1974. However California was required to switch to a regular food stamp program sept. 1 after the legislature suspended an ssi Cost of living increase following Pas Sage of proposition 13. By suspending the increase California failed to meet Federal requirements for a food Cash program and thus was forced to switch to a regular food stamp program according to House ways and Means staff members. Stateside Rocheste rites taking no chances on snowstorms Rochester . Up it May be Indian summer in Rochester but the folks Are thinking about the Long cold Winter. In fact it s almost impossible to buy Snow removal equipment. Monroe county residents apparently Learned a painful lesson last Winter when 160 inches of the White stuff the second snowiest season in the City s history made their driveways impassable. When Many residents sought snowblowers last year they found much to their consternation that not Only were snowblowers sold out but shovels were almost As hard to find. Distributors for two Snowblower manufacturers say they re sold out already and can t order any More for local dealers until after Winter. We re out of Stock and can t order any More said Virginia o Neill of Henry o n Eill and associates inc., ariens distributor for 150 dealers in Western and Southern new York. When Buffalo recorded its record Snow fall in 1976-77, ariens sales jumped to 3,600 in Western new York but this is an even better year. Fire victim discovered alive after j 3 years great Falls Mont. A a North Dakota Farmer who was believed to have died in a Motel fire Here almost 13 years ago has been found working on a ranch police say. Investigators said Clayton Kenneth Weedeman then 42, discovered the Day after the dec. 4, 1965, fire that officials believed he was the Man found dead in the room he had rented at the East Shore Motel. They said Weedeman seized on the mis take As an Opportunity to drop out of sight and Start a new life. He adopted the name of Olson and held several jobs in the next few years police said. We have determined that he was not involved in the fire an investigator said. Now All we be got to do is find out who it was who died  great Falls police said an investigator for the North Dakota Bureau of criminal investigation Jack Westphal located Weedeman at a ranch in Powell county about 100 Miles Southwest of great Falls where he had worked for two years. A hungry Bug May solve pollution problems Miami Beach a scientists said wednesday they have discovered a Micro organism that eats phosphates and Oil and May be useful in cleaning up some Environ mental problems. The organism a bacterium with the name Racinet Bacter phosphate Vorus was found in the sewage of a Texas sewage Plant the scientists from the University of Arizona scientists said. Doctor Irving yall told the National meeting of the american chemical society that the bacterium he and or. Charles f. Russ Are working with is Superior to other similar microorganisms. He said this is be cause it digests a much wider Range of car Bon containing compounds. The scientists discovered the organism in san Antonio after they deduced its exis tence and went out looking for it yall said in an interview. We Learned that the san Antonio Plant was particularly Good at taking out phosphates and wanted to find out what was responsible yall said. We isolated a Bunch of organisms that did t do anything but we finally found this one in a sludge  in tests Oil and phosphate in sewage dropped below detectable Levels after two Days of treatment with a sludge containing the microorganism. Miss America show picked up viewers in 78 Atlantic City . A More viewers watched the miss America pageant this year than last but one of television s highest rated specials is still Well behind its glory years. According to figures released tuesday by . Nielsen co.,  s two hour live telecast saturday night was seen in almost 19 million american households or half of the households with televisions on Between 10 . And Midnight. More than 65 million people saw the pageant at which Kylene Barker 22, of Galax va., was crowned miss America said Al Bert a. Marks jr., head of the pageant and executive producer of the television Spe Cial. Last year 16.7 million households or 43 percent of the households with televisions on saw Susan Perkins of Ohio crowned miss America during lbs s broadcast of the pageant. Ford May testify in assassination hearings Washington a former presi Dent Gerald r. Ford is expected to testify before the House assassinations commit tee later this month As part of its investigation of the slaying of president John f. Kennedy. Ford then a member of the House of representatives was a member of the Warren commission which president Lyn Don b. Johnson appointed to investigate the Kennedy assassination. Ford subsequently wrote a Book based on his membership on the commission and its report which concluded that Lee har vey Oswald was Kennedy s Lone Assassin. Rep. Samuel l. Devine of Ohio ranking Republican on the assassinations commit tee said on monday the committee staff is trying to work out a mutually convenient time for Ford to appear. If he does testify it will be this month said Devine. It was t Amore in Taylor s Eye but Metal Richmond a. Up actress Elizabeth Taylor took time out from pushing her husband John Warner s . Senate Campaign tuesday to be treated for an Eye injury suffered while eating pizza at a Richmond restaurant. A Campaign aide to Warner reported to the press that the couple was sitting in a restaurant eating pizza around Midnight monday when a Small piece of Metal entered Taylor s right Eye. Mrs. Warner was treated Early tues Day at the medical College of Virginia and is under the care of Richmond physician the spokesman said. Mrs. Warner says she does not know How the injury occurred the spokesman said. She says she was eating when she Felt a sudden Sharp pain like lightning go ing through my Eye "