European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday september 29, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 at expense of other employees Cleveland teachers May get raise by United press International Cleveland school officials told strik ing teachers wednesday they will juggle the budget to fund pay raises but the move probably will Cost 1,000 other school employees their jobs. A Board spokesman said the employees mostly food service workers and educational aides May be Laid off to free funds for pay raises. The spokes Man also said some top administrators May be reassigned As teachers. While school officials pondered Lay offs a Cleveland High school student met with lawyers to plot a class action suit charging the school Board with total Cleveland s 101,000 Public school Stu dents have been idled for three weeks by the walkout largest in a series of school strikes that affected More than 300,000 students in a dozen states at midweek. Layoffs will be the mainstay of Mas Sive cuts proposed by Cleveland administrators in a revised school budget officials talks will resume when the budget is revised budget will be reviewed by a judge who refused to order strik ing teachers and non teaching person Nel Back to work and instead ordered the budget shuffling. Gerald Rodgers a senior at Cleve land s John f. Kennedy High school said he is talking with the Legal Aid society about a class action suit on behalf of students. I want to file a suit for anguish con fusion and the total flakiness of the school Board Rodgers said. I Don t think the Board tried hard enough to avoid a strike. And nobody seems to school employees went without raises for two years while the Cleveland school system fought off bankruptcy and now Are demanding a 20 percent pay hike. School officials Are trying to get the state to fund the raises. Veto proof major/7jes Congress oks Public works Bill Washington a the Senate gave final congressional approval wednesday to a $10.2 billion Public works Bill and immediately began negotiating with president Carter who vowed to veto it As wasteful and inflationary. Although both houses approved the Mea sure by apparently veto proof majorities sen. Bennet Johnston who managed the measure in the Senate met with Carter at the White House and said we re willing to , d-la., chairman of the Senate Public works appropriations subcommittee drove to the White House immediately after the Senate s 86-to-9 vote approving the told reporters later that Carter had told him he would veto the measure As he has repeatedly vowed to do in the past. Johnston said he believes a veto would provoke a confrontation Between Carter and the Congress in which nobody would he said he urged Carter to try to work it out and said they discussed a general outline of an agreement. He declined to give specifics but said it Post walks out of talks news times continue new York up the new York Post wednesday walked out of contract talks with the 1,600-member striking Pressman s Union in a protest Over labor lawyer Theodore Kheel s role in the negotiations. Post publisher Rupert Murdoch said his newspaper had not resigned from the pub Lishers association which also represents the new York times and the daily news but said he had withdrawn from the talks. We have left the negotiations Mur described the talks As simply a charade and he said Kheel has been in negotiations for 20 years which have re quite in the bankruptcy of several news papers and the process said Post lawyer How Ard Squadron is becoming increasingly one in which or. Kheel s role is one of Arbi Trator rather than impartial observer. As Long As Kheel occupies that role and we feel other newspapers Are making a mis take in letting him do it we Are not pre pared to stay with that kind of proceed said the Post would seek to talk separately with the striking Pressman and other unions As former Post publisher Doro thy Schiff did in the 114-Day printers strike in 1962-63, allowing the Post to publish while other new York City papers remained shut. Is possible that the House and Senate might agree not to attempt an override of a veto if Carter would agree to accept a new Bill containing some parts of the present s objections to the measure Cen Ter on six water projects he wants removed from the Bill. They were among those car Ter tried to kill last year when he published a hit list of water projects he considered of the measure hailed it As a needed investment in water resource and Energy development that would Cost $879 million less than the program Carter pro posed in his budget message in january. Opponents said the reduction was a paper saving resulting from changes in bookkeeping techniques such As appropriating Only one year s funds for each project instead of its total Thomas p. O Neill told report ers a veto would alienate Many House members and might jeopardize House approval of the administration backed Natu ral Gas Compromise which the Senate passed wednesday 57 to 42. The Public works Bill passed the House sept. 14 by a vote of 319 to 71, a margin More than enough to override a Carter includes $6 billion for the Energy department $2.6 billion for the army corps of engineers and $580 million for the Bureau of reclamation. It Calls for 53 new construction starts on water resource projects. Construction funds Are proposed for three of the six projects Carter tried to Stop Lva million for the Narrows unit in Colorado $4 million for the Yatesville Lake flood control project in Kentucky and $2.2 million for the Bayou Bodcau project in Louisiana. Study funds Are provided for the other three $75,000 for Fruitland Mesa in Colorado $75,000 for Savery to took in Colorado and Wyoming and $150, 000 for Lukata Lake in Oklahoma. Two other projects which the president opposed Defarge Lake in Wisconsin and me ramac Park Lake in Missouri were stricken from the Bill. The me ramac Park project was disapproved by Missouri Vot ers in an August referendum. Hooks urges press to boost minority hire Portland Ore. A the Ameri can press and the civil rights movement face a common Challenge of convincing society the goals of both Are in the Public in Terest instead of against it civil rights Leader Benjamin l. Hooks says. Hooks executive director of the nation Al association for the advancement of col ored people told a group of newspaper Edi tors wednesday they must fight for their rights following recent unfavourable supreme court cited the recent court decisions allowing the search of newsrooms and overturning a medical school s affirmative action admission policy As examples. You must be courageous enough to keep up the fight Clever enough to protect your sources and ornery enough to con front adversaries who misrepresent your Aims and aspirations Hooks said. Similarly we in the civil rights Community will not let our adversaries on the right or the left distort our True goals and objectives Hooks told the annual Conven Tion of the associated press managing Edi tors. Credibility Factor but Hooks said the press in America must get its House in order by hiring and training More minority journalists if it is to have any credibility in the struggle for racial cannot criticize the failure of others when they have such a poor re Cord themselves he of the newspapers in the country do not employ a single minority person Hooks said and 80 percent of the minority journalists work on just 20 per cent of the nation s also said he was alarmed by the fact that Only 11 minority members hold positions above the level of assistant City addition to hiring More minorities. Hooks said editors must give them More opportunities to cover the assignments must not be limited to minority issues. We Are and can be experts about a wide Range of matters other than race Hooks said. You Are not the Only persons who can be experts on International affairs banking Medicine Law politics sports science and s. Korea phantom crashes Seoul up a South korean air Force phantom Jet fighter crashed in Seoul after the two crewmen bailed out police said. They said one person was injured in the crash near a brewery in the Southern part of the capital. Of time he s out of balance if you dare Burt Reynolds be prepared. Comic Steve Martin found that out when he dared the actor to shave off his Mustache during the taping of Johnny arson s tonight show in Hollywood. So Reynold s got a razor from a pro Man and began shaving the Mustache he has had since 1973. Why does Rey nolds have an Arrow through his head your guess is As Good As our s. Up sept. 29, 1948 the House in Ameri can activities committee charged four persons including two american scientist Sand a communist party official with at tempting to steal this nation s atomic secrets for . 29, 1958 a second former con Testant of television s "21" quiz show was quoted As saying rigged answers and off camera rehearsals were used on the pro . 29, 1968 the controversial american hippie musical hair featuring a finale in which six actresses and six actors faced the audience in the nude left London critics cold
