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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page a the stars and stripes tuesday september 9, 19bo walkout by the associated prs about 1,600 teachers in san Jose Cal if., walked off the Job monday in a wage dispute while teachers strikes elsewhere continued to disrupt the Start of school for More than a half million Public school Stu  nationwide. Thousands of kids Are still sifting at Home chanting \ no More books no More teachers dirty looks Ning a new two year contract that provided salary increases ranging from 20 percent to 38 percent. Safari had ranged from is 1,331 to 19,900. In a pre Dawn session san Jose teachers voted 1.511 to 174 to strike following a breakdown in contract negotiations Sun school officials lined up 1,500 elsewhere in the nation More than 43 inn in Cheri were on strike in eight states  Michigan Ohio a ton Illinois Arizona new York 11 000 pm Irdelphia teachers pledged to Cun Sinuc their walkout until they get n no in Newark n.j., meanwhile 5,500 Day night. School officials line u 11,500 T � Rof Ems in Rochers originally for a Pennsylvania s million do far offer probed As a legation of rigging surface Harrisburg. A. A a statewide a1""101 Juv k investigating charges that Pennsylvania s state run numbers game supposedly a ii proof Lattery that reaps almost ii million a Day in bets has been rigged. The grand jury it hearing testimony in Philadelphia about whether someone tampered with the special equipment used in the drawing which is televised across the slate six nights a week. A special committee in the state Senate is planning it own probe. So far wagering has no diminished. Weekly receipts Are running about s5.7 million up from is million last year. Right now the Public has adopted a wait and see attitude said slate sen. Michael Schaefer. The Pittsburgh Democrat who will head the Senate investigation. It s important for us to Clear the  allegations that the game was rigged surfaced in Early May weeks after on april 24 drawing of the number 666 produced a record payout of 13.b million. Then on saturday three identical num Bers 000 appeared again in the lot Tery. Lottery officials did not comment on the unusual number a ther than to note that it paid out sl.498,550. Or 147.6 percent of he amount bet that Day in the game. To play she game people pay 50 cents or More to play any three digit number from 000 through 999. The state pays winners at 500-to-l Odds. Thus a straight bet of a returns s500 if the number turns up. Plumber s Garden Harold it Lii of Whitehall p�., Ewtou id half plants growing in owl hubs but he kit boo sink in his Pau Robt s or  Peters 62, h s i til begun tight years go with the discarded Bil Broom sink and now includes toilet urinal rinsing Lub Bot tub mining machine and double rinse inv. I i photo in the Long run the state comes out ahead but on Days when a heavily bet num Ber wins the lottery stands to lose Money in addition to the stale losses illegal numbers writers who take action on the be Gal number were hit hard in april police officials have said. According to the police the word on the streets of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh an april 24 was to Piny any combination of discs and fours. Suspecting a fix some Street numbers writers refused to pay off polio said. The administration of gov. Dick Thorn Burgh a former is. Al Waey in fills Burgh immediately n hacked the reports As an underworld attempt to smear the Segal game. But Thornburgh ordered an investigation which turned up whal Revenue Secre tary Howard Cohen called contradictions to initial findings. A lid of secrecy dropped and the investigation was handed to the grand jury in May. Defending the game s integrity the Thornburgh administration contended it was unlikely anyone could Pierce the lot Tery s elaborate Security. For each drawing a Volunteer senior Citi zen picks a numbered Ping Pong Ball from each of three scrambler machines. Proceeds from the lottery Are used to give senior citizens free mass transit rides and property tax Breaks. Lee Hilb Crl. Acting president of the san Jose teachers association said that be fore negotiations ended Friday Union bar liners had significantly lowered salary demands but she declined to be More Spe c teachers had a 12 percent salary Rabe last school year and a 2 percent inc Caie he year before said Hilbert. The teach ers current annual salary Range is is 1.449 a in Rochester n.y., classes have been cancelled for 34.600 Public school student. Rochester teachers association Leaden were due in the state supreme court for n contempt hearing before Justice David bochum who last week enjoined the Leachen from striking. The 2,300 teachers who walked off the Job tuesday Are seeking a two year con tract with an average j7.000 raise plus other benefits. The school Board proposed a 14,400 raise for the two year period. In contract disputes elsewhere teachers in four More Michigan districts walked off the Job monday bringing to 26 the number of teachers strikes in the state. The strikes affect about 4,500 teach ers and 106,700 students. The Detroit federation of teachers �w1 a temporary restraining order against 717 layoffs on saturday. But a judge a to decide monday whether the Union should Posl Bond to cover the school District s Cost for retaining inc teachers if the Michigan employment relations commission eventually approved the layoffs. Mansfield Ohio teachers were head ing for n so Rick monday but a walkout in Waverly was averted when teachers accepted a new pact. Strikes continued at three other school districts and affected More than 50,000 pupils in Illinois a 2-week-old walkout idling 1,700 Carlinville children was Over but teachers remained on strike in nine districts and classes for almost 25,000 students were cancelled Veteran s burial at sea Navy officer cleared in shooting of casket Norfolk a. Up a Navy inquiry questioning the judgment of a com Mander who ordered 103 shots fired at a Veteran s casket to get the coffin to sink in a burial at a Rudd monday there had been no wrongdoing. The investigation found no violations of ceremony regulations but said a More appropriate procedure would have been on examination of alternative methods of sinking the wooden casket such As lunching weights to it no disciplinary action was taken against cmdr. William Wunderly Captain of the destroyer Farr fiut but he was verbally counselled by his commander " Snajd it cmdr. Michael Cherry a spokesman at the Norfolk naval base. The inquiry was ordered aug. 26 after the Navy received a query about the incident july 14, which one crewman described As the worst Liing 1 Ever Taw in  another unidentified crewman was quoted As saying the body was coming out of the casket when we left. It was Gross the Navy h is declined to identify the Veteran in the casket. Cherry said inc casket was slipped off the Farragut As it should but that it flipped Over and Fai cd to sink. Wunderly theft ordered a six Man firing team to shoot into the casket at water level to gel in logo Down Cherry said. When the firing was completed the casket was Damn cd so that part of one end was open to the  Cherry id. Reading a Navy statement of its incs ligation. With inc casket still afloat but in his opinion sinking the commanding officer made a decision to depart the area the Navy said in the statement which added in was the opinion of the officer conducting the inquiry that no existing regulations or directives were violated. However a More  procedure would have been to dispatch a Small boat to investigate alternative methods of sinking such As attaching weights to the  Cherry said the actual ceremony was held in acc Brice with regulations Nodine there arc no specific guidelines on what to do in Case a casket which has Hoks in i for sinking  to go Down Cherry said Hie investigation recommended in future burials at Iea weighted Metal caskets be used is inti of Wood to make sure they sink  
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