European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 uproar Over hag splits Pennsylvania school a Benton High school seniors were supposed to be touring the nations capital last but they have been grounded by a bitter Dis Pute Over one students refusal to pledge allegiance to the its a terrible situation grown completely out of the Best year of their lives is being said Benton area schools superintendent Bernard these Are Good kids and their parents Are Good and to have this happen seems unfair to the controversy began when Benton High school principal Edwin Hartman told his faculty that he wanted to know if any students were not saying the pledge of there was one senior David whose refusal was reported by senior class adviser Paul that began a series of confrontations involving can ouse and Hartman Over the 17yearolds refusal and reasons for a b says he has very personal religious and political reasons for refraining from the which he would rather not discuss in Canouse declared that Percey was defying his author and if Hes going to be defiant to me whats going to happen on the trip Canouse said last senior class president Marsha Kinney said the Stu dents were asked to choose Between Canouse and Percey going on the when students backed Canouse and Dorothy Dobler resigned As class because no other teachers stepped Forward to fill the the seniors Long awaited for which they raised More than was the Issue attracted the attention of the american civil liberties Union and a reminder from Legal director Stefan Presser that students have a constitutional Richmo refrain from the even sit during and Are entitled to recover damages personally from any school official who violates that Shultz says the whole affair might have been settled if the news Media haunt picked up the and my greatest concern is for the Shultz i cant get it it just keeps the High one of Pennsylvania has 380 including 41 we operate with some old fashioned Shultz we ask kids Why or Why not there doing certain things and this was one of those from now students rights to sit out the pledge of allegiance will be he the Issue has devastated Benton a Rural Community known for Good Trout fishing and Small town Friend there have been heated letters to the Nam calling and a Brouhaha with upset Par teachers and administrators at the schools auditorium last the parents were As angry about their children being accused of Defiance and support of Defi which the advisers did in a guest editorial in a nearby newspaper last As they were about the cancelled who got involved after the problem was full believes the whole Issue began As a confrontation Between a teacher and a i think the teacher Felt the Young Man was disrespectful to and it was not a matter of political Shultz the students backed the other youngster and it May have been misconstrued that the students were backing the confrontation with the teach that the fuzzy Percey has no apologies for the i dont think that Ive Hurt the town or class by showing them How dissent in America he Shultz that it will take time for the wounds to Ive got 26 years in this business but its the worst that Ive Ever he its a lesson rudely Nobel prize Winner visits Kentucky a photo South african Bishop Desmond Tutu in namoi Tut seavers Center received her also shown tutus daughter Cap and gown visits the University of masters degree the Nobel left his and Tutu Kentucky at tutus peace prize Winner was Given an honorary seavers Corbin 6 hospitalized in Minneapolis softball players struck by lightning Minneapolis a a lightning Bolt struck six softball players saturday As they huddled under a tree during a knocking All six to the ground and critically injuring authorities and witnesses i was in a lot of pain and i was said one of the Troy of 4llt went through me from it took the feet right out from under me i fell right on my Darryl of was in critical condition saturday night at Henne pin county medical a nursing us who did not want her name said he suffered cardiac arrest but was re Vived at the John director of the Hospi Tal Burn said Skoy was suffering from electricity it just totally overloads the it Burns you Twomey the others were hospitalized for Burns or two of them were in serious condition saturday witnesses said a lightning Bolt struck the tree and knocked the six players and several others to the the members of an Amateur gathered under the tree after their game was stopped in the fourth and the lightning struck shortly some witnesses who were not struck said they could feel the lightning hit the in addition to Skoy and those hospitalized were identified by police As Donald of Eden Prairie Ronald of West Paul Ralph of and Todd 20 of Bergstrom and Dennistoun were listed in serious while Ingalls and Gores were in satisfactory Gores said he was standing about two feet from Skoy when the lightning struck and that he landed about 10 feet from the i tried to move at first and i Gores my feet were just like they were on a Jim Norman of said the players Felt like dominoes when the lightning hit the it was just Boom like bark off a he Tennessee apologizes to Kings widow a the widow of the Martin Luther King says use of her husbands autopsy pictures in a University of Tennessee classroom was a per Sonal offence to the King Robert Dean of the Cen Ter for health said he has apologized to Corretta Scott King and promised that the pictures would no longer be used As a teaching Summitt acted after medical students complained that they were upset by slides showing King with his lower jaw and part of his neck ripped away by a Rifle King was murdered in Memphis in King issued a statement in calling the episode a personal offence to the King i am gratified that a number of medical students were sensitive enough to recognize the inappropriateness of the use of these she Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 1945 Dwight Eisenhower said that no combat Soldier who fought in both North Africa and Europe should be sent to the Pacific and ordered prompt discharge of All line troops eligible for release from the 30 years ago today May 1955 the United states and Russia reached agreement on a treaty for the agreement ended 17 years of domination by foreign 20 years ago today May 1965 an official announce ment from Moscow indicated the soviet space Craft Lunik which had been in tended to test procedures for a soft Landing on the crashed into the 70 years ago today May 1975 the communist a thet lao moved to seize control of loyalist military forces in the Patchet lao had already seized control of the