European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Singer Frank Sinatra approaches the podium As president and Reagan prepare to award him the presidential medal of the award was pre medal of Freedom seated thursday at the White House for his contributions to arts and entertain ment and Public the medal was Given to 10 others including actor a photo Jimmy test Pilot Chuck explorer Jacques late jazz pianist count Basie and former ambassador Jeane Massachusetts House rejects homosexuals As Foster parents Boston a the placement of two Foster children with two homosexual men has prompted the state House to pass an amendment which bars putting children in the care of homosexuals who Are not their natural in approving the measure by a 11228 vote thursday As an amendment to the 1986 the House beat to the punch state agencies which Are charged with the placement of Foster near the end of the debate on the about 120 people gathered across the Street from the statehouse to protest the states removal of boys from the Foster Home of a Boston homosexual state social services commissioner Marie Matava and human services Secre tary Philip said they would Call a news conference Friday to out line state policy concerning homosexuality and Foster Johnston said thursday that new the Only state with a specific policy on homosexuals As Foster forbids discrimination on such a he also in an interview published that the private child welfare league of America favors traditional families for Foster the announcement of the press Confer made during the height of the House debate set up a possible conflict Between the administration and one Branch of the a statehouse source familiar with the department of social services decision said late thursday that he understood that Johnstons policy would not be As firm As the House its but there not saying said the who asked that he not be the controversial amendment to the pro posed billion spending package for fiscal 1986 followed several hours of heated debate on moral and family on May the department removed the boys from the Home of the homosexual saying widespread publicity had caused a traumatic situation harmful to the the boys had lived with the men for two the House budget amendment prohibits placing children under the departments jurisdiction with anyone posing a psychological or physical threat to and it de fines homosexuality As such a i think that to knowingly place children with individuals who Are known to be homosexual is not in the Best psychological or physical Best interests of the said the Royall John flood said some colleagues description of homosexual parents As a non traditional family brought him close to a rage for the first time in his five years in the the Only thing we can describe As a nontraditional family is one in which one of the parents is flood there May be situations in which a Natu ral Parent has taken on a homosexual life at there army of erf eke is swarms Over Utah Fields Utah up a plague of mormon crickets has descended on Rural Uintah swarming across Fields and highways in Black columns and gobbling up thousands of acres of watching them eating on a its just amazing the size of the bites they can take rancher Scott Chew armies of crickets overran the county last when no Federal Money was Avail Able to Spray this farm ers the Pesky invaders Are Back in even greater the government plans to Spray about acres in Uintah county to kill off the hungry they Are covering a big and in sure where their groups Are 100 to 200 per Square were getting substantial said Uintah county Extension agent Steven last the crop munching known in the area As mormon destroyed some acres of county ranges and the insects have developed a method of bending Over tall wheat stalks so they can gnaw the kernels off the Chew when they were our wheat was just in the milk stage and was soft and and they just devoured he one will get on top and weigh the head and then a Bunch of them can get around experts said the crickets were hatched about six weeks ago and Are now about half of their full according to Early settlers crickets attacked the crops of the but sea gulls came to their eating the insects and saving the the sea Gull is the official state Bird of teachers May face drug fess up school officials concern Over drug use is a familiar but one Long Island school District is pushing to have teachers tested for drug state supreme court Justice Thomas Stark reserved decision wednesday on the move by the Patchogue Medford school District to require the tests of 22 Stark continued a temporary restraining order against the tests until he makes his teachers say it is the first time any school District in the nation has demanded such Daniel a lawyer for the teach ers Union said the proposed tests would violate the teachers constitutional Protection against unreasonable search under the fourth teachers must be in the District three years before they Are granted but once Given such the process for re moving a teacher is lengthy and school officials school officials concede the District has had no problems so far with drug use among teachers or there Are no and there have never been any allegations by the school Board that any of the these teachers is a drug Galinson told there there is no basis for this unreasonable the attorney noted the teachers involved in the court action have already As a requirement for physical exams that included urine the school District wants the teachers to submit urine samples to a school and these will be sent to a private Laboratory for Galinson what happens if the urine tests show that the teachers Are taking certain types of medication he if the teachers Are satisfactorily performing their it is no business of the school Board to have knowl Edge that they they Are taking the Medica school Board lawyer Robert Sapir argued the urine tests Are not a search in the context of the fourth Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 1945 the British 2nd army he in Germany announced that Heinrich former head of the has committed suicide by biting open a vial of potassium 30 years ago today May 1955 a 50foot replica of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt blowing above her Waist has been hauled Down from atop Loews state theater in times new a theater spokesman said there were complaints that the advertisement for the movie the seven year itch was not in Good 20 years ago foday May 1965 an inter american peacekeeping Force took Over the Job of ending the crisis in the dominican re pub 70 years ago today May 1975 former Green Beret doctor Jeffrey Macdonald pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Federal court on charges of murdering his wife and two daughters while stationed at Bragg in