European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 study finds Blacks 6 times More Likely than Whites to serve a prison sentence Washington a Black men Are six times More Likely than White men to serve a state prison sen tence sometime in their a Justice department study released sunday the departments Bureau of Justice statistics said the based on a Survey of state inmate censuses and neither confirms nor rules out the possibility of racial discrimination in the Justice the entitled the prevalence of imprison docs that state prisons from 1978 to 1982 contained proportionately More Blacks than Whites when considering their respective proportions of the adult the report says compelling evidence involving the question of discrimination comes from separate studies comparing the racial composition of prison populations with that of All offenders engaged in imprison blk from 1978 to for Blacks constituted roughly 11 percent of the adult but they accounted for 47 percent of the prisoners in state ins Titu during that same the study 44 to 47 percent of All people arrested for violent crimes those most Likely to cause imprisonment were As used in the newly released the Bureau the prevalence of state imprisonment refers to the proportion of the nations population in prison and to a persons probability of being in prison on any Given Day or at any time in his or her it says that males have a much higher probability than females of being in prison on any Given Day or of serving a prison sentence in their the study also says that Blacks Are More Likely than Whites either to be in prison on any Given Day or to serve a prison sentence in their although Blacks generally have a greater likelihood of being sent to a state prison in their the disparity Between Blacks and Whites might narrow in future the report based on estimates of people sent to prison during the years from 1973 to lifetime prevalence of imprisonment increased 37 percent for White 13 per cent for Black 11 percent for White females and 50 percent for Black females from 1973 to the study found Over a Between and percent of Black men could be expected to serve a sentence in an adult state prison compared to Between and percent of White scout news Hawks keep typewriters humming Bowling a the boy scouts arc running their own news operation at the National scout sending reports of events ranging from con certs to storms Back Home to newspapers and broadcast gaps Between the news reports issued by scout officials and what ends up being used by professional journalists Are filled by the Hometown a Jamboree paper staffed by about 475 the boys and leaders at the Jam Boree have turned fort Hill into a Small and the Hometown news Green and White tent has a Small newsroom with 24 electric most of them work at any one said Marlene one of the projects who doubles As a typist for those boys who Lack the typing is not required for the journalism Merit were covering a lot of markets wed have no Hope of said Michael the manager of the print Section for the we Klong we know that some things have appeared because people Tell Labbe estimated that 400 to 500 newspapers Are getting Calls or mailed stories from the most of the papers made arrangements before the Jamboree Don the manager of the radio said 18 stations Are getting scout produced about half the troops represented at the Jamboree have accredited scout Cor Ive been Here every Day so said Jason of who is sending reports to the Boston Globe and Wiz Ive reported on the Patch trading and All the rain and the Beach boys which could As easily be the assignment list of any paid reporter the Patch trading was the longest because that seems to be what everyone he the remnants of Hurricane Bob washed through the area Felling tents with its heavy rainfall and High special news conferences Are set up for the scout on sunday they questioned Ben chief scout about his whether the scout ing movement is Why one troop had poor records and what contacts he used to get the Beach boys to play on the open ing some of the boys seem to have some sense of the urgency that is part of the we had some in Here within a half an hour of the storm filing said Rock Hudson ads for Illinois tourism pulled from to Chicago a a television commercial made by Rock Hudson to promote Illinois tourism was pulled after the actor was reported ill in a Paris Robin a spokeswoman for the state department of Commerce and Community said the ads were pulled a week ago when the Agency heard reports that Hudson had he said the decision was made before it was disclosed that Hudson was suffering from we pulled them out of respect to him and his Skiles if he does we will reinstate them next Spring for the Kickoff of the tourism a native of suburban was paid last january to film the part of Illi Nois million tourism Campaign entered around the slogan you put me in a Happy the to spot shows Hudson gazing out a then fades to a scene with him entering a he embraces a Gray haired woman who welcomes Little Hudson real name is Roy the woman also is an to slots designated for Hudson and will be filled with similar spots starring Chicago bears coach Mike former bears linebacker Dick Broadway Star Carol Channing and to actor Bob footnotes to a Campaign a photo 25 teachers chosen to push weather education Washington a Twentyfive science teachers from across the country have been chosen to participate in a special honors weather education the National weather service announced the teachers will take part in an intensive course of weather study from monday through 9 at the National weather service training facility in Kansas the program is paid for by the National science foun the teachers will follow up the sessions by conducting workshops on weather for other the teachers chosen for this years program Are Lyle Blue Gary Brown Michael Suzanne Charles Deering George Carol Harrison Lowell Terry Wisconsin Christopher Christopher Ratley Marsha n h Steven new York City Lucy South Allen Jeffrey Maine Rene by it Kouis Missyann North Sharon Colorado Bradley Marilyn Kansas Diane Newton John Pine Wilma and Gilbert