European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 19. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 23 striking teachers Are ordered jailed schoo s out for j 15,000 students in 7 states b the associated press a judge has jailed and fined 23 members of a striking teachers Union in Patu Ekit. R.i., for contempt and threatened to cite More. Is walkouts by 8,000 Tea Diers in seven Stales kept 115,000 students out of classes. In the largest strike Seattle school District officials called for n state fact finder to study a two week teach ers walkout that has kept 4x500 students out of school. The teachers had voted Down a proposed contract which the school District had sweetened by $1 million. Other strikes were in Michigan Pennsylvania. Ohio new York and Illinois. In Pawtucket. Teachers Union president Mary Ann Kun any and 22 of the City s 600 striking teachers tues Day were ordered to jail by Superior court judge co Rinne \. Grande. She said they would be freed when they agree to work. The judge also fined them $500 per Day that they Don t work. This is an out and out refusal to obey a lawful order of the court. There is no justification Grande said of the teachers refusal to heed her order last week to end their walkout. The walkout is the third by the City s teachers in 10 years and has idled 8,200 students. The judge said she would consider contempt charges against 34 More members of the Pawtucket teachers Alliance and aug said she would consider imposing sanctions against the Union whose strike violates stale Law. Most of the a caches showed Little emotion As Grande ordered them to jail but Patricia e. A a broke into tears. L feel it is my duly to hand behind the teachers of the City of  she said in a barely audible voice. You la have to stand behind them from behind bars Grande replied the teachers taken from the hearing in corrections department vans waved to friends and reporters outside the courthouse. A lawyer for the Union said the slate supreme court would be asked to void the judge s Origi Nal order and the contempt sentences. In 1975, 14 Union loaders spent eight Days in jail. The Union was fined $10.000 in 1983 for its one Day Defiance of a Back to work order. Court ordered talks in the walkout that began sept a broke off Early tuesday. School officials said tuesday they had offered the teachers a three Jeur Deal with a 5 percent pay increase this year and 6 percent in the Sec Ond year. The third year s raise would be negotiated. Robert of. Casey Lead negotiator for the teachers said the proposal was unacceptable. Before weekend talks teachers said they were seeking a three year pact with total so iry increases of 27 percent. Seattle teachers association spokesman John Cahill said calling in a state fact finder could make the strike there last longer because it would take a fact finder at least a month to investigate the District s financial Situa Tion. The process could take six weeks said Jim Hawkins spokesman for the District which called for the appoint ment of a fact finder monday after teachers rejected a contract offer 2.1 36 to 367. The walkout which began sept. 3, involves 3,700 teachers sub Stilles. Secretaries and aides. The District s latest offer had increased to $3 million the amount budgeted to hire More teachers to reduce Large class loads. It also was for two years As opposed to the initial one year contract proposal. In Flint mich., bar gainers headed into a new round of talks and their counterparts in Marquette. . Also planned More meetings. The two strikes  idled 33.k77stuilents.ind 1.901 teachers. More than ik.00 1 students in five Western Penn Silva Nia school districts arc idled b teachers strikes and about 1.570 students faced the possibility of a walkout in North irate school District in Allegheny c out talks were planned in the Mon our District Uhre the Board announced plans to reopen schools Nel week Uilah substitutes. Talks resumed in the Albert fall Amin sch Ciol District in i acc Ltd c Olin. About 4. 100 students Are affected by the strike b 250 teachers who walked out sept. 5. In the Southwest Butler school District in slut scr county the school Board said it has even its Best Oiler or " to its .100 sinking raises of 55.200 Over a lice years t it 30 teachers. But the teachers said it s nut enough no talks were scheduled in the Blairsville Saltsburg school District in Indiana county where 155 teachers walked off their jobs on sept. 3. Idling .7,600 students. In new York Long Island University president David Steinberg asked teachers at the . Post Campus to resume working wednesday even if their strike is not resolved. The strike began  classes for 12.000 students. At Charleston. Iii., talks broke off sunday Between he school Board and negotiators for Iso teachers whose strike has idled 3.100 since wednesday. No new talks were set for the 1,200-Pupil 1 in to. Ohio school District where 70 teachers Are on sir Ike. A strike by some 100 special education teachers in Stark county also dragged on. But the county Hoard of menial retardation and developmental disabilities has kept is workshops and schools open staffed by supervisors substitutes and new hires. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 19. 1945 Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur s Headquarters in Tokyo reported that Japan has been permitted to resume a sharply restricted air transport service radiating from Tokyo with no More than four planes in the air at a time. 30 years ago today. Sept. 19. 1955 the porcing office in London said that Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Britain s missing Diplo Mats were both under investigation before they skipped behind the Iron curtain. It s now believed the two were longtime soviet spies. 20 years ago today. Sept. 19, 1965 troopers of the 101st airborne div battled Strong Viet Cong forces in the fiercest fighting yet to involve . Units in the Central Highland Jungles of South Vietnam. 10 years ago today. Sept. 19, 1975 fugitive newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and three symbiont use liberation army associates were captured in san Francisco by Fri agents and police to end one of the most bizarre criminal cases in . History. Navy Veteran Dies at 101 Fayetteville . A Ray mond Myers Berkeley who joined the Navy in 1900, has died at the age of 101. Philadelphia mayor w. Wilson Goode Points to Lar being spread by a roofer during he Topping off1 for the first roof ceremonial Topping installed on one of 61 Homes built to replace those destroyed in the police confrontation with members of the Radical group move last May in West Phila Delphia. A fire triggered by a police bomb destroyed the Homes. Long a Formant Excelsior Geyser erupts at Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park Wyo. A Excelsior Geyser extremely unfaithful even during its More Active Days has erupted for the first time in 95 years with a 55-foot High plume of hot water and steam Yellowstone National Park officials said. It s been More than a Century since the Geyser was As famous As the Park s current drawing card old faithful said Park spokesman Marily Nixon. Located in the Midway Geyser Basin North of old faithful Excelsior was one of Yellowstone s major attractions during the 188ch. During that period the Geyser frequently sent a boiling column of water and Rock 300 feet into the air. A geologist at the time called it one of the grandest sights Ever beheld in  before saturday when a tourist and a Park bus Driver saw the Geyser erupt just before noon. Excelsior s last confirmed eruption was in 1890, said Nixon. It was erupting and doing wonderful things and then went dormant at 9 43 . Yesterday Nixon said. A Yellowstone research geologist. Rick Hutchinson said he did t know Why the Geyser erupted dozens of times during the weekend. Excelsior s eruptions sent Strong surface waver up to 30 inches High swelling across the Geyser s Pool. Hutchinson said. The Waves were accompanied by massive surges of boiling Muddy water he said. Hutchinson said Excelsior erupted at irregular intervals in 1878, 1881. 1882 and 1888 As Well As its last recorded eruption in 1890