European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 suit opposes singling ouf dependents for busing Washington a Public school districts cannot sin pc out for Long distance busing pupils who live on military installations even if the goal is to com Bat segregation the Justice department says. In less the Burden of desegregation is shared by other students in a school system the department Parpucs. Long distance busing of the dependents of military personnel discriminates against these children. The department s stand came in an unusual suit ii filed tuesday in a Federal court in Arizona involving the Tucson unified school District. The aim of the suit. Justice said is to end the Selec Tive Long distance busing of High school children residing on Davis Monthan air Force base in Tucson. Only children of military personnel arc bused solely for the purpose of achieving ethnic balance in the Tuc son school District the complaint alleged. It said that local Tucson children arc not similarly bused. The complaint said that singling out federally connected children for ethnic balance busing violates their rights under the  Protection clause of the Constitution and also directly breaches the contractual Assur ances made by inc District in Exchange for Federal Finan Cial assistance in the construction of its  attorney general Edwin a Csc Iii has said he docs not believe Cross town busing to achieve school desegregation has furthered the Quality of education. But the department which is a party to some 500 continuing desegregation suits around the country for the most part has not aggressively sought to dismantle existing desegregation plans. It has. However suggested that school districts operating under court imposed desegregation plans can be re leased from those requirements if they have acted fully and in Good Faith to achieve unitary systems. The Tucson school District strictly enforces against the military children a policy that prohibits any student reassignment that would further imbalance the ethnic ratio Al a school. However the District freely makes exceptions to that policy where non military children arc  said the complaint filed in Federal court in Tucson. 5 people killed As two planes collide crash in Dallas Rural residential area Dallas a a corporate air plane and a plane piloted by a student collided tuesday and crashed in a Rural residential area killing five people and narrowly miss ing houses. The twin engine corporate plane carry ing four people fell into an old Southeast Dallas Landfill. The single engine piloted by the student disintegrated about a Quarter mile away after the 1 30 . Accident said police spokesman de Spencer. No one on the ground was injured he said. Don Crisp president of Rosewood corp., one of Dallas biggest hotel and real estate  companies said the twin engine plane belonged to his company. The plane was carrying three Dallas based employees of Rosewood s subsidiaries returning from a business trip and a com Pany Pilot. Crisp said. He identified them As Susan m. Collins Oil and Gas land Man Ager Michael l. Boothby Oil and Gas production Engineer Jerry Michael coffer Oil and Gas accounting supervisor and Gordon , chief Pilot. The student Pilot was identified As Rob Ert Milke of Dallas. It could have done a lot More damage than it did said Elmer Ragland a nearby resident. There Are Homes both ways from it. Any other time there would have been a Bunch of kids Riding around out there. There Are a Bunch of motorcycle trails out  i saw it on the ground said James Webb who hurried to lev Landfill moments after inc crash. Robert Trevino who was at a House cast of inc Landfill said he ird two rapid fire explosions looked up  Only one came special edition of aug Futon Book priced at $15,000 new York a special edition of John James Audubon s Birds of Ameri Ca comm Coraling the 200lh anniversary of the Painter s birth is billed As inc most expensive Book Ever at $15,000 for each of 350 sets or $13.64 apiece for the 1,100 Birds depicted. The edition has four folios of individual prints and four leather bound volumes of additional material including commentaries by Audubon and the noted contemporary ornithologist Roger tory Peterson. The Price maintains a tradition for Audubon s work. The original edition a Folio of 435 engravings Cost $1,000 on Publica Tion in 1839, inc equivalent of $50,000 today according to an announcement tues Day by the publishers the National Audubon society and Abbey Villa press. By 1973 Only three Complete sets of the original Folio remained and one of them sold for $1.7 million this , prints have gone for As High As $45,000, the announcement said. Medical examiners recover bodies of victims of the air collision near Dallas. Down. It twirled  Dallas police it. Kirk Stuart said some witnesses reported seeing both planes but witness Linda Laird said All i saw was pieces of the plane going everywhere. I Only saw one  Spencer said one plane had a Csc from the Redbird Airport 15 Miles away in South Dallas. Airport manager Robert Horn and said Milke had left the Airport at l04 . And the collision occurred out of the facility s control area. Officials defend paying $792 for Navy Doormat Jacksonville Fla. A Feder Al officials Are defending the Purchase of a $792 Doormat which sen. William prox Mirc has ridiculed with his monthly Golden fleece award As a waste of inc taxpayers Money. The 8-by-10-foot, custom made Woven wire mat with a specialized Navy insignia was installed in August at Jacksonville Nas s medical command Headquarters. That s right $792 for a custom made Doormat so Navy personnel can walk on nothing but the Best. Meanwhile the poor taxpayers get walked All Over with this outrageous expense Proxmire d-wis., said monday. But Navy officials said inc Purchase was essential to make the workplace attractive and Safe for employees. It s just not any Doormat said Rob Ert Shunk the general services administration official who negotiated the con tract for the mat. He said the Federal government recently bought $40,000 Worth of the Mats. Proxmire said he had asked the Navy to justify inc Purchase. Its response this Purchase fills a legitimate command requirement i d like to see How legitimate they d think this Purchase was if heir com Manders had to pay for it instead of the poor taxpayer he said. Proxmire aide Doug Walter said the sen Ator was not questioning whether the mat was Worth $792, but whether it was needed. Paul Hunke Mcyr a Navy spokesman in Jacksonville said the Mats arc As essential As air conditioning desks and chairs. It sounds like a lol of Money and sure Jou could always do without it. But without some of the furnishings that you would find in your average civilian workplace Environ ment you la have some dissatisfied employ  and without a Doormat Ikic this you la probably spend a lot of your Lime cleaning up the carpets in the hallways he said. Refunds of d for some visitors to worlds fair Knoxville. Term. A the state attorney general has approved refunds of about 62 cents on the Dollar for thousands of tourists who found inadequate or some times non existent hotel rooms when they visited the 1982 world s fair. The s3s5.000 in refunds approved tues Day combined with earlier settlements of s95.307 and , establishes a Pool o More than $490,000 to repay world s fair visitors who filed consumer complaints against the fair s official reservation its. The proposed settlement is More than $200,000 Short of the 5791 ,k27 in consumer claims filed with the state and in . Bankruptcy court by 2,759 visitors to the six month Energy exposition. The claims were filed by tourists from almost every state who arrived in Knoxville to find shabby accommodations botched reservations and. In some cases hotels thai had been planned but not built said Deputy attorney general Doug Berry. The settlement should end one of the largest cases of consumer fraud Ever investigated in the state. Berry said. However no Money can be disbursed until the settlement is considered oct. 23 by . Bankruptcy judge Clive Bare. Hotel and Motel accommodations for inc 1982 fair were handled by Knox visit unti shortly after the fair opened in May 1982 when pm hotel Mote took Over. The settlement entered sept. 21 in . Bankruptcy court includes 560,000 from Warner reservation inc., a new York based company that Sci up the computer system for kno Visil and $325,000 from St. Paul fire and Marine insurance. Famous dropout is at Long last a High school Grad Boston a a new 22-Ccnt stamp honouring Public education and showing a Sheet of paper with practice letters a Quill pen eyeglasses and an Apple has helped Benjamin Franklin finally get his High school diploma. Boston latin school at 350 years this year the oldest . Public school on tues Day awarded the honorary diploma to Franklin during a ceremony unveiling the stamp which is now on Sale. Quit school at 10 a seventh grader dressed like the 18th Century statesman accepted the sheepskin for Franklin who quit the school Al 10 in 1716 to Cut Wicks and melt tallow for his father s Candle works. H was a very special occasion for us assistant headmaster Jacqueline Tib belts said. The people of Boston founded this school because they believed in children. Hopefully this Means a re focusing on Public education and our Chil