European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 they re us looking Tor a Tew Good boys Delran township . A the Moon faced recruit in camouflage fatigues drops for 10 push ups and shouts one sir two sir As he catches a glimpse of his reflection in the spit polished toe of his Drill instructor s Boot. Marine corps Drill instructors Are fond of reminding recruits that they Are not baby Sitters but some of these volunteers really do need baby Sitters they re Only 9 Yea sold. Age is not an Issue with the Young marines a nation wide organization of youngsters whose leaders mostly for Mer servicemen believe it s never too Early to teach discipline respect and self Reliance. New Jersey s second chapter of the Young marines formed in january and the boys Ages 9 through 17, arc in the midst of a four month Boot Camp. Every monday night 32 recruits Drill and study at Mill Ridge school and once a month they have Field encampments at places like nearby fort Dix. While High school students make up More than half of the Young marines there Are recruits 9 to 12 known As mini marines and they often Are the most enthusiastic about military training instructors say. You Dancin or what As a platoon of mini marines marched around the school gymnasium Drill instructor Bill Allen barked out criticism. To you Dancin or what he shouted at the March ers. You Don t know How to do a column right yet you Gonna dance like a girl Alexander Nozka started the Southern new Jersey chapter at the urging of his 12-year-old son Anthony who read about the group in a Magazine at his dentist s office. The article s photographs showed Young marines crawling around in the mud and i love mud the younger Nozka said. His father who joined the Marine corps in 1967 and did a tour of duty in Vietnam had worked with baseball leagues and other youth activities. Drill instructor Peter Van Hatten. Inspects mini Marine Kenneth a photo Nozka 9 but the Young marines is my cup of Tea Nozka said. It s great. I love it. It s Tough wholesome. There s Yelling and screaming and if things Don t get done it s 20 or 30push-ups." the organization also requires commitment from its members he said. The boys must have regulation haircuts attend meetings and Camp outs and keep up their grades. Although the Young marines accepts girls none has volunteered in Burlington county Nozka said. In the few weeks he has been drilling with the Young marines Wesley Tucker 9, of Willingboro says he feels i believe in myself and i can do i d like to be a Marine when i grow up he added. The Young marines was founded in 1958 in Waterbury Conn., and in 1964 became the youth program of the Marine corps league a National organization of former marines. There Are 1,800 Young marines nationwide but Only a Small percentage will join the military when they become adults said National director Charles b. Reintges a Marine Veteran of world War ii and the korean conflict. Not recruiters for marines we Are not trying to train these people to become militarists Reintges said in a Telephone interview from his Home in Ada Mich. We Are not recruiters for the United states Marine corps. We Don t try to talk a kid into going into any Branch of the Madeline Moyer of Burlington township whose 12 year old son Shane is a Young Marine said i was in the air Force myself. It s Good discipline something that a boy needs. The More discipline he gets now the better. I gives them self respect instructor William Vetter also a former Marine said parents Tell him their boys Are More polite and their schoolwork has improved since they be joined the Youn marines. Anthony Nozka said things have changed slightly since his dad started commanding the group i have to make my bed strike ends at nuclear fuel Plant in Tennessee Erwin Tenn. A Union members overwhelmingly approved a new contract Sun Day that will end a 10 a month old strike at a uranium Plant that makes nuclear fuel for Navy submarines a spokesman said. Larry Able an International representative of the Oil chemical and atomic workers Union said members of local 3 677 voted 275-65 to ratify the agreement with nuclear fuel services. Work was scheduled to resume this week with full production expected within three weeks Able said. The Plant is the govern ment s sole supplier of atomic submarine fuel. Negotiators led by a Federal mediator reached the agreement saturday night after two All Day negotiating sessions Able said. We be been wanting to Settle for months he said. The company made moves in the last two Days that they had t made before. That made it possible to reach an Lonnie Tolley president of the local said the new contract provided a 65-cent-an hour wage increase to $13 for starting workers better sick pay Cost of living in creases a 35 percent increase in the company contribution to the Union pension fund and better Protection for those workers who Are exposed to radiation Levels above the federally allowable amounts. He said the contract is basically the same offer made by management feb. 5 with about seven or eight the company did some things it did t want to do and we did some things we certainly did t want to do Able said. Roland Bailey personnel manager for nuclear fuel services said the firm is pleased the strike has ended. We believe that the agreement ratified by the Union membership includes important contract language that has been sought by the company which will enable the. Com Pany to move Forward on key fronts Bai Ley said. These operational changes will make it possible for us to meet the increasingly strict arc requirements and the reality of new Competition in our Bailey said the strike was angry and scarring for both sides but we Are Hope Ful that the Resolution on easter Day Sig nals the Start of a True Healing process Anda new management refused a Union offer March 20 to return to work for a four Ousana opponent o a Pena March across state in walk for life7 new Orleans up proponents of the death penalty confronted demonstrators who marched across Louisiana to dramatize their opposition to executions when they arrived at the state Over the weekend. About 100 people took part in the week Long walk for life that began last monday in Monroe said sister Helen Prejean a member of the new Orleans Sisters of St. Joseph. Twenty one relay runners covered the 233 Miles from Monroe to Sorrento and about 80 walkers joined the March for the final 50 Miles to new Orleans thursday Friday and saturday. The families of murder victims Are in so much pain Prejean said As the marchers ended their walk saturday. The Only thing society offers victims families is vengeance. How do we Start their Healing executions Only prolong their the demonstrators were met at the courthouse by a Small band of death penalty proponents including Vernon Harvey vice president of Louisiana parents of Mur dered children. Harvey is the Stepfather of Faith hatha Way 18, who was raped tortured and Mur dered in 1980. Robert Lee Willie was executed for the killing dec. 28, 1984, and Joseph Vaccaro was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the slaying. Would you want to go live with the murderers he asked Prejean. I d like Tosee How Long you All would the death penalty supporters were Wear ing to shirts printed with Justice for All even the victims when they met the demonstrators. We Are not Here to coddle criminals said Michael Williams a March participant. We Are Here because we think life is precious. We understand the grief of people who have lost family Rose Williams Mother of Robert Wil Liams the first person executed in Louisi Ana after the state reinstated the death pen Alty appealed for compassion. Revenge will not bring about peace and Comfort. Only god can take away the bitterness she said. I m not saying we should let criminals out on the Street but we do not have to take a life to make a person pay for committing a crime. There is a better the walk for life was the third Pil Grimage by Louisiana opponents of the death penalty. Earlier treks were from new Orleans to Baton Rouge and from the state Penitentiary at Angola to Baton Rouge. Both ended on the Steps of the Capitol. Researcher Klatskin Dies Hamden Conn. A Gerald Klatskin a Pioneer in the development of liver Biopsy techniques and a Yale school of Medicine professor emeritus has died at 75. Klatskin was Best known for his work on the correlations Between biochemical and biological abnormalities and the clinical features of the diseased liver. Month Cooling off period. The Caw employees walked off the Job May 15 Over a company proposal to require College coursework for some jobs. Union officials say that proposal would have allowed the company to Lay off Veteran employees but the company said it would apply Only to newly hired workers. Workers also complained that they have been exposed to excessive radiation an assertion the company dismissed As a adm. Kinnaird Mckee head of the Navy s nuclear reactors department sent a letter to a Tennessee congressman in no vember expressing concern about the strike which has forced the Navy to scramble to replenish its dwindling Supply of atomic submarine fuel. V8/oom county blossoming again on comics pages Washington a two months after cartoonist Berke breathed suffered a broken Back in a flying Accident he has resumed drawing his daily comic strip Bloom the sunday Bloom county strip will return on april 20, breathed said. Most papers that carry the strip have been rerunning old ones. Breathed said in an article in monday s Washington Post that he is feeling Fine and has gotten lots of get Well wishes from people i regularly ridicule in the strip. I be got three pounds of steel rods in my Back which makes Airport Metal detectors go bananas. Sometimes i la Wear an "1 love khad Afy Button breathed told his interviewer the Bloom county cartoon Char Acter opus. The 28-year-old cartoonist also announced that he plans to get married in May to a wonderful Large footed photographer named Jody adding Maria Shriver proposed last year but always one to Buck a trend 1 turned her
