European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday april 7, 1986 drug free schools declared essential7 Las vegas Nev. A education Secretary William j. Bennett on saturday urged school Board members from across the country to do anything you have to to cleanse the nation s schools of drugs. Drug free schools Are essential to improving education Bennett said in a speech to a meeting of the National school boards association. Do anything you have to just get them out he said. As Long As students Are taking or Selling or distributing drugs in your schools you can probably just write them off As far As learning  the other key ingredients of Good schools Bennett said include a principal who is a role Model not a bureaucrat Quality teachers sound curricula and parents who Are involved in their children s education. The fundamental issues he said can be summed up with two questions who is in our schools and what Are they teaching our children that s the Bottom line. All the rest is gloss he said. Bennett pointed to three schools Eastside High school in Paterson . Artesia High school in Lakewood Calif. And Clara Westropp Middle school in Cleve land Ohio As examples of successful turnarounds. Once troubled by violence drugs High absenteeism and poor academic performance the three schools have become mod Els for Quality Public education and now Are attracting students from private and Paro Chial schools he said. The three Are among the 571 Public school winners of the education depart ment s secondary school recognition pro Gram which Are examined in a new report to find out what makes these Good schools tick he said. The study to be released later this Spring is important because it s one More Nail in the coffin of educational Kopiness Bennett said. High school graduation rates percent of Public school students who entered 9th Grade r and graduated in 1984 55.2-66.5 in 1980 77.8-89.3 . Average 70.9% figures adjusted for migration Between states Chicago Tribune map source Chicago Tribune news reports mormon Leader assails sexual immorality Salt Lake City up Church president Ezra Taft Benson opened the mormons 156th annual Confer ence on saturday the first conducted under his leadership with exhortations against the sexual immorality that per mates our  the plaguing sin of this generation is sexual immorality True to the predictions of ancient scripture and prophets Benson told 8,000 of the faithful crowded into the mormon Tabernacle and tens of thousands More connected by broadcast and satellite transmission. Benson said the Book of mormon which members of the religion believe to be the literal word of god places the sin of a chastity next to  Benson 86, assumed the presidency and title of Prophet seer and revelator to 6 million mormons worldwide just five months ago following the death of Spencer w. Kimball. The opening session of Benson s first conference As mormon president failed to validate concerns expressed by some that the Church would take a Sharp swing to the political right under the former . Secretary of agriculture. Benson has Long been associated with extreme conserva Tive views including flirtations with the John Birch society. The 13th president of the 156-year-old Faith focused his remarks in saturday s morning session on tradition Al themes such As sexual purity and Christian humility. Benson s succession from his former position As president of the Council of the twelve followed the Pat Tern established in 1847 with the Ascendancy of Brig Ham Young. Mormons believe their Prophet is selected by god and is made known through divine revelation. Benson s calling last november was confirmed to our souls after fasting and prayer a Church spokes Man said. Churchgoers Meef Challenge take $5, make it grow fort Smith Ark. A the Rev. Cliff Christopher gave his congregation at St. Paul United methodist Church a simple Challenge take $5 from the Church and make it multiply using ingenuity and hard work. All we did was hand out $930 in $5 Bills and a Challenge in our morning service feb. 9," Christopher said. We did t offer any help or ideas we just asked those who wanted to participate to use the $5 to Start an investment pro  in six weeks the $930 grew to $9,430 in profits through efforts like Yard work and income tax preparation he said. Some of the projects Haven t been completed and we expect about another $1,000 How they should be run up photo Indiana gov. Robert d. Orr listens to a storybook on tape with first grader Beau Wendell during a tour of Ferdi nand elementary school. A third grader Tony Hasenour was so proud of Bis school that he invited the governor to visit so Orr could Tell other elementary schools How they should be  before this is All Over. I would have predicted about $4,000 tops but the results have far exceeded my  the Church Calls the program god s gifts  the Money was needed for refurbish ing sunday school classrooms in the Church s new building and for helping one woman with Home repairs Christo Pher said. The projects included a Junior High school student who bought $5 Worth of Candy bars wholesale reinvested the profits from Selling them and six weeks later had sold $1,000 Worth of Candy with a $200 profit for the Church. One person went out and bought a House and sold it six weeks later for a $5,000 profit which they donated to the Church Christopher said adding that the person used the $5 plus personal funds. Perhaps the most enterprising idea he said came from a teen age member of the congregation who started a newspaper. The youth wrote news stories about How the congregation s projects were faring and sold classified ads for the wares and services being offered. His headline for the first Issue Christo Pher cracks creates chaos construing currency to  water pistol shoot-out7 All too real for the cops Lebec Calif. A police delivered a Good old fashioned Tongue lashing to two members of a Church choir who started a water pistol fight that looked like a real gun Battle an officer says. A teen age girl and a Man acting As a chaperone for a Bakersfield youth choir started their water fight at a rest Stop along interstate 5 in Lebec 60 Miles North of los Angeles. A patrolling officer saw these people pointing guns at each other California Highway patrol officer Jerry Berger said. It looked like a real  bringing four More Highway patrol units and two Kern county sheriffs cars. Officers Drew service revolvers and shot guns ordering the chaperone to lie face Down on the ground and pinning the girl against the car. That a s stupid because the guns looked authentic and the shoot out be tween the Man and the girl looked convince to h at or i turn Mia f of n a Ning what Berger said. They were carrying closely resembled ,45-caliber and .357-caliber magnum handguns. There also was what appeared to be an Uzi  the officer stopped and the Man walked no arrests were made he said but i toward the officer still holding what looked p6 we scared them real  like a handgun Berger said. The officer the names of the two and their Church Drew his weapon and called for assistance were not obtained Berger said