European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday april 15, 1986 Jackson starts last hope7 negotiations in Hormel strike Austin Minn. A the Rev. Jesse Jackson hailed As the last Hope to end an 8-month-old meal pack ers strike met sunday with a Hormel official and Sang we shall overcome with protesters jailed after a violent demonstration. The Issue is not about jobs confrontation and tear Gas the civil rights Leader said after his jail visit with the protesters arrested Friday. It s about getting to  Jackson who had offered to mediate the contract Dis Pute said he had a fruitful meeting with Geo. A. Hormel & co. Vice president Charles Nyberg but was unable to secure a Date for further negotiations. Jackson said he saw room for agreement adding that there s a general desire for people to go Back to  i see or. Jackson s presence As being the last Hope Mower county sheriff Wayne goodnature said sunday. This Guy emanates peace. You can just feel it when you talk to him. We Haven t seen so Many people smiling for such a Long Long time.1 Nyberg said he did not know if Jackson could help but called him a concerned individual trying to bring a Reso Lution to a very unfortunate situation and we Welcome the reverend Jackson to Austin to try to do  Nyberg said the company is willing to resume negotiations with local p-9 of the United food and commercial workers but said it was up to the Union to come up with anew proposal. Local p-9 has twice rejected a Federal mediator s proposal and the Plant has reopened with replacements and former strikers. A few International officials plan a hear ing monday to consider putting the renegade local into trusteeship. Jackson said meat packers might have a Chance to re turn to work if such issues As retirement expanding the work Force and employee attrition Are dealt with. He called on the International Union to postpone the trustee ship hearing monday. He said he would meet in the next few weeks with Hormel president Richard l. Knowlton and William Wynn the Union s International president. Jailed p-9 strike strategist Ray Rogers told Jackson that spirits Are Fine among the strikers despite the arrests. It s just another one of several experiences we be gone through Rogers said. We re not going to lose we re going to win darn  Friday s clash Between police and demonstrators erupted when More than 300 demonstrators attempted to shut the Plant Down by blocking the entry Gates and roads leading to the Gates. Police dispersed the crowd with tear Gas but nine offi cers suffered minor head and Eye injuries. In addition to the 17 demonstrators arrested Friday a warrant was issued for the arrest of p-9 president Jim Guyette on charges related to the confrontation. Guyette said he would surrender to police monday. Of saturday thousands of striking meat packers and supporters marched peacefully through the streets of this Southern Minnesota town. Supporters came from Texas Illinois California new York Massachusetts Alabama Colorado North Dakota South Dakota Florida Minnesota Washington state Maine Pennsylvania Maryland new Jersey Kansas Wyoming and Missouri. About 1,500 p-9 members walked off their jobs at Hor Mel s Austin Plant aug. 17 in a dispute Over wage cuts. Hormel reopened the Plant Jan. 13 and says 500 Union members Are Back at work and 540 non Union replacement workers have been hired. The International Union withdrew its Sanction of the strike last month. The local refused to end the strike and a hearing has been scheduled for monday to determine if the Parent Union should place p-9 in trusteeship and re move its officers. Program at elementary school helps children Cope with divorce Fergus Falls Minn. A an elementary school program is bringing divorce into the classroom to help children Cope with a parental breakup to express their feelings and maintain friendships during a painful period. It made me realize that there were other kids in the same position As me said 12-year-old Kari Bosl. We talked about our feelings about divorce and our feelings afterwards. It really helped me a  David Eberhardt and Tamara Masten school psychologists who began the program a year ago say too Many children falter in their schoolwork and lose touch with friends because of their parents marital difficulties. They persuaded the Fergus Falls school Board last year to spend $5,000 on a support program geared toward pupils Between the second and eighth grades from trouble Homes. Guilt is a common feeling among Many children who have gone or Are going through a divorce and the children Are urged to express it and other emotions like anger confusion and fear Masten said. Sometimes kids need to let go of the guilt because As Long As you feel guilty you re in control and there s some thing you can do about it Eberhardt said. During the first half of the hour Long session the Chil Dren pair up and work on techniques for controlling anger and relaxing Masten said. Since Many children refuse to talk about their problems the group also works on communications spending the last half hour talking about their problems she said. Eberhardt and Masten meet once a week for 12 weeks with one group of elementary pupils and one group of Middle school pupils. Before the school year is Over they expect to have put 50 pupils through the program. It really helps them Over some rough spots in their lives especially the ones whose parents have divorced recently said James Langlie a Junior High school principal. We keep a record of the kids that Are from single Parent families that Are having trouble and it runs very High Langlie said. Something like 80 percent of the kids i see Are from some of these troubled  school sponsored programs like the one in Fergus Falls a Community of about 12,500 in Northwestern Minnesota have sprung up All Over the country in the past decade As schools realize the difficulties faced by Many children of divorce. School officials once believed that divorce was a person Al matter and did not want to get involved said James Bray a professor at Texas women s University in hous ton. That has changed As educators have come to realize the help they can offer he said. The real Benefit of doing something like this in the school is the school personnel often see problems develop before anyone else does Bray said. Pm unve/7s Cut rate financing plan Detroit a general motors corp. On sunday announced a financing program beginning monday that includes a 6.9 percent annual interest rate on purchases of some cars and trucks. The 6.9 percent rate applies to 30-month Loans from pm s financing Arm general motors acceptance corp., to buyers of the Chevrolet Chevetta Pontiac Fiero Olds Mobile Delta 88 and Buick Lesa re models the company said. The rate will be 7.9 percent on 36-month Loans for All other pm cars except the Oldsmobile Tornado Buick Riviera and the Cadillac Eldorado and Seville. Longer term financing for most pm cars will be Avail Able at 8.9 percent for 48 months and 9.9 percent for 60months. For Light trucks the 6.9 percent rate will apply to 36 month Loans for the Chevrolet s-10 pickup and Al Cami no and Gumc s-15 pickup and Caballero models. The 7.9 percent rate will apply to the Chevrolet s-10 Blazer Csc s-15 Jimmy and Chevrolet and Mcc a full size pickups while a 9.9 percent rate will be available on most other models. The program ends june 30. 4-hour bomb search delays train after note found in bathroom Lake City . A a bomb threat left in a note on a bathroom Wall forced authorities to Stop an Amtrak train for four hours and evacuate All 430 Passen Gers while dogs searched unsuccessfully for explosives police said. A conducted found the note on the train headed from Sanford fla., to lore ton va., and it was stopped in this Eastern South Carolina farm town said police chief Michael e. Brumbie. Passengers were taken to a fire station then to Lake City elementary school where there was More room said Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black. Most did not appear to be very upset about the unscheduled Stop he said. Authorities had a difficult time finding a bomb squad at first but one from Shaw fab arrived. After a 50-minute search with dogs the squad ruled the train was Safe Brumbie said. Divers Rescue 3-year-old girl from Auto driven off pier new York up divers plunged into the dark icy Waters of new York Harbor to Rescue a 3-year-old girl trapped in a sunken car for nearly 30 minutes after her father drove off a Staten Island pier while showing her the lights of Manhattan. We got Lucky said Harbor police diver Kevin Collins. That s All there was to  Jacqueline Williams of Staten Island was in critical condition in the paediatric intensive care unit of st. Vincent s Hospital in Staten Island where she was brought after receiving initial treatment at Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island Hospital officials said. A spokeswoman at Bayley said the child was in cardiac arrest when she arrived at the Hospital and doctors had to revive her. Jacqueline s father Francis Williams 48, speaking from his Hospital bed said i just drove my car off the pier. I forgot they Tore the pier  builder arrested charged with beating traffic officer new York a a 25-year-old construction worker has been arrested and charged with bludgeoning a traffic officer who had ticketed his illegally parked car police said. The assault which seriously injured Jose Rafael 39, was one of eight attacks in one Day on traffic officers said City transportation department officials. They believe that the assaults reflect a wave of hostility that has followed allegations of corruption in the City parking violations Bureau. Joseph Monaco was arrested at his Home in Levittown after officers traced him through his License plate number said sgt. Raymond o Donnell a police spokesman. Monaco was charged with second degree assault of Donnell said. The attack occurred in front of the construction site where Monaco was working in Greenwich Village police said. Cancer risk reported for some who lived in Washington state Walla Walla Wash. Up people who lived in Eastern Washington in the 1940s and 1950s have a statistically higher Chance of getting cancer due to accidental and intentional radiation releases from a Federal nuclear facility a scientist says. Any radiation exposure will increase the risk of cancer said or. Bryce Breitenstein director of the Hanford environmental health foundation at the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland. But he said it would be difficult to determine who was adversely affected by the releases which Are de tailed in thousands of recently declassified government documents. Breitenstein told a health symposium at Whitman College that answers won t be known until further studies Are made