European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 response favourable of gun ownership Law Kennesaw a. Up in the four years since Kennesaw passed an ordinance requiring residents to own guns no one has been arrested for breaking the Law and officials say newcomers from up North Are delighted by the regulation. We be had a lot of people come in the station saying they re relocating from new York Chicago somewhere like those places and want to know the specifics in relation to the gun Law police chief Dwaine Wilson said. They re tired of being mugged and they have some Way to protect themselves Here he said. The ordinance requires Heads of households to have some Type of gun in their Homes. Darvin Purdy who was mayor when he proposed the Law that shocked the nation in 1982, said he believes 95 percent of the town s residents Are in compliance. The biggest thing we hear is that it is such a change from the cities and states up North where people Are always wanting to get gun control said mayor . Stephenson. Wilson pointed out that although gun ownership is discouraged in Many areas of the nation in Georgia it is a Way of life. In the South when you Are growing up you had firearms in the House he said. My dad owned guns my Granddad owned guns my brother owned guns. I be owned guns for As Long As i can  there have been few complaints from individuals and none from anti gun organizations about the Law in the town of 7,500 about 35 Miles North of Atlanta the officials said. The response we got. Is that a whole lot More people feel like we do than people think Stephenson said. They just Don t make As much noise As the bleed ing heart  if someone got up and said they Don t believe in owning firearms they Don t have to Wilson said. Purdy said the town has never tried to enforce the Law. We never intended to go on any door to door Type search he said. We got voluntary  Kennesaw passed the gun Law mostly in response to an ordinance Banning firearms in Morton Grove iii., which was passed about the same time. It s More of a political statement and a Legal Chal Lenge to people than a Way to try and Force you to do something Stephenson said. Purdy said Kennesaw s crime rate dropped dramatically after the Law was passed. The 12 months before the Law was passed we had 54 residential burglaries he said. The 12 months follow ing we had 18. For the year before we had four armed robberies. For the year after we had Zero. I think we went two years before we had our first armed  he said the Law had an effect on tourism too. For the year following the Law s passage we had so much news coverage we had people taking their pictures beside the City limits sign Purdy said. Ohio catholics education reforms competency tests hurting morale Nea president says reselling Playboy Cleveland a Catholic clergy men have condemned the Sale of Playboy and other adult magazines by the Lawson co. And kicked off a Boycott of the company s 620 convenience stores in Ohio. A letter from roman Catholic Bishop Anthony  of Cleveland endorsing the Boycott and condemning pornography was read from the pulpit sunday in 253 parishes with some one million members in eight Northeast Ohio counties. Yolanda Crisp a spokeswoman for the Cuya hoga based company said the stores will continue to sell the magazines emphasizing that they Are kept behind the counters with Only their names visible. We respect their right to express their Point of View but we also As a retailer have customers that have varying Points of View she said. We see this As an unintended admission that what they Are Selling is offensive and unfit for Public consumption said the Rev. Ray Jeske a Boycott Leader. A family store should t have to hide what it  in recent months retailers such As 7 eleven Gray drug fair and people s drug have agreed to Stop Selling adult magazines. In october Pilla and More than 380 ministers of various Christian denominations asked Lawson to remove adult magazines from its stores. The company was also presented with petitions bearing More than 35,000 signatures making the same request. Atlanta a misguided Educa Tion reforms that ignore training programs and subject experienced teachers to compe Tency tests have caused widespread morale problems the president of the National education association says. In the name of educational Reform today state after state and school District after school District Are imposing More of the same kinds of schemes that outlived their usefulness years ago Mary Hatwood Futrell said sunday. A major flaw in Many Reform efforts is neglect of teacher training programs Futrell said. Such programs should include training for aspiring educators As Well As continuous in service training to ensure that teachers learn the latest techniques she said. Futrell criticized testing requirements for teachers saying sufficient mechanisms exist to Weed out incompetent instructors. Key question the key question in american Educa Tion today is not How can we make teachers competent she said. The key question in education today is How can we help competent teachers Best use their  teachers need smaller classes modern supplies and materials adequate preparation time less paperwork better pay and Freedom to use their talents in the class room Futrell said. School Reform per Pupil increases in state appropriations in dollars per year Tennessee $402 Texas $335 Arkansas $332 South Carolina $331 California $1971 Illinois $169 new York $150 Chicago Tribune Chart source Chicago panel on Public school finances teachers also need More input in the decision making process she said. We teachers Are not saying we want to control education. But we Are saying we want to become equal partners within the educational Community Futrell said. Speaking at the Nea s conference on delivery of Quality education by a competent workforce Futrell also took a swipe at the Reagan administration s threat to shrink the already shrunken fed eral commitment to  she said Reagan s latest budget proposal reduces educational spending by $3 billion and the Gramm Rudman Hollings budget balancing Bill will take away an additional $4 billion. Effect of budget reductions either Way. School districts across the nation would be forced to eliminate essential programs and the Renaissance in education that you and i have worked so hard for Over the past three years would be drastically undermined she said. She called on the 1.8 million member professional organization to mount a Campaign to win Public support for better fund ing of education. The american people Are not looking to the far right for leadership on educational issues and they Are not looking to the Reagan administration either she said. The american people Are looking for leadership from us the educators of the  Gas dealers Cut into Lifeblood Lundberg says los Angeles a gasoline prices fell for the 14th straight week fuelled by a nationwide Price War and the sliding Cost of crude Oil a Petroleum Industry analyst reports. The Competition has become so fierce now that the dealers Are chopping into their margin to be competitive said analyst Dan Lundberg. They re now fighting with their  the average Price for All grades of gasoline has declined 5.6 cents a  March 21 to 90.16 cents nation wide according to Lundberg s biweekly Survey of 16,000 gasoline stations nationwide. The prices Are the lowest since being de controlled in 1981, and 31 cents a gallon lower than at the beginning of the year Lundberg said. The average Price for regular leaded gasoline at self service stations was 76.68 cents a gallon at the close of business saturday while regular unleaded went for 82.57 cents a gallon. Falling crude Oil prices and Competition among refine Ries continued to depress prices at the pump but Lundberg said a nationwide gasoline War was the most significant Factor contributing to the recent drop off. Before Only dealers in some areas had dropped their prices but during the past three weeks he said dealers Cut into their markup on wholesale prices. The dealers surveyed reported their markup was 13.86 cents a gallon Down 3.22 cents from three weeks ago Lundberg said. Lundberg said the Price War appeared to be gaining momentum but whether pump prices will continue to fall is anyone s guess. Nobody should dare try to project where the Price will go Lundberg said. Everybody thought that the Price was leveling off three weeks ago and it s falling  Lundberg also cautioned about the Long term effect of the Price reductions. This free Market very Low Price is knocking our Domestic producers out of the Box shutting Down Low production Wells he said. At some Point if this Price does t level off stabilize internationally there s serious trouble  grand jury wants laundry Bandit of come clean Dallas a what Jesse James was to trains James Dwight Pinson is to dry cleaners police say. A grand jury has indicted him on 14 counts of aggravated robbery said Paul Macaluso chief prosecutor with the District attorney s office but authorities suspect he May be responsible for robbing More than 100 laundries since november sometimes As Many As three a Day. Police spokesman Bob Shaw said the Rob Bery spree began six Days after Pinson 38, was released on parole from a state prison after serving two years for burglary. In the 13 years i have been Here off hand i can t recall anyone having any More indictments for aggravated robbery Macaluso said. Shaw agrees what Jesse James was to robbing trains Pinson is to robbing  investigators believe the Bandit strikes dry cleaners because they Seldom have sophisticated Security systems and their clerks Are generally unarmed we Don t know where he s at but we know where he s been said Dallas investigator Bill Hamby. I Don t know How he s gotten by with it for so Long with so Many people looking for him. All that publicity and we Haven t had a Call $6,000 re Ward for a phone Call is pretty Good