European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 8.19b6 aids victim can t return to school Atascadero Calif a a car old aids victim who was suspended from kindergarten after biting a classmate cannot return to school at least until next semester the school Board has ruled. The kindergarten Side no Ryan Thomas will gel Home tutoring under a plan approved monday by the Board of inc Atascadero unified school Dis pct officials will reconsider Ryan s Case at the beginning of next semester Ryan was suspended from Santa Rosa Road elementary school last month just six Days after his parents won a 10-month Battle to get him accepted into regular classes. Monday s ruling came Over the objections of an american civil liberties Union attorney who sought a two week delay so he could prepare arguments for inc boy s parents Robin and Judy Thomas. We feel thai something As important As Ryan s education needs a full airing in the Community said the attorney. Mickey Wheatley. But Michelle Andre Al psychologist and chairwoman of the committee that recommended thai the Board keep Ryan out of school defended the decision. We discussed a lot of different factors and 1 think we came up Wilh fight drug abuse in schools. He said that during he meeting be suggested to both presidents that their organizations conduct self policing of their members. Bennett said he did not endorse testing All of the nation s 2.6 million teachers. But he said this is a group that has got 10 be drug free not As a matter of National Security but As a matter of he told reporters that self policing would be an alternative to testing every teacher and he also suggested new contracts for teachers include a clause Al lowing for their dismissal if caught abusing drugs. Howard Carroll is spokesman for the Aba said teachers should be allowed to go through rehabilitation rather than face dismissal. Futrell said her meeting Wilh Bennett and Shanker entered around publicizing the department s said she did not recall discussing with Bennett whether her group should police itself. Or of of balloon publisher Malcolm Forbes combined his two Pas Sions of hot air ballooning and Molo Blung to create Whit must be the world s must Gigantic motorcycle. The 187-foot-Lnng balloon in the shape of a Hurley Davidson motorcycle weighs about 1,000 pounds and holds 100,000 cubic feel of hoi air. Here the inflated show piece is starting int ascent it fun Hills n a with Forbes in the Basket just Forward of the rear wheel. The balloon was made in Bristol England and shipped to the United states. Man fired for refusing drug test wins Appeal for compensation 1 , Ore. Api a Man who lost his Job because he refused to take a drug test is entitled to receive unemployment benefits a state employment appeals Board has ruled. The decision while lacking he weight of a judge s order is the first in Oregon regarding unemployment benefits and drug testing. The Board upheld an earlier decision that Richard l. Anderson 25, of Corvallis is entitled to benefits after losing his Job in March. The decision reached late last week was mailed to the parties involved. The earlier decision by an unemployment referee was appealed to the Board by wed industries of port land which owns the Philomath Forest products Plant where Anderson worked. The company has 30 Days in which to file an Appeal with the Oregon court of appeals. Wed industries attorney Galen Bland said he did t know yet if the company would Appeal. Anderson said he would fight any company Appeal. He was considering suing wed industries Over uie drug tests and the loss of income. He is still looking far work but said he did t want his old Job Back became co workers and managers probably would harms him. Anderson insists thai wed industries fired him for refusing to Lake the lest but wed industries contends that he walked off the Job. Bic to pay $3.25 million in injury Case Philadelphia a Bic corp. Will pay s3.25 Littlejohn was sitting several feet from a soldering illion to a woman who claimed one of its lighters campfire oct. 16, 1983, near spartan out million failed to extinguish and started a fire m her pants pocket causing Burns Over As much As 30 percent of her body. The out of court settlement was reached monday As the Federal jury which Friday found Bic liable pre pared to determine damages for Cynthia Littlejohn 34, of Philadelphia according to her lawyer Mel d. Kardos. Testimony showed the lighter stayed lit because bits of Flint prevented the butane Jet from shutting off Kardos told the Philadelphia inquirer. She put the lighter a gift from her father at the Start of the camping trip m her hip pocket according to testimony. Butane Gas from the lighter subsequently ignited Asa Cloud behind Littlejohn s jacket causing the shirt fabric in turn to ignite which resulted in the bums according to testimony by Richard . Cullef a Bre reconstruction expert retained by lil Lejohn. Cutler testified that the fire could not have been caused by heat or embers from the campfire As Bic i expert witness testified. Widow children awarded $7.2 million new York a Harry Chapin i widow and children have been awarded j7.2 million in a trial stemming from the Singer songwriter s death. A sin member jury a Federal court in Brooklyn made the award monday after determining negligence on the pan of a company whose vehicle collided Wilh Chapin Scarin 1981. Chapin who wrote taxi and cat s in the Cra dle died in the Accident on the Long Island express Way. He was 38. Sandra Chapin and her five children had sued the company. Supermarkets general for s2s million. The jury determined that the company was 60 per cent negligent so its judgment of $12 million was Auto magically reduced to $7.2 million. It found Chapin to be 40 percent negligent singers Kenny Rogers and Harry Sci Afante Wen among the celebrities to testify on the Chapin family s behalf during the trial the Singer had been Active in variety of anti Hanger projects. His name a often evoked As the inspiration for the hands across Amer Ica festivities Early this summer
