European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. November 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Pago 7 halloween hoax has parents hollering Long Beach Calif. A a High shool Prin Cipal says he does t understand Why parents and school Board member Are angry about a prank Hal Loween announcement that the soviet Union had declared War on the United states. Hie hoax on Friday put some students in tears. This kind of prank is disgraceful Margare Comer who serves on the Domiguez High school advisory committee said saturday of the halloween hoax. Principal Fred easter said the prank was part of traditional Homecoming week fun. I accept responsibility for the announcement be cause i did approve it easter said. It was just a statement. I Don t see Why this is  Compton unified school Board members said they planned to investigate the incident in this sea Side los Angeles suburb. If what i hear is True i m very upset boar member Bernice Woods said. This is no time for pranks. These Are serious times if you read the  bogus announcement was prepared by a Stu Dent who had seen a television program about Orso Welles War of the worlds broadcast on Hallow Een 1938, which panicked Many americans into be Lieving martians were Landing in new Jersey easter  after lunch Friday an adult woman said Over the school s Public address system that the so Viets had shot Down two . Warplanes Over the Mediterranean sea and had declared War said Lan Eis Heia Howard a 16-year-old Junior at Domiguez High. In a Calm serious voice the woman said president Reagan had ordered missiles launched in retaliation. This can be the beginning of the end of the world Howard quoted the woman As saying. Howard and about 20 other students in her word processing class ran outside with their teacher after the announcement not realizing it was a hoax. Within a minute or two the woman came Back on the Public address system and said the announce ment was a joke Howard  students were in tears and still upset when they returned to class she  would t say who read the announcement. Howard s Mother was t Happy with the prank  would have happened if people started committing suicide she asked. Dallas police Lead cities in fatal shooting rate Dallas a the rate of fatal shoot Ings of citizens by police in Dallas increased Overa 15-year Pend while the National average dropped a newspaper  led the nation s major cities in the number of fatal police shootings per number of residents last year with a rate of .924 per 100,000 population the Dallas times her Ald said sunday. City police shot nine people to death in 1985 and nine in the first nine months this  1985 rate was five times higher than new York s and twice As High Shouston s. Among the 10 cities surveyed by the newspaper los Angeles was Sec Ond with a rate of .743. Since 1970, the National rate of fatal police shootings dropped 34 percent according to the Washington based Crim control Institute. But in Dallas the rate increased during that time by 31 percent violence against police has also been on the increase in Dallas. This year one police Man was killed and 20 have been threatened with deadly weapons statistics  1984, the department made changes in its policy on deadly Force including prohibiting its use to protect property. Police officials said the Revi Sions have worked Well but assistant police chief Leslie r. Sweet said further revisions Are possible. I think we have a Good deadly Force policy but none of our policies Are etched in Stone he said. Police Are investigating the death of a 70-year-old woman shot by a policeman outside her Home oct. 26. The shooting has rekindled concerns among some City Dallas police total shootings fatal shootings per 1,000 Ponce 161 12 1981 82 83 84 85 Chicago Tribune graphic source Dallas police department mock up City built for Urban combat training fort Hood Texas a acuity is going up Here almost overnight but workers Are leaving out All the finishing touches. Why bother when soldiers at fort Hood Are going to bomb the place anyway Guy co engineering of Lampasas i building the nation s largest mock City on this sprawling military installation so sol Diers will learn the finer and Modem Art of combat on the Urban terrain the mini City is inspired by for Hood s Long vanished nazi Village that was constructed during world War ii to train soldiers to fight in the villages of Europe. But the City being built will be much larger and Wilf include paved streets buildings underground Drain age systems and almost everything soldiers would have to Deal with in Urban combat. We will have to fight for or from Urban terrain in Europe and to do that you have to train said army spokesman capt. Gerald beit. This facility will give us an Opportunity to do  new training facility will be open within a year and will also in clude a company training area a Pla Toon training area and an assault course where soldiers will use live am munition and explosives he said. Half of the 32 buildings will be in tact and the other half will be constructed to simulate combat damage he  facilities Are being built at fort Ord Calif. Fort picket  fort Benning ga., but the one at fort Hood is the largest Bell said. Officials and minority group leaders that officers Are too Quick to use their guns. City councilwoman Diane Ragsdale has called for a congressional probe of police conduct and the City s deadly Force policy. California marchers protest . Policy in Central America los Angeles a a mile Long column of More than 5,000 demonstrators carrying White crosses bearing the names of Central american War victims marched in los Angeles to protest . Military intervention in the Region. Organizers of the saturday demonstration said its size reflected a growing sentiment among americans that the United states should refrain from intervening in Nicaragua and Al Salvador. Another protest took place in Boston where about 2,000 people demonstrated against . Foreign policy and nuclear weapons. Sailor sentenced Over nude photo operation Jacksonville Fla. A a Navy Petty officer was sentenced Toaone Grade reduction in rank a Fine �2 Eton Nuquid for operating a business in which he photographed nude women at the naval air station in Jacksonville. T chief Petty officer Charles t. Ward who has been in the Navy 14 years and was a Sailor of the years Nevis i2 1984tpleaded with the jury at a sentencing hearing saturday to let him retain his rank. I ask that you allow me to remain a chief Petty office Rand continue to serve As my record shows i have Ward 40, said tearfully As he read from a pre pared statement but the jury at the special court martial sentenced him to be reduced to Petty officer first class pay a $ 1,000 Fine and receive a reprimand. He was convicted Friday of using government workspaces and employee to operate a private photog Raphy business at a warehouse studio he had set up at the defense mapping Agency office at the base. Hews removed from his Job As chief of that office after his arrest. He took nude and sem nude photographs of two Navy women and a clothed civilian woman and her daughter at the makeshift studio testimony showed and then gave slide shows and drank alcoholic Bever Ages with other employees on the base. Attorney Ralph Elliot who defended Ward said he would petition capt William Green commanding officer of Jacksonville base and the convening authority of the court martial to suspend the sentence so Ward May remain a chief Petty officer during the Appeal process. Postal service says no to mail order Quail business a l0 ra�u0 screws Rudaj to me  he said. They were Neie a Nassr to Al officials say mailing adult Quail  a. Allow him to mail his Quail. Tom pro frock raises