European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 commuter Airliner crashes killing 9 Romulus Mich. A a com Muter Airliner with 19 people aboard crashed upon Landing caught fire and smashed Imo a catering track at de troit s Airport wednesday killing nine people on the plane and injuring 20, including 10 on the ground. Those Hurt on the ground catering service employees and other workers were caught As the burning plane Slid along after plunging into the pavement of Fine Nineway. The twin engine Fischer Brothers aviation aircraft operating As Northwest Aioli ii right 2268, smashed into the catering truck and pushed it into another catering truck before coming to rest near a terminal officials said the Casa 212-200 Turboprop left Mansfield Ohio and slopped in Cleve land in route to Detroit metropolitan Airport authorities said. The dead included the Pilot first offi cer and seven passengers said Jim vol Iman director or Public services Tor Wayne county. Everyone else aboard was injured he said. Passengers included six Fischer Brothers employees said Wayne county Airport director Richard Jamison. Fischer based in Galion Ohio operates in Ohio and Michi Gan where it runs connecting lights under the name Northwest air link. Officials initially put the number aboard the plane at 17, but sheriff Rob in Pica no said 19 were on the Craft. Having a grate time Witolo rep. Tony Coelho Lefta calf and rep Joe Kennedy a mass talk to reporters daring the grate american sleep out in Washington several a ton and politicians joined the Home less huddled around heating grates near Capitol Hill la draw attention to their needs. Alabama texts banned for secular humanism Mobile Ala. A a Federal judge wednesday banned 31 textbooks from virtually All Alabama Public classrooms saying they illegally promote the Reli Gion of secular  . District judge w. Brevard hand said in a 172-Page ruling that the use of the textbooks by the stale violates the .-Comtitullon s prohibition against government establishment of a religion. With these books the slate of Ala Bama has overstepped its Mark and must withdraw to perform its proper Rion religious functions hand said. The decision came in a class action lawsuit filed by 600 parents and teach ers sponsored in pan by conservative fundamentalists who challenged the use of the textbooks in Alabama s Public schools. They argued in a 2 a week trial before hand last october that secular humanism was being taught As a religion in numerous books. The critics or the textbooks objected in particular to the teaching of value judgments. In teen guide a Home economics Book for example one of the objectionable passages said nothing was meant to be you Are the designer of your life. If you want something you can plan and work for it. Nothing is easy. But nothing is impossible either. When you recognize thai you Are the one in charge of your life you will be Way ahead of where you would be if you think of your life As something thai just happens to  according to fundamentalists secular humanism is the Elevation of transient human values Over eternal spiritual values and secular humanists believe that humans can handle their own affairs without divine intervention. Hand defined secular human ism As re Ligion saying the court now considers whether this religious belief system of humanism. Is involved in a constitutional controversy. As already noted the supreme court has declared that leaching religious lends in such a Way As to promote or encourage a religion violates the religion clauses of the Constitution this prohibition is not implicated by Mere coincidence of ideas with religious tenets. Rather there must be a systematic whether explicit or implicit promotion of a belief system As a whole. The facts showed that the state of Alabama has on its state textbook list certain volumes that arc being used by school systems in this state which engage in such  the judge s ruling went against 17 so Cial studies textbooks nine history lexis and five Home economics books. City bans racial ethnic jokes in Wake of lawsuit Atlantic City no. A starting next week City employees in Long Branch will be barred by Law from telling racial or ethnic jokes on the Job. City administrator Anthony j. Muscillo said he does not believe a prejudice problem exists among Long Branch employees but a directive outlining the ban on ethnic jokes at work will be issued Friday with employees paychecks. We d rather be Safe than sorry. We can t afford another lawsuit Muscillo said referring to a suit filed by former police dispatcher Gloria. Locust in August a stale administrative Law judge ruled that Locust who is Black suffered pain suffering irs expects taxpayers to file 105 million returns this year humiliation and anguish As a result of overbearing insulting and demeaning racial and ethnic jokes and remarks at work. The judge ordered the City to pay $1,500 to Locust for her suite ring in addition to her Legal fees which could total almost 15,000. After Locust filed her complaint with the slate Divi Sion of civil rights Long Branch was ordered to take action against employees who Are keeping a hostile and intimidating work environment said Jesus a. Rodriguez the division s Deputy director. Although the order was aimed at the seashore City s police department " he City is being Overly careful he said. In the 19 years thai Rodriguez has worked for he civil rights division he said he has never heard of a Community Banning ethnic jokes on the Job. Muscillo said he is not insulted by ethnic jokes. I m italian and i can laugh at myself when i hear  he said. He described the directive As a safeguard for the City 1 Don t know if we re overreacting and that s not to say jokes arc not going to happen among the roughly 200 Long Branch employees. The consequences for employees who violate the directive will Range from a written reprimand to dismissal for repeated offenders he said. Washington a Halfway through the tax filing season fewer than one third of americans have mailed their returns but the internal Revenue service is not worried. Through feb. 27, the irs had received 31.7 million returns Down 2 Mil lion almost 6 percent from the same period a year ago. We re not at All concerned because we be been further Down in the past and still ended the year with a higher number received irs spokes Man Larry Zaidorf said wednesday. The Agency expects about 103 million returns to be filed this year. The irs processed More than 15,2 million returns during january and february up 3.1 percent from last year. More than 7.9 million returns have been certified up 2 percent. Refunds have to tales $5.8 billion and averaged $735, compared with $5.5 billion and $709 at this time last year. Zaidorf said the irs is pleased with the second year of its Pilot project allowing some taxpayers to file their returns by com Puter. During the lest last year 26,000 re turns were fixed electronically in the first two months this year 42,383 were filed. Under the project professional pre pares in seven areas Cincinnati Mil Waukee Norfolk va., Phoenix Raleigh Durham n.c., Sacramento and Albany . Complete returns for clients and file them via computer. Most refunds from these electronic returns Are certified within 15 Days Zaidorf said by comparison refunds generated by returns filed the conventional Way Are requiring about four weeks and As the april 15 deadline approaches May require six or seven weeks. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 6, 1947 German judges who formerly held the Power of life and death went on trial today As enemies of world peace. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor chief . War crimes prosecutor told an american court that the defendants were As guilty of War crimes As nazi diplomats generals party officials and industrialists. 30 years ago today. March 6, 1957 Sandra Sibley is of England ran the 415-Yard Pancake Derby in the record time of i minute 8 seconds allowing the Olney team to win Back the Silver Skillet from the housewives of Liberal kan., who had won the award for three years straight. 20 years ago today ,. March 6, 1967 vietnamese rangers sweeping through a Mekong Delta Village found 12 prisoners of the Viet Cong manacled ankle to ankle. Ten Lay dead with their throats Cut but two managed to survive. To years ago today. March 6, 1977 Romania struggled la recover from n devastating earthquake that officials said killed up to 4,000 and May have left More than 80,000 homeless primarily around Bucharest