European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 4, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7. Principal vetoes tuxes As girls prom Wear Decatur Iii. A four teen age girls who spent j100 each on outdo for their senior prom May have to re main at Home unless they Exchange the outfits for More conventional Wear. The girls two sets of twins in the senior class at Stephen Decatur High school planned to Wear Black Tibedo jackets White shirts red Bow ties Matching leotards and lights and red pumps la the May 23 dance. But after a newspaper primed Pic Tures of their costumes school Princi  Jack Kenny vetoed their plans. If a Guy comes dressed in a gown i would not be appropriate. The same goes for Guys or girls if they come to the prom wearing shorts Kenny said. He issued a memo to the girls Shelly and Sheila Fisher 18, and Demse and Darcie Holt 17, saying that Only those properly attired would be admitted. This is discrimination. This is our senior pram. We should be Able to Wear what we want said Shelly. Denise said they planned to circulate a petition among students protesting the dress code. She said they had each spent s6q ear i to rent he tuxedos plus s2s forthe pumps and $ e 5 for the i cowards and tights. We planned everything Shelly said. We be spent a lot of Money on this. And now hey have to go Ana de stroy it  the manager of Serio formal car i Decatur Dan Kcal said it was not unusual for girls to rent tuxedos for proms. I be never seen a problem like this pop up before Keil said the Only thing l can see from the school s View Point is maybe the leotards and Black Hose. But they re in Good taste to me Haig says he would t Rule out tax increase Washington up Republican presidential contender Alexander Haig says he would not Rule out tax increase if his administration failed to reduce the deficit by other Means. Haig president Reagan s first Secretary of state and a former commander of Allied forces in Europe also told reporters Friday that a missile treaty with the soviets in Europe could be potentially disastrous unless it takes into account the soviets Edge in conventional forces. And he was sharply critical of the Gephardt amendment to the House passed Trade Bill which establishes strict Trade sanctions to reduce the United slates Trade deficit the former Nixon White House aide now in Pursuit of he 19 is Republican nomination said the missile proposal now on the table in Geneva is hard to reject. He noted the United slates first proposed eliminating medium Range missiles Early in the Reagan administration largely As a propaganda device. The most constructive approach would be to mod Ify through additional arrangements the proposals now being put Forth Haig said. Under discussion in  talks Are the elimination from Europe of both medium and Short Range missiles. But tic soviet Union and its Warsaw pact allies still have an Edge in the conventional Force Aren and in the size of Battlefield nuclear weapon stocks. Alexander half talks with reporters Friday. Junking the missiles without addressing other issues said Haig could have the practical consequence of decoupling Western Europe from the United  it does not mean the proposal cannot be fixed with ancillary assurances and additional soviet guarantees but if it were to remain in the raw form. To is a highly risky and potentially dangerous proposal said Haig. There is said Haig every Opportunity to reach an agreement but this is going to require More patience rather than a compulsive surge now after so Many years of failure to move the arms control process Forward to now suddenly feel they have to have one at any Price he said. Arms control for arms control s Sake can be very dangerous if it s not accompanied by related under standings if not agreements in other areas of East West relationships Haig said. Haig also blamed the surging deficit on a mix of Federal spending practices and tight monetary policy used by the Federal Reserve Board to rein in interest rates and inflation Over the past six years. Haig said he would Hope to achieve a new partnership with to curb spending Congress if he were president. The Gephardt amendment named for its author v rep Dick Gephardt d-mc., a candidate for the dem Len socratic presidential nomination would punish trading partners who do not reduce their Trade surpluses with the United  Tibio newsman Wallace Volcker address graduates by the associated press television newsman Mike Wallace addressing graduating students saturday at the University of Michigan said continuing racial inequities Are part of the unfinished revolution in civil  elsewhere Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker speaking in Jacksonville flu noted the recent insider trading scandals on the Stock Market and stressed he importance of integrity and Oral Roberts University a Oklahoma gave an honorary degree to a Florida dog track owner who had made a major donation Wallace who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939, returned to 50 Danes going to Milwaukee for bypass surgery Milwaukee a a Hospital Here has agreed to admit 50 Danes who have been waiting for months in Den Mark for bean bypass surgery. Or. James Auer a Milwaukee hear surgeon said he had reached an agreement with the municipal govern ment of Copenhagen for him and an associate to perform the operations. The first five patients arrived sat urday Al St. Luke s Hospital Auer said because of a backlog in Den Mark the patients have been waiting six to eight months for operations and fur ther delays could be fatal. He said he has trained danish doctors to perform heart surgery since the early1970s, and so danish officials asked him to help with the backlog. The first group will have surgery of monday and tuesday. The Ann Arbor Campus to address about 5,700 students. During his speech is to 20 students displayed bumper stickers protesting his visit. A Black student group charged Wal lace with being a racist because of a com ment he made six years ago while filming an edition of "60  the com ments captured on videotape and later leaked referred to poor people Reading contracts Over the watermelons or Over  in his speech Wallace apologized far thoughtless arguably racist comments. He told graduates thai when he was a student he had concerns similar to those of today s civil rights activists. At founding convention the lbs news correspondent said thelow numbers of Black students and faculty members at the University is part of the unfinished revolution in civil right sin America unfinished no longer Only As a result of historic White injustice but unfinished also because of the Black frustration sometimes despair that racism has  Volcker receiving an honorary doctorate from Jacksonville University said insider trading and other scandalous business practices Are creating a demand for integrity in All professions. Amid All the booming rewards for Success in financial markets there Are disturbing forces at work today Volck or told the 3s8 graduates. He advised them to manage their professions with discipline integrity and responsibility. In Tulsa okla Jerry Collins the Flor Ida dog track owner who donated 51.3million to evangelist Oral Roberts medi Cal missionary program received an honorary degree from Oral Roberts univer sity. Collins had helped Roberts raise the$8 million the evangelist had said he needed if god was to spare his life. Roberts presented Collins with an honorary doctor of Laws degree citing Collins four terms in the Florida House his philanthropy and Hii Strong belief inthe tree Enterprise system. Protesters ejected by lutherans Columbus Ohio a Prates lers invaded the founding convention of a newly unified lutheran denomination saturday but were promptly hustled out Side by Security guards. We have rights the group of about 40 shouted As a defrocked pastor Daniel Solberg of Alison Park a was seized by two guards and ejected. The Church is a harlot Solberg shouted after a scuffle with the guards. The protesting group from the Pitts Burgh area a labor clergy coalition charging that a Church corporate conspiracy has caused economic depression and unemployment remained outside the Ohio convention Center. Solberg and another minister the Rev. Douglas Roth of Clairton pa., were ousted from the ministry of the former lutheran Church in America part of the newly merged body for defying Church orders. Both were arrested of charges of Crimi Nal trespass. Each is being held on $4,013 Bond and will appear in Franklin county municipal court monday for arraignment. The convention elected the Rev. Lowell g. Almen 45, of Minneapolis As Secretary second ranking officer of the new denomination. Almen is the longtime editor of the lutheran Standard official Magazine of the former american lutheran Church another part of the merger. His Choice balanced the lop officers of the two largest merging bodies since the convention Friday had elected Bishop Herbert w. Chilstrom of the la s Minnesota Synod As presiding Bishop. We Are bringing together our histories and Hopes Almen told delegates of the new 5.3 million member denomination. We arc standing at a Point thai Many of our forbears longed to be that they worked for prayed for and dreamed. We have joined hands in living that Bright new  the new Church also includes the smaller association of evangelical lutheran churches. Still maintaining a separate identity is the conservative lutheran Church Missouri Synod which claims 2.7million members. The convention adopted a Resolution condemning apartheid in South Africa and that country s illegal oppression in Nami Bia and praising churches there for Cour age in struggling for Freedom with jus  the convention turned Down a move by the Rev John Wetzel of Downey calif., to allow a representative of the Dos coalition the Rev Phillip Long of Pittsburgh to address delegates. That decision was followed by the demonstration