European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday june 20,1987 court deals setback to creationism invokes separation of Churchi Stafe Washington a the supreme court invoking the  required separation of Church and state mini Friday that slates May no require Public schools that teach evolution to teach creationism also. The court by a 7-2 vote struck Down a Louisiana Law requiring that teaching the theory of evolution be balanced by leaching the theory of creation science also called creationism. Creation science Stales that the Earth and most life forms came into existence suddenly about 6,000 years ago in a process similar to a literal translation of the Book of genesis. Proponents of creation science say the theory is not based on religion and that the Louisiana Law was an attempt to provide academic Freedom. Friday the court rejected that argument. Critics of creation science have attacked it a Reli Gion masquerading As science. Writing for the court Justice William j. Brennan said the purpose of the Louisiana Law was to restructure the science curriculum to conform with a partic ular religious viewpoint he add. Because the primary purpose of the creationism act is to Advance a particular religious belief the act endorses religion in violation of the first  the Louisiana legislature enacted the balanced treatment for creation science and evolution science act in 1981, but it was struck Down before Ever being enforced. Evolution first propounded by Charles Darwin states that the Earth is billions of years old and that life forms developed gradually several million years ago. Brennan said the Louisiana Law was not really aimed at protecting academic Freedom but has the distinctly different purpose of discrediting evolution by counterbalancing its leaching at every turn with the teaching of  he added that the Law is unconstitutional because it seeks to employ the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious  the Constitution s first amendment bans govern ment from bringing about an establishment of Reli Gion. Under past supreme court decisions a Law or governmental policy violates the constitutional ban if its supreme court primary purpose is not secular its primary effect is Toad Vance or inhibit religion or it unduly entangle government in religion. Brennan said the Louisiana Law docs not have a secular purpose. Chief Justice William h. Rehnquist and Justice an tonin Scalia dissented. In an opinion for the two sea Lia suggested that courts abandon their practice of investigating the purpose of Laws challenged As Villa tic of the constitutionally required separation of religion and government. A similar creation science Law enacted in Arkansas was struck Down by lower courts in rulings never appealed to the supreme court. On the heels of us setback the creationism movement s future vitality was viewed As at stake in the Louisiana Case. Donald Aguillard principal at acadian High school who filed the Legal Challenge to the Louisiana Law in 1981 when he was a biology teacher said of the decision i m pleased. That s it. I m glad that it Over  in other action the court ruled that a person accused of sexually abusing a child docs not have a right to attend a pretrial hearing at which the child s competency to testify is deter mined. By a 6-3 vote the justices reinstated the sodomy conviction of a Kentucky Man who was barred from attending a hearing at which the Young girls were questioned. Ruled that labor unions May be held legally responsible for failing to Challenge racial discrimination by employers against Union members. The court in a 6-3 decision said the United steel workers of America violated Federal Law Banning on the Job racial Bias in a Case involving Black workers at Lukins steel co. In Pennsylvania. Upheld a new York state Law allowing police to search automobile junkyards without court warrants. The justices after being told their help was needed to combat motor vehicle thefts reversed a ruling by new York s highest court that  warrant less searches violate constitutionally protected privacy "s"15.the creationism controversy is reminiscent 01 the famous 1925 Monkey Law trial in which teacher John Scopes was convicted and fined $ 100 for teaching evolution when Tennessee Law made it a crime to teach anything but the biblical version of creation. Scopes conviction later was overturned by the ten Nessee supreme court on a procedural matter and never reached the nation s highest court. But in 1968, the justices struck Down a state Law that had barred teachers from using textbooks featuring the theory that Mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of  time for your walk Deer Jeanne Bruiger and her baby would seem to be an unusual sight among mommies and their prams. Actually the shop owner is transporting mounted Buck s head in an antique baby bum to her new store in new London we Friday. The items will then be part of tie store s display. 5 held on arms charges in fatal shooting at Park Charlotte . A five men were charged Friday with possessing an unregistered machine gun in the june 7 shooting that left a teen age girl dead and a 6-year-old girl wounded at an amusement Park. Michelle Ann Sexton 16, of Rock Hill s.c., was killed while swimming Ona raft at a wave Pool at carom is amusement Park. Investigators said a Large Caliper Bullet hit her in the Back and exited her  Rollins who was playing about so feel away from Sexton was chitin the Abdomen by what investigators believe was a second Bullet. She was hospitalized for five Days. Investigators said a Man called police the Day after the shooting and told theme might have fired the a fits while prac timing on a makeshift Largel ran a a half Mil Tram the Park. The Man whom police would not identify later surrendered an aks-74, described As a semiautomatic. Soviet made , investigators later said they were having trouble Matching the Rifle Toa Bullet taken from Ayesha because the gun had apparently been converted from fully automatic to semiautomatic before being Given to police. Semiautomatic weapons which fire single shot each Lime the trigger u squeezed Are Legal but fully automatic runs which fire continuously while the trigger u depressed Are illegal without a Federal permit investigators said one of the five men at the target Range at the time of the shooting had told them the Rule was a automatic weapon when it was being fired  . Attorney s office identified the men charged As Gerald Michael Turner 30 James Joseph Bogata 31 Charles Hepburn Kupser 20 Richard Melvin Caddell 19, and Richard Philli Groetzinger 21, All of Charlotte. Chipp Bailey of the Mecklenburg county police department said All five men were in custody by noon and would be taken before a Federal magistrate who would set  maximum Penally Tor Possession of an unregistered machine gun is 10 years in prison and a j10,000  77-acre car winds Park straddles die North Carolina South Carolina Border 10 Miles South of downtown Charlotte. Greyhound to buy trailways for $80 million. I i i a  for . L1_l nr_rt.1r1 Kllc Lin � Villi Washington a greyhound lines inc. Friday said it had reached agreement to take Over the financially fling trailways corp. In an s80 million Deal that will leave the nation with Only one National intercity bus company greyhound chairman Fred Currey said greyhound will guarantee continued bus service to the cities and towns served exclusively by trailways. He said the precarious financial Posi Tion of trailways a privately held com Pany had endangered service to those cities and towns. Trailways a smaller line than greyhound predominantly serves the South and East coast As far North As new York. The Sale is subject to approval by the interstate Commerce commission. Currey said the companies filed an application Fri Day with the inc seeking immediate preliminary approval and final approval. Currey said there was no decision on what will happen to trailways 2,200 employees. Under the agreement greyhound will pay to million 10 buy 450 of trailways 1,200 buses some of its terminals and garages and other undisclosed assets said greyhound spokesman George gravely. Both companies Are based in Dallas. Greyhound with about 10,000 employees serves All 48 Continental states. Greyhound after the Purchase will have projected revenues of around $800 million. Trailways current revenues Are about s150 million said Currey who headed Trail ways corp. From 1975-1979. Greyhound itself was purchased by a group of Dallas investors primarily cur Rey and two partners Only three months ago. The group paid More than $350 Mil lion for the 75-year-old bus line which was then facing financial trouble. In recent years greyhound has Cut the number of communities it serves from  12.000. The percentage of intercity travellers going by bus has been declining for More than 30 years and amounted to Only 1.3 percent of  travel in 1986, accordingly figures provided by greyhound. Most of that is by the iwo companies although there Are several Large regions carriers and scores of Independent lines that serve As feeders from Rural communities