European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 29,1987 teachers strikes continue in 6 states by stir associated pros the first teachers strike in Arkansas his Inry shut schools in Little Rock for a second Day monday while a teacher s strike in Chicago dragged into us 2lsl Das. If classes Are cancelled tuesday for a Irith Day in Chicago authorities said it will tic a record Lor the longest school strike in he City s history. Strikes involving More than 32.000 leathers continued in six Stales monday affecting Al least 490,000 students. Contract talks were suspended indefinitely in Little Rock after the classroom ton Hen association rejected the school District s final offer sunday night. The school District dropped a plan to use nun striking teachers and substitutes to resume classes because not enough qualified people applied. But authorities said they would ask a judge for a Tempo Rary restraining order la get the striking teachers Back into classrooms. The District contends to Al the strike violates state Law. But even before a hearing scheduled for monday teachers negotiator Lou Ethel Nauden said the bar gainers were prepared to rot in jail to maintain the walkout. In the nation s largest school strike affecting 28,000 teachers and 430,000 students in Chicago the latest round of contract talks entered on classroom is sues. Pay inc main clicking Point appeared to receive less emphasis in weekend bar gaining but the school Board is consid ering an undisclosed boost in the average slanting salary officials said. Talks lasted past Midnight and were to resume Mon Day at noon. The average age of the teachers is about 47 years and the average length of classroom experience is about 19 years meaning that a Large number of people will be retiring from the system relatively soon said schools spokesman Bob Saigh. He said the current starting pay in the nation s third largest school District for a teacher with a Bachelor s degree is about $17.000 a year including pension Bene fits compared with the District s average salary of $27.900. The Chicago teachers Union is de manding a 14 percent raise Over two years while the Board has said it can afford no More than 0,5 percent. Pay is also an Issue in Youngstown Ohio where 15,500 students have been out of classes since 1,043 teachers went on strike sept. 9. A Federal mediator adjourned contract talks sunday in which he said things went backward there was better news in Gibraltar Mich., where a tentative agreement was reached sunday night to end a three week strike by 172 teachers. Wayne county circuit judge Robert Columbo or. Said. The major issues were compensation and class size said Columbo. Who supervised the bargaining in his Detroit courtroom. He said classes for 3,883 Stu dents could resume wednesday classes were to begin monday for 1,571 students in Cassopolis Mich., where 84 teachers and 66 staff members had been on strike since aug. 31. A tentative one year pact reached thursday raises teachers pay 6 percent in its first six months and 1.5 percent More in the next sin months. Teachers in Norton mass., ratified a new contract monday morning and re turned to classes after a seven Day strike that affected 2,400 students while in Boston a court appointed special master prepared a plan for the court to gel 7,000 special needs students to school during the bus Drivers strike. Classes were scheduled to begin Mon Day in Edmonds Wash., where 17,500 students will have a shortened Christmas vacation and school through june 28 to make up for four weeks lost to a strike by about 900 teachers. To Pennsylvania teachers in one sub Urban Philadelphia school District. Nor Rislow voted overwhelmingly to return to school monday while negotiations continue but teachers in three other school districts remained on strike. Strikes also continued in Elizabeth n.j., and West Iron county Mich. Up1 photo putting on the dog Marion Cali Lnell left of Chattanooga term helps Jean pickles adjust i sweater that Caldwell trill using 100% dog Hir. Pickles came up with the idea when she was looking for a Way to Imp a memento or her late Collie. Witness recant his testimony in mafia drug Case new York a a one time mafia nil Man left a Federal witness Protection program to recant testimony that helped Send a mob Boss to prison in the pizza connection drug Case according to a published report. A defense lawyer said he would seek a new trial but . Attorney Rudolph w. Giuliani said a recantation would not jeopardize uie conviction of Salvatore Catalano. The new York times reported in monday editions thai Luigi Ronsisvalle voluntarily sought out Catala no i lawyer to provide a sworn statement that his Testi Mony was false. During the first meeting with lawyer Ivan a Fisher Ronsivalle with a times reporter present said or Fisher i want you please from the Bottom of my heart i want you to accept my apology for what i done to Tolo Catalano. I swear to god i feel so bad i feel like  the times said Ronsisvalle and Fisher met twice in a Motel room. The newspaper said it could not determine if a representative of Catalano had talked with Ronsisvalle. And both Ronsisvalle and the lawyer denied the suspect had been threatened. Ronsisvalle said he would not testify As scheduled at two com i no trials of major mafia figures. Fisher said he would present the new evidence to Giuliani on monday. Catalano was convicted with 17 other defendants in March and was sentenced to 4s years in prison fined $1.15 million and ordered to pay is million restitution to a fund for the rehabilitation of drug addicts. Dog owner charged in death Columbus Ohio a a Man who owns two dogs that attacked and killed a 2-year-old girl has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in what could be the first test of the stale s new Law to control vicious dogs officials say. Shannon Tucker was attacked sunday by a pit Bull and a Rottweiler a German Breed of cattle dog As she played behind her apartment on the City s East Side. Kenneth i. Ferguson 32, who lives in the apartment Complex was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter because his actions resulted in a death during tilt commission of a felony violation of the state s vicious dog Law authorities said. Police said they did not know How the dogs got out of a stockade enclosure behind Ferguson s apartment where they were kept. A witness said he was washing his car nearby when he heard the Gate to inc Fence open and saw the dogs attack the girl. The girl was pronounced dead less than an hour after she was attacked. Neighbors told he Columbus dispatch they had been wary of the dogs named King and Bear since the animals attacked and killed a cat in july they said Ferguson told them the dogs had undergone obedience and attack training the newspaper said. Shannon s Mother Gayle Tucker 22. Checked to make Jure the dogs were not Loose before she let the toddler onto the Patio to play the dispatch said. Ferguson could face a prison term of 10 to 25 years and a 110,000 Fine if convicted of involuntary Man Slaughter. He also could face further penalties under inc vicious dog Law said state rep. Robert e. Mickey a sponsor of inc Bill enacted in july. The Law enacted three months after the death of a retired Dayton area physician who a mauled by two pit bulldogs was designed to crack Down on owners of dogs that attack or injure people or animals. It makes a fatal dog attack a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or a $2.500 Fine. On tuesday the City Council passed its own Law under which owners Are responsible if their dogs bite people or other animals and provides for fines and jail terms. Stateside 20 arrested during protest by disabled at conference san Francisco a police arrested 20 protesters outside City Hall sunday including one Man booked for investigation of assaulting a police officer As 500 handicapped people from around the country demonstrated Over restrict i in Public transportation. Hundreds of disabled people who arc de manding Access to Public transit systems in every . City have threatened to Block cily streets hotel lobbies and entrances to the mos Cone convention Center. If it were women or Blacks who could t get on the bus it would clearly be a civil rights Issue said Kilty Cone of Berkeley a member of september Alliance for accessible transit. Pete Dupont 3 cousins challenging aunt s will Springfield. . A presidential candidate Pete do Pom and three of his cousins believe they arc legally entitled to 11.5 million of a dead aunt s estate that has been awarded to four charities. Lawyers for Dupont and his three cousins have challenged a will left by the late Nancy Holcomb Anderson who died in 19s4. Man Chester Al probate judge Ellen Maloney a ruled that the will while ambiguously worded stated thai the Money should go to four charities including a humane society in Vermont. The Challenge to the will is based on whether Anderson s intentions were correctly presented or whether the Legal craftsman made a mistake. It s really a question Here of carrying out the intent. Were the aunt s intentions thwarted by an error in the drafting of the will said do font s Deputy Campaign manager Bab Perkins. Collision kills sky diver seriously injures another Mead Wash. A a sky diver who jumped from a plane at 10,000 feet plunged to his death and another was seriously injured after they collided authorities said. Sunday s Accident occurred As 12 sky divers from the precision Parachute team were making a jump from three planes above Mead Airfield about five Miles North of Spokane said Spokane county sheriff s sol. Danny o Dell. The divers jumped from 10.000 feel Accord ing to ten Gaston of the Federal aviation administration which is investigating the Accident. Joseph r. Vampy. 34, of Spokane was inc last person out of one of the planes and somehow collided with Greg Nail. 39. Said o Dell. Vampy s Parachute failed to open and he was killed instantly when he hit the ground o Dell said. Nail s Reserve Parachute did open at 1,000 feel but he hit a tree and bounced to the ground severely injured authorities said