European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday otlaber17, 1987 the stars and St hits Page 7 parents vow to fight . School plan los Angeles Al t parents and their allies on the school Hoard vow to fight a plan by lie Board in Pul the los angelas school District s 618 schools on year round schedule you arc going to Sec some fireworks i m telling you. People arc  Haid attorney Daniel Shapiro one of several founders of a group formed last year in opposition to year round school prep Oasis. Parent Diane Schulz said a children s strike would be a sure fire Way to get the Board to reconsider its Deci Sion the first i n the nation by a major school system. School Board member Roberta Weintraub one of three who voted again the measure predicted a mass exodus from inc school do rid. My constituency is Cstro moly upset she said. Board member Alan Guhman told upset parents that the Board would hear their complaints at a future session. Those who decide can undo Cid he said. The school Board s 4-3 decision monday imposes year round classes effective july 1989. Shapiro accused the school Board of violating a slate Law that requires publicly elected governing bodies give Atleas 72 hours Public notice Bufor calling on items. The Board was expected to vote monday on one of three proposals to put different categories of school son year round calendars. Instead in came up with a plan affecting every school. The plan was described Ina document handed out Ai the meeting. The Vole capped several years of investigating Var ious year round proposals. Ninety five of the District s schools have been on year round schedules fora num Ber of years. In tune with the times entertainer Ben Var can is surrounded 6j scouts while recording � fund raising album for inc greater Neil York councils of Lite boy scours it America the chorus consisted of 200 youngsters. Power outage hit airline alarm Washington a tests confirm that an interruption of electrical Power prevented a warning alarm from sounding on a Northwest airlines jetliner hat crashed near Petroit after taking olt with its flaps set improperly aviation sources said thursday. The findings reinforced speculation that the circuit breaker to inc alarm system that should have alerted the pilots of a wrong Flap position May have been popped although no dear evidence has yet been uncovered that the pilots pulled the breaker. The result of tests showing no Power was flowing to the alarm were to be included in documents scheduled for released by the National transportation safety Board in connection with the investigation into the aug. 16 Accident thai kilted 156 people. The circuit to the alarm was open said one aviation source who is familiar with the test results and declined to be identified by name indicating that no Power was flowing to i he alarm. Other documents to be released include a transcript of cockpit conversation during inc 30 minutes before the crash just after the plane lifted off from the Detroit metropolitan Airport. Investigators previously have disclosed that the flaps on the twin engine Mcdonnell Douglas my so were in a retracted position which did not give the plane enough lift. The documents and transcript Are expected to shed Light on whether the cockpit Crew was distracted before Takeoff causing them to forget to set the flaps and Why the backup alarm system did not sound alien Pollock a spokesman for the safety Board declined to comment thursday on the contents of the Doeu mints. Including inc transcript. Another source who refused to be identified reported seeing the transcript and said however hat it contains no smoking gun that would Point the Finger at Why inc flaps were not in their proper position. During Takeoff the laps should have been set at 11 degrees considering the Type of runway weight of the aircraft and other conditions according to investigators. Instead the plane s flight recorder showed Ihm to be retracted to Zero. Pm ended flaps Are needed to give Lite plane lift. There has been speculation that the pilots May have been distracted causing them 10 slip Over the part of the checklist that pertains 10 flaps. Exchanges Between the pilots and he Airport control lower have shown some confusion in the cockpit prior to Takeoff. The pilots had trouble Al one Point finding their assigned taxiway and at another Point failed to switch radio frequencies is requested by air traffic control. 300,000 seek Mecham recall Phoenix Ariz. A the group trying to Force a recall election on gov. Evan Mecham said thursday it has lopped 300,000 petition signatures while Merit am again denied his administration is in turmoil and scoffed Al former sen. Barry Goldwater s Call last Siwek for him to resign i Don t think that he knows very much about what s going on in slate  Mecham said during a Call in program on Star radio. Barry and i go Back a Long ways the governor said but added it s kind of easy for somebody to give him some information that in t really factual " can t conceive of anything that would even come close to getting me to  Mecham said Mecham Aiso reiterated that he had no connection with a letter drafted for the committee against the recall of eve that Mecham s office denounced. The letter which described Jesse Jackson As a sanctimonious bigot bore the signature of retired army Gen. John a Glaub but Singlaub said the signature was a fake. Mecham said he knew Little about cake which is formed to support him during inc recall movement. At a time like this you never know what comes out of the Woodwork the governor said. Jim Burnier care executive director said the let Ter was written Al his request by another Man. Meanwhile the Mecham recall committee said it had gathered 302,287 signatures by thursday and foundered Buck said he believed the group could Tupil goal of 350.000 names by the nov. 3 filing deadline. The committee needs 216,746 valid signatures of registered voters to Force Mecham to face a recall vote it wants a Cushion in Case Many names arc thrown out we realize that our Job is not done Buck said Al a news conference adding that the More signatures archied the less Likely it would be dial the Effort could wind up in a major court Battle. However Buck said that a a Cathy Legal Challenge tothe signatures Validity could lie up the recall Effort for up la two years noting that that occurred in 1972 when an Effort was mounted to recall Tacti gov Jack Williams san Diego Dallas join 1 million population club Washington a san do go and Dallas be came population millionaires for the first Lime Las year boosting the number of american cities with at least i million residents la eight the census Bureau estimated thursday. New York still Topi the St of municipalities with a million or More americans in the 1986 population estimates while los Angeles is next and Chicago i third followed in order by Houston Philadelphia de troit and the just arrived san Diego and Dallas the Bureau reported. Meanwhile the list of cities with u population of Al least 100,000 is up by six to 1x2, the Bureau Esti mated compared with figures for 9s4. New York remains by far the nation s a nov pop Ulous City with an estimated 7,262.700 people in19116, up from 7,164,742 in 1984. After new York 1986 population figures for some cities with Al least 1 million residents Are los Angeles 3,259,300. Up from 3,096.668 in 1984 Chicago 3,009,530, up from 3,992.742 Houston 1,718,910, up from 1.724.3s7 Detroit 1.0h6.220. Down from 1,126,872 in 1984 san Diego. 1.0i5,i