European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. November to 1387 High court nominee quit club that bars women san Francisco not judge Anthony m. Kennedy s resignation from Arall male club Here came after it members refused to admit women a spite threat Ufa lawsuit by the City. Kennedy who was nominated wednesday to the United slates supreme nun has not commented on whether he resigned last month to protest the vote or because he was under consideration for the court Al the time. A spokesman for the Senate judiciary committee would not comment on whether it would consider the Issue Al his confirmation hearings. Bul Kennedy s Pas membership in exclusionary clubs including the olympic club Here could became an Issue at a time when such organizations Are under attack around the country. Kennedy resigned his membership in the All male Sutler club in Sacramento seven years ago. In 1962, when Kennedy joined the olympic club Iii bylaw excluded women and members of minority groups. While the club declined to comment on an Issue regarding its membership an investigation by the City attorney s office Here Over the last two months found Hal the club dropped the provision excluding minority groups in 1968. However it still has no Black members and Only a Tew asian and hispanic members. The american bar association s code of judicial conduct says it is inappropriate for a judge to hold membership in any organization that practices invidious discrimination but the code leaves it to the individual j Uduc 10 determine whether a club does so. The City brought a civil lawsuit against the olympic club in Sun Francisco Superior court on nov. 2 after nearly 3.600 of its 4,000 members voted Iiga inst a plan that would have admitted women beginning oct. 15. According to Dennis Aftergut the chief assistant City attorney the suit charges the club with violating both slate and City Ami discrimination ordinances in its refusal to admit women and More members of minority groups. The City argues that the actions of the private club Are subject to the statutes because the club leases a portion of City owned land for its Lake course which was the site of this year s United Stales open Golf tournament. Efforts 10 reach Kennedy for comment through his office at the United Stales court of appeals for the 9lh circuit and through the Mcgeorge school of Law at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento where heave a Brief news conference Friday were unsuccessful. Kennedy is not the first supreme court nominee to a Panlo judge Anthony Kennedy tells reporters at a Brief Sacra mento calif., news conference that his lips Are Teald because of the continuing confirmation process tied to his nomination to the supreme court. Resign from discriminatory clubs. Justice Antonin sea Lia resigned from he Cosmos club in Washington shortly before his nomination was confirmed last year Justice Harry a. Blackmun remains a member of the dub. Experts worn today s Superb by May become tomorrow s Burnouf Chicago a parents trying to rear superba bics May instead create a generation of Early Bur nouts a panel of experts said Friday warning that Force feeding academics to preschoolers May retard their intellectual social and physical development. Twenty years ago people thought that precocity was bad. The feeling was Early Ripe Early rot " said child psychologist David Elkind president of the National association for the education of Young Chil Dren now the motto is Early Ripe Early Rich and it s backfiring said Elkind at a news conference during the annual convention of the group the nation s largest professional association of Early childhood educators. The trend is most noticeable among upwardly to bile Young professionals who use such devices As books flashcards and piano lessons to try and get them children on the fast track said panellist or. George Sterne. Increasingly we see children whose schedules Al age 3 and 4 would boggle the mind of adult. They have 60-hour week said Sterne chairman of it american Academy of Pedi Qirici committee on Early childhood. Adoption and dependent care. They re tired they re irritable they have Bel laches. It s obvious they re on overload he said. In an estimated 16 states programs Are pending that would have children enter Public school a age 4, said panellist Samuel Sava executive director of the nation Al association for elementary school principals. But Elkind noted that in scandinavian countries where children Don t begin forced education until age 7," illiteracy is virtually non existent we have to recognize that education is not a race child rearing is not a race. In our desires to believe we can give children a leg up we Are really handicapping them he said. If you try to hard to Force them to learn things. You do run the risk of first burnout and second suppressing creativity Sterne said. Parents who push their children May Only want the Best for them. Bul what they Don t realize is that children Are going to learn if they Are exposed to Normal life Steve said. They Don t need High tech curricula to do  the Market is tilled with an increasing number of books and Early education programs like those that urge pregnant women to talk or sing to their unborn children said Elkind. Entrepreneur play an a lot of parental guilt and this whole psychology that you can create superba Bies he said. What kids need is constant unconditional Loving. They Don t need flashcards. They need to be free to express  Sterne said. Added Sava we will do a great disservice to the children of 1 his cation if we do not Perron them to be  stateside Honda announces recall of 4,514 1988 civics Detroit a Honda motor co. Lid. Says it will voluntarily recall 4,514 or its 1988 Model civic automobiles sold in the United slates to replace fuel injection control units. The units could cause engine Speed to increase by about 550 revolutions per minute above nor Mal White the can All equipped with automatic transmission Are stopped in gear Honda s Gar Dena calif., based . Distributor said in statement released in Detroit. Braking can hold the affected cars stationary bul the Hogner Tjian Normaj Idle Speed May cause the vehicle to move and make extra Brake pres sure necessary. Honda said firm chooses hard hit City for site of new Plant Waterbury. It. Up Ben & Jerry a a Vermont gourmet ice Cream Winaker responding to a letter from Springfield citizens has unveiled Plant to locate a new Plant in the economically hard hit City. The Plant which will produce Frozen Brownie sandwiches and chocolate covered ice Cream Sticks is expected to bring 50 new jobs to a. Community thai has seen an exodus of employ Era in recent Yean. Earlier this fall hundreds of Springfield Resi dents signed a letter asking the ice Cream manufacturer to locate the new Plant in their Community which has been economically ravaged by a decline in the machine tool Industry fire plagued pair Dies including earlier heroine Branchburg , a a fire caused by an overheated Furnace killed two women Only months after one of he victims had been honoured for saving the other from a fire. Mary Mckee Lawrence 53, and Judy nor Wood 45. Both at to employees died after an improperly maintained basement Furnace started the fire officials said. Autopsies showed that the women died of smoke inhalation. In april 1985, Norwood accidentally spilled gasoline on herself while preparing to mow the Fawn and then lit a cigarette Hal set her afire. Lawrence who had recently undergone triple bypass surgery extinguished the flames and rushed her Friend to a Hospital. Fire in . Train Tunnel extinguished after 8 Days Sproul . A firefighters Friday extinguished a stubborn fire in a Railroad tuned that interrupted Coal shipments from Southern West  than 2 million Gallons of water were pumped into the Cox corp. Tunnel alter at tempts to smother the flames  the flames were extinguished officials continued to pump water into the 951-fool-tons Tunnel in an attempt to Cool it Down. There in no estimate when the Tunnel might reopen. The Limber lined Tunnel which is on � main Cox line id Southern West Virginia Coalfield caught fire nov. 5 when a Forest fire broke Outon the Mountain above it Pink Floyd fan s leap hurts himself 1 other Indianapolis a a 20-year-old Nan jumped from the Hootin dome s thud floor Balcony during a Pink Floyd concert critically injuring himself and also injuring a person tie landed on police  Hauck of Angola was listed in critical condition with multiple orthopaedic injuries Aid Jon while a spokesman for Indianapolis meth Odist Hospital. Hauck apparently Jurn Ped during the Rock group s performance police dispatcher Mike Brown said.5gt Judd Green said witnesses told police Hauck ran through the crowd and screamed. Then  Landing two Levels below. Police said both Hauck and a Concei goer he apparently landed on reportedly a 16-year-old boy were taken to the Hospital