European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Marcla Callan student body vice president at Rickena wash.,  school in front of the school t much ram Clotil Symbol. Little sentiment to ban the bomb 8y Timothy Egan new York times Hulit in to it Disert of Southeastern within Ylon in Highland acuity built virtually overnight m Tow mesh to create he atomic bomb inc que Vita of Tho year is what to do inti Itie mushroom Cinyd around Rickand hich school proud Homo of the bombers thai Emil tort c everywhere on a a Ken in Wernyj Over the football flu. On Mother at the Stierl Entrance to Iho school on class Ringo and on inc business cart of every acuity Membra. Outsiders always ask. Is thai Irio Cloud of 0 nuclear bomb Why yes answers  Ollon vice president of Tho student body you be heard of a family Crest our Crest is a nuclear  when Ollan participated in a con Beauty contest Las year she handed out uranium pellets As a Sample of boil products in Trie Entrance hallway of remand  a Hydrogen bomb a outlined on Ltd floor Tito a Gill torn inc class of 68. Everybody seems 10 Biko it. Said the principal Gus Nash exc Cpl people from out of town who lend to Ihms to glow in the dark Over Here not Only is inc history of this City of 30,000 people led closely to the bomb its economic Well being remains utterly dependent on the nearby Hanford nuclear Csor Valjohn. Which was created to serve Tho nuclear weapons Industry the bomb that devastated Nagasaki and ended world War is was made of plutonium manufactured Iacre on the Banks of the Columbia River in the Days of the Manhattan project so when a Small group Archland  students embarrassed Over inc do Pillion. Began to suggest something else As Iho Emblem this school year Many townspeople took it As an of lion to civic Ide Lily. With some Handford readers shut Down because of safely and Cost problems Richland was already feeling economic jitters. The Issue is Muffi More Complex Ihan simply in Emblem at our school said Slovon Pomer. A leather who Coridi nates student activities at Richland  in tha last month to says he has been deluged with toilers and Telephone Calls from parents and alumni overwhelmingly against changing the  school officials arc leaving the decision f o the 1,300 students who will vote in Fob Ilaryon whether 1o affirm the mushroom Cloud As Ino Loucial Emblem or change it to something less provocative perhaps a wild animal sentiment is running heavily in favor of the Cloud however. A youth who Lisl informed tha school Board of some student Council member s desire for a change was harassed to the Point of tears by other students and pro Cloud Graffiti that had been secretly scrawled on an overhead projector showed up on Tho screen Al the Start of one class recently startling the Leacher. People Are freaking out because they Don t want to Tose the  said Erick Olson ins student body president who predicted thai More than 90 percent of the students would vote to keep me Cloud. That does t mean we re a Bunch of nuke oads. It just stands Lor school  Richland  school changed ils nickname from Tho beavers to the bombers in the foil of 1945. When Iho Iown was Fiu shod with Priido Over its Rok in developing the first Friday. February 198b atomic bombs. In a very Briol time Richland had g own from 240 to 11,000 people almost All of whom had worked on the top secret pro Joel Al Hanford a Bleak government owned stretch of desert half the size of Flodo Island. The mushroom Cloud Nisi appeared on a school Cross in Iho Early 19603. It was later adopted by Iho Loo Ball team which displayed inc nuclear burst on ils Gold and Green helmets and jerseys whatever sentiment Thoro is Lor discarding Logan  fall when Tho football coach. Lonnie Pierson ordered it removed irom Thoj Orsos ii remained on thnh Olmein the coach says Only because there was no Money in his budget for now headgear the baseball coach Scott Woodward. Also dishes Iko Cloud and fas said to will nol allow it on his Loam s uniforms no matter How Tho students Voie. If it docs  said there will to somebody Eise cacti mrs Wood Ward says he realized How offensive the by inc was when a group of japanese students touted Richland  and saw the local slide nos wearing the Cloud on their Folser jackets. Trying to explain Tho Emblem to tha japanese youths left to feeling like i was standing outside without a Fig Leaf on to said. Jim Deatherage. An English Leacher. Says Slud cols Havo become emotionally attached to the Symbol without realizing whal it Means to the rest of Iho world. Our kids Are Good  he said they re not warmonger. But there is almost a mob reaction gang on Here our Job a id make them think Aboul it however. Most of the teachers Al Richland , just like the students. See Rio Lhing wrong with a nuclear mushroom Cloud As a school Symbol Nash Tho principal who displays the Emblem in his officer said orgy 4 of 54 faculty members wanted to get do ii. The stars and stripes Page 13