European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes thursday May 5, 19bb study shows breakfasts raise student scores Lawrence mass. A healthy breakfast helped Lawrence Stu dents score higher on Icsis according to a study released tuesday. About 1,000 children in third through sixth grades from six schools were involved in the study conducted by two Boston paediatricians. Alan Meyers and Michael Wail Manof Boston City Hospital presented their findings tuesday in Washington d.c., at the annual research meeting of the ambulatory it Dalric association the Hope to encourage colleagues 10 push tar a National breakfast program. Only a handful of states besides Massachusetts mandate the breakfast pro Gram said Meyers. We Art trying to give these kids every break they can have. It looks like there May be some Benefit  Massachusetts ordered communities with Large numbers of poor families to begin school breakfast in january 1987. The Lawrence study began three months after the Law took effect. Test scores Tram 3j5 children in the program were com pared to scores from 688 children who were not. Almost All the children were from poor families among he results test scores showed greater improvement for children in the breakfast program. Their scorn went up 13. Per cent the following year compared to 11 percent Tor children not in the program. Children in the program were late or absent less frequently and breakfast eat ers made fewer mistakes in the morning. School lunches Are now available to most . Children but breakfast is offered to Only about 40 percent the study estimates about 600.000 children skip breakfast every Day. Cost Isa problem. The Federal government spent 1400 million in 1986 to serve breakfast to 33,000 Public school students Meyers said stateside Putnam group buys rights to Agatha Christie works new York a the rights to 87 books by the Queen of suspense Agatha Christie have been purchased by the Putnam Berkley group As part of a package sold by the ailing publishing House Dodd Mead &  Price of the Purchase which also included 156 works by Western writer Max Broad was not released. But the new York times reported tuesday that it is thought to be about $4 Mil  Mead a Uyi or old firm sold the rights in an Effort to retire its debt and survive As an Independent publisher. Bill would ban smoking by teachers inside schools Topeka Kan a Kansas schoolteachers could not smoke at school under a Bill sent to nov. Mike Hayden. The Bill approved by the House would forbid the use of All tobacco products inside Public school buildings where students Are taught. School District workers could smoke in administration or maintenance buildings where students Don t attend classes teachers could smoke out Side  Public school districts already ban All tobacco within their buildings said John Koch pc executive director of the Kansas association of school boards. Many others allow teachers to smoke in employees lounges and some allow students to smoke in outside areas. Rutgers students indicted in death of frat pledge new Brunswick . A fifteen Rutgers University students have been indicted in the drinking related death of a fraternity pledge authorities said  students including seven officers of the now closed Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity were charged with aggravated hazing which carries penalty of up to 18 months in prison and a s7.50q Fine upon conviction Middlesex county prosecutor Alan Rockoff said that As first offenders the students Proba Bly would not face  grand jury in Middlesex county resumed the indictment Friday but it was not announce until tuesday because prosecutors wanted to Tell the students and their families first. Federal official will head drive for arts education in schools Washington apr declaring that America s cultural literacy is at  Federal arts Agency chief Frank Hodsoll said tuesday he will make a nationwide Lour to urge educators to give elementary schoolchildren at least 4w hour of arts instruction weekly Hodsoll also wants to require High school students to Complete the equivalent of two full years of Art courses before they can graduate twice As much As education Secretary William j. Bennett proposed Las december As part of his Model High school curriculum. If Hodsoll has his Way All Junior High school Stu dents will be required to spend at least 15 percent of the school year studying the arts exclusive of English studies with special emphasis on design and the Media arts such As television and movies. The proposals aimed at making the Arisen integral part of the school curriculum from kindergarten through the 12lh Grade were contained in a 173-Page report issued tuesday by the National endowment for the arts on the stale of arts education in America. The problem is Basic arts education does not exist in the United Stales today concluded the endow ment an Independent Federal Agency that underwrites a wide variety of artistic projects with a current budget ofsi67.7 million. The report argued that the arts Are no less important than Reading writing and arithmetic by helping youngsters understand civilization develop creativity learn communications skills and make critical choices about what is Good and  nevertheless the report said Many americans still View the arts As a subject not worthy of serious study and sometimes As potentially threatening or even  moreover it said school administrators cannot agree on what arts education is. It cited a Survey conducted three years ago that found �1 percent of american adults had not attended a. Live cultural performance or visited an Art gallery or museum in the previous year. Hodsoll the endowment chairman told a news con Ference he will begin a series of regional meetings around the country next week to Campaign for expanded arts instruction in the schools. The first session will be held monday in St. Louis where Hodsoll will Confer with slate and local Educa Tion and arts officials from Missouri Oklahoma a Kansas Texas Nebraska and Kansas. Conferences tentatively Are planned for next fall in new England and the South and on the West coast Hodsoll acknowledged that his stress on the arts will be a problem in some school districts that put primary emphasis on preparing students to meet for eign Competition in science and technology. But he and the endowment report noted that the High tech japanese have made the arts a Basic part of their school curriculum. Hodsoll argued thai study of the arts helps us to be masters not servants of tech  baby born underwater in n. J. Hospital Belleville no. Us l a Pennsylvania woman bore an Pound 2-ounce baby girl tuesday afternoon in the first underwater birth in an american Hospital a spokesman for Clara Maass medical Center Here said. Donna Garibay 34, gave birth to her daughter also named Donna in a Jacuzzi Pool filled 27 inches deep with Ito dog rec water spokesman Lou Gardner said. The Mother is relaxed and Happy and the baby is too he said. Underwater birth was pioneered in Europe and the soviet Union. Advocates say the process is More relax ing for the Mother and provides a More comforting atmosphere for the baby. In the United slates women have Given birth underwater at Home and in birthing centers run by practitioners of alternative Medicine but Little Donna can Bay s birth at 3 17 , apparently was the first done As part of mainstream medical practice Gardner said. The Mother spent most of her labor in the Pool accompanied by her husband Richard Gardner said. Or. Gerald Cicalese the Hospital s chief of obstetrics assisted As a neonatologist stood by in Case of emergency. She gave birth in a sitting position using lamaze breathing techniques. The baby spent the first 30 seconds of her Independent life underwater Gardner said. The baby was brought to her Mother s breast and did not cry until the umbilical Cord was Cut Gardner said. The Garibay previous three children were All born at Clara Maass. And the couple selected the Hospital for Donna