European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 16, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 presidential scholars score Well on test. Washington a Chester finn jr., assistant Secretary of education for research and improvement said Tun Day that presidential scholars who look a multiple Choice test on . History and literature answered an average or 86 per cent of the questions correctly compared with a 48 percent score Tor 8.000 juniors who took the same lest in 1986 As part of a National assessment of educational Progress program. Finn who co authored a Book about inc results railed what do our 17 year Olds know called the 86 per cent score pretty Good but not a cause Tor any swelled  but Many of the presidential schol ars some of the nation s top High school seniors being honoured Here this week in tour Days of ceremonies and seminars. Missed some questions that finn thought they should have known. Only 63 percent of the scholars identified speak softly and carry a big stick As the phrase that characterized . Foreign policy during the Early 1900s 32 percent of the 17-year-Olds tested in 1986 got that right. The phrase is a quotation from president Theodore Roosevelt. Only 48 percent picked Eudora Welly and Flannery o Connor Asau Thors known for stories set in the South the National average was 14 per cent. Fifty percent correctly picked Jane Addams As the founder of settlement houses to help the Urban Poon the National average was 41 percent fifty Otic percent identified Richard Wright As the author of native  it novel of Black life in Chicago the National average was 32 percent at a session hosted by the education department for the scholars. Finn out lined Reagan administration criticisms of american schools and Why it favors Mcnol pay for teachers and other poli cies to Spur improvements. When John Kandara of Winston Salem n.c., asked about the anxiety that teacher career ladder plans can cause finn replied in most professions Competition is not considered s vice. Are you familiar with the olym pics indeed Are you familiar with presidential scholars american kids in general just Don t go to school enough said finn who said a teen Magazine generated a flood of letters criticizing him for a recent article in which he advocated year round schools. The most interesting thing about the letters was How Many were utterly incoherent he said. Scott Murphy a scholar from co Lumbia mo., asked How american universities could achieve world Eminence with students who Are so far inferior finn replied that the Belt american research universities Are second to none but an awful lot of colleges Are driven by the dynamics of keeping their classes  jailed operator of miss school not seeking Aid Lucedale. Miss. A the fundamentalist operator of an unlicensed boarding school closed by the slate amid allegations of abuse and neglect said tuesday he did t want supporters to bail him Oul of jail. I Don t want the people to Pul the Money up for this not when we re right the Rev. Herman Fountain said. Fountain spoke after an appearance before a youth court judge trying to decide the cases of 41 children taken last week by court order from the Bethel Home for children in Lucedale he was held in inc George count jail in lieu of $40,000 Bond on three charges of felonious assault of a police officer. Meanwhile �1.000 Bonds were posted by iwo other people arrested monday when 60 stale troop ers and local officers raided a Church on the 28-Acrc Campus of the school a june 24 court Date was set for inc iwo. They were among five people including assistant pastor David Owens who were charged with disorderly conduct when the Church was raided monday. Swintt Friday the state has taken 77 children from the Home with about 35 released to their parents. Officers entered the Church to look for three Chil Dren Fountain said he had taken in. Bui Fountain said tuesday the three weren t among 11 children la Ken by the state in the monday raid. Slate officials said they took All of the children because Church officials refused to identify for them the three they had come to Lake into custody. Senate oks memorial to nurses Washington a the Senate on tuesday easily approved a Bill authorizing a Bronze statue of an army nurse at the Vietnam veterans memorial to Honor the women who were part of America s longest War the Bill was passed 96-1, and sent to the House. Sponsored by sen. David Durenberger r-minn., the measure had 75 co sponsors and was endorsed by inc Interior department. The statue would be added to the 2.2-acre Vietnam veterans memorial located on inc Mai near the Lin Coln memorial. The memorial built with $11 million in private funds was opened in 1982 and has become one of the City s most visited monuments. Its polished Black Gran Ite Walls Bear the names of inc More than 58,000 Viet Nam War dead including eight uniformed nurses Durenberger told his colleagues tuesday the statue would be an appropriate and Long overdue Symbol of this nation s gratitude for Lite sacrifices and contributions of the 10,000 women who served in  the opposition vote was cast by sen. Daniel Evans r-wash., who also opposed the measure last month when it was approved by the Energy and natural re sources commission. Evans said then that his opposition was based on his belief that another statue would destroy the artistic integrity of the Vietnam memorial. The female statue also was opposed by inc commis Sion of Fine arts and the National Capitol planning commission whose members argued the Vietnam me Morial was already Complete and no new statues should be added. Maya Lin. The architect who designed the memorial also opposed inc addition of the statue. No problems in shuttle rocket test br1oham City Utah a Morton Thi Okol test fired its redesigned solid fuel Booster rocket tues Day with no apparent problems in the second to last lest before shuttle flights arc to resume. All indications arc we had an excellent lest said Royce Mitchell solid rocket program manager for the National aeronautics and space administration. Everything went smoothly. The motor performed very very  Brilliant yellow flame erupted from the 126-foot-Long rocket and greyish Brown smoke billowed thousands of feel into the air amid a Roar that could be heard for Miles. The 122-Sccond test conducted at i . Mitat  ton Thi Okol s Wasatch operations Plant West of Here was the fourth of five test required to qualify major design features of the solid fuel Booster before the shuttle program grounded after the 1986 challenger disaster can resume. We be got a lol of work to do said j. R. Thompson new Mexico wildfire tamed by the associated press firefighters contained a wildfire that scorched nearly 500 acres tuesday and battled to control several smaller fires sparked by lightning in southwestern new Mexico in recent Days. The biggest fire burned at least 475 acres of grass and Woodland i Ciudin Pinon Juniper and Ponderosa Pine Trees on . Bureau of land management land officials said. The Blaze located on Pelona Mountain about 110 Miles Southwest of Albuquerque was contained after about 175 firefighters Cut a fire line with hand tools said Ron Dunlop state fire management officer for the blk in Santa be. The Blaze which was first reported saturday afternoon was one of Al least 25 reported since Friday when it storm moved through the area. Many of the fires were Small and did not bum Long said George Ewan of the . Forest service. All were Yon Between the Pelona Mountain and Luera Peak blazes and another fire in Whitewater Canyon in the Gila National Forest blackened Al least 15 acres according to a Forest service spokesman. Triggered by lightning he said. Ray Pola Polasky operations Bureau chief for the state for Estry division said a 70-acre fire on Luera Peak about 60 mites Southwest of Socorro was under control Early wednesday. The fire s spread was contained monday. The fire started saturday and burned Ponderosa Pine Trees on Forest service and private land. Elsewhere a fire burned about 30 acres at Shaw can Coua too Mew director of the Marshall space flight Center in Hunts Ville Ala. Barring some Surprise 1 feel very Good about an August launch. Allen Mcdonald Morton Thi Okol vice president of Engi Neering said preliminary data indicated that the motor successfully withstood the simulated liftoff and flight stresses. From All aspects we can say it was a totally successful test Mcdonald  it s an extremely Good  he said engineers will spend the next two Days studying computer readouts of the lest and disassembling the motor and officials expect to have a Complete analysis within two weeks. The test involved first use of a new 122-million lest stand which has 1,216 channels of instrumentation and uses Hydraulic struts to duplicate steering flight turbulence and other stresses the motor will endure during launch he said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 16, 1948 Russia launched a new Campaign to restrict freight traffic to Berlin refusing passage to one third of the trains carrying supplies from Western Germany to Berlin claiming they were  30 years ago today. June 16. 1958 Greece recalled All ils nato personnel based at its Southeastern european com Mand Headquarters in Izmir Turkey due to conflicts Over Cyprus. 20 years ago today. June 16, 1968 paediatrician or. Benjamin Spock and three co defendants were convicted by a Federal jury of conspiring to counsel Young men to evade the draft. 10 years ago today ,. June is 1978 president Carter planned to make a ceremonial visit to Panama despite the out burst of anti canal treaty rioting saying he hoped the Visil would Herald a new Era in .-latin american relations