European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday june 24,1988 City suburb schools get Best integration rating stateside Chicago a school systems comprising inner City neighbourhoods and suburbs that bus Stu dents for racial balance arc the most successful at maintaining integrated schools a study concludes. The finding is one or seven contained in a report released wednesday at he annual meeting of the National school boards association. That was one of the More interesting findings Given the fierce battling that Joes on Over desegregation said political scientist Gary Orfield of the University of Chicago the perception is often that re assigning students to other neighbourhoods encourages White flight " but the places that have been most successful Nashville Las vegas nev., most every big City in Flor Ida except Miami have been those where the City and suburbs a in the same District and you can implement a District wide desegregation plan Orfield said. Researchers led by Orfield and political scientist Franklin Monfort of the University of Wisconsin an Al Zed data from the 60 largest Public school systems Between 1967 and 1986. They concluded the schools have become increasingly segregated Over that period because of a dramatic Rise in hispanic students and a steady erosion in White enrolment. Predictions about Central City districts losing the majority of their White student came True Orfield said wednesday but now not Only Are Blacks still being segregated hispanics arc being More segregated at an even faster rate. However the segregation is not the result of Whites leaving Public schools so much As migration patterns and changes in the birth rates he added. Among the report s most significant findings total enrolment declined by 15 percent in the 60 districts to 6.7 million Over the 19-year period. While enrolment declined by 16 percent while the number of Black students increased by s percent and hispanic students by 103 percent. The 25 largest Central City school districts now serve 28 percent Ofell Black students 30 percent of All hispanics but Only 3 percent of while student what that Means he said is that the school systems that Are decisive to the future of Large parts of our minority groups Are almost irrelevant to the while population. Almost half of the largest Public school districts Are now in the suburbs and metropolitan counties. Thousands of Ken fuck ans flee toxic Cloud from derailed train Crofton by. A a toxic Cloud of burning phosphorus spewed from 8 derailed rail Tanker and spread slowly across five Kentucky counties driving thousands of residents from their Homes before it began to dissipate thursday. The phosphorus burst into flames in 99-degree heat late wednesday when 36 cars of a Cox transportation corp. Train were derailed. The chemical was leaking from Only one car officials said it s very very much dissipating a state police Iron per Bryan Pitney said. It s not As dense As it  thursday the Federal aviation administration restricted All air travel Over the area at or below 2,000 feel within a five mile radius of Central City. State officials temporarily closed some area roads. The fire was expected to Burn throughout the Day said Don Armstrong spokesman for the state disaster and emergency services in Frankfort phosphorus fires cannot be extinguished with water and must bum themselves out he  re talking about big. Big big trouble Arm Strong said. Water makes it Burn  most of the 2,500 people in six area communities were evacuated wednesday nigh Armstrong said. Be tween 40 and 50 people were treated in area hospitals for respiratory and other problems according to medi Cal , Many residents began returning Home by thursday morning even though the evacuation orders had not been  re Happy that the fire seems to be burning itself out. But any time you re dealing with a volatile chemical it could flare up at any Lime Pitney said. White phosphorus spontaneously Burn when exposed to air temperatures above 85 or 90 degrees said or. George Rodgers of the Poison control Center i Louisville. Temperatures in Western Kentucky hovered in the 99-Dcgree Range on wednesday and were fore cast to reach the upper 90s thursday he National weal her service said. The plume which contains an acid emitted in the phosphorus smoke can bum human skin and if in haled the nose and lungs Rodgers said. I think it has the capacity for making a lot of peo ple sick he said. I think it s unlikely that you will have fatalities from this far away from the Accident  emergency officials were going door to door in the towns wednesday night warning residents of the plume and in some cases advising them to leave. Temporary shelters were set up in schools and Church  evacuees suffered from respiratory problems and burning eyes and were treated with oxygen said Lanny Woodward principal of South Hopkins High school in Nortonville where about 500 people were  could taste it. My Tongue got real to ugly said Ruth Blakely 67, of while Plains who was spending the night at the  plume was travelling Northeast at about 2 Miles an hour authorities said. Armstrong said it would continue to extend itself As Long As the phosphorus burned. It i just like a smokestack lying on ils Side Pincy said. Bartok remains leave . For burial in Budapest Hartsdale . A hungarian com Poser Bola Bartok began his final journey Home wednesday 43 years after his death As almost 150 family and friends gathered around hit american graveside to bid him Farewell. Bartok s remains were exhumed from West Chester s Fer Cliff cemetery and he will be buried in Budapest near his Mother and wife. As we Are immensely proud to know that he was very hungarian we arc aware that he and his life s work belong to the whole world Yorgy Banlaki the hungarian Consul general told inc gathering on hand were Bartok s sons Bel or. 78, of Budapest and Peter 64, of Homosassa Fla. Glasnost gives brewery opening to re air Beer and Portland Ore. A the Britt Wein hard brewing co. Has announced it plans to air a 60-Sccond television commercial filmed nine years ago but cancelled after the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The commercial depicted a group of visiting soviet sailors who discover the company s Henry Weinhard s private Reserve Beer and i loosely based on an actual incident. Gene Clark a brewery spokesman said the soviet pullout from Afghanistan and the spirit of a Hasnosi has made in possible to put the and on  in 1979, the $200,000 commercial portrays a group of soviet sailors Louring the City in 1973 after iwo russian fishing trawlers cof lived off the Central Oregon coast and one had to be docked in Coos Bay for two week for  sailors keep telling their hosts that life in the soviet Union is belter until they Are introduced id the Beer. Activist Matlovich Dies of aids san Francisco a Leonard Bailovich a War hero who battled the air Force after he was discharged for declaring his homosexuality in 1975 and then fought for Gay rights has died of aids. He was 44. Bailovich died wednesday night at the Home of Friend in Hollywood where he had moved in april from san Francisco said Friend Michael Bedwell in a Telephone interview. The former technical sergeant at Langley fab va., was diagnosed As having aids in 1986. Matlovich won the Bronze Star and purple heart during the Vietnam War following his enlistment in 1963.mallovich s declaration of homosexuality spurred the then fledgling Gay rights movement which made his fight a cause celebre. Matlovich was pictured on the cover of time Magazine in 1975, next to the words "1 am a  air Force responded by giving him a general discharge but Matlovich sued and in 1980, received an honorable discharge along with a $160,000 settlement. In recent years Bailovich a Republican spent his time lobbying on behalf of aids victims As Well As speaking on behalf of numerous other Gay related is sues. He and another Gay rights activist. Ken Mcpherson recently formed the never forget foundation which erects monuments to Gay Community leaders. Matlovich s life was the subject of a television movie about nine years ago and a biography has been written by san Francisco writer Mike Hippler. In is to be published by Boston based Alyson publications Matlovich is to be buried in congressional Ceme Tery in Washington . His survivors said they Hope his Tombstone serves Asan enduring Monument to his beliefs. Already erected it quotes him when i was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for Loving  Dennis Day 71, Dies in Calif of lateral sclerosis Santa Monica Calif. A Dennis Day an Irish Ballad car who played a wide eyed dim witted foil for Jack Benny s jokes died late wednesday. He was he was diagnosed last year As suffering from Mayo Tropic lateral sclerosis a progressive muscular ailment also known As Lou a Chris s disease. He had undergone brain surgery in March after suf Fering a fall and was readmitted to St. John s Hospital and health Center on june 5, the Hospital said. Day s career tinned decades in radio television and movies and hews rated As one of the shrewdest talents in the business. Bom Eugene Denis Mcnully to Irish parents in new York City on may21, 19 17, he had intended to go to Law school but his plans changed when Benny was Hunting for a Enns � Singer to replace Kenny Baker. A recording Day had made earned him an Audi lion and an off the cuff Wisecrack helped him land uie Job according to a studio biography. He assumed the name Dennis Day when he joined Benny s radio show As a Singer in 1939, and quickly matured into a comic target for the Host. One of Day a trademark lines was a sprightly gee or. Benny. With a nationwide audience on radio Day gained popularity with his renditions of Danny boy clan by lowered the Boom and other ballads. Another Day favorite Peg of my heart was a Ballad he Sang for his wife Peg according to publicist Davis. During a vacation in Hawaii last year Day became aware Ola muscle control problem and resumed to the Scripps clinic in la Jolla where doctors diagnosed he is survived by his wife and 10 children. Dennis by