European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday july 7,1988 ranch ump no to Fune of Happy chirps a. A a the Arp thin moved to a bin. Where Thev enclave Mich. Up the drought May be put Ting Many Farmers in a Pinch but business is Boom ing at Larry and Myrna Hock s Cricket ranch. The Hockins bought the Royal Cricket farm in1978 after the financial institution he worked for closed its  have increased from $22,000 the first year to More than $108,000 in 1987 or about 9,315,000 crickets sold mrs. Hockin  Are scrambling to meet the growing demand for the chirping insects used primarily by sports anglers As bait and reptile owners As food for their pets she said. People Call from All Over the country to buy crickets she said. We be had people Call from California Arizona All Over the Midwest and parts of ontario.". She said they Are negotiating for permission to ship the crickets across the Border to Canada. What we did once was mail some crickets up to Sault Ste. Marie where a Canadian Guy picked the up and brought them Back Home himself she said. The Hockins raise Oriental crickets which usually live about 24 to 26 weeks. Each female lays about 50 eggs in a Breeding Box filled with peat and they incubate for eight or nine Days. They Are the a grow to maturity in about eight weeks she said. We know they Are ready to mate when they begin to make noise she said noting crickets produce their characteristic chirps by rubbing wings together not their legs As is commonly thought. Mrs. Hockin said a minister s wife from connect Cut once ordered 500 crickets for an outdoor service because her children had never heard them in the wild. We sent them to her for free and told her to enjoy the sound she said. Public sees education As top Issue poll finds new Orleans a education is on the Public s mind in this year s presidential race and a majority resist higher taxes to boost teacher pay Accord ing to a poll commissioned by the National education association. On a scale of 1-5, with 5 representing a most important Issue 77 percent ranked the Quality of Public education at least a 4, ahead of a dozen other foreign and Domestic issues including drugs aids  relations nuclear weapons policy the Federal deficit and homelessness. The american people understand the need for change. And they clearly Indi Cate in this poll that they want to make education a National priority said Don Cameron executive director of the Nea which is holding its annual convention Here this week. The annual Survey of Public attitude son education was conducted by the Gal Lup organization for the 1.9 million member teacher Union. The poll surveyed 2,113 americans by Telephone be tween March 31 and april 20, and had margin of error of plus or minus 2 per cent. It found that 54 percent either favored higher teacher salaries Only if it Means no tax increase or opposed additional funds from any source for increasing Sal Aries. Forty three percent favored better salaries even if that raised taxes. The re teachers salaries 198687 Max anime for teachers with masters degrees in dollars per school year in selected major Urban school districts s36.200 Chicago new Yori Coity san Diego Rochester by. Detroit Denver a be sch american federation of teachers estimate Chicago Tribune graphic sources . Department of defense wage fixing authority and american federation of teachers s32.798 s32.727 s32.315 s31.000 s30.820 s28.050 .525.568 mailing 3 percent were undecided. The poll also found that drugs ranked second As a presiden tial Campaign Issue with 75 percent rat ing it a 4 or 5. Sixty nine percent consid ered . Ability to compete economically As critical. The Federal Defi Cit and homelessness were cited by 67 percent and acquired immune deficiency syndrome by 66 percent. Twenty nine percent said under funding of schools by politicians and other Public officials was the chief Roadblock to Reform. School administrators with unclear Reform goals were cited by 25 percent and 16 percent blamed teachers or teacher unions. Sixty three percent believed teach ers should have More control selecting textbooks. Sixty six percent wanted teachers to be Able to decide How to teach in class and 61 percent wanted them to set discipline policy. However Only 35 percent thought teachers should control the scheduling of the school Day. In a speech to the convention nation Al teacher of the year Terry weeks of Murfreesboro tenn., accused school re formers of failing to give us much credit for our dedication of putting too much stress on testing students and teachers and of virtually ignoring the needs of the at risk students in elementary  urged the 8,227 teacher delegates to include values in their classrooms. While we focus on the almighty test score we know deep Down inside that it is not just the test score that will deter mine the real Worth of each student he said. The Union awarded its Friend of Edu cation award to rep. Augustus f. Haw Kins a Calif. Hawkins who chairs the House education and labor committee was instrumental in passing key Educa Tion measures aimed at assisting Elemen tary and secondary school programs. Atheist protests court order to attend meetings of a Centreville my. A an atheist who was convicted of Drunken driving claims that his constitutional rights were violated when he was ordered to attend meetings of alcoholics Anonymous. A s reference to a higher spirit and spiritual Fellowship during meetings is at the heart of the dispute. John Norfolk 47, contends that being forced to attend a meetings violates his rights under the first amendment which says that Congress shall make no Law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof Queen Anne s county District judge John t. Clark had Given Norfolk the Choice of attending a meetings 9nce a week As part of his probation from his conviction or spending 20 Days in  american civil liberties a ism which is representing Norfolk maintains the meetings preach religious Healing an the state can t Force anyone to to attend a religious gathering. The group has asked Clark to review the sentence. Ellen Luff Norfolk s attorney said Weare not attacking a at All. What we re say ing is that the state has no right to Send someone who is an atheist to a theist meet ing. They Don t talk about drinking. They talk about god 50 percent of the time said Norfolk. I might As Well be going to Church on sundays or listening to  however Myrna Mccusker clinical supervisor at the alcohol services division of the county health department said she had gone through the program herself and found it was not religious. A is what works Best for most people. I tried every thing else but nothing worked she said Mccusker said she complained about the reference to god at a meetings 15years ago when she went for treatment and it allowed me to keep on  Stuart Comstock Gay Acle director in Maryland said there have been a few Casein Maryland where the a treatment pro Gram has been challenged in lower court Sand the judge has ordered the Driver to at tend an alternative program. That s what we re hoping the judge will do in this Case he said. Clark who is expected to Rule sometime this month on the Case said he was no aware of any religious references at the  Rentz coordinator of the state alcohol and drug abuse administration treatment program said a was not religious. It is a support group that works and is effective she said. We re in the process of reducing the problem of drunk driving. This would definitely be a  said Rentz. She said some 10,200 motorists convicted of drunk driving who were treated in state outpatient programs last year were required to attend a meetings As part of their probation. Top 100 . Law firms earned $8.6 billion in 87 new York up the nation s top 100 grossing Law firms pos Ted revenues of $8.6 billion last year a 20 percent increase from the Yea before according to a Survey released tuesday by american lawyer a Legal Trade publication. Whatever the october Stock mar Ket crash might have done to their clients As a general matter it did Hurt big time corporate lawyers in 1987," wrote editor Steven Brill. For most of the Law s heavy hit ters business has been so Good that Law is fast becoming not just a source of wealth for the few but one of the country s largest sources of High in comes he said. Leading the list of the nation s top 100law firms based on Gross revenues was Wall Street mergers and acquisition specialist Skadden arps slate Meagher & Flom with revenues of $290 million. Jones Day Reavis & Pogue base Din Cleveland followed with revenues of $211 million. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz of new York generated More profits per partner than any other Law firm with each partner posting profits of $1.4 million. Cravath Swaine & Moore also of new York followed with $1.22 Mil lion per partner. New York based Ca Hill Gordon & Reindel placed third with $ 1.2 million per partner. Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Kat also led in the Revenue per lawyer category with its 88 lawyers generating average Revenue of $985,000 last year. Fonda to be at agent Orange Benefit Waterbury Conn. Ajane Fonda who already has apologized on National television for her 1972 trip to North Vietnam will appear with Robert Deniro at a Benefit for children with birth defect linked to the defoliant agent Orange. Fonda and Deniro Star in the upcoming Union Street which will be partly filmed in Waterbury. The july 29 Benefit will Aid the Brandy Schieb children s fund a project of the Stamford based Vietnam veterans victims of agent Orange inc., said the Rev. John a. Mccolley Rector of St. Michael s episcopal Church in Naugatuck and a Vietnam Veteran