European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday september 12,198bhigh Germany enrolment causing crowded classes news updates by Dave Walczak education writer kel5terbach, West Germany an unexpected Rise in enrolment Al the More education news see Page 9 military s schools in Cormany has led 10larecr class sizes with no immediate re Lief expected. Joseph Blacks cad the director or overseas schools in Germany said sat urday thai about 1,500 students in excess of the number predicted had enrolled in the Germany Region. Last year about 87,000 students were enrolled in Germany schools but a re Gion spokesman said that figure could reach 90,000 before the end of the 1988 89 school year. The Germany Region is the largest re Gion within the department of defense dependents schools system. Answering questions after addressing the european Congress of american parents teachers and students leadership conference Blacks cad said that school officials were hampered by a Cap on school manpower. We re limited to 7,212 people and1 family tree research branches out Washington a Post master general Anthony Frank wants to bring America s generations closer together and if that brings the Post office a Little extra business he won t mind Plant a family tree is the name of prank s plan in which millions of family history forms will be Given out in Hopes that youngsters will write to their grandparents seeking information to fill them out letters provide an important link Between families. Grandpa rents often meet their grandchildren through an Exchange of let ters and photographs Long before they Sec each other face to face Frank said. As part of the family tree program the postal service has printed Mil Lions of folders which discuss family histories on one Side and contain a genealogical form on the Back to fillin information on parents grandpa rents and great grandparents. The forms will be available free in Post offices by the first week in october. Joseph Blackstead that includes everybody he said. So we re unable at this Lime to hire More Blacks cad reported some Over crowding at schools but he said the situation was not across the Board. We May have to move some teachers to the crowded school officials usually cite a student teacher ratio of about 27-to-l, but one teacher in the audience reported an in stance this year of a sixth Grade class that reached a 39-to-l ratio. Backs cad said some elementary grades May have to be combined in on class in order to ease overcrowding. Dodds director John Stremple is expected to address the overcrowding Issue when be meets with top military and school officials in Germany later this his Brief remarks. Backs cad also said that District superintendents would be required to meet with Parent groups in their said the new policy was in keeping with a Dodds goal of increasing communication Between Dodds personnel and the Public. Parents teachers and military representatives would be included in the Selec Tion of school similar process was used to select two District superintendents in Germany last on How the process would be expanded to include principal selections have yet to be worked out. Teachers will begin receiving news letters from regional directors this Call for at least four of them to be issued before the school Yea r ends. Man s death raises toll in Delta let crash to 14 Dallas a a 64-year-old Man died sunday morning Ofin Jurics suffered in the crash of Delta flight 1141 last month bringing the death toll to 14, officials said. Edmond Fadal one of two severely burned victims from the aug. 31 crash died at 1 43 . Said Cindy Gambala of the Dallas county medical examiner s office. Sadat of Waco Texas had suffered from third dog rec bums Over 60 percent of his body and from smoke inhalation. 11 is wife Marian 65, died in he crash. The 15-year-Otd Boeing 727 crashed at Dallas fort Worth International Airport seconds after Takeoff. The three Man cockpit Crew and 94 other people sur Vived. The National transportation safely Board ii investigating the crash. Nosb officials said their inquiry is focusing on possible problems with the Jet s Wing paps and its three Pratt & Whitney Jthn engines. The Captain of Delta flight 1141 is not Well enough to talk to investigators his physician said saturday. Or. William Thompson said in a statement that he alone is responsible for denying Nosb investigators or anyone else a Chance to interview Cape. Larry Davis about the crash. Nosb officials have complained thai icy were being kept from the Delta Cap lain by officials of the air line pilots association and Delta air lines. Davis is being treated for Back and facial injuries at Parkland memorial Hospital a Hospital spokesman said he is listed in Good condition. Thompson he assistant director of surgery for the University of Texas southwestern medical Center in Dallas said Davis will cooperate Wilh the Nosb investigation when his condition improves. Co Pilot Carey Wilson Kirkland jr., 37, was released from Northeast Community Hospital in Bedford on Friday. He told investigators that he could not remember anything from the time the plane left the terminal. Flight Engineer Steven m. Judd 31, told investigators that the aircraft s right Wing dropped severely shortly after take off and that the air plane veered to the right. Judd said that he heard do Abnor Mal engine sounds but that someone in the cockpit bad called out an engine fail ure. Refugees response Manama Bahrain up Iraq smarting from International condemnation of its alleged use of chemical weapons against kurdish rebels said sunday thai Large numbers of kurdish refugees Are responding to its general amnesty. Iraq s official news Agency quoted an official iraqi source As saying thai More than 11,000 iraqi kurd had crossed Back into the country from Iran and Turkey by late saturday. Quayle finances Washington Upo Al most half of the $1.2 million Worth of Indiana sen. Dan Quayle and his wife takes the form of shares inthe family publishing Empire according to records released by his Republican vice presidential Campaign. Quayle s net Worth statement was released along Wilh his Federal tax returns for the last 10 years and his personal financial disclosure report filed with the Federal elections commission. The re cords showed that he and his wife Marilyn have net assets of $1.422,600 and liabilities of $232,900. The accounting firm of Price water House in a summary for the41-year-old senator said his net Worth was $559,700 but that total subtracted about $330.000 for the amount he would owe in taxes if All his assets were sold. Iranian Dies of Burns United nations a an iranian Man died saturday hours after he Sci himself ablaze outside the United nations in protest against Tehran s execution of dissidents in his Homeland authorities said. Mehrdad men 32, a registered alien who lived in los Angeles died at 1 35 . Saturday after being admitted Friday in critical condition to the Burn Center at new York Hospital Cornell medi Cal Center the Hospital said. Temptation juror Pensacola Fla. A about so people attended the first bowing of the controversial film the last temptation of Christ after a Federal judge blocked i first in the Nalion county Ordi Nance Banning Heaters from show ing it. . District judge Roger Vla son issued a preliminary injunction to Slop enforcement of the ordinance saying that it u unconstitutional Vinson added thai red flags should run up whenever govern ment tries to violate the rights of citizens. About a dozen pickets were at the Plaza 111 Heaters for the movie s debut. Civil rights pioneers honoured at College reunion w1lliamstown, mass. A civil rights activists who worked together in the 1960s were honoured at a reunion saturday for a struggle that one said is not for one Day or one week or one year but fora rep. John Lewis a a. And former chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee received an honorary doctorate at a convocation opening Williams College s 196th academic year along with Rosa Parks whose refusal to surrender her scat to a while passenger on a Montgomery ala., bus sparked the modern civil rights movement. Parks received a standing ovation from the audience of Isom students faculty members and administrators. Others were also honoured including the Rev. Ralph d. Abr Nalphy former president of he Southern Christia leadership conference and Charlayne Hunter Gaull the first Black woman at the University of Georgia and now Public television correspondent. We have lost some of our finest leaders but we Are still very involved in that same movement for liberation said Lawu Dur ing his address. Our struggle is not for one Day or one week or one year but for a lifetime if that s what it Lewis was jailed 40 times and severely beaten during the 1960s for leading peaceful marches and demonstrations throughout the South. He said people often ask him if the civil rights movement is dead and he always says no. The nature and the character of the movement has changed but Tebei changes Are merely part of a natural pro Cess and do not spell doom for our Hopes Lewis said. Lewis said the american people must elect leaders with the moral capacity of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. If civil rights arc to improve with time. There Are going to be some set backs he said. Bui we arc going to move toward the beloved Community we arc going to make it As a people and As a nation
