European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday november 9,1988 Cowboy gets his Green card As 2nd amnesty phase starts by he associated press a Cowboy in Texas a teen Ager in Arizona and a labourer in Illinois were among the first of the illegal immigrants who in the second phase of the govern ment s amnesty program applied for permanent Resi Dency in inc United states. Turnout at immigration offices was tight monday the first Day people with amnesty could apply for Green cards. But immigration and naturalization service officials expect about 1.5 million of the 1.8 million non agricultural amnesty recipients eventually to apply. Permanent residents receive a so called Green card they be actually been White since 1976 which allows them to leave and enter the country at will and eventually to apply for citizenship. It s just exciting i guess getting something like this said Shane fun if a 31-year-old Cowboy. It s Liberty for  a native of Yugoslavia o Neil received his card after passing the required tests and and having his fingerprints taken at the Elpaso Texas office. He entered the country illegally when he jumped a ship in Chicago 15 years ago. With television cameras documenting the moment q Neil calmly recited the colors of the . Tap explained what the Flag s 13 stripes symbolize told How Many Stales Are in the Union identified Ronald Rea Gan As the president and defined the Constitution As the supreme Law of the land. Amnesty recipients who apply for permanent Resi Dency must either take a 60-hour English and civics class from an ins certified school or pass an Oral and written test similar to the citizenship lest Given to per manent residents who enter the country legally. All have to pay on application fee of $80 a person or a maximum $240 for a family. They have a year to apply today Marks the next step on the Road to american citizenship for hundreds of thousands of legalized aliens and it is with great pleasure 1 accept your applications for permanent residency said Harold Buell Western Region Al commissioner of the ins in los Angeles. Ezcell accepted several applications at a morning new conference where he handed Oul buttons labelled " 1994, your first vote a reminder of the first general election in which amnesty applicants can Vole Charlie Troy spokesman for the new York District of the ins said scores of people mistakenly crowded the legalization office in Manhattan but weren t eligible yet to apply for their Green cards. In Chicago Alejandro Garcia and his family receive permanent residency on monday six Days before his 40th birthday. Under the immigration Reform and control act of 986. People who had lived illegally in the United slates since before Jan. I 1982, were allowed to apply for am Nesty from deportation and were Given temporary Permis Sion to work. The second phase allows those who have had amnesty fur is months to apply for permanent residency status. Very few people currently Are eligible because of the 18 month waiting period the earliest anyone could have applied for amnesty was May a 1987, just Over is months  who have completed 40 Houn of an approved fit hour course dont have to take the test for permanent residency. Neither do agricultural workers who applied for amnesty under a separate program children under 16,adults 6 and older or people who physically Are unable to take the course  can apply for citizenship after five years of per manent residency. Those who Are married to . Citizens can apply for citizenship after three years of permanent residency. Stateside 30-foot fall onto Road kills 4 Deer 5th is shot Glenmont . Of five Deer that apparently were panicked by Hunters died after leaping Oft a new York thruway Bridge and Landing on a Highway 30 feet below. Four Deer broke their backs in the sunday fait and died immediately. Ward Stone a new York suite wildlife pathologist said monday. A fifth Deer suffering from internal injuries and a broken leg was shot by a police officer. Man swims away Dies just before rescuers arrive Boca Grande Fla a a Fisherman survived several Days in the Gulf of Mexico wit two companions after their boat capsized Only to become delirious and swim to his death half an hour before rescuers arrived. A . Coast guv helicopter sunday found the body of Granville Bryant Captain of themis Vanessa about 27 Miles off Boca Grande Petty officer Dan Shulyak said. Bryant was two Miles from where his two companions had been rescued saturday by a passing boat. The Girlfriend of one of the survivors said the three fort Myers men floated in the Gulf for at least four Days dinging to a Large cooler. The fought fatigue and cold sustaining themselves with a gallon of milk left floating after their boat Sank. The fishing boat miss Rachel picked up Charles Stevens and Dane Dupuis about half an hour after Bryant swam away from them Shulyak said. -. ,. Spoonful of Power fitting comfortably in a Tablespoon is the world s smallest dual chamber pacemaker i Type that was implanted monday for the Erst time in an american heart patient an 84-year-old Man. Cosmos ii recently approved by the food and drug administration u about half the size of Oiler dual chamber systems. Dress code Compromise ties up teacher s return Point pleasant . A a Dungaree wearing teacher suspended for not wearing a tic to class says a dress code Compromise that bans Blue jeans sounds like a stinking  superintendent Charles Chambers offered a Compromise monday that would allow math teacher Bill Webb to return to work without a tic Webb said be has not worn a lie to class in at least is of his 20 years As an educator. Chambers who Hai suspended the 46 year old teacher three times this school year for not wearing a lie said Webb faces charges of insubordination and could be dismissed if be won t agree to the dress code changes. I m not an unreasonable person Al though i be been painted As one the superintendent said. In a meeting monday night in this county scat on inc Ohio River the Mason county Board of education opened a two week period on inc changes. Members of two teachers unions met last week to develop a new dress code. During the weekend. Chambers added the ban on jeans and Denim. It s a dress code policy formulated in conjunction with he teachers he said. It s sort of a Middle ground. Ties with be recommended but not  Chambers said that if Webb agrees to the new code the Board would be willing to drop further penalties. He said he would recommend that Webb be fired if he does t change his. Mind. The Board has scheduled a hearing dec. I on Webb s latest suspension. It sounds like a stinking Deal Webb said of Chambers offer. He s still breaching my original contract with the Board for 1988, he s adding conditions. They can do it next year before con tract time. He can t do it this year. Unless the Ohio River starts flow ing North i expect the Board to fire  the tie requirement was imposed through a memo Chambers issued shortly before school opened. Webb and other teachers contend the dress code is not valid because it was issued after they signed their contracts for the current school year. The county Board monday rejected grievances filed by three teachers Over the current dress code. A Union spokes Man said they would Appeal. Webb j latest suspension lasting 33 Days began on halloween. He hat spent his time chopping Wood and doing other Chons around his farm outside Gallipo , i v he also has a slate hearing on his Sec Ond suspension scheduled for tuesday a Charleston before an education employees hearing Board. About �0 people Many supporting Webb jammed the Board s Small meet ing room. One held a sign asking does being on the Best dressed list make a successful teacher rescind the Webb suspension and gel the Mason county school system Back 10 Normal again and get Bill Webb Back in the classroom where he be Longs said Bob Brown of the West Vir Ginia federation of teachers. By your own assessment he s a Good teacher. Our. Children Are the losers Brown told the Board. Webb teaches 124 of Point pleasant High school s 695 students and Cham Bers bristled when West Virginia Educa Tion association representative Edsle Henson implied that the dispute has disrupted teaching. If i was a teacher in Mason county i d be insulted by your remarks Cham Bers said