European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 10. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 court lets stand teacher s firing Over dress code Charleston . A the state supreme Couit on wednesday unanimously refused to intervene in the Case of a High school teacher fired for refusing to War a Necktie and dress pants to  Webb a math teacher at Point pleasant High school asked the court to overturn a Mason county circuit court decision denying his request to be re instilled while he challenges his dismissal Webb of Gaii Polis Ohio was fired pee. 21 for refusing to abide by a dress code prohibiting him from wearing Blue jeans and requiring him to Wear a tie. He appealed the dismissal to the state education employees grievance Board which held a hearing Jan. 17 but has issued no ruling. If it was t for the frustration of dealing with Vriese people it s been All right. I be done everything i be wan cd to do since halloween Webb said. Webb s wife however had stronger words for the court. She said her husband was treated shabbily in his appearance tuesday. In an open Teller to Justice Richard Necly who spoke Dunn a tuesday hearing Julie Webb wrote i personally have an abjection to polyester but i would not dream of telling you that you can t Wear polyester As that would probably wipe out 75 percent of your wardrobe.  Mason county dress code says no Denim that wiped out Bill Webb s entire  Mason county circuit judge James o. Holliday on feb. 21 refused Webb s request for an order re Quiring the school Board to give him his Job Back pending the outcome of his Appeal. The High court voted 5-0 against hearing the Case Webb a 20-year employee of the Mason county school system was suspended three times during the fall for refusing to Wear a  dress pants to school. On halloween he was suspended indefinitely and was tired on . 21. In the time since he has applied for jobs at a factory in Ohio and a College and has done Odd jobs around his House. Webb said he intends to apply at Ohio Public school districts for teaching jobs that begin in August. -.-. 236 haitians sent Home total passes 550 Miami a the us. Coast guard intercepted 236 More haitians sailing to the United Stales wednesday bringing to More than 550 the number of refugees stopped and Seni Back Home since sunday the latest refugees were packed onto two haitian sailboats stopped by coast guard Cullers about 30 Miles North of Haiti coast guard spokesman Jerry synd Essaid. . Immigration and naturalization service agents interviewed the refugees on Board the cutters and ordered them returned to port a Prince after deciding they were trying to enter the United slates for economic reasons Snyder said. Two separate haitian refugee groups attacked the ins procedure wednesday claiming Many haitians who fear Politi Cal persecution arc unjustly returned to their country. There ii an automatic Assumption that haitians arc economic refugees said haitian refugee Center attorney Cheryl Little in Miami. The new York based National coalition for haitian refugees released a re port criticizing the ins for interviewing haitians in International Waters rather than inside the United Stales the boat people intercepted on the High seas ignorant of their rights and fearful of repercussions should hey testify to political repression Are denied this Opportunity the report said. Many of the passengers on those few boats that do reach the United states safely when informed of their rights and Given adequate private interviews ask for political Asylum Energy chief vows to Weed out mediocrity in nuclear arms work  Energy Secretary James d. Watkins pledged at his swearing in ceremony thurs Day to Weed out mediocre and substandard practices in running the nation s problem Ridden nuclear weapons Complex. -1, a -1" nuclear Power demands no less than the Best from All who control  he told a ceremony attended by president hush and several Hundred department employees.   ask you to help me promote a work attitude within the department that rejects the  substandard said Walkins 62, a retired Admiral. Bush in Intro Duckory remarks highlighted problems Al the nuclear weapons plants which Are operated by private contractors for the Energy department. Safely technical and environmental problems at Many of the 16 major plants in 12 Stales have virtually crippled the nation s nuclear arms production. The do Palmi no has estimated it will Cost at least $52 billion Over the not 21 years to modernize the weapons plants plus $65 billion or More to repair environmental damage caused by four decades of nuclear bomb making. The most pressing Challenge is to manage the modernization of America s nuclear weapons Complex Bush said adding we need to clean up the pollution that s been created at Icse  Bush told he Energy department employees that he rejected former president Reagan s goal of trying to dismantle the department which was created in 1977, the department has about 16,000 employees and a budget this year of $14 billion.-. As i see it the responsibilities before his department have never been greater than today Bush said adding that he was counting on Watkins whose -11-year Navy career included wort with he service s nuclear reactor program to restore the. Nation s capability to produce nuclear arms without harming the environment. Apples yanked from school menu new York. A if a student in the big Apple wants to give teacher a Little Apple it Wil have to come from Home. Apples have been pulled from school cafeteria Medius because of worries about carcinogenic pesticides. The Board of education which feeds students in 1,200. Public and parochial schools under a Federal program barred the Sale of apples last month at least until it receives advice from the environmental projection Agency said Kevin Gill director of support services for the Board. The Washington based National resource defense Council has reported hat the pesticide Miami Nozic which is known by its Brand Trianie alar could increase the Inci Dence of cancer in children who drink a lot of Apple juice i Apple growers Conland Only about 4  All apples sold in the United Stales show any traces of alar and those amounts Are Well below Eha standards alar is used to maintain firmness and resist bruising in fruits and  y  Gill s program Sells or hands put about 13 million apples a year. He said students had not been complaining about the fruit s disappearance. It s Only own a few weeks and we Oner a wide variety of fruits he said. Apple juice is harder of replace and will continue to be served he said. 3v Flat cat a steamroller driven by Tom Lykis a disc Jock Eyun cd Plaa Calls flattens a stack of Cal Stevens records in protest of the former Pap steer � support of he Blantic death Bounty on ii Oiel is Salman Rushdie. Lej Kij is assisted by Logan. Verkamp a licensed steamroller  murders continue at record Pace by the Washington pos Washington the swelling number of homicides in the District of Columbia has climbed to 101, nearly doubling the number of killings in the cily a the same Lime last year and almost tripling the number of slayings two years ago City officials who have not been Abl to make a Dent in escalating drug related crime Sci crated their Call for Community help wednesday at a television forum on the homicide rate. We have arrested 46,000 people in operation clean sweep . Police chief Maurice t. Turnerjr. Said on the television forum. We have redeployed police for High visibility but we need to encourage citizen to Tell us about crimes. The forum sponsored by America s Black forum and called murder Cap Tausa once again illustrated How the a Nonal Media Are increasingly focusing on the District As the nation s murder capita thursday night s lbs news show ."48 hours was devoted to the City s div stat in drug Rel Alec violence. If murder in the District keeps Pace with the rise7in such deaths during the past two years there could be More than 500 homicides in he City by year s end compared with 372 in 1988, Turner told a group at the National press club earlier wednesday that medi Cal researchers should develop an inoculation to prevent a person front devel Oping euphoria front using  he said that might help youths avoid getting involved in the narcotics Trade which is believed responsible for fueling the City s record homicide rate. Washington s homicide rate is follow ing the same trend that other major cities in he United slates and Canada cd Peri  the cocaine derivative crack appeared on the scene Turner said. This City in t different from any other major City he said. The police department s homicide squad is overwhelmed by the number of. Slayings on City streets. Its. Firearms Branch which is responsible for compar ing bullets recovered from bodies or. Mac scenes with Guni seized by police is so inundated that firearms examiners Are 600. Cases behind in comparing Evi Dence that could solve violent crimes of the City s 101 homicides this year 67 remain unsolved. Of the 10 slayings this month there has been an arrest Only in the Cam where an off duty police offi cer has been charged with murder