European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday May 26. 1989 1 St graders vow to stay smoke free Boston api Vilh songs like smoke is no  and a skit that turned the big bad Wolf into a wheezing wimp the first group of first graders graduated with honors wednesday from a National anti smoking program. Seven year old Eli a hath Gomes wearing a mortar Board made of red construction paper and a proud Grin prom ised she would never he a smoker. If i smoke. I la get  she said noting that her father smokes and she is trying to get him to Stop. The smoke free class of 2000" pro Gram started last fall in 28.000 schools Wilh the  of ensuring the 800,000 first graders Are non smokers through their High school graduations. It is sponsored by the american cancer society the american heart association and the american lung association. The goal is to reach children before cigarette advertising does. Most smokers first try cigarettes be tween the Ages of 12 and 14. According in the National Institute on drug abuse. By the sixth Grade 7 percent of bos and girls Call themselves regular smokers said Martha Wood of the state depart ment of Public health. Nearly 20 percent of american teen agers smoke cigarettes according to mad. About half of the High school seniors who smoke say they want to quit. But follow up studies show 73 percent Are still daily smokers eight years later. As the age where kids begin to smoke gets lower and lower we want to begin the education process  said Judy Gilman Spyk woman for the american lung association of Massachusetts. On wednesday the 70 first graders at the Joseph p. Tynan school seemed to have heard the non smoking message. They staged a skit about a dozen Little pigs and a Wolf who s a heavy  Wolf threatens to Huff and puff and blow their House Down but coughs and Hee is instead. Who s afraid of the Wolf that smokes not me the children Sang. Before an audience of parents teach ers and . Who will participate in the program next fall the Chil Dren also performed a song called smoke is no  among the lyrics smoking is dumb real Cool cats Don t try it smoking won t do a thing for you. Real Cou cats pass  each child was Given a handshake and an honorary degree from state rep. Lucile Hicks who sponsored a successful Bill that banned smoking on the floor of the Massachusetts House of representatives. The Tynan school was chosen for the Model program because it is ethnically mixed and has one of the largest first Grade classes in Boston but the smoking Issue has a special significance in its South Boston neighbourhood. In surveys thai have been done there was a significantly higher rate of heavy smoking and smoking in general in South Boston said Terry Lehman executive director of the lung association in Massachusetts. The teaching materials which Are being distributed free to participating schools Tell first graders that smoke is air pollution. They also teach that other people s smoke makes eyes water an hair and clothing smell bad the anti smoking program is a five Day program of 20-Minutc lessons de signed to be part of an Overall health curriculum. The Walt Disney co. Has agreed to produce the educational materials for next year As the inaugural program and the kids move on to second Grade gel Man said. We hone through publicity that All schools will adopt it Gelman said of the program which reached about half of the first Grade classrooms in the country during its first year. Lottery gets Ball rolling Richmond va., officials launching a new loiter game net it in promotional Ball rolling with Jimme Iirth dressed like one of the pingpong bulls used to choose Lucky numbers. Wriggles Orch of i nbridgi1 hands out  Tising literature pitch in the it h game to Park patrons during lunchtime. Blast kills at least 2 in area haunted by train derailment san Bernardino. Calif. A a gasoline pipeline exploded thursday in flames and smoke that engulfed the neighbourhood where a runaway train ear Lier this month demolished a Row of houses. At least two people were killed and 28 injured in the blast. There was a very Good possibility that the 14-Inch pipeline was damaged by the earlier train Accident said Ken Seal manager of the Las vegas office of the Cal nov pipeline co. At least 28 people were injured three critically. Ten Homes and eight cars were destroyed and four Homes were damaged in the Blaze that radiated so much heat that pets and Garden Corn stalks were singed two blocks away. It looks like a bomb went off Over Duffy Street City attorney James Penman said at the scene across the Street from where the train destroyed six houses on May 12 and damaged five others. It s like a Nightmare said Delores Jones whose House was destroyed by the fire. "1 Haven t slept since the train wreck. It s come Back to haunt  flames roared 300 feet skyward and thick Black smoke Rose thousands of feet in the air after the 8 11 . Explosion. My windows started shattering said june Chung whose Home in Rialto overlooks the scene from about a mile away. The houses were on fire the cars. One Man ran out. He was in  the ruptured pipeline is buried 6 feet underground near the spot where a Southern Pacific freight train derailed killing two Crew members and two boys in a Home. The pipeline carries gasoline i Csc and Jet fuel from a tank farm in Colton several Miles from the blast site to Southern Nevada and supplies the Las vegas Valley with 90 percent of its fuel. The flow of fuel through the pipeline was shut of when an automatic alarm signalled a drop in pressure said Jed Robinson  manager in san Bernardino. But fuel remaining in the shattered pipe continued to Burn fiercely through much of the Day. Robinson he said up to 12,000 Gallons of gasoline burned. Army Secretary nominee to leave . Service by Norman Buck a military writer Washington Richard l. Armi Tage a lop defense department official throughout the Reagan administration and tapped by president Bush As the next Secretary of the army has decided to leave government service the Pentagon said thursday. Armitage. Currently the assistant de sense Secretary for International Secu Rity affairs has asked that the presi Dent withdraw his name from consideration for army Secretary said Peter Williams the Pentagon s chief spokesman. Or. Armitage also has asked to he relieved of his current duties. Effective june 5. Rich Armitage has been one of the mainstays of the depart ment of defense since 1981. He will be greatly missed by his colleagues in the  Williams quoted Armitage As writ ing in his letter of resignation that he could no longer accommodate the needs of my Ever growing family with the time and travel demands of Public  the army needs full Lime dedicated leadership. 1 regret to say that i find myself Ai present after Over eight years of 80-hour work weeks unable Toj Ace thai Challenge Armi Iago wrote. Armitage has eight children and Williams said his family priorities were certainly  Williams had no information on whether Armitage already had found a new Job in private Industry. A Secretary in Armitage s office said he was unavailable for comment and would not be in the office the rest of the week. The year old Armitage Early this year had been slated to leave the Penta gon for an executive position at inc state department. Bui defense Sec Ciary Dick Cheney prevailed on him to stay with the Promise of a higher service Secretary position. In his current Job Armitage played a major role in policy making in the per Sian Gulf in the ouster of philippine Leader Ferdinand Marcos and in Over seeing foreign military assistance pro Grams. Williams said thursday he had no in formal Ion on the incr Cheney and Bush had selected a replacement for the army Post