European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 28, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 former first lady quits drug project by the los Angeles times los Angeles former first lady Nancy Reagan Friday withdrew her support from the drug treatment and research Center she had planned to lend her name to because she said she respects the concerns of the  for More than a year neighbors in the Northeast san Fernando Valley Section of los Angeles have fought the proposal to locate the $10 million 2io-bcd facility in the former Lake View medical Center which had been vacant since the Hospital closed in 1986. Saying it would damage their property values and attract More crime and drugs to their streets residents held numerous rallies letter writing campaigns and petition drives while Reagan helped raise funds for the project with gala affairs featuring celebrities and Politi Cal supporters. The announcement she was withdrawing her sup port was made Friday morning by her spokesman Mark win Borg. Just before members of her staff met with representatives of angry area residents. She regrets that this situation has upset members of the Community win Borg said. The Nancy Reagan cent or was to be the Core of Reagan s Post White House anti drug efforts with room for Iso live in adolescents. 60 adults a drug Counselor training program and a research Center. She had planned to have an office there. Win Borg said Reagan would continue her just say no crusade without missing a  but he would not comment on whether it will include a similar Cen Ter located elsewhere. He also would not say if. She would continue to work with Phoenix House inc., the non profit drug treatment organi action that planned to create and operate the Center. Those who live near the former Hospital were pleased by Reagan s announcement but puzzled by its timing. We made hundreds of phone Calls to her and sent her letters and petitions with about 1,200 signatures. We pick eted her fund Raiser said Lynne Cooper president of the Lake View Terrace improvement association. Who knows maybe the mail finally reached her  Reagan s decision seemed to indicate a change of heart since february when the los Angeles time asked Weinberg what the former first lady thought about Community opposition. Win Borg said at the time that Reagan was sorry but she is also aware that everyone agrees we need to be treating our kids but they say. Please Don t do it in this neighbourhood " representatives of Phoenix House said Reagan s decision would cause them to terminate their agreement to buy the Lake View medical Center. Spokesman Chris Policano said they would look for another Loca Tion that might be More acceptable to Reagan. Phoenix House operates 10 centers six in new York and four in California and All have faced some degree of Community opposition before they we reopened but few continued to be controversial once they were in operation. Some Phoenix House facilities treat Only adolescents some Only adults and others Combine the two in a therapeutic Community approach popularized by other drug rehabilitation organizations such As syn anon. Reagan visited a Phoenix House Center in new York during her husband s first term As president and chose the site to publicly launch part of her anti drug Campaign. More than half of the estimated $10 million needed to buy and renovate the former Hospital buildings Al ready has been raised according to Phoenix House records. The Fate of that Money in the Wake of Rea Gan s pull out was not immediately known. Boys take $ 10,000 in class trip to Bank Jay Fla. A two sixth graders have been charged with helping themselves to More than $10,000 in Cash during a class tour of a Bank vault. The two allegedly stuffed their clothes with $100 Bills at some Point during the vault tour on a trip to a cab National Bank. Jay elementary school principal Elton Nowling said the Bank visit for some 30 students took no than an hour thursday morning. Hours later the Bank manager called to report $ 10,100 was missing. Nowling said he called Santa Rosa county sheriffs Deputy Scott what icy a resource officer at Jay High school to ask students one at a time about the reported theft. Nowling said the boys did t try to hide the theft but apparently did t say Why they helped themselves to the Cash. Deputies recovered All of the miss ing Money. Sheriffs capt. Terry Hardy said the boys were picked up by the Florida department of health and rehabilitative services. They were charged with grand theft and taken to the youth detention Center in Pensacola. Nowling said the two who had recently transferred to his school Aren t representative of its students. Our kids Are Good kids basically. We nor Mally Don t have problems he said. Nowling said the boys have been suspended from school for the remainder of the year. After the incident Nowling Gath ered All the sixth graders for a lecture on  i think the incident May have seemed kind of funny to Start out with but when i got there it ceased being funny he said. The principal said he had not had a Chance to apologize to the Bank manager but Don t think this will affect our ability to tour the Bank As in years  Bank officials refused to discuss the incident Friday. Key West to get first Hemingway stamp key West Fla. A this Island City will be honoured with the first Issue of a . Postage stamp paying tribute to Nobel prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. The commemorative 25-Ccnl stamp featuring a bearded Hemingway in his signature Turtle neck sweater against a background of a Golden african Plain was taken from the classic Yousuf Karsh photo of the  stamp will go on Sale july 17, a Day before it s available in the rest of the  Issue Date coincides with the ninth annual Hemingway Days festival when key West celebrates the author s time on the Island where he wrote some of his most popular and critically acclaimed books including to i Lave and have  the . Postal service usually picks the City most identified with a honoured person to first Issue a  United states has a Long tradition of remembering distinguished americans on its postage said Jim Murphy a postal service spokesman in Washington. We thought the Heming Way Days festival would be the appropriate venue to Issue a stamp in Honor of this great author and  the Iivo Inoway stamp out july 17. Principal Clark set for surgery Newark . A Joe Clark the High school principal known for his Bat and bullhorn disciplinary tactics was hospitalized and scheduled to under go open heart surgery a spokesman said Friday. Clark principal of palc son s easts Dhigh school was admitted wednesday to Beth Israel Hospital in Newark said Vincent Fusco his personal manager. He s been run Down Fusco said. He had pneumonia a couple of weeks ago. He was out of school for five or six , subject of the recent movie lean on me said in a statement from his fifth floor Hospital bed that he entered the Hospital to ascertain for a very High temperature and to diagnose heart irregularities said Hospital spokesman Tom  am in Good spirits Clark said in the statement. Neither Casey nor Fusco knew the specifics of the surgery or when it would be  cancelled a scheduled monday speech Al Valdosta state College in Georgia officials said. Montana fishing guide client billed $2.78 million for Cost of fighting fire Helena Mont. Not a Montana fishing guide and his client got a Bill last week for $2.78 million from the . Forest service along with an addressed return envelope. The service wants reimbursement for the Cost of fighting a fire last fall in Southern Montana. The problem said Joseph Sabol a lawyer for the guide Vernon Smith who runs an outfitting service in Boz Man is that Smith docs not believe he was responsible for the hell roaring Creek fire that burned 52,600 acres in the  National Forest and 29,300 acres in Yellowstone National Park. And even if his client was guilty Sabol said he docs not have the $2.78 million the Forest service is demanding. He s gotten a lot of bad press and been forced to sell his equipment and his pack string Sabol said. His life has been shattered. Obviously he s not in a position to pay a Bill like that. We Don t believe we re responsible and we re not going to  a Forest service spokesman in Gallatin Jim Sanders said an investigation just after the fire started in the Absaraka Bra tooth wilderness area showed it might have been caused by a stove left burning in a ten occupied by Todd Wilkof of Canton Ohio who was on a sightseeing trip with a guide employed by Smith. Smith was not at the Camp when the fire started. Sanders said a fire in the stove and perhaps another stove in a different tent were left unattended when the visitors went fishing for the Day. Sanders said the Forest service had no Choice but to seek reimbursement for the fire. The total amount has not been determined he said. But he added that when All the costs were tallied including equipment and personnel costs it would probably be close to $4.5 million. If so he said Smith and Wilkof would receive a revised Bill. Wilkof could not immediately be reached for comment. We re governed by Law and have to Send the Bills Sanders  we receive All the Money or none it s some thing we have to proceed  if payment is not received it will be up to Federal attorneys to decide How to Pur sue the matter he said. Sabol said the letter containing the Bill included instructions on whom the Check should be made out to and a pc addressed envelope for your Conven  but should Smith choose to pay the Bill he will have to provide his own stamp. If the Bill is not paid by june 21, there is a 9.75 percent interest charge on the balance and a Penally of 6 percent a year. Sabol contends that the Forest service is pressing the Case As a face saving Mea sure after fires destroyed vast areas of limb Rland last summer and fall. There s Little doubt in my mind they re looking for a Scapegoat Sabol  other fires were started by Light Ning strikes he said