European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday August 26.1989 ruling in Mississippi fails to Spur White students flight Natchez miss. A a Federal judge predicted that about one fourth of while students would leave for private schools when he consolidated this River City s two racially split High schools. But with the opening of the desegregated schools approaching registration records show nearly As Man students arc returning to Public chs rooms As Are Leav ing officials said. I m very very optimistic superintendent Melvi Buckley said. It looks As if the Issue of White flight May be a moot  records show that 50 students previously in private or parochial schools have pc registered in the Public schools for 1989-90. While 60 students have transferred their Public school records to private or parochial schools in the Natchez area. An additional 30 Tran scripts were requested by students whose families have moved from Natchez. Classes open sept. 5 in the District which enrolled about 6,400 students in 1988-89. When he ordered a sweeping desegregation in july,. District judge William h. Barbour or. Predicted that 560 to 700 White students 24 to 29 percent of White enrolment would leave. Private and parochial schools where classes started this past week show increased enrolment but officials said the numbers arc less than expected a month ago Adams county Christian school reported fewer Birds Eye View a lowly Pigeon strikes a Majestic pose atop the head of one of its More Noble Brethren the Bald Eagle immortalized in Granite just outside of Madison Square Garden in new York. Than 200 new students. Many of those arc new to the Natchez area and Many Are preschoolers and kindergarteners a staff member said. Earlier there were predictions the school might Sec As Many As 600 new students. Enrolment at Natchez Cathedral school operated by the Catholic diocese of Jackson is up slightly this fall. Exact enrolment figures will be made Public in september. I really think it s going to work. I think finally the majority of people want to see what the end product will be what the school system is going to be like said George f. West jr., school Board president. Really the response is interesting. It s totally different from what people had  Barbour s ruling consolidates into one student body the predominantly White South Natchez High school and All Black North Natchez. Students will now attend Natchez High on the former South Natchez Campus. A Middle school for grades 7 through 9 will be located on the former North Natchez Campus. The judge s ruling also creates two elementary school Atten dance zones and pairs an All Black school with a major Ity White school in each zone. Buckley said that if enrolment holds up the District will not have to Lay off any of its 450 teachers. Administrators had feared that from 14 to 40 teachers could lose their jobs if enrolment fell drastically. Blasts destroy store hit by arson Portland Ore. A two explosions ripped apart a grocery store that was recently the target of an arson fire and hurled debris nearly a Block. The ensuing Blaze Early thursday gutted three other businesses authorities said. The cause of the fire in the City s old town had no been determined but arson investigators considered the Blaze suspicious said Don Mayer spokesman forthe Portland fire Bureau. Somebody wants them out of Here and i guess the succeeded this morning Mayer said thursday. Twenty six people were evacuated from a s Community inn a Low income hotel on the same Block he said. They were allowed to return about 9 . The explosion was entered at the Savior grub store. On july 22, an arson fire erupted at the grocery about the same time in the morning and caused 125,000 in damage Mayer said. He said agents from the . Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms in Seattle were called to assist in the investigation. The three other businesses destroyed by fire were Dometri s grocery Henry s resale and the Portland Tattoo shop Mayer said. No damage estimate was immediately available. The three alarm fire broke out at 4 26 . But asunder control by 5 11 ., Mayer said. Stateside discouraged Walker ends plight journey i Eoria 111. A a woman who at tempted to dramatize the plight or the homeless by walking 790 mites to Washington d.c., has Given up her trek after raising Only $1.12 in 130 Miles saying she is disillusioned with humanity. Maria Rogers Johnson. 31. Said donation were poor because publicity about her hike also revealed her criminal convictions on charges of felony arson retail theft and fleeing and eluding , who attributed her record to a drug and alcohol abuse problem said the news in turn prompted her employer to fire her from her Job As House Mother at a Home for unwed pregnant women."1 came Back a changed  she said. I always believed in the goodness of people. I really Don t believe that  5 chains reportedly bar milk from hormone tests Washington a five Large Foo chains have refused to sell Consumers milk from cows treated experimentally with a controversial synthetic hormone a consumer advocate has  Rifle in. Head of the Washington based foundation on economic trends said the Milkis from cows treated with Boh. Or Bovine growth hormone genetically designed to boost cow s production by As much As a third or More. The food and drug administration has no cleared Boh for commercial use but has allowed private companies to run limited on farm tests of their products. This is the milk Rifkin said has been reaching  said the food companies that agreed to ban Boh milk Are the giant Kroger Chain which has Headquarters in Cincinati Safeway which has its corporate offices in Oakland Calif. Supermarket generals of Woodbridge . Stop and shop of Boston and Vons of Al Monte Calif. Minor earthquake rattles parts of Massachusetts Boston api a minor earthquake Shook sections of Southern Massachusetts along the Connecticut and Rhode Island Border about noon thursday but no damages or injuries were  one s called about damage but everyone in the town Felt it new Bedford police cad thenry Turgon said. A seismologist at Boston College s Weston Observatory ii Waltham Richard spic Man said the temblor rated about 2.4 on the Richter scale. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. Every in crease of one number Means a tenfold increase in magnitude an earthquake of 3.5 on the scale can cause slight damage in the local area 4 mod Erate damage 5 considerable damage and 6 severe damage. Mistaken identity lands mom in jail 2 sons in Home Clewiston Fla. A a Mother s two sons were taken away and she spent two Days in jail when she was mistakenly identified from a poster As a West virginian who had disappeared with her children in a custody Case. West Virginia police said Melissa Dobbins of Clewiston and her two boys bore a striking resemblance to Lor Butcher and her children. Butcher fled Huntington w.va., two years ago in de Fiance of a court order awarding the sons custody to their father. The boys even had the same first names. Joe and Nathan and were about the same age 8 and 6. I m still not believing it happened Dobbins said thursday after finally get Ting her boys Back. They put me through  her Nightmare began in Early augus when a Clewiston teacher spotted Pic Tures of the Butcher boys on a missing children s poster and notified police that they looked like Dobbins sons. Clewiston police confirmed the resemblance finding that Dobbins a Large boned woman with a Southern accent and Light Brown hair matched Butch or s description. They notified Huntington police who obtained a fugitive warrant from the Fri charging her with child concealment. I Don t think we did anything wrong to apologize for Huntington police sgt. Darrell Black said. I m sorry if we put them out. We were going on police in  Dobbins was arrested aug. 18 As Shevat at her husband s bedside in South Miami Hospital where he was recovering from gallbladder surgery. A nurse paged her on a Loudspeaker instructing her to go to the lobby where three South Miami police  police said Lori Butcher you re under arrest " Dobbins said. I said i m not her. I m Melissa Dobbins they did t believe  said the officers refused to let her Tell her husband she was being taken int custody. At the Dade county jail attendants fingerprinted me they strip searched me with another woman in the cell and the door open so anybody could Sec Dobbins  she finally got to a Telephone 12 hours later she found out that stat health and rehabilitative services work ers had put her children in a temporary Home. The boys said they were As fright Nedas their Mother. I told them my name Joe said. Never been to West Virginia. They would t believe me. I did t know any butchers. I was scared i would t Seemy mom  Ray Buck an attorney from Tennes see where Dobbins once lived spent an Day aug. 19 on the phone trying to per Suade the police and Fri they had the wrong woman he said. Police finally examined Dobbins for Butcher s markings a Butterfly Tattoo and two caesarean scars and found she did not have them. They freed her two Days after her a res but the health service refused to re lease the children after Black decided Dobbins might have been a baby Sitter for the missing children. He said he wanted photographs of the boys. The children were finally release tuesday ,. The court system should t work this Way Buck said. People arc entitled to better treatment than