European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday. September 1, 1989 sex teacher of the year acquitted of drug charges Moi Kii. Cia. Al1 jurors acquitted a former " 1 Eacher of the year of marijuana charges wednes Day after her friends testified Thuv believed her claim she did t know her husband grew the Weed in a Vine Cox Rcd greenhouse behind their Home. It was the truth and the knew Vicki Sherling said after jurors reached a verdict in two hours of deliberations. She said she might try in gel Hack her Job. I am a she added. District attorney Lamar Cole said. "1 respect the opinion of the jury and that s who we have juries hut i la continue to prosecute cases where drug squads find marijuana growing in someone s Back Sherlog. Who lost her Job despite her status As 1989 Teather of the Vear in Colquitt county took the witness stand. I m trying desperately to put my life Hack together. I m trying to Clear my name she Testi fied my picture was on the front Page of the newspaper teacher of the Vear charged with she said. I spent two weeks curled up in a fetal Posi Cole questioned her about marijuana found in a Chest of drawers in the couple s bedroom and about a pipe with the drug s residue in a washroom Chest. I Trust my husband and in one thing he betrayed she said. He never told Nie in would Tuil. Thai ii ild have been a lie. He said. \ Vicki i la Cut Down Iki. I won t smoke it in your Pri sence " Duiker members of a theater Tiro up and parents i a to i a boy Seoul pro in praised Sherling. 3k. As a Mian of Stellar character who would never lie to her in ends about something As serious As Man Juana use. I know mrs. Sherlog Well enough to believe her it she told me said mar. Norman a teacher who worked with her at Colquitt count High school. Shering was charged with priming and possessing marijuana and could have received 11 years in prison and in fines if convicted. The chemistry teacher was fired alter her arrest last Spring. Her husband. Michael shelling. .1. A former teacher and lawyer has admitted chronic marijuana use. He testified tuesday that his wife never grew or smoked the stuff. If she had known thai i had planted Mari Juana in that Yard that would have been he said. He said he hid his marijuana use from his wife be cause it had been a Bone of Contention throughout their 16-year marriage. He testified thai he built the greenhouse Al their Rural Home while his wife and two sons were out of town and covered it with vines to conceal it. Newfangled fun at the fair Amy Beth dal Slesh of Carmel ind., has figured out in innovative approach in blow inn soap bubbles through an empty fruit Container while visiting the Amish country fair. The late summer festival is held annually ill the Hamilton county Fairgrounds in nearby noblest Hie. Stateside Boston Harbor study shows it s still polluted h is i \ a a re cent Sim of Illston Harbor Imi Mil fewer fish with Bent tins. or liver a Iii finial pics associated with pollution hut researchers . Thi1 Inlet is far from environmentally sound. We inn l conclude from the Siudy that in fact things an gelling said William i. Robinson set our scientist Al the new in Glam aquarium s Edgar Lull i a oratory. 200 Winter flounder caught one Jay in mid May instances of cancerous lesions As Well As Nihar decrits. Compared tool mics id the Early 1980s. I lie stale plans to spend $ i i Hillion to clean up the pollution. Florida crowd protests attempt to save Manatee by the in news service West Palm Beach Fla. A hostile and literally steaming crowd of nearly 200 wednesday night As sailed slate plans to limit Hoat speeds and create More Manatee Protection zones. For three hours in a City commission chamber that lacked air conditioning speakers told department of natural resources and game and a Rush water fish commission officials they Don t want a statewide 30 Mph Speed limit. Officials said they will make changes in the proposals to accommodate comic its made Al hearings around he state before taking them to the governor and Cabinet sept. 14. Guard Jet drops fuel tank near Delaware resort Beach Del. At an empty 600 gallon fuel tank fell from a fighter Jet North of a popu Lar Beach resort wednesday authorities said. I Here were no injuries or properly damage when the 15-foot. 500-Pound tank dropped rpm an f-4 Phan Tom Jet near sch thoth Beach said Apt. Walter Thorp a Dover fab spokesman. Slate police said the tank was found in an empty Field about half a mile North of the resort. Three fighters assigned to the air National guard s Washington 113th incl Highler Wing took off earlier from Andrews fab in Maryland on a train ing missing the air Force said. Thorp said he did not know How fast or How Low the jews were flying but he said they were following a certified training route. The tank was carried directly under the fuselage at the Center of the Jet. Thorp said. Siberian a. American link still eludes archaeologists Laramie Wyo. Us l a professor who was one of the first archaeologists from other nations allowed id study soviet artefacts and Sites said wednesday that the sliow1 no direct connection Between ancient Cul Tures in Siberia and North America. Although it is believed hat the first inhabitants of North America crossed from the old world via a land Bridge linking Siberia with what is now Alaska no direct connection has been found University of Wyoming professor George prison said. Looking Al the Blade weapon technology found in european Sites in the soviet Union one can l Sec any positive connection with the Bif Ace technology of North America s oldest positively dated Sites prison said. Chess computers gaining on humans experts say Pittsburgh a researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have bad news for International chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov computers could overtake the Best human play ers in just a few years. I d say four years is a very generous estimate in fact said cum computer scientist Hans Berliner the brains behind i tech a computer that won its third straight Pennsylvania slate the weekend in Lancaster. Milech s five game sweep at the Tournai Meni raised ils . Chess federation ranking to 2,411, up about 400 Points from the rating ii achieved after in began playing in 1985. Kasparov the world Champion ranks above 2.800. A beginner typically Rales about 1,200, hitch is winning about so percent of its games and ranks among the lop i so players in the United Stales but never has beaten a grandmaster the federation s highest rank. Berliner and a changing team of Grad uate students have worked since 1985 to boost hitch s Speed and ability. Any person who can improve 100 Points a year will probably become a world Champion very soon Berliner said tues Day. Gelling up to 2.000 is not something Many players hitch in t even the fastest or most powerful chess computer. It ranks second in the world behind another Carnegie Mel Lon creation deep thought Berliner said. It s becoming fairly obvious thai deep thought which is 20 limes Fasler than hitch already can play Wilh the Best players in the country. It s not going to Lake too much More he said. Many of the Best human chess players Are turning Down inv jillions to match wits against machines in tournament play How Ever. Four of the players seeded above sixth seeded Milech declined to play the computer at the stale championship. The fifth per son lost. Participants in tour names Don l have to play a computer if they Don l warn we were first being invited to play in was for fun. Nobody expected it to win Berliner said. Bui he added players Are starting to refuse to play because in s no longer an easy the Best human players rely on experience intuition and knowledge of chess theory. Computers play mathematically computing the consequences of various moves. Computer chess is advancing the Field of artificial intelligence and lessons Learned could help numans make Complex judgments in other areas of life Berliner said. When they invented the steam shovel the people who dug ditches also were very upset he said. But look at what a great improvement thai turned out
