European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday March 17,1990 . Gives Green Light for super Collider Miami Beach Fla. Apr the government has Given final approval to an $8 billion atom smasher expected to shed new Light on the subatomic particles that Are the universes building blocks. The Energy department on thursday approved the siting of the 54-mile ring w. Henson Moore Deputy Secretary of Energy told a gathering of More than 600  of government Industry and science who will build the superconducting super Collider. The announcement allows Texas to begin a land buying Binge outside Dallas with some of the i billion it pledged in a successful Effort to lure the project. The governments decision also enables scientists to begin planning construction that could take a decade. A Start your engines and Start your land buying a a Moore said. The Bush administration decided to support changes that would make the super Collider More effective and More expensive bringing the Price tag up from the original estimate of $5.9 billion. A the unanimous position was to go with the Best science a Moore said. Morton Meyerson head of the Texas a now we begin land acquisition and that a the toughest hardest most intense project we have a the one that will affect the most  a a m. Meyerson National research Laboratory commission said his Agency armed with a $250 million Bond Issue is ready to move now that plans have finally been approved. A the big Flag goes Down a Meyerson said. A now we begin land acquisition and that a the toughest hardest most intense project we have a the one that will affect the most  hundreds of individual land purchases will have to be negotiated in Rural Ellis county outside Dallas he said. The ring which will be built underground is intended to be the worlds Premier High Energy physics Laboratory. It will hurl streams of protons guided by powerful electromagnets through the ring at almost the Speed of Light until they smash together and break up into even smaller particles. Critics of the super Collider have complained that it will absorb too much of the nations scientific funding. Backers say it will increase interest in science. John toll president of the 77-University association contracted by the . Government to operate the super Collider said the knowledge generated by the project will be shared with schools and industries around the world. Super Collider site of $8 billion Federal science installation. All dolled up in a Little red number wig and Straw hat principal John Branson does the cancan while chatting on the Telephone atop Anthony Wayne elementary school in Franklin Ohio thursday. Branson was Mak the rewards of Reading ing Good on a bet he made to dress like a woman and sit on the school roof if his students read 3,500 books during right to read week. The students nearly doubled the goal so Branson moved his office upstairs for the Day. Union says striking teachers will defy Back to work order Charleston . Apr a Union leading a teachers walkout said the strike will continue despite a court ruling Friday upholding a Back to work order and a warning that teachers who done to return could be tired. The state supreme court on Friday upheld a lower court order that striking teachers in Jefferson county go Back to work. 3 state school superintendent Hank Marocki planned to Appeal m circuit court in Charleston in an a capt to expand provisions of the High courts order to West Virginia s 54 other counties. The supreme court action stemmed from an attempt by the Jefferson county Branch of the West Virginia education association to Block the Back to work order. Quot we re not going to comment a Uvea spokeswoman Kathy Mcquarrie said after the supreme courts ruling. Quot the court will do what the court will do. The strike continues a she said. A Marocki said it is time for teachers who began striking March 7, to get Back to work. If they do not return monday certified letters will be sent advising them of potential action against them he said. A with this statement by the supreme court coupled with the prior court arguments we think teachers need to View very very carefully the risk that they re involving themselves in by not going Back to  Marocki said. Strike activity was reported in 47 counties on wednesday when Marocki ordered schools closed for two Days to ease tensions. At that time Only about one third of the states nearly 22,000 teachers showed up for work the department of education said. The attorney general a office has declared the strike a the first by West Virginia teachers a illegal. The attorney general also said teachers can be suspended or tired barred from teaching for a year or charged with misdemeanours for violating their employment contracts. The governors office said it hoped the courts decision would act As a a catalyst to get teachers to return. Marocki said county superintendents would be talking with Heads of county teacher unions during the weekend the strike began after gov. Gaston Caperton said he would not seek pay raises for teachers this year. He subsequently negotiated with the Uvea and the smaller West Virginia federation of teachers in a futile attempt to reach a  raising flock of rednecks by Cox news service _ Blackshear a. A they like watching television in a Mobile Home listening to country music and dancing at Dawn As if they be been on an All night Beer Binge so its no wonder the eight ostriches imported to Blackshear from Oklahoma a few months ago feel at Home on a South Georgia farm. In fact according to owners Gwen and Bob Lairsey who have tagged the Birds with names such As country bumpkin miss Evelyn and big bopper a couple of the ostriches sport markings that indicate  turn out to be honest to goodness rednecks. A their necks Are Blue now a she said Quot but  turn red when they re ready to  after Reading an article about an Oklahoma rancher making big Bucks on the big Long necked Birds Gwen Lairsey a retired banker persuaded her husband and her son Steve to raise ostriches at the Pierce county farm near Blackshear where she grew up. So far the Sundance Ostrich ranch Hasni to made any Money but the Lairsey Are confident their Enterprise will eventually turn a profit. Except for the Cost of the Birds themselves ostriches Arentt expensive to raise Bob Lairsey said. The Lairsey say they believe they Are on the ground floor of a fast growing business. When they first be came attracted to Ostich ranching last fall there were 250 ranchers nationwide he said. At last report there were 1,500, although the Lairsey Are just the third in Georgia. Ostriches need less land and food than cattle but they grow faster live longer and produce far More offspring he said. A pair of healthy Young Birds Sells for $7,500, their meat tastes like beef and is lower in cholesterol than Chicken their hide makes Lovely leather and the Black and White plumes of the adult males Are prize for dusters and costumes the Lairsey said. In addition the Melon sized Ostrich eggs each produce enough Yolk and White for an 8-Pound cake although nobody would think of using the Chi alike eggs for baking. That a because they sell for $300 apiece to people who like to paint them Gwen Lairsey said. The Birds Are also fun to watch. A a they be got a dance they do every morning at Dawn that you  believe a she said. Quot they dip and swirl and whip their necks and run around like crazy.�?�. When they run the Birds lift their wings crossing the tips in front of their Long necks with the Grace of fan dancers. They re fast too said Bob Lairsey an insurance Agency owner and pastor of the Trinity Grace Baptist Church in nearby Waycross. A they can run 45 Miles an hour a he said in cheetah is the Only land animal that can run faster. Each evening he said the Birds line the Fol cd watch television through the windows of their so Mobile Home. The Birds also listen to country my. Especially tunes by the band Alabama. ,. The Lairsey said their Birds Are a a family Andis be sold for meat or hide. Instead they plan to k f them for Breeding. Two More ostriches Are Scheldi to arrive at the ranch in a few weeks and , have arranged to Board six other Birds for a menu Terestea in getting into the Ostrich business