European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes saturday june 9,1990about White Chicago apr president Bush says he really likes the White House because a a they be got Good food there a even if the Job entails Reading a tons of  the president reflected on his life As the nations chief executive thursday in a discussion with kindergarten through third Grade students at Chicago a Farnsworth elementary school. He first discussed education and the War on drugs with a group of area principals and then read to a group of Young students in Observance of National literacy week. A you really like it or Are you just saying that a Bush asked his Young audience who clapped after he read from a children s Book a something that his wife Barbara does frequently in her efforts to promote literacy. He told the kids to go Home and Tell their parents and grandparents to read to them More. A if you want to be president learn to read and try to keep going in the right direction a Bush said. But he said a a there a tons of papers just endless numbers of papers to read i read so Many i sometimes Start Reading backwards which is very bad to do because you done to understand it very  Bush asked the students if they saw news accounts of a the Man from Russia a referring to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev a recent visit to the United states. A you do things like that a he said. A and you work with  a i like it a lot. They be got Good food there a Bush said of life in the White House. A a it a full time work. Its very interesting. Its very important. You work with important people in the White House a Bush said. But a a it a not All hard work a he added noting that he and mrs. Bush like to walk their pet Spaniel Millie around the grounds after the president finishes work in the Oval office each evening. President Bush surrounded by students from Farnsworth elementary in Chicago ponders a question. Unhealthy teens unprepared for their life role report says Washington apr a landscape of teen pregnancies illegal drug use and violence threatens the health and Well being of the nations adolescents a commission of health medical and business leaders said Friday. The commission in a report assessing the health of american adolescents concluded that a Young people Are less healthy and less prepared to take their places in society than were their  among the troubling signs cited by the panel were a 1 million teen age girls a nearly 1 in 10 a get pregnant each year. A 39 percent of High school seniors reported they had got drunk within the previous two weeks. A the suicide rate for teens has doubled since 1968. A teen age arrests arc up 30-fold since 1950. A homicide is the leading cause of death among 15-to 19-year-old minority youths. A unhealthy teen agers. Are unlikely to attain the High Levels of education achievement required for Success in the 21st Century a the commissions report said. A thousands of these Young people will experience school failure which for Many will be a precursor to an adult life of crime unemployment or welfare dependency a the report said. The commission was formed by the National association of state boards of education and the american medical association to make recommendations on the role of the school and Community in improving adolescent health. The 37 panel members included former surgeon general c. Everett Koop pollster George Gallup jr., former education commissioner Ernest Boyer Illinois gov. James r. Thompson and California school chief Bill Honig. The commission recommended that All teen agers be guaranteed Access to health services regardless of their ability to pay. This health care should include psychosocial As Well As medical services the report said. Also communities should set up adolescent health centers in schools or other convenient locations financed by local state and Federal funds As Well As by private Money. The report did not estimate the Cost for these services. It also called on schools to play a larger role in improving adolescents health. It suggested a a new kind of health education a a sophisticated multifaceted program that goes Light years beyond present lectures about personal  such a program should include sex education the panel said. A the commission Calls upon this nation to recognize that adolescents will not achieve their potential if they have social emotional and physical health problems that interfere with their learning and that they will Cost society millions of dollars in medical and social costs if they continue to engage in health risking Behaviours a the report said. A the future is Bleak if we do not invest More in our nations greatest resource a our Young  Holdup of pizza delivery Man was really a snap for robbers Balch Springs Texas apr where were the crime fighting Pepperoni pizza munching teenage mutant ninja turtles when dominoes delivery Man Troy Brewer really needed them after All they May have known his alleged hard shelled attacker. Brewer said he was at a pay phone when he was robbed by a pair of thieves armed with a snapping Turtle. A that sucker was going to bite me a he said. A they put him right up to my  the toothsome Turtle did no to nip the flustered pizza delivery Man but those wielding the Turtle got away with his Money Pouch containing about $50, he said. A a a done to move or you re Gonna get bit a a Brewer said robbers told him. Brewer a College student who works in Balch Springs filed a police complaint in Dallas because he said tuesday nights robbery occurred just inside the City limits. Balch Springs assistant police chief . Smith said it was the first robbery at Turtlepoint he a Ever heard of. A i suppose if he said it happened i guess it did. Personally i just can to see somebody holding somebody up with a Turtle a he said. Brewer said he was still shaken a Day later a it was a big huge ugly  stateside pranksters joke causes injury to retarded Man Buffalo . Apr a mentally disabled Man was seriously injured when pranksters paid him a few dollars to do push ups in the Middle of a Street and a car struck him police said. The Erie county District attorneys office was determining whether it could file charges against the pranksters said sheriff Thomas f. Higgins Uncle of the victim Michael Gilliland. Gilliland 29, suffered two broken legs a collapsed lung serious head injuries and a possibly ruptured spleen said his Mother Joan Archer. He May be hospitalized up to six months As a result of the Accident she said. A it just shocks me. He would never do this to himself a mrs. Archer said. A a he a the most likable person and he a very naive and Gullible and he takes everything in Good  Higgins said the pranksters whose names have not been released had been taunting Gilliland. A they just mocked him and made a fool out of him a the sheriff said. A those two individuals have to be the two biggest lowlifes. They did no to even warn him. They must have seen the car  House tree planted near . Capitol is ailing Bismarck . Apr the 12-foot american Elm taken from White House grounds and planted by president Bush near the state Capitol last year is fighting for its life. Bismarck forester Paul Blumhardt says the tree was Hurt by a late Frost that hit after unseasonably warm March weather brought out its buds. The top of the tree appears lifeless but buds can be found on lower branches and foresters Are waiting to see whether they will Bloom. A it is our intent to do everything we can if the tree can be saved to save it a Blumhardt said. Bush planted the tree in april 1989 at a ceremony attended by an estimated 10,000 people celebrating North Dakota a Centennial. The Elm descendant of a tree planted by John Quincy Adams was taken from the White House grounds. Bush has planted other ceremonial Trees around the nation during his presidency