European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 24,1990 honouring one of their own Clown members of the Rizpah shrine Temple or mad of Sonville participate As pallbearers for Richard Brunner 69, a fellow member and Clown. Brunner died saturday of leukaemia in a Nashville tenn., Hospital. Brunner who was buried monday in Fordsville ky., requested the unusual tineral. Smoke Detector batteries join clocks on . List for changes Washington up a local fire departments want americans to use this weekends biannual clock changing ritual to change the batteries in their smoke detectors at the same time they turn their clocks Back an hour to end Daylight saving time. The change will come this sunday and clocks in the states will be set Back one hour at 2 . Local time ending the 7-month-Long period of brighter evenings and giving most people an extra hour of sleep. Fire department representatives across the country will be knocking on doors on oct. 27, offering to change smoke Detector batteries and reminding americans to a fall backs and change their clocks. The International association of fire chiefs the american bum association and the eve ready Battery co., who Are promoting the Campaign to link changing the clocks Ana changing smoke Detector batteries in the Public mind said that each year approximately 6,000 people die and 130,000 Are injured in Home fires. Although nearly 80 percent of All Homes have at least one smoke Detector As Many As half Are useless because their batteries Are old or dead. In the Effort to link the two changes fire departments a from Atlanta to los Angeles and Marinette wis., to fail Mont okla. A will go door to door on saturday oct. 27., to Check and change smoke Detector batteries. Others departments will open their firehouses to make batteries available and still others will hold a safety first fairs at retail stores malls and schools. The seven months of Daylight saving time now observed is based around the idea of providing an equal amount of extra evening sunlight on either Side of the hottest Days of the year generally in late july. It has not always been so and not everyone in the United states observes the practice. For instance Hawaii Arizona the Eastern time zone part of Indiana puerto Rico the Virgin islands and american Samoa Are excluded from having to make the change. Historically the idea of juggling the hour hand about to adjust personal schedules to the longer and Shorter Days can be traced to Benjamin Franklin who wrote a paper while serving As the . Envoy to France recommending that shops be opened and closed earlier during summer months to Cut the costs of providing lighting. William Willett began urging the adoption of Daylight saving time in England and during world War i it was adopted by England France Germany and a few other nations. The United states took up the concept late in the War when president Wilson on March 31,1918, signed legislation promoted by Robert Garland of Pittsburgh. However it was repealed the following year. In the United states the practice was revived in world War ii and in 1966 the uniform time act provided for the first nationwide Observance of Daylight saving time during peacetime. During the Energy crisis of 1973 and 1974 the nation went to Daylight saving time year round to conserve Energy but Standard time was reinstated late in 1974 for the four month Winter period with the fewest hours of Daylight. Always a controversial Issue a study by the department of transportation a which has responsibility for administering the Law because of the one time need for standardized Railroad schedules a has shown the practice enhances the Public safety. The study done during the Energy crisis of 1973-74, indicated a 1.5 percent to 2 percent reduction in March and april Highway traffic deaths without any increase in hazards to Early morning travellers. It showed a 6-million-barrel savings in Oil use for March and  shows narcotics still menace schools Washington up a despite drug awareness lectures from parents teachers bumper stickers and commercials a National Survey of fifth and sixth grades released tuesday reveals the message is still not getting through to Many. The Telephone poll of 250 fifth graders and 250 sixth graders was conducted by drug abuse resistance education or d.a.r.e., a project sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken. The results were a alarming a the report said. A the sad fact is a Robert Bonner head of the drug enforcement administration said at a news conference a that by the seventh and eighth Grade kids in our society Are already exposed to drug  �?Ts National chairperson Tempestt Bledsoe who plays Vanessa Huxtable on no cd so the Cosby show a said the television and movie Industry does a poor Job of showing children resisting drugs. A a it a time for the entertainment Industry to be responsible for its own actions and just not say their programs reflect society a said the actress who is also a new York University freshman. Bledsoe said she finds it a a irresponsible for primetime television shows to portray Young people a wondering where their next Keg  the poll showed that fifth and sixth graders apparently do not have to wonder where to find drugs if they so desire. One out of five youngsters in both age groups said they had seen drugs or alcohol at school the shopping mall or where they hang out. Beer and cigarettes were the most commonly seen substances but marijuana cocaine and crack and other types of alcohol were recognized. One percent of fifth graders said they saw a Nice a a potent methamphetamine. Along those lines 34 percent of fifth graders and half of the sixth graders said they have seen or heard of a youngster or group of kids at their school who have either smoke cigarettes drunk Beer or liquor or used drugs. One but of 10 kids said they would know where to find drugs if they wanted to use them a 11 percent of fifth graders and 8 percent of sixth graders. However just 2 percent of fifth graders and 4 percent of sixth graders said they actually had been offered drugs such As marijuana. Eight percent of fifth graders and 14 percent of sixth graders said they had been offered alcoholic beverages. More than half of the students were Able to correctly describe cocaine crack and marijuana although the question did not ask if their knowledge was from classroom education or personal experience. Students overwhelmingly expressed negative attitudes toward trying or using marijuana and other drugs. They also described the behaviour of people on drugs in negative terms a 30 percent thought drug users act a a weird and 14 percent said they seem  one third of the students said they probably will have tried alcohol at least once by the time they enter High school 21 percent expected to Sample smoking by that time and 7 percent reported they probably will have dabbled in drugs at least once. The interviews revealed peer pressure plays a role in a child a use of drugs or alcohol. Glenn Levant los Angeles Deputy police chief and director of d.a.r.e., said the Best Way to  a child against those pressures is to promote positive self esteem. A the results of this Survey underscore the need to reach out to children in this age group when peer pressure is beginning to have a significant Impact on their lives a Levant  to court martial top guard officer Jackson miss. Apr gov. Ray Mabus has ordered the Mississippi National guard to Convene a court martial of its top officer for buying land in the path of a training area expansion. The military trial the first against a Mississippi National guard officer will decide if adjutant general Arthur Farmer should be disciplined for his participation in the August 1989 Purchase of 5 acres of land near Camp Shelby. The governors office contends Farmer got inside information on expansion plans for the Large National guard training facility and purchased the land in order to make a profit. The land Deal was an a apparent conflict of interest which should have been avoided a military investigator concluded in a just released report. In a Telephone interview monday from his Home m Crystal Springs Farmer said a hearing could take place As Early As this weekend. A i think i will be cleared if i get a fair trial once they see All the evidence a he said. A a it a some More harassment. In a not going to quit. The More they push me in the Corner the More in a going to Buck  Mabus stripped Farmer of Day to Day control of the National guard in february after reports surfaced that. Farmer and two partners purchased the land next to the base South of Hattiesburg. The Purchase came eight months after the military proposed to expand Camp Shelby into the Desoto National Forest. In his 15-Page report military investigator and Gulfport lawyer Wade Baine said Fanner a took great pains to show that he resold the property to the other co purchasers at a loss. The loss was $1 a the investigators report based on three summertime hearings noted the individuals named by Farmer As the co up chasers were a subordinates of the Adji Tant  Fannery a partners were w identified in the report. Farmer 57, who continues to draw h $50,400 annual salary said he was serve the court martial document monday. A the governor sets the judge jury a the rules to play by a Farmer said. A in attorney will go Down to Camp Shelby i meet with the judge prosecutor a others to see what rules we Are going play