European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I my Renaay november 16, wis. Court kills Low paying for poor in private schools Friday november 16,1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Madison wis. Apr a state appeals court cited a Legal technicality tuesday in striking Down a program that allows poor Milwaukee parents to Send their children to private schools with state Money. State officials said the Experiment which began this fall will continue operating for at least another 30 Days while lawyers prepared to Appeal the Case to the Wisconsin supreme court. The 4th District court of appeals ruled the Law establishing the program the nations first to provide state funded vouchers for private school education was unconstitutional because it was passed As part of an omnibus state budget Bill. The Wisconsin Constitution forbids lawmakers from enacting a a local programs in state budget Bills the appeals court said. The court did not address critics arguments that the program was unconstitutional because it undermines Public education by shifting state Money to private schools not directly under the states control. Gov. Tommy g. Thompson a staunch supporter of the school Choice plan said he was dismayed the appeals court did no to address the programs merits. A the program is working. In a sad they did not make a decision on merits just on the process a he said in a Telephone interview from Colorado where he was vacationing. A parental Choice is a Model program that holds great Promise for disadvantaged children in Milwaukee a poorest neighbourhoods. It must be Given an Opportunity to prove its potential a Thompson said. The program approved by the legislature in the Spring was authorized to provide a $2,500 voucher each for As Many As 1,000 students this year. Only about 400 were Able to enrol in about 10 eligible private schools because of space limitations. The Money is deducted from state Aid provided to the Milwaukee Public schools system which has about 97,000 students. The program has been praised by the Bush adminis Thrinh nor tatiu8 healthy Competition Between Public and private schools. ?s�?T1?�?T including Wisconsin Stop education offi a Nruh Gest teachers Union filed a lawsuit to tinn  arguing it undermined Public Educa up Wick mail Rity 0ts, left behind in a judge rejected those arguments in August ruling the Choice program served a legitimate Public purpose. The appeals court while not addressing the judges decision ruled the program was unconstitutional because lawmakers erred by including the Law in the Bud Guion most a treat my it As a separate piece of legis the ruling implies that lawmakers can rewrite the Law and Salvage the program. Senate majority Leader Dave Helbach said such an Effort would be undertaken when lawmakers reconvene in january. Critics hailed tuesdays decision As a Victory. We contended All along that the plan should have been debated on its merits and not smuggled into the budget Bill said Richard Collins president of the 58,000-member Wisconsin education association the states largest teachers Union. State schools superintendent Herbert Grover has argued that the program wrongly diverts funds from Public education and undermines state efforts to ensure that educational standards were being met in the private schools. A Grover was out of state tuesday but his executive assistant Roger Sundby said the department of Public instruction considered the ruling a Victory. Attorney Clint Bolick who represents five families whose children Are enrolled in the program and have opposed the lawsuit said the appeals court a missed the Forest for the  Bolick said the program was legitimate and was properly limited As an Experiment in Milwaukee because a it has problems that other cities done to have in seeking to provide education for disadvantaged youth. Grow in Model Wrightsville pa., second grader Keit Handra Lenker will have to grow a bit to fill out the spacesuit she tried out with the help of Lisa Mcleod a Nasa aerospace education specialist. Agency representatives visited her school tuesday As part of a program to interest youngsters in the space  sell 5<f bread to stress sliced income Bismarck . Apr a Nickel will get you a loaf of bread this week in North Dakota where Farmers Are demonstrating against wheat prices they say Are forcing them out of business. Members of North Dakota a Farmers Union Are Selling 5-cent loaves in every county usually outside the courthouse were farm foreclosures take place. Some customers Are needy and come to by bargain bread. But most just want to How they support the Farmers. A it appears the crisis in agriculture is getting to be a pretty severe problem and As a banker i see More severe problems in the future if they done to get their Point across a said James Helgeson who was among the customers tuesday. Wheat prices have plummeted because of a worldwide glut. A Nickel is roughly the Price Farmers get for the wheat in a l /2-Pound loaf of White bread that Sells for $1 to $1.25 in stores Farmers say. They receive slightly More than $2 per Bushel for that wheat a about $1 less than last year and the lowest Price in nearly five years. To dramatize the problem the Farmers Are Selling store bought loaves by the score. A a we re discovering that there Are some really hungry people in our major cities a said Karl Limvere a Farmers Union spokesman. A it shows the irony that Farmers can to make any Money from their production and yet we have hungry people. In Benson county the Farmers bought 100 loaves from the Rural county a Only bakery and sold them under Gray skies that some called a foreclosure  a i think perhaps it should have served As an Eye opener to a lot of people As far As the disparity of prices a said James Wang a states attorney who bought a loaf. Farmers took a blow under the new farm Bill sent to president Bush which cuts $13.6 billion from farm programs. The Farmers Union wants Price guarantees for family Farmers and an increase in the amount Farmers can borrow from the government to  their  hits . No one injured , . Apr a mild earthquake essay rattled South Carolinas coast causing no Jor damage or injuries authorities said. Rirhf6 Eart make which measured about 3.5 on the Ahn  stick at 10 22 . And was entered Nev Miles North of Charleston according to the j a Eola tical Survey in Reston a. Earl i same area was hit by the most destructive state re Nown to have hit the Eastern United the is a u Uaen which measured an estimated 7.7 on Inoc j1jer scale it killed 60 people destroyed 102 build and damaged 8.000 others a enforcement agencies received Telephone quake Tik Peop who said they Felt tuesday s Earth Oine t a Only reported damage was a broken Waterf a. The Anaf nt0 a factory that makes portable Bridges Start,?5? a re sitting upstairs in their chairs when they Betm shaking a said Glenda Elrod an employee of Rea in a we All said a what was that a then we a Zed that a what caused the pipe to  e Piant employs about 65 people. Surgeons remove Spike from 8-year-old s heart Tucson Ariz. Apr the condition of an 8-year-old boy who was impaled on a half Inch thick steel Rod was upgraded to serious wednesday two Days after surgeons removed the Spike which had punched through his heart and destroyed one jugular vein in his neck. A this is one in a billion a said or. Phillip Richemont one of three University medical Center surgeons who spent almost 2vz hours monday extracting the Section of Rod from Justin Stiners Chest and neck. The 4-foot-10, 86-Pound third grader fell off the roof of a House in Sierra Vista while playing with a Friend monday. He landed on a 4-foot Section of the threaded Rod similar to a Are bar used for reinforcing Concrete that was sticking out of the ground. Surgeons were stunned to find that although the Rod had pierced the heart in two places and divided the jugular vein it did no to bleed. A it was amazing a Richemont said. The heart tissue seemingly a contracted Down be tween the threads a cutting off bleeding he said. Justin Hung on the Rod about 2 feet off the ground for about 20 minutes Alert the whole time before paramedics Cut off a 2�-foot piece of the Rod without disturbing the 18-Inch Section that penetrated his body. He was flown by helicopter about 80 Miles to Tucson. Surgery did not begin until about 3m> hours after the Accident said or. Michael Esser who operated on the boy. Paramedics said the boy was Calm throughout the trip to the Hospital. A what makes this so interesting is the amount of time it took until he got to the Hospital. And yet he lived a Richemont said. On arrival at Tucson Justin a wanted to know if i was going to remove it. He was very cooperative a Richemont said. The Rod was unscrewed from Justin a neck and body while the boy was on a heart bypass machine Richemont said