European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10the stars and stripes monday july 22, 1991arrested i girls deaths Nairobi Kenya apr police have arrested 38 schoolboys in connection with the recent deaths of 19 female colleagues at a roman Catholic boarding school reports said sunday. The boys whose Ages Range from 14 to 19, could be charged with crimes ranging from disturbing the peace to manslaughter and murder. They were taken from St. Kizito mixed secondary school on saturday to the nearby town of Meru 105 Miles Northeast of Nairobi the sunday nation newspaper said. Most of the school s 304 boys attacked the 283 girls on the night of july 13 for reportedly refusing to join in a protest against the headmaster Over the payment of student activity fees. Anticipating the attack the girls had sought Refuge in one of their three dormitories. The dead either suffocated or were trampled to death. Local doctors said 71 girls were raped. The schools headmaster Joseph Lai Boni whose daughter died in the Melee and his Deputy Joyce Gath re have been suspended. Kenya has recently experienced frequent strikes and demonstrations in High schools and universities Over food and fees. Mickey marvels at red Square a giant Mickey mouse hot air balloon measuring four stories Ion serves As a prop in Circle visions latest film for the euro High is inflated on sunday in Moscow a red Square. The bal Disney resort scheduled to open next Spring near  county still segregates marriage records Lafayette Ala. A a pre civil War custom of recording marriages by race in books marked a a White and a co Loredo is still practice in Rural Chambers county. At the red Brick courthouse where the civil rights movie Mississippi burning was filmed probate office workers conceded that having segregated records seems outdated but they said there is nothing sinister about it. A the county was organized in 1832, and its been handled that Way All the time up to today a said Emerson w. Thompson probate judge since 1983. A a what a wrong with it Why a it so interesting a Blacks and Whites work together in the probate office and both races appear to get the same Friendly service. Outside Blacks and Whites talk together on the town Square As the courthouse clock Chimes the hour. The segregated records recently broken Down by race for computer As Well Arentt common knowledge in the East Alabama county that sits along the Georgia state line Tony Malone the local chapter president of the National association for the advancement of coloured people did no to know about them. A i can to believe that. That a the Way its always been a he said. The dual marriage records were brought up in at least one court Case a capital murder trial. Lawyers for a Black Man convicted by an All White jury and sentenced to die in 1983 for killing a White Man made an Issue of the system. The attorneys discovered it while searching for jury records. A after i brought it up during a hearing i thought they would change it. But nobody seemed to blink an Eye a said Bryan Stevenson of the Alabama capital representation resource Center. Officials in the 92-year-old courthouse done to conceal the segregated records. In the Case of interracial marriages a you have to write it Down in both books a said one probate clerk. The county a current marriage journals one for Whites and one for Blacks were purchased in May from Roberts and sons inc., which supplies All 67 Alabama counties with record keeping systems and materials. Kenneth Ray the Birmingham company a general manager said several counties keep racially separate marriage journals. A i done to remember them All but in be seen them in the courthouses a he said. An official with the Alabama department of archives and history was unaware that any counties still maintained racially segregated records. A i would have thought that practice would have stopped in 1966�?� following passage of the 1965 voting rights act said Dowe Littleton head of local government records management for the state. Thompson said he sees no reason to change the record keeping method. A if somebody Calls in and wants us. To mail them a copy of the marriage certificate it makes it a Little bit easier for us to find it if they Tell us if the person is Black or White a he said. Littleton said most counties started segregating records after the civil War. In Chambers county the a co Loredo Book shows two Blacks named november and mealy were wed oct. 22, 1865, just a few months after the War ended. No last names were recorded indicating they most Likely were freed slaves. At the courthouse last week probate workers were recording a marriage in the a co Loredo Book. Marriage License applications in Alabama make note of race but Only for statistical purposes said Jean Huckabee of the state Bureau of vital statistics. Huckabee said she had no idea any county still divided records along racial lines a if i get orders from Montgomery to change that Way of keeping the system ill change it a he said. A but nobody has Ever  removal heats City workers Hamden Conn. Apr City workers at an outdoor recycling Center Are steamed that town officials pulled the plug on their water cooler luit kept one in their Chambers. Quot we have a lot of resentment toward Pencil pushers who Are being fiscally prudent at our expense a employee Carl Jordan said thursday. In an Economy move this month a dozen of the towns 15 coolers were removed from municipal departments said purchasing agent Edmund Palleria. But the legislative Council voted to keep its own said Council president Craig b. Llen Rici. "1 done to remember it being an Issue Quot he said. The recycling Center is located at the town dump where the Only running water comes from a faucet in an office trailer. As temperatures soared into the 90s in Connecticut last week thirsty employees said they brought bottled water a and weren to Happy about it. Troops begin leaving Slovenia 3 croatian police officers killed Belgrade Yugoslavia up a Federal troops on sunday began withdrawing from Slovenia under a yugoslav decision that moved the Republic closer to Independence. 13ut three croatian police officers died and a serbian Farmer was injured in fresh ethnic violence in Croatia reports said. Croatian president Franjo Tadjman made an unexpected visit to Osisek 150 Miles East of the Republic capital of Zagreb for talks with local leaders that were expected to focus on ethnic strife convulsing the croatian dominated Slavonia Region bordering Serbia. Massive Security was mounted for the meeting. Scores of croatian police and members of the croatian National guard the republics fledgling army cordoned off the Osisek municipal Hall reports said. The agriculturally Rich Slavonia Region has witnessed near daily outbreaks of violence pitting croatian Security personnel and vigilantes against rebel serbs who oppose Tud Jmani a drive to secede from Yugoslavia. Tud Jmani a nationalist regime and that of neighbouring Slovenia declared Independence from the multiethnic federation on june 25 to escape what they regard As domination by communist ruled Serbia the largest Republic. In the latest violence in Slavonia a 60-year-old serbian Farmer was wounded by an unidentified gunman about 10 . As he gathered crops outside ten a the serbian portion of which has been besieged for several weeks by croatian Security units and local gunmen Tanju said. Just before Midnight saturday Tan Jug said three croatian police officers were killed by an unknown gunman in the Center of the slavonian town of Daru Var about 45 Miles East of Zagreb. _ an Early morning clash Between croatian Security units and rebel serbs using automatic weapons and mortars was also reported in an area of Croatia s troubled Bani a Region. Tan Jug said the fighting forced a More than four hour suspension of local railway traffic.,