European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes wednesday september 11,1991teacher walkouts expand around . By United press International teachers strikes continued to grow in the second week of the school year with four More strikes in Pennsylvania and a walkout of the second largest District in Illinois. One District in Illinois and two in Michigan settled and in Rhode Island two districts resumed classes under a court order. In new Jersey talks were scheduled monday in two districts where teachers have defied court orders to return to work. In Pennsylvania two districts began selective striking deciding each Day if they would return the next. The two other districts that walked out monday Are in the South Central Pennsylvania counties where 12 other districts have been on strike battling a hard line by school districts against hefty raises in teacher salaries. In Michigan summer vacation ended for some 2,500 students in two Michigan school districts when teachers accepted new agreements. Settlement in Richmond came after a judge ordered both sides to his Chambers for bargaining. Five districts involving 694 teachers and 13,589 students remained on strike. In Illinois the 1,700-member Elgin teachers association began its seventh strike in 20 years in a bitter dispute Over wages. The two sides could not even agree on what percentage wage increase the other Side was offering. Board chief negotiator Robert Gilliam said a if the by 1 Back to work or with losing their net ice association stays at 11.1 percent which is the last offer that we have i think it will be a very Long  a total of five walkouts across Illinois affected some 37,000 students and nearly 2,220 teachers. The Gavin District 37 in Lake county had an 11-Day strike in hand its first since the District was formed in 1944. Strikes continue in three new Jersey school districts As teachers secretaries and aides defy Ders despite some being threatened 1 jobs. About 600 Union members in Willingboro walked off the Job sept. 3, affecting 6,000 students while the strike in Cinnaminson with 185 Union members were to begin today. Talks monday night in Little ferry where teachers have been without a contract for a year failed to end the strike that began Friday. The walkout in the new York suburb affects 53 Union members and 700 students. The new Jersey education association said it expected a difficult year because of uncertainty about the level of state Aid and a new Law capping school expenditures. Last year there were Only three strikes during the entire academic year. In Rhode Island 650 Pawtucket teachers and 180 in the Lincoln District reported to school under a judges order. Some 10,700 students have been affected by those strikes. Two other Rhode Island districts involving 2,500 teachers and 32,000 students remained on strike but schools were closed for the jewish new year. District officials said they would go to court to get teachers Back in classrooms if no agreements could be reached. Like most other striking districts salaries were the main Issue. Robert Fry president of the Bethlehem pa., teachers association where 677 teachers began selective striking monday said they were seeking parity with other districts in the area particularly neighbouring Allentown. Fry said that next year a teacher with a bachelors degree in Allentown could earn $46,255, while his District was offering $41,721, less than Allentown teachers Are now making. There were 3,467 teachers and support staff on strike in Pennsylvania extending vacations for 61,877 students. George Badner of the Pennsylvania state education association said districts in South Central Pennsylvania where 14 Are now on strike were using a a trumped up study to Battle wage requests. The study he said purported to show that teacher salaries were better or equal to a number of other professions including engineers nurses and certified Public accountants. Badner said the figures were flawed because it compared teachers having 20 years of experience with private sector employees having five or so years of experience. Epa surfers Pool efforts to clean up n. California san Francisco a surfers no longer will face the Prospect of Riding Waves through Black polluted water off the Northern California coast thanks to a settlement announced monday Between two lumber companies and the Federal government. The environmental Protection Agency and the surf rider foundation an environmental group had been fighting for three years to Stop the daily dumping of 40 million Gallons of smelly Runoff from the companies bleaching process. Under the agreement Louisiana Pacific corp. And Simpson paper co. In Eureka agreed to  $5.8 million for violating the clean water act by dumping pulp Mill byproducts into the Pacific the Epa said. Surfers at a Beach two Miles South of the dump site complained of nausea and headaches caused by the Strong us Lurous smell of water blackened by chemicals including dioxin. Some suffered skin rashes and Eye irritation said Mark Massara a surf rider foundation attorney. The Beach frequently was contaminated by the chemicals dumped about 2,000 feet offshore. A your message today is loud and Clear a polluters will . They will  the costs of cleaning up the pollution and they will  significant penalties for violating the Law a said Epa District administrator Daniel Mcgovern. But the Mills wont Stop polluting. Louisiana Pacific has agreed to build an Extension pipe that will take the waste farther out to sea by october 1992. Simpson has agreed to eliminate certain chemicals from the bleaching process or extend their drainage further out to sea by october 1993. Testing has shown that Marine life in the area such As kelp Sand dollars and mussels have been damaged by the waste Mcgovern said. 4 busiest interchanges in . Sacramento Calif. Apr not surprisingly the country a 10 busiest freeway interchanges last year were in Southern California a report released monday said. The top four All in los Angeles county carry More than 2.2 million vehicles a Day the state department of transportation report said. The cast los Angeles interchange that connects interstate 5, interstate 10, state route 60 and . 101 topped the list for the third straight year. An average of 563,000 vehicles passed through in 1990. The Only newcomer to the list was the interchange of the Costa Mesa and san Diego freeways in Orange county with an average of 435,000 vehicles daily. The rate is up from 400,500 the previous year. Dropping out of the top 10 was the interchange at the Eastern end of the san Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. A Section of interstate 880 near the Bay Bridge collapsed during the october 1989 earthquake. The second busiest interchange was that of the Santa Monica and Harbor freeways near downtown los Angeles with a daily volume of 561,500 vehicles a Day up 33,500 from the previous year. Brush with death a twice the Man whose life is being saved by a fellow lineman in this 1967 pulitzer prize winning photo is Randall g. Champion of Jacksonville fla., who touched a 4,200-Volt line and was nearly electrocuted. On monday 52-year-old Champion had his second Brush with death when he was felled by a 26,000-Volt Jolt from a switching apparatus in Jacksonville. He was listed monday in critical condition with third degree Burns at an Orlando fla.,  among 16 sentenced in abortion protest Fargo . Apr a fired Minnesota police chief was among 16 members of an anti abortion group convicted monday on Misdemeanour charges that they occupied North Dakota a Only abortion clinic. The members of the lambs of Christ anti abortion group had been scheduled for trial july 30, but the trial was postponed when they refused to cooperate. Eight of the 24 people involved in the May 31 protest at the Fargo women a health organization clinic were convicted previously. Under a plea agreement monday the seven women and nine men agreed to the facts presented by Cass county assistant states attorney Connie Cleveland. Cass county judge Georgia Dawson found All defendants guilty of criminal trespass and preventing arrest both misdemeanours. Criminal mischief charges were dismissed against three of the defendants. The protesters say their prior refusal to walk or speak symbolized the helplessness of the fetuses they Are trying to protect. Seventy nine of the groups members have been arrested in a series of four protests at the Fargo clinic the Only place in North Dakota that performs abortions. 9.�?T we was from his Job As 1 Wood Falls minn., police chief after six weeks Abse and six others were sentenced to one year in i with All but 90 Days suspended. Dawson gave t credit for the 101 Days they have been jailed ant leased them. J a received a 101-Day suspended sentence eight others were Given 105-Day suspended Sentei All were ordered not to go within 500 feet of the Cli k11? Wea Elt dismissal and a hear ii scheduled for monday