European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the Star band stripes , i a. A. Monday october 31 ,1994 Public suspicious of mom "  of in Case of missing Union sic. A despite growing Public suspicion against a Mother who claims her two son were kidnapped in her car Nei ther she nor anyone else is a suspect in the impossible Case investigators said saturday. Union county sheriff Howard Wells refused to confirm or Den reports that Susarte Smith had failed a police lie Detector test. We re trying to corroborate her Story because not Only is she the victim in this Case but the Public is trying to make her the suspect he said. Susan Smith Smith s sons 3-year-old Michael arid 14-Mpnth-old Alex have been missing since last tuesday night. She says a gunman commandeered her car and then forced her out driving away with the children strapped in , Yvo.   No significant leads have turned up despite National publicity and hundreds of Calls to a tip line. Smith and her husband David Smith from who she filed for divorce last month have been questioned repeatedly by police. Authorities were trying to find a motive. We Haven Thad a Ransom demand Wells said and no one seemed mad at the  callers7 to a phone in radio show in Greenville were frustrated sympathetic and suspicious. Many questioned Smith s Story while others defended her. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 31,1984 police frogman pulled the body of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko from a polish Reservoir 11 Days after Interior ministry agents abducted the popular pro Solidarity cleric. 20 years ago oct. 31,1974 Richard Nixon s former White House press Secre tary Ronald Ziegler said there is no doubt we almost lost president Nixon after the former chief executive went into Shock following surgery. 30 years ago oct. 31,1964 a soviet document accused Nikita Khrushchev of bungling the 1962 cuban missile crisis of driving relations with communist China to a Point of rupture and of pushing his wife into Power. 40 years ago oct. 31,195� a missing . Air Force c-47 was found smashed into a Mountainside High in the. French italian Alps and a search team reported All 21 persons aboard had died. 50 years ago oct. 31, 1944 the , Pacific Fleet commander adm Chester Nimitz said the time was Ripe for new philippine. Landings after an Over whelming Victory that left control of two thirds of Leyte and All of Sama tra islands in . Hands. World War ii 50 years ago today oct. 31 1944 British bombers destroy Gestapo Headquarters in aarhus Denmark to Aid danish resistance fighters by wiping out police records. German troops abandon Salonika their last port in Greece ending evacuations of German garrisons from Aegean islands. In Hungary the soviets Battle across the Tisza River and grab a foothold in Kecskemety. British forces push toward Italy s rabbi River. Source 2194 Days of War. W h. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a but will be studied half Moon Bay Calif. A they laughed at Colum bus too. School Board member Garrett Redmond said that while he knew his idea to ban Homework seemed outrageous the proposal would have levelled the academic play Ingfield for poor children. The Cabrillo unified school District trustees did t support the plan last week in front of a packed elementary school auditorium. Some speakers called it a goofy idea that had turned the town into a laughingstock. I have a sense now of How Columbus Felt when he said the Earth was t Flat said red mond who is retiring from the Board at the end of the  was unable to get a second for his proposal and the Board voted instead to study the District s Homework policy. Redmond a 65-year-old Farmer argued that grading Homework favors computer equipped upper income children at the expense of the poor and separates children from their parents in the evening. Redmond touched off a nation Al controversy two weeks ago when he proposed the ban for the3,500 pupils around this Small coastal town just South of Sanfrancisco. He must have struck sonic sort of a nerve in America and around the world said Board president Ken Jones who arrive Dat work one morning to find 75 messages about Homework on his fax  and Board member Ruth Palmer said they sifted through reams of studies in the past two weeks and found Little evidence of Homework s academic , they stood by after school assign  policy As practice Dis less scientifically based and More like Chicken soup remedies my grandmother used to give me when i was a kid Palmer  the Board meeting Alicia Dahlen 11, said she Felt Home work helped reinforce lessons Learned in school but the amount of her sixth Grade Homework was oppressive she said often taking her until 10pm. To finish even without doing recommended Reading. I feel overloaded Alicia told the Board. I have not had time to do my chores to feed my dog to sometimes help make dinner for the  under the school Board s Deci Sion the superintendent will meet with teachers and parents for a top to Bottom review of Home work and How classes Are organized  -.,.they will report Back Early next year.  2 on fired in raid. Davidians Houston a two Federal agents have been fired for their roles in leading the ill fated raid on cult Leader David Koresh and about 100 of his followers. \., ". V. " " two sentenced St. Louis two members of a banned fraternity chapter at Southeast Missouri state University have been sentenced to jail for the hazing death of a pledge. " Vincent l. King 21was sentenced to five year for involuntary manslaughter and one year of probation for Hazingmichael q. Williams 20, received a 90-Day sentence for hazing and five years probation for involuntary Manslaughterthe two men were sentenced Friday by two different judges in St. Louis circuit court. Bot men had earner pleaded guilty in the death of Kappa Alpha Psi pledge Michael Davis 25, who died in february after being severely beaten during a hazing Ritualsixteen people were charged with hazing seven also were charged with involuntary manslaughter. Inmates prove honorable san Luis Obispo Calif. Three Honor farm inmates lived up to the name when they returned Wallet containing $324, credit cards and a Bank card with Access numbers written on it that they found while working at a dump. Paul Esparza Victor Montoya and Kevin Wynne inmates at the county s Honor farm minimum Security facility came upon Richiard Killgore s Wallet on thursday while sorting aluminium scrap for recycling at cold Canyon Landfillthe Trio turned the Wallet Over to a dump supervisor and Killgore an Iron worker fro Arroyo Grande was notified. Or. Killgore was quite appreciative sheriff sgt. Scott Thompson said Friday. Realistically inmates Are searched when the come ba6k from work details but they could have secreted the Noney or sold the atm card an Access numbers for quite a bit of Money Thompson said