European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 o t a r s amp stripes March 23 2007 Page 17 illiteracy rate High in nations capital Washington about on third of the people living in the nationals capital Are function ally illiterate compared with about on fifth nation ally according to a re port on the District of co Lumbia adults Are consid ered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things As comprehend ing bus schedules Reading maps and filling out Job applications the growing number of hispanic and ethiopian immigrants who Arent proficient in English contributed to the cites High functional illiteracy level which translated to 170000 people said Connie spin Ner director of the state education Agency workers find remains on suburban Golf course Mundelein Golf course workers uncovering the tees for the season discovered a human Skull at a suburban Chica go club and found Bones nearby in the Fairway authorities said the Skull was spotted near the 14th tee of the Prairie course one of two 18hole courses at the Countryside Golf club in Mundelein Illi Nois according to Lake county for est preserve police chief John Gal Ford it was laying there right in the Middle of the Fairway Galford said he said the identity and gender of the person had not been deter mined but the Skull had some distinguishing Marks a partial set of dentures two of the Teeth Are Gold some of the Teeth have a Star Pat Tern on them and one of the front Teeth has a Golden r on it logging project stopped on spotted owls Domain Grants pass logging in spotted owl habitat is coming to a halt on 72000 acres of Federal lands in Western Oregon until government biologists come up with a better scientific basis to saying that cutting the Trees will not harm the threatened species based on an appeals court Rul ing the us fish and wildlife ser vice pulled five documents known As biological opinions that authorized the us Forest service and the us Bureau of land manage ment to log in owl habitat stretch ing from mount Hood to the Cali fornia Border fish and wildlife spokesman Phil Carroll said the biological opinions gave blk and the Forest service authority to kill some spotted owls in the course of logging on the mount Hood Willamette and rogue Rivers Shiyou National forests and the Salem Eugene Roseburg and Medford districts of blk and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area can Oil said Driver pleads guilty in Wood Chipper crash Pittsburgh a Man pleaded guilty to Man Slaughter for failing to properly hitch a Wood Chipper to his truck in an Accident that killed a Man and two of his Young triplets Bradley Demitras was scheduled to stand trial but struck a Deal for Sale on the open Market using Only Bio diesel a Petro leu free alternative fuel made from Plant oils like Cotton seed and animal fat in this Case Chicken fat american Roundup with prosecutors instead he pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of reckless endangerment Hes had a very hard time with this Case As i have As everyone involved has said his attorney Patrick Thomassey we wanted to spare the family and everyone involved from the Rigours of a trial Demitras did not properly Hook up the Chipper to his trucks hitch causing it to break Loose and strike a Van prosecutors said Spencer Morrison 37 and 4yearolds Alaina and Garrett were killed a third Triplet Ethan was critically injured but survived members of the Morrison family had no comment outside court Plant Powers Grid using Only Slimy Chicken fat Oak Ridge North Chicken fat and a Mil lion investment Are behind a break through in the Way texans heat Cool and Light their Homes and offices using the Slimy Lightc lored Tal Low As the source for clean Burn ing Bio diesel Bio fuels Power corp flipped the switch on three 2000horsepower diesel engines a couple of weeks ago adding a bit More Energy to the massive Grid that Powers much of the Lone Star state privately held Bio fuels Power and others in the renewable Energy business say the Plant is the first of its kind to produce Power smelly contestant Kyle Underwood 9 of Las graces no checks his sneakers for smell in the annual National odor eaters Rotten sneaker con test in Montpelier it Catherine tuck 13 of Tooele Utah beat six other contestants from around the country to claim the title of Rotten est sneakers in the country refunds can now go to cancer centers Richmond the first time virginians can support cancer re search through their 2006 state in come tax forms taxpayers can contribute a por Tion of their refund or if they owe additional taxes include an extra amount to help finance research at Virginia Commonwealth universe Tys Massey cancer Center and the University of Virginia cancer Cen Ter the centers Are among 61 nation wide that have earned special Des ignation from the Federal National cancer Institute based on the Quality of their research programs Federal funding for cancer re search has decreased for the first time in decades so the need for Pri vate philanthropy is stronger than Ever said or Gordon Ginder director of the Massey Center biology teacher fired for biblical references Sisters during his eight Days As a Par time High school biology teacher Kris Helphinstine included biblical references in material he provided to students and gave a powerpoint presentation that made links be tween evolution nazi Germany and planned parenthood that was enough for the Sisters school Board which fired the teacher for deviating from the curriculum on the theory of evolution i think his performance was not just a Little bit Over the line Board member Jeff Smith said it was a severe contradiction of what we Trust teachers to do in our class rooms Helphinstine 27 said in a phone interview with the bulletin news paper of Bend that he included the supplemental material to teach Stu dents about Bias in sources and his Only Agenda was to teach critical thinking archaeologists explore Jefferson Belles Home Gloucester the excavation of a hidden Cham Ber at the former Home of Thomas Jeffersons Girlfriend has not turned up any love letters yet we still have about 2 feet fur ther Down to dig said archaeologist Thane Harpole who is leading the project along with fellow archaeologist David Brown Fairfield Plantation was the Gloucester county Home of Rebec Ca Burwell who was 16 when she met College of William and Mary student Thomas Jefferson the House was built in 1694 for Lewis Burwell ii patriarch of one of Colo Nial Virginias largest and most politically influential families Harpole and Brown say excava Tion of the hidden chamber in the Homes cellar has turned up sever Al artefacts but nothing related to the Romance Between Rebecca and the Man who would become the author of the declaration of Independence and the nations third presi Dent red Bird red buds but they clash a North american Cardinal is perched in a blossoming red Bud tree in Tyler Texas View Troy Kocher walks a helping v 1c w to erect the 25foothigh scaffold inside Bower memorial United methodist Church in Berwick a go Speed racer go Hannah Fannin 7 left of Fairfield a tries to beat her brother Isaiah 8 in the fast and the furious super bikes racing game at the Hanover Bowling Center in Hanover a pro flow riders demonstrate on the new attraction at Waterville Usa during its grand open Lilg in Gulf shores Ala riders can Bodyboard or standup surf View Pittsburgh Ballet theatres Erin Halloran per v 1c Vav forms White Swan Pas de Deus from act ii of the Ballet Swan Lake in the Capitol in Hamburg a Pushy laughs after being Given attention from one of the volunteers at Mesquite ranch horse play in Amarillo Texas Pushy and several other horses at Mesquite ranch Are part of a family run therapy Center for children Man rescued after ride Down River on ice slab Anoka a Man got an unexpected terrifying ride Down the Mississippi River on a giant slab of ice that broke off As he stood along the Shoreline Amos Benjamin Cohen 19 stood Frozen with fear As the sixfootby15foot ice chunk swirled in the water floating to Ward Shore then Drifting Back to the Middle of the River witnesses and rescuers said Ellie Ghostley said she yelled to the Man that she was calling 911 then hopped in her car to see if he would get out All right a Rescue team from the Anoka Champlin fire department sent three firefighters in survival suits into the water As Cohen approached one of the firefighters managed to hop up onto the ice with him the other two pulled them to safety fire chief Charlie Thomp son said seventh Grade girl Dies on Mountain Field trip Amherst a Sev ent grader from Amherst Middle school has died on a Field trip to the White mountains she was attending a school pro Gram at the appalachian Mountain club Lodge at Pinkham notch Home of mount Washington there is no word on the cause of death the am said the child col lapsed at the Lodge the schools seventh Grade at tends the environmental program each year spending three nights in am huts and working with the am on outdoor programs computer tech deletes data from fund Juneau perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single Keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account Worth billion that what happened to a com Puter technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska depart ment of Revenue while doing Rou Tine maintenance work the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an Oil funded account one of Alaska residents biggest Perks and mistakenly re formatted the backup drive As Well there was still Hope until the department discovered its third line of defense backup tapes were unreadable the final backup was the paper work itself stored in More than 300 cardboard boxes half a dozen seasonal workers came Back to assist the regular division staff and about 70 people working overtime and weekends reentered All the lost data father kills son in feud Over sons Bride Choice Syracuse a Man wounded his wife and fatally shot his son in a feud Over the sons marriage he then held police at Bay for nearly 30 hours be fore he was found dead inside the Home police and authorities said Thach Ros 62 exchanged gun fire with police during the standoff that began with a Call about domes tic violence police chief Gary Miguel said his two younger children and his daughter inlaw were Able to escape onto a porch roof where emergency Crews rescued them by ladder neighbors also were evacuated during the standoff police twice attempted to enter the House but were forced Back when Ros opened fire on them Miguel said officers found the body of Ros son Sophin Peter Ros 34 up stairs in the Home dead from a gun shot wound to the head Miguel said an autopsy was planned to deter mine whether the elder Ros was killed by officers or if the fatal wound was self inflicted the chief said state makes Pluto whole when it passes overhead Santa be astronomers May have stopped calling Pluto a full fledged planet but its on its Way to regaining that status whenever its visible Over new Mexico a nonbinding memorial approved by the state House of representatives declares that Pluto be designated a planet whenever it passes overhead through new Mexico excellent night skies the International astronomical Union reclassified Pluto As a Dwarf planet last August because its orbit overlaps with Neptune that caused hard feelings in new Mexico Home of Clyde Tom Baugh the astronomer who located Pluto in 1930 couple gets probation for teaching girl sex Providence a Mother and her Boyfriend who had sex in front of the woman 9yearold daughter to teach the girl about the act were sentenced to three years probation during an investigation by the state child welfare authorities David Prata 33 said he and Rebec Ca Arnold 36 had sex All the time in front of the child and that we dont believe in hiding any thing he told an investigator they did not Force the girl to watch they had pleaded no contest to a felony child neglect charge the judge said he wanted to spare the girl now 11 from testifying according to Michael Healey a spokesman for state attorney Gen eral Patrick Lynch cops ticket 50 children for Street jaywalking West North Las vegas a crackdown on jaywalking resulted in tickets for about 50 schoolchildren police say there sure parents would prefer to go to court to Deal with a possible Fine than go to a Hospital and Deal with injured children but some parents Are upset that have to take time off from work to go to court police say frequent warnings had not curbed problems with Stu Dent pedestrians near several mid dle and High schools stories and photos from wire services
