Salina Journal, The (Newspaper) - May 21, 1986, Salina, Kansas T 1 1 he Journal 114th 141 Kansas WEDNESDAY 25 Cents Students dropped from stage day Center alters graduation tradition Staff Writer CLAY CENTER A food fight that erupted during the prom in April is not the reason why seniors will be sitting in the audience instead of on stage at Thursday nights graduation ceremonies at Clay Center High a school official Seniors traditionally have been seated on the stage in the nigh school auditorium for graduation but this year they will be seated in a reserved area at the front of the The move was made for several said high school Principal Ross among them com plaints from students in past years that they have been too hot on speakers have had to address seniors with their backs to the rest of the he But some students and parents think the move was made to further punish students who began throwing food at the April 27 Knitter said that isnt the This is a cooperative effort of faculty and parents that has been studied for Knitter Its extremely hot on stage and down front we can open the doors and have a The new seating arrangement has produced heated comments from some parents and prompted about 40 students from the class of more than seniors to sign a petition calling for the class to be seated on Senior Debbie Craig is concerned about the view her parents will Theyre going to see the back of my head and thats she Two dozen students were sus pended from classes for up to five days following the They re mained in school but sat in a class room adjacent to the locker room where they received their assign Students who attended the prom said the food fight began when a table of couples who had been drinking before the prom began throwing poppy seed salad dressing at other Few couples attending the prom were hit by the dressing and those at the head table didnt even notice what was going Senior Janelle who was seated at the head said she didnt find out about the incident until the following Monday at Kolles is one of the parents who feels the students in See Page 13 Inside AN NCAA subcommittee upholds an earlier ruling that declared Kansas State University basketball star Norris Coleman ineligible to play until February See Page THE REAGAN administration makes a compromise to win con gressional support for its plan to sell million In weapons to Saudi See Page Living On the Weather KANSAS Partly cloudy east and sunny west highs 75 to Partly cloudy in the east and in creasing cloudiness west lows 50 to Mostly cloudy with scattered showers west and partly sunny east highs in the With two lanes the intersection of Crawford and Ohio streets becomes bumper to Roadwork drives traffic crazy By GORDON FIEDLER Staff Writer Driving on South Ohio Street from Ellsworth to Greeley might be a heavenly experience when the road rebuilding is but the now road is devilish for motorists trying to maneuver through the Traffic on which in 1962 carried a traffic volume of more than vehicles a day through the Crawford Street has been funnelled from four lanes to two while workers reconstruct half the The original plan was to rebuild the two southbound lanes between Ellsworth and then jump to the two northbound lanes before attacking the stretch between Crawford and The has decided instead to stay in the two southbound lanes all the way to Greeley to give subcontractors time to rebuild driveway en trances and intersecting streets on the east side of Ohio south of Assistant City Engineer Don Hoff said the driveway work would have created a traffic hazard and there fore would have prevented the opening of the two southbound lanes until it was Hoff said the contractor would have faced about a delay in the project if he had waited for completion of the driveway Hoff said construction has forced some traffic off of Roach Street and Markley Road are picking up some of the he Senate OKs extension on daylight time By The New York Times WASHINGTON The Senate Tuesday approved a ex tension of daylight making it likely that the daylight time period will be lengthened next The extension would be the first since the energy crisis of the mid The House has approved a similar The Senate would start day light time on the first Sunday in April and end as is done on the last Sunday in Under current daylight time begins the last Sunday in In years when April has five Sun the law would pro vide a The proposal was approved in an unrecorded vote after a move to set aside the extension was defeated in a vote of Opponents said that an extension to allow people to cook in the yard and play tennis in the evening was not worth the inconvenience to farmers who had chores and the risk to children going to But supporters said the change would save help many busi nesses and shift the daylight to cor respond more with American ways of They also argued that it would lessen help people with night blindness and reduce traffic acci The House last fall approved a extending daylight time by four three weeks in April and one week into The extension into November was designed to make twilight lighter on when children go Supporters say they expect the branches to be able to reach a com The Reagan administration supports the Daylight time was used year round nationally in World War I and World War II to conserve In national daylight time was approved by Congress for its current sixmonth In an effort to conserve it was extended to 10 months in 1974 and covered eight months In The Senate Slade promised the amendments chief Wendell D that he would hold to the three week In exchange Ford did not delay Ford said the issue was emo tional in Any Kentucky mother who has sent a out to catch a bus on a dark misty April he takes a dim view about the importance of electricity that might be saved on the Bast and West Coasts and the number of afterwork tennis games that might be played here in Reagan to oppose tax overhaul changes By The New York Times WASHINGTON President Reagan and most members of the Senate Finance Committee agreed Tuesday to oppose Senate amend ments to the measure the committee approved two weeks After a meeting at the White Larry the White House said Reagans approach by and large is that he supports the package in and if you open door to many amendments it could destroy the In of the Among amendments that have been suggested are ones that would preserve deductions for Individual Retirement Accounts and tax shel ters that are useful to the real estate Speakes said Reagan thought that repeal of IRA deductions was an Important part of the The aspect of the committees tax overhaul that has generated the most opposition is the one that would abolish deductions for money con to Despite Reagans It is likely to be an issue when the legislation reaches the Senate floor next Reagan has strongly supported the legislation since it was adopted by the committee May but this was the first time he had specifically addressed the question of the would lower tax rates dramatically and end many deductions taken by Although several senators have objected to particular parts of the they have not said they oppose the measure as a As evidence of widespread support for the overall committee the American Bankers representing the industry that pre would be hurt most if IRA deductions were en the committees Donald the associations Issued a statement saying that while some elements of the measure were It should be Judged In the context of the overall Impact of the Terrorist says Syria orchestrated Rome airport attack WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency has been told by Italian authorities that the sole terrorist survivor of an attack on the Rome airport has directly Implicated Syria in his according to American According to the the Mohammed told his Italian captors that Syrian agents had trained him and ac companied him on his journey from the Bekaa region of Lebanon to Damascus through Belg and then on to The American officials said that until the information about the Rome terrorists being trained in Syria reached President Reagan about two weeks the United States had been operating in the belief that Sarham was acting under orders from Administration officials said that in agencies still believed Libya was involved in both the Rome and Vienna airport raids on but were coming around to the view that Syria played at least as big a Shortly after the Rome the head of Italian military intelligence said that the ter represented the Abu Nidal a Palestinian splinter and had been trained in and entered Italy through Besides the Italian intelligence report in there were other Immedi ately after the raids Implicating Pales tinian Syria and I The attack In the Home airport by five Abu gunmen killed 17 Including five and left 80 It was appar ently coordinated with a similar attack at the Vienna airport by four two of whom were Three people were killed in that attack and more than 30 Stephan to announce reelection plans today TOPEKA AP Attorney Gen eral Robert Stephan is expected to announce at an 8 news confer ence today in 01 athe that he will seek Republican renomination to a third fouryear After the early morning an in Stephan is scheduled to fly to Pittsburg and Garden City for sim ilar news While he said he would wait until today to make his candidacy Stephan said It would in deed be to to go five cities if I Stephan was not taking some positive action In other I will not be out there endorsing someone Stephan said he has returned more than of the money he raised in 1984 and 1965 for an anticipated race for the GOP nomination for and has only about left in his campaign became attorney general in January after de feating incumbent Democrat Curt Schneider in the 1978 election with 54 percent of the He won reelection in 1982 over Democrat Lance Burr with 69 per cent of the He was a district court judge in Wichita for 13 years before running for attorney general the first up inflation down WASHINGTON AP The economy grew at a surprisingly strong annual rate of percent from January through March while inflation tank to Its lowest level In nearly two the government reported White House officials hailed the but private analysts were not as contending that the growth figure hid widespread The increase In the gross national the total output of goods and represented a fivefold jump from the anemic percent growth rate turned in during the October December It equaled the growth turned in during the first three months of last year and was the fastest rate since a percent increase in the second quarter of The new GNP figure was an upward revision from the Commerce Departments initial last monti of a percent annual The Ug spurt in growth did not trigger higher the government reported that measured by a ONP were rising at an annual rate of just percent In the first three months of the the best showing since who had widely predicted that the original growth figure would be lowered Instead of laid they were by the Jerry chief economist for Uie National of said the attributable solely to and not indicate any major strength in the White House larry the new GNP figure reflected the of the American economy and bolstered the more growth Private maintained that growth In the current quarter dump in the wake of production at auto and elsewhere work to down bulging
