Winchester Star (Newspaper) - May 27, 1998, Winchester, Virginia 102nd Year 276 The Winchester Star 32 SECTIONS VIRGINIA MAY 1998 6673200 25 CENTS Berryville Primary School Registers Enough Students for YearRound Program By KATHERINE NEWHOUSE The Winchester Star BERRYVILLE Berryville Primary School has enough students to house a pilot yearround education program for kindergarten students in the 199899 school Joyce principal at Berryville Primary and Cooley Elementary said on Tuesday that 17 incom ing kindergarten students are enrolled enough to begin the program which is designed to educate students throughout the entire In Clarke Countys School Board agreed to the yearround calendar for kindergarten and students at Berryville Primary and Boyce Elemen tary schools to anyone who wanted to participate in the pilot The program would be based at Berryville Primary and must have 20 students in each grade to accord ing to the School Winchesters Virginia Avenue Char lotte DeHart Elementary School pro posed a yearround education calendar for the 199899 school but after much opposition from parents decided to withdraw its request to the Winchester School Board for a This is a concept whose time is com Jenkins We believe learning can occur any time of the She said that with 17 students signed up for the kindergarten Clarke County can begin plans for the program for the next school But Jenkins has only received three responses for students to sign up in the class for the pilot which leaves some question as to whether a yearround pilot class can be Jenkins said parents have until the end of June to make a decision on the yearround I feel confident that we will have enough for both she Jenkins said one of the reservations for parents who havent signed on to the program is the concern of having two children in the household under different See School Page A8 Mark Clines motto comes from his idol and fellow dreamer Albert Einstein Imagination is more impor tant than Dinosaurs By PAUL SANDEFUR The Winchester Star DOUBLE TOLLGATE You know shes not re but still you want to reach out and touch her pale After you dont stumble onto a 30foot bron grazing on treetops every Together with five other dinosaurs including a Jurassic the bron is the latest addition to the collection of dinosaur replicas at Dinosaur Land Educational Prehistoric Forest at and 277 near White The Tyrannosaurus which stands more than 20 feet tall and weighs about 300 pounds is be ing gored in the chest by a large triceratops the one with the Before you reach you pass an 8foot ptero dactyl swooping down from the trees with a snake in her The mother dinosaur is returning with food for her three chicks nestled in a rock crag on the With the new the tourist attraction has more than 40 dinosaur The creator of the Mark Cline of En chanted Castle Studios in Natural said he likes to display the dinosaurs interacting with each During a phone interview on Cline said he first got the idea to build lifesize dinosaur repli cas while visiting Dinosaur Land as a Cline said he and his father would drive past the place on their way to visit Clines grandmother in One day they While leaning against the fence surrounding Dinosaur Cline he looked at a brontosaurus and Someday Im going to build Cline said his father turned and looked straight at If thats what you want to then do his father Cline was 12 at the Within a few Cline said he started build ing papiermache monsters in his grandmothers at Almost 20 years he now designs and builds theme attractions at amusement parks such as Six He also makes all the Yogi Bears and Boo Boos at Jellystone Parks throughout the But for Dinosaur Land will always be the place where his dreams And he hopes his dreams inspire other kids to Clines motto in life was written by his idol and fellow dreamer Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowl Star Photos by Scott Mason Dinosaur Land employees Jeff Fleshman left and Richard Hill prepare concrete for the installation of the new tyrannosaurus rex on Fleshman and Hill secure the massive tail of the tyrannosaurus Forecasts Budget Surplus Of Billion By JONATHAN PETERSON Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The United States this year will have its first budget surplus since White House officials said on projecting black ink of billion this year and as much as bil lion by The forecast of the first sur plus since Neil Armstrong walked on the as President Clinton put was the latest in a series of projections that have shattered longheld pessimism that a budget deficit is The a rarity in black ink for have also un leashed unfamiliar pressures over what to do with the Many conservatives have called for tax while many liberals hope to seize on future surpluses as a source for new spending Clinton has urged that the money be used to strengthen So cial Security for the monumental expenses that will come when the baby boom generation retires in the next America can now turn off the deficit clock and plug in the sur plus Clinton said in a Rose Garden Given the speed with which our nation has reached this remarkable mile it is perhaps all too easy to forget how hard it and how See Surplus Page A8 Begins Withdrawal Of Gulf Units By DANA PRIEST The Washington Post WASHINGTON The Clinton which sent dozens of extra bombers and thousands of soldiers and sailors to intim idate Iraq during a show down in the Persian Gulf last has begun withdrawing the additional forces and returning to pre crisis levels of military strength in the The reduction in mil power in the Gulf re an assessment that the crisis with President Saddam govern ment has subsided now that Baghdad has renewed promises to cooperate with weapons ac cording to Defense Secretary William At the same it re to concern at the Pentagon that longterm de ployment around Iraq was stretching military resources and imposing difficult ab sences from their families See Gulf Page A8 Lewinsky Writing Fingerprints to Be Obtained By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Four months into the Monica Lewinsky Whitewater tors are moving to enforce a sub poena for the former White House interns fingerprints and voice legal sources With prosecutors and lawyers at the latest step is aimed at assembling facts in the case without the full cooperation of the former White House intern who early in the probe appeared destined to be the chief witness against President Clinton in an alleged sex and cov A family Judy said Lewinsky is appear ing pursuant to a court order and as we have said she is very anx ious to tell her side of the Prosecutors and lawyers have been unable to reach agreement on any deal that would give her immunity from tion in exchange for her The samples were expected to be taken in the next few days from who is in Califor nia visiting with Accord ing to several news the samples were to be taken today at the federal building in West Los See Lewinsky Page A8 Jessica Tavenner Joins Top Spellers at National Bee By RHONDA LANCASTER The Winchester Star Jessica Tavenner began her competition with 124 spellers from New Hampshire to Wyoming in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington this The first section of the opening three with another 125 spellers from Al abama to completed its competition at an from Johnson Williams Middle School in is competing in the national spelling bee after finishing first in the 21st Regional Spelling sponsored by The Winchester in The Star is also paying the trips es for Jessica and her Jessica has put away the black composition journal where she kept lists of words and is de pending on her ability to remember what she Before leaving on Jessica said she was proud to be the first Clarke County resident to attend the national bee in 14 years Rhonda Kauf won the regionals in 1983 and I feel really the 14yearold daughter of Jane and Steve Tavenner She studied weekly with spelling coach and English teacher Werner Doerwaldt and daily with family and She even contacted last years regional Jared now a High School for tips on how he ad to the fourth round of the national Jessica said she knew she was a good speller because of all the reading she but depended on hours of memorization to know the words most likely to appear at the national such as medical Jessica traveled to Washington on Sun day with her mother to meet the other con and receive tours of the Doerwaldt and Princi pal Rick Catlett plan to attend the compe tition The fourth round of competition will be gin at 8 on The final from 1 until the champion is will be broadcast live on Jessica is speller JESSICA TAVENNER Partly warmer INDEX 16 4 Dear 3 13 6 5 Most State Congressmen Wont Have Opponents By DOMINIC PERELLA Associated Press Writer RICHMOND Unless candi dates most of 11 congress men will face no opposition in this falls Republicans and Democrats have until the evening of June 9 to register political observers its a safe bet that at least six congressmen Herbert Owen Robert Virgil Goode D 5th Tom and Thomas will either be unopposed or will face independent candidates with little realistic chance of about 75 of the 435 members of the House of Representatives are running with out officials at the Re publican National Committee said on Tues That makes percentage more than three times the national Since Ive been keeping track of the con gressional districts in this is the worst showing said University of Virginia po analyst Larry Its really quite embarrassing for both Sec Congress Page A8
