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Court rejects non-class hours school prayer WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court today refused to let a group of students conduct prayer meetings in a public high school during non-class hours. The justices, without comment, left intact rulings that barred such meetings at Guilderland High Chool near Albany, N.Y. Just last week, the justices ruled in a Missouri case that state universities cannot ban student groups from using campus facilities for prayer and worship if the facilities are open to other student groups. That decision, however, did not indicate any change in the court’s 19-year-old ban on organized prayer in public elementary and secondary schools. “University students are, of course, young adults," Justice Lewis F. Powell wrote in the Missouri case. “They are less impressionable than younger students and should be able to appreciate that the university’s (free access) policy is one of neutrality toward religion.’’ Today’s action likely will be cited as an additional hint into the court’s thinking. Six Guilderland High students sued the school board in 1979 after their group, Students for Voluntary Prayer, was denied permission to meet in an unused classroom before the start of classes each day. Other student groups routinely were granted permission for such unsupervised meetings. A federal trial judge dismissed the suit, ruling that the school board unconstitutionally would have been advancing religion if it had granted the student group’s request. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 17, 1980 upheld the trial judge’s ruling. “We must be careful that our public schools, where fundamental values are imparted to our children, are not perceived as institutions that encourage the adoption of any sect or religious ideology,” the appeals court said. The prayer meetings, it said, “would create an improper appearance of official support, and the prohibition against impermissibly advancing religion would be violated.” But in its decision last week, the Supreme Court said the University of Missouri at Kansas City ban on students using campus facilities for worship violated free-speech rights because it was based on speech content.

n response to declining enrollment

Anderson may close six grade schools

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - The Anderson School Board will meet Tuesday to determine which of up to six elementary schools to close next year because of declining enrollment ts. Assistant Superintendent

Chicago construction tragedy probed

CHICAGO (AP) - The Loop construction site where five steelworkers plunged 100 feet to their deaths was closed today as state and federal investigations of the accident continued, officials said. They said the inquiries focus on a “rigid system” of steel cage rods that broke Friday afternoon, sending six workers plunging into the excavation

Housing group seeks SIOO million bond sales

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Housing Finance Auhority wants to sell SIOO million in bonds by the end of the year to provide money for 2,000 mortgages at 13 percent, the group’s chairman says. If the bonds are not sold by then, the authority will try to sell them before the end of January, said Chairman John C. Hart. The authority has been ready

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Robert Stinson said the problem of declining enrollments has worsened in the last 10 years and last year the school system lost 300 pupils. The closings, which Stinson said are unavoidable, could leave 20 to 40 teachers unem-

site for the new State of Illinois Center. The only survivor, Phillip Rios, 28, was listed in fair condition Sunday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a broken shoulder, ruptured spleen and multiple cuts. Those killed were Charles Houseknecht, 41, of Rolling Prairie, Ind.; Franklin Sandquist, 46, Bensenville; William

to sell the bonds for several weeks, but market conditions are such that any mortgages financed would have an interest rate greater than 13 percent, Hart said. If the bonds are not sold this year, the housing agency will lose SIOO million in bonding authority next year. If they are sold this year, the authority could sell S2OO million in bonds in 1982.

Territory won from Syria in '67 war

Israel decides to annex Golan Heights

JERUSALEM (AP) - The government decided today to apply Israeli law to the Golan Heights, in effect annexing the territory captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, a parliamentary official said. Dalia Goren. secretary of the

Highest rate in Midwest

Home mortgages falling past due at record rate

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeowners are falling behind on their mortgage payments at a record rate in what the Mortgage Bankers Association cites as “convincing evidence of the severity of the current recession.” The association’s third quarter survey found that 5.33 percent of the 7.5 million mortgage loans covered were past due. That means about 400,000 homeowners were at least 30 days late with their payment. The past-due payments are linked to the high level of unemployment, says Dr. Thomas H. Harter, the association’s chief economist. In the latest survey, for the three months ending Sept. 30, increases in the number of delinquent loans were reported in all regions of the country, with the highest rate cent in the Midwest. Included in that region are Michigan, where the nation’s hard-hit automobile industry is

ployed. “The birth rate in Anderson has dropped significantly,” Stinson said. “There just aren’t as many children attending school. The prospect of the state coming up with funds to supplement our' budget is

L. Tyson, 32, Chicago; Jimmy Lasater, 37, Overland Park, Kan., and Elliott Kull, 38, Antioch. Metal fatigue in one or more of the steel rods in the cage is the suspected cause of the accident, said James Zagel, director of the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement. The open elevator cage carrying the men

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opposition Labor Party faction in the Knesset (parliament), told The Associated Press the government had informed the party of its intention to propose the legislation to the house at 9 a.m.EST. With government backing

based, along with Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin. Harter noted that higher mortgage delinquency rates have followed layoffs of autoworkers over the past two years. The highest overdue payment rate in the nation, 9.14 percent,

Third snowstorm batters Great Britian

LONDON (AP) Hurricaneforce winds and mounting snowdrifts blocked roads, shut airports and blacked out parts of the British Isles on Sunday as Britain and Ireland were blanketed by their third snowstorm in five days. Temperatures near the border with Wales plummeted to 13 degrees below zero, the lowest level in England since recording began in 1880. At least two people died and two others were missing in storm-related accidents. In the English Channel, passengers and crew were for-

unlikely.” An advisory committee has worked for more than a year to determine which schools should be closed. The committee, composed of schools officials, board members and concerned citizens, visited and evaluated

was being hoisted by a crane when it broke loose. Zagel said the cage was built about a year ago by Midwest Steel Erection Co., a subcontractor in the State of Illinois Center project. He said it was built according to standards of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

and the likelihood of considerable support from members of the Labor Party, the bill was seen sure to be accepted. Applying Israeli law to the Golan would make the territory a part of Israel. Until now it has

was recorded in Illinois, apparently reflecting the nearshutdown of the construction equipment industry centered there. The lowest regional rate, 4.1 percent, was in New England. Because of the recession and

ced to jump into heaving, icy water when the Ecuadorianregistered freighter Bonita began taking on water and developed a 40-degree list, the British coast guard said. One man was missing and feared dead, but many of the 35 people aboard were rescued by navy vessels, coast guard ships from England and France, and a British naval helicopter. The blizzard conditions forced most airports to close as they had been doing intermittently since the area’s first snowfall Wednesday and led to thousands of traffic ac-

the 24 city schools. Last September the school board considered a public referendum so residents could vote on raising taxes to support the continuation of all elementary schools.

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been under military law. Israeli radio quoted the leftist Mapam faction of the opposition Labor Party as saying it would oppose the move. The independent Shinui (Change) Party also said it was against the move, saying “an-

its high jobless rates, the outlook for the next several months is not good, “especially in those regions with large numbers of laid-off workers,” the association’s economics department said in a release. Although it noted that mor-

cidents. Ground crews at London’s Heathrow airport, however, kept one runway open. In Dublin, Ireland, police said a 70-year-old woman was killed when gales pushed a portable shelter off the back of a truck and into her car. A man was killed and a woman passenger seriously injured when a tree was blown down on their van near Carmarthen, Wales, police reported. Off the south coast of England, one man was rescued and another was feared dead as-

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nexation of territory outside international borders is unprecedented,” the radio said. Opposition also came from former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, a Labor Party deputy, the radio said. The decision came at a

tgage foreclosure rates have moderated, “it will take a stronger economy and improved family incomes to bring down delinquency rates substantially,” the report said. Harter noted that the thirdquarter decline in foreclosures

ter their fishing boat overturned as it was racing for the safety of Newhaven Harbour, Sussex, coast guards reported. In London, the new snow piled on top of seven to eight inches already on the ground from storms Wednesday morning and Friday. In the southwest, hardest hit by the latest storm, drifts more than a foot high were reported along with winds in excess of 90 mph. Other areas were lashed by sleet and freezing rain, inundated by floodwaters and iced over by freezing fog, the Meteorological Office said.

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special Cabinet meeting, the radio said. The government has been under strong pressure from Israeli nationalists and settlers on the Golan to annex the territory.

“may signal forebearance on the part of the lender. Lenders do not want to foreclose and take possession of houses in today’s depressed housing market. Instead, they may be working harder with (borrowers) to keep them in their homes.” The most disturbing trend indicated by the survey, said Harter, was a sharp rise in delinquency rates for conventional loans. In that category the past-due rate was 3.48 percent for the third quarter, compared with a 3.22 percent rate the previous quarter. “Homeowners with conventional mortgages have larger downpayments, and therefore more of an equity stake in their property than other mortgage holders,” Harter explained. “The increase in conventional delinquency rates is convincing evidence of the severity of the current recession.”

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