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Iliteracy continues to trouble millions
(ContinuedfromPage1) "20 percent of adults can't vote and moon can eradicate illiteracy." But,
to drop out." The parents have good they can't make decisions." Frye said, "America did not send a
intentions but often their attitude is "I ILLITERACY is also responsible man to the moon with volunteers."
don't read and I make a living," she for crime problems, DeButts said. THE PROBLEM is getting better
said. Since people can't get an education but many schools are breeding groun-
THOUGH an individual can make and they make less money, "The best ds for future illiterates, Frye said.
his own decision about not wanting to way for them to make an income is Frye spoke of a student she worked
read, DeButts said the problem affec- through breaking and entering," she with who went to a school that owned
is not only the illiterate. said. no books. The student told her that he
DeButts estimated that an illiterate Both President Reagan and Gover- danced and listened to music all day.
adult earns 42 percent less than a high nor Blanchard have declared a war on The United States is not doing
school graduate. From a purely illiteracy but have not set much enough to solve the problem, Frye said.
economic standpoint, "that adds up to money aside to curb the problem, "It spends $1.67 a year per
$8 billion in lost tax dollars and Frye said. She added that her council person on illiteracy," she said.
productivity," she said. relies mostly on volunteers and "Then you look at an $8,000 coffee pot
And from an educational stan- withoutassistance it will not survive. and an $800 hammer and you see
,dpoint, the problem is more serious. In his book, Kozol writes "Any where the government spends its
Because of illiteracy, DeButts said, country that can send a man to the money."
IN BRIEF
From United Press International
Navy questions
accused spies
WASHINGTON - The FBI and
Navy tried yesterday to determine
how badly national security was
harmed by the leak of Navy
secrets to the Soviet Union by an
accused father-son spy team.
Navy investigators said they
were holding Michael Walker, 22, a
seaman aboard the USS Nimitz,
for questioning about secret
papers his jailed father, retired
Navy officer John Walker,
allegedly tried to slip to Soviet
agents.
A top FBI official, Bill Baker,
also said Walker's spying "could
have been going on for as long as 15
years or longer," well before he
retired in 1976 from active duty as
a Navy chief warrant officer who
frequently handled coded
material.
FBI agents arrested Walker, a
47-year-old private detective from
Norfolk, Va., before dawn Monday
at a hotel in a Washington suburb
and charged him with obtaining
"national defense information for
passage to the Soviet Union."
Agents raid illegal
fireworks factory
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -
Federal agents raided a second
illegal fireworks factory yesterday
and identified the operator of a fac-
tory that exploded Monday, killing
nine people in the second worst ex-
plosion of its kind in the nation.
Agents said they raided a factory
in a residential neighborhood of
Euclid, about 50 miles northwest of
Youngstown, and seized 500 to 700
pounds of gunpowder and 25,000
fireworks. Agents said the two
operations were unrelated.
Wayne Lovan, special agent in
charge for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms, said the
suburban Beaver Township blast
was the second worst of its kind.
"The employees (in
Youngstown) obviously didn't sur-
vive, but we feel that the person in
charge did survive," Lovan said.
Economy slumps
WASHINGTON - The nation's
economy slumped in the first quar-
ter of 1985, managing only a dismal
0.7 percent expansion from
January to March as consumer
dollars were funneled abroad,
government economists said
yesterday.
But with interest rates declining,
the stock market gaining and the
dollar disadvantage for trade
diminishing, prospects for the
future are already brightening,
several private economists said.
Some analysts, seeing a silver
lining in the worst GNP report sin-
ce the final quarter of the last
recession, hoped it would move to
lighten pressure on interest rates
even further, as its Open Market
Committee met in private yester-
day.
Lawmaker unveils
bill to stem lawsuits
LANSING - Attorney General
Frank Kelley and a conservative
Republican lawmaker yesterday
unveiled a new effort to stem a
rising tide of lawsuits against the
government.
Kelley, a Democrat, said there
has been a "virtual avalanche" of
suits against the state in recent
years, many of them frivolous.
At present, Kelley said, his office
is defending against more than
1,400 suits seeking some $2.4 billion
in damages. The Transportation
and Natural Resources depar-
tments are the most commonly
sued.
Legislation to be introduced by
Sen. Allen Cropsey (R-Dewitt)
would limit state agencies' liability
to their degree of fault and cap
punitive damages at $100,000 per
occurence.
It also would give governmental
employees limited immunity when
they are acting under the authority
of their employer and would per-
mit judgements to be reduced by
the amount already paid by in-
surance companies.
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