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To stress family unit, moral values State Board adopts change in sex education polices 'Dear Santa' DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. Friday, December Christmas letters flow into New York Post Office DREAM COMES TRUE Kevin Steen, 12 -year-old Carefree, Arizona, youth who is dying of cancer, tours the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor while waiting to greet the returning Apollo 17 astronauts. Rear Adm. John L. Butts, commander of recovery force, shows Kevin scale model of sunken battleship.

(UPI) Fulfillment of dream Ailing boy to see SACRAMENTO (UPI) The state Board of Education today adopted a new policy on sex education which cracks down on "immoral" discussions of premarital sex and homosexuality in California classrooms. The policy calls for sex education classes to emphasize the "family unit and especially moral values," including the "harmful effects of premarital sex." It also requires local school superintendents to authorize any guest lectures made in sex education classes. "The policy will lead to puritanical en- doctrination in sex classes," said Wayne D. Lamont, director of Birth Control Institute, Inc. headquartered at Orange, Calif.

"It gives ammunition to the vocal minority in every school district who want to intimidate teachers into teaching that sex is really bad," Lamont said. The new policy was drafted after board members, spurred by member Eugene N. Ragle of Roseville, complained about a few classes in the San Francisco Bay area where homosexuals were asked to be guest lecturers. Ragle also said stag films were being shown in some classes and described one ninth grade world history class in Marin County as "a complete course in copulation." The new policy was adopted on a voice vote without debate. Under the new policy, citizens committees would be created to scrutinize any resource materials used by sex education teachers.

The committees would include parents, students, doctors, nurses, educators, clergymen and policemen. It also requires school officials to review any sex education material that parents find objectionable. At a previous board meeting, Ragle said outside speakers often "come as advocates" in sex education classes. He said Christian ministers were not able to advocate their religion in classrooms and he could not see why homosexuals should have "free license to practice their missionary efforts." The board decided to investigate current sex education after hearing of a ninth grade class at San Francisco's Roosevels Junior High School where homosexuals said that sex isn't simply a matter of traditional sexual intercourse alone. Parents and students complained that the guest lecturers used profanity and advocated "perversion." A Berkeley High School teacher also was criticized for showing sex movies to his classes which were studying obscenity laws.

National Mere speculation Apollo 17 splashdown rejected sales tax Darwin theory to be HONOLULU (UPI) -A quick look at a submarine and an air force base and then it's off to Samoa for the splashdown of Apollo 17 and the fulfillment of a year's-long dream today for 12-year-old Kevin Steen, who was told by doctors nearly two years ago that he had only three months to live. Kevin, a frail, blond-haired youth from Carefree, has been on a whirlwind tour of Hawaii for the past 36 hours as the guest of the U.S. Navy, but the best is yet to come. Kevin will leave Hawaii late tonight to fly to Samoa and from there he will go aboard the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga to witness the recovery of the Apollo 17 astronauts from the Pacific on Tuesday. "It's like living in a dream," he said.

"I can't really believe that it is happening. I have seen a launch at Cape Kennedy and one from Mission Control. Now I'm going to see a splashdown and recovery in person." Kevin is the guest of Rear Admiral John L. Butts, commander of the Apollo recovery force, and he will be right there when the three astronauts come aboard after their spacecraft splashes down. Kevin has cancer and the doctors told him late in 1970 that he had only about three months to live.

Even the doctors cannot understand what has happened, but Kevin is still going strong. Kevin arrived here Wednesday and spent Thursday and today seeing the sights, including the USS Arizona Memorial, the Navy's submarine base, a military air base and such sights as Sea Life Park and Waikiki Beach. He proudly wears a blue windbreaker with several patches from previous Apollo moon shots and he can tell anyone who is interested the names of every astronaut who landed on the moon and what flight they were on. "I really want to be an astronaut," he said. "That is my biggest dream, but getting i to go on the recovery ship was ah pretty big dream too and that came true." Diplomatic immunity LONDON (UPI) the first four months of this year, foreign diplomats in London returned 12,000 unpaid parking tickets to police, claiming diplomatic immunity, Scotland Yard reports.

WASHINGTON (UPI) A presidential advisory commission has recommended against creation of a national sales tax to relieve local property owners of the cost of public schools. The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations made up of representatives of federal, state and local Thursday that such a tax is not needed. Recent court opinions have held that use of local property taxes as the basic support for public schools has led to inequities in public education between rich and poor school districts. Last winter President Nixon asked the commission to study ways to provide relief to property taxpayers. Value-added taxes, based on the economic value added by each segment of a business example, production of raw materials, refining and ultimately passed on.

to the con- sinners and area form of sales tax. They often have been described by economists as more of a burden on the poor than the rich because a larger percentage of a poor person's income goes for taxable retail goods. downgraded in texts SACRAMENTO (UPI) Spurning the pleas of the scientific community, the California Board of Education Thursday ordered the downgrading of Darwin's theory of evolution in public school textbooks. But the board put off for a month its decision on requiring "equal time" in the science texts for theories of "special creation" such as the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The decision was expected to have nationwide impact because several publishers plan to tailor texts used across the country to California's requirements because of the state's lucrative book market.

After four hours of philosophical debate reminiscent of the famous Scopes "monkey trial" of a half century ago, the board voted 7 to 1 to set textbook standards downgrading Darwin's theory on the origins of man to mere speculation. The state board thus rejected pleas from 19 Nobel Prize winners and the National Academy of Sciences not to water down the presentation of the evolutionary theory first Giving Lenox China Gifts is a holiday tradition SINGER SAVE 75 00 RECEIVING THEM MAKES CHRISTMAS UNFORGETTABLE Florentine Bud Vase, 10" tall 8.00 Egg Server, ll" diam $17.00 Symphony Centerpiece, 10" diam SI6.00 Lido Pepper Mill Set, 8" tall 535.00 SMITH, JEWELERS 110 E. State Downtown Redlands. I Ll Off REG. PRICE 3 THE FABULOUS GOLDEN TOUCH SEW Now you can save a big 175.00 on this delightful sewing machine with cabinet.

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Hubbard in urging rejection of the evolutionary argument. But the board couldn't agree on what role to give "special creation" in the texts and delayed the ruling until its next meeting in January. The delay will give divine creationists a fighting chance to get their theories in the books currently used in more than 1,000 school districts in California. "We Christians would like equal time," argued board member Eugene Ragle. "I personally advocate that creation must be treated equally with the evolution theory.

Either one must be accepted by its advocates on faith." Board member Mark T. Gates responded that putting both theories in science texts was "almost like.saying two wrongs make a right." If the board members fail again next month to reach a compromise on the issue, the texts will be printed without any mention of the possibility of creation by divinity. NEW YORK Santa, "I would like for you to write and show me that you are really Santa. Because I'm not for sure you are real. I'm age ll and getting too old for things like that.

"Here are some things I would like for "P.S. Hope we may become very good friends. "Your friend, Stacye." Well Stacye, there is a Santa Claus. If there weren't, then about 6,000 letter writers are wrong. Each year around this time the New York Post Office receives thousands of letters from kids throughout the city and many others from across the country and from foreign countries on three continents.

Some are funny; some touching, others sad: "Dear Santa, "I am William and 8 years old. I have 2 brothers Randy and John. My baby brother died in the month of May he was Kenneth 11 months old. I miss him. Will you send flowers for his grave.

Send Randy, John and me what you can. I love you. Please don't forget us." "When we get one like that, we generally hold it aside," James H. Jarvis, director of Postal Administrative Services explained. Jarvis said he gets about 2,500 requests for letters from needy children.

Last week, for example, a New Jersey high school teacher picked up 92 letters for his sophomore class. Postal officials said that many women's clubs, schools, and individuals write for letters or go to the post office to pick them up. One family from Dumont, New Jersey wrote: "We aren't wealthy by any means but we do have more than the families of a lot of these kids writing to Santa Unfortunately, publicity has seeped down to those kids who should be in bed. Twelve year old Lynne from Mandan, North Dakota wrote: "About a week and a half ago I watched the Johnny Carson show. I heard that if we wrote to Santa, they would send us some CHRISTMAS LETTERS These are a few of the thousands of letters to Santa which each year around this time flood the New York Post Office.

The letters are from kids throughout the City and many others from across the country and from foreign countries on three continents. The Post Office also gets about $4400 in donations to help needy children with Christmas gifts. (UPI) The "longest" letter to Santa came from Marty in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Written on the back of candy-striped brown wrapping paper, the letter measures about two and a half feet long and lists 53 requests ranging from polo ponies to hockey sticks. Then there's the old fashioned, friendly approach: "Dear Santa Clause, "How are You? "How are your reigndeers? "How are your elves? "Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.

"I would like to know if you could give me something for Christmas. If so, consider something on my for now, Nicolette." Then every once in a while there's the kid who uses the direct honest approach: "Dear Santa, Do you give toys to bad boys and girls? If you do, I want a drum like my cousin The Post Office also gets about $4,500 in donations to help needy children with Christmas gifts. Jarvis said that the money is used to help about 150 needy families. "When we service the request we supply toys, a turkey dinner for the even clothing, if we have enough money for it." Tot eats snake shocks mother in Australia PERTH, Australia (UPI) An 18-month-old boy shocked his mother Thursday by eating a live and wriggling poisonous snake in front of her eyes. Mrs.

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