The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 28

The Beacon Journal Monday, March 30, 1998, Page A3 Sermons underscore tragedy A killings. Yesterday, the school was open for counseling sessions. Tomorrow, Tippit's church members plan to distribute 250 stuffed animals, donated by a local Wal-Mart store, to students. Children will be encouraged to take the bunnies, bears and dolls to a community memorial service that evening at the Arkansas State University campus. "The idea is to give them something to hold," said Tippit Plans called for President Clinton to address the gathering through a video hookup from Africa.

Attorney General Janet Reno and Gov. Mike Huckabne are to speak in persoa The Fullness of Joy Church collected a special offering yesterday for the school and the families of the victims. The Rev. Adrian Rogers said the tragedy of the shootings had pulled together people of all different faiths. Reminders of the shooting can be seen nearly everywhere in Jonesboro, from business signs proclaiming "Our prayers are with you, Westside" to the scores of buckets, coffee cans and jars labeled "Westside Crisis Fund" in-, side stores.

Middle school shooting stirs church leaders to deliver message of hope, forgiveness in Arkansas By David A. Jjeb Associated Press Jonesboro, ARK: Pastors urged forgiveness yesterday and praised the hundreds of behind-the-scenes helpers who had given their time, talents and treasures since a deadly school shooting shattered the community's morale. At Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, little girls handed stones to arriving parishioners. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone," preached Deacon Victor J. Stepka.

"We must use authority at least to try to understand and mend the person who has made a mistake." He explained that he had prepared his message before the shooting, but found it enhanced by Tuesday's deaths of four students and a teacher, killed in a hail of bullets at their school Police say two students, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden, are responsible. Associated Press A roadside sign commemorating the day of the Westside Middle School shooting reminds motorists of the Jonesboro, tragedy. "We refuse to be paralyzed by fear," the Rev. Rodney Reeves said at Central Baptist Church. "Our God is so great and so good that He can take something so evil as the slaughter of innocence and turn it for good." At the First Baptist Church, the Rev.

Bruce Tippit paused for a moment of public affirmation for the doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians in his church who helped treat the wounded outside Westside Middle School The Rev; Fred Haustein of the First United Methodist Church gave thanks "for those whose jobs were to bring responsibility and order to chaos, healing to injury, and peace to violence." Youngsters will return to West-side Middle School today for their first full week of classes since the current form, Kasich said yesterday, President Clinton should veto it Kasich, R-Westerville, on Friday led 10 other Republicans at a news conference where they decried GOP backing for the six-year, $217 billion surface transportation bill that the House is expected to pass his week. Yesterday, on Foz News Sunday, Kasich acknowledged that "I think I'll get hit by a cement truck" when he goes to the House floor to try to reduce the spending level. But he said he thought the president should, and will, veto it because it boosts highway spending by 42 percent over the last six-year program. Wind-driven fire burns remote area of forest A wind-driven fire had burned through 800 acres of the Moshannon State Forest in central Pennsylvania yesterday. No buildings or residents were threatened by the fire in a remote and unpopulated area.

Investigators suspected arson, said Arlene Swales, a dispatcher for the Bureau of Forestry. Edited from wire reports by Dave Wilson, Beacon Journal National Desk Washington Senate committee releases tobacco bill Negotiators yesterday agreed on most of the provisions of Congress' leading tobacco bill that would charge the industry about $138 billion more and impose harsher restrictions than the settlement companies and states reached in June. Negotiators also approved for the Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate nicotine products, a victory for the health community and the White House. For all the progress, negotiators left unfinished the central issues of debate how much, if any, legal protection to give the industry, and specifically how to spend the $506 billion over 25 years the companies would pay. Washington Republican chastises GOP on highway bill Rep.

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