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USA Weekend ISA! WEEKEND Fremont. Ohio Saturday, January 4, 1992 35 Cents EEL Dowx ospitin hvart aitatioi? Hifill ai la' As? Lo-dgEl ch ad thice stRe es ex Ca, 4, Atmlodriti (43 ittiqe star? 11 If. mike Ok? If le' 1 tEAIIII 92 If Pon, of oomoto le toot owoilloo. fo MO, NoOo Can hitmlodrio 4 tall. IIE! A whole new year of health issues Inside Percent cut 1.94 1.88 1.64 1.74 3.49 8.78 Amount cut $179,486 $78,061 $34,982 $56,251 $36,791 $99,330 District Fremont Gibsonburg Lakota Woodmore B-C-S By DICK KIMMINS NewsMessenger Statehouse Bureau COLUMBUS State subsidies to public school districts will be cut more than $383,000 in Sahdusky County by Gov.

George Voinovich's Dec. 30 executive order closing part of the state's current budget deficit. Late Friday, the Ohio Department of Education released a partial calculation of the impact of the governor's order on each of the state's 612 school districts. The partial calculation totaled $68.4 million, or about three-quarters of the total $88.8 million in reductions to elementary and secondary education ordered by the governor. The district-by-district list did not include state reductions of about $20 million in five categorical aid programs in which federal funds are involved: some transportation, school lunches and adult vocational programs.

The size of those cuts by district was not available from the department Friday. And the list did not exempt any district. Voinovich will ask the Ohio General Assembly next week to exempt 172 of the state's poorest districts. The identity of those districts is unknown until legislation is prepared by the governor's office. To finance the exemption to be sought by the governor, a special state transfer of $8.7 million from the profits of the Ohio Lottery to the education department will be required.

The department's initial calculation of the impact of the governor's cuts, however, shows significant differences among districts. Generally, state basic aid is trimmed 2.5 percent from current subsidies, while "categorical" programs of special aid to schools with high numbers of poor or disadvantaged students is reduced 6 percent. Cuts in state aid to districts with high local property values generally in the suburbs around the state's major cities are much higher than in areas of Source: Ohio Department of Education Places to go Ross Band parents will sponsor a spaghetti dinner in the Ross High School cafeteria from 3 to 6 p.m. today before the Sandusky basketball game. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3.50 for students.

The Parents Without Partners, Fremont Chapter 903, singles dance will be today from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at the Elks Lodge. For more information call 547-8442 or 332-3920. The Bellevue VFW Post 1238 will sponsor a still shoot at 1 p.m.

Sunday at the post, Prairie Road and U.S. 20, Bellevue. Prizes will be meat and cash. In gross dollars, the reduction the state where low property values result in low local property tax revenues for the schools. See SCHOOLS, A2 1 I to ot Ger -n friends in Frei int 1 Record: 31201 i .1 I ir 4 i .,,,:10 kk4 1 ,,41: 4.V1,,,...- Nit14 44 A 1 0,,,,,....

PI I I 44 I I 4.44rt, 4 i', 1. 1 i '1 e' 0 it i 1 lit. 1- 4 Trains hitched Cali it the biggest merger since the Burlington and Great Northern railroads joined forces. The Gospel Train and The Blues Train got hitched Wednesday. Dorothy Gladden, who hosts The Gospel Train show on Des Moines radio station KUCB, married Byron Moore, who engineers The Blues Train show on the same station, in a midnight New Year's ceremony at Union Baptist Church here.

Which leads to a question: Can the blues co-exist with gospel? "I like all types of music," Moore says. "He plays clean blues," Gladden says. "There's no stuff about cheating on wives or anything like that." Moore popped the question over the air. It was Nov. 24, a Sunday night, and Gladden was hosting her weekly show, which consists of gospel music and rebroadcasts of sermons from Union Baptist Church.

"He came over," Gladden says. "I opened the door and let him in and he asked me if I'd marry him. I said, 'I guess I Moore then grabbed a microphone and asked once more, this time with KUCB's listeners serving as witnesses. "I said, 'We interrupt this program for a special Gladden recalls. "I let him have the mike." By PAULA WETHINGTON Staff writer Imagine that you're thousands of miles away from home on the adventure of your life.

Among all the excitement eating new foods, making new friends and enjoying the holidays your best friend from home suddenly walks in the door. It's a story that two German teenagers enjoyed this week. But the story of how they met in Norwalk and later visited at the home of Fremont resident Kayda Valone, 16, 1600 Morrison Road, takes some explaining. Julia Schulz-Vanheyden, 16, and Eva Schroeder, 16, were best friends back home in Muenster, Germany. "We have the same friends, the same everything," said Schulz-Vanheyden.

Schroeder is an exchange student at Norwalk High School, living for six months with the family of Bob and Jill Salgado. She will go back home later this Assoctated Press NEW YORK The stock market's Dow Jones industrial average closed above 3,200 points Friday for the first time ever. The Dow average climbed 29.07 points to close at 3,201.48. The New York Stock Exchange's best-known indicator has closed at new peaks in each of the past six trading sessions. Friday's gain gave the average a 99.96- point gain for the week.

Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones in the broader market by about 5 to 3. Trading was brisk. Many analysts had expected the rally would falter starting Thursday, when taxpaying investors could cash in profits by selling stock without having to include the gains on their 1991 income tax returns. But after a round of selling Thursday morning, prices quickly rebounded and continued their upward momentum through Friday. NowsMessengeriAndrew Morrison See FRIENDS, A2 BEST FRIENDS: Eva Schroeder hugs Julia Schulz-Vanheyden.

Baby boomers will drain health care system Deaths Sierra Keegan, Oak Harbor Theodore L. Tucker, Carey Lawrence A. Witter, Defiance Obituaries, A2 Social Security system may be "one of the first major tests of the baby boom generation's political cohesion and power," her report concluded. Baby boomers are the 80 million Americans born from 1946 to 1964. change the young people that will be providing the resources," De Vita said.

The key question for the 1990s is "how do we invest in America's future" of retiring baby boomers "while meeting the social, economic and political needs of today?" said De Vita, a demographer who co-authored a new report, "The Baby Boom Entering Mid life." It's a "tug of war a balancing out" between the young and the old, she said. Preserving the solvency of the The number of Americans aged 65 and older will double to 65 million by the year 2030 and there must be a "shifting of resources from the young to the old," said Carol De Vita of the Population Reference Bureau. The risk: "we can't short Associated Press WASHINGTON Aging baby boomers will transform the nation's health care and retirement systems over the next four decades in a "tug-of-war" with the younger generation, a private group reported Friday. Lottery Ii: Friday's winners: Pick 3: 863 Pick 4: 5364 Cards: 10 of Hearts; 6 of Clubs; Queen of Diamonds; 4 of Spades Study: Few virgins in high school Results of a study of sexual behavior among high school students as reported in the 1990 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 11,631 students in grades 9-12. Students were asked if they had ever had sexual intercourse and if they had had sexual intercourse during the three months preceding the survey.

Students reporting having Call us OFremont: News and sports, 332- USAl; other, 332-5511 GClyde: 547-7240 DOhlo toll free: 1-800-766-6397 INSIDE Students also were asked to 'den the method, if any, they or their partner used to prevent pregnancy the last time they had sex. Students reporting Associated Press ATLANTA More than half the nation's high school students have had sex, including seven of 10 by senior year, according to a survey released Friday by federal health officials. The survey of health habits among 11,631 high schoolers, in grades 9-12, showed that 54 percent say they have had sexual intercourse, the national Centers for Disease Control reported. "We're particularly concerned about the increase at each grade level," said Dr. Lloyd Kolbe, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health.

Among ninth-graders, 40 percent have had sex, according to the CDC survey. At 10th grade, it's 48 percent. By Ilth grade, it's 57 percent, and by 12th grade, it's 72 percent. The survey, conducted in 1990, was the first of its kind for the CDC, so exact data are not available from earlier years. But researchers believe high school students weren't nearly as sexually active in earlier generations, Kolbe said.

"It wasn't like this; it has increased," he said. Increasing numbers of sexually active students mean increasing numbers at risk for health problems, CDC researchers said. iems, researeners sun "We're concerned about basically three major public health epidemics here," Kolbe said. "The first is the epidemic of pregnancy among teenagers. We're concerned about sexually transmitted diseases, including the newer STDs like herpes, papilloma virus, chlamydia.

And we're very concerned about the extent to which these behaviors put young people at risk for the virus which causes Overall, boys in high school are more likely than girls to have had sex, 61 percent to 48 percent, the survey found. And black students are more likely than Hispanic students or white students to have had sex 72 percent to 53 percent and 52 percent, respectively. Most of the students who said they'd had sex had been sexually active recently. In grades 9-12, 39 percent of students reported sexual intercourse within the preceding three months, the CDC said. Among the currently sexually active students, 78 percent said they had used some form of contraception, such as the' pill, condoms or withdrawal, during their last intercourse.

Forty-nine percent of males and 40 percent of females reported condom use during their last intercourse. use aurmg trier last intercourse. Advice B8 Focus B5 Back Page B8 Local A3 Classified B5 Records A2 Comics B7 Sports Bl. Deaths A2 TV B7 Editorials A4 Weather A3 No birth control 2 Other method of contraceptive (Includes birth control pills, withdrawal or other) Among those reporting sexual intercourse during the three months preceding the survey. The CDC survey was conducted among high school students in all 50 states.

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