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ON THE INSIDE: LOCAL: Affordable Housing Force plans home RELIGION: Ross nun-mom counsels families Sounds Like Fun Page 3 SPORTS: Shaler boys basketball in third place Page 15 Page 11 Soaperstars Stars from television's soap operas visit Pittsburgh. Page 9 Feb. A North Hills runs ews Record Serving the Greater North Hills Area 33 YOU NEED The League of Woman Voters of the North Hills, North Area Environmental Council and the North Hills People for Peace will jointly sponsor a forum on recycling on Tuesday. Feb. 13, at 7 30 p.m in the Northland Library Community Room Topics will include materials, municipalities and markets.

Some communities will have to start recycling efforts by September. The forum will address plans and pilot projects for salvage of glass, aluminum, tin, plastics and yard waste. Speakers include John Walters of Plum's Department of Works, who will speak about the municipal program; Bill Burlett of Shaler 'i Department of Works, who will speak on selling municipal waste; Tobias Cordek, McCandless manager, who will speak on cooperative plans and Don Herman, Allegheny County's Director of Solid Waste Management, who will address material preparation and markets where it can be sold. Census Jobs The U.S. Census Bureau is looking for individuals throughout the North Hills to work on this 'ear's population count.

The jfeau needs people to conduct interviews in the field, as well as clerks and typists. Persons interested must be available at least 20 hours a week, for four- to six-weeks, including evenings and Saturdays. Applicants must take a written test. Local officials emphasize that the census is Important for redlstrictlng of legislative districts pnd determining now government grants are allocated. For Information contact: U.S.

Census Bureau, Edgetowne Square, 1005 Beaver Grade Road, Coraopolls, 15108, or call 2697900. Some borough or township offices may have applications available. IN YOUR COMMUNITY NUNNLMMRK Bellwood Preschool and kindergarten will accept registrations for the 1990-91 school year. Bellwood has a curriculum program for children 3 through 6, including an accredited kindergarten. The school is located in Franklin Park at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 23359 W.

IngomarRoad. Call 366-0244 or 366-8896. The North Hills YMCA will hold a nursery school open house on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. to meet teachers who will answer questions on the 3-, 4-, and 5-year- old nursery school programs.

For more information, call the YMCA at 364-3404. MLLVALI Millvale Fire Department will sponsor a spaghetti dinner on Feb. 25 at Christ Lutheran Church. The next Borough Council meeting will be on Tuesday, March 8 p.m. in council chambers on the second floor of the borough building on Lincoln Avenue.

Pageant bound IT NOIIMT J. CAMOLL. Dametrla Keremes chtcka Ellzabath Cabak'a gown one laat tlma. Crowning glory Pitt student set for Miss USA pageant By William Opalka It's a long way from the University of Pittsburgh to the Miss USA pageant, or even Wichita, for that matter. But Elizabeth Cebak has found a way to connect all three.

The 23-year-old University of Pitta- burgh student of Ross and reigning Miss Pennsylvania-USA, Is preparing for the Miss USA pageant. The pageant will be held early March in Wichita. "I was filling out a loan application (in 1986) and I saw an ad In the Pitt News for the Miss-Pennsylvania-USA pageant," she said. The prize money $2,500 -matched the amount of her loan. Cebak, a University of Pittsburgh freshman at the time, applied for the contest, her first ever.

She didn't win that year, but Cebak "got the pageant bug." On her third try, in 1989, she won. "My life has been very hectic since," she said. Since being crowned last March, Cebak has toured extensively, done promotional work and prepared for the Miss USA contest. "The (title) has allowed me to do more for the organizations that I've already been a part of," she said. Cebak, a 1984 graduate of North Hills High School, has been a spokesperson for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Make-A-Wlsh Foundation.

Cebak also is regional director of Career Development-Northwood Realty Better Homes and Gardens. Preparing'for the pageant has delayed her education. She is a senior at Pitt, majoring in communications. Turn to MISS PA 2 Gibsonia company hasn't compensated widow of worker By Teresa Price Jon Anderson Excavating of Gibsonia has not compensated the widow of one of its employees who died in a construction accident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Anderson (4,100 in November for several safety violations that led to the death of Clair Grossman, 34, of Slippery Rock.

Grossman's wife, notreceived any money from Anderson because he doesn't have workman's compensation insurance, says Richard spagnolli, Grossman's attorney. "We'll work out a deal and have someone come up with money," he says. He wouldn't say what will be done. Grossman died Oct. 18 after a 12-foot trench caved in on him while he was installing sewer lines in a section of the Orchard Park Meadow plan, Richland.

OSHA fined Anderson for not providing protective helmets; not effectively storing dirt two or more feet from the edge of the trench; not shoring the sides of the trench; and failing te provide steps or a ladder Anderson is contesting the fines, says Frank Librich, OSHA safety supervisor. He says OSHA attorneys will meet with Anderson's attorney and the matter may be settled out of court. Librich would not give the name of Anderson's attorney. Anderson could not be reached for comment. Any company found in violation has 15 days to pay the fine or contest it.

Librich says contesting a fine is not an unusual practice. --Deputy-Corner-Arlhur-Gilkes said vember that Anderson should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. --But the district attorney's office has not taken any action. Chris Conrad, deputy district attorney for. homicide, says before deciding what action to take, he is awaiting the outcome of a similar cave-in.

The cave-in occurred in December in O'Hara. Gilkes also said Grossman and another employee, Mike Pegher of Wexford, didn't have much experience in digging sewer trenches. Pegher was able to climboul of the trench. Grossman, the father of three children, had been working with Anderson for eight days before he was killed Blacks struggle to find identity Jesse Jackson says name matters Part one of a three-part terlei. By Allot T.

Carter Niwt Accord George Matthews knows what's In a name. He says the changing images of black people can be seen in the names and titles they choose for themselves and that others choose for them. Matthews, vice-president for academic affairs and academic dean at La Roche College in McCandless, holds a doctorate in American and African-American literature. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, Matthews says, words like colored or negro were acceptable usage. Colored was also used to express the philosophical purpose of the NAACP, says Matthews, "not to characterize people by their color, but to make the group open to people of all colors throughout the world." Colored people was a popular term at that time, according to Linda Hursey, a public relations representative for the NAACP headquarters in Washington.

Hursey says she sees no contradiction in the NAACP's continued use of what many consider to be an antiquated or demeaning term. "The name hasn't changed," she says, "because changing the name is not going to cause the problems that are out there to go away." The Rev. Jesse Jackson thinks changing a name makes a big difference. Instead of colored or black, Jackson prefers African- A merlcan to identify his race. Jackson says; "To be African-American for your Information Iflf ifeut tta Harlem ftufatSMnra may Wtnt teittnd a and abow by C.

Mattbwi, "The Har, ten RwalaMDct RwtoltBd," on Friday. Fab. at I am. In (te Ryan Room or to frao and opao to tbf is to have cultural integrity, to look at your place on the map and the globe." His call to to replace black, which a i the 1960s a pride movement, with African-American is the latest attempt to find a word to define an ethnic group, a race and a culture. A Chicago Sun-Times survey showed 62 per- jcent of respondents preferred African-Amcri- canto black.

North Hills NAACP president Bob Pipkin supports Jackson's position. "I think it's a oet- ter term," Pipkin says. He thinks the term African-American better describes his background and heritage than the termbtacfc. In the classroom By Teresa Price wide vocabulary and imagination, but not knowing how to sell those words could Marilyn Adams' first grade pupils at Poff Elementary are authors In their own right, or rite, however they choose to spell It. The Hampton School District class is writing stories using their own vocabulary instead of correct spelling.

The stories are part of a writing lab where pupils are free to write what they want. The stories, with construction paper covers and crayon-printed pages, tell of dinosaurs, friendships, and holidays. --Die seertt Mhtod the stories like lucky and great are spelled Corrections are made later. "They think they're authors," says Adams. The pupils learn to put their Ideas on paper and correct the words as they go along.

The stories are written in a five-step process. In the first step, pupils and Adams brainstorm for story Ideas. The ideas range from other books they have read, home activities, and assemblies. There isn't a tetiuMelineon how mm: 9UH1U A rough draft of the story is then written. Adams says pupils don't have to worry about or neatness In this step.

The third step is reading the story to a classmate to get his opinion. Editing the story is the fourth step. Pupils meet with Adams, who acts as editor and teacher, to read the final copy. "I help with the spelling and we polish up the story, 1 she says. "Then the pupils get good paper and markers and publish the story." nranytacas are seen 10 robot stories this year.

several on Batman, and one story about people who turned Into aloiofquMtiom. She says Uifo better than iavingthcinpassTree HmeT)y coloring OF "We use their writing to fielp them learn." shesavs. "Wedon't worry about the end product as with the THE NEWS RECORD: CLASSIFIED 772-3909, CIRCULATION 772-7324.