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4 i fc-t tv- i -i 4r 'f tt- v- 'V't- ir' y-' -mi Hm Chiefs open thdr 1995 Mason against Um Seahawfcs tv iMfe 27 4i kcfx usli fw Kansas 23 Florida Stats 70 Northwestern 17 Cincinnati 18 Duke 26 Notre Dame 15 CONFERENCE The Kansas City Star MID-AMERICA EDITION SUNDAY September 3 1995 TODAY IN THE STAR School in Ozarks must work harder AMEXICAN TRADTI10N if sS mother turn a pumpkin and mice into a horse-drawn carriage Campbell has seen wrapping paper turned into air conditioners a small library swell to three times its previous size and an $18000 investment grow to $152000 Of course the Lutie School an amalgamation of buildings strung together over the course of 40 years has no fairy godmother Instead it has dedicated parents school board members and staff who are willing to work hard for little compensation much as I enjoy working here the See SCHOOL A-ll Col 1 Lutie district uses innovation to overcome poverty of area By A SCHARNHORST Ozarks Correspondent THEODOSIA Mo Each morning Robert Campbell wakes up in the middle of a Cinderella story In his three years as superintendent of the poverty-ridden Lutie School District in this southwest Missouri resort town Campbell has witnessed miracles of near fairy-tale proportions Just as Cinderella watched her fairy god DAVID PULLIAMThe Star Robert Campbell superintendent of the Lutie School District greets students in a new wing of the school which is in the southern Missouri town of Theodosia Quinceanera announces that a girl has turned 1 5 and has become a young woman Star Magazine FESTIVE WEEKEND THE STATE OF STATE PARKS State parks are getting a workout this holiday weekend Visitors in Kansas are finding a system in trouble while in Missouri enjoying one of the nation's model programs security disrupts meeting Thousands mingle eat and view handcrafted goodies at three area festivals local Section $1 REACTOR BIRTHDAY The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant 10 years old today is among the nations best Local Section WEATHER Surveillance activities at forum are too aggressive delegates say From Star News Services HUAIROU China Two days before the opening of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women leaders of the parallel forum delivered an ultimatum to their Chinese hosts Saturday They warned that if security forces did not cease intense surveillance of participants within 24 hours they could close the forum With nearly 30000 women gathered in Huairou for a bonanza of international networking and open workshops the demand by leaders of the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on Women that security agents back off intensified a sense of crisis among United Nations and other officials that their long-planned conference could be ruined by unruly hosts Meanwhile Hillary Rodham Clinton who leaves today for the conference in See SECURITY A-16 Col 1 Dole trails TAMMY LJUNGBLADThe Star 4 6 8 10 SUNDAY PM 4 6 8 10 12 SUNDRY A Plans already are in motion that could lead to closing the Kan badly damaged by the 1993 flood These Fancy Creek Fancy Creek area of Tuttle Creek State Park near Manhattan restroom facilities were a victim of the flood Kansas parks face money woes By JOHN PETTERSON Topeka Correspondent STORMS POSSIBLE Forecast C-5 OPINION Reform of the air-traffic control system deserves prompt consideration in Congress Section TOMORROW IN THE STAR Complete coverage of the Chiefs' season opener bling and others are outdated or undersized The age and neglect found there also are evident in most of the 23 other state parks used by more than 4 million campers boaters hikers water skiers and anglers last year On average buildings and utility systems in the parks are about 30 years old and have seen few improvements in that time Some parks have not recovered from recent flood damage my understanding holding See CLOSING A-14 Col 2 nudged 100 had never driven a peg there before But after a glance around he was quickly familiar with 'some of the history been many improvements in the park in the last few the Maize Kan man observed adding that amenities did not compare to similar parks he had visited in other states Opened in 1958 along the shore of a man-made reservoir Kanopolis is the oldest park Although it is still heavily used some of its buildings are crum By the middle of last week Labor Day campers already were piling into Kanopo-lis State Park nestled among the scenic Smoky Hills of central Kansas Kanopolis' location makes it a longtime favorite for family reunions company cam-pouts and meetings among far-flung friends Others such as Gaylord Hinshaw raising a tent as midafternoon temperatures By STEVE KRASKE Political Correspondent Missouri parks lack appreciation DEPARTMENTS Vol 1 15 No 351 19 sections Advice H-2 Arts J-l Careers E-l Classified F-l Deaths CAfi Engagements Weddings 4 IS FYI H-l Health Science K-S By JOHN A DVORAK Mid-America Correspond! They call it red meat lay off one-third of the bureaucrats And when I start to cut I start at the The crowd cheered Morry prescription for cutting government just as it had when another GOP presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan spoke in Dallas last month what I want to say today to all the globalists up there in Tokyo and New York and Paris" Buchanan said 1 raise my hand to take the oath of office your new world order comes crashing A week later in Ames Iowa Sen Phil Gramm was predicting timid use of the line-item veto by President Clinton: may use it on a little piece of pork or a little strip of bacon to stop government in Washington from mortgaging See FLAMBOYANCE A-17 Col 1 Missouri state parks is worth $1 million Any park system in the nation would love to own the property in southeastern Missouri Missouri got Goggins Mountain for free a donation from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburgh doubtful the 16 million people who visited Missouri parks last year know about the Anybody who dreams of disappearing into the wilderness dreams of a place like Goggins Mountain 4794 acres of hickory oak and rocky glades Crossed by no road and accessible only by trail the secluded forest with its Ozark vistas newest big addition to The Star cycles and all-terrain vehicles Or about the 300-unit condominium project threatening to invade the Lake of the Ozarks See MISSOURI A-15 Col 1 bargain Or about the remarkable diversity of state parks which even include two isolated locations set aside for riding motor- taking the day off to honor working people like hiring a baby sitter to celebrate Day? Hooch million readers with a classified ad in Tht Star Decades erase agonizing loss Airman was more than a buddy his heroism saved a B-17 and crew Rock for all ages Two generations pay tribute to one another at a concert to celebrate the opening of the Hock and Roll Had of Fame Story A-6 and long at rest in the sun-bathed grassy crater above Honolulu the other alive unable to rest troubled by guilt and anger In 1943 Army pilot Zeamer and bombardier Samoski two Pennsylvania boys who worked together at a stateside base teamed up agaia this time on a B-17 flying sorties against See MMUUrs r' the end on Sept 2 1945 Each could tell a tale of instant terror or gnawing dread in the four years when America was in the grip of what President Clinton called most horrible thing ever done by But few could tell a tale more horrible or more heroic than the story pf the pilot and the bombardier of Jay Zeamer and Joe Samoski both Medal of Honor winners one dead The AaaodaM Press But the old pilot came in search of a grave a solitary headstone a single man the one who truly saved his life a division of duties as old as war itself: Leaders memorialize: warriors remember On Saturday the memories of World War II weighed heavy on the thousands of gray-haired veterans who came to Honolulu to trek up to a hillside cemetery and commemorate HONOLULU Most came like the young president to honor an entire generation the one he said saved the 1411.