The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

TThe Commercial Appeal nwiHowAin 152nd Year No 259 4 Sections Memphis Tennessee Monday Morning September 16 1991 FINAL 504 By Michael McMullan Growth outpaces funding at 2-year colleges AqiLOMio asks referendum to postpone base closing Staff map Fun with a purpose The Pavilion at Overton Park is a place for fun beneath a collapsing parachute for Latoya Harris 9 (center) and other children Sunday at the Black Family Reunion The event focused on reaffirming the historic strengths and traditional values of the black family Story on Page DIB Harkin enters race with blast at Bush Liberal vows to hammer of take a hammer to them" Harkin Is the third Democrat to officially enter the race joining Heat lets up schools return to full session ate to- on normal schedi le city schools closed four hours early Thursday and Friday because of the heat But heat is expected to be less severe so all schools will have normal closing times Pupil services director Jim Paavola said any time the heat index approaches 105 degrees officials think about closing the schools The index factors in the humidity to show what the temperature actually feels like heat index is expected to be under 100 officials at the National-Weather Service in Memphis said Sunday Reuters By David Waters The Commercial Appeal On' the first day of class last week a part-time teacher at State Technical Institute at Memphis counted 31 students on the attendance sheet and 22 chairs in the room when I knew we might have a teacher Linda Cosgrove said Head counts at two-year colleges are higher than ever and two-year colleges in other parts of the country have had similar booms in recent years Shelby State Community enrollment is up 62 percent State is up about by State and State Tech hope to be rewarded next year with more state money' The state funding formula parcels out funds to schools based largely on enrollment and growth However for now the surge in enrollment is creating problc because funding for higher education is at its lowest level in 15 years Comfort and some say even quality are casualties in the efforts to get more students School officials are scroung-' lng to find enough teachers and rooms Shelby State has had to hire 150 extra part-time teachers and lease space at Baptist Memorial Hospital State Tech offered three classes in hallways and asked a number of administrators to put in doubleduty in the classroom including Jack-son dean of the college Ms Costs executive assistant to president Meanwhile quirks in state funding formulas inadvertently are punishing the two schools for their success Much of State growth is in night classes State Tech has the most popular evening program However state formulas that determine needs for classroom space use only daytime enrollment figures Those formulas show State Tech has plenty of classroom space According to the formulas Shelby State also has ample classroom space but the formulas add all the space at Shelby three campuses That means no separate listing for the bursting Southeast Crater where 1600 students (up from 1100 last fall) are using 10 classrooms in leased space at Mendenhall Square Mall By comparison East High School has 1200 students in 65 classrooms Hamilton High has Please see BIND Page AS AppaaiCI-S Birth A4 DMttwAI iA4 LandaraCI BridgC4 MovtotC4 BulnBM PubImCS Bygona DaytCI gsunsdiw-iT tvdw ComicaCM Th RcordA DaMxxC4 VtowpointAfrf Copyright INI Tho Commute Appod WIATHtn Partly sunny 40 percent chance of thundershowers today High In lower 90s Chance of thundershowers tonight Low In lower 70s DetallsD7 HOLDING UNI AGAINST THOMAS Benjamin Hooks says the NAACP will persist in opposing nominee to the Supreme Court METROB1 By Philip Shenon The New York Time MANILA Philippines President Corazon Aquino in effect extended the American stay at Subic Bay Sunday by announcing a national referendum on the base treaty Following Mrs Aquino's announcement the Philippine Senate voted 12-11 today to reject the treaty telling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval in the 23-member Senate Senate rejection of the treaty had been expected The current treaty for Subic Bay Naval Base the largest American military base in expires 1 Invoking the rallying cry of that she used with success In ousting President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 Mrs Aquino proposed In a televised address that take the issue directly to the people" Her call for a referendum under terms of the Philippine constitution has the effect of extending the deadline for an American departure by several months and possibly for years Opinion polls show an overwhelming majority of Filipinos support the treaty Tne vote could not be held until late this year or sometime In 1992 Mrs move Is expected to be the target of court challenges by those who say the constitution only permits voters to overrule Senate votes on laws not treaties While the Bush administration hinted strongly last weqk that it would start an immediate withdrawal If the 10-year treaty is vetoed Western diplomats said in recent days that tne United -States position is far more flexible and troops probably would remain at the base until after a referendum The base home to more than 7000 American troops and civilian workers Is a major refueling and repair station for the 7th Fleet While its strategic value has declined with the winding down of the Cold War Bush administration officials say replicating the functions of Subic at bases elsewhere in the Pacific would cost billions Clark Air Base on the central Philippine island of Luzon was abandoned this year after being smothered by volcanic ash from Mt Pinatubo The Philippine Senate had been expected to reject the new base agreement hammered out this summer between the Bush administration and the Manila government Many senators signed for strict national sovereignty saying it is time for the Philippines to end nearly a century of American military presence Several senators have also objected to what they describe as insultingly low compensation offered by the United States S203 million a year far less than was originally sought by Manila Also at stake are the jobs of tens of thousands of Filipinos who work in base-related jobs as well as hundreds of millions of dollars the Subic installation injects into the economy Pete Johnson Kirk Fordice Now if the campaign rhetoric any measure the struggle within tne party is over whether the party will be led by recent converts or longtime By Mike Glover The Anodatad Praia W1NTKRSET Iowa Iowa Sen Tom Harkin joined the growing list of announced Democratic presidential hopefuls Sunday with a populist call to "take back pvepment from the privileged Harkin spelled out a campaign aimed at the people who pull the load and pay the who he said have been betrayed by "the greed and selfishness of George Herbert Walker Bush and Danforth The lawmaker dismissed his difficult odds against President Bush here to tell you that George Herbert Walker Bush has feet of clay and I Intend to Brave effort Sid Bream (center) hit a grand slam Sunday as Atlanta beat Los Angeles 9-1 to take a game lead over Its rival In tightest race The Braves took two out of three from the Dodgers this weekend In Atlanta Story on Page D1 Ex-Subic chief: Loss would hurt Filipinos By Tom Bailey Jr The Commercial Appeal As the Philippines argues whether to evict the United States from Subic Bay Naval Base one Memphis-area man knows the reasons and ramifications like no other extremely disappointed and sad more for the Filipino people than anything said Adm Roger Rich Jr From August 1988 to August 1990 Rich was not only commander of the important base but commander of US naval forces in the Philippines and the US representative in the Philippines Now Rich is chief of naval technical training headquartered at Memphis Naval Air Station at Millington The Philippine Senate rejected a new treaty today that would allow the Navy to stay at Subic Bay but President Corazon Aquino on Sunday announced a national referendum that in effect extended the American stay The issue is nationalism not money Rich said "I be critical of Rich said of the senators truly a nationalist The United States wrested the Phili and until military bases that the United States kept on the Philippines" see SUBIC Page A2 doubt be able to support Pete" Fordice agreed a sign of the bitterness of this campaign Only Johnson promised to endorse the primary winner Johnson a former Democrat has the statewide name recognition that would make him a shoo-in if this were a normal statewide race against two relatively unknown candidates However only 20000-40000 voters are expected to cast ballots in the Republican primary Tuesday and the outcome is unpredictable Many of these voters will be longtime Republi- Bobby Clanton Virginia Gov Douglas Wilder apd former Massachusetts senator Paul His could split Democratic liberal activists who play an important role in the nominating process and moderates who argue the White House will elude tne party until it moves to the middle Other Democrats may rater the race soon Arkansas Gov Bill Clinton and Nebraska Sen Bob Kerrey are likely candidates Former California governor Jerry Brown also plans to run and Oklahoma Rep Dave McCurdy Tom Harkin Please see HARKIN Page AS speeches for 30eecond political television ads incumbents and challengers in this northeastern corner of the -state wage their battles live in person on a speaking circuit of sorts Across much of Mississippi 'iticians say they are bom-with invitations to speak and often pay for the honor of speaking had 27 of them (speakings) this year in my says state Sen John White (D-Baldwyn) In a few minutes he bolts to neighboring Prentiss County lor yet another Neal Harwell a 48-year-old er mill worker hum Iuka has attended them for years for fellowship and fodder "Once in a while be some slurs or a little Please see SPEAK Page A4 TALK OF THE TOWN Politicians in Mississippi woo voters without TV middleman Three in GOP race share views not backgrounds ar Td 1 By Reed Branson The Commercial Appeal Tues-winner highly Jackson Mi Bureau JACKSON Miss The relatively low number of Mlssissip-plana expected to vote In Republican gubernatorial primary must choose among three men espousing similar philosophies but with different backgrounds The choices are Pete Johnson the state auditor Kirk Fordice a Vicksburg engineering contractor and Bobby Clanton a Brandon businessman who owns Perma Jack foundation-repair franchises That three such candidates have mounted aggressive campaigns most recently attacking i of this mf- one another is a i nority growing strength in MississippL Not since 1874 during Reconstruction have Misslsripplans elected a Republican governor By Reed Branson The CommarSM Appeal Jackson Mi Bureau BELMONT Miss The serenity of an oak-lined park in the center of town here is torn by shrill pledges from politicians who step up one after another into a white gazebo Onlookers some 200 of them have gathered in a semicircle to listen talk and and ultimately to i who vote for in primary elections Here amid the rolling hills and the picturesque country sites ana away from major media markets socalled speakings are a mainstay of the political season While many places in the nation and the South have exchanged old-fashioned stump Republl Tte iblicans Johnson is a Republican Ray Clanton said in a recent debate when asked if lease see GOP Page AA.