ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, December 11, 1996 TAG: 9612110057
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
Mom gets probation for tardies
PLANO, Texas - A mother who couldn't get her 5-year-old up and going in the morning in time for kindergarten has been placed on criminal probation for 90 days and is looking at a $200 fine or worse if the lad continues to dawdle.
Caroline Edens, 35, an insurance underwriter, returns to court Wednesday for a status hearing on a judge's Nov. 13 order compelling her to get her son to bed earlier every night, wake him up on time in the morning, personally walk him to class and attend parenting classes as a penalty for his repeated tardiness.
Edens says her son, Sam Bundy, who turns 6 on Friday, has been late for school ``eight or 10 times'' this year, often by ``only a couple of minutes.''
``I honestly don't think he always understood what to do,'' she said Tuesday. ``He'd be in the hall when the bell rang, and the other kids would go to class, and he would go to the office to get his tardy slip.''
- Houston Chronicle
Doctor accused of persecuting Jews
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Tuesday sued to strip a retired Florida doctor of his U.S. citizenship, alleging he was part of a Lithuanian police squad that helped Nazis persecute Jews in World War II.
Adolph Milius, 78, is accused of lying about his past, according to the 14-page suit filed in Tampa's U.S. District Court by the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations.
It alleges that the Lithuanian-born physician, who moved to the United States in 1949, served for at least five months in 1941 as a plain-clothes member of the Saugumas, or the Lithuanian Security Police. The unit is alleged to have killed 30,000 Jews.
- Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Gay scouts get more lenience
SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts has quietly adopted a more lenient policy toward gay members and leaders, putting it in apparent conflict with the national Scouts but positioning it to try to win back United Way and corporate funding cut off four years ago.
The national Boy Scouts of America opposes allowing homosexual members or leaders, and in the past it has expelled gays.
But the Bay Area Council has adopted a policy that doesn't call for the expulsion unless the Scout or Scout leader engages in public homosexual conduct or advocacy. However, the Bay Area Council's new policy on sexuality doesn't bar members for simply being homosexual.
- San Francisco Examiner
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