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Senator finds Pell grant scam NATIONAL WASHINGTON (AD — Mow than 4.000 stuchmts hav» collected Poll grants for 11 voors or more, and in one case a student got the federal mon ey for 10 years, Sen Sam Nunn said Wednesday. ■The Education Department discovered the long term tuition subsidies for 4,095 students when it examined its files to answer a series of questions Nunn had posed as part of a probe In the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations "I am not surprised by this revelation.” Nunn. D Ga . said in a statement. "The Department of Edu cation has l>een managed so poorly in the past that it did not even know this apparent abuse had been occurring." The disclosure came as Nunn announced hear ings for next Wednesday and Thursday on prob lems in the program. Pell grants make up the gov ernment's largest cash aid plan for students in post-secondary education. Some 3.8 million of America's neediest students received an average of $1,763 each last year in Pell grants at 6,300 eligible schools. David Longanecker. assistant secretary for post secondary education, said federal policy on how long students can receive Pell grants has changed several times over the years. Ho said it is not currently illegal for grants to he extended well beyond tho normal four-year spun of a conventional undergraduate college education Hut Nunn made it clear he believes the program is out of control Committee investigators have discovered schools that exist only to milk, the program for federal sub sidies, he said Some schools apparently pay stu dents ku id lacks to attend classes and let their names he used on grant applications Other si hools rou tinely falsify nxiords to win grants for ineligible stu dents. Nunn said On Monday, the department mailed notices informing 21 orthodox Jewish schools that they were being barred from Pell grants and other fed eral student aid programs because their programs did not provide training aimed at job goals Alt hut one of the si hools are in the New York City area I-onganei kef said the Jewish academies were try ing to "rip off" taxpayers to finance their opera tions. A dozen or more other si hools that also offer pro grains in (uduii studies are under investigation by the department and more enfon ement actions may follow, he said. A federal grand jury in New York also is inves ligating several dozen Hnsidii Jew ish si hools and other institutions over alleged abuses m the .$•'.7 billion Pell Grant program Winter foretold by worm’s color BEATTYVILLE. Ky. (AB) — Appalachia is in for a mild win ter with a cold snap at both ends. That is, if the eastern Ken tucky woolly worm can he trust ed. The woolly worm lady, Rose mary Kilduff, released her 12th annual weather survey Wednes day. Appalachian folklore holds that winter’s severity can he foretold from the color of the Isabella moth caterpillar's "wool.'" Kilduff and her spotters counted 393 worms in Lee County this year. There were 111 solid black worms, indicat ing the frosty start and finish of winter. Kilduff said a bunch of lighter caterpillars portend a mild middle. "With 3f> light-colored ones, particularly the lime- and cel ery-colored ones, we will cer tainly see gross in February os we did lost year," she said. kilduff acknowledges that the worms sometimes "mess up a little." Hut she said the inaci u racies can be blamed on such things as a 1‘1‘H volcano erup tion in the Philippines and unusual Pacific Ocean warming known as FI Nino "That confused the meteorol ogists." kilduff said “So what s a woolly worm to do?” NAACP complaint resolved by AT&T CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP resolved its fight with AT&T over an offending cartoon in the phone company's employee magazine. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is restoring long distance ser vice with American Telephone & Telegraph Co., chapter Pres ident Kelly Alexander Jr. said in a statement Tuesday. Alexander cited "AT&T's long standing, mutually respect ful relationship with the NAACP." However, a spokeswoman at national NAACP headquar ters in Baltimore said Wednesday that no agreement had noon made at the national level The chapter complained to AT&T iast month about a draw ing in a company magazine sent to 300,000 employees world wide in September. The drawing showed characters on several continents talk ing by telephone. All the characters were human except the one in Africa, which was a monkey. The slate group decried the drawing as insensitive and announced plans to stop doing business with AT&T. The phone i nmpany said it was equally appalled and issued an apology. The company said the outside design firm that submitted the drawing no longer employs the free-lance artint who drew the cartoon, and it has dismissed one of its production man agers. The complaint also prompted a meeting among national NAACP Chairman William Gibson, executive director Ben jamin Chavis and AT&T Chairman Robert Allen. The meeting concerned recruiting minorities, scholarships for black stu dents, procurement and promotion goals for the company and the use of black financial institutions. While no agreements were announced, they agreed to continue talking. AT&T spokesman Walter Murphy said Wednesday that the loss of the North Carolina NAACP’s long distance business was "especially painful." Murphy also said. 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