Kids' NEWSTIME—A sampler of America's children's daily newspaper first published in the early 1990's and restarted on November 4,1995! Kids, how many newspapers can you read a day?....... This is today's final edition:      VOLUME XI.................NUMBER 31…………....MARCH 15,2010 * News...Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announces that her Operation Clean Sweep, saving state funds on litter removal and using as many as 100 prisoners from three different state prisons, has collected, so far, almost 5,000 bags of debris and litter from a stretch of land about 70 miles in length alongside the westbound lanes of the Interstate 10 highway between Tucson and Phoenix; next, land next to the traffic lanes taking motorists eastward is due to be cleared of litter. * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 4.164+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the rail-equipment and marine-equipment leasing company, Gatx Corporation increasing 23.05 percent in value, more than shares of any other company. * Sports...The National Hockey League (NHL) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press that Pittsburgh (Atlantic Division), Buffalo (Northeast) and, leading by 33 points, playoff-eligible Washington (Southeast) are the division leaders in the Eastern Conference, while Chicago (Central Division), San Jose (Pacific) and Vancouver (Northwest) hold first place in their Western Conference divisions.

* Weather...The National Weather Service forecasts that the coldest spot in the Lower 48 States tomorrow morning is expected to be Clayton Lake, Maine, at 16 degrees Fahrenheit.  Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today were of magnitude 6.0 in the Western Hemisphere (65 miles north-northwest of Concepcion, Chile) and 5.2 in the Far East (185 miles north-northeast of Naha, Okinawa, Japan). (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history... 37 years ago: March 15,1973—President Richard M. Nixon pledges that the U.S. will return to help South Vietnam fight North Vietnamese Communists and their allies if the North does not end its attacks on the South and abide by the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War.

* A Quotation worth remembering...by Abraham Lincoln (16TH U.S. President): "...I would address a few words to the Southern people.... Perhaps you will say the Supreme Court has decided the disputed Constitutional question in your favor.  Not quite so.... And then it is to be remembered that 'our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live'—the men who made the Constitution—decided this same Constitutional question in our favor, long ago, ....  Under ... these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action?  But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! ... A few words now to Republicans.  It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony, one with another.  Let us Republicans do our part to have it so....  Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, ... let us determine, if we can, what will satisfy them....  The question recurs, what will satisfy them?  Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone.  This, we know by experience, is no easy task.... In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them.  Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.  These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them?  This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right."  (February 27,1860 speech)  Lincoln is discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision; fathers=America's Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison; conclusive and final rule of political action=a decision that conflicts with the intentions of America's Founding Fathers; recurs=comes up again and again; platforms=political-party written statements; tendency=active power or inclination; alike unavailing=also not working.