Kim Sook Ja, a nine-year old Korean girl, has become the "adopted" girl of about 1200 foster parents at Middletown High School. She will be supported by the pennies, nickels and dimes that her youthful mothers and fathers pulled out of their purses and pockets last November. A year's care at the North Royalty Fostering Children's Home in Korea will cost the absent parents $180. Hugh Palmer, president of the student council, sponsors of the project, has hopes that Middie student bodies of the future will keep shelling out the $180 a year necessary to keep Kim in proper style. The adoption was made through Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Inc., which announced completion of formalities yesterday. It is a financial rather than a legal adoption...

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