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Prosser (AP) - U.S. Secret Service agents questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he turned in to his art teacher, one of which depicted President Bush's head on a stick.

Another pencil-and-ink drawing depicted Bush as a devil launching a missle, with a caption reading "Edn the war - on terrorism".

The 15-year-old boy's art teacher turned the drawings over to the school administrators, who notified a police officer assigned to work with the Prosser High School campus.

"We involve the police anytime we have a concern", Prosser Superintendent Ray Tolcacher told the Tri-City Herald newspaper. "From our perspective it was an incident that needed to be reported to the police on campus".

Secret Service agents interviewed the boy Friday. The student, who was not arrested, has not been identified.

The school district disciplined him, but district officials refused to say what the punishment was. tolcacher said the boy was not suspended.

Tolcacher insisted it was not a freedom of speech issue, but a concern over the depiction of violence.

"From what I saw, (school officals) were right to be concerned", Prosser Police Chief Win Taylor said.

The artwork was apparently part of an assignment to keep a notebook of drawings, according to Kevin Cravens of Richland, who said he was a family friend of the boy.

The drawing that drew the most notice showed a man in what appeared to be Middle Eastern-style clothing, holding a rifle.

He was holding a stick with the oversized head of President Bush on it. The student said the head was enlarged because it was intended to be an effigy, Cravens said. The caption called for an end to the war in Iraq.

"If this 15-year-old kid in Prosser is perceived as a threat to the president, then we are living in "1984," Cravens said.

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