The Daily Capital News from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 25

Book-banning riles entire town POST TRIBUNE. JehVson CjTty, 23.1»77 7-A ByKAYBARTLETT APNewsfeaturcs Writer N.Y. Nearly year after Htehard Yarns' complained tojhis mother that Bernard Milamud's "The Fixer" had removed from the school library here, that book and eight others still are off the shelves. In addition, some people in this community of 4,500 homes aren't speaking to pjfcers. Television cameras lifyVc descended upon school botird meetings.

And live stiSdents, backed by the New Vtfrk Civil' Liberties Union, have hauled the Island Trees of Education into coort. students say the' school board has violated their constitutional rights, the teachers' union says its 'academic freedom has been infringed upon and outraged parents accuse the board of iBvposing their moral values on'! But board members say they are sjmiply discharging their du- ty to decide for the com- munity what the students will read. The American Civil Liber- ties Union says Island Trees is just one case in a nation- i i i book-banning. Court precedents are mix- ed. The ACLU Won a 197G case in the U.S.

Court of Ap- peals in Cincinnati. School officials in Strongsville, a Cleveland suburb, had removed Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" and Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" from the school library shelves. The appeals court ruled that school officials cannot arbitrarily remove books i i i students easy access to them in school would run counter to the First Amendment, the court held. But the ACLU lost a Flushing, N.Y., case that stemmed from the banning of Thomas Piri's "Down These Mean Streets." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review that case.

The Island Trees case may also go to the Supreme Court and possibly produce a decision on how. far local control can go before i a i i Amendment. "We're in this to the end," says Prank Martin, a New York City police sergeant and vice president of the school board. "The school board is not going to back down. The ACLU is just us- ing these students and their parents." When the suit-was filed in January, the president of the school board, Richard Ahrens, said, "This is purely a matter of who is going to decide what is best for the students of Island Trees the parents or the Civil Liberties Union and we don't think it's the Civil Liberties Union." Steve Pico, president of the student council at Island Trees High School and one of the plaintiffs, is just insistent.

as Military notes Russell'Browh Jr. Pfc. RUSSELL E. BROWN the son of Mrs. tSatricia A.

Brown, 313 Jackson. has recently Completed the infantry com- bat course at the "Marine Corps Base, Camp Bendleto.n, Calif, A 197G' graduate of Jefferson City High School, pic. Brown joined the Marine Corps in August, 1976.. T. LLOYD' D.

RHOADS. the son of Mr. and ftjrs: Robert C. Rhoads, Grawfordsville, and hjisband' of Mrs. Linda Rtioads, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Dicker- sjfn, Burnett, has been Awarded a distinctive ribbon aj a member of the 2044th Communications Group, iijiich recently won the Outstanding unit award. Sgt. fflioads is assigned at the fentagon as an electronic and cryp- a i i Systems technician with that ufit.

Pvt. JOSEPH A. B0ILLOT, the son of Mr. jntl Mrs. Lester Boillot, t'Inn, a graduate at the Marine Biasic a Engineer' Course.

A 197G graduate of Linn High School, Pvt. Boillot joined iht Marine Corps in June, $76. Robert Falls a a a ROBERT FALLS, the son of Iva Falls. 113 W. Ashley has completed recruit training at the Naval Train- ing Center, San Diego, Calif.

He joined the Navy in November, 1976. Marine Pfc.RONALD W. BORGMEYER, the son of Mrs. D.R. Etter, City View i a completed recruit training at the a i Corps i Depot, San Diego, Calif.

joined the Marine Corps in Marine Pfc. ROGER D. SULLENS. the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Myron D. Sullens, 2207 Expressview has reported for duty at the Marine Corps Air Station New River, Jacksonville, N.C. A-1975 graduate of Jef- ferson City High School, he joined the Marine Corps in October, 1975. Airman l.C. HARTLEY E.

CALVIN, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon H. Calvin, Ashland, was recently pro- moted to his present rank in the U.S.. Air Force.

A 1975 graduate of Southern Boone County High School, Airman Calvin is currently serving as an aircraft maintenance specialist at Grand Forks AFB.N.D. Gary R. Eveler a a A EVELER, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Cot- tage Lane, recently returned home for a month's leave after serving one year at Loran C.

Transmitting Sta- tion, St. Paul Island. Alaska. Seaman Eveler will be sta- tioned aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Foxglove" on the Mississippi River out of St.

Louis. Air Force Sgt. LARRY D. CROCKER, son of Marine Corps Sgt. Maj.

(ret.) and Mrs. Jesse W. Crocker, Russellville; has arrived for duty at San Vito Dei Nor- manni Air Station, Italy. A 1969 graduate of Russellville High School, Sgt. Crocker is a communications specialist with a unit of the U.S.

Air Force Security Service. Cadet DANE D. JABLON- SKY, the son of Arthur R. Jablonsky, Jefferson City, and Mrs. Donna G.

Jablon- sky, Holts Summit, has been named to the Dean's List for a i a a i achievement at the U.S.,Air Force Academy. A member of the class of 1980, Cadet Jablonsky, a 1976 graduate of Jefferson City High School, will wear a silver star insignia in recognition of his scholastic per- formance. "This has changed our lives. We are looking into law, we understand civil rights. They think they are banning words, but they are banning ideas.

The sad part is that these people are very sincere." Mrs. Yarns, whose son Glenn is one of the litigants, says, "We've all become paranoid:" Some of the Yar- ns' acquaintances no longer speak to them, she says, and she knows of five families that moved from the school district because of the issue. Island Trees is a blue col- lar hamlet an hour's drive from Manhattan. About half the wage earners commute to Manhattan. Sixty per cent of the homes are the little ranch houses that offered the American dream to' young marrieds in the late 40's when they sold for $12,000 or so.

Today, they go for $30,000 or more. Even Island Trees' critics say it's a good place to live. But some now, add a touch of bitterness. "It's a lovely community to live in if you wear blinders and ear plugs and have no children in the school system," says Mrs. Robert Wilson, wife of a Nassau i a mother of three.

The Island Trees fight really began in December of 1975. Three members of the school board attended a meeting sponsored by Parents of New York United, a conservative group. They were given a list of books that were deem- ed objectionable. Eleven were found in the school library, although "The Fixer" was the only one being used in the cur- riculum. The others includ- "Slaughterhouse Five," Desmond'Morris' "The Nak- ed Ape" and Thomas Piri's a Streets." The books were yanked before anyone on the school board even read them.

Later, a reading committee was appointed and two of the books were'returned to the shelves. The committee also voted 6 to 2 to return "The Fixer" but was split on "Slaughterhouse Five" and Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul on Ice." Those books stayed off the shelf. a meetings disintegrated 'into shouting matches. Copies of offending passages from six distributed. Congressman a Lent, a Nassau County Republican and supporter of a i i garnered headlines when he tried to have'the offending passages read into the Con- gressional Recorda and was turned down on grounds of obscenity.

Meanwhile, the public library in Island Trees suf- Old pine The oldest living thing is thought to be the bristlecpne pine found in the Inyo Na- tional Forest, California. From its tree rings the pine is'eslimated to be 4,600 years old. fered a run on the nine bann- ed books. Area college librarians, always looking for a theme, put on "Banned Book" displays. The New York Times ask- ed three of the authors in- volved Malamud, Von- negut and Morris to write their impressions of the fray.

Vonnegut finished his this way: "Well, the ACLU or somebody like that will come to the scene of trouble, as they always do. They will explain what is in the Con- stitution and to whom it applies. "They will win. "And i be millions who are bewildered and heartbroken by the legal victory, who think some things should never be said especially about religion. "They are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Hi ho." The fight went to the polls. Two anti-book-banning can- didates attempted to unseat incumbents last May but failed by 40 to 50 votes of 2,000 cast. The American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee keeps track of embroilments over books and finds, they're on the increase nationally. Its "Titles Now Troublesome" section includes incidents in a dozen states. Ira Glasser, executive director of the ACLU, says "the spectre of book- banning is again haunting the land." He ascribes it to "self-appointed vigilantes and boards of education without the courage to resist pressure or the insight to understand their educa- tional mission." Dr.

William Haubner, head of the Teachers Rights Division of the National Education Association in Washington, says. "The issue here is the purpose of an American education." says Dr. Haubner. "Is it to indoctrinate students with a given set of values, or is it to create critically thinking human beings who know how to search for truth? Others see it differently. M.

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