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A say in their Well-rounded kid too much to ask? Thorsdoy, April 22.1976 Columbus, NeorosKo t-oiumous leiegrom--y u.s. District TO hold line on state tax rates By Ira Bcrkow By 1966, Joe Gauld was say- ing, he couldn't look his students in the eyes anymore. He was teaching in a high school in New Hampshire and believing that the system was failing his students, and that he was part of that system. The "best" students were systemized. If you conform, if you are unquestioning of the teachers, you'll pass the courses, get into the better colleges, and slip peacefully and quietly through life.

"1 felt that there had to be a better way, a way to develop character, courage, integrity, concern for others, curiosity and leadership," said Gauld. Gauld decided to try to es- tablish his own school, based on those, principles. Develop character in kids, he said, and well-rounded academic pur- suits would follow apace. He opened his prep school in 1966, in Bath. Maine.

The school and living quarters for Hyde School Preparation for Life School" for males and females from age 13 through 19) are in a mansion built by a former Maine shipping in- dustrialist and has a spacious campus i i athletic facilities. Joe Gauld sat at lunch recently and reviewed the first decade of his educational i a is a mustachioed, athletic-looking, expressive man of 49 who bears a resemblance to the ac- tor Robert Shaw. "The first thing have to know about Hyde," he 'said, "is that we use no methods. We just do what we think works with a particular kid. We've got about 200, usually divided about evenly between toys and girls.

And each kid is unique. "Most of our students have had problems before coming to us. Maybe they weren't do- ing well academically, maybe' "I felt that there had to be a better way, a way to develop character, courage, integrity, concern for others, curiosity and leadership as if you'd dropped them down a well," said Gauld. Prospective students are in- terviewed with their parents when they apply for admis- sion. Sometimes the questions may be so penetrating that kids will break down, bolt from the room or clam up out of fear have you done in your life that you're proud of? That you're ashamed, of? What do you think you'll be do- ing in 20 Questions to parents may also shake them to the core, particularly in regard to parental (One parent remembers that it was at one of these sessions realized that his daughter had intimidated him: "If you pun- i ish me, Daddy, I'm going to run I away from home." In the ses-! sion, the father said, he gain- 1 ed a new courage to deal witli: her.) Parents of Hyde students 'regularly get together, in groups usually without faculty members and dis- cuss, their mutual problems.

Students are taken from all over the country, and from a variety of social classes. Hyde has a stipulation that if. at the end of the school year, the student and his parents felt the school failed them, then they arc reim- bursed their $4,300 to $6.000 back (depending on parents' capability to pay not coun- ting scholarships offered to in- idigents). There has not been a run on i Hyde's bank account from the 'disgruntled. "But sometimes we've had kids who got diplomas send them back right away, in es- sence saying that it meant- nothing to them," said Gauld.

"But a few years later, they fflCGS fOMfStfff usually write and request to have the diplomas back. "1 think that's great. 1 have no problem at all looking those people right in the eyes." i a 1 a a i a were lifeless, spiritless. "So we want to bring them into a community thing. The kids put controls on each other, and the faculty, of course, plays an important role in the development.

But we also wanted the kids to have a say in their destiny, and so we have open evalua- i i i auditorium." Gauld remembers when Ann Legg, the wife of the current headmaster of the school, Ed Legg (a cum laude Harvard graduate) had her first evaluation in this public forum. She was told she was too stiff, too traditional, and i tears. Wellcsley hadn't prepared her for this. "But she was willing to work at improvement, the same kind of improvement she expected from the kids," said Gauld, "and now she a evaluations." There is no drinking nor smoking allowed for students. When one student defied the rules and got drunk, it was left for his fellow students to devise a punishment.

He was made to dig a big grave and then toss in a can of beer and cover up the grave. The punishment was heavy with the symbolism of burying "a bad image." but Gauld felt it worked. Hyde is unusual in another way. The school believes that it cannot be effective with the students unless the parents are deeply "You can't send your kids to Hyde and then forget about them By JON SWEET OMAHA (UPI) A Sarpy County couple filed lawsuits Wednesday charging U.S. District Judge, Robert V.

Denney of Omaha with IN FOCUS negligence in connection with a chain-reaction traffic ac- cident four years ago. Denney said, he would have no comment on the suits filed in Douglas County District Court by Edward LePatourel and his wife, Valerie. The LePatourels alleged Denney failed to keep his automobile under reasonable and proper control, failed to keep and maintain a ''proper changed his lane of IRA KKRKnW travel abruptly and unsafely, mmmm fmfmmm.rn.tr mm operated his automobile at an unreasonable rate of speed and followed their car too closely: The May 12, 1972 accident occurred on 1-80 near the Platte River bridge as Den- SAN DIEGO (UPI) Ti- ney, his secretary and his law mothy Leary, the Harvard clerk were en route back to professor whose LSD expert- Omaha from North Platte ments turned him into the where he had conducted court "turn on, tune in, drop earlier, apostle of the hippie drug The 60-year-old judge iculture, headed for the fresh wasn't ticketed by state patrol air and sunshine today, free investigators, from federal prison but not The U.S. attorney's office from the threat of vengeance, said it had received Justice Leary, 55, exulting "I feel Department approval to defend Denney since the accident occurred while the judge was on official Such a procedure is normal for any government employe involved in an accident while on the job, federal attorneys said. Mrs.

tePatourel, 45 at the 0 time of the accident, asks for groups, who accused him of $14,244 in special damages for bargaining his way to medical bills a freedom by informing on others to the FBI. Leary said it was the terrorist Leary is free man beautiful," walked out of a federal prison Wednesday, ending eight years as a prisoner or fugitive -on drug charges. Although he onee led the drug cult of the psychedelic '60s, Leary has been sharply criticized by counterculture and underground radical Columbus Library ByWIN.JACOBSEN Librarian This week we received a very nice donation from' Mr. and Mrs. Leon Williams.

A memorial was received for Mrs. Adam Schmid from Mrs. 'Wilma Carlson, another memorial for Mr. and Mrs. Reinhpld.

Kgriin from their daughter.jmd son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beneke, and we also received a memorial to Mrs. Aena Meyer from Dr. and Mrs.

E.N. Reiser. Thank very much everyone! As our time for moving to our new library gets closer, we are really in need of lots of help so keep 'em coming! New books in the library this week are: How To Earn More Money From Vuur Crafts by Merle E. Dowd. Are you a serious craftsman who would like to make a living from your craft? Or a hobbyist looking for a few extra dollars? This is the book to show you how to profit from what you enjoy doing most.

Here ig a clearly written, comprehensive guide with sound information on business practices and marketing. Humphrey Bogart by Nathaniel Benchley. Here is the book Bogart lovers have waited for an affectionate, funny, always perceptive portrait of the society blue 'ilood who played tough 'men more style and panche iian any other actor in before or since, book is written by a'thanlel Benchley, the 'dor's close friend' and and with the 'omplete cooperation of Uuren Bacall. The Crown Estate by Evelyn Berckman. Against the placid background of an ancient London garden, two dramas unfold, separated in.

time but linked by an inexorable fate. Fifty Years of Nebraska's Big Rodeo by Clare Berney, Editor. "We.believe this book presents an accurate and colorful past history, of Nebraska's Big Rodeo here at Burwell, from its beginning as a small one-day show in 1921, to the present nationally acclaimed 4-day per- preceding quotation is from the.Board of Directors, Nebraska's Big Rodeo. Lindbergh by Leonard Mpsley. For almost fifty years, Charles A.

Ijndbergh had a stormy love-hate relationship with the American people. He was twenty-five' in 1927 when he took off in the Spirit of St. Louis for his lone flight across the Atlantic to Paris, and from that time until his death in Hawaii in 1974 he lived out his life in blazing newspaper headlines. Easter visitors in Rising City RISING CITY Easter Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Lester Selden were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Selden and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crook- and family and Mrs.

Edith Selden. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alt of Shelby had as dinner guests on Easter Sunday Mr. and Mrs.

Don Alt and 'family, Shelby, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Uppstreu and family and Deborah Alt of Columbus, Dick Vandenberg, Platte 'enter; and Mr. and Mrs. ilobert Braasch and family.

Dinner guests of Mr. and Urs. Don Ellison and family ni Easter Sunday were Mr. md Mrs. Loren Stuhr and family, and Mr.

and Mrs. iiordon Burgett. ALAN KORTH Korth chosen for Boys Stote LINDSAY Alan Korth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vemell Korth of Lindsay, has been selected to attend Boys State.

He is sponsored by American Legion Post 261. Korth is a junior at Lindsay Holy Family and is active id sports. He is vice president of the junior class and a member of the student council. Jack Beller, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alan Beller, was chosen as alternate. cRc in Hastings IS STARTING SUMMER SESSION JULY 6 ENROLL TODAY! CENTRAL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE P.O. BOX 1024 Hastings, Nebraska 68901 LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) The State Board of Equalization has voted to hold the line on Nebraska's sales and income tax rates. The-board voted 4X) Wed- nesday to retain the 2.5 per cent tax on sales and 15 per cent on income.

State Treasurer Frank Marsh was absent. Secretary of State Allen Beermann said-Tuesday he was worried about the state treasury cash flow situation, noting income-tax refunds were stalled since March 23 and (5.5 million in state aid to local schools payments.were withheld a few days. He said he was on the verge of seeking an increase in the. sales tax rate from its current 2.5 per cent level to make sure the Treasury balance stayed in the red. He also suggested a delay in any decision until May 3 so revenue projections could reflect late income-tax- returns.

At Wednesday's board mee- ting, Beermann questioned State Tax Commissioner Wil- liam Peters, the board's financial expert and voting member, on the cash flow situation. Peters said aid payments are now being processed and income-tax' re- 4-H Notes All better breakfast project members demonstrated making nutritional breakfast drinks at the April 10 meeting of Dandy Bakers held at the I.arry Gerdes home. Mem- bers discussed speech contest and demonstrations. Next meeting will be April 24. Christine Nielsen, reporter.

funds will be mailed out over the weekend. He acknowledged that the treasury balance last week dipped to $180,000. He then said his agency is now depositing between $2 million and $4 million a day into the Treasury, thus easing the cash flov: problems that prompted the stoppages. Peters concluded the cash flow pattern "in and out of the treasury would "not en- counter anything comparable to this until April of next year" at the earliest and Beermann decided against pursuing a sales tax increase. According to Peters' calculations, the Treasury will have a $12.2 milling balance at the end of the current fiscal year on June 30.

That compares with a $41 million balance a year ago. The Unicameral this session approved expenditures totaling $451 million and Beermann asked Peters what kind of a tax rate that looks like for next year. Peters said it was soon to tell. The board will meet in November to set next year's tax rates. Richman Gordman SHOE WORLD SUPER SALE! Children's Novelty SNEAKERS was Weatherman group that helped him escape from prison and flee to Algeria in 1970.

pushed through a crowd pf reporters awaiting him outside the federal Met- ropolitan Correctional Center to reach his wife, Joanna, lifting herinto the air in joy and driving away with her. They did not say where they were going, but Mrs. Leary said, they were looking for "sunshine, fresh air and peace." He was freed by order of a Texas "federal court -judge while he appeals his 10-year sentence for bringing 3 ounces of marijuana into the United States from Mexico in 1966. It is doubtful he will have to return because the federal parole board 'in Washington had also ordered him paroled effective June 7. Leary thanked his wife, his attorney "and all my friends who helped get me out and to those who didn't help, I want to be reassuring that it's all going to work out all right." He had promised earlier in a parole application, "to obey Shake spoils show routine LINCOLN, Neb.

(UPI) Joe Savage, who uses snakes in his nightclub show, was treated and released from a hospital today after he was nearly strangled by a boa constrictor during his Wed- nesday night show. Police said 'Savage was taken by ambulance to the hospital after he collapsed during his act with the boa constrictor. Savage uses a fake collapse as part of his show but Wednesday night was unable to move after his collapse and had to be hospitalized for treatment. all laws and never to advocate interstate, the use. of LSD again." Denney told officers at the In 1974 it was reported that tune he saw Ringling's car he was "telling all" to federal "coming up (behind him) authorities to shorten his lime behind bars, including details of the Weatherman escape route.

He was denounced by a group of counterculture figures that included his former Harvard LSD research partner, Richard Alpert, now known as Baba Ram Dass, poet Allen Gin- sberg and his own son, Jack Jack Leary said his father "would inform on anybody if he could get out of jail," in- cluding his own children. Detergent Sale 24 Lb. Box Reg. 8.99 6 99 Thro Saturday Sears Heavy Duty Laundry Detergent Sears detergent has low suds action. Won't cause fading.

awards the court may "deem just and equitable." Mrs. LePatourel said she has suffered the permanent loss of her left eye, permanent brain damage, a permanent dimunition of both her motor and sensory functional abilities and has sustained "total permanent disability." In his suit, LePatourel contends it is impossible for his wife to perform her household duties and afford him the "normal society and companionship" she did' before the accident. LePatourel asks for no specific damage amount. Records show LePatourel was' approaching the scene another accident arid his car was in front of Denney's. A third car, driven by Terry R.

Ringling, Omaha, smashed into the rear of Denney's car. The patrol said Denney's car then struck the LePatourel car with the resulting impact pushing the LePatourel car into a guard rail and throwing Mrs. LePatourel into the wind- shield. Denney's car then left the road, went over a guard railing and landed in a ditch. Ringling's car came to a stop in the passing lane of the Junior Feeders met April 13 at Jay Whitlow's home.

Members discussed club dues, making a bicentennial banner and livestock identification. Next meeting will be May 25 at John and Rick Roebuck's home. Betty Pearson, reporter. Side Winders discussed dates for Softball practice and the square dancing their April 12 meeting held at the Smet home. Next meeting will be April 26.

Kim Smets, reports. fast" before the collision. Ringling told officers his car was traveling about 70 miles per at the tune. Mrs. LePatourel was the only person involved in the accident who' required hospitalteation.

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