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star Wyoming Bl Thursday, Nov. 13, 1986 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Teacher will appeal Medicine Bow book-banning Updike's 'Rabbit, Run' removed from high school classroom following parents' protest -JOHN UPOIKE IS THE MOST GIFTf-D WR1TF.ROF HIS Ian THE FAMOUS BESTSELLER BY 0 admitted they had not read all of either book, Nethercott said. The Siddalls refused to talk to the Star-Tribune. "I don't know whether we should really talk about it in the paper or not.

I kind of feel like my husband would be the one to talk to," Judy Siddall said. Charles Siddall later said, "I don't really care to" comment at all, thank you." The Siddalls have two children Glenn, a senior at Medicine Bow High School, and Cheryl, who is in the eighth grade. Neither is in the class which has been reading the book "Rabbit, Run." A review committee composed of Carbon County District No. 2 Assistant Principal Leslie Steinhaus, Medicine Bow Principal, David Orr, and teachers Rob Morris and Jody Rakness, decided "Rabbit, Run" should be taken off the reading list but agreed "Catcher in the Rye" could still be used, Nethercott said. He questioned whether one controversial book was O.K.

and another was not. "I'm being dictated to what 1 can teach," he said of the committee's decision. Orr refused to make any com ment about the ban on the books use in the classroom. School Supt. Robert Randall said Tuesday he hadn't reviewed the committee report, but Monday would have the school board discuss the committee decision to lake "Rabbit, Run" off the literature class reading list.

Randall said the Siddalls were "concerned about some sexual, explicit sexual aspects of Rabbit, Run." They also were concerned about profanity used in the book, Randall said. Nethercott said both books do have sexual references and profanity, but he uses them to teach classic literature forms. "Rabbit, Run" follows the classic style of a novel with the introduction of characters and the general setting, minor conflicts leading up to a major conflict and finally a resolution of that conflict, Nethercott said. "It is an excellent book (because) it shows a young man in conflict with himself and his society and the consequences of accepting responsibility for your own actions," Nethercott said. Catcher in the Rye sets its own style characterizing the conflict of a 16-year-old boy who keeps get ting kicked out of boarding school, he said.

Neither of the authors "makes any judgment" in the books, Nethercott said. "What I find particularly good about these novels is they let the readers ask their own questions," Nethercott said. "My students have found both books very enlightening. They found them frustrating. They often haven't particularly liked them, but they were an excellent learning experience," he added.

During the commitee hearing on the books, Nethercott said the Siddalls referred to school regulations dealing with swearing in the halls and said it shouldn't be allowed in the classroom either, Nethercott said. "They did mention something about my morals, which was discouraging. They summed up their comments by saying they felt it was a religious issue," he added. Randall said if the school board agrees the book should not be used in Medicine Bow, he doesn't know if it will also be restricted in other district schools. Both Randall and Nethercott said alternative materials can be used in classes when parents object to regular subject materials.

By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent MEDICINE BOW A high school teacher vows to take any steps necessary to keep using a controversial book in his literature class here after parents successfully had it removed. Teacher Wes Net hereon said he will appeal to school board members Monday to have them reverse a committee ruling which takes John Updike's book "Rabbit, Run" off the required reading list for junior English here. Using the book in his junior literature class is a "basic question of academic freedom and freedom of speech," Nethercott said. If school board members don't return it to the reading list, he said he will pursue the matter to the courts. "I'll have to try to stop this.

I really feel it's a big danger. It's a dangerous precedent," Nethercott said. is particularly concerned because the parents who objected Judy and Charles Siddall also said they didn't want him to use "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger in a senior English class. In a committee hearing the parents 1 Tl rv i 1 in IS W.

rvt Dubois highwayman an imaginary one DUBOIS Fremont County authorities say the armed robbery of a man driving on U.S. Highway 26 last week was a hoax, according to a report in the Lander Wyoming State Journal. In a report filed Nov. 6, a man told Fremont County deputies that he stopped to help a woman whose car apparently had mechanical problems and was robbed by a man who stepped from behind the woman's car. Roadblocks were set up on roads leading from the area but the alleged robber's car was not stopped.

After further interviews with the alleged victim, county investigators decided the robbery was a hoax, according to department spokesman Idella Jeanotte. Charges were not filed against the man but he was asked to leave the county, Jeanotte said. Rawlins man loses life in house fire RAWLINS (AP) A cigarette that ignited a chair has been blamed for a blaze that claimed the life of a Rawlins man by Rawlins Fire Department officials. Fire Chief Randall Stagner said the fire that claimed the life of Harold James Leo, 60, started early Sunday morning after the cigarette ignited the chair in the living room of Leo's Rawlins home. According to fire department reports, Leo's wife, Mary Lou, woke up at about 3:45 a.m.

Sunday and noticed smoke in the home. After Leo sent his wife into the home's garage to get a fire extinguisher, he told her to leave the home while he tried to extinguish the blaze. Stagner said that when firefighters arrived, the fire had spread through the home. He added that when firefighters contained the blaze, they entered the kitchen, where they found Leo. Leo died later at Carbon County Memorial Hospital.

Rock Springs girl dies in car rollover ROCK SPRINGS (AP) A 9-year-old Rock Springs girl died Tuesday after the car she was riding in overturned and landed on top of her, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. Camin Walls died about 2 p.m. Tuesday 24 miles south of Rock Springs on Sweetwater County Road 433. Her father Fletcher Walls, 43, was taken to Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital with chest and internal injuries and her brother Aaron Walls, 7, also was admitted to the hospital wirh minor facial injuries. Mr.

Walls was southbound on the road when the accelerator stuck and the car's left wheel went into a ditch. When the car came back onto the road it veered to the right and into another ditch, striking a dirt mound and rolling over. Jury award reduced to $549 million CHEYENNE (AP) U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Brimmer has reduced a $724 mil lion jury award to the Colorado Interstate Gas Corp. by 24 percent to $549 million.

The original award, made in Cheyenne on Oct. 31 by a federal district jury, was one of the largest civil damage awards in U.S. history. Douglas gallows vote continues til Nov. 21 DOUGLAS Residents here will decide the fate of a gallows built to celebrate the town's centennial in voting that continues through next week.

Ballots printed in the Nov. 13 Douglas Budget can be dropped off at any of the town's three banks until 5 p.m. on Nov. 21, according to a newspaper spokesman. A story in the Nov.

12 Casper Star-Tribune incorrectly indicated the balloting would be completed on Nov. 12. RABBIT, RUN Rabbit run out of town? DusI offers land for NOLS campus LANDER State Sen. Frank" Dusl has offered to donate 38 acres of land just south of town to the National Outdoor Leadership School for expanded facilities, NOLS Executive Director Jim Ratz said. NOLS will apply next week for a $25,000 planning grant from the Wyoming Economic and Stabilization Board to be used to develop the design for the new school, Ratz said.

Estimated cost of the school is $1.5 to $2 million, although Ratz said no firm figure has been obtained yet. The school hopes to use private and state funding as well as contributions from NOLS alumni when building the school which will include classroom areas, dining facilities and dormitories, Ratz said. NOLS is headquartered in Lander with operations also in Mexico, Kenya, Alaska and Washington stale. The school has been in operation for 22 years teaching wilderness skills and leadership, Ratz said. Last year 1,900 students took classes through the school, he said.

Ratz did not know the value of the land which is located within the Lander city limits. Dusl was in Billings and could not be reached for comment. Kim pleads guilty to defrauding bank CHEYENNE (AP) A Korean national has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud and making false statements in obtaining $1.6 million in loans from the Medicine Bow State Bank, causing it to fail last August. U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Brimmer accepted a plea agreement between the government and Charles J.

Kim of Houston on Monday. Kim, 36, allegedly told the bank he had an income of $250,000 a year and was connected with a major New York corporation, both of which the government said were untrue. Brimmer has ordered a presentence investigation before pronouncing sentence. Kim could be subject to a maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine on the conspiracy count and two years in prison and a $5,000 fine on the-false statements count. Cheyenne honors singer Neil Young CHEYENNE (AP) Musician Neil Young, who played a benefit concert in 1985 to help Cheyenne recover from a flood that killed 12 people, was honored for his volunteer work Wednesday.

Young was the featured guest at a Cheyenne luncheon held to! honor more than 140 people for their volunteer work in the period following the Aug. 1 flood. Young, who celebrated his 41st birthday Wednesday, was one of-three acts to perform during the; "Silver Lining Concert" held three weeks after the storm that dropped more than 6 inches of rain and 6 inches of hail on Wyoming's capital in six hours. Officials have said the concert and other volunteer activities raised more than $136,360 for victims of the flood that caused more than $60 million in damages. "I think the whole thing was a memorable experience," Young-said.

"1 hope we turned it around so we can remember it happily instead of the tragedy that really did happen." Carl Bechtold Tlie Wyoming Vietnam Memorial was dedicated Tuesday in a ceremony near Cody. More pictures on Al Cody must pay for North Cody water 1 city set aside that much money in its current budget. The most recent cost estimate, however, is $140,000 for the water line project, according to the mayor. Park County budgeted $50,000 for the project money that it appears now will be available for other purposes. Cody Gas Co.

had agreed to pay 10 percent of the cost because it plans to install gas lines across the river, and installation costs could be shared. During an meeting between Miller and county commissioners earlier this year, the mayor said that helping the mostly-industrial North Cody Water Users would protect jobs and help keep several businesses and some 160 jobs in the Cody area. winners 90,978 votes, according to the official count, 121 more than unofficial tabulations gave her. Millard Meredith, the Republican seeking Simons' office, gained 34 votes in the official count for a total of 68,960. The count also confirmed the easy victory of incumbent U.S.

Rep. Dick Cheney over Democrat Rick Gilmore, giving Cheney 342 more votes than unofficial tabulations. The report showed Cheney with 111,007 votes to Gilmore's 48,780, a decrease of 327 from earlier reports. According to the count, 168,651 of Wyoming's voters, 71.6 percent of those registered, turned out to vote on Nov. 4.

.1 a If cJ -V rVt tt a percent of the gross revenue from North Cody water sales rather than the 40 percent of net revenue discussed at the informal meeting. Barling said he did not stipulate a percentage of gross revenue. The city council recently agreed to stretch its rules and pipe city water outside city limits across the Shoshone River to the North Cody area. Water would be sold to residents and businesses there, with that revenue eventually re-paying the city's investment. The withdrawal of the county from the project apparently will not severely impact the city's budget.

The project cost was originally estimated at $250,000, according to City Clerk Jim Smiley, and the Democrat, lost 284 votes in the official tabulation, collecting 86,449 votes, 53.5 percent of the 161,329 cast. Her Republican opponent, K.C. Thomson, gained 234 votes for a total of 74,880. In other races, Republican Jack Sidi gained 46 votes in his successful race for the state auditor's office, winning 86,384 votes to Democrat Bil Tucker's 69,819. Treasurer Stan Smith gained 172 votes in his successful bid for reelection to collect a total of 98,502 votes to the 60,870 cast for Carrol Orrison, his Democratic opponent.

Lynn Simons, running for reelection as superintendent of public instruction, won with By CAROLE LEGG Star-Tribune correspondent CODY The City of Cody this week learned that it must finance 90 percent of an estimated $140,000 project to provide city water to North Cody Water Users Association members. The city had been negotiating with Park County which was expected to pay close to 40 percent of the costs of delivering the water. But the county has backed out of the negotiations. "The county wanted a payback in 10 years," said Cody Mayor Dorse Miller. The payback would come from charges levied by the city for the water.

City officials said Cody will receive a payback of its investment in 50 years. Originally a payback was not one of the county's stipulations for agreeing to negotiate with the city to provide water to the area outside the city limits, county officials said Wednesday. The payback idea "is fairly new," agreed Commission Chairman Hank Coe. He said the concept of payback was discussed informally at a recent meeting "at the country club." Coe, who was designated by the commission to negotiate with the city concerning the North Cody Water Users' group, said he was called by Commissioner Lloyd Barling of Meeteetse last week. He said Barling, who opposed spending money on the project all along, said he wanted the payback to the county to be 40 public instruction's offices, but by margins other than what had been reflected in early, unofficial tabulations.

In the race for the governor's office, the count showed that Democrat Mike Sullivan received 88,879 votes, 53.9 percent of the 164,720 cast, 18 more votes than he had been credited with in unofficial reports. Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Simpson gained 31 votes in the official count from the 75,841 that unofficial counts had given him. In the secretary of state's race, the most closely contested of the state's top five offices, Secretary of State-elect Kathy Karpan, a Official election tally confirms CHEYENNE (AP) Although the number of votes cast for candidates in the general election on Nov. 4 have changed slightly, the results of the election have remained the same, according to an official vote tabulation released Wednesday. And the report confirmed the loss of a proposed constitutional amendment dealing with judges' salaries, even though the measure received approval from a majority of the voters casting ballots on the issue.

The count, released by the office of Secretary of State Thyra Thomson, still shows Democrats winning the governor's, secretary of state's and superintendent of.