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The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • Page 4

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4 The Indepondoll tfotord, Helena, Monday, Otlobcr 27. 1975 opinions impressions Cruel punishment Butte's newspaper, The Montana Standard, revealed last week that two special education teachers in a Butte elemenlHry school were using a cruel punishment in the name of behavior modification. If a retarded child was deemed fo be getting out of hand the student was placed in a box about four feet high, four feet long and three feet wide until he quieted down. Thq box did not have any ventilation holes. Dr.

Dick Swenson, director of rehabilitation services at the Boulder River School and Hospital, says there are legitimate forms of behavior modification known as "time out" but that the method used by the Butte teachers isn't one of them. Swenson said time out is most often used at mealtimes- when a child misbehaves, His chair is pulled away from the table and faced toward a wall for short periods, 15 seconds or less. Then there is "exclusion." If a child hits another child he is excluded from the group and sent to stand in the corner. "Seclusion" is the most drastic, The child is put in a room alone not locked in a box without light or ventialtion. It is inconceivable to think that two teachers, of all people, would resort to cruel, inhuman punishment and have the audacity to say that it is an acceptable practice under behavior modification procedures.

What is even more mind boggling is the fact that the teachers let the other children in the class vote about Don't give to UNICEF Editor, Independent Record: It's about that time again for the UNICEF hobgoblins to come knocking at your door on Halloween! UNICEF now is to beg money for HED IratoehuiEi, us well as many other Communist countries. Don't give to UNICEF to help HED dictators of North and South Vietnam! At least honor the memory of our boys who died in Vietnam. When the UNICEFerseome to your door, give them a lollipop Instead anil tell Uiem that you don't aim to help any RED! Enough said? For more details on this U.N. hoax known as UNICEF, write me, sending me a ten-rent stamp and I'll send you bttrature exposing UNICEF. Don't be a sucker UNICEF! Mrs.

Edna Peterson RFD No, 1, Box Anaconda, Mont. 5971 1 Unsolved case Editor, Independent Hecord: The family ot John Russell, who is sttll missing, would like to know why the county Tom Dowilng, didn't list John Russell on the list as a case unsolved for the special investigator to Investigate too. John Russell's car was found upside down in the Clark Fork river, but where is he? Stratton and Wing In prison now, wo know. They both pleaded guilty as a result of plea bargaining and Evidence at the trial wasn't even presented, jurors were dismissed, Jamie Wing' Bankrot is free how because of her testimony, and John Is till missing. The paper stated Stratton knew Anthony Monroe Dolsman In Missoula who was shot by Walter Raymond Baker in self defense arA found not guilty.

If John Russell's mother and father had had a lot of money maybe they could' have gone to the supreme court and found out what happened lo their son. At the trial Tom Dowilng said to the jurors a man's life is at stake here, Stratton's life, bat John's life was at stake too and we believe that John was murdered along with having his money stolen and his cor puslicd Into the river. We only hope someone will find John someday or Stratton and Wing will confess to what they did John. They have God to answer to. We do not con whether a child should be placed in the box.

The teachers did have the final say. Big deal! One is reminded of a tactic the Army used as part of its advanced-' Infantry training. The trainees had to make their way from a given point a few miles to another point. In between was a mock prisoner of war compound. The trainees wore told that they would have to travel the course at night and that seasoned veterans would be patrolling in an effort to capture them.

They were also told that if they were caught they would be taken to the compound. Their shoes, socks and personal belongings would be confiscated (it got pretty cold at night) and they would be subjected tD a little torture. The trainees were told that one penalty for being caught was to be locked in a coffin like box for a short period of time and that the captors would beat on the box with were not to give out any information except name, rank and serial number. Almost without exception, the captured soldiers panicked before their time in the box was up. They screamed to be released and when they were freed they, talked like there was no tomorrow.

We're talking about the reactions of grown men, not 12-year-old school children. When Butte school board member heard of the box punishment he said heads will roll. Instead of rolling heads, maybe the school board should bive those two teachers a great big dose of their own medicine. READER'S! I aUey sider this case dosed. We didn't hove a fair trial and down with plea teu-nainirtg and defendnrJ dope.

Justice? We have none. The Russell Family Editor, Independent Record; Carolina Drive I once talked to you on Uie 161B Poplar phone ami personally to some of your reporters and I wanted Fire prevention morc Ml VI I congressmen were doing in Week nnnA Washington. You said the WeeK. Was gOOCl Associated Press doesn't print Independent Record: voting records and you weren't The Helena Fire Prevention "bout lhe' Bureau wishes to thank lhe Congressuniul Record. Now on following people for their 1" you write your oditoriBl support and cooperation during on controversial bLI Max' Fire Prevention Week Oct.

5- Qftucu? Is sponsoring. Why do II, The Helena Insurance no space for Mr: Agents Association for buying Caucus iaeirplaln or defend, "a handrail material for all first, potentially valuable ex-second and third grade Periment in consumer students hi the Helena area, protection?" You only assume Leasing Inc. the something is going to be assistance with the pancake missused. I think the public has breakfast. Superior Fire 10 gain from consumer Apparatus for Uie fire helmets protection.

You call for all second graders in Ibe "Timer" Moses the "best Helena area. lawyer in the state, but I've KBLL, KTCM, KCAP for never wn him take on city puhlic service time lo the Fire Nobody's rich enough to Prevention Week cause. lllrc The Independent Record and Ycu mention government reporter Ralph Barzdills shouldn't sue government the Interest, time and space Because coats money. You given to publlie the Fire nra very short sighted, Mr. Prevention Week programs, Editor.

government sues Henry Jorgenson, principal eowrament Just to use up tax of1 Central for coor- money that Is one thing, but if rluiating station visits by all government sues government second jjradc classes. Mrs. the name of justice, that is Heller's first grade class at another tMru3andI (hlnklt Lincoln School for recordings ia Justifiable. I you the radio. All the second wcrc opposed lo Watergate grnde teachers and Ihelr it cost the court students for their participation system too much and the' in the "Home Fire Safety" ers had to pay for it, and contest which was won by Mrs.

Pav The Independent Price's second st Itocord $4 a monlh to read Broadwater Schools Bbollt ll- It Is. through Uie efforts and Jarncs L. Schwind cooperation of people and 203 Roller agencies auch as those listed Bazeman, Mont, above that the fight against needless Injury and death by lire baa to be carried out. The theme of this year's program is "ft iNaEDENOENTl home fire safety and home H)trnn escape planning, Wtfh.the IKECOHO materials and time given by these people to these subjects it Oldest Dally Sri satedThTirv Newspaper in Continuous lhe avoided through the efforts Publication in Helena hope valuable InfgrrrnuMi Dec. 17, 1865 gained by all.

Fire prevention cenroo somirmiDn and home ftre safety planning w-thioi j. vociice ediw much time, and it can save RonDcyic Reran my Mar. your life. prevention Is business, i R. Matt Kimnary wMj-Hiefoijnr.

Fire Marshall Fire Inspector 'If you 're looking for gaps to be try this i MM JS meanerranean area being eyed by USSR By SULZBERGER 197SN.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Winston ByERMABOMBECK I wish all of you had known mc when I was tense. Those were the cood limes. There was color in my cheeks, my hands were steady, the penple. said my laughter was across ait Italy whose government is almost paralyzed, to Ilia Iberian peninsula in the west, with Portugal falling over me DruiK ot ckbds ar.G Sikuii nearlng a sunllu'r brink.

Mediterranean Europe as lhe soft underbelly of Hitler's situation made to order for Its continental fortress during long-range ambHion to tilt the World War II. Now it would European power balance, seem as if Moscow's strategy alius at outflanking NATO's THIa Vs central blocking positions by Ds obvious to the Wlilte House political exploitation of I he as it is to the Kremlin and U.S. same sort of weakness along policymakers, headed- by the alliance's southern flank, Secretary Kissinger, have been From uie passionate Greek- devoting much time and Turkish dispute in the East. thought i tr i cate problems involved. Probably Uie first tangible result will be a new American eitort to ease the three-cornered Greck-Turkish-Cyprioie crisis.

Cyprus is the point where the first move must be made although the argument between Athens and Ankara over Greece's Islands along the Asia Minor coast is ultimately more crucial. Last November Kissuiger. whose policy was to heal the breach swiftly, had arranged to stop at Ankara where lhe then premier, Bulont Ecevit, was scheduled to announce There were reports abroad that Breilmcv had warned Willy Brnndt last summer Russia couldn't be expected to keep out of Yugoslav affairs if the West prevented communism anil its allies from assuming charge in Brandt denied this strongly to me. He said the subject wasn't mentioned. Yet Washington has Tfceived no assurances at all from Mnscow that it will stay oi post-Tito Yugoslavia and not for any U.S.

lack of interest. This inevitable problem is connected with the ItEuiun future "for reasons both geographical proximity and political confusion, Italy's nan-Communist parties, headed by the Clulstian Democrats, are in a leaderless mess. Meanwhile the brilliantly organized Communists, led by the astute and thoughtful Enrico Berlinguer, are inching ever-closer to an effective takeover. THE UNITED STATES remains hoslile to any form of cooperation with Communists itume government, fw like Din sniirri of Tiffany unilateral Turkish concessions Wnshinutnn you thumped it with your Cyprus exceeding anything although Belinguer appears finger. iww being mentioned.

But a very and open-But (hat was before I started congreisional boycott on U.S. minried today it is hard to to crewel "Country Gradens." arms put Turkey's back up. forecast his attlturle a year or Everyone I knew was into option ousted Ecevit from (w0 afUjr gaming govern-some kind Df stitchery anil one nnd sinco then the mental responsibility. From day as my friend, Torri, iat situation has festered. hbrc the argument is posed by needltpointing a calendar, I The triangular dispute si the an open-ended question: (low said.

"How do you have Uie Mediterraneans eastern end 'could NATO function with patience?" has first priority for diplomatic mBjnr 'Communist She laughed, becausoit opens a gap Ucipatlon in an allied govWn-''IhisisUieiiiastrcmiifiiTihlnu in NATO ranks right on the ment?" 1 do all day. You're tense. You' frontier. The U.S.S.H. Of course, tlie same question Kaon folnnc shoukl get yourself something horders Turkey and must send Is pertinent In Portugal and, iwviia That's when I bought Planes across 'Vurkisli territory "Countrv- Gal-dens." a support Moscow's Arab ilumDed niece of linen in with 28 colors of yarn and Instructions for 18 stitches.

Ever since, Country Hardens lias never left my side. It ia Uke an appendage growing oat of Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy. BEFORE TIUS YEAB ends Kissinger may undertake Problems in Lebanon ByCBOSBVS.NOVES WASHINGTON Unless fighting In Ubanon run be brffjghl lo quick and decisive holt which Is pretty- tell order at this point the vjew from liere is thai It may be Impossible to re-establish tlie unique communHl balance between Christians and Moslems on which tbo country's political life has depended for its 34 years of Independence. The most sinister development in the on-and-off riolence is that since early summer it. lias har- dened along strictly religious Unes, What started out oi a clash between left and right wing political elements Is now a far mere dangerous con-rroutiillon between Moslem and Chriotian tliat threatens the essential fabric of Lebanese society.

FOR MANY YEARS, the balance has rested on the fiction oi a numerical equality of Christian and Moslem Lebanese citizens. The electoral law allocates parlinmcntery deputies according to the confessional JlsblbuUon ot the population. Ry constitutional convention, the president Is always a Maronitft Chrlfidari, the prime minister a Sunnl Moslem ahd (bo speaker ol the chamber a Shla Moslem; In fact, however, there is a growing majority of Moslems in Lebanon. And since the outnumbered Christian community controls a disproportionate' share of Lebanon's not inconsiderable wealth, the ingredients for a confrontation have long been at hand, started it, is a matter ot hot dispute. Same lay most of the blame on the Christian Fnlange; a well-organized, disciplined and heavily armed polllicai group whose members a dim view of the long-range prospects of the Clirisltan community in Lebanon.

Others, in cluding lhe iviieve thai the conflict was fomented by radical f.icllonR of the large community ol Palestinian Arabs In southern Lebanon. CERTAINLY, ROTH CIROUPS have been involved in the lighting. While the small Lebanese army has mostly stood aside, the Jiilling has gone an between the Falangists and irregular Mastem militiamen, who apparently ujke orders only Irani their own leaders. There is no question that the Moslems are armed by the Palestine Liberation Organization which; in turn, is supplied llvrough Syria. The Falange is believed to have received weafioiis tlirough Cliristjun-doiriinatcd aimy andalsohaslioughtarinsin Western tlurone with money supplied by the business community.

The outcome remains uncertain. A Falangist victory sccm.s out of the given the effective balance of power in the arcn. An impending Moslem defeat would very probably provoke military intervention From Syria, in which case Israel would Intervene as well, touching off a new round of full-scale lighting in the Middle Fast. Tho more likely prospect and one equally disagreeable to the Israelis wuuld be the defeat of Falange and the' establishment of a militant Islamic state in Lebanon, ftitli. all that would imply for the Christian minorily and the peace of the Middle East.

IRONICALLY, OF the major parlies involved would welcome any such decisive outcome. The Syrians were well content with. the stains rjuo in Lebanon and Syria's President Assad has dune his best to bring the fighting to an end. His majar inslrumenl in tho peace-making effort has been the Pirj's chief, Ynsser Arafat, who could hardly expect to Improve, on his present situation as a virtually independent power in the country. Needless to say, an overwhelming number of Lebanese, Moslem and Christian want1 nothbig more than an end lo Uie bloodshed and a return to the old, easy-going ways, But thorn is.

little prospect of nn early truce between tlie warring communities. And the longer lhe fighting goes on, the less likely It Is I hat moderate'selutions. can be found. reacJer's 1 1 aIUv Indirectly, In non-NATO Spain Inrlmrl im where tho United States has UP for mllitarv FTrh'lar. Tnrfpminripnf Dinner club says thanks and.where Sanllago Curillo, a While Congress is busy Editor, Independent' Record: wise Communist "moderate" raising lis own salaries and Iho On behalf of the Metropolitan whcadniirea Berlin gucr, hopes President is endeavoring to Dinner Club I want to thank to participate- In a post-Franco plan a.

Mlddioast Vietnam for your paper for the publicity regime. us, do you think we might in- you have given our club by "i ieiiuui mcu- Mcrcuiian abcrs ium.iu« arncies on our lingers, I started it one guttle trip Uiere If lie sees any presclU this )s and suggest that they "pass 'a membership campaigns and irr. nc when ihn chance of mediation. There is hnino molui i £5., anu We were especlaUy pleased Unwinding was a full-time Job. The children bugged me Constantly, demanding food, answers to questions, and first am wnen tney biea.

ine other morning as I stitched lhe storv in thn Oct is relatlonshln in th- JT U1CJ at lBasl l53ue o.ur last speaker, Dr. 10 tha' real Ideological confrontation steps io pay (he poor convict Nicholas Nyarado. He brought there. But In Portugal, stut a that fashioned that electric' us a very vital messaae on uin Most European statesmen NATO member, the question ia dliwtUir IftlToZK.akj™ "SS a congressional and we wish everyone, ncfo a rS-1 Sta Tito's death ta medal for the Jailor who made in Helena, but In the whole the bciT of Dressing a great display of country could have heard him. Wavla back' into the phra'ae.

indeed, Perha s'SeL else has a "Can't you see I'm relaxing?" Greece, Turkey and Italy, at least to American ever heard of appointments. If you want me to make time for you can, but don't jnsl 'drop why aren't you at school?" "It's Saturday," he said stmply. My husband says I am possessed. The other morning about 2 a.m., he leaned over and said, "You have relaxed enough," and flipped off (ha light. don't know what kind of an animal would turn off your light in tho middle of a French knot, I cried myself to sleep.

Yesterday, Terrl dropped in' (without an appointment) and suggested I relax morc. "You ore pale, your eyes are red from strain, frankly I £ct more fun out of burping my Tup-perwaro than talking lo you anymore," I figure if I cirri work straight through, without Interruption, Country Garden iliould be finished and framed by lhe first week of November. Then I may fake a few days off and lw tense. After atl, all pfay and no work can kill you. Ebncr W.

M.D. Lincoln, Mont. f.n. auiger Past President.

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