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By the time Adam was fifteen years old the government had changed his name moved his parents and wiped out bis past But they couldn't erase his memory Huge crowd flattened Golden arch engineers were scared seeks word battle A i i by Robert Cormier Maw a Major Motion Picture 'f-r sSfc S' Ct I LU while cables at other places on the bridge loose and kind of spinning around because the other ones were picking up the strain" The combination of weight and wind on the bridge felt like "a mild earthquake" Giacomim said it wasn't until later when he returned to bridge district headquarters that he learned that engineers had been performing computations to make sure the span could support the millions of pounds of dead w-eight I was scared after the fact" he said But the engineers decided the bridge would be all right It was built to be flexible and can move 15 feet vertically and more than 27 feet from side to side allowing for changes in weight or the powerful wind that often howls through the Golden Gate the mile-wide channel that connects the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay Many who had come miles to the bridge only to be turned away were upset and decided to skip the rest of the events and go home the money spent on this celebration and it was so lawyer Charlotte Duke said "I thought about the fireworks but forget it GOLDEN GATErom I A but were denied access Giacomim said officials regretted that so many were turned away but he added a wav grateful because if they had gotten out there maybe the bridge would have fallen An hour before the opening ceremonies were to begin officials realized they had a problem Hundreds of people were lined up at bus stops and tens of thousands were converging on both ends of the bridge on foot skateboards bicycles wheelchairs and baby strollers More buses were dispatched but that only made the crowds at the bridge thicker The joyous walkers began pushing their w-ay onto the bridge 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the opening ceremonies which were mostly forgotten They met at the middle forming a giant shoulder-to-shoulder gridlock It was at mid-span where the weight of the crowd flattened out the normal arch in the bridge deck Giacomim who was at the middle said the support cables there were as taut as harp strings Thursday's column will end your Food and Dining contusion about the fruit of the vine Medication prescribed for each patient individually by I Lose weight by Increasing your metabolic rate under strict physician supervision No pre- packaged foods fiber or expensive psy- chology Appointment necessary Aik 99 for Virginia Lite ffSKS Inc 268-SLIM Panama List Gf Naughty Books Books that are banned in Bay County's public schools: I am the cheese The Chocolate War Never Cry Wolf The school board blocked the superintendent from banning these books: Shane The Great Gatsby A Separate Peace The Red Badge of Courage A Farewell to Arms Intruder in the Dust Lost Horizon Oedipus Rex Watership Down Deathwatch Death Be Not Proud Animal Farm Twelfth Night After the First Death The Crucible The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Long Journey Into Night The Outsiders The Pearl Fahrenheit 451 Alas Babylon The Prince and the Pauper The Emperor Jones Wlnterset The Man Who Came To Dinner The Little Foxes The Glass Menagerie Mister Roberts Lord of the Flies The Call of the Wild Great Expectations The Canterbury Tales Brave New World The Mayor of Casterbridge The Merchant of Venice Player Piano In Cold Blood The Inferno Prometheus Unbound Hippolytus King Lear Ghosts Miss Julie On Baile's Strand Desire Under the Elms Wuthering Heights Hamlet Growing Up A Raisin in the Sun The Old Man and the Sea To Kill a Mockingbird McTeague The Fixer Of Mice and Men Three Comedies of American Life Tale Blazer Library Best Short Stories Arrangement in Literature Adventures in English Literature Major British Writers Exploring Life Through Literature In June 1986 Collins took out a big advertisement in the local News-Herald "Your child's textbooks Have you read them?" it asked Collins printed a few offending sentences from another book The Chocolate War the story of a boys' school maverick who defies the authority of a corrupt teacher Such as: "1 dd assignments' Archie said you think they're a bastard Archie' is sh At the bottom of the page Collins said: If you believe these books should be banned mail in the attached coupon In short order Collins had a fat file Superintendent Hall was appalled He is a faithful member of the fundamentalist Assembly of God who never swrears When he was a state legislator back in the 1970s he was so uncompromising that his own party gerrymandered his district to force him out according to one local version of events Hall decided it was time to clean up the bookshelves Mowat's new principal Joel Creel obliged by banning the offending books Screening order The superintendent did not stop there He decreed that every book in the school district had to be screened by June 1987 He would have the final word His standards would be strict "Leonard Hall is a devout said Sam Pruitt the school district spokesman is his opinion that the word goddamn in any book one time obliterates any literary value that book may In April Hall banned a third book Never Cry Wolf a nature story that was made into a Disney movie The offending passage quoted in its entirety: "Furchrisah-cstopy ougodamnson The superintendent ordered Bay-County teachers to explain every book on their shelves They were told to count curse words Eventually Hall decided to put the books in categories Category I was for pristine books with upbeat themes like Pearl Buck's The Good Earth Category II was for books with "a sprinkling" of raw language or hints of sex such as The Hound of the with its reference to a Category III was for books with "oodles" of trouble Hall declined to define and Three weeks ago Hall published his list Sixty-one books turned up in Category III Hall said they must not be taught or discussed in Bay County classrooms A record demand When it comes to books the people of Bay County don't agree on much but almost everyone agreed Hall had gone too far The public library reported record demand for the blacklisted books A News-Herald reporter spotted Oedipus Rex masterful Greek tragedy in Category I and asked whether that meant themes such as patricide and incest were approved Hall promptly put Sophocles on the blacklist "Talk about Oedipus Rex" said Deluzain the teacher "If this isn't an Oedipus Rex story I know what is a story of one error in judgment leading inexorably to disastrous consequences" By week's end Hall's policy was shattered and his reputation was damaged Some people were calling him "Adolf" The city commis- Wolf are still banned Last week enemies prepared a petition calling for his head Dozens of Hall supporters jammed the Assembly of God church to plot strategy Collins as always waxed philosophical never met a happy person with a dirty mouth" he said who swear they always have something rumble-bumble in the head They the Kind of people who fry chicken and whip up a drum of peach ice cream and get excited about the Fourth of July" of the center "This is the first that looks like it could develop into said Gil Clark a specialist at the hurricane center Clark said the depression probably become a big storm because the waters are still cool in May Buy one Get one FREE! Purchase a new pair of fashion eyeglasses at already low prices and receive a SECOND PAIR OF EQUAL VALUE FREE Every BOOKS from I A music and tells people just a scared sinner who prays to God to forgive The Bay County Battle of the Books is one of several recent attempts to censor school books in Florida according to People for the American Way a civil liberties watchdog Two lawsuits have recently been filed in federal courts one a class-action suit in Panama City on I cm the cheese a complex disturbing novel by Robert Cormier about government corruption and a troubled boy In Lake City the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to protect two mildly ribald classics: Lysistrata by the Greek playwright Aristophanes and from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales New and old ways All this because some people just don't like the new way of doing things especially in a conservative iown where citizens adhere to old-fashioned virtues In burgeoning Panama City its big Navy base its new Florida State University campus its modern shopping mall beckoning to musky loitering adolescents old-timers look to the future and see nothing but trouble the imminent corruption of a devout old Gulf Coast town where 100- 000 people have built 125 churches So the righteous are fighting back One notorious strip joint mysteriously burned to the ground a few months back and police raid others frequently A sheriff's deputy found offensive a rap music tape the other day and arrested an unsuspecting record-store clerk In the book battle the enemy came packaged in the unlikely shape of Ed Deluzain a mild-mannered English teacher with spectacles a bookish look and a Ph Deluzain does not believe in grammar workbooks He believes in reading "enjoyable reading one enjoyable experience reinforcing another Hooking kids on books" Class filled with books So Deluzain 1986 teacher of the year for the Panhandle filled his classroom at Mowat Junior High with hundreds of paperbacks Books that kids actually liked to read Other teachers followed his lead first at Mowat then at Mosley High In 1985 Mowat's English program won a national award for excellence The average Mowat ninth-grader read at the 12th-grade level About that same time though some Panama Citians began to suspect that kids were reading because their books were dirty corrupted by gutter language racy scenes and the bittersweet misery of adolescence Deluzain calls these novels "more realistic than the established material" Mowat parent Claudia Shumaker calls them waste of time Trashy" Shumaker filed a protest over am the cheese the first time a Bay County book had been formally challenged A committee was appointed to screen the book and like reviewers for The New York Times Newsweek and The Library of Congress committee members loved it But it did not end there Motel owner Collins also read I am the cheese He found signs of the rebellion and immorality that to his mind are ruining the community "There's no respect this county any Collins said cannot go down the halls of the high schools and junior highs without hearing the dirtiest language you ever heard in your life 1 believe these filthy little books are the cause" ISMOBTCAPES FAST EQUITY LOANS Meister Financial Group Inc Dads 940-3803 Broward Call Collect 1880 NE 163 StLic Mtg Broker aviyn a avi 1 A I MO CHtvlt 5 IM OUt CHECK LOW MONTHLY PAYMENT US MORTGAGE CO 1 FAM8 vxwnwl UoriMge fer BaW iDAOE) 290 NM 166m St 6ROWA0 1 945-2333 463-5505 1 aJ011 eeiMeee8 ow JFAST tCHXTYMMtf GAfife Store Front Specialist Commercial Residential ALL SOUTH FLORIDA GLASS Manny Soto COC QO CO Gen Mgr cctooussa DtJ003c 1-800-8-LAWYER one the last in book Ok 3 SALES AND SERVICE WE CARRY: OKI MOTOROLA MITSUBISHI NEC PANASONIC AUDIOVOX DIAMONDTEL MAGNUM ROAMX AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR s575 Phone CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY Available 593-5222CaiAH ONE sion said his crusade was hurting Panama efforts to attract new business The day after the marathon board meeting Hall was visited by a producer from 60 Minutes That was the last straw "You know you've got trouble when Mike Wallace shows up at your said school spokesman Pruitt Hall stalked out of his office and went home with a headache But Deluzain and his fellow teachers celebrating Three books I am the cheese The Chocolate War and Never Cry FLORIDA nwa re iMssmMKsaHi first depression sighted Dawson's' Ronpholsfery Special! 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