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School textbook foes win a battle in West Virginia By BOB ROBINSON and fables where there had been problems before, we unseen as book supporters tired of the battle. year federal prison term for conspiracy to bomb an elemen- scanned those books probably like they've never been "This thing wore people out,",he explained. tary school. He is now doing construction work under a CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Four years after a scanned before," said Stephen Priestly, a Lincoln County Hardly a murmur of protest was heard when theaew work-release program. httttr dispute over the selection of school textbooks set elementary school principal who headed the U-member books were picked in early November. The selection proc- Mfcttnr against neighbor In Kanawha County, it appears Supporters of the books won a victory of sorts in advisory committee. ess drew scant attention from the state's media. November 1(74 when the school board voted to return most victory has gone to those who protested the use of books Phil E. Suiter, assistant state school superintendent, The Kanawha County textbook furor started in the they saw a* godless and un-American of the books to the classrooms But Lewis says it was an also says the books approved by the advisory committee, spring of 1174 when Alice Moore, a minister's wife, com- empty victory. The protests were "very much" on the minds of the from which county school boards must choose their materi- plained that selections from some of the books were lewd, members of an advisory committee that recently screened als, were carefully chosen with the textbook protest in unpatriotic and encouraged students to think in terms of "One of the key things that happened Is that Alice a Mt of language arts books for the Board of Education, mind relative values. Mrs. Moore had been elected to the Moore came to that meeting with a piece of paper in her according to the committee's leader. "I thought the fact that the textbook advisory commit- Kanawha County school board as a candidate opposing sex hand — and it was a set of guidelines" for future textbook The language arts books approved by the board were tee looked at the books so carefully ... that is evidence that education in the public schools. selections, he said. the tint authorized for elementary schools since 1173 It they have been very sensitive to what the public's demands The protest, led by fundamentalist preachers waving "I said to myself, 'Oh, no. Not another battle. People was those 1173 selections - from authors such as ex-Black are," Suiter said. Bibles, escalated with thousands of followers, most of them are tired." Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, now a "bornagaln" And the pro textbook faction concedes defeat. concentrated in the hills and hollows surrounding ' The guidelines, he said, are the basis for the current Christian, and LeRoi Jones - that sparked the protest "I know what it's like to lose," said the Rev. James Charleston. By the time school opened in the fall, hundreds textbook selections "Those guidelines were totally un- which shut down schools, factories, mines and a regional Lewis, an Episcopal minister who was a vocal supporter of of pupils' mothers were on picket lines. workable. They're awful. They're oppressive," he main- bus system the textbooks Several preachers went to jail for minor picketing tains. "When we got into the textbooks dealing with literature The pv»ntu»l virtw-v l.«>wls believes, came almost offenses But one the HPV Marvin Horan served a three- "But nobody was ready to go to war on this issue." The Daily Register VOL.101 NO. 124 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1978 15 CENTS Cultists explored exodus to Russia By PETER ARNETT sympathetically and held out money" from Jonestown to the Guyana, demanding that each Lew, Jlmmle, Johnnie and would be "no problem of get-between Georgetown and opened the suitcase and found the promise of approval for the embassy to aid such a move, speak a Russian phrase before Debbie — said the cultists dis- ting visas at any time" for a Jonestown, the memo con- 1500,000 in cash and a letter GEORGETOWN, Guyana exodus of the whole Jonestown according to the document. A each meal. cussed the possibility of ex-delegation to visit the Soviet tinued, "but said he'd rather addressed to the Soviet Em- (AP) - Top aides of cult lead- colony to Russia, according to few months after the meet- Jones was known to be fear- odus to Russia at the Decem- Union to discuss the matter talk to J J in person when he bassy. Carter said they aban- er Jim Jones conferred at least a document made available to ings, Jones instituted com- ful of attacks from across the ber meeting, and Timofeyev The document said at one comes to Jonestown — he still doned the suitcase and fled twice In Georgetown with an The Associated Press. pulsory study of Russian for Brazilian border by referred the matter to Mos-point "regarding the need for is planning to come to Into the jungle. official of the Soviet Embassy Jones' «ide also discussed the approximately 1,000 mem- mercenaries hired by relatives cow. At the meeting in March exodus, a quick transference Jonestown." Miss Katsaris was found who discussed their problems the "quick transference of bers of his Peoples Temple In of some of his followers to re- he said he still had not re-of money, he doesn't see the It was after the later visits dead of gunshot wounds In turn them to the United States ceived a reply. need for such a situation de- of Timofeyev and other Soviet Jonestown. One of the signers He was known to be seeking a "He said It was a very dif- veloping right away, not within officials to Jonestown that the Ait the memo, Sharon Amos, safer haven and spoke of Cuba ficult thing to arrange ex- a year." Russian-language classes was the public relations direc- and the Soviet Union in hisodus," the memo continued. The memo said Timofeyev were Instituted on a large tor for the cult in Georgetown speeches. "But when I cried and said it cautioned Jones about visiting scale. She and her three children A five-page typewritten would be very painful for the Georgetown, where an emo- Three survivors of the mass were murdered in Georgetown memo found in the house door to be shut against the tional hearing over the custody suicide-murder told reporters while the suicide ritual was where Jones lived and main- children (we adults don't mat- of a child in the Jonestown that the settlement's treas- taking place in Jonestown tained his office revealed that ter so much but we need safety settlement was in progress. urer, Maria Katsaris. ordered Charles Edward Beikman. a aides of the cult leader met In for our children) he said that "He feels that the risks for them during the height of ttw former U.S. Marine and a Georgetown with the press at- the USSR, had taken in 5,000 Jim's life if he came to town death ritual to take a heavy member of the cult, has been tache of the Soviet Embassy. Spanish children, taken care of might only be 10 percent but it suitcase "to the embassy " arrested and charged with the Feodor Timofeyev, in Decem- them and returned them later is not worth taking." the memo One of the three, Tim murders ber 1977 and again last March to Spain, so he felt it was worth said. Carter, said they thought Miss 20 pursuing." Timofeyev declined to talk Katsaris mean the U.S. Em- Timofeyev was not avail- The memo — signed with The memo added that with Jones over the radio-tele- bassy. But he said after they able for comment Sunday the names Marcle, Sharon, Timofeyev told them there phone link the cult operated got out of the settlement, they night Motel fire: Terror and panic ROCHESTER, N.Y. <AP> house, its roof burned away . and I Injured my leg. I don't lapsed on top ot each other functioning. - Screams. The sounds of ter- Mike Fantigrossi of theknow how I managed to land about 10 feet from a second- "I thought it was a tele- ror and panic rose above an- county district attorney's on my feet." . floor exit. phone." said Ethel Smith, 67, other sound, the "low rumble" arson bureau said arson had One woman held on to a "They were painfully of Toronto, "or at first It of a fire raging through a sub- not been ruled out although second-floor window window close," said Rlley, adding they seemed like someone had set urban Holiday Inn packed with nothing had so far aroused sus- sill, but would not let go, said apparently became confused an alarm at the wrong hour. wedding celebrants and Cana- picions. FBI experts from Maryanne Howard of Hamil- in the thick, choking smoke But after awhile we did recog- dian shoppers, killing 10 peo- Rochester were assisting In ton. "She just kept calling for and stumbled over each other nize It as a fire alarm." ple. the Investigation with labora- someone inside to push her." Other bodies were strewn About 120 Canadians were Later, some remembered tory work, he said. The woman was rescued. about the building, he said. aboard three buses — one from other sounds. The muffled ring "A lot of people were hang- Firefighters and rescue Survivors huddled outside Hamilton and two from Toron- of a telephone, the bell of en ing out of second- and third- workers with trained dogs in winds that gusted up to 25 to, just two hours away — alarm clock? If it was a fire story windows," said Phillips pulled 10 bodies from the rub- miles an hour and 20-degree which were scheduled to leave alarm, too few heard It.