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The Brussels Post, 1979-05-16, Page 44 — THE BRUSSELS POST, MAY 16, 1979 Behind the scenes by Keith Rouiston (Continued from Page 2)1 necessary for Dunlop's people to make sure they kept the pools open as long as possible for all the supporters to get in.' The Orangement meanwhile walked back! and forth outside the hotel, swinging clubs and shouting threats at anyone who tried tot enter the hotel who wasn't on their side. Then on Monday night they rioted, attacking the hotel and beating up the owner, beating up anyone who was known to be a Dunlop supporter and even dragging some from their beds, beating them and leaving them in the bush on a cold March night. Dunlop's supporters had been afraid of such a happening so had asked that troops be brought in from London and only the word that the troops were now in Clinton quieted the violence. But the next morning the Strachan supporters were lined along the porch of the hotel so deeply that it took both moral and physical strength for a Dunlop voter to get into the hotel to cast his vote. When the troops arrived, this kind of violent intimidation was weakened but the Canada Company had another plan. It began juggling the books and giving deeds to supporters who didn't own their land, so they could vote. When the election finally ended it was 159 to 149 for Strachan. But justice did triumph. The fraud was found out and Dunlop eventually was declared victorious. So next time you want to complain about the present election campaign remember how things could have been. • • • • V2,,f.x. •CtiSs • • .A • %:w And now a look at the local news. When it comes to local reporting of the news, eight out of ten people turn to their local newspaper for a complete report.. People turn to local newspapers for a full report on all local news. Where's the fire? Who got married? Who won last week's football game? All this, and a complete report on your City Council, school board meeting, or a possible bond issue, it news in your community. And, your local newspaper re- ports it. People believe Strongly in newspapers for several reasons: neWspaper reading is a habit with most people; it's part of the daily routine; people regard their newspaper as a friend they can't do without. With over 80% of all adults, and 70% of all teen-agers reading a newspaper every week, no other news medium can match local newspapers for speedy, thorough saturation of Our town, Newspapers deliver the local story. CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY PRESS OF CANADA BY WILMA OKE During a seven-hour council session Monday McKillop township council set an expenditure budget for the township of $321,846 for 1979. Public school supporters with a $5,000 assessment will be paying taxes of $629.55, $41.70 more than last year. A separate school supporter with the same assessment will pay taxes amounting to $634.60, up $41.75 more than last year. The county mill rate, farm and residential is 18 mills, the same as last year to meet the county requisition of $73,397. The mill rate has remained the same for the past two years because of a county surplus from government grants, Reeve Allan Campbell said. Next year he said the rate will be higher. The Huron County Board of Education farm and residential' mill rate is 39.67 to raise $89,860 for elementary schools, compared to $75,818 in 1978. For the secondary schools, the farm and residential rate is 31.44 mills to raise $101,589 compared to $94,116 last year, Mill rate for the Huron-Perth County Roman CatholicSeparate, farm and residen- tial is 40,68 mills to raise $39,055, compared to $33,513 in 1978. The general municipal rate is 36.8 mills, up two mills over last year in order to provide for an equipment reserve fund. Marion McClure, clerk-treasurer, said that one mill raises approximately $3,000. Mrs. McClure reported that the township ended theyear 1978 with a surplus of $9,776. She said tax artears in the township now outstanding amount to $10,000. Taxes are to be paid June 22 and November 30. In other business the council approved a request from Mrs. McClure that she be allowed to attend a meeting in Shelbourne May 17 for municipal clerks and treasurers and to pay the registration fee of $6.00. Reeve Allan Campbell was authroized to attend a tour, sponsored by the Ausable-Bay field Conservation Authority on conservation and erosion problems, in England, Holland and Germany either this fall or next spring McKillop residents to pay about $42 more Concerned citizens right, Campbell BY JEFF SEODON Reverend Ken Campbell told about 250 concerned citizens it was their "right and responsibility" as parents to select books for classroom use that reflect values and morals taught in their homes. In a sometimes frenzied speech made in Clinton Thursday night the Baptist preacher explained the Re- naissance movement in Canada and outlined its goals. Campbell, the founder of Renaissance International, told the parents the movement was the most "dynamic liberation movement in the country". Campbell was invited to Clinton by the Concerned Citizens of Huron County, a group actively lobbying to have three English literature novels taken out of county high schools. The novels. . The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger . . are considered blashphemous and immoral by the parents. The county board of education agreed to delist The Diviners but did nothing about the other novels. Campbell urged the parents not to lose sight of their goals nor to succumb to criticisms from book publishers opposing moves to have novels taken out of the classrooms. He said parents opposed to the use of some materials in classrooms seem to be open game for individuals and groups who feel any tyke of restriction placed on literature re- presents restriction of rights. He said it was a parentls "right and responsibility" to select _materials to be used in the education of their chidlren. Campbell steered clear of comment on thelthree novels under tire in Huron County concentrating on book selection policies in the education system rather than the book, selected. He said the novels upsetting parents in Huron were secondary to the problems parents were encountering as a result of efforts by parents to control classroom material. He saididthe attitude by many school administrators that children were the pro- perty of the state when they were in school was what Renaissance wanted to combat. "Children are part of the family not part of the state," he said. "That's what this liberation is all about." He told parents that their efforts to have the novels taken out of classroom shas resulted in unwarranted attacks from book publishers and groups that feel that any restrictions placed on literature is a restriction of rights. He said both groups attempt to make the parents out as fools. He said paretns, or anyone else offended by literature such as Teh Diviners are made out as "bigoted, narrow minded, red-necked boon-dockers". He added that Huron County has suf- fered more from these at- tacks than other areas because of its rural back - ground. He pointed out that the same novels upsetting Huron County parents had surfac ed in Hamilton with next to no publicity. He said a top school administrator in the lcity had commented that a novel was unfit for secondary school use because of its content and the remark was virtually unnoticed. "Why zero in on Clinton, why not Hamilton?" Campbell asked. The minister told the crowd that Renaissance International was not formed to promote censorship or to clean up classroom materials but rather to fight for parents' rights to control what is used in schools. He said the movement had no list of novels it wanted banned nor did it concentrate any effort on a particular novel. It merely, fought for parents' rights to have their children taught from material the parents approve of. He said Renaissance was not a fundamental sect nor did it have any religious overtones as the media and book publishers have indicated. It was a group devoted to having classrooms in Canada reflect the values of homes in a pluralistic society with a Judeo- Christian heritage. (Continued on Page 16)