• Censors, scorchers successfully strike script by Joeepllc.rAmerica.ns tend to think of their country as one in •hich individuals have the freedom to fonnua te 1hrir own ideas. Yet now, even here 1n Kootenai County. censorship of library books and book burning arc being pra.ct iced. Lee Stan. dm:cwr of the flayden W e l ibrary. loafed north of Coeu r d'Alene. rcponed that a person or persons unknown recently vandalized books intended for public use. Olle , _ ol booli aba1lit 10 be politically motivated. Selections from tens wluch deal with political idtnlogy. such as the works of Alexander SolzbcnilU'n. are marked with yellow ink. ·'They are marked much the way college textbooks arc," Starr said, ·'bu1 it's hard 10 track down whoever is doing 1t." Another way in which books have been tampered
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with is by removal of four·lettcr ,.,ords v.ith a razor blade or X·acto knife. Starr described these oc:currences as "erratic" and sa:id that books thus treated arc or no funbcr use 10 the library. " There isn't a single book in any collection someone doesn't find offensive." Starr said. As Dbruy d.lrecior, Starr said she feels patrons deserve to blow-10 see information and deride for themselves il5 wcmh. " We ll.$Sllme our pa1rons att fairly ia1clligen1:· Starr said. "but some arc so seJf.righteous that they don't belie,.·e others have the right to ttruin books." Richard H\'lleman. an NIC instructor who is on 1he boa.rd of directors for the library. v:as contacted about the censorship problem bu1 refused 10 comment on n. When contacted about the incidents at the Ha) den Lake library. the RC\. Richard ButlCT of the Church
of Jesus Chriss Christian Arv!lll Na1ion said be h:id no k'nowledgc: of the censonhips bul added. "It's ha.rd to keep tr.Id of 1hesc things.·· Butler, oa tspo~eo leder of the white su prcmis1 group located nCllr Hayden Lake. 1old of a book burning his church members held No,·. 7 111 their campground. " It "' :lS 3 symbolic rirual for the cleansing of the l:ind. ·• Butler said. About 100 books wen: burned. Butler said they were books dealing "~th such th ings as pornography. homose:rullit)'. bestiali1y. drug :ibuse and otlu!r "perversions.·· He blamed the dcelinc or modern youth on these things 3S ,.;ell » on ··so-o iled liberaliz:11ion .,.hich bnng) about pJm, deJth :llld des1ruc11on. •· The main c:ulprits or all 1hlS depra111). acrording 10 Butler. arc the Jev.s. " hom he d.:scribcs as thl" ··, iogs of pomogr~ph~ .. During the telephone Inter-le...- Butler also took the opponumr~· 10 v.onder aloud v. h~ he and hi:. people Jre no1 1mi1ed t.;, "exprcs~ the whuc m.in·~ p,:>mt of ,-iev. .. at funcuons. such :is ~tc·~ popcorn forums. Man) studcnh ha,c mkm:d fr,,m c-.m~ lik.e the\c: 1ha1 gc:111n~ 3 hbcrJI cduc311on I) n1•1 onl~ e,pen",c .1nd lime' con\umm~. but 3J<,0 d~n!!c:ou , .
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Keyboard magic scheduled in upcoming Wagne r shoiv b) Tracie Albertson
Seaule I unei.: " Woh Wngner hai. 1ha1 magic" St l.ou1~ Globe. •• OM nnc perfor• mer who know, his keyboard and display~ formidable 1cchnique " Tlu:i.c 11rc iu,1 n le" of rhc crilic rcmarh world·r('nowncd pinnb1 Woll Wagner has r~C1\'cd in h1~ pur,uh of a career tho1 I~ :tlmo)t unprecedented in i1s scupc. Appearing D«. 9 :it NIC in n show ,ponsored by !hi' ASNIC, Wagner's ,h'>"' promise, 10 corr} 1111 w11h 1hl.' critic appm,·al. Having begun daS)tCIU piano btudy 11 1gl' ,tx, Wn8ncr resisted v. hole• helrtcd invoh•cmcnl in mu~1c un1il hb. mid·tcen, when C\po:,ure 111 Jon and rock kindled v. hh111 him a fa:.cinatlun with ntu)ic') " 'tde variel)' · Wagner·, in,·ohcmcnl 111 rock ga,,c him an ln1r11duc1lon 10 bh1t jo.u harmony, rhythm and lmprovisauon. He developed hi~ i.'lv.n jou Sl)'lc as a l't')Uh of hh lb1ening 10 rcrorcb of JBU p1anh1, he admired such h F3h Wa ller. Oscar Pe terson and Chick Co~a 10 namc a few. He rontmul'd ronccnlrnttng on jan. playing solo and ,,i1h 1rio:. for :,c, cnll years in Sc11t1e night clubs nnd at Sun Valley ~cson. bdol't' acqu,nng the lntomauonal cxpo:,ure he no\\ enjo1·s And wha1 exposure lho.t IS. Wng• ner's o"n 1elc1•ision spec-u1J "The Wah Wagner Sho"··" a.ired \\Orldwide. He has made SIA 1clC\•is1on appca.ranC'e~ on the Mer" Griffin show 1n the pll.St Y~ar. not to mention Johnny Carson. Dinah Shore a_nd a ~pcclal wilh And~
Willi11m\ and Peggy Flemiog 11 M ad· i:.on Squa re Garden. He hru. also shared performanct'. Wllh Bill co~b) , Bob Hope. Lil)' Tom hn. Roberta Fl3ck. Marlin Mull Phylt1\ Diller and a \\Mid lour • Hh Peg11.v Fleming's .. A Concert On Ice." Wagner has had Nc\lda engage· m~·nti al lh1rr.ih' ,. the MGM Grand. 1hc l"rup1C11na and b currt'ntly "orking on h1~ fourth rtt1.1rd album A 11plcal Wnh W11gncr performance hcgrn~ \<llh a ~olo ,mpmvmmon and rnngc~ through an ma,• or \Cl«11ons. 111cluding his nv. n j.u.i and dOS\1cll!h·· oriented p1C)CC~. 1ind "nrl.s b) Chopin. Boch nnd Duke Elhngton. He hlb wrillcn ,,. o ,,orl. , for JIU 1rin 11nd ~ympho111 orvh~rra, "Under· <'11rrcn1" ,,nd "Collagl'." and h:LS had ~e, cn1I of hh p1-s fc:a.turcd oD the Nal!Clnal P3th Department telC\1S1on ad, cn15tmcnh. J\ ma~1cr 1mpnl\iS<!r. Wagner md. " I 111, c 10 Iii.le chance~ :tnd juS1 v.1ng 1t. hnpro, a-1<.>n 1s 1hc o1n of ta.lllng mu~1call} otl the top of t>nc's he3d. mwng up a fan1u, : and h demands 1hc utmo~t or a musictln·~ techmc:t! and romp,,51honal faculties." There 1s .o much 1mpro, 1i,.31ion .ind 1magmn1i(ln 10 h1~ mu~1C' tn fact. that 11 1> nol uncommon for Wa.gncr to 111\Cnl a 111le for his opening p,e,:c a her he has already pl,~ ed 11. Audicnec~ c, crvv.here lo,-e him In Se:inlc his name 1s a household .,.ord . and Wagner. J.I . rceh he h:i.s "rmde II, "
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