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...letters was this big, bulky, official-looking thing, with a big seal on it, and 'Return within five days to PHYLLIS J. RUTLEDGE, CIRCUIT CLERK, Kanawha County Courthouse, Charleston, West Virginia.' It was my absentee ballot, and, like any other first-time voter, I tore it open eagerly...
Avis Hill is lots more interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing...
...Republican in disguise, but you could probably say that about all West Virginia Democrats. Hechler is a lot more acceptable--his ADA rating is 94--but he really wants to be a U.S. senator before he dies, and he's 62. And the word in Kanawha County Democratic circles is that he is running as a favor to Jay Rockefeller, who with James Sprouse is one of the major candidates...
...Globe won the gold medal for public service for its "massive and balanced" coverage of the school busing crisis. The Pulitzer for editorial writing went to John Daniell Maurice of the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail for his calming editorials on the textbook controversy in the state's Kanawha County...
...grace, asks for adventure and is to be freely enjoyed and shared. TIME'S Bible believers count "a literal biblical faith" to be "a badge of honor," are driven by a need for "spiritual security," and pride themselves on being hardliners, splitters of congregations, book burners in Kanawha County, censors in California...