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Children may now legally study the Bible in Illinois' public schools. After due consideration, the State Supreme Court has said it is all right. But Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
...case involved a basic educational issue: should religion be taught in public schools? The McCollum in the case was the slight, 32-year-old wife of an assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Illinois, Mrs. Vashti McCollum. Last year, she complained, her son Terry had been "embarrassed" and "ostracized" by his schoolmates because she refused to let him attend the school's religious classes (Jews and Catholics usually leave school to go to classes of their own). Mrs. McCollum sued to have the religious training banned altogether. Said she: the classes waste taxpayers' money, and discriminate...
...first step was when he fell for a beautiful "rebel hellcat" named Brandon Hawkes who led him on only long enough to frame him for the murder of a carpetbagger. The real murderer was her cousin Ranee Hawkes, chief gunrunner and suitor for a rich, fabulous Texas beauty named Vashti Silver, who had been commissioned by old Sam Houston to carry on his fight to annex Mexico. Released. Cantrell set out to get Ranee and Brandon-in different ways...
...able to get their fill of beer at the Commons, students usually congregated in a tavern and bakery owned by a Mrs. Vashti Bradish. Complaints to President Dunster accused Mrs. Bradish of harboring students "unreasonably spending their time and parents estate". Not wishing Mrs. Bradish's innocent calling to be discouraged, the president made an agreement that she should not serve students with more than a pennyworth at a time, or more than twice a week on the average...