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The Weirton Daily TimesSection TwoJanuary (, 197*PAGE -UYear’s Term Imposed In Bomb CaseC1IAKLKST0N. W.Va. (UPI) — A prison term of one year and a day was imposed Monday on David Green, the last person to face a federal judge in the 1974 plot to blow up Kanawha County schools in a feud over disputed textbooks.Green pleaded guilty in November to his role in the conspiracy to bomb the Wet Branch Elementary School in Cabin Creek.TI tree schools were targets of terrorists in a rash of violent incidents that accompanied a campaign by parents to rid schools of controversial books they considered anti-Christianand un-American.You could get in trouble easily by listening to persons who want to do wrong. U. S. District Judge K. K. Hall cautioned Green in his courtroom.Green was told he would serve out his term in a minimum or .tedium security prison.Two other men involved In the Wet Branch incident. Roger Lee Hammack and Bobby Chiltum, were sentenced to 18-month terms last June.In another textbook development, Jack Boyer planned to enroll his five children In private Fair Haven Christian School after an 18-month absence from public schools.Boyer faced two separate charges of violating West Virginia’s compulsory attendance laws but was exonerated in both instances.lie grew disenchanted with the protest, however, and planned to rc-enroll his children in public schools Monday, complaining lhat no other protesters were supporting him.Bui churches sympathetic to the ban-thc-book cause pitched In and raised enough money to cover the tuition costs of his children’s private education.
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Weirton Daily Times
Weirton, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jan 06, 1976
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