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Show principal, ordered him to get a haircut. Carl refused. His parents backed his decision. The results flowing from that simple episode have been extraordinary and unfortunate. Carl was suspended from and school, branded a delinquent sentenced to six months detention. This separated the family. To keep Carl out of jail, he and Curt and their mother Elsie fled to their native England. The father, also British-born- , stayed with his Cleveland paper business. But pubjicity over his fight with school officials caused some customers to quit him and revenue dropped 50 percent $10,000 in one two-nth period. Also, the harassed father was victimized by crank phone callers who questioned his and Carls masculinity and threatened to bomb or burn his house. Legal costs, tutors fees for Carl and maintaining two households have further depleted Towners purse. He says hes tried to sell his $25,000 house but customers, knowing hes desperate, offer only $14,000. Meanwhile, Towner is pressing a legal fight in Cuyahoga County appeals court to clear his delinquent sons name. He vows to go to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary. parade asked the anguished Towner, a stubborn individualist who himself wears Iongish hair and a red beard, if freedom of Carls hair has been worth all the suffering and loss. His reply: It would hurt me to do it any other way. I admit to moments of confusion and black despair. Im so lonesome for my family, and they want to be with me. But a school principal has denied a childs freedom to be an individual and that has to be fought to the finish. And in the London suburb of Ealing, where Mrs. Towner and her two sons are boarding, Carl told parade : The hair they wanted off was the same length hair I wore in the same school system the year before. And there are still guys in the school with hair about the same length as mine. I dont know why they picked on me. He's a good boy North Olmsted school officials, uncomfortable over the way the case has escalated, concede that Carl has never been a trouble maker and that he comes from a good family. Principal Sewell once phoned Mrs. Towner and said, "Carl has always been a good pupil. Im sorry he has to suffer from all this. Says Dr. Robert Van Auken, North Olmsted Towner, 41, whos stuck with his stubborn devotion to principle and whos watching the gradual collapse of his lifes achievements. Towner took his family from England to Cleveland in 1957 when he was restless and sought a new vista. After working for a Cleveland paper company, he founded the Keystone Paper Products Company and developed a moderately successful business. I never wanted to be a millionaire, Towner says, I just wanted to make enough so wed live happily. And they did. Towner built a swimming pool for the boys and there were cookouts and badminton games. Certainly the Towners never dreamed anything could wreck this pleasant way of American life which theyd adopted permanently as their own. But, in the spring of 1967, the North Olmsted education board drew up a student dress code which included limits on boys hair length. The limits were not defined, just left to each principal. Carl, a B and C student, formerly an industrious newspaperboy and never a problem kid, ran head on into the new code. From the very first, his case mocked reality. After the suspension, school officials charged him with being "habitually Carls mother and younger brother, Curt, went with him while father stayed behind. school superintendent: "Carls not a bad kid but he refused to have his hair trimmed. When students hair gets beyond reason theyre asked to have it cut. Eleven got haircuts but Carl wouldnt. Its that simple. But its hardly simple for the intense continued smi your toms with this magnitiesnt idl world map Colorful reproduction of beautiful antique map 16x22' --Yours for only QQ Own this stunning example of the craft of Old World map-make- beautifully reproduced on fine parchment paper (I6V2" 22") and suitable for framing. Hang it in the living room, in the den, the study, the kids room wherever you want to add a touch of Old World elegance to your home. Personal Size Lysol Spray BONUS atGetnoNew additional cost with map. Size Lysol Brand Spray Disinfectant -made to carry with you. Use it anywhere youre the least bit worried about other peoples germs. Spray it on surfaces to kill household germs, in the air to alimmate odors. And morel You get a coupon good for It on your next purchase of any size Lysol Brand Spray Dis infectant Parson! ffS'Jh - 1 MAIL TOOAY- - P.O.Box 345 Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202 Please send me. .old world map(s), new Personal Size Lysol Spray, and the 7t coupon. I am enclosing J1.00 for each set of items (no stamps, please). Lysol Brand Map Offer I I IJname- - I (PLEASC PRIMt) I I I I 01960 LFHN A HNK PRODUCTS J We must have January 1, 1969. Note- yjur rip code to skip your order. Offer expires I 11 |
