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GRIFFITHS WAS RELN'STATED July 27 afler he took a polygraph test that <br />city officials say cleared him of any involvement in the suspected arson, al- <br />hough the two people who claimed Griffiths told them he had set the Ore also <br />oaised polygraph tests on their testimony Griffiths denies any involvement in <br />he fire. <br />Griffiths and represenutives of Teamsters Local 320, which represents <br />•^ayzata police, feel that Griffiths’ religious beliefs were questioned impro- <br />>erly Ihi^ghout the investigation and the resulting arbitration hearing This <br />lucstioning violated his constitutional rights, they believe <br />that the union opposes the use oTb <br />agahm seU-incriminaUoii i poiygra^ tests <br />GRIFFITHS THEN TOLD Jeoie; <br />month, Wayxau city manager Larrv <br />cal testing service the city uses tot <br />that Thompson told him that be **th' <br />ui.utt mat mier me investigators asked him <br />relij uirwSffs!'*^ questioning him about devil %irorship and Griffiths* <br />GRIFFITHS SAYS HE UNDERSTOOD what the investigators were getting <br />at by the questioning The house bad been used by devil worshipers for <br />months, says Griffiths, and investigators were obviously tr>ing to connect <br />Griffiths to the fire by csUblishing that Griffiths’ fundamentalist religious <br />beliefs would have opposed the satanic practices. <br />Assistant sUte fire marshal Tom Jensen called Griffiths in three weeks <br />later and questioned him about the fire and about Griffiths’ religious beliefs <br />Jensen had been called into the case by the county sheriff Jensen is required <br />L ake Minnetonka <br />„ . Serving Carver County and Plymouth) <br />U jy/ju Siih.K.1 District 284. Mmneionkt School District 276. Mound Westonkt School District 27". <br />and Oruno School District 278 <br />RELIGK <br />7c <br />A B <br />Vol. A. No.34 TWO SECTIONS Wtdnesday, August 25, 1976 Second C>oti Poaiftyc <br />At Msn«v«apoli|. <br />; Old Hill School re-dedication was a <br />i <br />^. home-grown, 'small-towny' happening <br />r .. i <br />r <br />i <br />i <br />I <br />\4 <br />THIS is how a parade should be!" <br />Tbat’a the^co ‘nsellius of watchers <br />who linM the four block route of <br />Orono ’s first and only parade from <br />the village hall to the newly restored <br />old Hill Sd^l building Saturday. <br />• Home grown, -snudL towny with a <br />parade of antiquei cars, an old vel­ <br />ocipede, kids, kids, kids and their <br />dogs, Girl and Boy Scouts and the <br />Blue Knights Drum & Bugle Corps <br />were there. <br />But nowhere in the entire line of <br />march was a commercial float. <br />THE PARADE was indicative of <br />the rest of the day's happenings from <br />the Girl and Boy Scout flag-raising <br />• ceremony at Center West (the new <br />! name for new Hill School) to tne barn <br />{ dance that night. Tom Williams and <br />I Judy Johnson were the scout leaders. <br />> Presidents Carol Berman and <br />Eleanor Cosgrove sounded the keyn- <br />I ote in words and looks. Carol in a <br />black school marm’s costume with <br />, parasol representing the 1890s and <br />I Eleanor as 1976 emphasized the <br />I’ meaningful historical significance of <br />j "Old Hill” in Orono and the con- <br />HILL SCHOOL <br />To Page 5 <br />4 ' <br />I —• • ■ - ” <1 <br />■> ' •> -*■*>* <br /><. <br />' J ' <br />frV-u <br />I <br />Pi' <br />■ ^ <br />mjm. <br />t • <br />? <br />I: <br />. ^ • > ..•' <br />CUTTING THE RIBBON <br />From left, Eileen Hock, Jim Hillegass, Betty Chandler, Laura Miles