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Still, simplicity doesn't necessarily mean serenity. In The Secret, Lettie Byler, a troubled wife and mother in a devout Amish home, is, for some mysterious reason, depressed and tearful. Eventually she disappears into the night, in what is "surely the most remarkable tittle-tattle to hit the area in recent years." Englischers (i.e., the non-Amish) might have steered Lettie into a psychiatrist's office for a course of Prozac. But Lettie's large family has other modes of counsel: talking and cooking and harvesting and raising barns and praying together. Her 21-year-old daughter Grace holds...
...Amish in Lawrence County. He differs from his neighbors for reasons other than the fact that he is not a Byler or a Swatzentrooper or a Hofstader or the bearer of some other traditionally Amish name. Lee is different because he has done something that the Amish rarely do. He has ended up in court. His offense: refusing to pay Social Security taxes for 30 Amish men who worked for him over an eight-year period as carpenters, building houses. The Internal Revenue Service claimed that he owed the Government $27,000. Lee challenged the IRS ruling in federal district...
Such charges stir hurricanes of protest on the rigs. Says Pat Byler, production foreman at Shell's Vermilion Block 22 field, six miles off Louisiana: "My blood pressure goes up when I hear them talk about withholding." Nonetheless, gasmen privately concede that investigators from Washington will uncover a few examples of withholding...
...environmental groups are wary of a clause in the amendment permitting land use for "residential and other community purposes." The plateau that the Indians want is, according to Sierra Club Lobbyist Jeffrey Ingram, "a fantastic piece of real estate." He envisions vacation condominiums on the reservation. William Byler of the Association on American Indian Affairs scoffs at this. He points out that tribal leaders have insisted they will allow no unsightly development and that the bill forbids any but "traditional use." Says he: "To suggest that the tribe will hand it over to developers is a slanderous attack...
William R. Byler '39, of Toledo, Ohio; John B. Fisher '41, of Los Angeles, California;Richard C. W. Fisher '41, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island; William C. Flinn '39, of Redwood Falls, Minnesota; Sanford L. Gray '41, of Cleveland, Ohio; John F. Grindle, Jr. '39, of Washington; Clarence Hagen '39, of Marysville, Washington; George B. Handelman '41, of Pittsburgh; Louis Bartz '40, of Omaha, Nebraska...