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By Jim Broe a "action on the religious
1 Staff Writer cults being established in `
The devil has come to this state . . . and aid for
Maplewood, City Council- parents with great grief in ANDERSON
• man Norm Anderson the loss of their children.” • He said he knew of par-
said. T h e resolution was e n t s who "kidnapped”
He said his concern was adopted unanimously. their own daughter "in or
with c e r t a i n "occult" Anderson said two of his der to get her back."
groups. personal friends had chil-. One father, he said..,
"IT'S TERRIFYING " dren involved in an occult donned sidearms and car-~
• he told the city council movement, which he des- ried mace when he "res-
• Thursday, "what they do cribed as widespread. cued" his daughter from
• with some of our young "PARENTS are frus- an occult group.
people." trated," he r e p o r t e d. "He (the father) was
•• A n d e r s o n asked the "They can't seem to get willing to die," he said.
council if there was any- to people who can do any- "in order to get his daugh
1 thing it could do to bring thing about the problem." ter back."
the occult "under con-
trol."
"I'd like to stir some ac-
tion,"he commented.
"I THINK this thing is
bigger than us," Council-
man Don Wiegert re-
sponded.
"Give it to the legisla-
• ture," he suggested, "in
order to have it dealtwith
effectively."
ANDERSON then intro-
duced a resolution to the
legislature, a s k i n g for