Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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WWII veteran covers the origins of Christianity
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
Dr. Carroll R. Bierbower, a resident
of the area for 26 years and World War II
veteran, has written a small booklet entitled,
“The Origin and Development of the Christian
Religion,” which is now available, upon
request, to the public.
Bierbower will be 92 years old in
June and before moving to Oregon he lived
in Southern California where he founded
a Baptist church and his own television
repair business. Before that he served in the
navy during World War II and, after retiring
from the military, received a PhD from the
Baptist Christian University in Shreveport
and a doctorate of divinity from Sacramento
Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition
to preaching, and before starting his own
business, he was an electrician with the
California Edison Power Company for 20
years.
During World War II, Bierbower dropped
out of his senior year of high school to join
the navy where he became an electrician and
was later put to work on the hospital ship
USS Comfort which was deployed in the
Pacific Theater of the war. After the ship was
commissioned it went to Australia and picked
up patients there before returning to California.
Then, after dropping of their patients, it
attended the invasion of the Philippines and
later Okinawa. As they were leaving Okinawa
with a full load of 750 patients, and just as is
started to become dark, the ship was struck
by a kamikaze pilot, otherwise known as a
Japanese suicide pilot.
“I was in the communications room. I’d
go there for privacy. I was writing a letter to
my finance. Then I got a phone call saying,
‘We need you at the electrical shop,’ and I
said, ‘What do you need from me this time?’
It was after quitting time you know? What do
they need me for at this time in the evening?
‘We need you real bad…” his shipmates said.
When Bierbower inquired once again as to
what they needed from him it was revealed
that they wanted another player for a poker
game. After refusing to participate a couple of
times he was finally talked into coming down.
He was there at the game for about 15 minutes
before the kamikaze pilot directly struck the
communications room where he was at. “It
would have killed me instantly. It completely
destroyed the room I was in. I got my life
saved by a poker game you might say.”
After returning home, and while the USS
Comfort was being repaired, he got married to
his wife of 71 years, 72 come July, who is now
suffering from Alzheimer’s. A short while after
getting married, he left the service and began
his religious studies. He was ordained as a
minister at 30 years old.
“I go into a lot of history that most
Christians don’t even know exists,” Bierbower
said of his new booklet. “It’s going to get
some preachers ticked off if they see it because
they won’t agree with it. But it’s history and
they won’t tell the truth to their people about
the Christian religion because, well, like one
preacher said, ‘I’d like to have someone to
preach to next Sunday.’” Bierbower went on
to say that he has preached the fundamental
Christian doctrine for over 50 years but after
moving to Oregon, and having time on his
hands for studying and researching the bible,
he changed a lot of his views.
“The Christianity we have today has
nothing to do with the first or second century
Christianity. The Christianity we have today
was developed by the Roman Catholic Church
in the third and fourth centuries,” Bierbower
stated in conclusion. The booklet covers
the bible from a historical perspective and
discusses, among a great many other things,
Jesus’ story not being written until about 100
years after his death and the adoption of pagan
beliefs into the Christian religion. Bierbower
also has multiple other writings about the
Christian religion online.
Anyone who is interested in reading the
booklet can email drcrb@icloud.com for a
copy.
AP Briefs
Chiloquin settles suit over free
speech at council meetings
CHILOQUIN, Ore. (AP) — The
Southern Oregon city of Chiloquin has settled
a freedom of speech lawsuit filed against it out
of court.
The Herald and News reports (https://
is.gd/Ai5zze ) that plaintiff Richard Twamley
confirmed Monday that his lawsuit against
the city was resolved through a settlement.
Details on the settlement were not immediately
available.
Twamley filed suit against Chiloquin
and former Mayor Joe Hobbs in October
2016 for an incident in December 2015 when
Hobs denied Twamley the opportunity to
speak during a city council meeting. Twanley
sought $1.7 million for the denial of his First
Amendment rights.
According to the lawsuit, Twamley
planned to speak to the council about a 2014
legal settlement between the city and the
Chiloquin Rodeo Association but Hobbs ruled
his comments were out of order.
Cottage Grove fined
for discharging sewage
wastewater
COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) — State
environmental regulators have slapped Cottage
Grove with $4,500 in fines.
The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.
ly/2lEr7Ud ) the city was fined for discharging
contaminated sewage wastewater onto city-
owned parkland and into the Coast Fork of the
Willamette River.
The Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality says wastewater
samples collected in June contained bacteria
from human waste slightly above allowable
levels.
Five times in July, samples of treated
wastewater the city used to irrigate parkland
contained too much bacteria.
The department classified the river
discharge violation as “minor,” carrying a
$1,500 fine, and the land watering violation as
“moderate,” with a $3,000 fine.
City officials blame heat waves and a
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temperatures of the water treated at its plant.
Timber companies sue
over expansion of Oregon
monument
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Two Oregon
lumber companies are challenging the legality
of former President Barack Obama’s expansion
of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Murphy Co. and Murphy Timber
Investments LLC sued in federal court in
Medford Friday naming President Donald
Trump and federal agencies.
The Mail-Tribune says (https://goo.
gl/8w5LUO) the Trump administration could
choose not to defend the lawsuit.
Before leaving office, Obama added
about 48,000 acres to the monument in
southwestern Oregon days to protect its
biodiversity.
Murphy Co. President John Murphy
says more than 80 percent of the federal land
in the expansion area is dedicated to timber
production under the O&C Lands Act.
He says removing those acres from the
timberland base managed by BLM will reduce
the supply of timber sold and jeopardizes the
company’s log supply.
Murphy Timber Investments argues
the expansion will reduce the value of about
2,100 acres of timberland it owns within the
boundary as well as land outside it.
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