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With US.
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
Of The Associated Press
NEW YOKK UWWork is hum
ming today to put broken-up
churches back together again.
In some cases, the mending job
is proving to be a tough one. But
numerous projects gradually are
closing the gaps.
Twenty Protestant denomina
tions currently are involved in
unity efforts. Of these, 13 are
taking active steps toward mer
gers. If these are achieved, the
result will be five newly com
bined bodies.
."There is a world sense of
growing together," said veteran
Lutheran leader Dr. J. A. Aas
gaard, of Minneapolis. "We can't
go it alone, any more than na
tions." CHIEF MERGER MOVES
Here are the chief merger
moves now going on:
The Congregational Chris
tian Churches, with 1,284,000
members, and the Evangelical
and Reformed Church, with 762,
000, are engaged in steps leading
toward a two-million member
United Church of Christ.
Four Lutheran bodies are to
vote at conventions this year on
a constitution for a single, uni
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(Rcslster-Guard photo, Wiltshire eng.)
NEWEST EAGLES The two youths above, Gary Wolfe
and Orin Bruton, are the Oregon Trail Council's newest
Eagle Scouts. The pair, both Explorer Scouts, received
their Eagle Scout oath from Dr. E. D. Furrer, former
council president and father of four Eagle Scouts. Both
boys are members of units that meet at the First Chris
tian Church in Eugene. Wolfe belongs to Explorer Post 5
and Bruton is a member of Scout Troop 5.
Money 'Bagged' by Baptist
Goes for Catholic Church
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A 71-
ycar-old Baptist hunter literally
shot $1,955 from the heavens but
got nothing for his marksman
ship. Instead, the money will be used
by a Catholic priest to help build
a new church.
The hunter, Forrest Wilson,
Convict Fails
In Attempted
, Prison Break
- McNEIL ISLAND PENITENTI
ARY, Wash. Ui David Leroy
Lathman's plan to use acting
Warden L. T. Gollahcr as a hos
tage in an attempted prison break
was foiled Thursday because
Gollahcr stepped out of his of
fice. Richard D. Auerbach, special
agent in chaige of the Seattle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
office, told the story.
Lathman, 22, serving time from
Los Angeles for transporting a
stolen auto across state lines,
early Thursday slipped out of his
cell-house and joined prisoners
In a work gang.
He strolled away from the
gang, telling a guard who ques
tioned him he was assigned to
the prison offices, Auerbach said,
then made his first slip. The
guard, not satisfied, followed and
Lathman started to run.
Auerbach said Lathman darted
Into Gollaher's office brandishing
a knife he had produced from his
shirt. But Gollahcr had stepped
out and finding the o'ffice empty
upset the plans. Other guards ar
rived, disarmed Lathman and led
him back to his cell.
The FBI agent said Lathman
had a record as a trouble-maker.
He originally was sentenced to
serve three years in the federal
reformatory at El Reno, Okla.
Three years were added to the
sentence and he was transferred
here after an unsuccessful mutiny
at EI Reno, they said.
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'Going' Proposition
Protestant Churches
fied body of 1,800,000 members,
which would make it the third
largest Lutheran church.
A plan to unite the three
branches of Presbyterianism was
turned down this week in a vote
among Southern Presbyterians. It
was believed likely, however, that
a revised unity formula would
be attempted in the future.
The Unitarian and Univer-
salist Churches last year acted to
merge some activities educa
tion,, publications and public re
lations as a step toward a uni
fied, : 164,000 - member liberal
council of churches.
Two other smaller Lutheran
bodies the 32,000-member Fin
nish Evangelical Lutheran Church
(Suomi Synod) and the 8,000-
member National Evangelical
Lutheran Church are discussing
possible union.
NINE BODIES
But beyond these immediate
projects is a broad long-range
program aimed at ultimate unity
of nine bodies with about 16 mil
lion members, and including
some of the country's largest
denominations.
Launched six years ago by the
Conference on Church Union,
work on the plan has gone on
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was looking for rabbits last Sat
urday when he noticed a huge
plastic balloon floating through
the air toward him.
"Now, when you see something
like that and you're carrying a
shotgun you re going to shoot it,
he said. And he shot.
Inside the balloon was a certi
ficate worth $1,955 to the find
ers favorite charity, but Wilson
didn t take the message seriously.
He gave the paper to his grand
daughter, Mrs. Marie Lacefield
a member of St. Jerome's Cath
olic Church, now in the middle
of a building program. Actually,
the Rev. Jerome Moore is build
ing the church himself with the
aid of his congregation.
So Mrs. Lacefield is donating
the $l,9o5 to Father Moore.
"It's her certificate now," said
her Baptist grandfather. "The
Baptists can't blame me if she
gives it to the Catholics."
Wilson said, however, it would
be nice if he could just get some
money out of it himself.
But the certificate doesn't work
that way. It was the most valu
able of 122 sent aloft throughout
the country last week by General
Mills Inc., to commemorate the
anniversary of a company pro
duct. The one captured near here
had been aloft about 52 hours,
a detail that didn't Interest Wil
son. "I think I'll give up rabbit
hunting," he said, "and start hunt
ing balloons."
He didn't bag any rabbits Sat
urday anyway.
Webb to MC Awards
HOLLYWOOD IW Actor Jack
Webb, the Sgt. Joe Friday of
television, movies and radio, will
be master of ceremonies for the
announcement of nominations of
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences Feb. 12. The
event will be televised for the
first time, the academy an
nounced. IVORY SOAP
Large
Bars
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SWARTZ
So. Willamette W. 11th
steadily, and early this month, a
master blueprint for a "basis of
union" was completed.
Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee
Holt, of St. Louis, a leader in the
project, termed the document
"one of the great papers in the
history of the Protestant move
ment in this country."
It is, he said, the first, specific
outline for unity "that has been
drawn In 50 years of conversa
tion." Participating are representa
tives of these denominations:
Methodist, Presbyterian U.S.A.
(Northern), Presbyterian U.S
(Southern), Congregational Chris
tian, Disciples of Christ, Evan
gelical and Reformed, Colored
Methodist Episcopal, African
Methodist Episcopal, and the
Council of Community Churches.
ALSO TAKING PART
The Protestant Episcopal
Church also is taking part as an
observer.
If these bodies eventually get
together, it would produce the
greatest consolidation of Protes
tant forces yet.
For the last half-century, there
has been a strong trend among
Protestants toward reunion. In
that period, mergers involving
more than 70 separate bodies
nave occurred.
Biggest of these was the re
union in 1939 of the Methodist
Church, which had been split
North and South since the Civil
War. With 9 million members, it
is now the nations largest
Protestant church.
Besides the various merger
moves now in process, other
churches also are carrying on
tentative negotations. The Am
erican Baptists and the Disciples
of Christ have working commis
sions on the subject.
The plan to join the Presby
terian Church U.S.A. (North
ern), the Presbyterian Church
U.S. (Southern), and the United
Presbyterian Church into a 3Vz-
million-membcr body began in
1938.
LUTHERAN GROUPS
The four Lutheran bodies
working toward merger are:
Lutheran Free Church (Nor
wegian background), with 66,000
members; American Lutheran
'German background), with
325.000 members; Evangelical
Lutheran (Norwegian origin),
with 920,000 members, and the
United Evangelical (Danish
background), with 54,000 mem
bers.
Target date Tor final forma
tion of the unified church is
1957.
This also is the time when the
Congregational Christian and the
Evangelical and Reformed
Churches hope to unite.
Governing assemblies of both
churches have approved the
plan. A court challenge to it has
been overthrown. Local churches
and agencies now are carrying on
various inter-church activities
to cement understanding.
Dr. Albert Buckner Coe, of
Boston, moderator of the Con
gregational Christian Churches,
says that these mutual activities
by the time of union should pro
duce "not only understanding of
each other but a solid base of
fellowship and joint effort."
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(Wiltshire 'engraving)
POLICE GIFT Eugene policemen proved Wednesday
night that they give more than tickets. Members of the
department presented a communication transmitter and
a receiver to the Valley Radio Club. Lt. Donald Clark,
shown presenting the equipment to Club President Jim
Robertson, said that the gift is in appreciation for past
services to the community. The amateur radiomen have
acted as police reserves and have set up a widespread
civil defense communications system. The equipment,
costing $350, was purchased with funds earned by offi
cers at the Emerald Empire Roundup last summer.
Police Chief Ted Brown is at left.
Man Nipping in Tunnel
Stars in Police Television
By CHARLES MERCER
or The Associated Press
NEW YORK OH There just
isn't as much privacy these days.
People tried to go about their
business quietly last week and
look here the whole world knows
about it:
A fellow stopped his car in a
tunnel on the new West Virginia
turnpike for a short nip on a bot
tle. When he came out of the
tunnel a cop arrested him for
drunken driving. Seems television
cameras are trained on that tun
nel 24 hours a day and authorities
know everything that's going on
in there.
In Oakland, Calif., a chap saun
tering along a street paused to
light his pipe. Bang! Half a block
of sidewalk began to burn. Nobody
ever did catch up with the terri
fied pipe-smoker to find out if he
was hurt. But the gas main ex
plosion his match set off destroy
ed a $10,000 truckload of sugar.
HEAVY FEATHERS
In Wethersfield, Conn., a truck
driver was meekly driving down
a parkway with a load of feathers
when cops stopped him. They
charged him with driving an over
weighted truck. Turned out he
was carrying 31,000 pounds of
feathers.
Every morning for more than a
year a chap has been standing be
side the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road tracks in South Chicago to
wave at the crew of a passenger
train. Last week one of those
You mean, I can get
nosey newspaper reporters check
ed up to find out who he was. De
veloped he was a clerk for the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Then there was the man in Nor
folk, Va., who was stopped by a
cop and quietly explained he was
driving his wife to a mental hos
pital. The outburst that followed
"Wait 'til I get you home,"
etc. led the policeman lo quietly
put away his book. He knew the
man would suffer enough.
GOD SAID 'YES'
When a man learns he has be
come a father, he should have a
moment of private rejoicing. But
the moment came to a Cleveland
clergyman in the midst of a ser
mon entitled "When God Says
No." A church member rushed in
and signaled, "it's a boy." The
clergyman paused said, 'This is
one time God said "Yes," and
hurried off to the hospital.
Speaking of church, the new
pastor of the Thomas Baptist
Church at Thomastown, La., is
named Roy L. Thomas. His first
sermon last week was entitled
"Doubting Thomas."
And speaking of the South, hun
dreds of robins went on a binge
in Anna Maria, Fla. They flutter
ed on telephone lines, fell off and
lay around the ground hiccough
ing. Local savants believe the
birds got hopped up on fermented
berries.
PUBLIC
SPRINGFIELD JUSTICE COURT
Jan. S
No operatori license Btrbar Cor
veil, S3 suspended.
No operator' license Joseph M.
Blake, $2; Thorn as L. Whlsenhunt, $5.
Basic rule violation itooert L.
Rroomer, $20; Lawrence A. Lawion,
3; John Allen Lee, $10.
iauur to ooey ucnai l,v t. uur
bee, S3 impended.
Axle overload Harry c, Chllders.
S3S with $16 impended:
stop fiKn violation untie i Lari
son, i luspended.
Tandem axie overload ivan p.
Daughenbough. $36 with $16 suspend
ed. Illeeal possession of venison Frank
Kelly Moore, $250.
uverwiatn James w. cowan, io.
Failure to yield right-of-way Elm
er J. Points, $10.
Jan. 11
Unit overload Donald J. Varsason.
520 50.
No puu permit -r- J. h. uoiiini,
$10.50.
TrucK overload Lioya main Hayi,
Baslo rule Andrew Kcxsler, $10.
Failure to stop at railroad Fred
Short. $5 suspended.
Tandem axle overload Robert R,
Zeemln, $20, (and second charge, $45).
Jan. iz
Defective muffler Thomas R
Chambers, $5 suspended.
No PUC permit Edward Tenny
son. $10.
Hasic rule violation nsipn m.
Hooklns. $20 30.
No operator's license uarrou k.
Kit hi. $5 suspended.
rssstng witn insufficient clearance
Glenn F. Simmons. SB,
Failure to obey signal Leslie Hart
Beebe, $2.
jan 13
Truck speeding Mervlit H. ShoU-
enburir. $5.
Tandem axie overload ueioert
Wayne King, $104 with $e suspended.
jan. i
Baslo rule violation Forrest E.
Solomon. $15.
Combination overload Charles O.
Luiz. sen.
Passing with Insufficient clearance
Jack Mllo Barker, $10 (and defec
tive horn, $z).
Group overman itennem ny-
gaard, $54 with $24 suspended .
aton sign violation marion i. ai
len, $2.
JUNCTION CITY JUSTICR COURT
Basic rule: .Alfred Fries. Junction
City, $9.50.
Defective muriier: itennem turner,
Junction City. $6:50.
Defective clearance iignta; tiiram
Blerly, Halsey, $10.
No operators license: wyne uavii,
Harrlsburg, $9.
Follow in it too cioseiy: rxana;
Retschman, Portland, $9.50.
Defective talllisnis: iiomer uicnn
Hull, Monro, $9.50.
Uvrrwifun loan; vv ancr narrows,
Junction City, $8.
No PUC permit: uaien Jtaray. Hea
ding. Calif., $9:50.
Utility Reveals
Dinner Plans
Employes of Springfield Muni
cipal Power, their wives and hus
bands, will join with mcmDers 01
the Springfield Utility Board for
the utility's annual employes'
dinner. The affair is scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. Monday at the
Greenwood Restaurant, according
to. Frank R. Brown, Utility Board
superintendent.
Brown said the dinner will be
the second to be held in the in
terest of fostering closr rV
tionshlps between board mem
bers and employes.
The board recently renewed a
labor contrart between the util
ity and its line crew employes,
who are members of the IBEW.
The dinner will be informal.
Magician Marvin Krenk will pro
vides the entertainment
Tito Back in India
MADRAS, India Wl Yugo
slavia's President Tito returned
to India irom Burma Friday to
complete his state visit with a
five-day tour of the aouthcrn
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OAKR1DGB JUSTICE COURT
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Failure to stop at red Heht: Mar.
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DrivlnK without liahta: Rmll
Olive Goln,
(Jan. 17)
Basic rule: Elmer Mat Erlel, $10.
No operators license: Eiton I.
carr, $4.50 costs.
Failure to stop: Lynn Richard Simp
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No clearance lights: Ellis Edward
Toftdahl.
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