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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 12, 1958 Churches Must Learn What Interests People, Evangelism Director Declares New York CU.R) Dr. Rob ert W. Spike i3 one minister of the gospel who isn't cowed by tradition. One of the first things he did when he took over a new congregation In Manhattan was xo abolish the women's society, the men's club, the adult Sun day school and the "family nights." "The reason was simple: No one was attending any of their meetings. Church Popular Concern Today the once-flagging Jud- son Memorial church is a popu lar, going conecrn in Greenwich Village, and Dr. Spike is moving out as pastor to become direc tor of evangelism for the Board of Home Missions of the Congre gational Christian churches. At 132, he is perhaps the youngest man ever to hold such a high post in American Protes tant circles. And what he is now setting out to do in the tradition-bound field of winning souls promises to have churchmen- of all faiths Expedition To Probe Amazon Engravings New York (U.R) A young fellow who is the grandson of John Jacob Astor and the son of a Russian prince a blend of cool cash and warm royalty that's hard to match is mount ing a rebellion against the ten der bypaths of wealth and so ciety. He's going to hie himself tq the tributary headwaters of the Amazon by helicopter, if pos sible, and if not, by burrow and llama to take a crack at prov ing the existence of a lost, pre historic civilization. ' Feeling About Symbols Ivan Obolensky, son of Serge Obolensky and Alice Astor, has an intense feeling about certain carved symbols and inscriptions on granite outcroppings found in the high rugged country of the Aymara tribe in Bolivia and Peru. ' "The same undeciphered mes sage recurs and recurs in these stone engravings," he said in an interview. "It's as if there had been a concerted attempt to leave something for posterity a sort of time capsule thing. We're dealing with a mystery, and we may break it. Our deci phering program has progressed to a point where we have great hope." When he says "we," he means the privately financed Amazonia Foundation, Inc., of which he is vice president and which is headed by George Michanow sky, an archeologist who already has charted half a dozen loca tions of the inscriptions and hopes to find more in an expedi tion to get under way this spring. Old Civilization Sought They hope to find evidence of a civilization much older than anything previously credited to South America. The Aymaras, an Indian tribe, do not write. But they have a word in their language meaning "writing" and that word refers to the stone en gravings. Indeed, there is one river, so deep in the interior fastnesses that it isn't even on the maps, that the Aymaras call "the river of writing." The mysterious writings are said to occur in its valley and the expedition will search there for them. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent VP""'' ' s ill Aline Mosby Hollywood (U.R) Holly-! wood's latest organization is called "The Rat Pack," a cele- " 9 brated group devoted to poking a lit tle .fun into this sometim es lifeless community. Some years, the movie col ony appears headed to ward being everybody's small town with Tony and Janet posing in aprons in the kitchen and glamour queens claiming they are like the girl next. door. '.- But a handful of senior citi--zens of the community are keep ing some color in the plaster city. They have formed "The Rat Pack." In some communities a rat pack means a gang of juvenile ' delinquents, but this gang hangs around an old kidney-shaped swimming pool. Mansion Turns. Clubhouse Their "clubhouse" may be a member's Palm Springs mansion and they roam around in Bent- ACCUSED Mrs. Dolores Zeithlin, 25, was accused in L - Angeles court by her ex husband of having engaged in improper conduct with Charles Chaplin Jr. Irving Zeithlin, 40, contended she is an unfit mother and asked that he be awarded custody of their adopted son, Barry, 2. Paratrooper Lands in Prineville Hospital Prineville U.R) Barry Mac- Donald, 21-year-old paratrooper who survived last June when he fell 1300 feet after his parachute failed to open, was in a local hospital today with a broken leg suffered when he fell, on an icy street in Bend last week. His leg was broken last June and in the fall last week he frac tured it again in the same spot. MacDonald was home on a 30 day leave. Earlier he had been a patient at Fort Campbell, Ky., recovering from the jump injuries. Last June 2, MacDonald jump ed out of a plane on a maneuver but his chute failed to open. He struck a tall tre, and plunged leys and Cadillacs instead of hot rods. Members of this organization are Frank Sinatra, president; Judy Garland, vice president: Humphrey Bogart, in charge of publicity (an art he knows well); restaurateurs Mike and Gloria Romanoff; composer Jimmy Van Heusen; agent Irving Lazar and Lauren Bacall, the den mother of the pack. So far the rat pack has roam ed in only two directions. Last summer, members chartered a bus (with a bar), and startled the citizens of Long Beach by showing up there to see Judy Garland's stage show. Club Stresses Fun "The club is just for fun, sort of a gag," explained Miss Bacall. "You have to breathe a little life into this old burg now and then. We're a jolly group of people and we like us better than any body."- The club has a coat-of-arms and a charter. Members, howev er, cannot release this informa tion yet as they can'ti agree on it. So far the club has one qual ification ' for members: "You must be a true rat." The club's logan: "Never rat on a rat." - The club's full name is "The Rat Pack of Holmby Hills," as. the Bogarts live in that elegant suburb. Other celebrities wish to join, but so far membership is closed: A MEAL IN A MINUTE Just add milk and butter . . heat and serve Full 15 ounce can makes four generous servings for 10c or less per serving. DELfCIOUS HEARTY NUTRITIOUS taking notice. His approach may startle some of the congregational ministers it is his new duty to advise. For one thing, he isn't carried away by statistics indicating a great revival of religion in America. Type of Religion "Our churches are faced with carrying on in ' an expanding luxury economy," he said in an interview at his new office. "This thing called the American way of life is alm5st a religion in itself. We need to examine it and point up some of the dan gers in it." Dr. Spike mounted the pulpit in the Judson Church for the first time six years ago and found all of five people waiting to hear him. Today the church counts 125 active members in a neighborhood famous for its fleshpots, expensive apartments and highflown art and intellec tualism. "Working in Greenwich Vil lage taught me how far removed most of the pronouncements of the church are from the real problems people face today," he said. "But it also taught me how applicable the gospel is to those problems when it isn't burdened down with church3' talk." Instead of inviting his con gregation to ice cream socials Dr. Spike organized a study group in the novels of Dostoev- sky, another in the theories of modefh theologians Karl Barth and Reinhold Neibuhr. Packed House He drew a packed house for a Christmas program featuring poet W. H. Auden reading from his works.1 Last month the church staged a recital of ob scure medieval and renaissance music. Dr. Spike isn't saying the same type of thing would go ov er anywhere outside Greenwich Village but he believes the idea is a sound one. The churches should find out what people are interested in, and then become interested in those things, too. "I'm a bit puzzled about tele vision," he said. "I do think the most effective programs from a religious point of view are those that aren't tied up with a church or labeled as religious pro grams." He would like to see clergy men encourage writers to tackle theological subjects in their nov els and plays. Painters could be stimulated to work on religious themes. , "The idea isn't for the church es to act as judge or censor but to provoke religious, thinking," he said. "Artists have to be free to create. The churches have a responsibility to produce live and exciting material for them to work with." Oats are equal in feed value to corn for fattening hogs as long as they don't make up more than one-fourth the ration, ac cording to a University of Illi nois livestock specialist. 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