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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1957)
ETOffT MTDTOT.D fOFMOWl MXTL TTTBtJF'E Friday, Jum 14. 15T About 60 PerCent Who Answer Graham's Call Fall Into Classification of Converts pr. n Billy Graham .New ork Br LOUIS CASSELS United Prefs Correspondent Now York if Of the hun dreds who respond each n;ght to R;l!v Graham's invitation to make "de c i i 1 o n i for Christ," about 60 per cent fall into the category that church tradi tionally hai called "c o n verts." The other Louts Casielx 40 per cent who come forward already are church members some jiomi nal. some active who are re affirming their faith. Graham call them all "inquir er" or "seekers" for Christ. He azreed with his critics that ethers, who may have been gm-1 umely moved to accept Chris.. fail along the wayside in the j difficult transition from a re-; vival atmosphere to the less-' simulating environment of a local church. Graham pointed out. however, that he hns tried to minimize ! the attrition among his converts by setting up a "counseling and follow-up system" that is unique in the annals of mass evangel ism. Accompanied By Counselor It goes into operation the mo ment an "inquirer" starts down the aisle at a Graham meeting. Before he reaches the front of the auditorium, the inquirer will find at his side a person of the same sex and approximately the same age a "counselor" who has had nine weeks of special training for his role. After the service, the counsel or accompanies the inquirer to a Back Stairs: A Clue To Ike's Illness Happy tb Father wk gets Music n Father's Day! Mgnavex Magnovox. 149 j . in. viewing orea . . .tfc bgg pidur in portabl TV. Coww'n OpHine.Owwi-dtrCl'iowo oud- ldoJ for cHi1oVets room, gam frxt lritctst . . . and vocotiog. TKt A4ogrvov Wtlthir, in o voriety of ipoVSm 000 - I399 Let Git Father a Transis tor Radio, Records . . . yes, en a Piano or Organ just so It's Musical! PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE 111 No. Central Phone S 2-3702 So. Oroeon'a Oldett 4 Largoft Music Store ! BY MERRIMAN SMITH 1 United Press White House Writer Washington 'V Backstairs at the White House: . : A truly superstitious individ- ual could have forecast President ; Eisenhower's illness this week j When he was at American University Sunday night to rec I eive his honorary degree, the i the massive presidential seal fell from the speaker's stand jand smashed to pieces on a plat jform a few feet from Eisenhower. For the more practical, the omen pointed in another direc- tion. The White House shortly will stop using the big plaster J seals at the site of presidential . appearances and shift to an un breakable plastic product. It is customary to display the seal of the President on a speak er's platform or banquet head table every time the chief ex ecutive speaks outside the White House. Wife on Telephone Within a matter of minutes after the .seal was broken the President was back at the White House and Mrs. Eisenhower was on the telephone to the White House doctor, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, asking him to come at once to treat her ailing hus band. One news photograph made of the President at the university ceremony Sunday night showed him standing rather grave-faced, with one fist clinched. Even at that moment, he must have been fighting back the nausea that made him so painfully uncom fortable later in the night. Probably the group most dis appointed over the President's illness was Sen. Fritz Lawaetz and a group of fellow lawmakers from the legislative assembly of the Virgin Islands. Brought Bottle of Rum They were waiting in the ante room outside the President's of fice Monday morning as his first callers of the day. One of the senators even brought along a bottle of prime Virgin Islands rum as a gift for the chief ex ecutive. Just when they expected to be ushered into the President's of fice, Bernard Shanley, Eisen hower's appointment secretary, came into the room and told the delegation that the President was indisposed and their meeting was off. To be sure that the Virgin Is landers did not disclose the sit uation before the White House was ready to announce it, they were carefully ushered out a side door not being watched at the time by reporters and they were told to keep quiet. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty announced the President s illness about 50 minutes later. The President's "home town" of Gettysburg, Pa., is about to receive a present. This Sunday, the Collegial Society of Hungar i ian Veterans college students of "Who isn't particularly when 1 Hungarian origin will present you're not supposed to h a v e j to the city a full-length portrait "em." i 'of the chief executive. for his somewhat restricted diet. Hagerty was asked the other day whether Eisenhower was particlarly fond of pastries and desserts. "Of course," Hagertv said. Mayfield Discusses Medford Schools at Kiwanian Luncheon The President's doctors be lieve that his upset was due in part to partaking too heavily of partnes and desserts, along with some other foods a bit too rich NO GRAND OPEN. SAT. June 10 OPEN 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (Sm our od en page 2, first section, this paper) DOOR PRIZES - CHAIR end $50 FREE MERCHANDISE At LIPPERT'S you will find a Complete Drapery Service f'iirirn 'li ter CUSTOM-CRAFT DRAW DRAPERIES ide selection of gorgeous fabric, designs, colors... pteatrd to your exact uindew measure ment . . . any uidth, any length. CUSTOM-CRAFT DRAPERY HARDWARE itandard and heavy duty cut-to-mraure tracV, and fining, for wall or ceiling imlallationv CUSTOM-CRAFT UPHOLSTERED CORNICES J six t tes . . . wide choice of fabric, colors and pattern . . . any width, any length. 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Mrdford schools have had a Boy ScouSCampTo Open af Lake Soon About 725 Boy Scouts from the Crater Lake Area council will spend at least a week apiece at Lake of thhe Woods when the Boy Scout camp opens for the first of five summer sessions July 7. The camp will close Aug. 11. Twenty of the 22 troops in the Big Pines district have reg istered to date. The camp is complete with various improve ments, including additional cab ins, a new cooking range, a re vised water front system, and five new plywood row boats. Dick Lamb district scout ex ecutive, heads a staff of 24 in charge of the camp. The camp will have a new assistant dir ector, Darl Gleed, field execu tive in Yreka. Calif., recently arrived from Blue Water, N.M. Scouts spend seven days at the camp, arriving on Sunday and returning home the follow ing Sunday. Cost to each Scout is $15.50 for a week. Any Scout wishing to stay longer may join a provisional troop for $17.50 registration charge. Information concerning the camp is available at the council headquarters, 500 East Main St., or can be obtained from any Scoutmaster. $5,686 Raised in Area In Heart Fund Drive Jackson county rised 55,686.92 for the February Heart fund campaign according to John Bil lings, county fund chairman. This went into the state collec tion which totalled 560,000, an increase of one-third over last year's campaign. Billings said S2,650.B1 of the county total was collected on Heart Sunday. good administration in former years. Mayfield stressed. "The record will show it." he de clared. Mayfield pointed out that Medford has consistently been average or below in school costs and yet students who have good averages from the system have been near the top in college. School Problems Mayfield spoke concerning the school budget and taxes, school needs, comparison wi'h other districts financially and academically, trends in the local system and plans for the future. He pointed out that Medford is going to continue to have school problems as long as the growth of the community continues. The superintendent told Ki wanians that the district is well off financially. He said that the Medford district constantly is being compared with 18 other large districts in the state and that, in school tax rate, only four other districts currently are lower than Medford. Combining all taxes, city, school and coun ty, Medford has the lowest rate of the 18 districts, Mayfield re ported. He stated that a school budget reflects what a commu nity wants and what type of schools a district has. He added that the budget is carefully ana lyzed here. Need for Spac Mayfield said that there Is need of more elementary and high school classroom space in the local system. He said that everytime there are 30 new stu dents in a community a new classroom has to be built and equipped and a teacher obtained The superintendent reported that the cost of a building must be borne by the local district and that codes require many more things in buildings which also cost more than they used to cost. Stating that the administra tion plans to maintain a high academic standard here, Mav- field reported that the district checks itself both statewide and nationally. He pointed xto tests taken which show Medford first grade students .8 of a grade ahead of the national average. second grade students .9 of a grade ahead and third through sixth graders a full grade ahead. Mayfield reported that more is going to be done here for training gifted students. He said that the possibility of doing more fot students who terminate their formal education with high school is being studied. A trade school is being considered, he said. large auditorium in the base ment. When everyone is seated Graham or one of his assistants makes a brief talk. The inquirers are urged to re turn each evening at 6:30 for the duration of the crusade, to at tend classes of instruction. They also get individual interviews with the inquirers who later will fill out a "decision card" con taining the inquirer's name, ad dress, age, telephone number, occupation, the nature of his "decision," and his local church "preference." Card Sent To Church Within 48 hours, a copy of this card w ill go to the minister of the local church. The coun selor is supposed to keep in touch with the inquirer, by tele phone or in person, until he has established contact with a local church. Some ministers follow up these leads diligently. Others, who do not particularly approve of Graham's methods, resent what they regard as an attempt to draft them into his crusade. Graham does all he can, at ministerial conferences and pri vate talks, to win the whole hearted cooperation of local clergymen. Many attempts have been made to determine what propor tion of the "decisions" made at Graham's meeting bear lasting fruit. Admirers have demon strated through spot-checks that many converts are now active, witnessing church members. British Survey The only survey which seems to have covered a statistically significant sample was conduct ed in 1955 by the British Week ly, an inter - denominational church paper in England which has never been identified as pro or anti-Graham. On the basis of a poll of Bri tish clergy of all denominations, the paper reported that 64 per cent of the converts who joined churches during Graham's Lon don crusade were "still attend ing church and taking part in church life regularly" one year later. Graham himself will not ven ture a guess, in terms of per centages, as to how many sign ers of decision cards become true, lasting converts to Christi anity. "Frankly," he said, "I don't think there is any way we can tell, this side of heaven. 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