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About 60 PerCent Who Answer Graham's Call Fall Into Classification of Converts
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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
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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
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Medford's present school dis
trict board and administration
are trying to maintain the poli
cies which have given the com
munity a good school program
in the past, City School Super
intendent Leonard Mayfield
brought out Wednesday in a talk
at the Kiwanis club luncheon
meeting at Rogue Valley Coun
try club.
The school official said the
board and administrative staff
recognizes that there are changes
and are keeping the best of the
old along with adding the new.
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. If even
one' of them is saved, the whole
crusade is worthwhile."
Next How the crusad Is
financed.
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