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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1958)
No More ever! Beginning tomorrow V (J f w asm. ' '5' ? 4 r o hum WfetBf v Billy Graham (Continued) . Ruth still makes most of the chil dren's clothes as well asher own. She's slightly less adroit at cooking. Until the Grahams obtained the services of a housemaid-cook, Ruth's meals had a decidedly Oriental flavor (she's the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary and was born and raised in China) . The Grahams still eat Chinese food once a week and know how to handle chop sticks with marked efficiency. Billy spends four to five months of each year at home. This year he'll do better because his first crusade after his Summer hiatus will be in Charles ton, S. C. within commuting distance of home. His at-home schedule during the Summer is rather rigid in a flex ible sort of way. The family except Billy rises early and has breakfast about 7 o'clock; they have a brief Bible reading and discus sion conducted by Ruth after break fast. Billy appears about 8 and has breakfast with his wife. After break fast, he spends an hour in solitary Bible reading and prayer; the rest of his morning is then devoted to office work on his daily newspaper column, writ ing books or magazine articles, answer ing mail, and preparing sermons. Billy receives 110 different publica tions at home and keeps himself thoroughly informed on current affairs by scanning most of them, regularly. He's a fast reader and retains what he reads. He's perpetually behind with copy for his newspaper column, and his harassed literary agent is constantly calling for enough columns to get a few weeks ahead. Billy insists on writ ing everything that goes out over his signature, and will consider no sugges tion of a ghost writer. A few months ago, one of the large press associations Before the youngsters go to bed, Billy reads from the Bible for half an hour. On Sundays, they enjoy an Informal quiz. asked him to write an article for them, and he had to decline because he was too busy. They suggested that to save him time, they would prepare the ar ticle and send it to him for review. He . was incensed that they thought he would agree to such an arrangement. TThe Graham family lunches together ' when the children aren't in school; then Billy sees visitors, by appointment, during the early part of the afternoon. The rest of the day is spent in three activities he dearly loves:, playing with his children; discussing the family with his wife; and hiking or playing golf. Billy does all these things as intensely as he preaches a sermon. "When he's with his children or with Ruth," says Jim Moore, "he gives them his complete attention." After dinner, the entire Graham fam ily spends a half-hour together in Bible study and discussion. This is a lively session in which the children are en couraged to ask questions and offer opinions. On Sunday, this session be comes a Bible quiz, with Billy or Ruth serving as quizmaster and the others competing to answer the questions. The Graham youngsters not only know the Bible thoroughly, they apply its counsel in all their daily affairs. "Ruth and the kids usually go to bed with the chickens," says Billy. "Unless we have guests, everyone' except me turns in by 9:30; I stay up and work until 11 or 12." The remarkable thing about this schedule is that it takes place in the midst of almost incredible pandemoni um. The demand for Billy's time is urgent and unceasing. He receives more than 500 long-distance telephone calls a day and thousands of letters every week all seeking his personal atten tion. A staff has now been set up for him in the village of Montreat (in addi tion to the 200 full-time -employees of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. in Minneapolis) to handle this work on the home ground. Billy would prefer to take care of it personally; left alone, he'd probably try. But his staff screens everything that comes in, and only those matters which cannot be handled by anyone else are brought to him. The entire Graham family is full of a seemingly inexhaustible energy. Yet, at the same time, they are capable of losing themselves completely in prayer ful meditation. All of them deal with the world about them with complete equanimity. The Grahams' social life is limited but fascinating because of the company they keep. Billy usually plays golf several times a week with local friends in Asheville. And the Grahams may have a social evening with close friends once a week. These friends in clude some of the great names of poli tics, education, business, and sports the world over. Among the well-known citizens especially close to the Grahams are Vice-President Richard Nixon and Gov. Frank Clement of Tennessee. Billy deliberately keeps his future plans in a state of flux. Beyond the Australian crusade next year, he has no definite plans. He hopes tentatively - to visit Africa in 1960 and South Amer ica in 1961; he'd also like to go back to school for a year. "I like to keep myself flexible enough to be able to go where the trouble spots are," he says. But wherever his calling takes him, Billy always leaves a part of himself at home for Billy Graham' is, in every sense of the word, a family man. Family Weekly, September 14, 1958 morning -0 Tonight, imply apply a bit of faat-acting Lanoun Plus Liquid to your face before retiring. That's all there ia to it. Tomorrow morning when you awaken you will surely believe that an angel touched your akin with a magic wand while you slept. All skin dry ness will be gone and your dry skin worries will be ended as long as you continue using Lanolin Plus Liquid regularly. Little lines and "crow's-feet" will begin to soften and fade, become much less noticeable. And make-up! See how much more smoothly and perfectly it goes on. See your skin made softer and smoother by Lanoun Plus Liquid . . . America's largest-selling dry $kin moitturuer. Only $1 plus tax. 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