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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1953)
THURSDAY. Jirr.v 30 1953 HERAU) AND 'NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PASS w2 . c2 TT s'' ""r " SI if fir IKS' M S fjl ANYTHING ON WHEELS was in the running for first prizs at the Bible School parade held Monday morning at Church of the Nazarene. Looking doubtful at the entries are Jimmy and Jerry Hooper,- Pat Coker and Pamela Gray. Country Churches Left Are Making Lively Come-Back By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK IB-Country church 'es what's left of them todav are maktnsr a lively comebaefc. 1 "They were dying off prefty fast for r, while," said Dr. Thomas Al fred 'Tripp, head of the CongreRa tional Christian Churches Depart ment of Town and Country. "But they're picking up strength now." For two decades, up to World War II, rural churches In America were ..dosing at the rate of aboiJt 1,000 a year. ' Hundreds continued to fall by the wayside up to 1950. Many still are in shaky condition. ' "But I don't think manv more will be' lost," said Don F. -Piel-stick,' head of the Town-Countrv . Department of the National Council of Churches. "Wnat we lose one place, We now are gaining some .. where else. ' "I see quite an encouraging dav ahead, with new programs and a new type rural minister. Rural America is going to be better served by its churches during the next 10 years than ever betore." A big factor in curbing the cas uaf.t? toll has been the develop ment by nearly all major denom inations of intensive, national pro grams to pump new life into the laltcring rural churches. "We've become more conscious of the importance of rural ncnnip said Msgr. Luigi G. Ligutti of Des . uuies.. nead 01 the National Cath- one Kurai Lire Conference to i l-As a result'our ruralcrror&es uium ooier on uian they were . live years ago. There has been a tremendous improvement in the outlook.'" i . All kinds of ' techniques, plans and strategies have been put into action for waking up Hie sleepy little church at the crossroads. Social researchers have can vassed the countryside. Seminaries are channeling students into the rural ministry, not just as a train ing ground, but to make a pro- fession of it. Financial aid has fiowed out. from city hearlniiartno d,.i church federations have Dopped un all over. Conferences and seminnr.s to guide country preachers have become about as numerous as weeks in the year. A series of stunning blows com bined to kill off more than 20.000 rural churches since the lajus. Mechanized farming snrank ru ral population, So did the depres sion anr' "Dust Bowl" migrations Cars and good roads made the nearby church less essential. De fense industries also sapped farm life. Population movement to the cities still is going on. Other influences, authorities said also hurt the rural church. Poor pleaching. Lack of money Too lit tle planning or leadership, and a resulting indifference and weak church morale. Many little churches were left vacant to rot lonely, steepled der elicts along the section lines. Some were converted to homes, granar ies or livestock barns. To save and Invigorate the esti mated 10,000 rural churches which have weathered the storms, denom inations have gone to work. Take, for example, the Methodist Church. Its National Missions Di vision gives financial aid to 1.700 rural pastorates, and loans to manv others. It keeps scores of trained personnel in the field working on rural church projects. In many areas it has organized the ."group ministry" or "larger parish plan" as in Pemiscot Coun ty, Mo., where four ministers. each,a,,speclalist, serve 11 churcha giving them all a team program lor youth, recreation and worship. Metnoaist "mobue units" are constantly on the go, bolstering one weak church community after an other. Seminaries send students to rural churches on weekends. Four conference offices have full-time agricultural-religious experts, who supply services, somewhat like "county agents." Other denominations do similar jobs. America!. Baptists have a ru ral, church center at Greenlake Wis., which runs free schools for rural pastors. The Episcopalians have a similar center at Roan Kidge near Parkville, Mo. Catholics recently' have begun holding numerous farm retreats. and more rural religious vacation schools. In 1950. the Vatican, at the request of American bishops, made March 22 a feast day honor ing St. Isadore, patron saint of farming. A shrine to St. Isadore was set up at Des Moines. Dr. Tripp listed these key means for giving a poor rural church stability: A good building: systematic fi nancing: a list of prospective mem bers -in Jhe community; an all avound program for all age groups: lay officials to run the church, rather than the minister alone: a sound parish organization often in conjunction with other churches: good community relations, and a theologically well-grounded pastor. Pielstick said the biggest trou ble now is among rural churches in the Southeastern United Stotcs. where changes in the farm scShe slower mechanization of cotton "This is still the great testing period for rural churches in the Southeast," he said. Sen. Ncely, 70, Complains o Too Much Talk WASHINGTON Ml Sen. Neelv (D-WVa) drew a howl of lauabter from his weary colleagues early today by protesting against "the cruel and Inhuman punishment of being talked to death." Neely, at 18 the second oldest senator, observed that the Senate had been in continuous session for IS hours and 31 minutes and, he said, had spent SO minutes on ac tion and more than 14 hours on talk. ' He called It unconstitutional and in support of his point, he read the 8th Amendment which savs in part that "cruel and inhuman pun ishments (shall not be) inflicted." US Approaching First Major H-Bomb Materials Production WASHINGTON tfl The Del ted States announced today tt is ap proaching "first major production" of materials for hydrogen bombs, and said that In the first half of 1953 development of atomic weap ons has "substantially advanced." It said more fissionable material, the stuff which produces the ex plosive power of A-bombs, was pro- LAST BITE SPOLETO, Italy WT ' Mario Marchettl, 34, opened his mouth to take a bit of bread and then fell down dead. Doctors said a bee flew into his mouth and stung his throat, causing suffocation. 25 US Tetnogers Touring Canada ' EDMONTON, Alta. W Twenty five American teen-agers, cadets of the U. S. Civil Air Patrol, tour Edmonton's industrial district to day. Making a 32-day trip through Canada, they arrived last night by Royal Canadian Air Force plane. The group leaves Friday for Van- couver..Thelr tour is part of an air cadet exchange program launched in 1947 by Canada, Brit ain and the United States, dueed than In-any' previous half- year. The government announced also that tt la working toward develop ment of a super-speed atomic-powered submarine even before test have been run on two A-sMbs now -tearing completion and rated po tentially faster than ordinary un dersea..'; craft. The Atomic Energy Commission (ABC), which runs the nation's atomic program, said in Its semi annual report to Congress that last spring's weapons tests in Nevada disclosed' such valuable informa tion that tt will not be necessary to bold full-scale tests there this fall, as originally planned. The AEO also told Congress that: 1. Both foreign and domestic pro duction and exploration for urani um ore for the United States was stepped up during the last six months. 3. Production of fissionable ma terials for bombs and other uses 'considerably exceeded" that of any previous period and at the lowes costs in AEC s history ' de spite increases in wages and ma terial prices. ' 3. New facilities entered the pro duction stream. These Included a new plant at Fernald, Ohio, for processing uranium ore; portions of new nlants at Oak Ridge, xenn. and Paducah.'Ky., for separating bomb-useful uranium from urant- um as It occurs In Datura: anJ supporting facilities for the r-irrt at Savannah River, a. a. wtm materials for either A-boaea tt jV bombs will be made. - Regarding the latter plant, the AEC said that 'mm k. porting facilities at Savannah BJr- cr are aireaay in operation, pre paring materials for start-tap at the first maior nraduetlM uih - 'site." .... , . ' . . .One of America's Famous Old Whiskeys I ,.ioVjtn 1 H-A"' o- I oummva idge rate) STRAIGHT I0HI IOH.il WHISHT ia VN. WIS WHISKLY IS FOUS YEARS OLD . K KROOf -GOOOtKMAU R ft. -IOaM.e. 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