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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.' Sundav, January 10. lflfiO PAGE 5A mm VERN OWENS Vern Owens To Preside Over League New president of Cal-Ore Elec trical League is Vern Owens, own er and operator of Cascade Home Furnishings, Klamath Falls. He was elected at the league's annual meeting last week and succeeds Dick Finch of Medford, of the Home Appliance Company's chain of retail stores. THE LEAGUE, formed about two years ago, now has a membership of approximately 96 per cent of the electrical appliance and elec tronics dealers, distributors and retailers in the area. "The league serves as a cham ber of commerce and Better Business Bureau for the electrical industry in approximately 10 counties of Southern Oregon and Northern California," Owens ex-plains. "It was organized to promote fraternity and cooperation among all members of the industry, to foster better customer relations and satisfactions and to promote the sale and better use of all elec trical and electronic equipment. "Its purpose, also, is to promote adequate and safe electrical wir ing in tne home, on the farm, in the store and in industry," Owens stated. , GEORGE WEST, of Umpqua Hardware and Electric Company, KoseDurg, was elected as vice president, filling the position oc cupied by Owens during the last year. Chairman of the appliance divi sion is Al Classen of Rogue River Hardware and Appliance Com pany, Grants Pass. Chairman of the electrical contractors' division is Harold Woll, who is associated with a Medford supply house. Clarence Weaver of Medford was renamed as secretary manager of the group. A meeting will be held in the near future to set the advertising budget for 1960, Owens said. The Medford office of William Daw kins and Associates ' will con tinue to handle the newspaper, ra dio and television advertising. Catholic Editor Discusses Influence Of The Church Gunman Identified PITTSBURGH (AP) - A gun man walked into a grocery store here Thursday. The proprietor, Anna Claycik, aid: "Oh, I've seen you here before!" The gunman turned and fled By LOIIS CASSELS United Press International How much political influence does the Catholic Church exercise over its members? That question will come up in great many private conversa tions during the next few months. It lies at the heart of the religious issue that has been raised in con nection with Sen. John F. Kenne dy's bid for the Democratic pres idential nomination. Since the discussion is inevita ble, many thoughtful Catholics as well as non-Catholics believe it should be brought into the open now, with the facts laid on the table as objectively and fairly as possible. The distinguished Catholic edi lor Jonn Logley points out in Commonweal magazine that the facts can be obscured by two kinds of extremism. One is that of the religious bigot who depicts all Catholics as pup pets on strings pulled by the Vatican. The other is that of well-mean ing people who are "so imbued with the spirit of good will and tolerance" that they deny any dif ference between Protestant and Catholic attitudes toward the au thority of the church. There is a difference, says Cog ley, and it is an "important" one: Unlike the Protestant, the Catholic believes that the church is a visible body, hierarchically organized, which speaks with God-given authority on questions of faith and morals." In other words, a Catholic if he is true to his faith, regards his church as a divinely-estab lished institution which has been endowed with infallible teaching authority in certain realms. A Protestant may subject any teach ing of his church to the test of private conscience, accepting or rejecting it as he sees fit. But a Catholic who assorted such broad right would be guilty of very grave sin In the eyes of his church Cogley notes, however, that the areas in which the Catholic Church speaks to its- members with infallible authority are very clearly defined." They are the areas of "faith and morals." In applying the church's basic moral teachings to specific prob lems, Catholics can and often do disagree. Even when high prel ates of the church have expressed forceful opinions on political is sues, a Catholic otfice holder may continue to hold opposite views. This was demonstrated recently when the Catholic premier of Italy publicly took issue with Pope John XXIII, on the need for limi tations on press freedom. What all this comes down to is that a Catholic, while bound in principle to obey the moral teach ings of his church, is free in prac tice to exercise a considerable de gree of private judgment in de ciding which moral teachings are applicable, and exactly how they apply, to specific public prob lems. Or, as Cogley puts it, "the in dividual Catholic s conscience is formed by the teachings of his church but his decisions on "concrete problems" are "not easily predictable It is pertinent in this connection to observe that individual Catho lics may vary widely in tl ir re sponsiveness to guidance by church authorities. Some for ex ample, members of religious or ders readily accept a very high degree of ecclesiastical discipline over their attitudes and actions At the other extreme are nominal Catholics who ignore the teach ings of the church even in areas such as attendance at Mass and birth control where it has been spelled out most explicitly. The Catholic church has no mo nopoly on this phenomenon. It ex ists in every denomination. There are, for example, Quakers who ardently uphold their fellowship's traditional pacificism. And there are Quakers like Vice President Richard M. Nixon who do not sub scribe to pacificism at all. - There is, in short, no pat for mula for determining how much influence any church can exert over any one of its members. It all depends on the circumstances and the man. Senator Kennedy expressed his personal view of the matter in a Look magazine interview last year. He said: "Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the office holder nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Con stitution and all its parts includ ing the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state." State Solons Cool To Talk X THEIR SHINING HOUR As a microphone overhead spicks up the sound, movie producer Michael Todd Jr. got an expensive shoe shine on a set in Hollywood. Requiring a shoe shine sound effect for his forthcoming Smell-O-Vision movie, "Scent of Mystery," Todd auditioned bootblacks. Leroy Daniel (left) and Henry Carrier proved to be the best cloth snappers and each got $100 for the job. Couple Plagued By Phony Ads WASHINGTON (AP) - "Plati tudes instead of programs," said Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore). "A very ineffective swan song of a failing and dying administra tion," said his fellow Oregon Dem ocrat, Sen. Wayne Morse. Their comments on Thursday's State of the Union address by President Eisenhower contrasted sharply with that of Rep. Thor Tollefson (R-Wash), who called it 'the best of all" Eisenhower s messages. Rep. Ralph J. Rivers (D-Alaska) took a middle ground. "It was a very good speech, said Rivers, "except that it does not provide for the necessary ex pansion of public services, facili ties and programs to meet the increasingly pressing require ments of our exploding popula tion." Added Porter: "The .only defin ite impression I got was that the President would veto any aid to education measures." PITTSBURGH (AP) An anon ymous telephone call was made to Mr. and Mrs. M e 1 v i n Braun stein two days ago. Since then they have been deluged with un wanted flowers, medical supplies, taxis, bread, and even pizza. Advertisements even appeared in three Pittsburgh newspapers of fering the couple's home and car for sale. After a fire truck appeared at the Braunstein home (there was no fire), police investigated. The officers helped themselves to some "gift" aspirins, saying the report gave them a headache. DECLARE PORT INFESTED SINGAPORE (UPI) The Singapore Ministry of Health Thursday declared the port of Jambi of Sumatra, Indonesia, a smallpox-infested area. ' Fireman Innocent DETROIT (AP) - A second suburban Royal Oak Township fireman has been found innocent of charges that he kept funds col lected in a Christmas charity drive for needy children. Fire Sgt. James Anderson was found innocent Thursday night by jury. He was one of 12 men including several township fire and policemen, accused of larceny by conversion. At earlier trials, Capt. William Ware, township police chief, was found guilty, but Fire Chief Sam Mitchell was found innocent. All of the police and firemen were suspended permanently by the township board. State Police said they gave marked money to the 12 men Dec. 14. They said only a few dollars of the marked money was turned in when the charity drive was over. Labor Chief Raps Batista (AP) Cuba's trade says the anti-com- HAVANA, union chief niunism issue is an unwelcome heritage of the Batista dictator ship and has no place within the ranks of the labor movement in revolutionary Cuba. David Salvador, secretary of the Cuban Confederation of Labor, told a television audience Thurs day night that his organization now is "democratic and admits all workers whatever their politi cal thinking." The Cuban Confederation pulled out of the anti-Communist Inter American Regional Assn. of Work ers last November, charging the association was a tool of "Amerl- ' can imperialism." Trap Observed By Tulsa Officer TULSA. Okla. (AP) - Police Commissioner Robert Mawhinney tells this one: An unidentified Tulsa police of ficer was about to start his motorcycle. He reached for traffic violation ticket which was resting on one handlebar. Just in the nick of time he spotted some thing camouflaged under the tick- el a rat trap, set to snap on his hand. NO DOG'S LIFE FOR THEM Atlanta (UPI) - The Atlanta police force has promoted its seven sentry dogs. Police Chief Herbert Jenkins said today he has ordered a patrol car remod eled so that the dogs can ride instead of accompanying foot pa trolmen. ... TOWER FURNITURE BIG TABLE CLEARANCE Every Kind of Table you can think of in Every finish Imaginable! 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