Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1963 — Page 8

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Pastor Savs Johnson

Strong Man

By LOUIS' CASSELS United Press Internationa! In his ehurchgoing 'habits, President Lyndon B. Johtison exemplifies the “mobility” which is characteristic 'of US. Protestantism. In the jargon of relgisous sociologists, •'mobility", refers to the widespread American, ten-

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'tiency. to' move casually from one church to another, ignoring deridffiirrational ’ lines. President Johnson has exhibited it to such a degree that h is difficlut to pin an accurate denominational label on, him, or to identify any particular local congregation as “the - President’s church.” Officially, he is still a member of the First Christian Church of Johnson City, Tex., a small white frame church near his ranch which he has attended off and on since boyhood. It has a congregation of 70 members, all of whom Johnson knows by name. It does not have a full-time minister, but services are conducted weekly by preacher, Roy Akin. “Mr. Johnson takes an active interest in our church, and contributes to its support,” Akin told a UPI reporter. ‘‘He is_a. devout man strong convictions.” f Attends At Austin When he is staying at his I.BJ Ranch, Johnson sometimes drives into Austin, Tex., oh Sunday mornings to attend services at the Central Christian Church," which has a congregation of 1.100 persons. Its pastor, the Rev., Dr. John Barclay, described the President as “a very religious man ■who has a deep faith.,” Dr. Barclay added that John■son is "not an every - Sunday

churchgoer.” “His chief expression of religion is his service to his fellow man through his government work,” said the Austin minister. “He has a passionate devotion to this.” Both the First —Christian Church of Johnson City and the Central Christian Church of Austin are affiliated with the Inter-national-Convention of Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), a .major Protestant body which has 8.00 Q.. local -congregations and more than 1,800.000 members in all parts of the United States. It is particularly strong in Texas and in the South and Midwest, The Disciples of Christ move-

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ment grew out of the great religious revival which swept. America in the early 19th century. It should pot be confused with the Churches of Christ, an-, other large Protestant group with a similar name Share With Baptists Disciples share with Baptists an insistence on Baptism by total immersion. They observe the Lord's Supper every Sunday. Like most Protestants, they lay great stress on the Bible, and believe that each church member should be free to interpret it for himself. The only doctrinal test for membership is a simple affirmation of faith in Jesus Christ. Disciples have always been ardent advocates of Christian unity —a cause they espoused more than a century before it became fashionable. There are at least 20 Discip-' les churches in Washington, including the famous National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle. But Johnson rarely attends any of them. ' <- When he participates in public worship in the nation’s capital, it is usually at an Episcopal church. His wife, Lady Bird, and both of their daughters are Episcopalians. When Johnson was in the Senate, his wife and daughters regularly attended services at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, and he sometimes accompanied them. While he was vice president, Johnson and his wife sometimes attended Washington Cathedral, the headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. The cathedral was close to their hmome in the Spring Valley section of northwest Washington, nnd their younger daughter. Lucy Baines, is enrolled in its school for girls. Every Sunday Since his inauguration as President, Johnson has attended church every Sunday, alternating between St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill and St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette -Square, opposite the White House. St. John’s is the historic old “church of presidents” which has served as a place of worship for ’ White House occupants since the time of Abraham Lincoln. The Rev. William MacN. Baxter, rector of St. Mark’s, probably has the closest pastoral relationship to Johnson of any Washington clergyman. He acknowledged, in replay to a reporter’s question, that Johnson has taken a more active inter- , est in religion since the burdens qf the presidency descended on his shoulders,” said the Rev. Mr. Baxter. “He is presently the most powerful man in theworld, and in th i s perspective, he knows himself 1 to be someone in need. He is open and humble and deeply serious about seeking God’s help.”

y e White Christmas Is ' Promised Hoosiers ir By United Press International Winter swept into Indiana — over the weekend on icy wings and a new round of moderate to heavy snow today assured Hoosiers of a white Christmas. Temperatures early ' Sunday skidded to 13 degrees below zero at Greensburg, 12 below at Lafayette - and 6 below at Indianapolis. just hours before the official 9 02 a.m. arrival of winter, which oddly enough ushered in more moderate temperatures, with afternoon highs in the middle and higher 20s. But four - inches or more of new snow was predicted for the southern portion today, up to two inches in central parts. The northern third of the state still had plenty of snow from last week and continued below-nor-mal temperatures will assure most of it to stick around for Christmas. Although the icy, below-zero front made an exit Sunday, temperatures generally will remain below normal. The 5-day forecast' for the period ending Saturday called for temperatures about 2 degrees below normal upstate and 5 to 10 degrees below norms* elsewhere. South Bend reported 10 inches of old snow on the gfound this morning, Evansville 6 inches, f Indianapolis 4, including an inch of new snow, Fort Wayne 3 and Lafayette 2?. The Chicago area also reported snow this morning and it was snowing generally southward from Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Sentence Suspended On Bad Check Charge James Douglas Brown, former local resident, received a suspended sentence on a fraudulent charge in the Adams circuit court Friday afternoon. Judge Myles F. Parrish sentenced Brown to a 1-10 year tefrn but suspended the sentence in, order to allow him to secure a job .and make ' good on several bad checks written ip! Decatur. He was ordered on probation to Chris H. MuseTman for a fiveyear period. Brown was taken into custody Dec. 14 by the sheriff's department upon his release from the penal farm, where he had completed a 90-day sentence.

Year In Space, 1963 Review

The Year In Space — 1963 Review By ALVIN B. WEBB JR. United Press International CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) — America's multi -billion- dollar space program will remember 1963 rather unfondly as the -year the ' bloom finally fell off the cosmic rose in a wintry blast of early problems. With few exceptions, these were 365 dull, colorless days of grounded programs with gaudy pricetags, of disgruntled astronauts and disenchanted admirers, of continual postponements and controversial “pogo-sticks” - and congressional penny-pinch-ing. One pundit, in a play on the scientific of the upcoming “Year of the Quiet Sun,” called 1963 the “Year of the Quiet NASA.” NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The name is longer than its list of accomplishments for the past year. Os the 40 major satellites and probes NASA had scheduled for 1963, a bare onefcurth got off the ground. The only truly spectacular note in the U. S. space exploration program was sounded on the meriting of May 16 at Cape Canaveral, the moonport that later was renamed Cape Kennedy. At 8:04 a.m. EST, astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. rode a silvery Atlas rocket into the sky. For the next 34 hours, the slender Oklahoman with the Southern drawl was the darling of the world. In awesome loneliness 102 miles to 168 miles in space, Cooper steadily guided his - bell-shaped “Faith-7” Mercury • capsule around the globe 22.9 times. Frank Merriwell Finish The finish was a chapter straight out of Frank Merriwell. On the 20th orbit, the capsule’s automatic control system copked out. Cooper grabbed the controls and, with the practiced, touch of years of training, steered Faith-7 to a dead-eye lending 7,000 yards from a recovery ship. Cooper’s flight ended Project Mercury, America’s first man-in-space program. But the official burial’ of the S4OO million project was marred by a sharp rift between NASA’s headquartters in Washington and its mapned spacecraft center in Houston, Tex. The astronaut-led Texas group fought for another Mercury manned voyage, and carried the battle all the way to President Kennedy. Washington headquarters, under the reins of NASA Administrator James E. Webb, said , “no.” - , Washington won—and grounded the “'nation’s astronauts for at least 18 months. Project Gemini, the “second generation” manned program, already had run into troubles in the pocketbook and on the rocket pad, leaving a new astronaut flight far down the road in 1964. Gemini Meets Problems The Titan-2 booster rocket for the 7,000-pound, two-man Gemini capsule showed up wjth “pogo-stick” problems — A nose-fo-nose vibration that scientists feared would shake astronauts to the teeth. Only at the year’s end did the trouble appear close to a solution. At the other end of the space machine, the bell-shaped GeminP capsule fell behind in its development because of tightened pursestrings wit..in the space agency itself. The Soviet Union, still capitalizing on U. S. delays, sent cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky and the first “cosmonette,” Valentina Tereshkova on spectacular journeys of 72 and 48 orbits, respectively, last June.

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Perhaps the dual flight was not all it was supposed to be. U. S. ’experts believe Bykovsky and Tereshkova missed their most important objective x- linking their "Vostok-5” and “Vos-tak-6” spaceships in orbit to form a small, manned platform. The Russians hinted at future space station attempts by put-,, ting an unmanned satellite called , “Polygot-1” into orbit Nov. 1, and then changing its path. It indicated a maneuverability that must be perfected if objects are to be brought together in orbit, _ The United States, after officially ignoring manned space stations for six years, announced in December it too was starting such a project —a trailer-sized laboratory to be orbited in 1967 or 1968. There was some fire and thunder on U.S. launching pads during 1963. Three Satellites — Syncoms 1 and 2, and Telestar 2 — were sent into orbit for experiments in worldwide radio communications. Syncom 1 quickly went dead, but the other two performed in first-class fashion. “Secret” Satellites Launched The nation’s seventh Tiros weather* satellite went into space and took pictures of hurricanes during the summer. A pair of “secret” satellites named Vela Hotel were sent aloft in October to look for clandestine nuclear explosions. And the usual run of “mystery” satellites—reconnaissance and surveillance mechanisms in the Midas, Samos and Discoverer families—rocketed into the skies from the West Coast. Centaur, the first of a new breed of hydrogen-fueled rockets America is depending upon to push astronauts to the moon, finally scored a success—an orbital flight that put more than five tons of empty staging in orbit around the earth. But it seemed, over-all, to be the year of three stumbles per success. .The 1% million-pound-thrust Saturn “super booster,” after a perfect up-and-down test earlier in the year, ran into technical troubles and had to Retain Yeoman In Rensselaer Post Harry M. Yeoman, father of Decatur football coach Wally Yeoman, .will be retained as city ’ -Street commissioner and superintendent of the sewage disposal plant at Rensselaer when the new city administration, Democratic for the first time in many years, takes office Jan. 1. Yeoman was originally appointed Feb. 1, of last year by the present mayor of Rensselaer. The new mayor, Emmett W. Eger, is a cousirf 'of Mrs. Dick Heller, Sr., of Decatur. For the past 28 years. Yeoman has been identified with construction work, supervising heavy machinery, bridge erection, installation of public utilities, etc. When informed of his reappointment, Yeoman stated, “As a citizen .of Rensselaer, I want to see a good job done .by the city. As a man with a great deal of experience in this area, I shall try to bring that experience to bear in seeing that the city gets a good job. I look forward to continuing and improving the service to the people of Rensselaer, and to working for and cooperating with, this new administration.” If vou nave something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Wanl arts — they get RIG results

wait until 1964 for its first twostage orbital flight. Other programs scored worse: Dyna-Soar—A winged, orbital glider for Air Force astronauts. Canceled to make- room for the Defense Department’s space station project. Ranger—An early probe to explore the moon. After five straight failures, it was grounded for the year, run through a congressional investigation and cut back by five payloads in a late-year economy move. Saturn I— The super-booster. Cut back by five rockets in the money saving drive, to push development of the more advanced Saturn-18. Nimbus— An advanced weather satellite. The UrS. Weather Bureau pulled out A of its S4O million support on grounds Nimbus could not do the job. NASA touchy on the subject, said simply it would continue the project on a “research and development” level. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, displayed little more than the Bykovsky-Tereshkova flight and the' Polyot-1 feat although it sent a number of its rather mysteribus “Cosmos” satellites into orbit. However, indications late in 1963 were the Russians possibly had developed a mightier booster rocket, delivering upwards of 3 million pounds of thrust, for its manned space station and man-to-the-moon programs. Expects Big Payload Dr. Wernher Von Braun, the so-called “father of the Saturn” and probably the world’s most famous space scientist, said he would “not be surprised” if the Soviet Union launched a satellite weighing 40 to 50 tons soon. x Aside from the thunderous rockets, complex satellites and constant problems, the year did have its more human moments. Behind the Iron Curtain, the Russians pulled off another

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“first”—at the altar. Cosonaut Andrian Nikolayev, orbited ip 1962 and cosmonette Tereshkova were married in what was billed as a “cosmic wedding.” And at America’s No. 1 moonport, there was a rechristening. In memory of the assassinated President Kennedy, Cape Canaveral was ‘ renamed Cape Kennedy by edict of President Johnson. The argument that ensued probably ranked as- the most controversial bright spot of the long, lackluster year.

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