Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1964 — Page 8

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Church Laity Aids Through ‘Life Line’

By LOUIS CASSELS ' United Press Intenaional Can a city church reach out and serve the real human needs of those who are lonely, old, tick, poor and despairing? It can. A Methodist congregation in Sydney, Australia, has demonstrated bow it can be done through a remarkable venture called “Life Line.” It deserves the attention of every American church which is seeking ways to lift Christianity out of the rut of tired pious words and make it come alive with the compassionate, • 1 self-giving love that radiated from its Founder. Life Line is a telephone n • ber which anyone in Sydney may call for help at any hour of the day pr night. The calls have been pouring in ewer since the Life Line center was opened last March at the Central Methodist Mission, a big downtown church. The center is manned by lay volunteers, working four shifts for 44?'I»WS; Its switchboard number .is listed on the emergency page of the telephone directory, along with fire, police and ambulance services. Answers AB Needs Life Line get some calls from people who are on the brink of committing suicide. 7b answer these calls, a “trouble team” is always standing by, ready to hurry anywhere in the city in a car equipped with twoway radio.' But Life Line is not just an anti-suicide agency. If it were, it would not be anything special, for such services have long existed in several American cities. Life Line responds to the whole gamut of human needs—from the need for bread to the need for faith. With a small staff of full-time workers, supplemented by a large corps of volunteers, it stands ready to provide almost -— Any kind of help that a human being in trouble may seek. Food For Poor By calling Life Line, a poor family can obtain food or clothing. . .ah unemployed man can find assistance in getting a job .. .a squabbling couple can get free marriage counseling.. .a pregnant girl can be guided into a suitable home for unwed mothers. ...a lonely old person can meet a friend.. .a puzzled parent can receive expert psychiatric advice on the handling of a delinquent child.. .a college student experiencing a crisis of religious doubt can have the Bible explained to him in adult terms.. .an alcoholic can be introduced to the AA concept of group therapy. You name the need, and if Life Line cannot meet it itself, it will locate a Christian layman somewhere

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who can and will. Life Line's services are available to anyone who telephones the center. More than half of the calls come from people who have no connection with any church. Life Line does not inflict sermons on them as the price of its help. But the people who operate the center are all convinced Christians. And the silent testimony of their service to man has proved to be the most effective kind of evangelism: Perhaps the most significant thing about Life Line is that it is predominantly a layman’s enterprise. The Rev. Alan Walker, director of the Central Methodist Mission, underscored this aspect in a report on the project published by the Christian Century magazine. “Much has been written about the functions of the laity in the total ministry of the church,” said the Rev'. Mr. Walker. “But usually little is aid of how, in practical terrps, the lay ministry can be fulfilled. "In Life Line, we have found away.. .we are seeing a little of what can happen when the laity, the church’s ‘sleeping giant,’ awakes.” ’■u Four Americans Die In Argentina Crash ZARATE, Argentina (UPD— Air experts searched the scattered wreckage of an Argentine airliner today for clues to the cause of a crash that killed 29 persons Thursday, including four Americans. The twin-engined DC3, operated by ALA Airlines, crashed in flames in an unploughed field less than a mile from the Zarate airstrip. The pilot had radioed he would attempt an emergency landing. Two Argentines who survived the crash were in serious condition in a hospital here today. A German civil engineer who was not killed outright died in Buenos Aires Thursday night. The four Americans aboard the plane were identified by the U.S. consulate in Buenos Aires as Mary Bruce. 45, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Goldie Ryan, 51, Albuquerque. N.M., and her mother - in - law, Thelma Ryan, 61, Playa del Rey, Calif., and Tom Jewell, 48, a Californian em-„ ployed by a construction company in Rosario, Argentina’s second city. F The plane, carrying! 28 passengers and a crew df 3, was en route from Santa -Fe to Buenos Aires with a st<jp in Rosario. Twenty - three df the 28 passengers boarded tile plane, in Rosario.-

SUGGEST (Continued rrom Page One) again—even if you tripled the staff of the fire marshal,” he said. Cox said Thursday before the committee’s meeting to prepare the report for submission to the state’s chief executive that the report would hold the fire marshal’s office blameless for the explosion. Fire Marshal Ira Anderson was one of seven men indicted by a Marion County grand jury which studied evidence concerning the blast, one of Indiana’s worst disasters in history. Anderson and Indianapolis Fire Chief Arnold Phillips were indicted on charges of failing to inspect the coliseum. Five other men were indicted on charges of manslaughter. Four of the defendants — including Phillips but not Anderson—were scheduled to appear for arraignment this afternoon in Marion County Criminal Court. Heads Research Crew Cox is director of the fire prevention department of the Western Acturial Bureau, a voluntary research and service organization which furnishes guides for insurance firms. The committee also includes Ben 'Bichau, Hammond; Conrad Tucker, Huntertown; Harold Schuman and H. J. Elbourn, Indianapolis. The grand jury issued a highly critical report accusing the Indianapolis and state fire officials of laxity in inspecting the coliseum under stringent regulations concerning the use of propane gas. Propane gas was' blamed by investigators for the explosion who said tanks of the highly volatile fuel were inside the building in violation of regulations. Bayh Confident Os — Aid To South Bend WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. Birch E. Bayh Jr., D-Ind., is confident that South Bend, Ind., eventually will obtain a major new industry to fill the void left by the shutdown of Studebaker Corp, automobile-making facilities. decision to transfer all of its car-making operations to Canada left some 6,000 persons jobless in the northern Indiana city. Bayh told a news conference Thursday that he had taken steps to insure .continued production of military trucks by the new firm on a S9O million contract originally awarded to Studebaker. “We have assurances that this will be done,” he said. He added that efforts were under-/ 7 way to secure additional contracts to provide a .firm economic basis for-a new industry. f'We want an industry mat wih grow and expand, one/that will snot only assume Studebaker’s contracts but an .industry that will remain in/ South Bend,” Bayh said. / Bayh did not say when Tie expected a new industry io locate in South Bend or motion the names \pf any companies interested in ihe city. / He said the immediate needs of the jobless former Studebaker employes vfere surplus food, Uhemploymem compensation and job retraining.— - — - “President Johnson has expressed his concern about the jise in unemployment there and Vte are doing everything we can toXrelieve the Unfortunate situaBayh s<d.

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Two State Colleges Provide Teachers

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Morton’s original thesis that they should upgrade the quality of education in Indiana’s public schools, neither college devotes its curricular offerings to teacher education exclusively. Preferring to meet the needs of a wider range of students, both schools offer work leading to liberal arts, business administration, medical technology, nursing, and all of the pre-pro-fessional degrees as well as twoyear secretarial programs. Within the next 10 years, provided each college can enlarge sufficiently to meet the needs of the postwar births, the two schools will have a combined enrollment of over 30,000 students—twice the present enrollments. Major efforts of heroic proportions must be forthcoming from the state if Indiana’s four colleges and universities in this period of great growth, but scarcer dollars, are to meet their obligations to all qualified youth who can profit from a college education.

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