The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 August 1965 — Page 3
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77 Churches Up For Sale
INDIAN APOLIS UPl — There's room for a religious revival in Marion County. Lots of
room.
Seventeen
churches in the county representing nine faiths were up for sale today—for taxes ranging
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Although tax-exempt, the churches must legally file for the exemption. In the words of the Rev. John Cheffins of the Community Baptist Church, one of the churches on the selling block. “Brother Thomas
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No one bothered to bid on the churches when they went up for sale a week ago today, but the properties will remain
available until Nov. 1.
“I don’t want to sell anybody's church, but under the | law I have no choice,” Marion ; County treasurer John Dodkins
said.
Deputy County Auditor Edward Hoffman Jr. said that in the past a faithful parishoner has sometimes shelled out the cold cash to buy his church back at a tax sale. But so far, none of the 17 churches up for sale has been bailed out in that
manner.
He said anyone can pick up a used church by going to the Marion County tax office and
sighted Manry’s tiny boat 42 miles southwest of the Scilly Isles, off Britain's southwestern tip. It was the first confirmed sighting of the Tinkerbelle in more than a week. Trawler skipper Harry Smith reported by radio that Manry said he had all the food he wanted and that he was “doing fine.” Manry asked for a course to the Lizard, a headland at the entrance to the English Channel. From there, he intends to steer east to Falmouth where his wife and two children are waiting to greet him. Tinkerbelle was being pushed along by a gentle wind and maritime sources here said that at the rate he was going, Manry should complete his voyage in two or three days. The last previous confirmed sighting of the Tinkerbelle was a week ago today. Since then, clouds, fog and intermittent thunderstorms had frustrated the efforts of newsmen to locate him with chartered fishing
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If any one does pay the taxes and purchase a church, under Indiana law- the original owner has two years in which to reclaim the property.
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Issue Call For Mobilization BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND— UPI—Colored immigrants from the West Indies today called on the Negro population in Britain to mobilize in self defense against threats in this country’s newly organized Ku Klux Klan. The North London West Indian. Association held an emergency Sunday night and passed resolutions calling for a national movement for West Indians in Britain. “This is not an organization to preach hatred against the wdiites but to prevent what is happening in Birmingham, Ala. and in Los Angeles said Lincoln Dyke, chairman of the associa-
tion.
He said the West Indians were forced to take some action because their “backs were against the wall.” The meeting here took place as another Negro immigrant group in London discussed plans to set up vigilante patrols against threatened KKK attacks and feared racial outbursts. The 6,000-member standing conference of West Indian organizations in London planned a series of local meetings to deal with the threat. The Negro leaders acted fol-
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WASHINGTON UPI—House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford favors a prompt congressional investigation of possible
radical influences in civil rights lowing three recent cross-burn-groups as a result of the Los ioK incidents in the midlands Angeles riots. and a serious racial disturbT h e Michigan Republican ance in Volverhampton Saturday said Sunday the inquiry could w ^ en some whites,
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Political Crisis Hopes Are Dim
be conducted by a House or Senate comnuttee and “aimed at some legislative purposes.” He stressed that it should not
become a “witch hunt.” Such an investigation “should
not be done with the purpose of trying to create trouble, but to identify those who may have an ulterior motive and per- j
haps there are some.” he said ATHENS, Greece T PT in a television interview. ; ^°P es * or ending Greece s 32At the same time, however. da y old Political srisLs dimmed Ford refused to go along with today with hesitation and a Mississippi colleague who squabbling among proposed blamed President Johnson and members of a new political
his “Great Society” policies for SToup.
the Los Angeles riots. Rep. Stephen Stefanopoplos and Prentiss Walker, R-Miss., made Elia! * Tsirimokos served official the charge Saturday. i notice to parliament of their “I don't think we can identi- ; breakaway from ousted Prefy this with any individual, any ter I nion party. But it ap-
By LYLE WILSON By United Press International Petitions from only seven more states are necessary befor the U. S. Congress will be compelled to summon a constitutional convention to consider an amendment on legislative apportionment and anything else that undisciplined conven-
tioneers may be able to think
up. A bleak prospect!
This would be a calamity of the first order. It would be a calamity because Article 5 of the U. S. Constitution provides that Congress must summon such a convention when petitioned to do so by two thirds of the states. There are no guidlines; no standards for selection of delegates; no limits imposed on the number or the nature of amendments
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Monday, August 16, 1965
over w r hile saner citizens stood some by powerless to intervene in the
proceedings.
This is not to suggest that such a convention could of itself amend the U. S. Constitution. Proposals to amend still
basis in fact, check th«
facts. Read Article 5 of the Constitution. Then obtain from
your library the Wednesday,
Aug. 11, Congressional Record and read the debata preceding the Senate's rejection of a reso-
would have
would need to be ratified by lution which would have amthree fourths of the states, 38 | ended the Constitution. The reas of now. The hazards of the j ected amendment would hava untried convention system permitted the s tates to vote which might be considered; no j nevertheless remain large and
assurance whatever and no rules against the kooks taking
in coninuing referendum on the
menacing. There is no provi- : matter of legislative apportionsion fo rending such a constittu- - ment.
tional convention, no limit on | its effective life. It might
dure forever. Given the condition of having an undisciplined constitutional i convention in protracted or per-
The Supreme Court ruled In June, 1964, against the generally accepted system of legislative representation wdiereby one house of a legislature w r as apportioned strictly on the bas-
manent session and you have a is of population. The other condition which could and prob- house usually was apportioned ably would disturb the republic on the basis of geography or beyond repair. grabs is a dispute whether the If this reads like a bad court had authority under the dream out of some TV thriller. . 14th Amendment to invade this cease reading and forge it. If political question. That dispute it reads as though it may have will not be soon ended, if ever.
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political party or any geographic section of the country,” Ford said. “It is a national problem, and every one of us better work at solving it.” Asked about charges by Walker that radicals had moved into leadership of civil rights group, sparking the riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Ford said, “no doubt some radical elements” had identified with some of the organizations.
peared that doubt and wrangling over the weekend had cost
them much support.
The official petition of the new group presented to parliament carried only the names of Stefanopopulos and Tsirmokos and did not say how many of Papanndreou's Center Union deputies had deserted him to j join them. On Saturday they | had indicated there were “more than 25” but estimates now ■were there are only between 13
and 18 deputies.
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BUND — Charles R. Simpson, 44, gets a kiss from strife Ruth in Washington as congratulations on being named a U. S. Tax Court judge by President Johnson. Simpson, blind since birth, is a native of Danville, 111., and graduate of the University of Dlinois, where be made Phi Beta Kappa, and Harvard Law School.
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