THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1981
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Chaplain says faith overcomes costly obstacles
Corps to sponsor MSC prayer dinner on Tuesday
By CINDY GEE
Battalion Staff
Tuesday some cadets will attend a dinner that Corps Cha-
ilain Blake Purcell called, “a fun adventure in faith.”
Last semester Purcell said he went to a retirement dinner
ith at least 600 other people in the Memorial Student Center
jallroom.
f “The idea of trying to fill that ballroom with 600 people to
. hear the word of God came tomind,”he said. “There’sjust not
that many people in the Corps who would go to hear some-
ithing religious, but I thought. Isn’t God capable of doing it?”’
Purcell said he and others began to pray about the dinner to
see if it was God’s will. He said he can tell that it is God’s will
for the Corps to sponsor a prayer dinner by the way things
lave worked out, and the obstacles that have been overcome.
Court overrules
move in Daniel case
When he went to reserve the ballroom, Purcell said, there
was only one night available. On that night the cheapest
dinner the MSC would serve in the ballroom was $7.90.
“We know not many people are going to want to pay that
much for a dinner on a Tuesday night,” he said. “So we
decided that we would trust God for a lot of the money and
only charge $3 a ticket.”
“The next thing was that we needed a speaker who would
have an appeal,” Purcell said. “We wanted someone who
would show people that Christians are people influencing
their world for Christ. ”
Purcell contacted Major General Clay Buckingham at the
Pentagon. Buckingham is assistant chief of staff for automa
tions and communications for the department of the army, and
also president of Officers Christian Fellowship.
“We had no money to pay him to fly from Washington, and
we knew he was a very busy man,” Purcell said. “When I
called him, he said, ‘Yea, I’ll be in San Antonio the day before
the prayer dinner.”
Purcell said that at that time, they still had no money and no
publicity for the dinner.
“My family gave some money so we could print about 100
posters,” he said. “When the guy came back he had a huge
stack of posters, a thousand of them. I called the printing
center to see what happened, and they said they didn’t know
why so many were printed.”
Purcell said they needed about $2,000 to get the dinner
started.
They began calling churches to see if cadets could announce
the dinner during services and pass out letters to let the
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United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Sup
reme Court overruled late Thurs
day a petition by attorneys for
Dickie Daniel, the widow of for-
ner Speaker Price Daniel Jr., to
'rant a change of venue from Li-
lerty to Tyler in the custody battle
iver Mrs. Daniels two children.
The court made the ruling ab-
mt an hour after Houston attor-
ley Richard “Racehorse” Haynes
iled the petition. The court made
he decision without comment.
Haynes claimed in the petition
hat State District Judge W.G.
Woods Jr. of Liberty County did
not have jurisdiction in the cus
tody case because Mrs. Daniels
iow resides in Tyler. Woods has
been hearing the custody case in
Liberty this week.
Daniel’s sister, Jean Daniel
Murph, is seeking custody of Mrs.
Daniels’ two children by the for
mer speaker, Franklin Baldwin
Daniel and Marion Price Daniel
IV. She alleges that Mrs. Daniel,
who shot her husband on Jan. 19,
is an unfit mother.
In his petition Haynes said the
case should be heard in Tyler be
cause the “proper venue is the re
sidence of the child. ”
Woods contended that he has
jurisdiction because Mrs. Daniel
moved to Tyler, where her sister
resides, less than six months be
fore the litigation began.
More witnesses called
in slain judge probe
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A federal
gram] jury has called more witnes
ses in the assassination of U.S.
District Judge John Wood Jr. —
| the first time the panel has con-
! vened since December.
The grand jury met Wednesday
for about an hour, but witnesses
scheduled to appear before the
panel kept isolated from the pub-
j|c. Prosecutors later refused to
discuss the number of persons
who testified.
Chief U.S. District Judge Wil-
(im S. Sessions has ordered the
grand jury proceedings to con
tinue in secrecy and all court re
cords relating to the case have
been sealed.
Wood, the first federal judge in
history killed in the line of duty,
was shot in the back with a single
rifle bullet while leaving his home
for work on May 29, 1979.
The San Antonio Light today
quoted sources close to the inves
tigation as sayng the grand jury
appears to be interested in con
victed hitman Charles Harrelson
and Jimmy Chagra of El Paso, now
serving a 30-year prison term for
drug trafficking.
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Boy plays robber — for real
United Press International
NEW YORK — Police are checking ice cream
parlors and candy stores for a 10-year-old bandit
who trotted into a midtown Manhattan bank,
peeped over the teller’s window, and announced
a holdup.
Police guessed the boy, who made off with
$118 Wednesday, could not have been older than
10. He was wearing a dark blue parka with a red
stain on the sleeve.
“He’s probably out buying ice cream some
where,” a police spokesman said.
The boy, under 5 feet tall and carrying a silver
automatic pistol, walked into the the New York
Bank for Savings shortly before noon. Police be
lieve he was accompanied by an elderly man.
He pointed his pistol at a teller and said, “Don’t
ring the alarm. Give me all the money.”
Once the teller realized the child was serious,
she handed him a pack of marked money. As he
left, the gun-toting juvenile turned at the door
and waved goodby to the stunned teller.
members know about the dinner. Also about the money they
were trying to raise.
Purcell said that up to now the group has raised about
$3,300 for the dinner and free tickets to people in the Military
Science Department.
Another obstacle, Purcell said, was that there were no
rooms available in the MSC Hotel for the guest speaker to stay
when he comes.
“We prayed about it,” he said, “and we ended up getting
the presidential suite.”
The dinner will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 3. Cadets
can buy tickets through Purcell or unit chaplains.
“The real exciting thing will be people turning to Christ, ”
Purcell said. “We don’t expect immediate results, but it will
plant the seed.”
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