THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1981
Page 3B
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Stumping for Christ
Staff photo by Becky Swanson
Ron Tewson speaks out for Christ at the
Rudder fountain to a rather unattentive
audience earlier this week. Tewson and
several other members of the Organization
ordiecki for the Advancement of Spiritual Involve-
leirmotk
second
the same location until 2 p.m. today. The
off-campus adviser to OASIS said the non-
denominational Christian organization has
taken a firm stand against the teachings of
the “Moonies.”
ment among Students will be speaking at
Attorneys for Hughes'
ousins rest their case
_ United Press International
1 g°> D g ■hOIJSTON — Lawyers repre-
lirlin : sen ting about 400 distant cousins
;rs j of Howard Hughes have rested
n undi tljcirprobate court effort to substi
tute themselves for five closer re
nder las latives claiming the reclusive ty-
went im conn's fortune.
f theywfl Five of the group of 400, who
[ did seel must defeat the closer claimants to
J look ill inherit anything, testified for
Bohate Judge Pat Gregory and a
s ^^j jsix-inember jury Wednesday be-
"j . n ibre attorney George Parnham re-
Ia f si . Ins ease.
The distant claimants contend
s I' . Hughes’ uncle Rupert was sterile
e e ' Ind could not have fathered a
Brighter named Elspeth, whose
■t to a [iWjiree daughters, step-sister and
/er, w |ho estate of a step-brother claim
hristiao througli her.
r. In fcB They contend Elspetb Hughes
e did kliippj who was born in 1897 and
arwatei'Kcdjn 1945, was fathered by one
wo u ol nine men named adulterers
sed feai'iiviili Rupert’s first wife, Agnes, in
at theiTja 1902 divorce.
into all® Gregory has ruled Houston-
: Born Hughes left no will, wives,
Bildren, brothers, sisters or liv-
iig parents and awarded the
iternal share of the estate esti
mated at $163 million to $1.2 bil-
011 to 14 living heirs of his
pother.
| Gregory’s court now is consid-
ring who should inherit the
[aternal share of the estate,
hughes died in 1976 aboard a
oizzan Ndical flight from Acapulco to
toW Huston.
was sterile and Elspeth was not a
Hughes by blood, another group
of 160 distant claimants argue
Rupert had a real daughter but she
died young and Elspeth is an im
postor.
F'ive of the group of 400 testi
fied Wednesday. Two said they
personally heard Rupert say he
could not or did not have natural
children.
Warren Hornsby, 69, of New
Orleans, testified Rupert was a
cousin of his mother. When
Rupert once visited Hornsby’s
family, Hornsby heard Rupert say
he could not have children. Horn
sby was 6 or 7 at the time.
Hornsby said his family had
told him the mumps and German
measles sterilized Rupert when he
was 15 or 16.
Charles Ireland, 68, a retired
barber from St. Louis, testified
Rupert once “patted me on the
head and told my mother, ‘I wish I
could have had children. ” Ireland
said he was 13 at the time.
Ireland earlier told a reporter
he never met Hughes, but ex
plained the contradiction as a de
sire not to reveal his side’s strategy
before he testified.
Lawyers for Elpeth’s daugh
ters, Elspeth DePould, Agnes
Roberts and Barbara Cameron;
Elspeth’s step-sister. Avis Hughes
McIntyre, and the estate of the
late Rush Hughes, have intro
duced birth certificates and other
evidence.
Attorney Wayne Fisher argues
the evidence is overwhelming that
Elspeth was Rupert’s natural
daughter under the law.
; at MS'
In addition to the 400 distant
[laimants who contend Rupert
CHOWDY CPARTY
Friday, September4th
at the
Baptist Student Union
7'00pm.
cThe Cruse cpamily
& in concert
Ancient
monastery
discovered
United Press International
WACO — Baylor University
archaelogists working in Israel
have unearthed a monastery dat
ing back to 420 A.D. which may
add insight into the beginnings of
Christianity.
Dr. Bruce Cresson said the
monastery contains a “beautiful
little chapel” with evidence the
ancient monks were familiar with
the Biblical story of the apostle
Peter and his denial of Christ.
Researchers believe the
monastery was built within a cen
tury of the legalization of Christ
ianity in the Roman Empire dur
ing the early Fourth Century.
Cresson, professor of religion
and director of Baylor’s Institute
of Archaelogy, said the monastery
was found at Tel Tra in the Nebeg
Valley near Beersheba.
The discovery “is going to add
to our knowledge of the establish
ment of Christianity in this area in
very early centuries,” he said.
He said the monastery chapel is
only about 15 to 20 feet wide and
about 25 to 30 feet deep. The
limestone base of a stone altar near
the curved end of the chapel was
found intact.
Embedded on the floor in front
and on each end of the altar were
two mosaic crosses which “ob
viously had been lovingly hand-
laid in place piece-hy-piece cen
turies ago,” Cresson said.
The crosses, encircled by a
mosaic medallion background,
provide more evidence that the
symbol of Christ was used more
than 1,500 years ago, he said.
Cresson said his team also found
a seven or eight-line Greek in
scription on the mosaic floor of the
foyer indicating the monastic
chapel was dedicated to St. Peter.
Located next to the inscription
was a mosaic medallion depicting
two roosters, or cocks, reminis
cent of the Biblical account of Pe
ter denying he knew Christ.
According to the Bible, Peter
fulfilled Jesus’ prediction he
would deny Christ three times be
fore the cocks crowed at sunrise
the day Christ was crucified.
Cresson said the Israeli govern
ment had agreed to remove and
restore the mosaic designs.
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