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features TARSHIP When You Care Enough Halloween * fl is ctlmosi here* Oet «t jump ou the Gobliugs. Candles „ J>can J (recpy- Sea/s vO' Viv^ c c \o^ | i » «* Battalion/Page 12 October 21,1982 Southern Baptists factions feud over church doctrine \\c 8 fl Uoo!! ,v*'C «Vr* Masks Crepe Paiiy Plates s paper Stteaxx* 8 fl fl 9-7 Mon.-Sal. Culpepper IMuza 69^-3002 a&> S *o °U'!f 10-9 Mon.-Sat. Manor Cast Mall 922-2092 fl United Press International James T. Draper, conserva tive president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomina tion, rejected proposals by moderates in the church to de- politicize the denominational presidency. But Draper said he will con tinue to work for unity in the 13.8 million member church — a unity shattered by years of in tense feuding over biblical doc trine and control of denomina tional machinery. At issue were a number of changes proposed to Draper by moderates involving the appoin tive power of the convention president. That power has been the focus of the controversy in re cent years as conservatives have publicly stated their intention to turn the denomination to a more fundamentalist stance. Under current Southern Baptist procedures, the conven tion president appoints a layper son and a cleric from eac h of the 26 cooperating state conven tions to form a committee on committees. Moderates, in several meet ings with Draper following his election earlier this year, prop osed that the Southern Baptist Convention president be re quired to seek and obtain nomi nations from state convention leaders. They asked Draper voluntari ly to follow the procedure this MM November 4,8 p.m. G. Rollie White Tickets: 6 M , 6 00 , 5 M MSC Box Office 845-1234 grSS# ' *' v... .■ SW. ' ■' ' ' ■ • ■ '■ ■. : ■ October 11-15 General Public October 18 mmi year in his appointment policy and to support changes in the church’s bylaws that would re quire such procedures. “I think the group shares with me a common goal to bring back unity to the convention. 1 do not support it (theplan) at this time. I do not see that changing the bylaws is the best way to do it (bring unity),” he said. Cecil Sherman, pastor of First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., and a leader of the moderates, said he is disappointed and frus trated by Draper’s response. “Well, I have been there be fore. Two years ago 1 went to breakfast with (former South ern Baptist Convention presi dent) Bailey Smith and he said trust me. I had a hard time be lieving it then, and my misgiv ings were generously con firmed,” he said. Bill Sherman, pastor of Woodmont Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn., and another leader of the moderates, said moderates are, “hard-prey accept Draper on trust beta he comes from a grouptk the past three years has pm unworhty of trust.” The moderates said ti md Smith belong; in the denomimt by Houston App .tdge Paul Presslti of the First Draper ; faction headed Court J member Church of Houston. Thatgti has said it will use denon tional machinery to elimii what it believes is theologial beralism infecting thedi seminaries and agencies. Pressler’s group is gentr. considered responsible for overt politicking that has aclcrized and bitterly ditia the national meetings of Southern Baptist ConventKt the past several years. Moderates maintain, ho er, that unless theconvenu depoliticized the future have dissension, distrust possibly division. 'laims pe Fa Farmer wants lUnited Press Internati ■ i TSDALE, Ari; laid Robertson says if(|r fat people to lot starve. ihfedding weight, h easv part of his we gram. The hard par his patients keep th< fence repaired ■The body perc< ng starved, then a H to become avai mzation,” Robertsi United Press International WAXAHACH IE —Speeding down Interstate 35, you have to look fast to see the fading black and white signs on the barbed wire fence. But for Bernard Dale, 78, they’re a way of taking his gripe to the people. Ana the signs are much more attractive than the four sheep carcasses he hung on the fence until they rotted. “This steel fence (set in con crete) has been mechanically assaulted by the Texas State Highway maintenance crews over a period of years without any effort being made by them for repair or compensation,” reads one of the signs. A highway grass mower tore through a barbed wire fence on Bernard and Mary Ellen Dale’s 80-acre sheep-breeding farm in 1979. The Dales say they lost four breeding sheep worth $800 to dogs before anyone patched the hole. They want the highway de partment and its mowing con tractor, G.W. Gipson, to fix the fence and pay for the sheep. The highway department says Gipson’s insurance com pany agreed to pay for the fence, but Dale won’t accept the $725 check. He says that won’t even pay for the sheep, and he’d i t prefer someone fixed the fence. ■obertson, who ghi-loss program o He said he’s received estii»i|li n i cs across t h e as high as $10,500 to fix j 40 percent of pa piogram are able So the Dales are fighting jrlveight off indefi “Many people havesugge Sound familiar? the only way to lick city half make people aware,” Dalesi® at * onv ^ 1( e Many of his neighborsin:i r t ^ an ' r) P ercent 1 city of 17,000 didn’t apprer® ventl ? nal 1 dl f tsc ' the sheep carcasses, oufkiW, 5 andon ly }P e learned to live with the sitnilPf ' vei S u “About half of them itt Robei ;tson says them now,” he said. “TheowP^ weight-loss p half say fight it.” 1 supported by tathat is constantly Dale, retired from theNiThe Southwest Bari, and his retired schoolteadH wife, 68, say they fear biglisl ness is conspiring with thehy way department to drive til jJ-V-» 1 C off their land, which hashptmC ^ zoned industrial and is n® . Waxahachie’s industrial parlKj TV’11^ (X Dale contends his fence fl . ^ ^ been damaged eight to 10ti| hut the 1979 incident wast 1 last straw. He has a bunch of cars and trucks supporting l|. fence, and cables preventin{| United Press Internal from falling,into the highwaflN AN lONIO — He turned the matteroverflstudy of college attorney Jim Pitts, who filflfl * nd ‘ cates wrestle $20,000 ' negligence law# elves and f 001133 against Gipson and the high r S e - department. No court datei|w u,;r ' don profess been set. 0rt ’ w ^° conducted Dale says t he signs will stay sa y s these two d “until I die or until someboffiS habits are defir does something about it.’” fl tatlve ° college NOTICE TO STUDENTS HAVING TAKEN CHEM101/111 AND/OR CHEM 102/112 DURING THE PERIOD Ipnwide. “It’s nothing to a w 120 pounds in a w in a speech prej |ery Oct. 19, di ican Dietetic Ass (fal meeting in Sar |l8-22. fi’hey dehydrate th fl themselves to V' otjnd in plastic swe ything so they can o Wain weight,” she At the other exti .lessor found footb; >trid consume a total Fall 1973 through Summer In order to clear our files and storage areas, we T es a da 7 or a: ... i ll avera ge man eai will be disposing of all old exams and individual A grade records for F73 through SS82. If you have any reason for requesting consideration of a grade change for one of our courses taken during this period, you will need to file such request at Room 413 Heldenfels Hall no later than November 24, 1982. No grade changes will be considered after that date, except by the official University appeal mechanism. Rod O’Connor Director of First Year Chemistry Programs flie registered diei chemist says her mbuter analysis of flteams at Syracuse [ipund football pi (Al with “tremendo founts of calories” £ flgo to outrageous ■meet competitiv MSC AMATEUR RADIO COMMITTEE Meeting Thursday Oct. 21 7:00 P.M. Room 140 MSC GUEST SPEAKER DR. TOM COMSTOCK with an update on FCC rules She says the wrestlei ron players whose n tths she monitored eniely weird eating 1 'uld harm their he itiing and competit She says football p ftisume half their c one. That’s a danger vel, far exceeding tl 'h| figure recomm lexical authorities kjple. iljhe professor say Hne at the training ta ats dT butter for six >lls, then pour a cu] ''erthe 12 to 16ounc ley consumed at din Hating. Aggieland Pictures will be taken after the meeting. flAs lor lunch, they’ ?ven hamburgers. flEating practicalh ients to be a way < testlers,” she addt kjir daily caloric le lr nesare as low as 78 c result, some suffei min deficiencies.