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Page ISAThe Battalion/Thursday, Movember 1, 1984 Minister declines SBC candidacy United Press International DALLAS — The re-elected presi dent of the 2.3-million-member Baptist General Convention of Texas said Wednesday he does not believe he would be a good candi date for president of the nationwide Southern Baptist Convention. The Rev. Winifred Moore of Am arillo, who was re-elected by accla mation to a second one-year term as president of' the Texas Baptist group, said that while he believes the national convention needs a new president, he doesn’t think he’s the man. Moore said the current SBC presi dent, the Rev. Charles Stanley of At lanta, Ga., has been overly involved in the doctrinal disputes that have divided the convention for five can find a person who would unify the convention,” he said. Some moderate Baptists have mentioned Moore as a possible op ponent for Stanley when Southern Baptists have their annual conven tion next June. For several years, moderates and fundamentalists have battled over inerrancy, the belief that the Bible is literally true. Texas Baptist delegates meeting in Dallas this week elected the Rev. Lester Collins, pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, as first vice president. Collins defeated Eli Rodriguez, a member, of f irst Mexi can Baptist Church in Dallas. Farmers act Nuclear waste trucks stopped en route to dump site United Press International SAMALAYUCA, Mexico — Angry farmers promising to pro tect their land with their lives, blocked the road to a proposed low-level radioactive waste dump in the Villa Luz community Wednesday. The road blockade, which be gan Tuesday, resulted from the federal Nuclear Safety Commis sion’s order that a dump be con structed on the federally-owned land, which is about two miles from the Villa Luz community. Eleven trucks carrying the ra dioactive material tried to drive across the only access road to the proposed dump site, which is about 40 miles south of El Paso, but were stopped by more than 100 farmers and ranchers who made them turn around. “They’re going to have to run over my body,” said farmer Pris- ciliano Rojas, president of the Villa Luz community. “That’s the only way they’re going to bury that stuff here.” But Tuesday’s confrontation ended peacefully, as one truck driver said, “I was hired to deliver these steel rebars, not to get into a fight.” Each truck was carrying 45 tons of steel rebars contaminated from a Cobalt 60 spill last Novem ber. The federal government wants to bury an estimated 11,000 tons of this contaminated material at the dump site. The field, five miles east of the Pan American Highway, was one of several places considered for a permanent nuclear waste site af ter the government stopped work on a disposal site 10 miles south of the Juarez airport. cept the nuclear dump proposal in a meeting Sunday by explain ing that the contaminated material will be buried inside a concrete vault so none of the ra diation could escape into the ground. Mi / Unite State authorities tried to con- vice the Villa Luz farmers to ac- Officials latei announced that shipments of radioactive materi als would be stopped until an agreement could be reached with the Villa Luz residents, but it was after that announcement when the trucks loaded with radioactive material tried to reach the dump site. years. Stanley should be replaced be cause he has failed to support South ern Baptist institutions or act as a unifying factor within the conven tion, Moore said. The Rev. B.O. Baker, pastor of Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Ir ving, was elected second vice presi dent. After 10 years, Clarendon finally has museum United Press International However, Moore said he also has been too closely involved with the moderate-fundamentalist dispute to be a candidate. “It is my hope and prayer that we In addition to electing officers, delegates launched a “Mission Tex as” program to start 2,000 churches by 1990. The convention also adopted a $60 million budget for its Cooperative Program, which helps support domestic and foreign mis sions and 23 hospitals, universities and other institutions. CLARENDON — Clarendon has had a museum board for about 10 years, but the Panhandle community never had a place to display rem nants of its past until now. Donley County commissioners earlier this year donated the former city-county hospital building to the museum board. The one-story brick structure was constructed for cow boys in 1910 by JA Ranch owner Cornelia Adair. “We have quite a bit of material available in the county that will go into the museum,” said Lawrence Neece, museum board president. “We’ve just been waiting for a place to put it.” Neece said the building has been empty for years and has suffered much vandalism. “Kids broke 100 windows and the yard had grown up like a jungle,” said museum board member Helen Woody. “But we’ve had from 10 to 20 volunteers out here on Saturdays to clean it up.” Adair was the wife of rancher John George Adair, who. with part ner Charles Goodnight, owned the JA Ranch. “She (Adair) had it built to care for her cowboys and their familie and then turned the deed overtoil city with the stipulation that take care of them without charge,' Woody said. HOUST I since Sept. 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