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Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 17, 1985 . ■ OFTFRA Slouch By Jim Earle Baptists refuse post to minister’s husband Associated Press 'Here's an announcement dated 195/!” DALLAS — A Baptist committee has refused to renominate a Dallas attorney to a high-level church post he’s held six years because his wife is an ordained Methodist minister. Jerry Gilmore, a former Dallas city councilman, has served as direc tor of the Southern Baptist Conven tion's Home Mission Board for six years, including two years as chair man But the convention’s committee on boards, which appoints trustees and directors to the vast network of denominational boards and institu tions, voted 25-22 at a recent meet ing in Nashville not to recommend Gilmore's renomination. He is the only one of 134 denomi national trustees and directors eligi ble tor renomination who was re jected, the chairman of the committee confirmed Monday. “I defended his nomination,” said chairman Bob Eklund of Dallas, one of the two who renominated Gil more. “He is an outstanding layman at Cliff Temple (Baptist Church).” Last year Gilmore’s wife, Martha, the first Southern Baptist woman or dained in Texas, transferred her membership and ordination to the United Methodist Church when the ordination of women became a viola- tile issue in the Southern Baptist Convention. Although the convention claims to be a coalition of autonomous churches with each congregation free to make its own decisions, few churches have ordained women. Cliff Temple Baptist Church ap proved Mrs. Gilmore’s ordination in 1977. At the time her transfer to Meth odism was announced, Russell Kaemmerling, editor of the Dallas- based fundamentalist publication “Southern Baptist Advocate,” unsuc cessfully called for Jerry Gilmore’s resignation as director of the Home Mission Board. “Men whose wives are ordained is an expression of a man’s place in the home,” Kaemmerling said at the time. “Men have a special calling as head of the household, and wives should acquiesce.” GO T LL X / TUDENT RNM ENT M UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES Applications Now Available DEADLINE APRIL 19 AT 5 P. The Rev. Dan Griffin, pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church, said he was appalled by the committee’s decision. “I deplore the myopia of the f un damentalist-dominated committee,” he said. “They don’t want to know what kind of a job he’s been doing.” Carrousel horse: reviving lost beauty Associated Press ARLING TON — 1 he carrousel horse—with flowing tail, glass diamond saddle and immacu late gold body — inside the Six Flags ()vei 1 exas management office was just a side project for three of the park’s artisans. But the teasing beauty of the horse, enticing riders despite its helpless immobility, launched the most ambitious antique restoration project in Six Flags history. A few years ago. Six Flags officials purchased 66 carrousel horses from Houston Astrodome builder Judge Roy Hofeinz, who collected them as a hobby. Discarded in a balcony of the park's Sign De partment warehouse, the horses lav in a heap. Then Ed Armstrong, 28, John Gavia. 41 and his 31-year-old brothet, Dan , decided to refurb ish one of the horses — more for f un than any thing else. That horse was put in the management of fices. “They did such a marvelous job on that one horse,” park spokesman Bruce Neal said, “that we said, ‘Hey. guys, we’ve got a valuable asset here. Let’s make this carrousel what it should be.’ ” All of Six Flags carrousel horses were sched uled to be restored to then glorious turn-of-the- century beauty. So the Gavias, both woodcarving hobbyists, and Armstrong took on the project amid their usual chores of maintaining and creating some of the 6,500 signs that fill Six Flags. I( s a big challenge to reproduce a piece of art," said John Gavia, supervisor of the Sign De partment. “You’re missing a leg that was carved by one of the world’s most famous carrousel car vers, and it's something that has to be done right, without any shortcuts." The carrousel, the last one built by William Dentzel who was considered one of the greatest carrousel-horse carvers, carried endless lines of smiling children in Rockaway’s Playland m Long Island, N.Y., during the 1920s. When the city of New York condemened the property in J937, the horses were stored until 1945. But Rockaway’s reopened and the horses, known as “slanders and jumpers,” were in busi ness again. In 1962, Six Flags bought the ride from Rock away’s for $25,000. Unfortunately, the first thing the mainte nance department did to the horses was coat them in Fiberglas — a death certificate for the basswood carvings. Water had seeped into the horses through the legs and traveled up the body. The Fiberglas transformed the horses into a veritable terra rium allowing fungi to rot nearly all the horses' legs. But bringing the horses back to life demanded skills lost long ago. For example, it took months of sampling paint snippers before the restorers realized the horses had a milk-based paint, common in the 1920s. After the Fiberglas and paint were stripped, sanding and more sanding was inevitable. “You get to the point that your fingertips wear off , and you have to go and paint signs or some thing,' Dan Gavia said, stooping over the torso of a horse he’d been sanding nearly all day. The three craftsmen said they are restoring five horses at a time and should be completed with all 66 in two years. Each horse takes one man about 40 hours to refurbish, they said, and the project was side tracked by chores related to the park’s season opening. “It’s (the carrousel) developing into a major production,” Neal said. “It is truly an antique.” r Purchase any 12”, 16” or 20” pizza at the regular price and receive an 8” pizza with the same toppings FREE! CHANELLO’S PIZZA. Call Us. 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