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by Kevin Thomas
Baptist group investigating
possible divestiture in Africa
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The
Southern Baptist Foundation’s fi
nance committee group delayed on
Tuesday making a recommendation
on whether to divest the church’s as
sets in companies doing business in
South Africa, a member said.
Tim Hedquist, director of finan
cial planning for the finance com
mittee, said the panel instead would
review the issue at its next scheduled
meeting in February, allowing time
to find out more about what church
entities have invested in South Af
rica and how much is invested.
He said the national foundation
also wants to learn more about
where local groups within the
church stand on the issue.
“The committee did not have
enough information to act on the
motion,” Hedquist said. “There has
been no move to take any action.
We’re still in the study phase.”
Hedquist said a subcommittee of
the the financial panel would consult
with 20 church agencies before
meeting again in February.
Senator’s wife
joins battle for
warning labels
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Beryl “B.A.”
Bentsen, wife of Texas Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, says she is not expecting
“moon in June,” but has joined a
group of congressional wives cam
paigning for warning labels on rock
records that contain sexually graphic
lyrics.
“Rock music, I think, has a won
derful beat,” she said. “It makes you
feel good, and you want to dance. I
just wasn’t listening to the Ivrics.”
Bentsen said she got involved
when Treasury Secretary James
Baker’s wife, Susan, asked her to
sign a letter for Parents’ Music Re
source Center, a group of congres
sional wives seeking a rating system
for record albums.
Objectionable lyrics, the group
says, are written by artists ranging
from obscure “heavy-metal” groups
to top-selling hit-makers like Prince.
The Senate Commerce Commit
tee has scheduled a hearing Thurs
day on the issue of rating records
with music stars John Denver, Frank
Zappa and Twisted Sister slated to
be among the witnesses.
The Recording Industry Associa
tion of America has agreed to label
selected albums “parental guidance,
explicit lyrics,” but the PMRC says
that doesn’t go far enough.
Record manufacturers, Bentsen
said, “don’t want to act as censors.
That certainly isn’t the goal of the
group I’m involved with.
“I just don’t know of anything a
consumer buys today blindly except
rock music,” said Bentsen, who says
she is a fan of Michael Jackson and
Bruce Springsteen.
Hollis Johnson, executive secre
tary-treasurer of the foundation,
supported maintaining church in
vestments in white minority-ruled
South Africa and using those invest
ments-as leverage against the apart
heid government to have it cease its
racial policies.
“I think we can do more good by
staying with the companies that are
already there and see to it they are
making conscientious efforts to im
prove the conditions of blacks,”
Johnson said.
“If we sold the stocks, we’d have
no right to go to a company and tell
them how to run their business
there,” Johnson told the Southern
Baptist executive committee’s fi
nance group, which meets here
through Wednesday.
He said about $5 million of the
$40 million the foundation manages
for several agencies of the Nashville-
based Southern Baptist Convention
is tied up in firms with links to South
Africa.
Although the foundation has in
vested in 10 firms that do business
with South Africa, Johnson said no
more than 1 percent of each firms'
total business is conducted in that
country.
“Many companies there are trying
to make improvements and pul
pressure on the government,” he
said. “I’m saying we should urge
those companies there to do what’s
right.”
Harold Bennett, who heads the
69-member executive committee,
said the investment issue is one of
several to lx? considered by the
panel, which conducts business for
the 14.4 million-member Southern
Baptist Convention between annual
sessions.
Most of the convention’s 20 agen
cies control their own investments.
The largest is the Annuity Board,
based in Dallas, which manages
church pensions and has assets of
$1.25 billion.
T he finance committee recom
mended Monday that the executive
committee collect statements from
all convention agencies outlining the
guidelines they are using.
Justice of the peace
kicked out of office
Associated Press
RICHMOND — A controver
sial Fort Bend County justice of
the peace vows he’ll continue to
hear cases despite being ousted
from office by county commis
sioners.
On Monday, county commis
sioners replaced Justice of the
Peace James M. Scott Jr., 44, be
cause he filed for another elected
position while more than a year
remains in his current term.
“I’m in office until I’m legally
removed,” Scott said. “The
(county commissioners) have not
legally removed me.”
On Monday, he said he would
continue doing his job. But he
failed to show up at the court
house Tuesday. Scott could not
be reached for comment Tues
day.
The county commissioners
contend Scott automatically va
cated his office on Sept. 10 when
he filed a document with the Fort
Bend county clerk designating a
campaign treasurer for the
county court at law race and nam
ing himself as a candidate.
The new county court seat was
created by the Legislature and
will come into existence in Jan
uary 1987. Candidates for the
bench must be on the November
1986 general election ballot.
State law requires that ajustice
of the peace who announces his
candidacy for another office
while having more than one year
remaining on his current term of
office automatically resigns his
post upon announcement, Assis
tant District Attorney Larry Wa-
genbach said.
During Monday’s hearing,
Scott refused to confirm or deny
he had filed a document for the
county court-at-law race with the
county clerk and refused Wagen-
bach’s suggestions that he be
sworn as were other witnesses.
Bus wreck injures 19
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Nineteen elementary
students suffered minor injuries
when two school buses collided on
an Austin street, officials said Tues
day.
The buses were each carrying 60
children in the fourth, fifth and
sixth grades when the accident oc
curred about 3:15 p.m. Monday,
said Dan Roberts, transportation su
pervisor for the Austin Independent
School District.
He said one of the buses, which
have a capacity of 71 elementary stu
dents, was hit from behind by the
other.
All of the students injured were
treated at Brackenridge Hospital, a
hospital spokesman said.
Sammie Gulliver, the driver of the
bus in the rear, will not return to
work until district officials finish in
vestigating the accident, said Gay-
land Walker, director of transporta
tion for the school district.
Walker said Gulliver told him the
collision occurred because his atten
tion had been diverted to the chil
dren. “He said he looked up in the
mirror and had said something to a
kid or tried to get a kid to sit down,”
Walker said.
Neither of the bus drivers was
treated for injury.
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