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...airplanes) and to watch for dangerous thunderheads in the tornado belt. Eventually the Weather Bureau hopes the gaps will be filled in and all the radars tied together in a nationwide network that will provide earlier and better weather forewarnings for farmers, sailors and householders from Spokane to Bangor...
Publicly, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall was brimming over with confidence. "Our campaign plans and strategy remain unchanged," cried he to a Bangor, Me. audience last week. "We're the best shape we've been in for 25 years. Privately, Hall was mournful. Said he to a friend: "I'm in the worst spot in the world." Actually, the Republican prognosis was neither as hopeful nor as hopeless as Len Hall, in his public and private moods, made out: after a week marked by taking new political pulses, it seemed clear that the G.O.P. had a good...
Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...
...supported public property: "Children meet in the school as Americans ... There should be no division ... to set them apart.'' His own three children, he added, were getting instruction in the Jewish faith outside school four times a week. In Lansing, State Senator Charles S. Blondy blasted the Bangor sessions as "an improper intrusion of religion in the field of government ... a backdoor method of bringing religious instruction into the schools...
Last week the local Christian Science reader, Mrs. Kenneth Overton, who had been holding lunchtime sessions with three pupils, notified Superintendent Hendricks that she was withdrawing from the program on advice from her church's headquarters in Boston. But Superintendent Hendricks and his friends in Bangor were undismayed. Says Hendricks: "We're not particularly concerned with the outside opposition . . . We're going right ahead...