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...common to hear the lament that the poor, who can least afford chil dren, have the greatest number," said the Rev. Eldon Durham, 53, pastor for the past 15 years of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in the city of Lomita in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. "Repeatedly, the Pope is held responsible for encouraging large families among Roman Catholics. It is 'said that the Chinese and the people of India ought to put the lid on their burgeoning populations." Then Durham, the father of four, preached a modest proposal for Presbyterians...
Only since 13% of homes are have been built since 1939 the rest are decaying and dilapidated. Nearly 30% of the chil dren are from broken homes; their drop out rate is 2.2 times the city's average, and prison parolees, prostitutes, narcotics addicts and drunks live among them. Over a recent three-month period, cops reported 96 felonious crimes, including murders, rapes and assaults. The David Starr Jordan High School, which serves Watts, is not legally segregated; yet its student body is 99% Negro. Watts is a slum-but not in the Eastern sense. There are no rows...
Thomas L. Pitts, secretary-treasurer of the California A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused growers of acting "like pampered chil dren sitting back with a steady barrage of crybaby pleas that their crops are about to rot. If they would demonstrate only a fraction as much interest in their workers as they do in their crops, the labor problem would evaporate...
...parishioners thereupon became the first Episcopalians in the U.S. to receive communion from a woman. The service took place - where else? - in the diocese of California's experiment-loving Bishop James A. Pike, who is de termined to ordain Mrs. Edwards to the diaconate. A widow with four chil dren, she is now one of about 70 active Episcopal deaconesses authorized by the church to perform social work and teach the catechism...
...G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller, a New York Congressman who could also give the ticket a Northeastern tinge, a Catholic, an orator with a gift for tough-talking gab, a clean-cut looking 50-year-old with a handsome wife and four attractive chil dren who would be an asset in anybody's campaign. But he is a relatively unknown politician who is not even standing for re-election this year from his upstate New York congressional district...