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When the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., accepted a call to a bigger parish in Texas last winter, the seven laymen on the pulpit committee had to find a new preacher. It was not easy. During the next nine months, First Baptist's committeemen checked out more than 100 prospects in 16 states, spent three Sundays out of four listening to sermons of possible candidates, traveled as far as Texas and Florida before deciding on the Rev. J. T. Ford of Atlanta's Wieuca Road Baptist Church. Last week, after weighing the committee...
...pulpit committees play up "challenge" and "opportunity for service" rather than salary, insist that a minister dispose of any other offers he has before considering theirs. Under the rules of the game, an out-of-town candidate is seldom invited to preach directly to an interested congregation; instead, pulpit committeemen drop into his church to hear him unobserved. But most committeemen are about as conspicuous as FBI agents at a Communist rally: they come in twos and threes, sit nervously on side aisles, usually fail to sign the visitors' book or stand when newcomers are introduced...
...size of her vote can be interpreted as either a routine endorsement of a popular and well-publicized incumbent or as an overwhelming mandate for the policies Mrs. Hicks and three of the other four Committeemen have pursued. In the first case, the result may be attributed to apathy or ignorance; in the second, to bigotry...
James F. Fitzgerald, one of the five Cambridge school committeemen, who sought re-election, was the only candidate to exceed the quota yesterday in an unofficial first count of ballots. He received 4666 first choices, 172 votes more than the 4494 necessary for election...
...schools are de facto segregated-85% or more Negro. Although Negroes complain loudly of inequities, the school committee is uninterested-and it hard ly has to care. In last week's primary, despite intense Negro campaigning, Boston's heavily Irish Catholic voters gave the incumbent committeemen such a whopping plurality that the same old policy seems inevitable...