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With soul-saving zeal, First Baptist welcomes deaf and retarded children, as well as a surprising number of Chicago street toughs, some of whom come equipped with clubs, knives and chains that have to be wrested away from them. For small troublemakers, Vineyard keeps a paddle handy. Explains one deacon blandly: "We ram respect and discipline down their throats." And more. First Baptist insists on short hair ("cut so that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles...
Jimmy who? That derisive question was often asked in Georgia when the peanut farmer and Baptist Church deacon first ran for Governor in 1966, but not when he made it on his second...
...year after her disputed ordination to the Episcopal priesthood as one of the "Philadelphia Eleven" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1974), Betty Bone Schiess, 52, finally celebrated the Eucharist publicly for the first time.* But she still had no church assignment. Like her colleagues, she had previously been ordained as a deacon, the highest Episcopal Church office open to women. After the Philadelphia ordination, the vestry of a Syracuse parish offered her the position of associate priest. Schiess resigned her job as director of a senior citizens' center, but was then denied a license for the parish post by Bishop...
Died. William Daniel ("Deacon") Jones, 58, who drove getaway cars for Bank Robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...
Each of the eleven now risks suspension as a deacon for participating in the ordination. Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who just took over administration of the 3.1 million-member church in June and was not even officially informed of the ordination plans, declared that all bishops involved are bound to bar the women from exercising priestly functions. He also summoned the House of Bishops to an emergency session in Chicago next week to discuss the rebellion. The saddened Allin told TIME "The question now before us is not orders, but order...