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Kenneth Eugene Hager, 45, is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) cop who knows every lush, pimp and tart on "Sin Corner" in Charleston, W.Va., where he has been running them in for 20 years. Today he is Charleston's Policeman of the Month, but not for making arrests. Ken Hager's proud specialty is saving souls...
Hope & Help. One day in 1955, Ken Hager seemed to see himself for the first time. "I realized I was on the road to hell and that nothing could help me but God. It seemed I couldn't get to him fast enough." He quit drinking, joined a Nazarene church, and began going to work an hour early each morning to study his Bible. But a pious cop is not necessarily a good cop. Police Chief Dallas Bias found the new Hager "ineffectual" because he kept trying to help suspects instead of digging up evidence and hammering out confessions...
...experiment was a snowballing success. Chaplain Hager's fellow officers avoided him at first, but soon began dropping into his tiny office at headquarters to talk over their problems. He has helped to keep at least three police families from breaking up, and prompted a dozen police officers to join churches. In municipal court Hager sits next to Judge James McWhorter every morning so that he can prepare for follow-up work with defendants. Among the winos of Summers Street he is a symbol of hope and help, has managed to rehabilitate a dozen drunks...
...Little Prodding. But the brightest star in Ken Hager's new crown is his "Soul's Harbor Mission." In an old bar and barbecue joint he built a sanctuary with pulpit, piano, pews and mourner's bench, a bunkroom with modern kitchen, showers and storage areas. Hager opened his doors to the hungry and homeless on Jan. 8, 1956, has given lodgings to more than 4,000 of them, served 22,000 meals, and sent 650 converts to churches of their choice. Every night Ken Hager, now a minister of the Church of the Nazarene, welcomes them...
...identifying such familiar arctic objects as a walrus tooth and a harpoon head, a task Freuchen found far simpler than naming his half-Eskimo children: Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and Piplauk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager...