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...tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned in Libya. And he got the opposite picture (and also some welcome cool weather) high up among the snowy peaks near Fort Lewis in Washington, where the U.S. Army is training our mountain fighters...
These receiving the highest honor degree Harvard can confer were: Benjamin B.Landing, Jr., South Bend, Ind., (Biology); Melvin Fields, Muncie, Ind, (Chemistry); Donald J. Patton, Cortaro, Ariz., (Geological Sciences); Jack M. Peterson, Portland, Ore. (Physics); Judson T. Shapliy, Reading, Pa., (Anthropology); and Keith R. Symon, Terre Haute, Ind., (Philosophy and Mathematics...
...east of the Alleghenies. West of Nebraska (and excluding the Pacific Coast), the Episcopalian U.S. is mostly a missionary area. Episcopalians, who may know these facts but are not altogether aware of them, had their ears seized and shouted in this week, when the Rev. J. Lindsay Patton of Berkeley, Calif, not only declined his election as Bishop of San Joaquin but said the bishopric ought to be abolished...
...Before this district raises funds for the support of an episcopal establishment," he said, "it should pay a living wage to the clergy already giving their lives to its service." Rector Patton thought that the best thing to do was to absorb San Joaquin once more into the other Episcopal dioceses in California...
Hitch to Mr. Patton's salary-raising proposal is that the Episcopal Church has never been very missionary-minded; since 1929 it has been less missionary-minded than ever. Few of its depression cuts in mission funds have been restored. The Episcopal Church has the highest average ministerial salary of any church in the U.S. ($2,960), but Episcopalians spend only 7%-less than any other church-for general work, including missions, and 85%-more than any other-in the local congregations themselves...