Word: revs
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...REV.) R. P. DESHARNAIS, C.S.C...
Throughout the civil rights struggle in Selma, Ala., and on the march to Montgomery, there at Martin Luther King's side was the Rev. Frederick D. Reese, 35, a Baptist preacher and as president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL), Selma's own Negro leader for the past two years. Last week a Dallas County grand jury indicted Reese on three counts of embezzlement, charging him with diverting $1,850 of DCVL funds...
Clearly on'the way out are the assorted discounts, donations and deals that ministers once relied upon to flesh out the modest salary that went with a pulpit call. In 1887, for example, the Rev. William E. Barton was offered $400 a year to serve as pastor of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Ohio. As Barton noted in his autobiography: "The little congregation was generous according to its means." Every year there was a donation party, and the proceeds were given to the pastor. Sometimes the families in the congregation brought packages of food instead of money...
...discounts is that men of the cloth are getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered...
...innovations, the system labors under the serious handicaps of a limited budget imposed by a parsimonious Congress and dutiful district commissioners. Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries." Critics also find considerable fault with Hansen's rule. The Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, protests that the four-track system "hardens class lines" and unfairly labels pupils on the basis of tests that "do not measure intelligence but the child's proficiency with middle-class symbols...