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...beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh: "I've never seen kids beaten as badly as they were beaten by those allegedly Christian people." School Superintendent Olin...
Just 45 miles from Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, clergy and lay delegates from the Charleston, S.C., area assembled last week in the small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
...long wanted to unite with the Southern, and not one of its presbyteries (regional groupings of local churches) has voted no so far. Under the Southern church's constitution, a negative vote by only 16 of the 61 presbyteries would kill the merger. But the narrow approval in Walterboro last week raised the Southern Presbyterian vote to 35 to 7, making passage of the historic proposal virtually certain. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), to be formed in June, will become the nation's fourth largest Protestant body...
...February. Herter was prowling around a cattle auction in Walterboro, S.C. when he got word that Dulles wanted to talk to him on the telephone. He took the call on an old-fashioned wall phone, got the word from Dulles that he was heading off for Walter Reed Hospital for his hernia operation. "Don't rush back," said Dulles. "If you do, they'll think I'm worse than I am-and if I am that bad, you'll need the rest to handle the work...
JANE BROWN ATTAWAY Walterboro...
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