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Four days later, 22 miles southeast of Pell City in Talladega, a molder and sometime Methodist minister named Roy Heath tore up his Klan membership papers, said to his wife, "Maude, pray for me," kissed her, and then, after she left for church took down his shotgun and killed himself. His three sons and his two nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part...
Growing up in the little southern Indiana town of Petersburg, Willard Brenton Hargrave was regarded as a dull boy. Playmates called him "Dummy." Teachers despaired of his learning anything. At 13 the Methodist preacher's son was in juvenile court, threatened with reform school. But the judge, noticing that Willard Hargrave seemed to pay little attention to the court proceedings, wondered whether he had heard what went on. A doctor's examination showed that the "dummy" was half deaf, probably as a result of chicken...
Sixty-one Methodist ministers from Illinois journeyed into Washington last week for a first-hand briefing on the problems of the cold war and the welfare state. Before the briefing began, all 61 sat down to answer a list of 25 questions-"an audit of mid-century America." For the next three days they shuttled busily back & forth from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions...
...Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine this week, a mixed congregation of 5,000 whites and Negroes attended the New York Interracial Fellowship's fifth annual "race relations service." "The human race is a social solidarity," said Bishop William J. Walls of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. "The church will free its soul and hands only if it removes from itself the stigma that it is the most segregated institution in the United States ... By letting itself become the agent of separation and aloofness it has failed...
...Southern Methodist University in Dallas reported that 13 undergraduates were enrolled in its new one-credit course: bait-casting. One of 16 alternative sections in Physical Education 12A, a required course for sophomores, it offered instruction three hours a week in the art of casting...