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Slain woman bride
of less than month
CUMMING, Ga. (UPI) —The State Bureau of
Investigation said today the body of a young woman found
strangled and beaten in Forsyth County had been
identified as that of Rhona Jean Bevier, 19, a bride of less
than a month.
The body was found by hunters along a lane about 12
miles northwest of Cumming Saturday. The DOI said Mrs.
Bevier died of strangulation but had also been beaten
about the head.
The body was fully clothed except for shoes which were
found near the body.
DOI agents said Mrs. Bevier was employed as a key
punch operator at an Atlanta firm and frequently hitch
hiked to work. She and her husband, George, were
married Nov. 17, and lived in the northwest Atlanta area.
DOI agent Ray Pinyan speculated that Mrs. Bevier may
have been killed elsewhere and her body dumped in the
northwest Forsyth County area.
Lakewood plant
strike settled
ATLANTA (UPI) — Employes of General Motors’
Lakewood assembly plant returned to work today after
the third “ministrike” in the past two months and a
spokesman said a contract had been signed to cover local
grievances.
Mark Grody of GM said two previous walkouts by the
some 4,400 workers had been ended by agreements to
return to work while negotiations continued.
“This time we’ve got a signed agreement,” Grody said.
The latest strike began shortly after midnight Friday
and the spokesman said the new contract was signed
Sunday night.
The Lakewood plant is one of two assembling GM
vehicles in the Atlanta area. The second, at Doraville,
employs about 3,700 and was not affected by the Lakewood
walkout.
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Station attendant
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ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — Police have determined a young
service station attendant found shot to death at his station
on U.S. 17 west of Athens Sunday was apparently killed
during a robbery.
Police said Donald Lee Stewart, 24, of North Augusta, S.
C., was found by a truck driver from Tennessee, who had
stopped at the station for gas, about 30 minutes after the
killing. Officers said Stewart had been shot twice and his
wallet was missing.
Revenue Department
auctions 359 cases
ATLANTA (UPI) — The State Revenue Department
says it has sold about 359 cases of confiscated liquor at
auction to liquor dealers throughout the state.
The department said the sale of the liquor, seized by
revenue agents for being transported, sold or used in
violation of state law, had brought in $18,270 so far this
year. In 1972, 689 cases of bonded liquor were sold by the
state, bringing in $34,800.
Federal court rules
in favor of gay group
ATLANTA (UPI) — A U. S. district judge has agreed
with the contention of a group of homosexuals that refusal
of the University of Georgia to let it use school facilities
infringes on its first amendment rights.
U. S. District Judge Sidney O. Smith said his ruling
didn’t limit the university in controlling its facilities, but
upheld a previous order he issued to let the group hold a
conference and dance Nov. 11 on the campus.
Smith said only if the group pf “gay” students failed to
comply with school regulations or if a danger of violence
existed could it be kept from using the facilities.
A school official, Student Affairs Director William D.
Powell, said the school denied the Committee on Gay
Education use of the facilities because it seemed to
conflict with the university’s purpose to “apparently”
promote and encourage acts contrary to state law.
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Bishop Cannon talks with Vatican
ATLANTA — Bishop William
R. Cannon, episcopal head of
400,000 United Methodists in
Georgia, will have con
versations with'Roman Catholic
officials during a five day visit
to the Vatican in Rome, Dec. 10-
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Police seek
identities
of couple
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (UPI)
— Hancock County authorities
were waiting today to find out
if a Columbus, Ga., taxi driver
could identify a man and wo
man whose bodies were found in
a water-filled ditch near this
Gulf Coast town.
A business card bearing the
name and telephone number of
the Georgia man was found on
the body of the woman. Sheriff
Sylvan Ladner said pictures of
the couple were sent to Colum
bus, where the taxi driver was
hospitalized.
Ladner would not identify the
Columbus man, but he said city
police there would take a state
ment from him.
The victims, found in a ditch
along the Old Log Town road,
which runs a few hundred yards
off Mississippi 604 near the
Louisiana line, had both been
shot several times in the head.
Ladner said the only identify
ing mark on either body was
the name “Bill” tattooed on the
left arm of the man. He had
been shot in the face, neck and
head five times and the woman
was shot three times behind the
left ear.
Ladner said there was $65 in
cash in the man’s left pocket
and $6 was in the woman’s bra.
“We’ve been checking out tips
on vehicles seen in the area
where the bodies were found,”
the sheriff said. “We’ve had a
lot of calls on missing people,
but we have not had any identif
ication yet.”
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Bishop Cannon heads a three
man commission from the
World Methodist Council which
has been holding annual talks
with Roman Catholic officials
for six years in an attempt to
understand and ultimately
resolve doctrinal differences
between the two churches.
The bishop will return to
Atlanta on Dec. 19. While in
Europe he is also attending
church conferences in Ger
many, France, Vienna and
England.
Although he doesn’t foresee a
merger between the two
churches in the near future, the
bishop said he hopes to bring the
two into a closer working
relationship.
Even though he holds to the
ideals of ecumenism, the bishop
doesn’t see it in terms of a great
merger. “We’ve begun to look
more cautiously at merger,” he
said, explaining that “if we can
engage in more missions
together, it would be a great
gain. We wouldn’t be com
peting.”
Open communion between
Roman Catholics and Metho
dists is expected to be one of the
topics for discussion by
representatives of the World
Methodist Council and the
Vatican. Bishop Cannon said
that although open communion
is a crucial issue in bringing the
churches together, the
sacrament has not been of-
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conversations.
The 56-year-old cleric views
the issue of open communion as
necessary “if all churches are
to be united into one body of
Christ.”
“It seems to me,” he con
tinued, “that unless you can
take communion together, any
prospect of merger is dim
because communion is the
central expression of Christian
fellowship.”
■“I hope we can arrive at some
theological basis for inter
communion,” Bishop Cannon
said. He explained that Roman
Catholics believe that when the
bread and wine are blessed they
become the body and blood of
Jesus Christ. Therefore, a
properly ordained priest must
pronounce the blessing. This is
the central problem in inter
communion.
Most Protestants, including
Methodists, believe that the
bread and wine are only
symbols of the body and blood
and Christ’s presence depends
on the faith of the recipient.
The Atlanta Area prelate
explained that the question of
apostolic succession will have to
be dealt with in resolving open
communion. Apostolic suc
cession is the tradition of or
dination continued through the
episcopacy from the disciples of
Jesus Christ. This belief is held
by Roman Catholics but not
Methodists.
The former dean of Emory
University’s Candler School of
Theology said Catholics “would
question our ministry as to
whether it has apostolic suc
cession. The whole question is
tied in with ordination and what
it means,” he continued.
Bishop Cannon hopes,
however, that the open com
munion discussion will someday
be successful, as have other
topics of discussion. These
conversations have been in
large part responsible for much
of the ecumenical effort bet
ween Catholics and Methodists
on the local level, including
study groups between the laity
of the two churches and joint
services on Christian Unity
Sunday.
One of his denomination’s
foremost ecumenical leaders,
Bishop Cannon has represented
Methodists at national and
world levels. He has been a
delegate to the World Council of
Churches, National Council of
Churches and Consultation on
Church Union. He has been an
observer at Vatican Councils.
Other members of the World
Methodist Council on the three
man team are Dr. Miquez
Bonino, president of the Metho
dist Theological Seminary at
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
Professor Raymond George, a
theology professor at Wesley
College, Bristol, England.