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LAWRENCE, Kan. (UPI) - The
“Bible Belt of America,” has shifted
from the Midwest to the South, ac
cording to a report by a University of
Kansas professor.
David Shortridge said his research
has shown the Bible Belt phrase coined
by social critic H.L. Mencken in the
early part of the 20th century no longer
fits Kansas.
The assistant professor of geology
studied diversity and intensity of
religions and churches in the nation and
published his results in a recent issue of
The Geographical Review.
"Mencken, if one reads his writings,
particularly hated the Southern Bap
tists and Methodists,” Shortridge said.
"I think the Methodists have changed,
from very conservative to the liberal
side. And I think that’s carried Kansas
with it.”
Shortridge said the Bible Belt has
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New Congress: A honeymoon but independence
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President
elect Jimmy Carter will find the 95th
Congress eager to work with him but
zealously possessive of its own powers
as a coequal branch of government.
The new Congress, which takes office at
noon Jan. 4, will be overwhelmingly
Democratic and, for the first time in
eight years, not at war with a
Republican president.
But in recent years Congress has
begun seriously to reassert its role in
domestic and foreign policy and is
highly unlikely to knuckle down even to
a Democratic chief executive.
Many major domestic programs
have been waiting until the Democrats
took over the White House. But
Congress could find the money is not
there to carry them out, especially if
the economy continues to sag and if
Carter pursues his goal of a balanced
budget by 1980.
A good indicator of the financial
squeeze facing Congress is that there is
less talk now than in previous years
about a federally financed national
health insurance program, long sought
by Democratic liberals.
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shifted about 1,000 miles to the south,
with the “buckle” in Jackson, Miss.
In his two-year study, Shortridge
measured diversity, the number of
religions in an area, intensity, the
number of church members compared
to total population and the proportion of
liberal and conservative Protestants in
an area.
Jews and black churches, which did
not keep substantial national records,
were not compared, but Shortridge es
timated 90 per cent of church members
nationwide were included.
Shortridge said the Kansas City
metropolitan area was marked by low
church membership. He said the
bastions of moderately conservative
Protestantism in western Kansas and
regions of Oklahoma and Texas also
have declined.
“Many people went to Kansas City
escaping the small towns around
15 jobs added to high risk cancer list
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Workers in
15 occupations and industries, ranging
from broadcasters to decorators, have
been newly identified as high risks for
acquiring lung cancer.
A study of nearly 4,000 white males
who developed or died from the disease
in recent years added the work groups
to 18 others, mostly notably asbestos
workers, who had been previously
identified as having a greater than
usual chance of getting lung cancer.
The researchers, affiliated with the
University of Southern California
Comprehensive Cancer Center, said the
Compounding the problem and
making it more difficult to divert
money from defense to domestic needs
is that the country is moving into a
period when Congress must decide
whether to go ahead with a new
generation of weapons — planes, ships,
tanks, missiles and others.
An indication of the relations between
Congress and Carter could come soon
after the inauguration.
Carter and many leading members of
Congress agree the economy needs a
stimulus. The problem is finding a
mutually acceptable approach.
A second early indicator will come
Feb. 1, the date by which Carter has to
decide whether to give the go-ahead for
production of the Bl bomber. There is a
sizeable bloc in Congress opposing the
expensive plane.
A third early test will come when
Carter submits his budget. Many
liberal Democrats are eager to find out
if Carter will hold to his campaign
promise of cutting defense spending |5
to $7 billion and many conservative
Democrats want to see signs of
movement toward a balanced budget.
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They remember how it started in Griffin
In the early nineteen hundreds, the
Boy Scout movement began spreading
throughout the United States and it was
in Griffin that the first troop of Georgia
was established.
Troop 1 was organized on March 15,
1911 by the Rev. Clayton Earl Wheat,
pastor of St. George’s Episcopal
Church at that time. David Bailey
sponsored the troop and A. C. Leidy and
Phillip Cleveland assisted Rev. Wheat.
Os the 31 troop members, four are
still living and reside in Griffin. They
are Emmett McDowell of 330 East
College street, William H. Beck, Jr., of
503 West Poplar, Charlie T. Phillips of
Zebulon road, and Nathaniel H. Bailey
of 1056 Maple drive.
Each have vivid memories of their
early days of scouting.
“In scouting as in footbaU the main
thing is cooperation and teamwork,”
Mr. McDowell said. He pointed out that
nine members of Troop 1 were on the
Griffin High School football team which
Missouri and Kansas,” he said. “In
escaping the small towns, you also
escape the social stigma that some
people attach to religion — if you’re
going to be a pillar of a small com
munity, you must be a church mem
ber.”
The professor found a distinct
correlation between the degree of
liberalism of Protestants’s religion and
their political and economic status. He
said generally liberal Protestants are
younger and more affluent than their
conservative counterparts, who tend to
interpret the Bible literally.
A heavy concentration of con
servative Protestants was found by
Shortridge in the South, which he says
is the new Bible Belt because of doc
trinaire reading of the Bible. But he
predicts the South will become more
liberal religiously because of the
election of Jimmy Carter as President.
results suggest that occupational expo
sure to cancer-causing substances in
some jobs creates the higher risk.
They said workers in most of the
occupations and industries associated
with lung cancer are in some way ex
posed to either asbestos or polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, a byproduct of
burning organic materials.
The newly identified high-risk jobs
with a high exposure to the
hydrocarbons include dental lab
technicians, photoengravers, roofers
and persons employed in the auto
repair, bakery and dairy industries.
Numerically, the 95th Congress is
almost a carbon copy of the 94th.
Democrats control the House 292 to
143 and the Senate 62 to 38. There are 67
new House members and an unusually
large Senate freshmen class of 18.
But the big change is at the top with
an almost complete shakeup of the
leadership because of retirements.
House Democrats already have
elected Rep. Thomas O’Neill of
Massachusetts as Speaker and Texan
Jim Wright as Democratic leader. The
outnumbered GOP gave Rep. John
Rhodes of Arizona another term as
Republican leader.
The Senate won’t choose its leaders
until party caucuses Jan. 4.
Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia
now appears a prohibitive favorite to
defeat Sen. Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota for the Democratic leader
post.
And Sen. Robert Griffin of Michigan
appears equally strong in what could
turn into a runaway GOP contest.
Except in emergency — such as the
need for a quick fix for the economy —a
new Congress cranks up slowly before
had 11 players.
Scouts playing on the team were
Clement Hammond, HoweU Edwards,
Ralph M. Jones, Frank Baxter, Herbert
Johnson, Oren WaUer, Allan Cleveland,
Reuben Jones, and McDoweU. A. C.
Leidy was the coach and Rev. Wheat
was the assistant coach.
“We both had to play offense and
defense,” McDowell added. “There
were only two or three substitutes.”
McDoweU was 14 when he joined the
troop.
“We aU played around together and
when Rev. Wheat approached us with
the idea of organizing a troop, we liked
it,” Mr. McDoweU said.
The troop consisted of different ages,
ranging from 12 through 18. The boys
were divided into different patrols with
one boy in charge.
The boys in each patrol were: the
“Mounted Patrol Leaders,” Clement
Hammond, WUUe Wheaton, HoweU
Edwards, and Ralph M. Jones; the
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The researchers said two other new
high-risk occupations, clothing ironers
and electricians, have a high exposure
to asbestos. Leather workers were also
added to the list, possibly because of
their exposure to leather dust.
The study, published Sunday, also
listed bar and restaurant managers,
janitors and mechanics and persons
involved in the food and drink industry
in the high-risk group for the first time.
Those previously indentified as high
risk jobs were asbestos workers,
bartenders, cooks, heat treaters,
longshoremen, machine shop workers,
it begins to enact bills.
But stung by sex and payoff scandals
last year, Congress appears ready to
move quickly toward a new, tougher
code of ethics.
Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., chairman
of the House Commission on
Administrative Review, has promised
ethics recommendations within two
months. O’Neill says he will appoint a
committee to create a stricter ethics
code of ethics.
Sen. Edward Brooke, RMass., a
member of the Senate Ethics Com
mittee, has a set of new proposals to
crack down on errant senators.
President Ford says he will propose
substantial pay raises for members of
Congress if they adopt a stricter code.
Before the Senate can begin work on
legislation it must deal with a proposed
committee reorganization, a touchy
subject because it would cost some
senators chairmanships and dilute the
powers of others.
The major and probably most costly
investigation by the 95th Congress is the
one into the assassination of John
Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It
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mine operatives, painters, plasterers,
plumbers, pressmen, shoe repairers,
taxi and truck drivers, welders and
persons involved in the paper, pe
troleum-refining, steel and tran
sportation industries.
The researchers also found that 16
occupations carried a low risk of lung
cancer. They were assemblers,
barbers, checkers, cranemen, dentists,
foremen, judges, personnel workers,
pharmacists, photographers,
physicians, sales managers, school
administrators, secretaries, stockbr
okers and teachers.
already is underway and is expected to
last two years, at a cost of $6.5 million a
year.
In the past, Congress has been loathe
to investigate the misdeeds of its own
members. But at least three com
mittees, including the House ethics
panel, plan to look into the money and
gifts lavished on congressmen by South
Korea, a potentially explosive in
vestigation.
Holiday toll mounts
By United Press International
A dozen white caskets clogged the
aisles of St. Vitus Church on Chicago’s
South Side.
The tiny one was for the baby. Two
large ones were for the mothers. Nine
small caskets contained the bodies of
the children.
It was the day after Christmas and
the people of the poor, Roman Catholic
parish in Chicago’s predominantly
Lation Pilsen neighborhood came to
weep.
“Leaders,” George N. Murray and
Evans MitcheU; the “Wolves,” Frank
Baxter, Lake Edwards, George Deane,
Charles Hammond, and Henry George
Redding; the “Outriders,” Nathaniel
BaUey, Bartlett Searcy, Otis Blake, and
Douglas Boyd; the “Partridges,” Mr.
McDowell, Oren Waller, Allan
Cleveland, Mr. Beck, and Halsey
Garland; the “Jackals,” Reuben Jones,
WiU Lewis Flemister, Power Wells,
Forrest Parker, and MiUer Starton; the
“Eagles,” Mr. PhiUips, Wilson Lum
pkin, George Johnson, L. C. Henslee,
Morris Crouch, and Herbert Johnson.
Mr. McDoweU feels that scouting
taught him how to do many things and
to cooperate with different age groups.
He thinks scouting is very worthwhUe
and that it teaches you things that are
good for later life.
“I think Boy Scouts is a fine program
and I am delighted to see the progress it
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People
...and things
Used Christinas trees dotting curb
sides.
People talking about the 500
luminaries which gladdened Christmas
Eve at the A. P. Sheppard’s on
Williamson Road.
Griffin stores busy with sales, ex
changes of wrong sizes, returns for
alterations.
Christmas gift
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Mage
ra, an upland gorilla, presented
Cincinnati Zoo officials with a
special Christmas present
Saturday — the ninth baby
gorilla ever bom at the zoo.
While gorilla births are rare
in captivity, the Cincinnati Zoo
has now coaxed its herd into
producing nine offspring, a
world record.
The Christmas eve fire, apparently
started by a barbeque grill set up for a
birthday party, claimed 12 lives in
Chicago’s Pilsen.
It was one of a rash of Christmas
weekend fires that sent the fire death
toll near 100.
David Reichard tried to fight a fire
with a garden hose at a house in Stone
Mountain, Ga. Inside the house were
three of his neighbor’s children and a
teenager. All four were killed by the
early Sunday blaze.