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November 19, 1968 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Volume LX Number 45 Writ 1._P Vol. LX, No. 45 November 19, 1968 GORDON 0. ENGEN, Editor JOCELYN FAY, Assistant Editor MARIAN MENDEL, Circulation Services EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: F. W. Wernick, Chairman; W. F. Miller, Vice-Chairman; Gordon Engen, Secretary. CORRESPONDENTS: Eston Allen, Illinois; M. D. Oswald, Indiana; Xavier Butler, Lake Region; Ernest Wendth, Michigan; J. M. Davis, Wisconsin; H. M. Wynne, Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital; Horace Shaw, Andrews Uni- versity. Andrews NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS: All articles, pictures, obitu- aries, and classified ads must be channeled through your local conference correspondent. Copy moiled directly to the HERALD will be returned to the conference involved. MANUSCRIPTS for publication should reach the Lake Union Conference office by Thursday, 9 a.m., twelve days before the date of issue. The editorial staff reserves the right to withhold or condense copy depending upon space available. ADDRESS CHANGES should be addressed Circulation De- Gives Send-off partment, Lake Union Herald, Box C, Berrien Springs, Mich. 49103. Always give full name, old address, and new address. If possible, send address label from an old issue. Please allow at least two weeks for change to become effective. NEW SUBSCRIPTION requests should be addressed to the treasurer of the local conference where membership is held. Conference Directories to Plane for Korea LAKE UNION CONFERENCE Box C, Berrien Springs, Mich. 49103 (616) 473-4541 President F. W. Wernick Secretary-treasurer W. F. Miller Auditor E. J. Gregg Associate Auditor Arthur Opp Educational Secretary G. E. Hutches Loy Activities Secretory t, A. W. Bauer Sabbath School Secretary I Public Affairs Secretory Public Relations, Radio-TV / Gordon Engen Religious Liberty, Ind. Rel. Publishing Secretary J. W. Proctor Missionary Volunteer Secretary National Service Organization Secy. Another aircraft has joined the ever-growing fleet of Seventh-day Medical Secretory Temperance Secretory J. P. Winston Adventist airplanes in service around the world. A.S.I. Secretary JJJ ILLINOIS: W. A. Nelson, president; Elton Dessain, secre- Sunday, October 27, a Lake Super Custom LA-4 left South Bend, tary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 8 a,m.-12:30 p.m. Office Address: 3721 Prairie Indiana, on the first hop of its long trek half-way around the world for Ave. Moil Address: Box 89, Brookfield, III. 60513. Phone: (312) 485-1200. Seoul, Korea. On hand to bid it bon voyage were two Korean students INDIANA: R. S. Joyce, president; Lorry Davis, secretary- from Andrews University and one former Korean missionary's son, along treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; 1-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-12 noon. Office and Mail with the university vice-president for financial affairs, V. E. Garber, and Address: 1405 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 46220. Phone: (317) 251-9292. the director of the Andrews flight training program, C. William Barney. LAKE REGION: C. E. Bradford, president; M. C. Von Piloting the plane in Korea will be Dr. Robert W. Allen, an Adventist Putten, secretary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8 a.m.-12 noon; 1-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Of- dentist associated with the Seoul Sanitarium and Hospital. It will be fice and Moil Address: 8517 S. State St., Chicago, Ill. 60619. Phone: (312) 846-2661. used mainly for medical work in the island area of the Korean Union MICHIGAN: R. D. Moon, president; L. G. Wortzok, secre- tary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs, 7:30 a.m.-12 Mission. noon; 1-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Office Ad- dress: 320 W. St Joseph St. Moil Address: Box 900, Before the idea of a plane was first thought of, the mission already Lansing, Mich. 48904. Phone (517) 485-2226. had been given money for a boat by the L. A. Shipowick family. Then WISCONSIN: R. E. Finney, Jr., president; G. H. Crumley, secretary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 7:30 a.m.- Elder L. A. Edwards of the General Conference, along with some of his 12:15 p.m.; 1-5 p.m.; Fri., 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Office Address: 802 E. Gorham St. Mail Address: Box 512, Madi- friends, contributed to the project. son, Wis. 53701. Phone: (608) 257-5696. After studying the needs of the area carefully, the mission decided that an amphibious airplane would be more suitable than a boat. With Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office, Berrien Springs, Mich. Printed weekly, the consent of the early contributors, they set their sights on the sky. 50 times o year (omitting the weeks of July 4 Others, including Paul Hottel of the Washington area, heard of the proj- and December 25) by the University Press, Ber- rien Springs, Mich. Yearly subscription price, ect and contributed. $4.00. Single copies, 10 cents. Early in 1968, Radio Pastor J. L. Tucker entered the picture and Postmasters: Send all notices to Lake Union Herald, Box C. Berrien Springs, MI 49103. agreed to appeal to his listeners of The Quiet Hour broadcast, heard over more than 100 stations across the nation. Pictures and stories of COVER the venture appeared in the Quiet Hour Echoes, his monthly magazine which goes to listeners. It was not long until thousands of dollars rolled More than 600 persons attended the open- ing session of Hinsdale San's 31st Five-Day in and the remainder needed for the purchase of the plane—over Plan to Stop Smoking. Held in the first-floor $30,000—was assured. auditorium of the Prudential Building on Chicago's lakefront, this promised to be one The airplane arrived at the Lake Aircraft Company headquarters in of the largest programs held by the San's Mishawaka, a South Bend suburb, from the factory just the day before team. it departed on its way to Korea. Henry P. Dainys, Lake Corporation Three five-day plans are reported in this week's "Herald." See pages 6 and 7. president, was on hand for the brief ceremony, symbolically turning 2 LAKE UNION HERALD Henry P. Dainys, vice-president of sales at Lake Aircraft, presents V. E. Garber, vice-president of financial affairs at Andrews University, the keys to the new Lake Super Custom, four-place, amphibious-land airplane. C. William Barney, left, instructor in flying at Andrews, and Charles Moon, Marvin Adams, and Jai Oh, students who have studied and lived in Korea, look on. Hans Vosteen, the ferry pilot, sits in the plane ready to leave on the first part of the flight to Korea. (Shafer photograph) over the keys to V. E. Garber of Andrews University. The advantage of the Lake is that it can land on either Then the ferry pilot, Hans Vosteen, climbed behind the water or land, using its boat-like hull for the water, and controls for the flight to Pennsylvania, where auxiliary its retractable wheels for land. Its main mission will be fuel tanks were installed for the long flight across the to serve as an air ambulance for critically sick and in- North Atlantic. jured people, for transporting medical supplies, and for The pilot, a professional ferry pilot from a company in taking medical teams quickly to places where they are the East, said the trip should take about two weeks. His needed. route would take him first to Newfoundland, then to This is the third airplane Elder Tucker, through the Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Lebanon, Quiet Hour, has helped to purchase in as many years. India, Singapore, and finally up the coast to Korea. The first plane went to South America and the second to The plane has a normal flying range of 600 miles and the highlands of New Guinea. Both were 180 Cessnas. has a top speed of 132 miles per hour. Powered by a Pleased with the part he has played in helping many 180-horse Lycoming engine, the motor is mounted on missionaries literally get off the ground, Elder Tucker, top of the fuselage with the propeller at the rear of the former pastor of the Pioneer Memorial church at An- engine. The craft can carry a maximum of 827 pounds drews University, and more recently of Redlands, Cali- and has a gross weight of 2,400 pounds. The aluminum fornia, said he was overwhelmed by the generous re- plane is painted red and white with gold trim and carries sponse of the hundreds of people all over the world to United States registration numbers. this project which will help finish God's work. November 19, 1968, Vol. LX, No. 45 3 THE POST OFFICE AND RELIGION Since 1962 the Post Office Department has followed • the practice of issuing special Christmas stamps. It has • • proved to be an excellent source of income. Christmas • stamps were intended by the department to honor a • 4 • holiday that has a place in American life. • In 1961 Franklin R. Burns, Jr., Director of Philately of r-C 5C the Post Office, ruled that a sectarian stamp would vio- • • V•P', • late the rule "that no religious, fraternal, or political ••••• • • • 41 • • •• ••••• • group or entity appear on a United States stamp." This • . .--() • ) policy was referred to by James F. Kelleher, special as- 1962 •-,t • • sistant to the postmaster general, in a letter written • March 11, 1963, which said: "The Post Office Depart- • ment does not issue stamps for religious leaders or • events, and over the years the wisdom of this practice • has been amply justified." For a few years this policy • 144.4, was adhered to.