Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine Arkansas Baptist History 6-4-1964 June 4, 1964 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "June 4, 1964" (1964). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine. 110. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews/110 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist History at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. even including· the laying of new planks along much of the Boardwalk-something that has to be done every 15 to 20 years, one of the workmen told n;te. (This may or may not influence the muleriders to consider replacing some planks in their own plat­ Along the Boardwalk form while they are here.) THIS is about the most inaccessible place from ATLANTIC City, N. J., May 18-0ne . good the air of any convention city in America. Many of thing about having the Baptist conventions meet us had to take a limousine ride from Philadelphia, in this ocean resort-if you are slow recognizi·ng an hour and a half's trip, to get here. old friends you can blaine it on their sunglasl'les. Or yours. One messenger, who was just trying to break CLABE Hankins is along, but the old fellow has in a new pair of trifocals, had an even better e:x;cuse. been mighty quiet considering' that Sal is not with him. When I told him some of our readers had ac­ ONE ·of my Baptist editor friends I have been cused him of being a fictitious character, he said, knowing for years had to tell me who she is. Since "There are days when Sal wishes I wuz." I saw her a year ago she has lost 30 pounds of surplus avoirdupois and swapped he·r spectacles for contact lenses. (So you see, ladies and gentlemen, it can be done! But I'm telling you, not showing you.) · IN THIS ISS.UE: THE jet flight from Memphis to Washington was the most chilling. in my jet-riding career. Us­ CONVENTION time is over for another year, ually a jet flight is about as smooth as sitting in but bef-Qre we turn to other matters let's meet our your den with a good book and the TV tuned down. new president, Wayne Dehoney, through the edi­ But even a Boeing 707 has a rough time· in a rain tol'ial columns on the next page. A look at reports . and electrical storm, like the one our pilot tackled from our· institutions and agencies begins on pag~ half an hour out of Washington. Some of us wanted 12, and our Home Mission Board report is re­ him to stop and let us off. Or at least let us d'ouble viewed on page 24. Still more convention news our insurance. will be found on page 5 and in our· Arkansas sec­ tion beginning on page 7. INCIDENTALLY, I used to think that the * * * safest flying was by commercial ai:rliner. But now EVERYONE else does it!" A familiar sound I'm not so sure. With so many planes continuing to to parents. Read what Rosalind Street has to say crash, many of them in bad weather, I'm beginning on the subject of individuality on page 6. "' to wonder if private pilots are not mo:re careful * * * about the weather than commercial pilots. COVER story page 4. Certainly, ,unfavorable weathe:r is still one of ' . the biggest threats to safe flying. THE prices here along the famous Boardwalk Arlansa~ Baptist r:=:~c:::-.:. ·::::.. .... ~ Evangehcal ~ress A88'n are mighty high, at least In the estimation of us 1 1 fellows .from down on Bunker. Even a l.Oc paper June 4, 1964 Volume 63, Number 23 costs 15 .cents! And I paid 25 cents for a · glass of Editor, ERWIN L. McDoNALD, Litt. D. ice tea with a thin slice of lemon. This did include A.ssomat(} Editor, MRS. E. F. STOKES sugar and the use of an ice-tea spoon. (Having no Managing Editor, MRS. TED WOODS control over the price, I took a double serving. of Field Representative, J. I. CossEY sugar!) · Secretary to Editor, · MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Rooms are awful high, too, especiaUy here at Mwil Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR the headquarters (or hindquarters) hotel-the Am­ 401 West Capitol bassador. But I reckon they've got to make up Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 Published weekly except on July 4 and December 25'. somehow for not doing much business this week in Second-class postage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual subscription, $2.25 per year. Church budget, 14 cents per month or '$1.68 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more paid the bar. annually in advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to foreign . address, $3.75 per year. Advertising rates on request. Articles carrying the author's by-line do not necessarily reflect THERE'S already a lot of getting ready for the editorial policy of the paper. Abbreviations used in crediting news items: BP Baptist Press ; CB Church the Democratic National Convention here in July, Bulletin; DP Daily Press; EP Evangeli'lal Press. .Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTIST Arlansa~ Bapfisi------------......-___:.__. _ ____;·EniroRIALs ~ Only one 0f these asked that his name be with­ New SBC president drawn-Forrest C. Fr~ezor. ' On the first ballot, Adams and Dehoney each THE announcement of K. Owen White, made received more than 1,000 votes, with Adams in the about two weeks ahead of the Atlantic City meet­ lead. The grapevine had it t~at It, Leo Eddleman ing of the Southern Baptist Convention and to the was a scant 30 votes behin? D ~ horiey. effect that he could not serve a second term as In the runoff, Dehoney, the retiring president of. convention president for health reasons, left the the Pastors Cpnference, won over Adams by more. field wide open. And now that first action has been th;m 700 votes. , taken on an amendment to the SBC constitution to limit a president's' tenure to a one-year term, Many had predicted, before ·the eiection was· and with every prospect that this irill be adopted held, that Wayne Dehoney woul~ be the new SBC when. voted on again next spring, the Atlantic City president. And there. was much to give cr~dence election probably gives portent of elections to to this prediction. At 45, PreS)ident Dehoney is come. still regarded as something of ''a young man O:ij his way up.'' Yet he is no novice in SBC affairs. When it was time to Jlect a .president, the line He has long been active in denominational life and of nominators taking ·their stances behind the this year, as head of the Pastors Conference, hel<i podium looked like a depression bread line for its a most favored spot in the presidential election. l.ength. Before the nominations had ceased, thirteen more or less prominent Southern Baptists A native of New Ramer,· Colo., where he was had been nominated. Here are their names, m the born on Aug. 22, 1918 to ·William Warren and order of their nominations: Ruby Northup Dehoney, he grew up in Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Tennessee, which should Ted F. Adams, pastor of First Church, Rich­ qualify him for some sort of achievement cup mond, Va.; itself. ' Francis A. Davis, Baltimore, Md., business m.an and church leader; He was graduated fro·m hig·h school in Nash­ ville, Tenn.,. earned the B.A. degree at Vanderbilt Homer &. Lindsey, pastor of First Church, Jack­ University and the B.D. degree at Southern Sem­ sonville, Fla. ; inary, and has just accepted the honorary D.D. Harold G. Sanders, executive secretary of the degree £rom Union University, Jackson, Tenn., Kentucky Baptist State Convention; w~ere he is a member of the board of trY.stees. Harold \¥. Seevers, pastor . Of Dauphinway His places of denominational service have in­ Church, Mobile, Ala.; cluded: chairman of board of. trustees of Clear Creek Preachers School in Pineville, Ky., and Congressman Eugene Siller, of Kentucky; mernher of: state executive board of Alabama Paul S. James, superintendent of missions in the Baptist Convention; Tennessee Education · Com­ N ortheast ~ rn area; mission; Christian Life Commission of SBC. He has been in ~is present pastorate since 1957. G. Earl Guim1, president of Louisiana College; I \Vhile Wayne will not go down in histo•ry as the Forrest C. Feezor, retired executive secretary of most handsome man ever to be president of SBC, the Texas Baptist State Convention; he will be entitled to the honor of bringing with W. 0. Vaught Jr., pastor of Immanuel Church, him to this office one of the most beautiful of Little Rock; ' Southern Baptist first ladies-the former Miss Lealice ,Bishop, of K~ntucky, a pretty brunet. (See Wayne Dehoney, pastor of First Church, Jack- son, Tenn. ; · last week's cover.) I · The new president does not need our endorse­ H. Leo Eddleman, president of New Orleans ment, but we recommend him as one well qualified Seminary; ; for the high office he now holds and one deserving Solomon F. Dowis, retired executive . of the the prayers and loyal support of all Southern Bap­ Home Mission Board. tists. Blessings on you, President Dehoney.-ELM JUNE 4, 1964 Page Threte LETTERS THE E·DITOR The Bookshelf 1 Angel at Her Shoulder, by Kenneth L.