mue Uorlbwtbe j}eW5 OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD VOL. IV, NO. 24 PASADENA, CALIF. DEC. 6, 1976 Mr. Armstrong readies for trip; ankle better PASADENA - Herbert W. Arm· strong. and was scheduled to resume strong, who suffered a sprained ankle hi s latest overseas tour Dec. 5. Nov. II duringanaccideo13taspeak­ After Mr. Annstrong' s injury, he at ing engagement in Port Elizabeth, first hoped to be able to keep hi s South Africa, and therefore cut short appoinnnents with governmem lead· his most recent trip to southern Af­ ers after a short period of recuperation rica, is now "getting about quite in a P Orl Elizabeth ho tel (The well. " accordingtoGamerTed Arm- Worldwide News, Nov. 22). Eleven days after hi s accident, however, he decided to return to Pasadena, asking Stanley Rader, vice president for the Talks held Work' s frnancial affairs, and Bob Fahey, regional director for the Work in southern Africa , to fill in forbim o n with Smith flis itinerary. Mr. Rader and Mr. Fahey met with By Bob Fabey Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith Southern Africa Regional Director and President Jo hn WrathalJ Nov. 29 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa in Mr. Armstrong's stead. (See Mr. - Stanley Rader, hi s wife. Nicki, Fahey's article, this page.) Henry Cornwall and my wife, Eve, While in Pasadena Mr. Armstrong and 1 flew from Jobannesburg to involved himself heavily with The PLANNING THE MAGAZINE - Gamer Ted Annstrong, foreground, meets Nov. 23 in his office wnh Brian Plain Truth magazine. Brian Knowles, left, newly appoinled managing editor of The Plain Truth; Gene Hogberg, PT news editor; and Ronald Knowles, newly appointed managing Dart, vice president for pastoral administration, to discuss the futureofthe magazine. [Photo by John Robinson1 editor of the pUblication, "spent about a dozen hours over the' past seven days" with Mr. AnnslrOng, Mr. Knowles said. " He is really in­ to it , even down to the layouts them­ 'Plain Truth' beefed up; selves. " One evening during the same week, Mr. Armstrong joined his daughter, Beverly Gott, the Ted AnnslrOngs and the Ronald Darts for 'GN' to be 'discontinued dinner at a Los Angeles rebtauraai. (Mr. Dart is director of pastoral ad­ By John lIi>binso. page memo 'on PT policy from involvements of Herbert W . and ministration.) PASADENA - In a move to re­ Gamer Ted Armstrong, former GN Gamer Ted Armstrong in the new "Even though my father bas bad to vitalize The Plain Truth magazine managing editor Brian Knowles was configuration . wear a sOft slipper and still is walking and to help make it a " unique publi­ named managing editor of the PI' and .. I spent about a dozen bours over with a pronounced Limp, he is abl~ to cation" that will voice a " strong Gene Hogberg wiD retain his post of the past seven days with Me. Herbert Sl"ANLEY RADER place his weight on his ank.Ie and is waining witness message to dying news editor of the PI". Annstrong." Mr. Knowles said. Salisbury. Rhodesia, on Sunday, getting about quite well, •• GamerTed nations," The Good News magazine Me. Annstrong met Nov. 23 with •• He is really into it - even down to Nov. 28, on a charter Lear jet. We Armstrong said. will 00 longer be published, its staff Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hogberg and the layouts themselves. He's also were on the first leg of completing Mr. Dart said Mr. Armstrong was . now to be involved in the publication discussed plans for the PT, outlining committed himself to a much heavier Mr. Herbert Arrnstrong'sschedule in in " excellent spirits" and his ankle of The Plain Truth. his concepts of what the magazine writing load than ever before." IS- TALKS HELD. ~ 2) "seemed to be much improved." In the implementation of a tlln:e- should contain. Mr. Knowles, 36, an ordained Flnt Issue: Febnaary minister, said he saw the move as an According to Mr. Knowles, the " oppot:fUOity to pool our resources frrst PT to be produced exclusively Teen picks up prize fora song and have all of our best writers under by the new staff will be the February, one cover." He said he thought the 1977, issue. At the time of Mr. By Mark Robinson PTwould be "very effective" and he Knowles' appointment, the De· (See 'PLAIN TRUTH: _ 101 PASADENA -" I still can't be· was particularly appreciative of the lieve I' m here and I won it!" ex­ claimed Jennifer Elizabeth Slokes, a 14-year-old high-school freshman from Scotch Plains, N.J. , after win­ A Personal Letter ning frrsl prize and a four-year Am- SEE MORE COVERAGE, PAGES 7, 8 AND 9 bassador College scholarship in the ;;:~~ second annual natio nal Youth Oppor­ tunities United (YOU) talent contest, held here Nov. 27 in the Ambassador Dear brethren in Christ: Truth magazine is receiving a com­ Auditorium. Greetings from sunny Pasadena! plete overhaul - my father has al­ Singing "Send in the Clowns," Looking at the weather maps of the ready written three articles for the rrom Sleven Sondheim's Broadway United States for the past few days, l anniversary number of February, musical A Little Night Mu sic. before can weU imagine the way you breth­ 1977, when the changeover will be a capacity audience of 1,220, Jen­ ren across the eastern half of tJie complete. He is quite enthusiastic aOOUI Lhe changes and is very much nifer compe ted against 10 other United States arc feelin g with those f in ali sts who had won semifinal freezing temperatures nearly every ­ looking forward to writing even more competition at 11 U.S . Feast of where and in many area..<; heavy snow­ for the new format than he has in the fall . Tabernacles sites in October. past. " I'm very pro ud of my daughter, It seems imposs ibl e that in the Incidentally, tho ugh many of you and there's no doubt she has mu sical same nation we arc having ncar mi ght nOI realize it . this changeover ability, although I've never pushed summerlike conditions in Southern in The Plain Truth is nOI unique . her." commented Mrs . Stokes. who California wh iJe the nonheastem part Clear back in the early '50s. in the acc.o mpanied Jennifer to Pasadena. a fthe United States is suffering from pioneering days of Ambassador Col· Eac h c()ntestant was all owed to bitter cold and icy and ~ n ow.c1ogged lege, because of a combination of bring a parenl to Ihe competition. streets. extreme financial hards hips and de· Second-place winner Vince How well I remember the sudden mands on my father's time it became Thompson, 18, a freshman at the snowstonn th ut caused the cancell a­ necessary to enlist the aid of many of University of Texas at Sa n Antonio. tion of my Buffalo, N.Y .• campaign the pioneering student s of the col· will be the reCipient of a two-year over a year ago and fo rced reschcdul­ lege, and the one magazioe which Ambassador College scho larship WINNER - Jennifer Stokes, here practicing just before competing, re­ in g at a later date. was being sent to our entire re ader· (See PRIZ6 , page 71 ooivad first place in thenatiOnal YOU talent contest. [Photo by Klaus Rothe I As Iioid you lasilime, Tile Plaill ISH PERSONAL. PIGI 101 2 The WORLDWIDE NEWS Monday, Dec. 6, 1976 ~~ Talks held with Prime Minister Ian Smith TO THE EDITOR (Continued from page 1) Pleasant surprise (Rhodesia Broadcasting Corp.]. propping up the communist faction in Mr. Rader. The WN was in the mailbox today when southern Africa. which was inter­ Also, they had seen a number of the Angola. President Thieu's predic­ Then Geoff asked, "What is Mr. I arrived oorne from services. and I was rupted by hi s untimely accident in television programs aired in tions have proved correct. Armstrong's message?" pleasanlly surprised to find the .. Per­ Port Elizabeth in which he sprained Rhodesia. We then discussed Mr. He got it, in abbreviated form, of World War III sonaI" from HWA. I hope Ihis won't be hi s ankle [The Worldwide News, Herbert Armstrong's travels and his course, and so did 80 percenl of me the laSI one. Nov. 22J. message for mankind. Mr. Rader then said that Aleksandr TV viewers in Rhodesia, if the pro­ Robert O. Brown (Mr. Rader is vice president for the Solzhenitsyn said basically the same gram ratings are accurate. Be Riverview. Aa. Work's financial affairs; Mr. Corn­ To Back in Man::h thing as President Thieu in 1976. That day, Wednesday, Dec. I , we wall is Mr. Rader's issistant.] The president said he was very One difference. He said World War had lunch with Minister of Informa­ After landing in Salisbury. at 3 sorry not to be able to see Mr. Arm­ ill was already fought - and the Compluity of"" planning "" "" tion Eli Broomberg! He is very much Thank you for printing Mr. Herbert W. p. m. we had a meeting with the strong himself and hoped to see him West lost. interested in our activities and invited Annstrong's itinerary in the Nov. 8 WN. churches (black and white) in the on his next trip. Mr. Rader said that Then we discussed the conference Mr. Rader to dinner at hi s home II sure helps to pray for him in his awe­ area in the Indaba Room of the Mr. Armstrong plans to be in itself and its chances for success. No when he is next in Rhodesia.