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1 4C Fri.j April 16, 1982 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Hi APR 16 1982 Official Favors Hike religion In Retirement Age Churches' Anti- Nuclear Drive Growing news analysis archbishop of Philadelphia, addressed more than 15,000 people who rallied there at the appearance of the European visitors. He called the administration's plans for increasing nuclear strength "an irrational and suicidal" means of keeping peace. Opposition has also arisen among Mormons who once unblinkingly approved the military policies of a succession of administrations. Edwin B.

Firmage, professor of law at the University of Utah, who served a term as a Mormon bishop, wrote in the latest Issue of "Christianity and Crisis," an independent journal: "The present escalation in nuclear weapons between ourselves and the Soviet Union, together with the spread of nuclear weapons technology to other states, is an ultimate act of idolatry, a reliance on false gods than cannot save us but will Insure our By Ronald J. Lawrence Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The commissioner of the Social Security Administration said here Thursday that many of the long- and financial problems of the system could be eliminated by raising I -the retirement age to 68. "We have to develop ways to encourage people to continue working 65," Commissioner John A. Svahn said at a news conference. He was here to address the Rotary Club of St.

Louis. Svahn acknowledged that there were serious problems in the financial structure of the Social Security system. But he was quick to add that current recipients should have no fear of losing their benefits. "We want to reassure the 36 million people receiving Social Secuity benefits that technically it's true that the system is going bankrupt, but no one has to worry about losing their benefits," Svahn said. "It just could not happen.

Congress and the president will 'have to get together to arrive at a resolution." Svahn said the system would have serious short- and long-term financial problems between now and 1990. He said that without any congressional action, there would be a $100 billion to. J120 billion deficit. The commissioner said that present Social Security funds equaled only a month and a half worth of benefits. But he said the system could borrow funds from the Medicare program until the end of the year.

Svahn said that aggravating the problem was the fact that within about 30 years those people born during the post-World War II baby boom would be retiring. "There are fewer and fewer workers who are paying for more elderly people on retirement," Svahn said. "With the current benefit and taxing structure, we can't make any long-term commitments." Svahn said it would be impractical to turn to the government's general fund for financing because that would only contribute to the national deficit. "Either we increase our revenue or reduce the expenditures or a combination of the two," Svahn said. He said that the nation's elderly made up an important political bloc and that he was "certain their voter participation will help resolve the matter." Svahn said that there was a significant trend among governmental and non-profit agencies to withdraw their employees from Social Security and place them in private retirement plans.

He said this aggravated the problem because there then were fewer contributors to Social Security. Graham Krol Krol said in his speech in Philadelphia, "The right to legitimate self-defense is not a moral justification for unleashing massive destruction against innocent non-combatants." destruction." CIIURCH NOTICES CHURCH NOTICES Several themes are involved in the religious protest, but the binding one is the perceived need for a freeze on nuclear armaments. Some more ardent participants feel the call for the bilateral freeze does By Kenneth A. Brlggs 1982, New York Tlmot Now Service NEW YORK The decision by the Rev. Billy Graham, one of the nation's best known religious figures, to address an International conference on disarmament in Moscow next month adds a powerful force to the growing drive by church leaders to end the nuclear arms race.

The momentum of the anti-nuclear movement among a variety of spiritual figures is building steadily. Religious liberals and conservatives are putting aside their differences. Roman Catholics are standing side by side with Protestants, Jews, and those of the Eastern Orthodox faith in opposing further production and deployment of nuclear weapons. Some religious organizers explain that President Ronald Reagan's insistence that an American arms buildup is needed to meet the Soviet Union's growing military power awoke many religious people to the real threat of nuclear war. Until this administration, they said, the concept of nuclear danger seemed more remote and theoretical.

The government's hardline policies, the organizers said, made the use of nuclear weapons seem more likely and thus precipitated moral crises for many church members. Churches have done more than any other institution to carry the anti-nuclear campaign and their convictions seem to be deepening. Twenty Christian denominations have appealed for an immediate bilateral arms freeze. Both the liberal Unitarian Church and the traditional Reformed Church in America have sent letters supporting a freeze to each of their member churches. Peace activists from the Netherlands, West Germany, and England all involved in church life in Europe, drew large crowds recently at anti-nuclear rallies in cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Philadelphia, and Washington.

Earlier this month, 35 religious leaders from around the world urged support for the United Nations' special session on disarmament, scheduled to begin June 6. One measure of the commitment by religious figures can be gained by noting the people whose criticism of United States military policy has been somewhat surprising. For example, Cardinal John Krol, the conservative not go far enough and insist on a bolder unilateral ft move by the United States. Others feel cautious about going even this much beyond conventional thinking. A major point of tension among religious people is how far they should go beyond the call for an arms MM freeze toward a tougher, more challenging stand.

Tin Some incidents already point to greater levels of dissent and civil disobedince. Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of the ST. LOUIS ARDA Catholic archdiocese of Seattle, for instance, has publicly stated that he would indefinitely withhold half his federal income tax as a form of protest. Groups such as Clergy and Laity Concerned, and Pax Christi, a Catholic organization that includes dozens of Half In CETA Placed In Jobs Or Training bishops as members, have begun to demonstrate A trend the CJiwrch of our choice against nuclear arms in the streets and at defense installations.

Underlying the religious anti-nuclear battle is a basic moral issue that has been most clearly defined by Catholics: the growing conviction that the very possession of nuclear weapons is immoral and that 4 talk of limited nuclear war is not only absurd but profoundly blasphemous as well. Eastern Orthodox Easter Services 1 1 ii a that were extinguished Thursday evening are relit, re- enacting the action of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch limwfmmm I baptist church in Jerusalem at the original Holy Sepulchre. The Eastern Orthodox Easter this year is a week Apostolic later than that observed by western Christian CRAIG ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Homo Bible Study AvaHaU out of work. Fifty-five percent of the people who lost their jobs because of the abolition of the program were receiving one or more forms of government assistance, such as unemployment insurance compensation or welfare payments. At its height in 1979, the program spent $6.2 billion.

Financing for this program was reduced to $3.6 billion in fiscal year 1980 and $1.8 billion in 1981. Reagan announced plans to phase out the program soon after he took office; the Labor Department froze hiring under that program in March 1981. The program officially ended last Sept. 30. The eight cities studied in the GAO study were Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Providence, R.I., San Francisco and Stockton, Calif.

The study indicated that the Labor Department had overestimated how many CETA participants would be absorbed in other government manpower programs. It said that only 5 percent of the participants moved to other programs, instead of the 44 percent forecast by the department's Employment and Training Administration. WASHINGTON (AP) The government found unsubsidized jobs or job (training for roughly half of the 300,000 participants in a public works program abolished by President Ronald Reagan's administration, the General Ac- counting Office says. The public service employment program was financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. The act expires Sept.

30, and none of the job training bills pending in Congress would revive the CETA programs. CETA was once the centerpiece of the federal government's efforts to employ the poor. At the request of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the GAO sought to learn what happened to a random sample of public service job participants in eight U.S.

cities. The results showed that 45 percent of the participants found new work after completing the program, with 24 percent holding temporary jobs and 21 percent finding part-time work. The GAO said 5 percent had been placed in other job training programs. And it said 50 percent of the public service jobs program participants were churches. Next year it will be three weeks later because it always follows the Jewish Passover, as prescribed by the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea Services in preparation for Holy Pasch (Easter) began Thursday night in Eastern Orthodox churches, including 10 in the St.

Louis area. "We go according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a feast day at sunset of the day before," said Father George Nicozisin, pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. The service continuing today is called the Descent From the Cross, or Apokathilosis, which literally means the un-nailing. The figure of Christ on the giant wooden cross above the altar is unnailed and placed in a symbolic sepulchre in front of the altar for veneration until the Resurrection service at midnight tomorrow or at dawn Sunday in some congregations.

At the Resurrection liturgy service, the candles Sun School 10:00 Word 11 MonwgWorihipSorvic. I0 30o 7:00 Wod. 7:30 p.m. in325A.D. Evening Wordiip Sarrlo 7 00 p.m Sol.

7 p.m. 436-3634 Sunday Morning Mbh Study 9:30 am. waowor "hour or rower 1 p. Rev. StspHon T.

VfWofonl llril Ormii (l-SS 4 1-44) The Western Church of Rome later simplified the formula to place Easter on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, without Trio 1743 Croi, ltd Crovo Coour.Mo. 41141 367-4007 regard to the Jewish Passover that is set by the Hebrew calendar. BAPTIST BAPTIST KSIV Starts Religious Broadcasts Here mi mis lAmir 12311 MndmNr M. (Hwy 100) daytime station from 6 a.m. until sunset.

THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH Or. Ian M. Chapman, Poster Sunday tchool Vi30 a.m. Worship Services- 1 0t40 a.m. and 7 KM p.m.

Oranel A WomShiq ton 533-7340 Al iolloi HO toil 01 1270 Sm. Sch. ViM WanMp I04J The station will carry national broadcasts of Wl. 7:30 p.m. fh.

t33-4MI An AiMrim ItHM Cfcvrdi R.v. Hwww J. Ott, Pwttm evangelists Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, John McArthur, Francis Schaeffer, Charles Swindoll and Richard DeHaan. The format will include discussion and interviews on family-related topics along with "conservative, traditional religious music," Bible study and local church programming, said Richard Bott, president of the company. The new KSIV call letters stand for "St.

Louis' An old St. Louis radio station, KADI-AM, began broadcasting religious programs at noon today under the new call letters, KSIV. The 35-year-old commercial station was sold recently for $1 million by a group headed by Richard J. Miller to the Bott Broadcasting Co. of Independence, Mo.

That firm operates radio stations specializing in Bible teaching and religious programming in Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Fort Wayne, Ind. The Miller group will continue to operate KADI-FM here as a rock music station. KSIV will operate as a THE KIRKW00D BAPTIST CHURCH TOWER GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH Ov Robert Otftfftn Bfiterim Roster Sunday Workship Services at 1,15 iL Desegregation Blamed For Extra Payments a.m., a.m. rnu p.m. rtju o.m.

Sunday School. Sunday School 9: 1 5 a.m. Wednesday Worship Service 7:30 p.n. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Inspirational Voice," he said.

The station will remain cwrang Trqrwiy p.m. a commercial operation, however. 4257 774-4444 Wad. tomb, Night p.m. ETHICAL Kl'In'OSTj Methodist District Official Stepping Down EPISCOPAL ETHICAL SOCIETY CXSISTCHURCHCATHEDRJU.

SUNDAYVrORSHIPSERVICCSAT A libwol Migkwt Mlowihlp 10:00 o.m. Sunday School and Adult Group 1 1 .00 a.m. AduM MwWng JAMES HOUNBACK I OO A.M., 00 A 1 1 :00 A.M. 4 4:00 PM. COMMUNION SEDVICt "TM 'MLKKOM' Of -MCUUr National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1973 to December 1980, said he expected to stay in St.

Louis either as a pastor or in a different administrative post in the denomination. He said he would be eligible for a superintendency again after three years. Doggett, who lives in Chesterfield, is presently chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee of the NAACP chapter here. HUMANISM" The Rev. Dr.

John L. Doggett Jr. will step down as superintendent of the St. Louis North District of the United Methodist Church when his six-year term expires June 8. Methodist superintendents are allowed to serve only one term.

The district Doggett served includes the northern halves of the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County plus St. Charles and Lincoln counties and part of Warren County. Doggett, who headed the St.

Louis chapter of the 9001 Clayton Road W1-093S CHURCH SCHCXX, 10:00 A.M. SfPTEMtai THDOUGH MAT 31)1 4 lOCUn STtBT 131-J4M THE KIRK OF THE HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1WI UoXm Id. at Mmm Rd. events people L. VERN TDUEHOOO, Potior Rkhord I.

Fltt, Auocial. Potior WaraMp 1)19, 9t30 4 IliOO AJA. mm land Baptist Church, 9303 Midland Boulevard. FIRST UNITY CHURCH tlaa 11IWAM "WHAT KIND Of IO0Y IN MIA VINT" Dr. Vant Tru.bL.d ViMAM "WIT HWWriCnON APftAIAMaV OVBKOMkNO HAM AND DOM'." av.

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9:30 a.m. 1 1 :00 a.m. Sunday School 1 1:00 o.m. "THE TIME Of YOUR LIFE" OM-A-Prayw 333-654 Sunday School 9i30 4 11 rOO un. ChMran't enwrett llioocun.

5:43 p.m. cavanod Dlih luppar p.m. Adult, Tautn CMMran'i Oroul Nunary Cor. Morning 4 Evanmg Evaryona Walcoma By Catherine Vespereny Of th Post-Dispatch Staff Larry Marshall, assistant attorney general for Missouri, says the St. Louis School Board's desegregation program this year forces the state to pay certain costs twice for students attending magnet schools.

Marshall presented objections to the desegregation budgets Thursday at a hearing before U.S. District Judge William L. Hungate, who is presiding over the St. Louis school desegregation case. The state disputed items in the $2.9 million budget for voluntary desegregation of public schools $2.2 million of which must be paid by the state and the $2.4 million vocational schools' desegregation budget.

The court has ordered the state to pay for $1.1 million of the vocational budget. Both budgets are for this school year. On the voluntary program budget, the state questioned whether it should pay for all educational costs for students at Lyon and Woemer magnet schools. U.S. District Judge William L.

Hungate ordered in July that the city School Board open the two schools. Marshall said the city district gets a "windfall in funds" because no tax money follows the students into the two specialty schools. He said the state in effect pays twice for those students, since it pays the city basic "foundation" aid based on the number of students in the district the previous year, as well as funds for textbooks. Then it has to pay for the magnet schools, as mandated by the voluntary plan. State aid provides $1,007 for each student in the city, said Marshall.

In addition, he noted that only 27 students from St. Louis County are among the 677 students attending the two schools. Marshall questioned whether the schools should be considered part of the city-county plan, since they "overwhelmingly serve city students." But St. Louis Superintendent Robert E. Wentz said the city had little time to recruit county students for the schools last year.

Judge Hungate did not order them opened until July, he said. Wentz said he expected them to increase county enrollment in coming years. He also disputed Marshall's contention that the city will receive "a windfall" of funds because of the voluntary plan. "We have a cash flow problem now," Wentz said. "And this is the worst year since I've been in St.

Louis." He said that if the state did not help pay for the desegregation effort, "we'd be in receivership. We're already in a deficit situation." He said that the board used the money as mandated by the court order. The state also objected to $307,558 in costs for salaries, training and equipment contained in the desegregation plan. Officials also disputed whether the state should pay educational costs for ninth- and lOth-grade city students in pre-vocational programs, even though not all can be accommodated at O'Fallon Technical Center, 5101 McRee Avenue. These programs are part of the vocational schools desegregation plan.

Pre-vocational programs at O'Fallon will be phased out beginning next year. The classes will be moved to the city's high schools. O'Fallon and the vocational schools operated by the Special District of St. Louis County started desegregating last fall. Charles Newman, director of business education for the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, testified for the state.

He said the city has purchased too much expensive, sophisticated equipment such as computers, typewriters and calculators for the pre-vocational programs. t'nlTES Afi HOPE CHURCH RVATIVtCCWCERNEO INVOlveO Wardiip 9:35 A.M. Church School II A.M. Crva Cowr-Ooity Nurtary School 1441 Rom 41141 414-3054 Mass in B-flat major. A public reception will at Busch Memorial Center.

The Rev. Charles C. Hosklnson, past conference minister of the Missouri Conference of the United Church of Christ, will preach at a joint service celebrating the centenary of Memorial Congregational Church at 3 p.m. Sunday at Memorial, 6234 Victoria Avenue. The 60th anniversary of the Jesuit White House Retreat program will be celebrated with a special Mass at 8 a.m.

Sunday at the Shrine of St. Joseph, 11th and Biddle streets, followed by a breakfast at Stouffer's Riverfront Towers. The Rev. Lawrence Chluminatto SJ, the program director from 1941 to 1972, will be one of the concelebrants and the Rev. John Snyder SJ, his successor, will preach.

p.m. Sunday at St. Francis Xavier Church. The program, in which Feaster and three high school students will use pantomime, costumes and makeup to demonstrate how to pray, is the last in a Holy Spirit seminar series exploring Catholic charismatic spirituality. The Rev.

Peter Stra-vinskas, East Coast director of', the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, will discuss "The Supreme Court and Catholic Schools" at the annual general meeting of the League's St. Louis chapter at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Annunziata Church hall, 9300 Clayton Road, Ladue. The Rev. Dr.

Hyman Appelman, a Russian-born Jew and a Baptist evangelist for the last 52 years, will preach nightly at 7:30 Monday through Saturday of next week and at the 8:15 and 10:45 a.m. services Sunday, April 25, at Over Pooplo's Church LIVING CROSS Hhray 141 4lonaoIIRd. DR. C. M.

WARD WadVwtday, April Jl it, 7:30 P.M. Kowsotti La ftrowiia Rastar 296-O4O0 CFCKXIST The Rev. Lawrence L. Reddick president of the Interdenominational Ministers Alliance in Chicago, will preach the sermon at the annual "Low" Sunday service of the Union Avenue Association of Churches at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at Parrish Temple CME Church, 800 Union Boulevard.

Fourteen years ago, the Union Avenue Christian Church invited the neighboring congregations of Pilgrim Congregational and Westminster Presbyterian churches to join with it in a common 'worship service to help combat the "post-Easter slump." Parrish Temple joined a year later. Cardinal John J. Car-berry and the Rev. Thomas R. Fitzgerald SJ, president of St.

Louis University, will conce-lebrate a special Mass at 7 p.m. tomorrow at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, Grand and Lin-dell boulevards, to mark the 50th anniversary of Firmin Desloge Hospital. The Rev. Paul C.

Reinert SJ, university chancellor, will preach. The orchestra and chorus of the St. Louis Conservatory and School for the Arts will perform Haydn's BAPTIST FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY with CONCORD RAPTliT CHURCH 3393 South Lindbergh) Sunday I 4 1 1 :00 A.M., 7M P.M. CHURCH OF ST. LOUIS WIUIAM S.

MEUISH, PASTOR MORNING WORSHIP 10:30 Church School 10.30 4501 WYDOWN 71 1. 5060 rVodnotday 7l1) P.M. Or. O.arga C. tlMlngi, Factor "Tha Word from Ood'i Word" Geo.

Beverly Shea Tedd Smith DM 443-1177 KX0K 5:30 AM 630 KC WlXSTDIUOVISRAZAREItE 7717 aig land Uvd. Sunday School 9,45 o.m. WoraSie Sorrico 10.50 a.m. Sun. Evaning Sorvfea 6.00p.m.

941-6434, 961-4114 CLAYTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HAmAMO AND KMrSTON AVTMJU 731-3213 DR. MM. A. PARKS, PASTOR Church School 9.45 A.M. WorrMp 11 IOOA.M.

Sormoni "OOO't OWT Of ucr (Chid Cora RrovMod) Dan Feaster, a graduate of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey School for Clowns and now associated with Luther Memorial Church here, will demonstrate clown ministry at 2:15 fc tk tk dim Lynch Toyota fMDQP imam; a 156 Toyotas in Stock "Make Your Best Deal" a Jf lb-, You or cordially Invited fo offend FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE entitled, "Trust In God And Lecturer: Solll Thompson C.Sf of Washington, D.C.j Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. 1 Den wt $ouu xmb oaciu owe ejuh monaay, nurry. BETTIE B. THOMPSON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OFCRESTWOOD RRIt last rVateon Road $Nndoy Morning BMe Shtby 900 A.M. Sunday Worthip Svic I0.I5 A.M.

I 7.00 P.M. For Information call: TERRY BOHN 622-7330 1h OiMtaa Senna load of Mmodd. Religious Services Directory List your worship services each Friday on this page (or as little as $11.06 per Week. For details and deadlines, contact Terry Bohn at the Post-Dispatch. Call 622-7330 ev.

W. Jeffrey CesMeAioV Muta. e4 Cat 443-110 or 141-117 Time: Friday, April 23, 8 P.M. Place: Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist 3452 Potomac Street St. Louis, Mo.

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