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The Republic Columbus, Saturday. December 1. IM In Brief Friendship ended only by death Bennie Milton Gooden was Objects of Our Affection By Barbara Jo King save the planet by involving their congregations in the environmental movement. The Oregon Global Warming Campaign is the first of 17 state efforts nationwide to be organized by ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders. "We intend to move the challenge of climate change from the laboratories of science and halls of diplomacy to the pulpits and pews of the American heartland," said the Rev.

John Huenink of Eugene, a leader of the Presbyterian Church in Oregon. "Global warming will hurt creation." Husband a priest' CHANHASSEN, Minn. It's official. Lawrence Blake is now a Catholic priest, husband and father of three Blake, a former Lutheran minister, is exempt from celibacy to preserve his marriage The Vatican granted him special permission in June to become a priest for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The Vatican's decision has drawn the attention of members of the Catholic community who want to see other mergers of marriage and priesthood. Wire Reports School play resurrected GRIFFITH Some 59 elementary pupils will get to perform their school play this Christmas after all. But the performance won't be at school. A nearby church offered its sanctuary for the play after school officials considered canceling it to avoid an expensive lawsuit. The Indiana Civil Liberties Union had said the play's religious theme was inappropriate for a public school.

"Miracle on Bethlehem Street" is a musical comedy in which the characters praise Christian beliefs. Free trip to Israel WASHINGTON Hillel, the Jewish college organization, reports that 3,000 students from more than 80 campuses and 48 states are taking up an offer of free 10-day tours of Israel during the winter break. The program is open to college students who have never taken a group tour to Israel. Some 9,000 students applied this fall, and Hillel chose the participants through interviews and lotteries. Churches campaign EUGENE, Ore.

Church leaders have launched a campaign to Gooden walked with a -limp because he walked on that broken ankle up and down the halls of the hospital trying to find his "buddy." He still feared Buddy was dead. The numerous stories about a bond of friendship which began at birth and continued throughout Bennie's life would fill this newspaper page The last several months Buddy has visited Bennie frequently. Sometimes just sitting with his friend who was too ill to do much talking. He succumbed to cancer Dec. 10 after a long struggle to keep some quality of life during the illness.

Buddy and Bennie led very different lives in their maturing years. Paths didn't cross so often. Friendship and history of the kind these two shared, however, always surface in times of need and is as sweet as it was in years gone by. "A friend loveth at all times." Proverbs 17:17. Barbara Jo'i column appears every Saturday.

She can be reached at 342-3117. their strength and eagerness to work, "we made some good money," Buddy remembers. Still together, still working as one In 1950, when the guys were almost 21, coming home from a late night of roller skating in Shelbyville, driver Bennie fell asleep at the wheel, broke off a 14-inch diameter tree and uprooted the stump, pushing the engine into the front seat and sending Buddy's head through the windshield. Buddy's facial scars tell the tale of a tongue held on by a shred, a cheek cut completely through, his right eye hanging out on his cheek, the other eye swollen shut, numerous other deep lacerations and a broken ankle, just for emphasis, it seems. In the ambulance, friend Bennie, also with a broken tried to jump out, mistakenly certain he had killed his best friend.

The ambulance driver, Roy Lee Medaris, had secured the emergency vehicle. Even at 100 miles per hour, Gooden couldn't escape. The rest of his life, Bennie born eight days after Buddy King, in the late spring of 1929. Bennie and Buddy became friends very early in life Their lives were hardly the norm for growing boys. And I'd rather not relate some of the mischief those two conjured up.

There are, however, some notable acts of friendship between the two. One that I have heard about was the day Buddy fell from the second level of the grandstand at the fairgrounds on 25th Street, the area now occupied by Fair Oaks Mall. The fall rendered 12-year-old Buddy unconscious. When he opened his eyes he saw a bucket of water poised to be poured into his face That sight generated some quick Thinking Buddy was OK, the two preteens mounted their bicycles and started home. Buddy made it to the pagoda (now preserved and located at the 4-H fairgrounds).

He got off his bike, lay in the grass and fell asleep. Friend Bennie kept watch, for about two hours, until Buddy awoke The boys took off on their bikes for their homes, blissfully unaware that Buddy, no doubt, had suffered a concussion. One wonders how Buddy made it to Ninth and Jackson streets with a head injury, leaving Bennie at his house at 25th and Cottage Avenue, only a couple of blocks from the fairgrounds. Buddy now wonders if the unrelenting headaches have been a result of that fall, exacerbated by more fistfights than he can, count. (He wanted to become the next Joe Lewis.) During high school they worked at the tannery, where Mill Race Park now is.

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