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dill mm SECTION FOUR 8 Pages Michigan's Biggest Buy For Reader And For Advertiser BENTON HARBOR, MICH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1960 Mere On World Car Tour Family On Move Since '5 6 4 A "rr "'it I vs 1 tjf 'fjs i Dialogue Is Being Used In Religion Different Faiths Converse Freely By TOM HENSHAW AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) An old word is taking on a new religious meaning in America. The word is dialogue. It refers chiefly to the increasing number of informal contacts between clergymen of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant faiths. On the surface, dialogue seems aimless.

"One is not out to convert the other," says the Rev. John B. Sheerin, a Paulist Father who has followed the trend with interest. By CRAIG-VOLLMEB N-P Staff Writer An adventure-loving Swiss couple and their seven-year-old son stopped over in Benton Harbor Monday and Tuesday as part of a round-the-world auto trip that has already covered more 4-Via rs CA AAimMA 1 1PiitvtA Xv it? rf 9 i mi in 1 imi i in iiiii Asia, Australia, Africa, plus North, South and Central Louis Mottiez, 43, his wife, Mil-ly, and their son, Claude, drove "But each comes away with a better idea of what the other fellow is thinking." Dialogue might take various forms. It could be, as happened in New York recently, a Catholic priest, a Lutheran pastor and a Dutch Reformed minister sitting down to dinner together and then engaging in a brisk but amiable theolo MEASURED MUSICIAN: David Ostrander trys on a sample new uniform for the Benton Harbor junior high school band during a recent all-day measuring session.

Left to right are: Eugene B. Rieckhoff, junior high music director; Ostrander Donald Long, of the De Moulin Brothers Co. uniform specialists of Greenville, Karen Adams, who displays the present band uniform, and Principal Keith Henning. The uniforms, financed one-half by student funds, one-quarter by the school board and one-quarter by the Band and Orchestra parents, are due for delivery Aug. 15.

Assisting Long in measuring students were Mrs. Meryl Mrs-Al Gurewitz Mrs. John Englehardt and Mrs. Jules" Torry. (News-Palladium photo) gical discussion in the relaxed atmosphere of after-dinner cigars.

Or it could be, as happened in Boston last month, a large num ber of Protestant ministers being. into Benton Harbor from eastern Michigan in a Volkswagen station wagon- that has been their transportation, kitchen and living quarters for almost four years. Mottiez, who confidently describes his family's trip as "the longest automobile trip in the said they have already traveled 115,500 miles since leaving Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 2, 1956. SHIP ACROSS OCEANS Their route was through Europe and the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Australia, and some Pacific islands. From Australia they went by ship to South Africa and later took a ship from to South America.

They covered South America and Central American in one year of travel and entered the United States from Mexico about 10 months ago. The Mottiez family said that no commercial organization is "officially sponsoring" their trip and that they pay their own way "for the only purpose of seeing our wonderful planet and to show that a sports-minded family can travel around the world in a small car." From Mexico the family traveled to New York to complete the first part of their journey. They are now heading for the western states and Alaska. MICHIGAN IS 33RD They plan to finish touring all SO states (Michigan is the 33rd) invited to the Paulist Center to compare theology with several priests over coffee and cookies. APPEALS TO CATHOLICS The idea of dialogue is running particularly strong among Catholics.

More and more articles are ap THEIR HOME FOR WORLD TRIP: This world-wide road map was painted on this station wagon by Louis Mottiez, whose wife, Millie, and son, Claude, are traveling with him to visit almost every country in the world. Claude points out the newly-painted route to Benton Harbor as the family stopped here Monday. (News-Palladium photo) pearing in Catholic journals of quest of unity." Those who have taken part in dialogue emphasize that it is not a magic carpet over which the dissenting churches will move swiftly and spectacularly to Christian unity. VISIT IN KANSAS THREE OAKS Mr. and Mrs.

Ross Wood and four children are visiting the former's motherkSMrs. J. G. Wood in Clay Center, Kan. Paper Drive Set By Galien Group GALIEN The Youth Fellowship of thev Olive Branch church will hold a paper drive on June 25, starting at 10 a.

m. Anyone having paper to pick up may call the Edward Sheeley Gorillas are vegetarians. Visits Old Friend ALIEN Dale Haymes of Pipkin, Ohio, spent the weekend in the home of Mrs. Qeraldlne Goodenough and family. He is an army friend of- Duane Good-enough, and was in the wedding party on Saturday evening when Duane Goodenough was married to Miss Nancy Shuler of Baroda.

then return to Switzerland by way of Japan and the Orient. The trip will take 18 months more to complete. And after they get back to Switzerland, Mottiez says, he'll pack up the family again and come to the United States to "settle down." Mrs. Mottiez is the author of a book, "Around the World in a book, "Around the World in 800 Days," which has been published in French and is now be ing translated to English for publication in the U.S. Mottiez, a mechanical and electrical engineer, is taking motion pictures of the journey Tand hopes to produce a feature-length documentary film.

The father said his' vehicle is equipped with camping equipment, sleeping berths, kitchen, darkroom, gasoline heater, shortwave radio, water filter and laundry. He carries spare parts for the station wagon and does his own repair work. Son Claude, although he has never attended school, has been well-tutored by his parents. He speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and Italian. Among the family's adventures Mottiez counts three days in a Yugoslav jail because of visa difficulties, a brush with highway bandits in Iran and considerable danger caused by the Suez Canal troubles, the Jordon-Israel border fighting, and guerrilla fights in Malay and Indonesia.

opinion like Commonwealth and America, re-examining Protestant-Catholic relations with the emphasis on points of similarity. Father Sheerin attributes the heigthened Catholic-interest to Pope John XXIII 's announcement in January, 1959, of the coming ecumenical conference of the Church. While the conference concerns itself strictly with Catholic matters, the Pope added that it "is intended also as an invitation to the separated communities in Carnival of wih'l Values- t-ep-Right-'Up-Fo'lks BUY NOW AND SAVE To Downtown Benton Harbor POLL-PARROT Children's Shoes -Reg. to $7.95 $9 00 DAYS Join In The Fun at TRIM-TRED DOWNING Bar-B-Q Demonstrations Sunbeam Demonstration. FREE COFFEE, FREE COOKIES, FREE Sj00 Dress Heels, Hi Lo Combination Last $9.95 to $12.95 Fron and Chicken Barbecue, Frankfurters, Ham, Ribs Big Boy Grill Factory Representative RAND CRAFT Men's Boys' Dress-Up Reg.

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