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Sunday Telegram, July 8, 1979 14 CATHEDRAL GROWS AGAIN The New York. The world's largest catheCathedral of St. John the Divine sits dral is officially under construction majestically on Amsterdam Avenue in again after 38 years. (AP Laserphoto) Church construction is testament of faith By ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) A six-ton chunk of limestone rolled into a churchyard amid music and solemn ceremony, bearing the weight of audacious dreams. Dreams of finishing the Cathedral Church of John the Divine, the world's largest cathedral; of rebuilding a decayed neighborhood; of rebuilding, indeed, the whole city of New York.

Big dreams for a church that is nearly empty most Sunday mornings. The Episcopal cathedral, a great Gothic pile looking down on Harlem from Morningside Heights, is officially building again after 38 years, raising a $20.8 million testament to faith in God and the city of New York. "The whole thrust is that this city is going to make it," says the Rev. James P. Morton, dean of the Cathedral.

"The resumption of construction is a very positive sign for the city and the neighborhood, that the cathedral is here to help concretely." Morton, 49, speaks with the impatience of a self-described "frustrated architect" who inherited an unfinished building, and with the resignation of one who will not see its completion. Returning to medieval methods, the church has hired a British master stone mason, James Bambridge, to direct construction. He will teach his ancient craft to five apprentices three of them from Harlem and if all goes well, the south tower will start to rise above the entrance next year. Morton sees the construction as part of the church's involvement in residential rehabilitation, and he envisions teams of cathedraltrained masons someday going forth to rebuild the city's thousands of brownstones and stonetrimmed brick buildings. in many European cathedrals, differing ar- SAVE VACATION NEAR HOME 2nd Annual Homesteaders Festival GOOD LIFE GETJULY 24-29 ADDISON, N.

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Thru Fri. Crusader holds watchdog status BARTONVILLE, Ill. (AP) Lest some scalawag get the wrong idea, let it be known that battling Bessie Stagg is still in a fighting mood after all these years. "You betcha," says Mrs. Stagg, a 60-year-old firebrand with a reformist streak and a remarkable penchant for irritating politicians.

"I don't ask much, just that government not be a bunch of crooks," she says. But the road to reform is a rocky one. Mrs. Stagg has been at it for a quarter-century now, and by her own account, she has been threatened and harassed, her children ridiculed, her reform-minded newspaper forced to fold and her crusade to open township records blocked at every turn. "If I try to look at records, they holler in my ears," she says.

"If I get up at a meeting, they throw soap at me. If we take people to vote, they call the taverns and say get down here and vote no on everything. "Sometimes, when they don't want to show records, they throw them in a damn truck and I've got to go chasing them around town," she says. It is not exactly the style of adversary relationship contemplated by Thomas Jefferson, but it's the way of democracy in Bartonville and simply duck soup for Bessie Stagg. After 25 years as self-proclaimed watchdog of Limestone Township, she still is full of fire, stern of eye and resolute of purpose.

She is forever alleging financial improprieties, attending meetings, questioning everything, searching public records for the suspicious entry. Local officials call her a crank; she calls them crooks, and everybody gets along as well as can be expected under such circumstances. "When I started the newspaper here 26 years ago, I didn't have no education or experience. I just had guts," she says. "I borrowed a typewriter, polled advertisers and hand delivered the first issues.

People appreciated having a place to speak. Gosh, it was their Bible back then." During its tempestuous career, the Bartonville News inveighed against all manner of dark doings, from the paving of somebody's driveway with a Limestone roadgrader to the report of township trucks 10 miles away loaded with somebody else's hogs and hay. No one was ever sent to jail because of her investigations. "Politics," she says. But certain practices did change, some on orders of state authorities who examined the township's tangled financial records.

She won an award for courage in journalism from the International Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors in 1972, the same year a decision was made to pull all legal advertising of government from the News. Without that account, and others which she says were pressured to abandon her, the newspaper folded. But she is quick to say she remains the watchdog, freelance so to speak. Her latest attack has yielded allegations of phony bids in the purchase of a new pickup and all her information has been turned over to the state's attorney. "They put me out of business, but they haven't taken my mind away from me," she says.

"I'm still here, still stirring them up." Wedding is held The marriage of Miss Ann Lavarnway and Jeffrey Liametz took place Monday, July 2, in St. Patrick's Church, Elmira. Rabbi Daniel Friedman and the Rev. Kevin Murphy officiated. The bride is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Lavarnway of 754 Hoffman St. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Liametz of Skokie, Ill.

Miss Margaret Lavarnway of Findlay, Ohio, was maid of honor. Bridesmaid was Kathy Boyko of Findlay. Serving as best man was Greg Wathen of Evansville, Ind. Ushers were Berry Liametz and Gordon Liametz, both of Skokie. The reception was held at the Hibernian Hall.

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The great choir, begun in 1892, is Romanesque, with round arches and cylindrical columns. After it was completed in 1911, the architect was fired and his successor designed a Gothic nave, with soaring pointed arches and fluted columns. The nave, completed the week before Pearl Harbor, was the last construction until now. When the towers are completed, work will begin on the crossing, where raw uncovered arches link the choir to the nave. Still to be built are the north and south transepts, which form the horizontal arms of the traditional cross shape of the cathedral.

It is a daunting task for a church with fewer than 500 regular worshippers. Although it has about $2 million in its building fund, the church also has a list of 30,000 prospective donors, not all Episcopalians and not all residents of New York. At 601 feet long and 207 feet across the front, Cathedral of St. John has nearly three times the area of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

A note from the organ can reverberate as long as nine seconds through the 16.8 million cubic feet with the limestone walls. St. John is about 10 feet shorter than the Basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, which is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest church. St.

John, however, is listed as the world's largest cathedral. It is so tal that it could not be completed even when it had access to the purses of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller Jr. or when Franklin D.

Roosevelt was chief fund-raiser. In medieval terms, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is going up, rapidly Chartres took 312 years and Westminster Abbey 837 but there is no target for finishing it. Mrs. Liametz The couple will live in Terre Haute after a wedding trip.

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