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Tratli minis tter Salem Boone lielps the station management that as many as people may be reached by his The production will cost the church about $400 a week. Compared with, a Sunday morning church attendance of 1,100, London figures the money is people know that they are very much loved by God." KVDO-TV is an independent station that lacks the financial backing of its network and independent competitors in Portland and Eugene. Even so, London has been assured by By JOHN HAWKINS Capital Journal Writer Fifteen years ago, if you had told M. B. London Jr.

he was going to be interviewing Pat Boone for his own gospel television show, he might have keeled over out of shock. This week, however, that very thing is happening. London, now senior pastor of Salem's First Church of the Nazarene, goes on the air Sunday in the premier broadcast of the city's first locally-produced religious telecast. It is the latest in an expanding list of projects undertaken by one of the most ambitious congregations in town. At First Church of the Nazarene, three pastors, two full-time lay ministers and a pair of secretaries help direct a $400,000 annual budget that provides varied programs for each member of the congregation.

In addition the church sponsors a large day school program. Several months ago First Nazarene breaks new ground with its premier television program on Salem's KVDO-TV. The 30-minute jsegment will be aired at 2:30 p.m; each Sunday on Channel 3. London explained that the TV program titled "Lifeline to Truth" will be an expansion of his radio program of the same name. The format will be simple: music from one or more, of the church's seven choirs, a film clip of a guest gospel music artist followed by an 8-10-minute talk by London.

This week he filmed an inteiyiiew with Boone, a State Fair headliner, for showing later in the fall. "Lifeline to Truyi" will not be a Billy Graham-typq show. Evangelism will be soft-pedalled, London said, so that he can concentrate on messages that attempt to reach the problems of life. i' "All of us the churched and the unchurched have problems," London said. "More than anything else, I'm going to center on helping people live at peace with themselves and the world.

1 "The Bible tells us that it's a sin not to love the things that God loves. One of the things that God loves is people. I'm going to strive to make in the community should be. Theologically, Nazarene churches are conservative and evangelical. They fall somewhere in the religious spectrum between the Pentecostals and the socially-oriented- Methodists and Presbyterians.

They take literally the Biblical admonition to go forth and preach the gospel. London realizes that his many and varied projects may alienate some of his parishioners just as they may excite others. Apparently, however, he turns on more people than he turns off. A recent poll of church members turned up 98 per cent who thought he should be retained as the church's senior pastor for at least another four years. "Lifeline to Truth" joins a Sunday KVDO lineup that already is generously dotted with religion programs.

The station management has told London that religion programs are among the station's highest rated shows. Many of the Sunday programs on KVDO and other stations feature well-known television preachers. London, however, refuses to pattern himself after any of them. "A minister's success is due to his uniqueness," he explained. Highly-rated or not, a religion program on Sunday can't match the audience appeal of professional football.

London is keenly aware of that. He and his two sons are avid sports enthusiasts, and their loyalties are painfully divided on autumn Sundays. Although London wouldn't endorse it publicly, he discussed last week one way to take in all the gridiron action and still jump to Channel 3 for "Lifeline." The eastern football game is over usually by 1 p.m. And the western game usually reaches halftime right about 2:30. well spent if the TV audience matches the expectations of the station managers.

London figures he may be able to reach some of the people who won't set foot in a church either because they don't like the institutionalization or the talk about tithing, or because they believe that church-goers are a bunch of hypocrites. He admits that the television pro- gram is a risky venture. He thinks his is the only church in Salem and the Mid-Willamette Valley to make this kind of attempt. He realizes that success in such a project isn't something easily measured and he doesn't much care. "Whether we're successful is not the criterion," he said.

"It's whether we're faithful to the task that we're called to do." Sometime in the 1950s H. B. London Jr. felt called to the task of spreading the Christian gospel. Over the last five years he has been the driving force behind the growth of First Church of the Nazarene.

When he arrived here in 1968, he and a half-time secretary were all the congregation had on its staff. The budget was $85,000 a year. Attendance at Sunday morning services was 450. Since then eight people have een added to the paid staff, the budget has more than quadrupled and attendance at worship services on Sun- day mornings has more than doubled. To accommodate the rapid growth, numerous neighboring houses have been bought knd torn down to make room for more parking spaces.

A three-storyvbuSlding is in the preliminary planning stage. London attributes the growth to a "great" congregation that has grasped the notion of what its place Willis (Capital Journal Photo by Gerry Lew in) ''X III? ti" London tapes show with Pat Boone vanished9 Postal chief says hike unneeded wcni iiuu uiudutasung ior me ursi time. Every day London goes on the air with a15-minute program on Salem's religion-oriented radio station KCCS. This Sunday the church Capital! Salem, Sept. The COPPER, Ore.

(AP) Their food was on the picnic table, a pan of dishwater had been set out and dishes and utensils were neatly laid out near a camp stove. Clothes were folded on a cot. But Richard Cowden and his family, who were camping there, have been missing since Sept. 1. The Cowdens, of White City, near Medford, were to have gone to Mrs.

Cowden's mother's house in Copper, a mile from the camp, for dinner that night. They didn't show up. The last time they were seen was Sunday morning whenv Cowden and his son David, 5, went to the store in Copper for a quart of milk. Searchers combed the rugged Siskiyou Mountains in a 25-mile radius of the camp all week but found nothing. "That camp, it sure was spooky," said state trooper Lee Erickson.

"Even the milk was on the table." The National Guard joined the search Saturday. "It's getting to look really strange," said Sgt. Ernest Walden of the Oregon State Police. "This is family ANY SIZE shjuipooed LIVIIIG ROOM convention, scheduled to begin Sunday. The association chief termed columnist Jack Anderson's criticism of U.S.

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Cowden's mother, Ruth Grayson, checked the family's belongings in the camp afid said they all apparently were wearing only bathing suits when they vanished. The pickup was in the camp. Fishing poles were leaned against a tree. j- I The family's bassett hound, Drop- py, turned up Monday at the Copper General Store and scratched on the door. I The Carberry Creek area where the family was camping is near the California border southwest of Medford.

It is criss-crossed with logging roads and honeycombed with old gold mine shafts sunk as long as 100 years ago. The Cowdens had camped in the area before, and reportedly knew it well. Many of the known shafts were searched earlier in' the week. the United States last October, after Atty. Gen.

Elliot Richardson resigned rather than fire Cox. Ruckelshaus said the current special prosecutor, 'i Leon Jaworski, should proceed with his prosecution of Mr. Nixon. i He said it is up to Congress to decide how far the prosecution should go. "Consideration must! be taken of the effect such a prosecution of a former President of pie United States would have on the American people," he said.

"It must be remembered," said Ruckelshaus, "that President Ford has the power to pardon Mr. Nixon and that power can be exercised." Ruckelshaus, former administrator of the Environment Protection Agency, is in Portland for an environmental conference. He said he felt no sense of triumph at Nixon's subsequent admission of prior knowledge in the Watergate cover-up or his resignation. police arrested James Howard Taylor, IS, of 2325 Mission SL SE, on a charge of attempted burglary. The two juveniles, one from Salem and the other from Philomath, were turned over to Marion County juvenile authorities.

Tommle Maurice Munger, 3t, of 22M Lee SL SE, Salem, was arrested by Salem police Wednesday on suspicion of theft in the first-degree. Officers accused him of receiving a bicycle stolen Aug. 15 from Judy Terry, 1919 Center St NE. i Salem police detectives arrested Marlene Hunter, $828 24th Ave. NE, Salem, Friday on a charge of first-degree theft.

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Mrs. Grayson said she doesn't think the family left of their own will. "Nothing makes sense. We're absolutely baffled," she said. Assessed shoots up The State Revenue Department reported today that the value of all taxable property in Oregon has increased by $3.5 billion since last year's accounting.

The total property assessment stands at $28,401,904,377, up from the $24,898,536,412 a year ago. The figure does not include public property, church property or other property exempt from property taxes. Multnomah County accounts for the largest share of the assessment, 23,64 per cent. The dollar value was put at $6,714,124,171. Lane County is the second most valuable, with an assessment of or 9.36 per cent of the total.

4 Some of the other county valuations are: Clackamas $2,435,075,278, 8.57 per cent; Coos, $695,310,077, 2.44 per cent; Curry, $214,863,256, .75 per cent; Douglas, $1,378,828,878, 4.85 per cent; Jackson, $1,166,642,952, 4.1 per cent; Josephine, $465,546,919, 1.63 per cent; Klamath, $755,284,051, 2.65 per cent; Lake $117,312,809, .41 per cent; Lincoln, $545,468,519, 1.92 per cent; Malheur, $311,165,653, 1.09 per cent; Marion, $1,649,863,659, 5.80 per cent; Wasco, $273,466,287, .96 per cent; Washington, $2,275,641,238, 8.01 per cent. i mond, has been indicted by the Linn County Grand Jury on charges of assaulting two Colorado women near Santiam Junction Aug. 27. Injured in the assault were Ellen Gardner, 22, and Sue Ashby, 32, both of Estes Park, Colo. SENTENCES Jerry Sterling CocheD, 33, of 2568 Lee St.

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S. The Stonefront Tavern, 5690 Commercial St. SE, was entered Friday, and $250 worth of merchandise plus a television set and cash were taken, Salem police reported. ARRESTS A Salem man and two 17-year-old boys were arrested early today on suspicion of trying to break into the Circle food store in Mill City. State SHOP AT SEARS AND SAVE Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back.