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vents in amana Area- Brush With Death 1 2-B Oakland Tribune, Saturday, March 7,1959 Dispels All Fear By JOStPHINf CRISLEX -vt -ve i i iv 1 I J- Many of us know some individual who life hai bf re vitslirrd by brush with desth. Wt know otheri whoe concept of life fternil fives them an inner radiance. Call it what we will a miracle, a vision, or revelation auch rs pertence act up a chain reaction of inxpiration to other. I have had more than on uch friend, and aeveral of them were very young. There was a 19-year-old pilot, killed early in World War II.

He had scribbled a poem on the back of an envelope and tucked it in his last letter home; it reached hia family the day after news of his death. There are thone who will tell you that it ranka with Keats and Shelley. Perhapt you have read John Ma fee's "High flinKt uikir-h n4 U.K that JOSEPHINE CRISLER TUa oi Bauty In Dai2tT, MEETING Mrs. Lee Fridtfl rgitri from left) Skip McCrcry. Tun Froi.

Paula Woodbury and Linda Huttman for the American Baptist Youth Fellowship Convention now under way at the First Baptist Church, 22nd St and Telegraph At. Oakland. WRITERS At presentation oi award to winners oi the Oakland Unit No. 7, Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary, essay contest are (from left) Betty Chen. Junior vice commander; Marie Engbery.

commander; Maureen Lynch, 2nd; Mary Nahm, 1st 1 i 2. i i majestic line: rrash. My glasses were; rm- "I put out my hand and bedded in my face mf Jaw touched the face of God Wll broken in five places, The young poefs mother told yoice dropprd UttleI me: "I don't allow myself to think of the crh. I th.nk in- 1 couI? atead of what he would want been blinded or terribly mu- me to remember." tilated. A DOCTOR'S STORY ZjL'Z sciousncss was the realization But no amount of self-disci- hd back- jr0m plme-an completely eradicate can't.

the very natural wonder as to dwribe it even to mySf If. what passed through the mind Evpry bf.forf i eo- tn of a loved one when death a p- ,0 rrcapture proached. For these, there is remrmber trees, ind comfort in the words of an em- f)owpr roor and the rrrnn inent doctor, who told me: -giorinUs light!" -I have practiced medicine Hrr voire trembled and for for 40 years. I have seen sud- moment thoucht she w5uld den death, and 1 have watched not R0 Then ihe 5aid. -jhe lingering death.

Few people yy jt was econdgxy, show any fear at the moment realy jt was the utter of passing, some, indeed, seem peace the fiense of security transfigured. the sure conviction that "My young brother was like fVfrything was all right You that At 17, he lay dying of a had bn wor- long and incurable illness. I ripr a1 my ll(c abftut biUs, was sitting beside him, my bout evpry ilMe problcniV; hand on his pulse, waiting for About lhjjs lhal jBcyexfjl the end. He seemed too weak happrned. eV5c tm7 lgai vu ONLY GRATITUDE -l- "Suddenly, he sat bolt up- right, crying: 'Oh, isn't that But during those icvcij T.n't that the most months, when I had to be fed glorious music you ever through a tube, I never seemed to mind the pain.

I felt only gratitude for the revelation t)f divine love that had come. to "His face was radiant as he fell back in my arms, dead. me. who would have rejected the At this point I interrupted; speculative proof of a theolog- "Now that you seem to have I in- i "i mii a i i j.in.. I 1 TEEN COUNCIL New- careers of Lf-re Oak Junior High Teen Council are (front, from left) Sarah Hack, recording secretary; Joan Kresich, treasurer; Barbara Mueller, secretary; and (rear) Jay Tyler, vice president and Steve Parry, president HONORED At a surprise dinner iot Otto Schmiege (left), retiring tiler of the Fruitvale Masonic Lodge No.

336, are Herbert Green (center), master, and Frank R. Killinger, Inspector for the 365th Masonic District who presents Schmiege a gift 7 '1 ian, could not reject the fact ost aj fear 0jj death, do yoa that my young brother, in the want t0 dje- moment of his passing, had ..5 o( people. have "asked seen and heard something in- me that can ony tell, you credibly beautiful some- that Jove hfe and want to thinst could neither see nor lve as long can be useful. hear." "as a matter of But most spectacular of all added life is ever 50 ch 5s the experience of Mrs. R.

B. better way 1 have Counts of Memphis, quit worrying and fretting. If who met death, and who no there is somcthing I can "do longer fears it, because as she about a situation, I do it. If told me "while I was not put that problem behind I had a glimpse of Paradise." me and g0 on t0 something I Lest you should think she is can do something about. I some sort of crank, let me as- shrink from trying to sure you that she is one of the force my own thoughts on peo-sanest, most intelligent and pc wbo bavC a different view consistently hard-working in- point but i knew that death dividuals of my acquaintance.

would come tomorrow, or next She supports herself and her wcejli jt wouid seem as nat-mother in the highly competi- urai as a journey, tive business of real estate. wish an those who art Here ia her story as she told afraid and those who mourn, it to me: coud know what I know, that NO MEMORY OF CRASH I had a glimpse of Paradise. "We were returning from a There is indeed no death; what visit to our married daughter, ems so is transition." A man driving a truck pulled MONDAY Mrs. Sam Wood-out of line on a hill he had son- wife of the hero who res-been drinking the black- cued a small boy from s2t -foot top road was wet. When he wny her husband saw us, he slammed on his had the faith to expose himself brakes to "I have no memory of the rr" 1 if Vw V- 1 V-liri lllllll MlllllMMlliJ BEAUTIES Al Newell, chairman, signs up prospects for the Oakland Junior Cham- FUND DRIVE Mapping plant for the Alameda County Cerebral Palsy Association ber of Commerce Miss Oakland contest They are (from left) Pat Robinson.

Maurine drive in May are (sealed, from left) Mrs. William Regan, Emeryville; Mrs. Albert Grassoj Lundroth, Donna Theodore, Jannette Sonders, Velva Gregg, Marlene Peck and Sharlene Mrs. William Webb; Mrs. R.

J. Benish; (rear) Mike ODonnelL Robert Manly and Hon Livingstone. The final screening will take place on March 18 at Sherman Clay Co. Chew. They are area chairmen for the drive.

1 Jv 1 I A I prf' C5 V' "it'TI I. ii GROUNDBREAKING At ceremonies for the new Horace Mann School In Oakland are (front) Stephanie Carrera, and (rear, from left) Miss Ismay Tobln, principal; Mre. Lloyd Addison, TA president; Lou Winters, Dads' Club president; Kenneth Thompson and Mrs. Cora E. Riser.

OFF ON A JAUNT A crowd of some 400 members of from 16th St. station before leaving on special train for the Aahmei Temple of the Shrine and their wives wave Reno, where they will be entertained by Kerak Temple. BIRTHDAY At Albany Post celebration of 40th anniver-eary of the American Legion are (from left) Albert Nlhihes; Ella Clem; Margaret Burnett; H. McDeffee..