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Boston Evening Globe Thursday, December 4, UO'J Church Council elects first woman head Globe Wire Services DETROIT Dr. Cynthia Wedel, an outspoken advocate of women's rights, today was elected the first woman president of the National Council of Churches. Mrs. Wedel, a 61 -year-old white Episcopalian from Washington, D.C., defeated the Rev. Albert B.

Cleage a Detroit Negro pastor, in secret balloting at the N.C.C.'s triennial General Assembly. i -4 3 IV; if 1 5 mas is there 24 hours a day, from a little girl, Marybelle Adams, of Brockton, feeding Vixen, to IN A SENSE, there's no difference between day and night at Boston Common these days. Christ the Brewer Fountain, warmed only by the gay decorations and the spirit that prevails. (Philip Preston and Charles Dixon photo) MBTA to South 5 Shore delayed a' i RAMCO have not been paid. Edward F.

McLaughlin, M.B.T.A. general counsel said he recently discovered that the Chicago firm was having "financial difficulties." Joseph F. Malone, public relations director of the M.B.T.A. today said, "It is the responsibility of the bonding company for this job to get another contractor to finish the track laying and welding project." Major delays have also been attributed to the politics involved in the planning for the line in Quincy and in Braintree. The M.B.T.A.'s search for a suitable site to relocate, its Cambridge yards for storage of trains for i 1 to Sept.

Mayor James R. Mcln-tyre of Quincy, also exerted pressure as a South Shore senator and chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Transportation in forcing the M.B.T.A. to revise its plans on spending for the rebuilding of bx-idges, construction of a multi-level parking garage and the depressing of the line's tracks through Quincy Center. Mclntyre is also helping to lead the fight by Braintree town officials over the controversial Capens Bridge Station, planned as the second station of the new line in that town. Braintree officials and Mclntyre again voiced opposition to the second M.B.T.A.

station at a meeting with Cusick today. She will serve a three-year term in the highest office of the nations largest cooperative religious body. The N.C.C. is composed of 33 Protestant and Orthodox denominations with 45 million members. The assembly reelected Dr.

R. H. Edwin Espy to the top administrative post of general secretary. Espy, a white man, was opposed by the Rev. Leon Watts of New York, a Negro nominated by the assembly's black caucus.

Bishop Frederick Doug lass Jordan of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a black man, was elected first vice president without opposition. Mrs. Wedel, wife of a prominent Episcopal theologian, Dr. Theodore O. Wedel, has an earned doctorate in psychology and served as associate director of the National Resource Center for Voluntarism, an affiliate of the National Education Assn.

Long active in church life, she previously served as president of Church Women United, vice president of the N.CC. and associate general secretary of the N.C.C. She was one of four women on the national executive council of the Episcopal Church. She has written five books, expounding the theme that women, as the backbone of church life in America, deserve a larger voice in ecclesiastical councils. She voiced regret at running against a black man but declined a public request by Cleage that she withdraw from the race.

"I deplore the discrimination against black people and have worked hard to eliminate it," she said. "But women also have been victims of discrimination, and I regard my election as a belated recognition of their importance in the church." Earlier, some individuals lined up to take their stand with a young draft resister after the N.C.C. refused to identify itself with his position. "Many of us want to take our place with him, whatever the risks," Rev. Arthur Walmsley of Boston said in moving for arrangements which would allow those who so choose to register their stand.

Tables for that puipose were set up in Cobo Hall. In a long, emotion-fraught session last night, delegates voted not to accept the draft card of conscientious objector, James Rubins, 21, of Hicksville, N.Y. Tetcr Kourides, a New York lawyer and member of the Greek Orthodox to be further revised to next June. Now word in the South Shore communities is that Cusick may have been a year off in his original target date that the Quincy segment will be opened next Christmas. Whose to blame for the lengthy delays in the expansion program? One MBTA official said that there has been more trouble encountered in the planning and construction of the 10-mile South Shore line than in the building of the pyramids.

Lengthy delays were caused by strikes in the construction trade unions, steel workers and carpenters, etc. Also, long waiting periods for delivery of construction materials. By Robert Carr Globe Staff The M.B.T.A. today admitted that it now has no "specific target date" for the construction of the South Shore rapid -transit line, even to as far as Quincy Sq. However, General Manager Leo J.

Cusick is pushing for the Quincy segment to be completed for the opening of the American Transit Assn. convention here in September. Cusick last December, told a South Shore Chamber of Commerce meeting that he would ride a new train to Quincy this Christmas Day or resign. He had to recant his promise early this year as a result of construction delays. This time estimate, had In at least two instances, work done by contractors had to be redone at no expense to the MBTA.

The coping of three 24-foot sections of steel reinforced concrete retaining walls at the Wollaston segment of the line, had to be torn down and rebuilt by the Gil Bern Construction Co. after M.B.T.A. inspectors found they didn't meet specifications. Long sections of steel track had to be reworked recently by the Railway Automated Machinery (RAMCO) of Chicago, 111., which has a $2.3 million contract for the laying and welding of track from Boston to Braintree. And the M.B.T.A.

last night contained reports that laborers employed by DR. CYNTHIA WEDEL i. elected president REV. MR. CLEAGE defeated 1 REV.

ARTHUR WALMSLEY stood with him Church, said that by accepting the draft card, "we would be literally entering into a conspiracy to violate the law." The proposal required a two-thirds vote for proval. After it received a vote of 176 for to 200 against, Rev. Richard York, an Episcopal priest of the Free Church, Berkeley, jumped to the stage. He spattered red paint on it and a long front table occupied by officials. "Blood is on our hands!" he shouted.

"The blood of the Vietnamese and our soldiers is dripping from the minutes of this meeting. "I respect the decision made here, although I am not in agreement with it." continued Rubins, a tall, blonde junior at Hope College, Holland, who had said he was ready to face jail to resist the draft and the Vietnam war. A Roman Catholic priest. Rev. Leon Von Geu-sau of Rome, said the issue of upholding an individual's duty to follow his conscience faces the whole church Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic.

He offered to take the young man's draft card himself, and present it to American bishops and the Pope. However, he was reported elsewhere as saying that Prince has made political attacks on him for the past 10 years. Prince's resignation is the second of a county official who has feuded with the senator. The other is John R. 'vVheatley of Abington who resigned as district attorney.

Prince, who has one ye left of a six-year term, recommended the appointment of his first assistant, Arthur T. Murphy, to the post pending the ou'ecme cf next year's election. it Oteri: 'Law is based on religious morality' at least both the South Shore and the Cambridge Dorchester rapid transit lines have been thwarted by the Legislature as well as town fathers and taxpayers in Milton, Mattapan and Braintree and Weymouth. Mayor White Wednesday said he plans to turn down the Penn-Central yards in South Boston, the latest proposed. A court suit, brought by a Dorchester firm as a result of the M.B.T.A.

having to relocate the Penn Central's freight tracks in the Fields Corner area, has also resulted in lengthy delays. While the Federal court recently ruled in favor of the M.B.T.A. in the controversy, another suit is still pending in Massachusetts courts. that as each member entered the meeting that day, he was handed a copy of the proposed revised extension plan which had been submitted by M.B.T.A. manager Cusick.

"The town had both actual notice of the revision and an opportunity to argue against ths adoption of the revision," the court said. The court rejected arguments of Milton Town Counsel Robert D. O'Leary that the M.B.TJL could not construct the Mattapan extension because rapid transit on this line would operate at a deficit. The court also rejected the town's argument that the M.B-T.A was required to notify the advisory board of any "substantial change" in mass transportation. persons in It also Ninth Amendment and claimed "unduly physician to to and compromises Oteri of the unequivocal abortion laws.

He asked recognize the amount of data" ABORTION Continued from Page 1 Oteri charged, "The Massachusetts anti-abortion statute is, in effect, a civil enactment by which te moral tenets of certain organized religions, most notably Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Judaism, are established as law." The lawyer, himself a Roman Catholic, quoted the drafters of the Model Penal Code provision, suggesting liberalized abortion laws, as stating: "Abortion is opposed by some on the ground of physical or psychic dancer to the woman, or as an inhibitor of population growth. But it is clear that the main dealing with medical and legislative views. A Boston College Law School graduate, Oteri said he did not consider the attack on the statute as a matter "of light moment," but that the fundamental liberties were "compelling, substantial and paramount." The case will pit Oteri against his law school classmate John Irwin, first assistant district attorney of Middlesex County. The brief also challenged the statute which first appeared on Massachusetts law rolls in 1845, as arbitrary and irrational, not suited to achieve any valid end and as "invidious discrimination against factor accounting for laws against abortion is ethical or religious objection." Oteri's research, assisted by Atty. Mitchell Benjoya, a Jew, showed that historically the question of abortion was one of canon law, not civil law.

In fact, he explained, the Roman Catholic Church's position varied on the development of the human fetus and abortion over the centuries. Included in the brief were appendices illustrating the views on abortion held by various religious denominations found in Massachusetts. Similar appendices were included lower socio-economic groups." sought the protection of the guarantee of privacy that the law as it now exists interferes with the freedom of a practice his profession according his best medical knowledge his professional discretion." informed the court that the purpose brief was to demonstrate the unconstitutionality of the that the court tolerate and need for "the tremendous medical, sociological and religious included in the presentation. 'Hampers administration of justice' For Yards in Mattapan clerk raps Sen. Burke MBTA Gets The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today cleared the way for the M.B.T.A.

to relocate its Cambridge train storage yards in Mattapan. The decision by the high court climaxes a two-year battle between the M.B.T.A. and taxpayers in Milton and Mattapan over the proposed $14 million relocation plan. The decision also makes available an alternate site in the event Mayor White votes against a newer plan to relocate the Cambridge ards in "the 24-acre South Boston site of the Penn Central Railroad. Mayor White's objection to the South Boston site is based primarily on the prospective loss of taxable land.

Court O.K. Most of the land needed for the relocation of the Cambridge yards in the Mattapan district is owned by the M.B.T.A. But additional land adjacent to the M.B.T.A. property is owned by the M.D.C. The Authority plans to buy that land.

The town of Milton's appeal aimed at blocking the extension of rapid transit from Ash-mont to Mattapan and relocation of the Cambridge car yards was ordered dismissed today by the high court. The ruljig cleared the way for the M.B.T-A. to go ahead with plans pending since 1966. Part of the plan calls for removal of rapid transit trains from the Bennett-Eliot sts. storage area near Harvard Cambridge, to provide a Resigning BROCKTON The Plymouth County court clerk has resigned, effective Dec.

31, charging that the administration of justice has been hampered by state Sen. James F. Burke (D-Brocktcn). Robert in his letter of resignation, said the action was taken "because of circumstances I have been unable to change, and which can no longer be disregarded." He added that his efforts to keep pace with the expanding growth of the county "have been thwarthed, whether for. which the revised rapid transit extension plan was approved by 37 of the 39 municipalities represented at that meeting.

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision, written by Justice Jacob J. Spiegel, said that "at no time did the town object to lack of proper notice." The court "The town was fully aware of the proposed revision" and had met with M.B.T.A. general manager Leo J. Cusick several times to discuss the matter. The Supreme Court said the notice mailed to advisory board members by acting chairman Lincoln P.

Cole a Lexington selectman, informed the members of the purpose of the February, 1963 meeting. The court also noted site for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Mattapan residents opposed the relocation of the yards and Milton residents battled plans to construct an overhead structure required to carry the proposed extension to Mattapan through a part of Milton. The town appealed to the Supreme Court after a Suffolk Superior Court trial in which Judge Frank W.

Tomaseilo ruled the M.B.T.A. had complied with all legal requirements to obtain approval of the extension pian from the 79 cities and towns comprising the M.B.T.A. Advisory Board. Milton officials claimed they did not get proper notice of a Feb. 29, 1968 advisory board meeting at personal or political reasons, by my state senator who exercises control over all legislation affecting our need3 in this area.

I sincerely believe his liberate actions have and will hamper the effective administration of justice in this county for many years to come." Prince was unavailable for further comment this morning because of attendance at a funeral. Sen. Burke, asked to reply to the charges, refused comment.