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THE RECORD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1978 BERGEN A-3 BfPGFN PASSA'C'HI'OSON COUNTf NEW JERSEY Margaret Mead dead at 77 Split seen widening in Episcopal church 1 jj I 3HV T-mnni ii Itm 'II 11 NEW YORK (AP) Dr. Margaret Mead, the famed American anthropologist, died today at New York Hospital, a hospital spokesman said. She was 77. She had entered New York Hospital Oct. 2 for treatment of cancer.

In her books and lectures. Miss Mead spoke to a public much wider than the scientific community. She moved to the forefront of her profession by publishing in 1928, at age 26, what has become one of the most widely read pieces of scholarship ever penned: "Coming of Age in Samoa." The book, a study of adolescence and passage into sexual maturity was based on a field trip to the island that she had undertaken three years earlier. It remained a steady seller, some years lopping 100,000 in paperback reprints. In the half-century that followed, she continued studying faraway cultures older than time and used the knowledge to anticipate and shed light on the social and cultural eruptions of modern Western society.

As scientist, author, teacher and lecturer, Miss Mead was one of the few establishment figures of recent decades to hold the ear of the young on matters like sex and marriage, the generation gap, drugs, and feminism. She was not, however, universally idolized by their elders. "This dirty old lady" was what Gov. Claude Kirk of Florida called her after she told a congressional committee that marijuana should be legalized, not for its own sake, but because banning it was "damaging relations between young and old." While she stressed the importance of family, Miss Mead also believed that "marriage is a terminable institution." She herself was married and divorced three times. The last union produced her only child, Margaret Catherine, in 1939.

Anticipating at least one aspect of modern feminism by keeping her maiden name always, she encouraged women to aspire to careers, independence, and individuality. But she infuriated some feminists when she described Women's Liberation as "essentially a middle-class movement" spurred by "career-drive." She lectured extensively, and her fees ranged from nothing to $1,000, depending on the audience and cause. Short and round of figure, she took command of her listeners with a warm, mellow voice and easy, informal delivery. She recalled and heeded her father's rule: "Never speak from behind a podium. Too much between you and the audience." Her personal hallmark in later years was a shoulder-high walking staff, actually what the English call a thumb stick, which, with the capes she liked to wear, gave her an air of biblical sage.

Born in Philadelphia, where her father was a professor at the Wharton School, Miss Mead was brought up in a variety of' homes and as an adult was ever on the move. The most permanent home she ever knew probably was "her office at New York's Museum of Natural History. She was hired as an assistant curator and given a small attic room in 1926. Over the years, returning from travels with artifacts to store, she kept expanding her domain until she had taken over a turret of the castle-like structure. She eventually became the museum's curator of ethnology and also occupied chairs of anthropology and sociology at Columbia and Fordham universities.

A sense that time was running out for studying primitive cultures drove her to the Pacific islands in a race against the 1 Aw I vrrv xZ? i 1 vi I Irs AP Photo WEST ORANGE (AP) The schism in the Episcopal church will widen unless the national church stops ordaining homosexuals and women as priests, the newly consecrated bishop in the dissident Anglican Catholic Church said yesterday. "I'm not a strict fundamentalist." said Bishop William F. Burns, rector of St. Mark's Church here. "The Bible says homosexuality is punishable by death, and I don't go along with that.

But if the church ordains a homosexual, it's placing its stamp of approval on something that just isn't right." The 60-year-old Burns was installed Saturday as head of the traditionalist church's Resurrection Diocese, more than a year after his congregation voted to secede from the Newark Episcopal Diocese. Sincd then he has been entangled in a property dispute with the diocese, with his congregation's 200 members claiming ownership of the 150-year-old church. Burns said he left the Episcopal church "with prayer and heartache" but says he did so because the Episcopalians had no right to go against church tradition of 2000 years. "We honestly feel they left us. Certainly I feel that schism is a sin, but I feel the greater sin is heresy At the heart of the dispute is a disagreement over the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a doctrine that the Episcopal denomination now leaves open to interpretation.

"Christianity hinges on the resurrection," Burns said. "If Christ didn't rise from the dead, we might just as well eat, drink, and be merry." The Anglican Catholics also oppose the ordination of women, according to Burns, who insists he is not a "male chauvinist." "Women should and do have an important place in the church," he said. "But the priest at the altar is to represent in some sense our Lord. Are we saying he could be either male or female?" Burns says he could accept women as priests only if a general church council encompassing all Christian sects would approve. But such a council has not Newly installed Bishop William Burns in front oj the secessionist St.

Mark's Anglican Catholic Church in West Orange. Farmers hit government policy Dip forseen in food cost rises denomination for himself. The son of Roman Catholic father and a Methodist mother, he says he was raised "half and half." While he describes himself as "probably closer to the Roman Catholic Church," he says he chose the Episcopal Church after attending his first service in the late 1940s. "I was married then. I couldn't go to Rome (to become a Roman Catholic priest)." American Farm Bureau Federation President Allan Grant said the newly announced plan for idling a portion of grain acreage next year was too little, too late.

"Instead of balancing production with demand, we are headed toward uncontrollable surpluses, building huge, market-depressing reserves and forcing down farm prices," Grant said. He charged the administration is pursuing a "cheap food policy at the farmers' expense." The cattlemen's association also was angry at President Carter for vetoing the meat import bill they wanted to keep up the price of domestic beef. The Agriculture Department report said the rise in retail food prices probably will stay ahead of the rate of inflation for the overall economy. Increases in food prices this year Jersey voter turnout was the lowest in 31 years Margaret Mead encroaching modern world. She was the chronicler of those otherwise unrecorded cultures in works like "Growing Up in Samoa," "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies," "Social Organization in Manua," "Kinship in the Admiralty Island," "Balinese Character' and "Mountain Arapesh." Another was "Growing Up in New Guinea," on which her second husband.

Dr. Reo Fortune, a New Zealand Anthropologist, collaborated. They married in 1928. Her first husband, in 1923, was Luther Cressman, an aspiring clergyman and later to be an archeologist. An English anthropologist, Gregory Bateson, became husband No.

3 in 1935 and was her partner subsequently in field work Bali and New Guinea. in were concentrated mainly in the first half of 1978, due largely to reduced beef supplies and strong consumer demand. Prices also were pushed upward by higher processing and marketing costs and by excess rains that damaged much of California's fresh produce early in the year. The department expects beef supplies to drop even more next year, but there will be more poultry and possibly more pork to stabilize the meat supply. However, substantially higher processing and marketing costs could push food costs beyond estimates, the report said.

The department predicted stable income for most farmers next year. Higher production costs will be offset by higher receipts for livestock and other sources, leaving next year's farm income near the $26 billion estimated for this year. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK MON. THRU SAT. 9-5 FRIDAY KITES TO SUNDAYS BOXED CHRISTMAS CARDS Price 10,000 tOXtS ON SAlf ONE STOP SHOPPING ALL YOUR NEEDS, HATS, HORNS K0JSOUKEKS DEC0SAT10KS papci cooes SKACK FOODS FOODS A.

Ski WASHINGTON (UPI) While some fanners accuse the government of pursuing a "cheap food policy" at their expense, the Agriculture Department said yesterday food price rises next year probably will dip to about 7.5 percent from the current 10 percent. In its latest outlook report, the department said grocery prices are expected to average about 7 percent higher next year and restaurant food prices about 8 percent higher. The report said that under the most favorable conditions, the overall retail food price rise could be as low as 6 percent but could reach 10 percent if the weather worsens and marketing costs increase more than expected. Record grain crops are a major factor in the estimate of a drop in the rate of the price increases, and also are behind some farmer complaints the administration is permitting food stocks to get too large. 9 30 P.M.

on SEE WHY WE THE RESTAURANT. BAR PARTY RENTALS WILTON CAKE DECORATING IT'S Governor Byrne won passage of a postcard registration law In last year's gubernatorial election, the turnout of registered voters was 59.5 percent. The last election comparable to this year's was 1970 when the United States Senate race again topped the ballot. The turnout then was 69.7 percent. New Jersey reached its modern-day high point in balloting in the 1960 presidential race when 91 percent of registered voters went to the polls.

It has been downhill ever since, with presidential turnouts of 88 percent in 1964. 86 percent in 1968. 82 percent in 1972, and 80 percent in 1976. Turnouts for gubernatorial races in recent times reflects a similar pattern: 73 percent in 1961. 72 percent in 1965, 74 percent in 1969, 61 percent in 1973, and 59.5 percent last year.

LET US DRESS YOUR TABLE By Harvey Fisher The Record T'enton Bu'ean TRENTON Last week's general election produced the lowest turnout of registered voters in New Jersey in 31 years. Passaic County had the poorest showing. Figures released yesterday by Secretary of State Donald Lan show that 57.1 percent or only 2,057,918 of the 3.600.950, registered voters went to the polls, the woist turnout since 1947 when only 52.5 percent cast ballots. Bergen County had the fourth-highest voter turnout 61.5 percent. In Bergen, the state's most populous county, 296,173 of the 481,240 registered voters went to the polls to decide on UniteH States Senate, congressional, freeholder, and municipal races, as well as public referendums.

Dismal Passaic showing Passaic easily produced the most dismal showing, with only 49 percent or 99,190 of the county's 202,562 registered voters casting ballots. The largest turnout 65 percent been convened since the seventh century Burns is a relative newcomer to the church, as bishops go. He was ordained a priest in 1963 after a lucrative career as a Morris County building contractor, he said. "I was close to the church in my early teens," he recalled, "but I fell away as so many do. I made some money, but my old wish to become a priest kept bothering me." At that point.

Burns had to choose a was in Cape May. In Essex, the second-largest county, 51 percent voted Hudson, which has a reputation of political activism, had a 57 percent turnout. Election officials noted the figures do not accurately reflect the full extent of the public's apathy They pointed out that there are an estimated 1.6 million state residents who are eligible to vote but have not registered. When that is taken into consideration, only 39.6 percent of the voting-age population went to the polls last week. Comparable figures for Bergen and Passaic were 47 percent and 32 percent, respectively.

Using this formula, Bergen ranked second to Cape May while Passaic remained at the bottom. There are an estimated 147,750 eligible Bergen residents who have not registered. The total in Passaic is 103.350. There are almost 200,000 voting-age citizens in Essex who are not registered. A bill permitting election-day voter registration passed the state Senate several months ago but has run into trouble in the Assembly, where opponents say they fear voter fraud if the bill is enacted.

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