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THt PARIS NEWS, SUNDAY, PI I RELIGION IN NEWS Most Churches Frown On Death Penalty Use By TOM HENSHAW AP Religion Writer Is capital punishment ever justified in the eyes of God? Cluirchcs, the guardians of moral have been debating the question for centuries, long before Caryl Chessman became a cause celebrc. Most of the major churches, with the notable exception of the Roman Catholic Church, deplore use of the death penalty. Some have never taken an official stand on it. The Methodist Church's stand against capital punishment has been part of its Discipline since 1040, It reads: "We stand for the application of the redemptive principle to the treatment of offenders against the SAM SKIDMORE NO. 218 Sam Skidmore, industrial arts teacher at Paris High School, proudly sits in the cab of this recently completed steam locomotive which he built during the past year in his spare time.

He built his first train 17 years ago and since that time he has constructed four other steam engines and eight diesel locomotives, plus 25 train cars. Sam sold most of the others, but he plans to keep this one. (Paris News Staff Photo) RENO RAILROAD IS MINIATURE Insurance Plan Credited With Traffic Cut AUSTIN 1 State Insurance Hoard says its new safe driving auto insurance plan deserves much of the credit for a 28 per cent decrease in traffic fatalities so far in 1060. Gov. Price Daniel termed the drop "almost sensationai" when I he announced it Thursday follow- i ing a traffic safety conference.

The governor said the Department of Public Safety statistical service reported 58 fewer fatal crashes and 69 fewer deaths in the first seven weeks of 1960 than in the same period last year. The chairman of the Insurance Board, Penn Jackson, said the agency expected the decrease after the auto insurance rating plan went into effect Jan. 1. Jackson sale" while "we can't categorically claim full credit for it (the decrease)," he feels the plan is responsible for "a considerable portion of the credit." law, to reform of penal and correctional methods, and to criminal court procedure. "For this reason, we deplore the use of punishment." The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

condemns the death penally as lending "to brutalize the society that condones it." Its General Assembly in 1959 went on record as "believing that capital punishment cannot be condoned by an interpretation of the Bible based upon the revelation of God's love in Jesus Christ." The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church more than a year ago, resolved that "the taking of this human life providence of God and not within the right of man." Many Jewish congregations agree with the dominant Protestant view on the death penalty. Last fall the Union of American Hebrew Congregations asserted its belief that 'it "brutalizes the human spirit." "We believe," a resolution passed at the biennial General Assembly, "there is no crime for which the taking of human life by society is justified." The Canadian Catholic Conference, an agency of the Catholic bishops in Canada, though it necessary last week to reiterate the uhurch's stand while Parliament debated a bill to abolish the death penalty. "When a criminal endangers the common good by evil-doing, the state has the right to put him to death, if necessary," she conference said. But, the conference added: "While defending the slate's right to inflict cnpitnl punishment for the reasons noted, (he Calho- lic Church has never either demanded or urged capital punishment as the only means of punishing i i a 1 or preventing crime." The United Lutheran Church in America, however, hod study group poring over Hie question since last October at the re- quest of ils Rocky Mountain Synod. The report is expected in late April.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has discussed the question various pastoral conferences dud, says a spokesman, "the Bible seems to permil Hie possibility of capital punishment." Likewise the United Church ot Christ hns no official position and no specific plans in mind to study Steel Check-File PROTICT CANCELED CHECKS AND OTHER VALUABLE PAPERS By RONNIE THOMPSON News Staff Writer The thundering, black Southern Pacific steam locomotive each day many years ago impressed one young La a Countian. There a boyhood dream of someday owning and running his own steam locomotive began. Today, that dream has come true to Sam Skidmore. industrial arts teacher at Paris High School for the past 21 years, who has built fi steam engines and eight other diesel-style trains. The ones he built are not as big as he hoped for when he was standing along the Southern Pacific tracks as a boy, because they are miniatures.

But. unlike most miniat constructions. Sam's tra i are complete to scale on a two-inch to one foot ratio and are complete with all accessories. He built his first tra i seventeen years ago with the aid of his industrial arts class. It took a complete school year to build it.

Since thai first steamer. Sam has built four others and reworked his first one. i are running in amuseme parks in San Antonio, Fort Smith. Arkansas, and Braunfels, Texas. The last train he constructed, which he considers more to scale than any of the others, he plans to keep for himself.

And when reiirement time comes around his plans are to open an amusement park at his home. Sam is now 65. so retirement is not too far down the track. Sam calls his train Skidmore Short Line" and the box car carries the title, "Route of the Lanna Mae," named after his wife. The engi number is 218, numbered after a Southern Pacific engine which used to travel past his home when he was a teenager.

Xo. 218 pulls a tanker, flat car, coal car and caboose, and will easily carry 36 passengers. Passengers are not confined to children. "Almost 40 per cent of those who have ridden in the past have been adults," he commented. It took some 1.000 spare- time hours to build No.

218 in his workshop at home. "The backyard workshop is a good place to work when the wife puts me in the doghouse," ventured the Paris builder. Sam has a spacious piece of property at Reno and has laid a 14-inch track that winds for over a half-mile through the slightly wooded area. The Paris teacher grew up on a farm and spent considerable time aroLind a cotton gin where his father was a stationary steam engineer. Skidmore holds both a B.S.

and Degree in industrial arts, so "tinkering" comes natural with him. Actually, Sam is a qualified engineer for regular train duty, since he worked part-time for the Paris-Mt. Pleasant Railroad during World War II when they were short-handed. Although he has made some money selling his trains, he is quick to point out that i commercial building days are over. He is now concentrating his efforts on improving his railroad and amusement park.

Sam gets a particular kick out of visiting railroad shops, as a person can well imagine, and talking shop with the railroad men. His trains might not be as big as their trair.s, but in their own way, they are just as good. Yes, the boyhood dream started many years ago, and who then thought it would ever come true. But it has. The Franklin Stove was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1742.

It was a portable iron fireplace that protruded into the room and gave much more heat than the recessed fireplace. 5 Hamburgeri $1.00 Plate Lunchet 65 Steaks and Sandwlchei Red River Valley Cafe 1052 N. Main SU 4-1238 Dick House's, East Paris Be Wise Buy Now FEDDERS Air Conditioners ALL SIZES. FIRST PAYMENT MAY Itt 3 Yr. Termi Save Federal GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SU4-7628 SHOPPE 1711 CUrkivlllt, East Paris PRICE Holds over 1,500 checks for easy reference Monthly index dividers included The Economy Tire for Economy Driving B.F.GOODRICH SAFETY-S Cord US LOW AS 1" WEEKLY 'Plut lax and mileage SU 4-4389 Smfleage IN NEW HOUSTON FIRM Two Former Parisians Investment Executives People from Paris have a knack for standing out, even in a crowd.

And, in Texas, there's no bigger crowd to stand out in than the million-plus mass down in the bayou country that's called Houston. Almost 20 years ago. a ung banker and an aspiring new-spa- perman played golf together at the local links. Today two wars several jobs and lots of mileage together again as manager and account executive of newest investment banking olfice. The office is the 1 ush new ground-floor location for E.

Hut ton Company, a nation-wide firm with 37 branch operations. The Parisians are John Dcnn i Brov.n and J. Newton House, Jr. House, a native of Paris, grew up here and married a Paris girl, the former Miss Martha Stewart. P'ollowing graduation from Southern Methodist University in business administration, House served as cashier of the First Bank of Paris.

Brown, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, graduated from the University of Iowa and did post-graduate work at Northwestern University before coming to Paris in 1940 as telegraph editor of The Paris News. He was still newspapering when World War II caught up with him. Both House and Brown served in the armed forces, and later each pursuing his own gravitated toward Houston, House via a bank vice presidency, a post with a large corporation and a slock brokerage firm. Brown I through a series of brokerage firm posts which took him first to Dal- ias and Mexico City. i Brown is manager of the new Houston office of E.

F. Hutton Company, and House is one of ils senior Account Executives. How's their golf these days? They've both been so busy lately, they report, that they haven't had time to find out. Most of Germany is flat lands, a few- mountains. DOOR MAT SET SPECIAL "TWIN" SAIE PRICE OUTSIDE GeU snow and mud off shoes fcsl tasls a house- lime IRONING BOARD PAD COVER COMPACT-RUGGED CAN'T GET SNARUD INSIDE Proleclt carpeting Non-skid, always in plact CLOTHES with REEL Cooper Women Will Observe Day of Prayer Parts Xews Service COOPER The World Day of Prayer will be observed Friday, 4, with a program at 2:30 p.m.

at First Church. where women of the Prcbyterian i and First Christian Churches will i participate. CIKCUE ONE of Methodist Women's Society of Christian Serv- ice had a program on the Homer Tnhcnnan Settlement House, in the study of city missions. L. F.

Hooted, gave a meditation on "This Ls the Day." and was. assislcrl in the lesson by Miss Ruth Glanvilie and Mrs. H. Scrimshire, who described Dallas and HI Paso houses. Cherry tan.s and coffee were served by Houston, Mrs.

S.T. Townsend and Mrs. A.T. Smith, hostesses at the Houston home. CIRCLE TWO of the WSCS will meet Monday at the home of Mrs.

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