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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1969
Page
4
A new book profiles 12 men who resigned from the priesthood protesting celibacy and seeking optional marriage. They cite economic insecurity and lack of intellectual freedom, urging church reform to allow marital clergy and align with natural rights.
Jonathan Fanton of Yale promotes a Transitional Year Program that places minority youths on campus for one year of intensive preparation in English science math and social sciences. The program reports 95 percent of graduates gain college admission including Yale Harvard MIT and more. Fanton argues for expansion to many colleges rather than massing at a few institutions.
Dr. Joseph Martin Hopkins of Westminister College reports a 23 year Bible course shows a downward trend in youth literacy. In a 14 question quiz only 18 percent named the Acts of the Apostles and half knew the fourth Gospel. He links biblical illiteracy to immature faith and urges better home and adult religious education.
Three people drowned in Indiana over the weekend including two children. Four year old Mathew Scheele died in a pond near Fort Wayne after likely ten minutes in water. Fourteen year old Martin Lasher drowned on Saddle Lake north of Tell City after falling from an inner tube. Forty five year old Donald Mandell fell from a motorboat into Lake Michigan near Porter Beach and did not survive. Kenneth Wardell, nineteen, was recovered from Lake Holiday after drowning Thursday.
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