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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 7 probe focuses on new pal Leader scr Grarf says Dortch involved in cover i by the associated press assemblies of god officials who arc investigating to preacher Jim Bakker plan to Eccl this week with his Succes Sor who has come under fire for arranging a settlement for a woman who had asexual encounter Wilh Batter the Rev. Richard Dortch who be came president of the pal ministry after Bakker resigned March 19, reportedly was a principal in negotiating a $265,000 settlement far Jessica Hahn. Bakker has described the Money  the Rev Jimmy Swaggart a severe critic of Balder has called it pan of a cover up and said Dortch hound resign. Swaggart said the Hierarchy of the assemblies of god of which he is a Mem bar. Appears frightened by the influential to s Power. My own denomination is to the very Edge of being  Swaggart  s taking the very sinew and the Power of the spiritual muscle to overcome Christian to to overcome a so called preacher who fell into  the Rev. Jerry Falwell who stepped in flt Backer s request to chair the pal Board said a criminal investigation was possible if Hahn was paid to keep quiet when you get to paying extortion Money that s real close to the Edge especially if it s nol your Money Falwell was quoted As saying in saturday s combined editions of the Atlanta journal Andice Atlanta Constitution. Batter and Dortch both resigned fro the assemblies of god on March 19, bul the pentecostal denomination has the option of dismissing a minister rather than accepting a resignation we will meet next week and have requested Dyrich to appear there. Tom Whiddon assistant superintendent of the North Carolina District Council of the assemblies of cod said Friday. The reason we re looking at him is because he has submitted his res ignation. Because of All the publicity f feel Lite re just being Nice to brother Dort of Whiddon said. We re saying tool you have requested this resign Mon. We re going to be discussing it. A can be there r j Paul Roper a los angled business Man and member of the ask Blics of cod said he took up Haiti s Case in1984. When he was Unab Mlo get pal to agree to a religious trip final to reviewer charges Roper said sent pal the draft of a civil comply at alleging false imprisonment inflict Lon of emotional distress and assault old Battery Dortch set up Rane eting on feb. 7, 1985, in Ali Fornito. Roper said. Within two is they had agreed on a Sci Kreneff of j26j,000 the Price of Hope Bakker was Selling at the Lime Essaid of that amount $ 150,000 was put in Trust fund. Hahn receives interest on it monthly and will gel the principal at the end of 20 years Roper said. Of the remaining is 15,000, she received $20.300 and the rest went toward expenses including Roper s fee which he refused to disclose. He said he and an attorney agreed to oversee the Trust fund for 20 years and prepare Hahn s income tax returns with out charge. In an interview published saturday inthe Washington Post Roper said Hahn sought his help after she had been badgered into signing a document that made the incident appear to be her fault or Ather  Ole miss Campus mourning Fleatus of 5 coeds Fife Small wooden crosses Mark the ipod where the Una Terfry of Mississippi coeds were lulled. A photo Oxford miss. A the deaths of five sorority Sisters after a car was knocked into a group participating in a Charity walk a lion have sent the University of Mississippi Campus into mourning. It will probably get a Little worse before it gel better said Bryan Smith of Corinth who was leaving for his Hometown to attend sunday funeral services for Junior Hess Worsham a Friend since Junior High. It will probably hit everyone this weekend.1 the delayed reaction worries University officials four sessions about dealing with grief were schedule for students sunday a greek olympics event was postponed As were Many other  Chi Omega chapter whose five members were killed cancelled weekend plans for an annual party for250 High school students interested in joining. Chi Omega officials and alumnae nationwide have called or visited the be member chapter. Chancellor Gerald Turner borrowing words used by former Oxford resident William Faulkner urged 3,000 students who gathered for inc Friday memorial service to endure and  we must nol forsake each other. We must draw together As a Community Turner said. Nancy Horton president of the 9,054-Sludcnt body agreed. We re going to have to become United to overcome this she said. We re All asking the same questions. Each Neof us Kric Wonhof them or somebody in the  hundreds of students lined up to donate blood forthe nine people hospitalized after the Accident. A pickup truck pulling a Hay Baler slammed into Acar that was trailing 20 walkers on the shoulder of the four Lane Roadway thursday afternoon flipping it into the group the slate Highway Patro reported. Maria von troop of sound of music Fame Dies Stowe it. Cap Maria von Trapp whose escape from the nazis with her Hus band and children inspired the sound  died saturday. She was 82. Mrs. Von Trapp was hospitalized wednesday at the Copley Hospital in mor Riv ill for gangrene of the Small Bowel along Wilh heart and diabetic pro blur said Ner son Johannes von Trapp. Was a truly remarkable inspirational and Loving. She deeply missed by All who knew actress Julie Andrews who played von Trapp in the movie version of. The sound of music said saturday through spokesman Gene  members planned to meet sunday to arrange the funeral said Gail Lanfranconi who works for inc Vontrapp at their resort. A list of survivors was nol immediately , von Trapp was 33 when she fled her native Austria in 1938 Wilh her Chil Dren and her husband the tale Baron Gcorge von Trapp. Their Story was dramatized in a Book play and Academy award winning movie. The Trapp family singers poured Europe and the United slates for several years before settling in Vermont the Reich mountains and people reminded them of  Home atop a Hillside in Stowe eventually became the site of a music amp and was expanded in 1962 into a popular year round resort. Soffes Spring Forward 3 weeks earlier this year Washington up americans will lose a hour of sleep but gain an hour of evening sunlight when Daylight saving Lime Arris sunday three week earlier than last year. / Daylight saving time used of arrive on the last Sun Day in april bul Congress changed the Law last year. The Law now mandates mat clocks be set Forward one hour at 2 . Local time on the first sunday in april and resumed to Standard Lime on the final Sun Day in october. Or As the adage goes Spring Forward fall  government and private Industry surveys show that Highway traffic deaths und injuries should be reduced during Daylight Lime a transportation depart ment spokesman said. Studies also indicate there would be less crime. I addition people save on  polls show most americans favor having Daylight saving Lime in april bul nol Chi Rayonc in the country observes thir Lime . Arizona the Eastern time zone Sec icon of Indiana puerto Rico the Virgin islands and american Samoa Are excluded from the change. The time switching ritual is administered by the transportation department owing 10 in historic role in an age when keeping Railroad timetables in different time zones was More important than in today s a age Benjamin Franklin first proposed Daylight saving Lime while serving As the . Envoy to France. He wrote a paper recommending that shops open an close earlier during summer months to Cul the costs of candles. The uni cd Silica did not accept Franklin s advice until March 31, wi8, when president Wilson signed legislation establishing Daylight saving Lime. That was repealed the following year and the practice was  Pora Rily revived during world War ii. In 1w6, in uniform time act provided for the first nationwide observe Nee Odayl fint saving time during peacetime  
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