European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday november 13,1990u.s. Wash i Noton apr the nations roman Catholic Bishops monday called for Sharp limitations on any use of military Force by the United states in the persian said Church principles ruled out any tactics that would target civilian lives adding that would mean any Gulf conflict would have to be a Quot limited the Bishops urged that the United states a stay the course of persistent peaceful and determined pressure against Iraq for a non violent solution. The action came in the opening session of the annual fall meeting of the National conference of Catholic Bishops. After lengthy discussion they voted 249-15 to endorse a letter about the Gulf crisis written by los Angeles archbishop Roger Mahony head of the conferences International affairs committee. The letter was sent last week to Secretary of state James Baker. It said resorting to War would violate principles set Down in the churches a just War theory by jeopardizing Many lives raising serious moral questions and undermining the International Solidarity against Iraq. After affirming the letters position the Bishops also voted 126-118 to modify their Agenda to hold a special closed session later on the go if Cris is. Earlier monday the president of the conference said the Church is a in a time of testing for the Priesthood. Archbishop Daniel e. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati told about 300 Bishops that the clergy seems to be m a period of special Seminary enrolments Down to about a fourth of their one time level have yet to begin climbing from the slump he said. A your priests Are fewer and More is being demanded of them than Ever before a he said in his address opening the Bishops annual fall meeting. Quot suspicions have been raised about their faithfulness to their there have been sad lapses publicly known touch Arp limits i Mideast ing even our own Bishops conference. There Are consequent morale problems among some of our priests perhaps even among some of Pilarczyk appeared to be referring to sexual lapses among some priests including a resigned Georgia Bishop but he did not cite specifics. He pointed out that a world Synod of Bishops which met last month at the Vatican strongly affirmed that the Priesthood should go Only to those committed to has been a Church Rule since the Middle Ages but with the sharpening shortage of priests Many catholics have pressed for a priestly option on celibacy. Despite studies finding serious morale problems among clergy Pilarczyk told fellow prelates a we May be in a time of testing a period of Challenge but i know that by and Large our priests Are Happy in their ministry and Are deeply appreciated by the people they Truman s rotting yacht can t find a Homo port Kansas City to. A the Williamsburg once Harry s. Truman a official presidential yacht is rotting near a sewage Plant on the Potomac River outside Washington Ana faces demolition. The vandalized 243-foot-Long Hulk has Trees growing through its deck and is covered with broken Glass an empty Beer bottles the Kansas City Star reported sunday. If no one takes the former Beauty of Black steel teak trim and Mirror polished brass it faces demolition in july 1992, the newspaper reported. Through the years the Williamsburg has had a variety of owners. It had a Brief stint As a floating restaurant in new Jersey in 1969, and before that the National science foundation in Norfolk va., used it As a Laboratory the Star said. The ship became available about two weeks ago to anyone no could prove to the District of Columbia that it would be restored said Kim Nielsen chief of photography for the smithsonian institutions Freer and sack for museums. Quot people have no conscience about destroying things of historic value a said Nielsen a nautical history Buff. A they want to see George Washington a Teeth and Abraham Lincoln a chair. But Here we have president Truman a yacht where he spent half of his presidential career Ana nobody Nielsen is trying to find a future for the yacht and he envisions the Midwest As its brightest Hope Independence mo., to be More specific Truman s Home. But the idea of moving the Williamsburg to the Midwest is hopeless local leaders and entrepreneurs said. A a it a one of those cases where the Powers that be have turned their backs on it a said Richard Lynn a Kansas City kan., riverboat operator who researched the possibilities of the investment. A a it a nothing but a rusting the ship weighs 2,000 tons and is 36 feet wide with a the once luxurious Williamsburg docked along the Potomac River outside Washington faces demolition in 1992. 14-foot draft. A the depth did us in a Lynn said. Quot we done to have that much in the the Williamsburg also Isnit seaworthy and probably fit under Many River Bridges. Nielsen estimated that even though the ship should be donated the restoration would Cost about $7 million a More if the ship is Ever to sail again. Nielsen said that to build a ship its size from scratch today would Cost somewhere Between $12 million and $20 million. And the Williamsburg could be eligible for Federal funds if it were named a National landmark. Dan Mcgraw of Independence looked into bringing the yacht there about four years ago. At that time it was privately owned and scheduled to again become a floating restaurant in new Jersey. The City of Independence dropped its queries. Then Nielsen called Mcgraw two weeks ago to say the ship was available. But now Mcgraw said Quot i done to think the City a going to get involved in it. I done to know what the City of Independence would do with our miss Brooks actress Arden Dies at 82 los Angeles up actress eve Arden the wisecracking and thoroughly delightful English school teacher of televisions a your miss Brooks a died of heart failure monday. She was 82. Arden famous for her Quick riposte died at her Dohony estates Home at 2 30 . With one of her daughters Liza West at her bedside Glenn Rose her personal manager said. Quot her health Nad been deteriorating for the past year a Rose said of Arden adding that the actress had been in Deci Init health since the death of her Husban actor Brooks West in 1985. The tall blonde comedienne had a distinguished career in movies and on the stage but she was Best known for her years As miss Brooks including four on radio and four in the Early years of television. Arden began the series in 1947 and made the switch to television in 1952. She won an emmy in 1953 for Best female personality. Ardent a character earned her a lifelong image As a schoo marm and Wisecrack artist with her put Downs delivered in an expressionless twang. Countless motion pictures and stage appearances and two other television series failed to rid her of the Connie Brooks image. Quot i m not fighting it anymore a she once said. A i can to shake the image. Now i m accustomed to being miss Arden was bom in Mill Valley calif., and passed up a planned College education to take an acting Job at the Alcazar theatre in san Francisco. She then joined the Pasadena playhouse and was promptly noticed by Zieg Feld follies producers. She became a Ziegfeld girl in 1936 and was a leading Broadway attraction with the company within two years. She returned to the West coast when her Mother died and began her motion picture career with an appearance in stage door in 1937, which provided her with her big break. More than 70 motion pictures followed including Quot my reputation Quot with Barbara Stanwyck a Mildred Pierce with Joan Crawford a pan americana with Robert Benchley and a Pearl Carroll vanities with Dennis of Keefe she was nominated for an Academy award As Best supporting actress for Quot Mildred Pierce a Arden built up a screen reputation As the Quick witted a hover girls who was always around when the female Lead needed comforting and advice. A do i Ever get any comforting a she once complained of her image. A do i Ever have a rough Day in a tired of being a miss vinegar of the a whatever her feelings about her movie personality it made her a natural for the a our miss Brooks role. Her two favorite targets on the show were her principal Osgood Conklin and the handsome biology professor or. Boynton. Two less successful series followed a the eve Arden show and Quot the Moth she returned to movie and stage work appearing in the plays Quot butterflies Are free in los Angeles and in a hello Dolly in Chicago both in Lead roles. Her 1985 autobiography was titled a three phases of Arden was married twice. She wed Hollywood agent Ned Bergen in 1938 and was divorced m 1948. She married West in 1951. She and Bergen had adopted two daughters Liza and Constance and she and West adopted a son Duncan. She gave birth to a son Douglas in 1954, Liza West said her Mother was born april 30,1908, four years earlier than her age listed in Hollywood reference books
