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Autonomous moves
by Baylor University
anger Baptist leaders
DALLAS (AP) — The Baptist
General Convention of Texas stands
“at the greatest crisis in its history,”
and that crisis has been perpetuated
by the actions of Baylor University,
the pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Dallas said from the pul-
pit Sunday.
Beginning with the history of the
12,000-student university, the Rev.
Joel Gregory recalled Baylor’s ties to
the Baptist Church in Texas. He
emphasized the BGCT’s financial
support of Baylor, even during the
Waco school’s formative years.
“From its beginning, Baylor
University was the crown jewel for
Texas Baptists and' glory of Texas
Baptists,” he said.
“The life of Baylor University
and the First Baptist Church of
Dallas can’t be severed,” he added.
The BGCT and the world’s
largest Baptist-supported university
have been at odds since Baylor
trustees, now called regents, pro-
posed last year to create a new semi-
autonomous governing board.
The university would select the
remaining board members.
Earlier this month, a committee
of BGCT leaders approved the pro-
posal. It will be voted on in
November at the BGCT convention
in Waco.
Baylor officials called the propos-
al a move to ward off a fundamen-
talist takeover. The BGCT remains
in moderate hands, but the
Southern Baptist Convention
nationwide has been under conser-
vative leadership for the past dozen
years. Moderates say conservatives
are targeting state conventions.
Gregory refuted Baylor’s claim
that fundamentalist Baptists might
take over the university. He drew
loud applause after comparing
Baylor’s plan to protect itself from
the Texas convention to “foxes
guarding the chicken coop from the
interference of the farmer.”
Gregory says the proposal
betrays the trust of Baylor’s Baptist
benefactors.
“Ranchers who have given their
ranches, teachers who have given
their small estates, businessmen in
this city and Houston who have left
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their empires to Baylor University
with the calm confidence that always
this school would be the crown jewel
of Texas Baptists ... I say refutation of
that trust is wrong — it’s wrong,
wrong,” he said.
Gregory said Baylor President
Herbert Reynolds once said the
BGCT owned Baylor in a 1984 letter
published in the school’s newspaper.
He said Reynolds wrote, “While we
have long received support from the
BGCT of Texas, which owns the uni-
versity, we have benefited greatly
from diversity on our campus.”
Gregory snapped, “Let it be said,
if the BGCT owns Baylor University
in 1984, it owns it in 1991.”
“President Reynolds doesn’t have
the right to play with 145 years of his-
tory ... saying one thing when it suits
his purpose in 1984 and another thing
when it suits his purpose in 1991,”
Gregory said.
Later Sunday, Reynolds said the
BGCT never “owned or operated”
Baylor, although it is written in the
charter.
In the early 1980s, the BGCT
asked Baylor to amend its charter to
say the school was owned and operat-
ed by the convention. Until then,
there was no mention of ownership,
he said. He said the change was chal-
lenged by some BGCT leaders who
said the school only was an affiliation
of the Baptist Church in Texas.
“When an institution is chartered
by the state, the founders give up
control of the institution,” Reynolds
said Sunday. “The elected directors,
whether called trustees, regents or
governors, have full authority.
“Gregory is absolutely wrong,”
Reynolds said. “For 136 years, there
was no mention of ownership in our
charter.”
In response to the sermon, Baylor
communications Vice president
Michael Bishop said, “(Gregory’s)
very frustrated because Texas Baptist
leadership hasn’t followed him and
instead has worked out an accord with
Baylor.”
“(Gregory’s) always sounding the
alarmist call that the sky is falling in
on Texas Baptists,” Bishop said. “I
hope next Sunday he will find a bibli-
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) —
While the rest of the world is toast-
ing Christopher Columbus next year,
Daniel Koski-Karell plans to uncork
an archaeological spectacular by con-
firming discovery of the long-lost
wreckage of Columbus’ flagship, the
Santa Maria.
Koski-Karell, 44, a professional
archaeologist and underwater explor-
er, believes he spotted the Santa
Maria’s coral-encrusted timbers
while snorkeling in 15 feet of water
off the northern coast of Haiti in
1987.
This week, a private salvage ves-
sel is steaming from Miami toward
the Caribbean to begin a systematic
search of more than 100 sunken
shipwrecks along the Haitian coast
to determine whether Koski-Karell’s
hunch is correct
“To discover and confirm the
location of that famous vessel would
certainly be one of the greatest
accomplishments ever made in the
field of underwater archaeology,” he
said.
If Koski-Karell succeeds, his
stunning feat seems likely to over-
shadow many of next year’s interna-
tional festivities celebrating the
500th anniversary of Columbus’ dis-
From a photograph of the Santa Maria III
A modem depiction of what the Santa Maria may have looked like.
covery of the New World. The
explorer landed in the Bahamas on
Oct. 12,1492.
Later on that epochal first voyage,
Columbus visited what became Cuba
(where the Pinta’s captain defected
with his ship) and planted a cross,
claiming the island of Hispaniola for
Spain.
Cruising eastward above the
island, which today embraces Haiti
and the Dominican Republic,
Columbus set sail from Cap-Haitien
on Christmas Eve of 1492. Columbus
went to bed at midnight.
About an hour later, strong tidal
currents shoved the vessel onto a bar-
rier reef. As the tide receded, the
Santa Maria’s seams split
Columbus transferred to the
Rice Festival activities begin Friday in Winnie
By Kim Copelin
UP staff writer
A cajun dance, a rice eating con-
test and a celebrity guest appear-
ance are some of the events featured
at the 22nd Annual Rice Festival
held at the Winnie-Stowell Park in
Winnie.
The Texas Rice Festival is a non-
profit organization, chartered in
1969 to promote the agricultural,
industrial, civic and social well-
being of Southeast Texas and to
foCus public attention on the impact
of agriculture on the economy of
Texas.
The festival will honor George
Bauer as the 1991 Rice Farmer of
the Year. Bauer has.been farming
rice in Jefferson and Chambers
counties for 21 years and is one of
the first farmers in the area to use
laser equipment to level land.
Rides and concessions open
today at 5:30 p.m., and the Cajun
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Night street dance starts at 7. There
will be Aaye-eee, two-step and waltz
contests open to everyone. For those
who do not know how to dance, the
Cajun French Music Association will
demonstrate and teach several
Cajun dances. Sheryl Cormier and
the Cajun Sounds, a popular musical
group in Cajun music circles, will
perform.
Friday, there will be a photo-
graphic art display in the community
building at 9 a.m. This contest is
open to amateur photographers, and
winners will receive gift certificates
or cash awards.
From 9 to 11 a.m. an old timers
breakfast will be held at the ECC
Cafeteria, where entertainment is
provided for senior citizens.
Miss Texas will perform at 4:30
and 7:30, and a street dance will
begin at 9 p.m., with music by
George Dearborne and Branded.
The rice eating contest starts
Saturday at 11 a.m. in front of the
smaller Nina and returned to Spain,
leaving most of the Santa Maria’s
crew ashore to build a fortified settle-
ment he called “Navidad”
(Christmas), using timbers from the
shipwreck.
When Columbus returned the
next year, he found that Indians
resentful over their mistreatment by
the Spaniards had killed all the set-
tlers and burned Fort Navidad to the
ground.
The exact location of Columbus’
lost colony, quickly reclaimed by
wilderness, has been a mystery for
five centuries. Koski-Karell hopes to
find the ruins of Fort Navidad next
year.
Guided by Koski-Karell’s careful
research, underwater surveyors will
look for evidence peculiar to the
Santa Maria, including hand-wrought
iron fastenings and ballast of cobble-
stones.
Perhaps the most important evi-
dence will be shards of a distinctive
pottery probably carried aboard the
Santa Maria. It is a glazed green
majolica first produced in Spain in
1490 and found in the New World
only at Spanish colonial sites dating
to the time of Columbus’ first voy-
age.
main stage. Sign-up time is at 10:30
behind the stage. Trophies will be
awarded in two divisions: junior
division for those 17 and under, and
senior division for those 18 and over.
Ronnie McDowell, Country
Music Entertainer of the Year, will
perform Saturday at 12:30. p.m.
McDowell’s hits include “I Love
You, I Love You, I Love You,”
“World’s Most Perfect Woman” and
“Watchin’ Girls Go By.”
Randy Pelt and Gold Rush will
perform at the Saturday night street
dance at 9.
Other events held Saturday
include the grand parade, antique
car show and an old-time fiddling
contest.
Admission to the festival is $2
per day for adults and $1 per day for
children. Children and students
through high-school age are admit-
ted free until 5 p.m. Friday. Parking
is $2 Wednesday through Friday and
$3 Saturday.
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