[News Script: Mansfield School Opens] Part: 3 of 8
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MANSFIELD 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2
MAN HOLDS FUG
A Dallas mail who identifies himself as "Jesus
Christ" asks that he be permitted to replace the
flagpole effigy with a United States flag. He fails
to get permission from either school officials or
lawmen and leaves saying he is going to get a
ladder and return# As he drives away, Ranger
Captain Crowder sends men to see that he doesn't
return# But the crowd, heretofore quiet, becomes
_• *
loud in its protest of the appearance of a young
Episcopal priest# The Reverend D. W. Clark, vicar
of St# Timothy!s Church in Fort Worth says he is
there as a Christian to try to settle the
controversy# He calls on the crowd to disperse
and says that God commanded man to love his
neighbor#
MAN COMES THRU CROWD
As the crowd becomes loud in its protest, Ranger
Sergeant Banks takes the priest by the arm and
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Mansfield School Opens], item, September 4, 1956; (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306217/m1/3/: accessed February 21, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.