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PHOTO NUMBER:

PC-53599

PORTLAND PROFESSIONAL SOCCER TEAM HEADED BY METHODIST MINISTER

PORTLAND, Ore.-- A Portland Timbers midfielder overpowers an opponent in

an earlier North American Soccer League game. Inset shows the Rev. Peter

Warner, senior pastor of the city's Parkrose United Methodist Church for

the past 8 years, who is general manager of the professional team.

Mr. Warner, who has broad experience in top-level soccer, was hired to head the Timbers by Chairman Harry A. Merlo

of the Louisiana-Pacific-- a forest products company which owns the team.

Mr. Merlo, a devout Catholic, has pledged all net income from the soccer

franchise to six Oregon charitable and cultural bodies.

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