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St. John AME Centennial. conditionalBanquet Saturday NightClimaxing the Centennial cele-! p.m. banquet at Memorial au-bration of St. John African dltonum Saturday'The speaker will be 0. Stanton DePriest, Chicago lawyerDATING FROM 1921 is the present church building of St. John AME congregation.and son of former Rep. Oscar DePriest.IllinoisA Negro church was organized in the 1860ts in Burlington and in 1667 a building was erected with financial aid from the head of the old Churchill Drug Co.‘Chewed Out’ Because Wifetion periol., to commentOfficial i Burnett’s k complained Department leges given Stars and !Overseas Burnett as lt;realize qui innocent huTwo ChurchesBy coincidence, a Negro Baptist church was also organized in Burlington in 1867. Burlington still has two Negro churches, Union Baptist and St. John.Officers at the time the church building was dedicated were: William Emanuel, Simon Edwards, Perry Thurman. James Higgins and W. A. Sear-cey.ComplainedMany years later, with assistance from Burlington philanthropist Mrs. E. P. Eastman, the present church building was put up; it was dedicated April 6, 1924.DARMSTADT, Germany (UPI —'The military editor in chief of Stars and Stripes Pid Tuesday he “chewed out’’ the civilian managing editor of the U.S. armed forces newspaper because the civilian’s wife had written a letter of complaint to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.The managing editor, Arnold Burnett, 59. resigned last month after the incident and is now with the St. Petersburg Times of Florida.The parsr.nage at Starr and Aetna was obtained in the early 1940s.In its earliest days the congregation met in the old Monon hall at the southeast corner of Fourth and Washington streets.Job Offer“As far as I know Mr. Burnett resigned because he’d been offered a job with a 1 newspaper in Florida where they own a home,” said €ol. James Campbell, the editor in chief.Overseas Family, a privately-owned weekly newspaper published for U.S. military families in Europe, earlier said Campbell warned Burnett he would get an “unfavorable efficiency report.” It also reported Camp-| bell said a civil service promotion for Burnett would beTRUSTEES of St. John AME F. Williams. Mrs. Clyde White, andchurch are. from left: DeEdwin Virgil Redd.White, Wilbert Ray, Pastor RobertSears
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Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 16, 1967
Page 9
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