Large Lutheran Merger Takes Place This Week
Detroit reports a major church merger as four Lutheran bodies join to form the Lutheran Church in America. The consolidation creates about 3.2 million members, making it the sixth largest Protestant group. Delegates from United Lutheran Church American Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Lutheran and Suomi Synod meet Thursday through Sunday at Cobo Hall with thousands expected.
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United Lutheran Church of America
New Lutheran Church In America
United Lutheran Church
American Evangelical Lutheran Church
Augustana Lutheran Church
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church - Suomi Synod
Cobo Hall
Lutheranism
United States
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Wisconsin Synod
Lutheran Social Services of
Michigan
Youth Admits Slaying Two Girls in New Jersey
James H. Vance Jr. 18 admitted bludgeoning Margaret Ann Kennedy 16 and Noreen Buckley 17 to death with a tire wrench near Morris Plains. He led investigators to a blood-stained jacket and to the attic where he claimed the wrench was used after a car wreck during a ride arranged with the victims.
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Morristown
James H. Vance Jr
Vance
Morris County
Frank Scerbo
Scerbo
Margaret Ann Kennedy
Noreen Buckley
Morris Plains
Morris Township
Plainview Man to Direct Day at Scout Camp
Jim Tidball of Plainview is named director of the fifth annual Cub Scout Lion-We belos Day at Camp Hok-Si-La on July 18. Activities include archery obstacle course axemanship rope-yard demonstrations campfire swimming and a chicken barbecue with Gamehaven Council support and a guests' night with 406 parents and families and 170 scouts. Bruce Foster of Spring Valley and George Frederickson of Blooming Prairie join district leaders as part of the Gamehaven Council event planning.
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Tidball
Plainview, Minn
Boy Scout
Sugar Leaf
Camp Hok - Si-La
The
Gamehaven Council
Camp Hok-Si-La
Lake City
Minn
Airlines Erroneously Spell Tucson At Tucson Airport
Arizonan Continental Airlines began serving Tucson a year ago but baggage checks mis-spelled the city name Tuscon, causing local amusement and minor disruption for travelers and staff.
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Tucson
Arizun
Continental Airlines
Tuscon
Police Probe Dancer Who Took Pills After Senate Testimony
Philadelphia police planned to question dancer Pat Lynne also known as Pat Kobalski after she overdosed on sleeping pills amid threats following her Senate Investigations subcommittee testimony about B girls. She was treated at Graduate Hospital in critical condition after an emergency throat operation. Her friend Paul Hackett reported two men forced her from a car in a downtown lot and a tape recorder and clothes were later stolen from the car.
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Philadelphia
Senate
Walter Ryan
Pat Kobalski
Pat Lynne
Graduate Hospital
Ryan
Lynne
Paul W. Hackett
Pat Lynne Hackett
Stanley Greenfield
Hackett
Miss Lynne
Five killed on Iowa roads in weekend crashes
Five weekend accidents across Iowa raised the 1962 highway death toll to 234. Victims include Gale Fogelman, 15 months, Evansdale. Otto Boege, 55, Davenport. Larry Jurgens, 25, Waterloos. Larry Hickman, 23, Waterloo. Henry Milezarcek, 11, Monmouth. Additional deaths occurred in Tipton and Waterloo racing incidents.
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Associated Press
Waterloo
Cedar County Fairgrounds
Tipton
Tunis
Gale Annette Fogelman
Kenneth Fogelman
Evansdale
Larry Hickman
Henry Milezarcek
Monmouth
Fogelman
Mr. Fogelman
Connie Ruth
Connie Mae Combs
Cedar Falls
Robert Henry Wiese
Merlyn Lucille Harberts
Hudson
Boege
Highway 150
Davenport
Jurgens
DFL Committee Reaffirms Stand Against Sales Tax
The DFL State Central Committee reaffirmed opposition to any sales tax and called for a personal property levy overhaul based on ability to pay. The action followed the state convention where the tax plank was omitted from the platform. Dr Stephen Quigley of St Paul was named first vice chairman.
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Minneapolis
DFL
Stephen Quigley
St. Paul
Cedar Rapids Beauty Wins Miss Iowa Honors at 19
Regina Prusha of Cedar Rapids, 19, won Miss Iowa title at the Roof Garden Ballroom contest capping a parade with bands and floats. She was chosen over 15 rivals to advance to the Miss Universe pageant in Miami Beach July 6–16, while four runners up and Miss Congeniality were named.
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Cedar Rapids
Arnolds Park
Iowa
Regina Prusha
Allen Prusha
Miss Prusha
Miami Beach
Fla
Roof Garden Ballroom
Julia Olson
Irvin Olson
Spencer
Lanna Green
Dean E. Green
Prescott
Nancy Lou Norland
Louis Norland
Clarinda
Jo Carney
Clyde Carney
Centerville
Cheryl Moeller
Everly
Barbara Laurent
Eagle Grove
Sharon Zylstra
Ocheyedan
Jeannie Hawn
Iowa Great Lakes
Marsha Ortner
Mary Ellen Ascherl
North Koreans Demand U.S. Withdrawal Over Korea War
The New China News Agency via AP reports North Korea accuses the United States of blocking peaceful Korean unification and calls for U.S. forces to leave South Korea. The charge was in a memorandum issued on the 12th anniversary of the Korean War, which began with the June 25, 1950 invasion led by over 60,000 troops and about 100 Russian tanks.
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Tokyo
United States Today
Korea
South Korea
New China News Agency
State Man Gets Government Post
Eugene P. Foley of Wabasha Minnesota will become deputy to the secretary of commerce. Foley formerly led the Business and Defense Service Administration and will succeed Herbert W. Klotz as deputy. Foley, a Democrat, previously ran for Congress in Minnesota's 1st District and lost a special election to Albert Quie.
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Washington
Republican panel to pick Casé successor in South Dakota
The Republican State Central Committee will meet July 9 to name a candidate to succeed the late Senator Francis Case who died in Washington. Among the contenders are former governors Joe Foss Sigurd Anderson and Leslie Jensen and congressmen E Y Berry and Ben Reifel.
Marrying Squire Dies in Milbourne
Daw son Martin Yerkes known as the marrying squire of Milbourne dies at 80. A justice of the peace since 1913 he claimed to have married 36 000 couples in his career and to hold records for 44 marriages in a day 69 in a week and 1948 in a year.
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Philadelphia
Dawson Martin Yerkes
Milbourne
Yerkes
Note Anniversary of Korean Conflict
Seoul observances mark the 12th anniversary of the Korean War with no parades or rallies. South Korean and U.N. authorities reaffirm their determination to prevent a repetition of the 1950 Communist invasion.
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Seoul
South Korea
U.N
Executive Dies in Uxbridge at 61
Harold J. Walter, 61, former Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Co. president, died Sunday in Uxbridge Mass. Walter also served as vice president of Amerace Corp. of New York City and as a former vice president of the National Association of Woolen Manufacturers.
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Old J. Walter
Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Co
Walter
Amerace Corp
New York City
National Association of Woolen Manufacturers
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Detroit
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Augustant Evangelical Lutheran Church
Joint Commission On Lutheran Unity
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Buckley
Kennedy
Plainview
Rochester, Minn
Bruce Foster
Spring Valley
Gamehaven Council Executive Board
George Frederickson
Blooming Prairie
Otto John Boege
Larry Jurgens
Waterloos
James Ruhoff
John Hall
Hickman
New
Fayette
Milezarek
N. Koreans
U.S
National Bureau of Standards
N. Main Street
Kresge
Hemrock
Canada
Squire
Petent Contractors
11Th St. NE
Uxbridge, Mass
Worlein
1St Drive
Miracle Plastic
Sandlers
Sale
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