Interpreting the Star of Bethlehem and Kohoutek in 1973 beliefs
Religious and secular astronomers debate the Bethlehem star and Kohoutek as potential omens. Experts like James Krankevik and Mark Chartrand discuss planetary conjunctions, while David Berg urges emigration in anticipation of judgment. Conservative preachers offer varied views on Kohoutek and prophecy.
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Persia
Bethlehem
James Krankevik
Wheaton College
Wheaton
Middle East
Jesus
Jupiter
Mark Chartrand
Hayden Planetarium
Manhattan
Saturn
Mars
Pisces
House of
Brian G. Marsden
Central Bureau For
Cambrdige Mass
Venus
Kohoutek
Lukos Kohoutek
Hamburg
David Berg
Children of God
Moses
God
America
Europe
Cross Hunter
Christ
Carl D. McIntire
Krankevik
Wrens Georgia couple found murdered in home during Christmas season
R O Fleming Sr aged 75 and Lois 72 were bound and strangled in their Wrens residence. A son found them after they failed to appear for a Sunday class. Robbery is suspected though no forced entry was evident. Autopsy confirms strangulation late Saturday night.
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Wrens
R. O. Fleming Sr
Georgia
Fleming
Lois
Hugh Fleming
Flemings
Miriam Falzoron
Thomson
R. O. Fleming Jr
Australia
Jefferson County
Juddy Rabin
Christmas shoppers jam stores despite higher prices
Christmas Stores were jammed but merchants estimate sales up about 20 percent from 1972 due to price increases. In America charitable giving at Christmas persisted though some charities saw lower contributions and higher costs.
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America
Spirit of Sharing event in Decatur with gifts from officials
Lt. Tapscott hands a gift to a child at a party hosted by Operation Home with Morgan County Pensions and Security involvement. Mrs. Albert Melton of the Decatur Woman's Club presents the next package as Decatur Police assist, Daily Photo reports.
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St. Lewis Tapscott
Morgan County Department of Pensions and Security
Operation Home
Decatur Woman's Club
Albert
Melton
Tapscott
Decatur
Order of Police
Daily Photo
TVA receives partial approval for Browns Ferry units two and three
The AEC advisory finds second and third Browns Ferry reactors could operate without undue health or safety risk if construction and pre operational testing proceed. TVA aims to start unit one production in January with units two and three planned for 1975 and 1976 pending permits. unit one gained approval in 1972 after test based safeguards upgrades.
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North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Browns Ferry
General Electric
AEC
TVA
Skylab Eclipse Flight Path and Christmas Space Walk Planned
Skylab traced a vast arc from the Pacific south of Managua across Central and South America and ending over Algeria. Weather permitting, Carr and Pogue prepare for a five hour space walk on Christmas to focus cameras on Kohoutek as it nears perihelion. It is day 39 of an 84 day mission.
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Pacific Ocean
Managua
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Colombia
Brazil
Atlantic Ocean
Algeria
United States
Carr
Pogue
Orbiting Space Station
Kohoutek
Turkey Dinner Set For Jail Delights Morgan County Inmate Guests
Morgan County Jail cook Occie B. Sanders announced Christmas dinner for 71 prisoners. The menu includes turkey and dressing, cream potatoes, English peas, cranberry sauce, rice pudding, giblet gravy, and milk.
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Morgan County
Occie B. Sanders
Sanders
Athens Board seeks Title III grant for talented students
The Athens Board of Education requests 38,400 dollars over three years from the State Department of Education for Title III funds. The program at Athens Middle School targets exceptionally talented students in grades six to eight, with up to 50 participants and goals in intellectual, creative, leadership, expressive, and psychomotor abilities.
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Athens
Athens Board of Education
State Department of Education
Dale Weizenecker
Athens Middle School
Weizenecker
City Woman's Parents Killed In Air Crash
The decatur woman Mrs Bob Rodger reported that her Chicago suburb parents died in a private plane crash south of Chicago on Sunday. The couple were en route to spend Christmas with the Rodger family but icy roads and snow forced them to abort travel and take a plane that likewise turned back before crashing about 30 miles south of Chicago.
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Decatur
Bob Rodger
Chicago
Rodger
Jerry Patterson
First Baptist Church
Rodger’s
Patterson
TOPS Al. 128 Evening Meeting and Holiday Services
The TOPS club meets at 6 7 p.m. at 3102 Spring Ave SW with contact numbers 355 2641 and 355 2919 for details. Westminster Presbyterian hosts a Christmas Eve candlelight service with talk by Rev. Edwin Dalstrom at 7 p.m. Open to the public. First Baptist Choir offers Handel excerpts from The Messiah at 8 p.m. and a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 5 p.m. at First Presbyterian. Calhoun Community College Chorale directed by Frances Moss performs at St. Ann's Catholic Church where Mass times are 8 a.m. 10 a.m. and noon. the Calhoun Community College Choir sings at 10 a.m.
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Spring Ave
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Edwin Dalstrom
First Presbyterian Church
Calhoun Community College Chorale
Frances Moss
St. Ann’s Catholic Church
St. Ann‘s Catholic Church
Calhoun Community College
Florida Trooper Killed in Line of Duty near Crystal River
Florida Highway Patrolman Ronald Smith aged 28 was shot and killed Sunday while checking a car on a dirt road near Crystal River. He planned to move his wife Susan and daughter Alicia to a new home in Crystal River, but will be buried in Tallahassee this afternoon.
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Crystal River
Fla
Florida
Ronald Smith
Smith
Gulf Coast
S.L. Clements
Tallahassee
Susan
Alicia
Carl Sanger
Ronald Jones
Norman
Okla
Clements
Ronald
Billy Bennett
Bennett
Cash and copper wire taken in Athens break in
Burglars forced a rear window at Armature and Clutch Exchange Inc. 512 N Marion St stealing an undetermined amount of cash from two vending machines and several pounds of copper wire. Break in occurred between 4 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Sunday.
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Athens
Armature and Clutch Exchange Inc
Marion St
George Clem
Clem
Seven tons of marijuana seized near Bay Minette
Baldwin County deputies stopped two Florida men near Bay Minette, Alabama. Larry Dale Hargett 28 and Roger Howard Sherman 27 both of St Petersburg Fla were arrested in connection with the seizure.
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Bay Minette
Ala
Here
Florida Ene
Larry Dale Hargett
Roger Howard Sherman
St. Petersberg
Fla
Baldwin County Sheriff's Deputies
Foreignisms and oddities in English usage
Bernstein notes how foreign words like Schadenfreude gemuetlich bete noir and chutzpah enrich English. He cites outsides a paper term from Webster and warns gravamen misuses by lawyers, clarifying gravamen as the burden of a grievance not just any argument.
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G. Hayes
Rosemere
Quebec
Philadelphia
Elliott L. Biskind
New York Law Journal
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R. O. Fleming
Wren, Ga
DCI
William Beardsley
Beardsley
Rabin
Dixy Lee Ray
Skylab
First Baptist Church Choir
Songer
Jones
Ralph Morris
Richard Starling
Oklahoma
Florida State University
Patrol Academy
Surgical Floor
Second East
Decatur General Hospital
Chris Livingston
LPN
Ruby Taylor
Nina Alexander RN
Bettye Moore
Bernstein
Theodore M. Bernstein
The
New York Times Syndicate
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