Constructions Highlight Year For Area Churches
The year 1967 saw many area churches under construction or expanded. Hobbs Street Church of Christ in Athens opened in January with a 1000 seat auditorium and a 14 classroom complex. New Friendship Baptist near Somerville and Brookhaven Baptist in April added sizeable facilities. Priceville Methodist expanded sanctuary in May while Hillsboro Baptist opened a new educational building. Various other churches added sanctuaries and classrooms, with First Baptist Athens completing a 300000 educational wing in September and First Bible Church dedicating a 70000 building in October. New church organizations included Bethany United Presbyterian in April and Covenant Presbyterian in May. New ministers include Don Smither man Lamar Davis, with staff changes at Northside Baptist and First Baptist.
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Hobbs Street
Church of Christ
Athens
New Friendship Baptist Church
Somerville
Brookhaven Baptist Church
Flint Church of ‘Christ
First Baptist Church In
Pleasant Valley
Baptist @church
First Bible Church
Tanner Church of Christ of Later Day Saints
Decatur
Hwy
Slaughter Road Church of Christ
Tanner Church of Christ
Bethany United — Presbyterian Church
Huntsville
Trinity
New Church
Old Trinity Baptist Church
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Second Presbyterian Church of
United States
First Presbyterian Church
North Alabama
Don Smitherman
Lamar Davis
Memorial Drive Methodist
Ninth Street Methodist
Northside Bap
Emmanuel Teenagers Attend Winter Retreat in Tennessee
Twelve Morgan County teens from Emmanuel Baptist Church joined youths from several states for a three day winter retreat at Tennessee Temple College in Chattanooga. The event featured games athletic events and trips to Rock City and Ruby Falls with lodging in college dormitories and services at Highland Park. Representing Decatur church were Debra Blair Paul Nave Charles Speer Regina Warren Colleen Clonts Martha Mooney Louise Lewter Denise Blair Libby Terry Linda Warren and Zane Anne Blair.
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Regina
Huskey
Diana Warren
Colleen Clonts
Martha Mooney
Louise Lewter
Denise Blair
Libby Terry
Linda Warren
Zane Anne Blair
Charles Speer
Paul Nave
Morgan County
Emmanuel Baptist, Church
Tennessee Temple College
Chattanooga
Rock City
Ruby Falls
Highland Park i Inooga
Decatur Church
Debra Blair
Regina Diana Warren
Bits of History and Malachi Reflections in Rural Paper
A local editor notes eight months of ill health and asks readers to contribute family histories. The piece quotes Malachi 3 10 to urge tithes, devotion, and repentance, urging readers to document leading women and religious life, and to share Civil War era church impacts with future issues.
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J. W. Myers
Clude
God's Gift and Man's Duty in Stewardship
R H Ramsey discusses the year end call to stewardship and obedience to God. Salvation is God’s gift and only received when life is arranged to meet His requirements. Malachi urges tithes and offerings as proof of love, with God promising abundance to a renewed obedience despite past hardship.
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R. H. Ramsey
Christ
Malachi
Israel
Niver’s film restoration legacy spans nitrate to safety film
Veteran filmmaker and Oscar winner Niver pioneered a reprint process that saves old nitrate film by soaking and redrying onto safety stock. He estimates 3 000 films exist only on paper plus many restored for the Academy and MoMA. His work spans historic scenes from the St Louis World’s Fair to 1904 Galveston and fires in Baltimore. He continues with paper prints, teaching, and collaborations with universities, museums, and military branches.
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Niver
Academy
Thomas A. Edison
John Bunny
Museum of Modern Art
New York
D. W. Griffith
Galveston
Baltimore
Army
Navy
Americans Snap Up Singapore Peking Bargains
In Singapore, the Chinese Emporium draws Americans and foreigners alike with Communist-made goods at lower prices, offering leather and linen, jade screens, handwork, and English labeled toys. Mimi Ho Han Mei runs the store near the embassy row, claiming no political ties, only business. Prices span from one cent pencils to $1,500 jade screens, attracting U.S. embassy staff, tourists, and locals.
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Singapore
U.S
Emrow
New International Building
Emporium
Mimi Ho Han Mei
Mimi
China
Wou
New Tunnel Speeds Alpine Traffic Through the Grisons
Victor Lusinchis report notes the 4.1 mile San Bernardino vehicular tunnel opens in the Grisons linking Ticino with Northern Europe, enabling all season transit. It cuts travel from Mesocco to Chur to about 2.5 hours, bypassing months of snow closure.
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San Bernardino
Grisons
Brenner Pass
Austria
St Botthard Pass
Canton
San Bernardino Pass
Alps
Ithe. Canton
Europe
Mediterranean
Val Mesocco
Mesocco
Chur
Belinzona
Ticino
Char
St. Bernardino
Siena
Jury
Hinterrhein
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Broome
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Moulton
Emmanuel
Emannuel_Baptist
God
Christian National Council of Churches of Christ
U.S.A
King Features Syndicate
Wible
Church of
5Th Ave
S.E
Bible School
J. Hampton Keathley
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Virginia
Frankfort
Kentucky
Fincastle County
University of California
Michal A. Petii
Peking
Kelly Smith
AP Newsfeatures
U. S
Rio—De Janeiro
APT
Myra
Turkey
Switzerland
Victor Lusinchi
New York Times News Service
Italy
Maggiore
Lugano
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
6Th Ave
Johnston St
Christian Science Reading Room
2Nd Ave
N.E
Southern Baptist Church
Memori
S.W
C. R. Burns
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Lamar M. Davis
T. J. Chitwood
Sixth Ave
S.E. Reet
Erst OF
Memorial Drive
Elmer H. Lusk
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