Boones Barred From Nashville Church Roles
Church of Christ elders in Nashville withdraw fellowship from A. A. Boone and wife Pat Boone's parents, barring them from planning or leading worship. The measure cites deviation from Biblical teaching and follows a broader note on church governance. The report also notes NIH's proposed bans on certain fetal research and a Watergate era critique by Lowenstein.
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Canadian Officers Claim Brutal Interrogation After Viet Cong Detention
Captains Ian Patten and Fletcher Thomson of ICOS said they were held 17 days in a rubber plantation near Saigon and repeatedly interrogated and beaten. They rejected accusations of being spies and said they acted on legitimate commission business.
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Community schools proposed to expand public education hours
Educators and lawmakers backed a senate bill to fund and staff a nationwide community school program. Sen. Frank Church Idaho described schools as sleeping giants shut in midafternoon on weekends and summers, proposing extended hours year round to make schools a total community center for all ages.
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Sleeping Giants
Church Dialogue in Jeopardy Over Papal Infallibility
Canon Walter D. Dennis of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine warns that the Vatican reaffirmation of papal infallibility threatens ecumenical talks with non Roman bodies. He calls the move likely a death blow to Anglican Roman Catholic dialogue. The dogma, defined in 1870, holds the Pope cannot err when speaking ex cathedra on faith and morals.
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Uruguayan Opposition Ramps Up Resistance to Junta
Exiled Uruguayan senator Enrique B. Erro says military aims to install a Brazilian type regime in Uruguay with President Bordaberry as a facade. Erro, catalyst of the constitutional crisis, notes the June 27 dissolution of Congress after a military push to lift his immunity.
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Unpassable Bill in Congress Blocks Criminal Code Rewrite
Congress grapples with a sweeping effort to rewrite the federal criminal code in a single package. Lawmakers face mounting problems and a drag on efficiency as they confront the prospect of an unpassable measure.
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Washington
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Hughes calls for expanded hearings on B-52 raids
Senator Harold E. Hughes of Iowa said he asked for expanded Armed Services Committee hearings and a full staff investigation into the Vietnam air war. He cited renewed evidence of systematic violation of military law in B-52 raids in Cambodia kept secret by the Nixon Administration and sought to know who ordered the bombings and why the public was not informed.
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Nixon
Hughes
Nixon urged to meet with Watergate panel
Senate Watergate Committee members urged President Nixon to meet voluntarily with the panel to discuss allegations of involvement in the Watergate cover up. Senator Daniel Inouye said Nixon is in trouble and could clear himself, while Senator Lowell Weicker suggested Nixon might choose his own forum and proposed an informal White House meeting with the committee.
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Hawaii
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Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Connecticut
Former Rep Lowenstein calls for probe into puzzling list
Former Representative Allard K. Lowenstein, once ranked high on a White House list of enemies, urged an investigation into a long and puzzling set of questions arising from the list and related actions in Los Angeles.
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Nyt
Allard K. Lowenstein
White House
IRS Commissioner Highlights Focus on Public Confidence
New Internal Revenue Commissioner Donald Alexander says restoring trust is key and that he cannot prioritize every alleged wrongdoing from Watergate hearings. He reveals an in house probe into claims that Nixon administration enemies had their tax returns audited and friends had tax cases dropped.
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NYT
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Internal Revenue
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No Oil Agreement Yet In Talks With Japan
The United States sought a strong front of oil consuming nations but Tokyo indicated sympathy while agreeing to develop Siberian oil and gas resources and push joint uranium plant construction. Secretary Rogers outlined U S views at the ninth Cabinet level economic conference with Japan.
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William P. Rogers
Shortage Scheme? Texas Power Crisis Probed by Feds
Houston reports two federal agencies are examining if an electric shortage this summer in Texas stemmed from corporate manipulation or the energy crisis. San Antonio and Austin accuse Coastal States Gas Producing Co. of fraud and distortion for creating artificial gas shortages to push prices above contract terms. The firm says rising demand drives its higher gas costs.
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Ruckelshaus Offered Deputy Attorney General Post
William D. Ruckelshaus may stay in the Justice Department as deputy attorney general after resigning as acting FBI director. The offer came from Attorney General Elliot Richardson, contingent on replacing Joseph T. Sneed who is described as over his head in the job. Sneed previously led Duke University Law School and was nominated for the post in January.
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NYT
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Joseph T. Sneed
Sneed
Duke University Law School
Nixon
Controversy Over City Parks Post and Merit System Clash
The Decatur council debates creating an assistant parks and recreation post as a non merit job with a 236 bi weekly salary while the personnel board pushes merit system rules. Council members Martin Rutledge Thomas Levin clash with the board over approvals and a pending State Personnel study.
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Russell Bolding
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Jim Cousin
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Mutual Savings Groundbreaking Announces $4.8 Million Rise
The Roussel family praised community backing as Mutual Savings reveals plans to expand with a new building, aiming for a cost near 4.8 million dollars. G and W Asphalt awarded foundation work for the Starlite Motel site while Hall and Colvard finish working drawings. About 25 insurance agents from five states attend the ceremony amid employee and agent praise for growth and productivity.
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Decatur Daily
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Joe McPherson
Hall and Colvard
Ben Larkins
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Jack Wood
Mélvin Hutson
Redus Collier
Powell Case Updates on Matthews Slayings Convictions
H Emmett and Creamer were convicted in separate trials for the Matthews killings. Creamer received the electric chair, Emmett got life imprisonment. both are appealing. Two others, Carol Sue Bolling Johnson and Charles Benjamin Roberts, still await trial. Roberts is not yet in custody.
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Vacation Bible School at Greenbrier Baptist Church
Greenbrier Baptist Church hosts Vacation Bible School from 6 30 to 8 30 p m nightly through Friday with a final Sunday Commencement. Theme God s Hall Of Fame open to ages 4 through 16. Also listed are local meetings and activities across Decatur including church seminars and clubs.
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Greenbrier Baptist Church
Kalmbach defends actions during Watergate fundraising
Kalmbach testified at the Senate Watergate hearings that he raised funds to pay legal defense and support families after the 1972 break in, saying he acted under what he believed to be a moral obligation and under directions from White House aides. He denied using funds for La Casa Pacifica and noted he was a key fundraiser for Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign.
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Nixon Receives Chest Therapy Amid Fatigue In Hospital
Doctors at Bethesda Naval Center report President Nixon is resting after four daily chest therapies aimed at reducing lung congestion. They note fatigue persists and a mild pain killer was given, with a gradual recovery expected over a week or more.
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