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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1971
Page
5
Sam Hammons of Clinton Oklahoma named summer youth director for Central Baptist Church activities. He is a senior at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee majoring in his field.
Youth activities for the summer cover a choir tour a Six Flags trip a showing of the Billy Graham film Lost Generation on July 9 a newspaper youth led revival a Ridgecrest North Carolina retreat and a coffeehouse The Gate at 19 W Moulton every Friday night at 8 p.m Hammons will tour Europe and the Holy Lands during July.
Shoal Creek Baptist in Priceville conducts a stewardship week with visitation and cottage prayers. A weekend revival ends with N F Greer from the Alabama Baptist Convention. WMU conferences set for Shocco Springs July 12–15. Church events include a Moulton Church of Christ gospel meeting and Harris Chapel revival with Evangelist Anna Lois Love. Greenbrier Baptist set church picnic July 3.
An article profiles Paul Klee, describing him as a pioneering 20th century artist who never joined a movement. It notes his youth in Switzerland, musical influence, Blue Rider exhibition in 1912, travels to Italy and Tunisia, statements on color, and his career as a professor in Dusseldorf before fleeing Nazi Germany and dying in 1940.
A humorous dialogue features Big Bill renouncing his nickname to avoid lasting tag. Jack teases, Bill vows to become a doctor, and a husband jokes his wife is a chicken needing eggs, prompting a psychiatrist’s quip.
A description of the daisy explaining its sunburst center and ray like petals and the Old English origin from dayeseye eye of the day. The item also mentions a Yearbook feature and invites readers to send riddles and jokes to a section named Riddles Jokes Tell Me Why with a request to include a ZIP code.
The piece discusses Micah 6 urging repentance from Judah amid Assyrian threat. It condemns ritualism, idolatry, graft, and oppression, and links ancient judgment to contemporary American society’s racism and economic greed. It calls for humility before a holy God.
A sermon excerpt contrasts ancient Judahs failure with Americas current state, urging nations to heed Micahs call to do justly love mercy and walk humbly with God rather than claim special chosenness. It discusses justice, deceit, mercy, humility and societal corruption, citing biblical and civic ideals.
The Alabama Baptist Church Music Department schedules a Junior Music Camp for older children at Shocco Springs Baptist Assembly Talladega July 19 through 23. Four to six graders join choral workshop plus music theory piano guitar singing and handbell instruction with guest director Duane Blakley of First Baptist Brownsville Texas leading a cantata performance.
A cache of watermelon tourmaline crystals has been found near the Brown Derby mine northeast of Parlin Colorado. The area also yields blue beryl creamy topaz pink lepidolite and black tourmaline attracting interest from local prospectors.
Rev Roy Fisher pastor of Swalecliffe Baptist Church England will headline a weekend youth led revival at First Baptist Church continuing through Sunday Services tonight at 7 30 p m and Sunday at 11 a m and 7 p m Fisher wife Yvonne with two children is in the States for several weeks preaching in various churches He aided First Baptist youth during their England tour last summer
Rev Ray D Elders of Somerville Church of God attends the 82nd International Convention in Anderson Indiana. About 20 000 pastors and laymen join over 300 institutes and meetings for church work affecting 400 000 members in the U S and 40 other nations. Sessions include policy making general assembly with trustees elected and budget ratified.
In Pretoria South Africa post office officials mandate white workers address non whites as they would whites using respectful titles. The directive requires staff to greet customers and colleagues with Mister Mrs Miss Doctor or Professor as appropriate to ensure uniform courtesy across races.
Casablanca now employs about half of Morocco's industrial workforce, highlighting the city as the country’s manufacturing hub and signaling concentrated economic activity and growth prospects in the region.
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