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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1962
Page
8
The sermon urges real local progress toward church unity amid long standing divisions. It highlights Pope John XXIII lore, notes proposals by Bishop Pike and Dr. Hindé, and calls laypeople to meet, learn, and attend regularly to foster true reconciliation.
Phoenix AP reports a year's study by the Committee for Elementary School Teachers in Arizona concludes temperature can be estimated by counting cricket chirps in 15 seconds and adding 37. The guide aims to promote science study in schools with similar tidbits.
Evangelist Billy Graham will address more than 12 000 teen and adult delegates at a Youth for Christ event in Washington D C from December 29. Representatives from Youth for Christ Teams who served in Berlin Portugal South and Central America and the Near East will also speak. A chartered bus will take 36 Garden City youths to the convention for under 100 dollars covering meals lodging and travel. The bus departs December 25. contact Reverend Tyler for details.
The Rev. Robert Rusk of the First Baptist Church was elected president of the Garden City Ministerial Alliance for 1963 at a Tuesday meeting at Holcomb Community Presbyterian Church. Also elected were Rev. Arthur Fleming as vice president and Miss Ruth Hacking as secretary and treasurer. ministers from multiple area churches attended the gathering.
New York AP report says Tax Foundation predicts scores of major tax proposals for next year. Expected measures include sales tax rate increases in Colorado Missouri New Mexico Nevada Georgia and North Dakota and income tax withholding adoption in North Dakota and Kansas. Teelanders swim in open-air pools as icicles form in hair.
A parked car in Chattanooga, Tennessee was broken into as temperatures dropped toward zero. Two pairs of insulated underwear were stolen, while a bizarre reference to marionette string pullers in the Hindu epic Mahabharata appears in the same brief.
Members of the Bible Bethol of the Piest Christian Church will present an annual Christmas program in the Sanctuary Sunday at 7 pm. The schedule includes live pictures a children's choir dramatizations choral readings and reader presentations. Refreshments will follow in Fellowship Hall. The White Gift for Ax tel Christian Hospital Newton is part of the program. Vernon Baker directs with Miss Carlyne Ward as accompanist. The Children's Choir will sing during morning worship this Sunday.
In Topeka, a federal judge ruled the government was negligent in a Lake Toronto drowning near Chanute. Kenneth Peng and James Cottrell died April 30, 1980 when their car left a road and went into the lake. The award totaled about $50,000 to the widows and four children.
Members and friends of the First Southern Baptist Church have covenanted to value $825 for foreign missions. The campaign centers on the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Mary Barnes, Woman's Missionary Union president, noted about half of Southern Baptists’ 1,007 foreign missionaries in 51 countries are designated for the Lottie Moon Offering, with a $383 goal, a 15 percent increase over last year. The Southern Plains Baptist Association aims to raise $2,500, also up from last year. The local drive continues through January, directed by Mrs. Sam Chapman, Stewardship Chairman of the Woman's Missionary Union. Lottie Moon was an early Southern Baptist missionary to China whose example inspired greater giving.
Jehovah's Witnesses announce no Ministry School or Service Meeting this week at the National Guard Armory in Larned. The Circuit Assembly will be held with Peter O'Mara, Brooklyn district supervisor, speaking on The Bible's Answer to our Problem of Survival.
The Santa Fe Railway announced ad valorem tax payments trail to 70 counties in which it operates. Kansas 1962 tax bill totaled 5,210,785 dollars, funding schools and municipalities through the principal tax payments.
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