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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1974
Page
4
A High Point Enterprise feature recounts Joshua’s siege of Gibeon and the miraculous moment when the sun and moon halted at God’s command to secure victory. The piece leads into next week’s note on the capture of the Canaanite kings.
A dense church calendar lists services and events across High Point organizations. Notable items include Memorial United Methodist honoring Rev. Clarence E. Strickland at 8 p.m. with a social hour, a 7 p.m. Calvary United Methodist singing event, Woodlawn Baptist revival starting Sunday 7:30 p.m., and Trinity Baptist honoring Rev. J. C. Gatewood on his 90th birthday and 60 years of ministry. Additional notes cover Crestwood Presbyterian speaker Dr. Fred Horton, Fairfield Homecoming at Bethlehem Baptist, Brentwood Baptist anniversary observations, and two Episcopal clergy reassignment notices. The Emerywood Sanctuary Choir program at 7:30 p.m. features a mixed repertoire with soloists and instrumentalists.
The Overseas Press Club chose 23 landmark events for a forthcoming book. Eight are religious in nature, including The Creation and The Children’s Crusade. Other major milestones span The Invention of the Wheel, Gutenberg, Columbus, Gettysburg, powered flight, the Russian Revolution, and men walking on the Moon. Twenty writers, all veterans, compile the volume. Also reported: over half of major U.S. medical schools now teach surgical stapling, with UCLA Mayo Clinic and others endorsing the technique.
A Phoenix report recalls a high school meeting with Wounded Knee demonstrators and Native students. It contrasts militant scenes with a push for education, citing Chief Joseph and Dr Roe Lewis on balancing two worlds and the value of Navajo Community College and Ganado schools amid poverty and high unemployment.
Two bishops and a district superintendent will lead the Western North Carolina United Methodist Conference in Lake Junaluska June 5 to 9 with 1600 delegates. Bishop Earl G. Hunt Jr will open with the State of the Church. Bishop Robert M. Blackburn will preach, including the ordination service. Dr. James C. Peters will lead Memorial Service. devotions by John Sills and Paschal Waugh. host churches Central Mount Airy and Centenary Winston-Salem to provide music. new boards include Global Ministries Discipleship Ministry and Higher Education and Ministry.
The 170th annual North Carolina Lutheran Synod meeting opens May 29 at Lenoir Rhyne College Hickory and runs to June 1. Delegates from Grace Lutheran Thomasville include Mr. and Mrs. Sechrist and Pastor Hoke H. Ritchie. New congregation St. Peter Lutheran Southport joins. Nine ordinands to ministry and ordination led by Dr. George F. Harkins.
Davidson County Community College annouces 1974 commencement marshals from five area towns led by chief marshal Willard D. Wagoner of Route 4 High Point students Marilyn L. Jarrell Hazel A. Bowen Michael D. Shannon and William H. Haude also named Barbara R. Waisner Erwin M. Hunt Jerry D. Beck Jackie L. Sink Jerry D. Hester Krista B. Matthews and Robert F. Koontz from Lexington and other communities hailed as marshals.
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