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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1968

Page

15

Baptists to Host Session for Crusade of the Americas

Memorial Baptist Church in Long Beach hosts an evening session at 7 30 at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium open to all with no admission fee. The Crusade of the Americas, a hemisphere wide evangelistic thrust, will be climaxed in early 1969 with thirty eight Baptist bodies from North Central and South America participating.

Long Beach Municipal Auditorium Listic North Central South America

Reading classes to teach adults using Laubach method

A program organized by North Long Beach Community Presbyterian Church will train teachers in the Laubach method to teach adults to read. Beginning mid September at 6380 Orange Ave the class is for volunteers to teach and support literacy efforts addressing poverty and job/contract literacy needs.

Laubach North Long Beach Community

Teen-Agers Saluted for Indian Work

The Lakewood First Presbyterian Church senior high fellowship in Long Beach earned the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Youth Award. The youths organized a caravan to visit the Copah youths in Yuma Arizona, built a basketball volleyball court, roofed structures, and shared evenings with Copah youths. The monthly award honors notable youth efforts by the Chamber’s Women’s Division youth development committee.

Lakewood First Presbyterian Church Long Beach Yuma Ariz America Chamber Women’s Division

Portable satellite unit links papal visit to world TV

In Bogota a mobile earth station with a 16 foot dish was deployed to relay color TV of Pope Paul VI’s visit to the Eucharistic Congress. The system uses the ATS 3 satellite to broadcast to the United States and Europe with receiving dishes in Andover and Raisting. Tele comunicaciones and Comsat Corp arranged the installation near the congress site.

Bogota Colombia Hughes Aircraft Co el Segundo Communications Satellite Corporation South America ATS U.S Europe Andover Maine Raisting Germany la Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones Telecom Comsat Corp National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pope Paul VI Columbia Cecilia Louise Mount St. Mary’s College Los Angeles Roland Boucher

Hosmer to Talk at Moose Fete in Long Beach

Rep Craig Hosmer of Long Beach will speak at Moose Lodge No 600 dinner in Moose Hall Tuesday as the lodge enrolls its first new class in his honor. Mayor Edwin Wade will introduce him and Hosmer will present a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol for the occasion.

Craig Hosmer Long Beach Moose Lodge No. 600 Moose Hall Paul Mackey Hosmer Edwin W. Wade U.S. Capitol

Adventist Elder Sill to Speak at Long Beach Stake Conference

Sterling W. Sill an assistant to the Council of Twelve Apostles will address the Long Beach Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Long Beach Tabernacle 3701 Elm Ave stating the event aims to inspire parishioners.

Sterling W. Sill Council of Twelve Apostles Long Beach Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints Conference

Archbishop warns obsession with change threatens true religion

Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken of San Francisco told 400 Knights of Columbus delegates in Anaheim that an uncritical idolatry of change endangers the Church. He urged reverence for the Church’s divine structure and cautioned against leveraging change to abandon vows and moral absolutes.

Anaheim Joseph T. McGucken San Francisco Anaheim Covention Center Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus Francis Cardinal McIntyre Los Angeles Christ God

New Controversy Brews Over Book by Professor

Western Michigan University historian Dr. Paul L. Maier releases Pontius Pilate arguing Pilate was Prefect of Judea, dated crucifixion to 33 A.D., and that pressures from Tiberius shaped events. He cites new archaeology and casts Pilate as not procurator and not responsible personally for Jesus’ death.

Kalamazoo, Mich Western Michigan University Pontius Pilate Christ Paul L. Maier Doubleday & Co Maier Western Michigan Pilate Judea Jesus Tiberius Palestine Israel Claudius Caesar Tiberius Caesar

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