Faithful Minority Loses Major Church Case in Michigan
The Wayne County Circuit Court rejected a 1961 suit by a Detroit Mayflower Church minority claiming local church autonomy was impaired by joining the United Church of Christ. The decision upholds local church control over spiritual and temporal affairs and ends seven years of litigation.
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Circuit Court
Wayne County
Michigan
Mayflower Church
Detroit
United Church of Christ
United Church
Congregational and
Evangelical and Reformed Churches
New York
Ohio
Wisconsin
Wyoming
U.S. Supreme Court
John B. Swainson
Ben Mohr Herbster
The
National Assn. of
Congregational Christian Churches
First Congregational of
Los Angeles
James Fifield
Long Beach
Congregational Church
Eighth Street
First Congregational
Third and Cedar
Churches of Christ
Christian Church
Ken Poure to Keynote YFC Event at First Brethren Gym
Ken Poure director of Hume Lake summer camping and noted youth speaker will be special guest at Youth for Christ Saturday Night in First Brethren Gym at 7 30 p m Also on the program is The Congregation a local student folk group and Mission Impossible High school students are invited Delegates from Long Beach attend the Pacific Southwest Synod convention in Sacramento with Rev A E Cox Paul Wright and Rev and Mrs George S Norman More than 700 ministers and delegates will represent 275 congregations and 129 000 baptized members across five states
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Ken Poure
Hume Lake
Youth For Christ
First Brethren
36Th Street
Linden Avenue
Congregation
Mission Impossible
Long Beach Area
Pacific Southwest Synod of the Lutheran Church of America
Sacramento
A. E. Cox
Paul Wright
St. Stephen Lutheran
George S. Norman
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church of
Lakewood
California
Arizona
Nevada
Utah
Hawaii
Mission Breakup of Polygamy Seen as Cruel
A missionary writer argues polygamy may hinder Christian faith in Africa and Asia and calls for re examining the practice. He notes some churches require monogamy for baptism, condemning the fate of women cast aside and the difficulty of re forming family ties.
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Concilium
Africa
Asia
Theodore Tucker
National Council of Churches
Respectable Drinker Seen as Main Challenge in Alcoholism Battle
A respected drinker, not a skid row bum, is identified as the larger obstacle to stamping out alcoholism. The remark notes upwardly mobile drinkers pose a tougher problem for those fighting alcohol abuse.
Hearing Set on Additional Gas for Coast
The Federal Power Commission set June 5 for oral argument in a case on bringing 200 million cubic feet daily of Canadian gas into northern and southern California. A decision on large or medium lines to meet long range needs may follow.
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Washington
API
Federal Power Commission
California
FPC
Seymour Wenner
Encounter California yields over one thousand new converts
Encounter California, a Southern Baptist crusade, wrapped a week of central meetings and church open houses with 1 075 first time professions of faith in the Southland. It also saw 2 418 rededications, 750 requests for baptism, and 1 037 joining existing Southern Baptist churches. The coordinator called the effort a success boosting local Christian witness.
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Southern Baptist Crusade
Jesus Christ
Southland
K. Owen White
Metropolitan Missions
Eagles Ground Power Crew Near Lake Shasta
A PG&E crew was grounded when two 85 foot steel towers near Lake Shasta became the nest site for a pair of eagles. Birds clipped at workers as they scoped the line over the highway prompting the crew to descend and wait.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co
Lake Shasta
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