Cumulative Thing Church Plays Key Civil Rights Role
The church has shifted from moral appeals to active action in the Negro civil rights fight. Clergy across denominations joined marches and arrests, with Selma highlighting their pivotal role and deaths marking the high cost of church-led activism.
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George W. Cornell
Selma
Ala
Comb
Miss
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alabama
America
Robert W. Spike
Commission On Religion and
National Council of Churches
Robert McAfee Brown
Tallahasse
Fla
Chester
Bruce
Klunder
New Orleans
Tolland
Ohio
Albany
Washj
Methodist
Lincoln
King
Jackson
St. Augustine
San
Francisco
Chapel Hill
N.C
Away
Greenwood
Fore.s
Commission On
United Presbyterian Church
Eugene Carson Blake
Baltimore
Spike
Washington
Dr. King
Bible Scholar Hester Receives Southern Baptist Honors
The Rev. Dr. H. I. Hester of Liberty Missouri, veteran scholar and Midwestern Seminary educator, received honors at a luncheon marking his retirement after nearly 40 years with Southern Baptist institutions. He led the bible department at William Jewell College for 35 years and has been vice president of Midwestern Seminary since 1961.
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Dallas
H. I. Hester
Liberty
Southern Baptist
Alumni Association
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Southern Baptist Convention
Hester
Kansas City
Ence
Brazil
William Jewell College
Lat Liberty
Midwestern Seminary
Doctors Unable To Save Boy Eye
Kansas City AP Doctors at the University of Kansas Medical Center examined six year old Davie Crowe of Cherokee Kansas and determined they could not restore vision in his right eye. Davie saved a sister from a home fire previously and a fund for his eye treatment was raised. Specialists found a corneal scar and said surgery cannot restore the vision. His left eye remains normal.
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Kansas City
Kan
University of Kansas Medical Center
Davie Crowe
Cherokee
David
Donald Crowe
Escapees Elude Police in Chase
Kansas City AP report says two Missouri prison escapees Richard Lee Turner and Jerry Monroe Arras, both 25, fled from Moberly medium security prison after an eight block chase. Bullets hit a rear window of their red 1957 Chevrolet as officers pursued them. nine patrol cars joined the manhunt ending at 17th and Fremont.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Moberly
Richard Lee Turner
Jerry Monroe Arras
Turner
Atlas
Ninth
Fremont
17Th
Freamont
Johnson asks cutting silver in U S coins to conserve metal
President Johnson asked Congress to revise coinage to reduce silver use. Proposals include no silver in new dimes and quarters, a 40 percent silver content in a new half dollar, and keeping the penny nickel unchanged. Old silver dollar remains but no cartwheel coinage continues. New coins side with vending machines.
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Washington
Johnson
U.S
Congress
Two-Car Collision Kills Kearney Woman
Mrs. William S. Tester, 73, of Kearney, was killed in a two car crash on U.S. 69 midway between Excelsior Springs and Cameron. The other driver was 44 year old Gulley of Excelsior Springs. both vehicles collided at an intersection after Tester pulled onto the highway from a gravel road.
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Excelsior Springs
William S. Tester
Kearney
U.S
Cameron
Reds
Tester
Hs! Hong
Ger
Peking
Excelsior
Missouri Highway Patrol
Bank of England cuts rate to 6 percent
London AP reports the Bank of England trimmed its policy rate from 7 to 6 percent. The earlier 7 percent level, in place since November 23, aimed to prop the pound by attracting foreign funds but restrained business borrowing and housing loans. The government sought a quicker reduction.
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London
Bank of England
Britain
Homesick Boys Quit Job Corps Center
POTEAU Oklahoma AP Twenty home sick boys left Oklahoma s first federal Job corps camp to return home after two weeks at the center near Hodgens They were in the East and preferred home life to the camp stay with 60 others remaining at the Stapp Work Center south of Hodgens.
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Oklahoma
Stapp
Hodgens, Okla
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