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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1969
Page
3
The piece reflects on the Star as guide and symbol of faith for the three wise men from the East, linking ancient navigation by stars to universal guidance across lands and languages as they sought the Christ Child. News features.
First Presbyterian Church at West Ave and Cass St held a community Christmas party in the social hall Friday night. About 300 children from nearby schools, many from broken homes, attended as guests of the church. deacons sponsored the event and oversaw Christian outreach. The program featured Fellowship Unlimited under Nancy Page, stockings sewing, refreshments, black-out skits by youth, and a Santa visit with clowns. The event marks the first in a series of community involvement efforts by the deacons to bring God and the church to the community.
Two Christmas Eve services are set for 7 and 11 p.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church in the 19th and Redfield streets area. Families will sing carols and hear the Christmas story with music from treble and youth choirs led by Mrs. Larry Monge and Mrs. Wesley Hurlburt. Mrs. Lowell Larson will sing Little Shepherd Boy and Joan and Judy Grover play a piano and organ duet. The film Why The Chimes Rang will be shown. The 11 p.m. Candlelight service features a 27-member church choir and a solo The Angel's Song by the choir director Mrs. Kern Kielley.
The Trinity United Church School on Highway 14 will present a Christmas program at 8 p.m. Sunday. Two performances are scheduled with younger children first and the older classes performing No Room in the Hotel.
The second annual Christmas hymn festival is set for Sunday at Olivet Lutheran Church on Bainbridge Street. Rev. James Steinbrecher says congregational singing of old favorite Christmas hymns will be offered at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. services, with the junior choir singing at the 10:30 service.
Sunday school children from nursery through sixth grade at Trinity Lutheran Church 1010 Sill St will present a Christmas program after the 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. worship services. The program titled Children Tell of Christmas highlights the holiday through young participants.
Yale Program Set at Asbury United Methodist Church will present a Christmas program Sunday at 2 30 p m in the fellowship hall. At 7 p m the Couples Club will meet at the church to go caroling.
Radio highlights note Sunday schedule with WLCX and WCOW FM. WLCX features 10 a.m. Christmas music by German choral groups and 6 p.m. rebroadcast of Central High Christmas concert. WCOW FM airs 12:45 p.m. football Packers vs Cardinals.
Chicago grand jury issues five page report calling October disorders a planned insurrection. Thirty five more people charged raising total indictments to sixty four for the Weatherman faction violence. Brian Flanagan of New York indicted for maiming City attorney Richard Elrod during the downtown attack. Charges include aggravated battery mob action and resisting arrest. The report lauds police handling and criticizes church use by LDS members.
The Sunday school of St Pauls Lutheran Church presents He Came Among Us a living manger scene at 4 p.m. in the sanctuary. Narrators are Daniel Langstad and Laurey Hanson. Principal parts include Michael Leifer and Kristine Potter. Offerings aid missionaries Mr and Mrs Norman Omodt in Colombia supported by the church.
Sunday church services at First Church of Christ Scientist begin 10 45 a m at West Ave and King St. The Christian Science lesson sermon centers on whether the universe including man is evolved by atomic force and cites Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy noting the Bible’s central fact is the supremacy of spiritual power over matter.
A national ABC poll found 52 percent agree with Spiro Agnew that television news is biased while 33 percent disagree. The survey also showed 36 percent agreeing newspapers are biased, 34 percent disagreeing, and 30 percent unsure. The poll of 559 adults in 12 cities followed Agnew’s criticism after Nixon’s Vietnam speech.
La Crosse Catholic Diocese sent 12 semi trailers of used clothing to St Vincent de Paul warehouses in Milwaukee for sorting. Catholic Relief Services oversees a national collection of over 20 million pounds for overseas aid in 70 countries, with 44,000 pounds from La Crosse and other totals from Marshfield Eau Claire Wisconsin Rapids and more. Volunteers across about 200 parishes sort pack and load items by youths seminarians and adults, with high school students leading some routes. The 1969 appeal matched 1968 totals and diocesan officials thanked participants and contributors.
Warrants were issued for ten Negro students from Whitewater State University after a race clash with a white fraternity. Disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property, and trespassing charges were filed as campus suspensions of nine other students were announced. Most involved are Milwaukee residents. one is from Chicago. Witnesses described a forcible entry into the fraternity house, vandalism, pistol shots, and an assault on the fraternity president.
James D. Christie, organist at St Joseph the Workman Cathedral and Christ Episcopal Church, will play a memorial concert for Kay Roster Sunday at 7 30 p m. He will perform Te Deum Jean Langlais Three Noels D Aquin Prelude and Fugue in D Major Bach Apparitions de l Eglise Eternelle Messiaen Lebhart from the Second Sonata Hindemith Shepherds Came Their Praises Bring Walcha Chorale in E Major Franck. Christie plans studies in Paris next summer and attends Oberlin Conservatory in fall.
A comprehensive church notices page lists Adventist, Assembly of God, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Baha i Faith, and other faith communities in La Crosse and surrounding towns with service times, Sunday schools, and weekly activities. It includes St. Joseph Cathedral, St. Leo the Great, Our Lady, and various denominations such as Baptist, Methodist, Nazarene, and Jehovah's Witnesses across multiple streets and neighborhoods.
Olivet Lutheran Church at 2100 Bainbridge St. welcomed 57 new members this Sunday per Rev. James Steinbrecher. The list included Mr. and Mrs. Ron Berekram and many others such as Tamera, Eric, Daniel, Steve, Joan Bigler, Rebecca, Rachael, Kenneth Borsheim, Ken Brugger and family, John and Paul, Robert Jr. and family, Sharee, Doreen, Sandra, Ray Dearman, Robert and Robin, Judith Fox, Lane, Katy, Jesse, and Robin.
A Saturday evening gathering honored Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gerken and numerous family groups including the Morans Nickersons Owens Paisleys Petersons Serfoss and others. After a meal, the group trimmed a Christmas tree and sang carols.
Twenty five members of the Tau Iota Upsilon fraternity at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute conducted a door to door drive collecting 500 pounds of canned goods and clothing for distribution to needy families in cooperation with the Christmas Bureau.
The annual Christmas program at First Evangelical Free Church, 2122 Campbell Road, is Sunday at 7 30 p m The program features special song arrangements and recitations by younger members ending with a contemporary play by the senior youth Public may attend.
Unitarian Universalists of La Crosse schedule a covered dish luncheon at 11 30 a m Sunday in the Coulee State Bank attendees to furnish their own eating utensils and a dish to share coffee provided
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