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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1966
Page
6
A listing of local churches with pastors and weekly services. Includes Baldwin area churches such as James F Palmer and Bethel Methodist 11 miles west, St. Johns United Church of Christ % miles West, First Baptist and Assembly of God. Worship times range from 9:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. with evening services and midweek activities.
A compact listing shows worship times and contacts for multiple religious groups. Jewish Community Center schedules Friday services at 7 30 p m and Sunday School. B nai B rith and USC Women meet on second Wednesdays. Assumption Catholic notes Masses at 8 a m Sundays and 7 a m weekdays with Saturday confessions. Church of the Brethren lists Rev Wallace May and later Rev Everett Hughes with worship 11 a m. Edmonds Chapel led by Rev Homer E Wolcott and 10 a m worship. First Baptist under Pastor Gail E Jones with evening service and Baptist Youth Fellowship. United Brethren led by Rev Homer E Wolcott with 10 a m Sunday school and evening worship.
Henderson Kentucky reports Rev Sidney Dillinger riding a 1000 mile ceremonial journey from McCracken to Baltimore on a borrowed horse Chester. Police and fire units accompanied the procession as Dillinger joins a dozen ministers in a nationwide bid toward the Methodist bicentennial ceremony later this month.
West Side Presbyterian Church adult choir will present The Promise Fulfilled by Kenneth E. Runkel during the 11 am service. The program includes O Sacred Head O Paradise O Paradise At the Cross Her Station Keeping The Approaching Dawn and Hymn of Victory. Choir director Dick Ellison organist Jackie Settles lead a large group of named choir members.
Dean Hanson aged 2 of Stouffer Place had a fingernail torn out by a lawn chair while Michael Taylor aged 7 of 901 Pa dislocated his right elbow after a fall. Both were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital emergency room on Thursday.
Dick Brown Baker director of alumni says Alumni Day and Commencement week will draw one of the largest reunions. Activities are planned for June 4 with honors for the Classes of 1916 and 1941. Hurst Majors of Manhattan similar letters to 1916 classmates. The Baker school began in 1858 and marks the 100th anniversary of its first graduation. the 1866 class had three students: James Mulley Cavness James Crooks Hall and Olive Kezia Willey.
The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and Baker University Choir perform a Palm Sunday program at 4 p.m. in Rice Auditorium. Kansas premiere of Gunther Schuller Seven Studies and Themes on Paul Klee is featured with slides of the Swiss artist’s seven paintings. Other works include Wagner Prelude and Liebstod, Brahms Third Symphony, and Bach Cantata No. 1. Soloists Marilyn Mark, David Perry, and Cal Bowers are listed.
New members will be received during services at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Rev. Harold E. Hamilton will preach on The Palm Sunday Story. The altar and chancel choirs will combine for the anthem All Glory Loud and Honor. Acolytes will be Phil Oliver and David Pickett.
Prof. George Boehrer of the EU History Department will speak at the Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship meeting Sunday. The 10 a.m. program at Pleasant Valley meeting house will explore "The Religion of Humanity in Brazil."
An Easter musical vespers will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday by the chapel and sanctuary choruses at the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
Missouri Pacific Railroad says it will lay off more than 20 000 employees across 12 states due to the firemen's strike. Notices will be posted now and take effect in 16 hours. The railroad will also sue union officers and members for damages from the strike. An embargo on perishables live stock and packing house products was set to begin at 6 50 a m CST Sunday.
President Johnson joined Bob Hope at the United Service Organizations anniversary dinner in Washington to honor Hope for entertaining U.S. servicemen worldwide. Johnson presented a plaque while quipping about Hope’s fame and Hope joked about being in bird land and Camp Run-around.
Lawrence firemen responded to four incidents in a 12 hour span. A trailer at 2509 W 6th St burned due to overheated furnace causing about 1000 dollars in damage. A smell at 711 W 23rd St produced no fire. A blaze under Vivian Pierce's home at 1126 Highland Dr caused 150 dollars in damage and a car fire at E 9th and N J Sts caused no damage.
Albert Salisbury a long time KU storekeeper at 1500 W 5th St will be guest of honor at a 6 30 p m Monday dinner in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union Planning the event is Arthur W Davidson chemistry professor and former department chair The gathering honors Salisbury not a retirement with several Salisbury family members including Janice Salisbury KU sophomore Eloise Johnson and Phyllis Traylor among guests
Washington AP reports HEW Secretary Gardner releases a broad policy favoring birth control information to individuals regardless of marriage status. The statement warns states not to feel pressured into family programs while affirming departmental policy to provide planning information on request to those receiving HEW health services.
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara defended a buildup strategy that expands active and Reserve forces at the cost of short term readiness in four training divisions. He told Sen. John C. Stennis the plan increases total trained personnel and national strength while pledging rapid reconstitution in an emergency. The four divisions at Fort Hood, Fort Lewis, and Fort Carson are cited as 50 percent below four months training, with potential to deploy 350000 troops within 90 days if needed.
A court test of Arkansas 1928 law banning teaching evolution begins in Little Rock. Plaintiff Susan Epperson, a Little Rock Central High School biology teacher, challenges the statute as unconstitutional infringement on speech. Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett defends it as a bulwark against atheistic religion. Critics link the case to debates sparked by the Dayton monkey trial.
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Friday with 3 deaths in March 49 in April 0 for 1966 and 134 comparable for 1965 period 137 for comparison.
Local club events include a W C T U coffee at Mrs Ruth Thompson in Lawrence and the Mary and Martha Friendship Circle meeting at Norma Van Dyke’s home with officer elections. Funeral services were held for 90 year old Mrs Elsie Gruendel of Tonganoxie at Pilgrim United Church of Christ Leavenworth with interment at Mt Muncie Cemetery. Surviving family counts include four daughters three sons twelve grandchildren fourteen great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
The Hughes Fellowship Hall hosted the Woman's Society with 19 members. Devotions by Mrs. Harriet Hancock and a program by Mrs. Irene Goos titled Bishop With A Pastor's Heart. Officers for the coming year were approved. Birth announcements: Keenan Warren for Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKone of Kansas City March 9. Teresa Marie Chapman for Mr. and Mrs. John Patrick Chapman March 11 in Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Various local visits and birthday celebrations noted with multiple households listed.
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