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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1954
Page
4
In a temple confrontation Caiaphas the high official questions Jesus about his followers and doctrine. Jesus asserts openness, guards slap him for prophesy, and the Sanhedrin prepares to convict. The council, after brief deliberation, decides to move the case to Pilate.
Comdr. Truman P. Riddle USN ret. founder of the Grace Navy Chapel and Navy Family Chapel in Long Beach died unexpectedly in Southfield while en route to Europe. He and his wife Elizabeth visited her sister before sailing next week. Riddle, born St. Louis, studied at Yale and Union Theological Seminary, retired 1949, and will be buried with military honors at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego.
Veteran Salvation Army officers will conduct all day Sunday services at the Long Beach chapel 39 Locust Ave. Maj. William Miller announces events led by Maj. George Hunt Brig. Guy W. Chase Maj. Fred Spiller Brig. John Paton and Maj. Jessie Millar with over 100 officers and special music. public welcome.
Gillaspies Musicale at Tracy Auditorium Seaside features Song Fellows Quartet Bob Jones Pat Gallagher Fay Green and Terry Duo with instrumental quartet. Doors open 7 30 p m per Roy Gillaspie of Western Round Up Church.
The First Christian Church Choir directed by L. D. Frey with Mary E R Foreman as organist will perform the Easter cantata Olivet to Calvary by Maunder during the Vespers at 5 p m Sunday. The program includes the full choir, male chorus, ladies trio and soloists Beverly Beeney Olive Boone Helena Brown Bernice Campbell Beverly Schmidt Doris Wilson Phyllis Brooke Vesta Lydic contralto Al Moorhead Dr Frank Zeller Harold Crozier Robert Harper Millard Murane Dee Kay Vose and the Eldee Trio with Clayton Barrie flutist aiding in accompaniment Janet Frey Aldridge will be pianist.
Enthusiastic meetings at Heights Baptist Church Wrigley 3190 Magnolia Ave advance a pre Easter Crusade for Christ. TV and radio musicians join nightly as four Easter services are planned at 9 11 2 30 and 7 30 pm featuring Normen Nelgon John Webb Wayne Allen and Betty Montano in the musical program.
San Francisco youth leader Herb Seal will deliver nightly evangelistic talks at 7:30 during Holy Week at North Long Beach Nazarene Church 37 E Mountain View St. Pastor Rev Paw J Brandyberry announced. Seal has preached since 19 and runs the Youth Gospel Teams founded in 1943. He holds an AB from San Francisco State College and is pursuing education and psychology degrees.
A Long Beach church page lists Palm Sunday observances across denominations from Church of God to Roman Catholic and Presbyterians. Ministers preach themes of victory and kingship, with Cantatas, baptisms, and Eucharist noted at several congregations including St Luke's St. John's Emmanuel and First Church.
Halfway through his London crusade Billy Graham seeks larger spaces as Harding Stadium with 12 000 capacity suffices no longer. He plans a Good Friday Hyde Park service potentially drawing 50 000 with favorable weather. By now he has preached to over 550 000 and aims to pass one million before May 22 final London appearance marks a brief British tour.
Dale Evans wife of Roy Rogers known for Angel Unaware appears in her first religious senior motion picture Symphony of Life. The film screens Sunday at 7 30 p m at Calvary Baptist Church South Stand Lime Ave. Evans active in Hollywood religious work as vice president of the Hollywood Christian Group. The film is produced by Rev Dorland P Dryer.
Arch bishop Robert E Lucey in a April pastoral letter to 33 south Texas counties abolishes racial segregation in Roman Catholic schools. Henceforth no Catholic child may be refused admittance based on color race or poverty. Msgr J L Manning explains the archbishop equates segregation with sin, akin to intolerance, not a narrow church law violation.
St Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates its second anniversary during Palm Sunday services at 9:30, 10, and 11 a m led by Rev. Alfred Storvick. He will preach on Two Candies at 10 and As Glory to Our King at 11, with the choir presenting Open the Gates of the Temple. Parish records note 702 baptized members and 608 in Sunday School. deacons include Einar Johnson and others.
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