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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1948
Page
5
Advertising representatives seek distribution figures for Metropolitan Sunday News. Includes subscription rates, carrier delivery, and Sunday edition pricing. Notes legal boilerplate on mailings and use of material. mentions California act and setup details for circulation audits.
R G LeTourneau noted mechanical equipment maker and Youth for Christ figure will speak at Poly High auditorium as part of a rally. Also on program are Joe Talley trombonist and Earle Anderson concert baritone in a night of faith oriented events and gospel outreach.
Dr Paulus Scharpff of Frankfort on Main Germany will speak at Belmont Heights Methodist Church tomorrow evening announced by Pastor Dr Claude A Smith. He is a professor at the Methodist Seminary and district superintendent of Methodist churches in the area. He attended the recent Boston general conference and is visiting his sister in Pasadena. Belmont Heights Church and others have sent food and clothing to aid his people and to thank donors. Franklin Junior High boys glee club will sing. He plans lectures at Garrett Biblical Institute Northwestern University Evanston before returning to Germany.
Rev Edwin Marx will present a factual report on China at 9 30 a m tomorrow in East Side Christian Church at E Seventh St and Obispo Ave The pastor Rev George F Tinsley says Marx who was repatriated at the end of World War II after internment by the Japanese returned to China four years ago as Secretary of the China Mission of the United Christian Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ He has just arrived from China to join Mrs Marx They depart Monday for a speaking tour in the eastern United States and to report to headquarters at Indianapolis
Formal installation of Rev. Thomas M. Gibson as pastor of St. Andrew's Community Presbyterian Church Newport Beach will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Newport Union High auditorium. Gibson, a former Navy chaplain in World War II, led Christian education before organizing the Newport Harbor community congregation. The Los Angeles Presbytery officially accepted the group on April 18.Installation sermon by Dr. W. Irwin Williams. presiding officer Dr. Hugh M. Reiner, with pastors Dr. Robert Burns McAuley Dr. Graham C. Hunter Dr. Paul C. Elliott and Dr. Raymond I. Brahams assisting.
Memorial Sunday observance at Bay Shore Community Congregational Church planned for tomorrow will recall Bay Shore fellowship members who have died. The service, adopted as a church tradition, features Rev. Milton Gabrielson speaking on Living Eternally during both morning services.
Parishioners of St Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Mission Lakewood Village celebrate completion of the first unit in their church building program begun in 1946. Regular services start at Arbor Road and Charlemagne Ave with a corporate communion at 8 am. The church school chapel in the unit seats 180 and includes sacristy social room office and kitchen. Noted clergy and officials participated in groundbreaking and opening services dating from Palm Sunday 1948 with a line of guest clergy led by Chaplain Tennyson and Rev Horace Wood among others.
Dr W Irvin Williams hosts Youth Night with the Celtic Cross group leading the worship service at First Presbyterian Church tomorrow. Speakers include Ervin Rymes, Tvan Rymes, and Bob Warren of Compton, students at Occidental College. Celtic Cross members Sonn Williams Martyn Beverwick Darlene Mitchell June Adamson participate. Shirley Irvine performs two piano solos Coming Staring Brouwers and Arioso Bach.
The traditional immortality service will be held at First Congregational Church at 4 p m tomorrow. Brahms Requiem will memorialize members and friends who died since last Memorial Day. A memorial flower for each deceased and a commemorative reading follow. Hatch Memorial Fund plaque dedication also featured, honoring Eleanor Hatch and her civicly active parents.
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