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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1978
Page
5
Stella Wilder birthday note on August 26 guides the day with duty, moodiness, independence, and sensitivity. The rest offers sun sign advice for Virgo to Leo with cautions on communication and relationship chances and hints at internal balance and hidden tensions.
In 1974 U S Ambassador Rodger Davies was shot and killed inside the American Embassy in Nicosia Cyprus amid anti American demonstrations by Greek Cypriots marking a fatal attack on a diplomatic mission and a major international incident.
In Washington AP reports Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland and department officials will sample a school lunch menu to show changes aimed at reducing fat sugar and salt while improving appeal. The preview covers foods like turkey pot pie fried chicken cheeseburgers biscuits whole wheat muffins beef with barbecue sauce and desserts. About 4 000 of roughly 10 000 U S schools participate in the federal lunch program serving around 5 million students with costs totaling about 2.5 billion annually.
Alvin Sonny Neubert in Ridge Farm Illinois plowed under 25 acres of corn worth 6600 dollars to protest persistently low prices. He says LP disease stands for Low Price, noting corn would sell at 1.90 a bushel. He urges action instead of complaints and cites parity price signs and personal satisfaction from protest.
The Rev. Timothy A Draxler of Middletown will become minister of music at Faith United Methodist Church on October 10. He will also continue as organist at Bresel Boulevard First Church of God, where he plays the 7 p.m. vesper service on Sundays. Draxler is a graduate of Asbury College in Wilmore Kentucky.
Tomorrow services at Ridgecrest Church of God 6342 Hamilton Middletown Road include an 11 a.m. report by Missionary Abraham from India on his country’s growth and a 6 p.m. gospel program by the Charles Feltner Singers led by Charles Elmer, noted songwriter of large catalog including the hit “Will See You In The Rapture.”
The charismatic S Main Street Temple of God opens tomorrow at 119 S Main St with Rev and Mrs Herbert C Wilson as ministers. Sunday school starts at 10 am and worship at 1 pm. An evangelistic service follows at 7 pm with light lunch after the 1 o'clock service. Plans include a wedding chapel, Bible bookstore, counseling room and classrooms. The building will also cater wedding receptions and hosts an invitation to couples married by the Wilsons in 20 years. Information via 422-3369.
The dedication of the new Christian Fellowship Church building at 7904 Middletown Germantown Road will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. Rev Clifford Lawson of Community Church in Ohio 4 will speak, with His Witness from Lexington providing music. The church, meeting since July after moving from 52 W Center St Germantown, seats about 160 in the sanctuary and includes classrooms and a basement fellowship hall.
A gospel concert by Maurice Long and the Children of God from Daston is set for Sunday at 7 39 p m at Shiloh Holiness Tabernacle 519 18th Ave The event marks part of activities leading to Bishop Keva Payne 15th church anniversary.
A four foot wooden statue named Happy traveled from California to Connecticut in a long hitchhiking trek. Reunited with Calli in Pollock Pines near Sacramento, the statue’s return sparked excitement as the wood carver plans to move it on again before Christmas.
A cryptic dispatch notes that Japan has evacuated its final North American foothold, signaling a notable shift in World War II positions. The terse report mentions the Ajoutlant istami of Kiske, implying strategic realignment and ongoing regional theater developments.
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