Love and Liberty Honor a Father’s Tolerant Faith
Jim Merrell, a veteran Alabama bridge crew head, valued conscience and denominational liberty. His son Jesse H Merrell funds a $1000 annual Religious Liberty Memorial for strong religious freedom journalism and cartoons. The tale recalls a late 1962 phone call, a lifelong shift to humility, and a father who built with little schooling but vast wisdom.
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George W. Cornell
NEW York (Ap
Jim Merrell
Alabama
Pattie
Fort Lee
Jesse H Merrell
Merrell
Campaign to ban motto In God We Trust reaches court
Atheist Madelyn Murray O Hair and her sons sue in federal court to strike the motto from U S currency citing the 1963 Murray v Curlett decision. Defendants include Treasury Secretary Blumenthal and engraving director James A.
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Austin
Tex
Madelyn Murray O Hair
O'Hair
Jon
William Murray
U.S. Supreme Court
Murray
Curlett
William Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
James A
Scuba Instruction Classes Return at Middletown YMCA
Middletown Area YMCA resumes scuba instruction with a 10 week course every Thursday from 6 to 10 pm. Registration is open for Sept 15 start, class limited to 10, $75 for Y members $90 non members, includes equipment rental books certification and air. Instructor Dave Rihm, a YMCA and PADI certified trainer, will teach.
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Dave Rihm
YMCA
Sunday church services and speakers listed for area churches
Multiple churches announce Sunday programs with speakers and sermon topics. Bonita Drive Church of Christ hosts Bill Griffen on God and Permissiveness and How To Tell If You Are In Love at 10 30 am and 6 pm. First Christian notes Rev Paul Remick on From Religion to Christian Discipleship at 10 30 am and remodeling delays move services to fellowship hall. Bethlehem Lutheran and Messiah Lutheran provide sermons by Rev Bergdall and Rev Brown respectively with guest or regular services and noted Sunday school times.
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Bonita Drive
Church of Christ
Bill Griffen
First Church of Christ
Man
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
Harold Jung
First Christian
Paul Remick
Charles Egelston
Fellowship Hall
Faith United Methodist
John Keeny
First Baptist
G Walter Weber
First United Presbyterian
I. W Emmons
Mt. Olivet
United Presbyterian
Robert E. Lodwick
United Missionary Baptist
LC Bennett
Bethlehem Lutheran
Paul D. Bergdall
Messiah Lutheran
Warren Brown
First United Methodist
Robert G. Scully
Church School
St. Luke United Presbyterian
Robert E. Clark
Mr Clark
Mt. Zion
Vietnam to release prisoners on Ho Chi Minh anniversary
The Vietnamese National Assembly plans amnesty for convicts at re education camps and reduced terms for those who show sincere reform as part of the 32nd anniversary celebration. The report did not specify how many would be freed.
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Bangkok
Thailand
France
Vietnam
Standing Committee
The
Vietnamese National Assembly
Mt Union professor to speak at Women’s Day service
Mrs Gloria S Malone of Alliance, first black Stark County teacher, will address Women’s Day Sept 11 at New Era Baptist Church. She holds a magna cum laude from Central State, master’s degrees from Kent State, and is a Mt Union College English professor. Special music by Women’s Chorus of New Era. Refreshments follow.
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Gloria S. Malone
Alliance
Stark County
New Era Baptist Church
Malone
Central State University
Kent State University
Franklin Elementary
Alliance High School
Mt. Union College
Modern Language Association
National Education Association
Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society International
Second Baptist Church
Amaranth Grand Chapter Inc
Order of Eastern Star
State of Ohio
Arthur
Glenn Ford plans to marry again
Santa Monica California AP Actor Glenn Ford intends to end 10 years of bachelorhood to wed 29 year old Cynthia Hayward. The 61 year old actor obtained a marriage license in Superior Court for his third marriage. Ford’s last marriage to actress Kathy Hays ended in 1967 after two years. He was previously married 17 years to dancer Eleanor Powell and divorced from her in 1960. Miss Hayward is also a divorcee.
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Santa Monica
Calif AP
Glenn Ford
Cynthia Hayward
Superior Court
Ford
Kathy Hays
Eleanor Powell
Miss Hayward
Apprenticeships Offer Edge in Job Hunt for Young Workers
Apprenticeships provide two to five years of on the job and classroom training amid tight competition for jobs. The Labor Department highlights fields with growing demand through 1985, including lithographic workers, boilermakers, ophthalmic lab techs, cooks and chefs, insulation workers, cement masons, electricians, glaziers, plumbers and pipefitters, instrument repairers.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Labor Department
Armed Forces
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