Presbyterian Layman notes declines in overseas missions
In April 1972, a Buffalo NY pastor argues the United Presbyterian Church cuts foreign missions since 1958 from 1,293 workers to 810 in 1971 with more reductions planned. James S L Hills cites Evangelical agencies expanding overseas staff, including Evangelical Foreign Mission Association from 4,688 to 7,749 and Wycliffe from 705 to 1,762. He contrasts with Southern Baptists from 1,186 to 2,494. He cites Fidel Castro speech mailings and concerns over funds to questionable causes, urging believers to withdraw confidence from denominations and politics.
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Presbyterian
Buffalo, N.Y
United Presbyterian
James S.L. Hills
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church
Evangelical Foreign Mission Association
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Southern Baptist Convention
Hills
Fidel Castro
Mills
Almanac Snapshot for May 8, 1972
Highlights include Truman declaring Europe war over in 1945 and notable historic events: de Soto discovering the Mississippi near Memphis in 1541, Palo Alto battles in 1846, Truman’s 1884 birth, the Coral Sea victory in 1942, and Mrs. Kennedy christening the submarine Lafayette in 1962.
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Associated Press
Harry Truman
Europe
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi River
Memphis
Palo Alto
Tex
Harry S. Truman
Lamar
Missouri
Coral Sea
John F. Kennedy
Lafayette
Odessa County approves air conditioning project for coliseum
Ten years ago on May 8 1962 Ector County Commissioners held a special meeting and accepted a plan to air condition the county coliseum for 47000 dollars. The decision followed a brief session and the proposal now moves forward.
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Ector County
Edwin Turner
Odessa
Campus unrest and the crisis of the university mind
A Wall Street Journal piece reflects two years after Kent State on the muted resurgence of antiwar protest, campus disruption, and the erosion of free speech. It cites Westmoreland, Dole, Thurmond heckling, and the clash over Shockley and Hail as signs of a broader intellectual crisis threatening rational discourse.
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Kent State
North Vietnam
U. S
Vietnam
Columbia
Cornell
Harvard
Gen. Westmoreland
Robert Dole
Strom Thurmond
Arthur Jensen
Richard Herrnstein
William Shockley
Sacramento State College
Shockley
Abbie Hoffman
Gus
Calcutta
Pete
Lionel Trilling
House of Intellect
Capitol Staff and the Hoover Succession Dilemma
Washington notes argue Nixon faces a tough choice in naming a new FBI director after J Edgar Hoover’s death. The piece stresses the need for a nationally known, unimpeachable figure and warns against a controversial pick that could fuel a Senate fight and harm national security. It compares past liberal pressure, the Safe Streets Act mandate, and the political stakes of a post Hoover era.
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Jerry Greene
Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Nixon
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
George McGovern
D-S.d
Hoover
McGovern
Supreme Court
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Senate
Richard Kleindienst
Kleindienst
Liberal Democrats
Russia
U.S.A
Legal battle over the Equal Rights Amendment Stirs debate
The St John's Journal discusses Felix Frankfurter's view that women's status cannot be captured by a simple formula. It cites scholars from Chicago Yale and Harvard arguing ratification would strip power to differentiate by gender, unleash legal chaos, and threaten the family structure. It warns militant feminists seek revolution, not reform, echoing historical cautions on due process and equal protection.
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New York
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
North Carolina
Sam Elvin
University of Chicago
Yale
Harvard
Congress
50 States
Women’s Liberationists
Lenin
Women’s Lib
Harvard Law School
Roscoe Pound
Government payroll boom and welfare reform proposal
Edward Rowe and Howard Kershner argue one in four workers will be government employed by 1980. They cite a jump to 13 million public workers and a civilian payroll rise from 57 to 94 billion, then describe Union New York relief reforms as a model, urging relief recipients lose voting rights and work for benefits while condemning welfare expansion.
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Nsen
Union
New York
Pepper exports reach seven million pounds yearly
Encyclopaedia Britannica notes world pepper exports total seven million pounds annually. The entry mentions historic train wrecks and varied facts but focuses on global pepper trade figures.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Crossword Puzzle Lost in translation Mayhem
Puzzle of Saturday May 6 solved with clues like Clear Closed Scotch or rye and Relegate. Entries include Polishes Assumed name Tired out Joint Portray and Visual Controes 14 Encourages ty Destiny 7 Swiss crty Ursa Mayor 2 w 33 Hetem tooms 34 More furtively 35 God co ffare Hindu.
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Odessa American
Alamac
Berry's
WEA
Bill
Mate
Henry
State Department
Nation's Press
Wall Street Journal
Capitol
Bureau
St. John's Journal
By Edward Rowe
and Howard Kershner
Christian Freedom Foundation
Kershner
Modane
France
Parishes
Louisiana
Knights of the Middle
Tian
Destiny
Ursa
Hetem Tooms
Maxim
Guiding Genius
Injection
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