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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1961
Page
2
Norman V. Peale compares car starter points to inner traits that need regular cleaning. A faulty ignition leads to a mechanic clearing dirty points, illustrating how mental attitudes and emotions must be checked to prevent blocks in daily living. A professor’s asthma case hints at climate versus mindset as a factor in health and performance.
Members and friends of Community Chapel in North Long Beach will break ground at 4 p.m. Sunday at 6564 Cherry Avenue for a new sanctuary. The non-denominational church began as a Bible class in Pastor Esther M. Matlett’s home and has met at the CCC Hall in Bel Flower.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York will organize a three day convention with 22 department heads and a volunteer service department. A progress of ministerial training is arranged. Speakers from New York and Indiana will participate as presiding ministers.
The short painful life of Robert Louis Stevenson is a testimony to the love of life. "For 14 years I have not had a day's real health," wrote the beloved author of Treasure Island, "I have writ ten in bed out of it, written in hemorrhages torn by coughing."
The church reports rapid expansion with 12 chapels under construction in Argentina and eight more started in Uruguay, plus three new stakes in Europe including Germany and Switzerland. A Salt Lake City information building rises on Temple Square costing 1.7 million dollars, while a Finland chapel site is prepared in Oulu.
In Minneapolis a 69 percent majority of Lutheran Free Church congregations voted in favor of merger talks with the American Lutheran Church. President Dr John Stensvaag announced the decision, signaling a significant shift in church alignment.
A new United Presbyterian Church, meeting at Bethlehem Lutheran in Rossmoor Alamitos, will rise on an east Los Alamitos Boulevard site north of Rossmoor Way. Rev. C Virgil Zirbel, former Los Angeles Presbytery moderator, leads the organizing effort with a steering committee including Dale Fisher Norman Coatney Paul Kovacs Calvin Burns and others.
The Adventist Church at 1001 E Benson re elected Mrs Lena V Turk treas clerk and others in a recent annual vote. Officers include Dr Edwin Potts youth leader and Mrs G with George Evang elder L M Ostrander chairing the mission. Over 19 tons of food clothing and goods were sent from Long Beach to the Monument Valley Navajo mission.
Richard Cardinal Cushing writes in the foreword to A Catholic Case Against Segregation, Macmillan, about five little girls in an integrated school. One Negro girl sat beside a white girl. both were fearful, yet they spent the day holding hands.
Theodore Brooks national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States sent a message of appreciation to Pope John XXIII for the Roman Catholic Church actions to combat anti Semitism in the United States and abroad.
Rev. John Yamarald Jr of St Marys Parish Los Angeles will discuss Social welfare resolutions from the Episcopal Church convention in Detroit. The talk is Thursday Nov 30 at 8 p.m. at St Thomas of Canterbury 5306 Arbor Rd with coffee and pie served at 7:50.
Members of the CYF of North Long Beach Christian Church at 1115 Market St plan a Christmas season fundraiser next Saturday night. They will host an old fashioned ice cream social with The Old Smoothies CYF berbershop quartet and other entertainment to raise money for a needy family.
Memorial Mass for St Ann No 763 of Catholic Daughters of America scheduled Sunday at 8 AM at St Matthews Catholic Church Seventh Street and Temple Avenue. Parish Council will serve breakfast after Mass. Service structured by the Grand Regent.
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