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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1966
Page
4
A head-on collision in Sargans Switzerland early today between a small bus and a cart killed five people including three laborers and two Swiss passengers. Police said the impact occurred on a rural road and emergency crews transported the injured to area hospitals.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr told the International Convention of the Disciples of Christ that American churches risk becoming irrelevant social clubs unless they recapture a prophetic stance on racial injustice. He cited the Vietnam war draft as evidence of systemic discrimination, noting blacks are overrepresented among combat troops.
In Macon Georgia the Tatnall Square Baptist Church voted to dismiss pastor Rev Dr Thomas Holmes and two staff members Rev Douglas Johnson and Jack W Jones for endorsing admission of Negroes to services and an open door policy. They also refused entry to Nigerian student Sam Jerry Oni who had converted through Southern Baptist missionaries. Oni, detained about an hour, said the event shook his faith.
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