Hill country pastor heads Presbyterians
Eugene Smathers, a Knoxville area pastor from Big Lick Tennessee, wins the national Presbyterian presidency against William H. Hudnut. His home community supported him with a dish supper and mailed materials to 833 voting representatives. Smathers led a rural ministry building health programs and cooperatives, and he faces a year as a touring ambassador of a 3.3 million member denomination.
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Portland
Ore
Little Tennessee Mountain
Big Lick
Gene Smathers
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Eugene Smathers
Cickens
Smathers
William H. Hudnut
Cincinnati
Springfield
Rochester
N.Y
Matthew H. Thies
Syracuse
New York
Dr. Smathers
Church Schedule for New Era Road Congregation
The Church of God on New Era Road announces Sunday School at 9 30 a m and Morning Worship at 11 a m led by Pastor Rev R G Nichols. Midweek Prayer and Praise are Thursday at 7 20 p m.
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Church of God
New Era Road
Stalin's daughter finds faith without influence
Svetlana Alliluyeva describes her shift from atheism to belief as arising from within a hidden spring, not from persuasion or contact. She says the move was self sparked, unlike any outside teaching, and led to her May 1962 baptism into the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow.
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George Cornel
New York AP
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Frederick W. Rapp
Port Washington, N.Y
Moscow
God
Methodists to Announce Pastoral Appointments in Olney
New Methodist pastoral appointments will be announced Monday in Olney by Methodist Bishop Lance Webb at the 116th annual meeting of the Methodist Southern Illinois Conference. The session opens Sunday and runs through Thursday with delegates from East Richland High School. The meeting will cover union ratification of The Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches and balloting for ministers and lay members of the 1968 General and Jurisdictional Conferences. A pageant titled Instead of Perishing will open the session.
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Olney
Lance Webb
Methodist Southern Illinois Conference
East Richland High School
Evangelical United Brethren Churches
Southern
Illinois
Shiloh
Oldest board celebrates 150th year and family reunion notes
The American Sunday School Union marks 150 years as the country’s oldest Home Mission Board with events led by Rev. James G. Johnson in Southern Illinois at Cave-in-Rock State Park. Douglas Block will speak. a basket dinner follows a 1 30 p.m. program in the main pavilion. Oscar Grant and Odum family members hold leadership roles at Marion Oasis Park as they plan an annual reunion before Labor Day with attendees including Carl Wright and Don Odum among others.
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James G. Johnson
Eldorado
Southern Illinois
Cave-in-Rock State Park
Douglas Block
Wheaton College
Fred G. Odum
Cape Girardeau
Altrusa International Invites One Female Leader Per Group
Altrusa International selects one woman from each business or professional group in the community to join the organization. The group aims to bring together women executives for service and fellowship.
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Altrusa International
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Chicago
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Washington, D.C
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Rota
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St. Louis
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Mother Church
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Carterville
E. Tlinois Ave
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Walnut Street
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Odum
Women’s Organization
ARROW
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Herrin
W. Jackson Carbondale
Sogre's TV Corner
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