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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1972
Page
5
A regional religious gathering features hands lifting the Bible and another book, a visitor gazing toward the platform, and a youth reading the Bible while another traces passages as Rev. Billy Graham, the evangelist, delivers the keynote address.
Milton D. Morris of Carbon d's, author and SIU government professor, will speak at 7:30 p.m. banquet at Bethel AME Church Carbondale on black political involvement from local to national levels. Queen contest features Lillian Hayes Joanne Morgan Robin Bryson Karen Gibson Marie Jones. Music by David Thomas and Charles Childers. Donation $2.
Britannica cites Daniel Decatur Emmett as author of Dixie written in 1859 as a hooray song for a Virginia minstrel quartet he led. The work became a defining American folk tune with controversial legacy.
Brent Barlow professor of child and family at SIU in Carbondale was elected president of the Carbondale branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the South Illinois District quarterly conference. Also elected were Scott Cowley and Robert Spurgeon as counselors, Jack Zeivel as recording clerk, Raymond Boswell as financial clerk, Kathy Anderson secretary of the Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association, and Richard Prince named elder and executive secretary of the West Frankfort branch.
The Carbondale Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church voted on June 12 to support Cairo Recreation Committee plans for August camp sessions at Camp Carew on Little Grassy Lake. Three sessions will serve grade school to high school students after regular camp ends. Tom Knight outlines plans and member churches may assist with financing and operations. A July 10 timetable in Du Quoin will address Camp Carew projects and a new church in Carterville. The Ambassador Quartet will headline a gospel sing at Lick Creek Church Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
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