122nd Annual Christian Churches Convention in Edinburg
The Edinburg Christian Church hosts the 122nd Annual Convention of the Christian Churches in the Valley District of Virginia. Rev. Charles Willard leads with the theme Let the unity of Christians be our polar star. Afternoon sessions feature reports and officer elections.
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Edinburg Christian Church
Edinburg
The
Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
Valley District
Virginia
Charles Willard
Winchester
Virginia Church Leader to Speak at Cork Street Service
The Rev. Carl L. Howard, associate executive secretary of the Virginia Council of Churches, will keynote the 11 a.m. worship at Cork Street Christian Church. A Lynchburg native and Boston University SHT alum, he has pastored in Boston Shenandoah Narrows and Richmond. He also leads a church union panel at Edinburg.
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Carl L. Howard
Virginia Council of Churches
Virginia C.C.C.U
John Fitzgerald
Congregational United Church of Christ
Joseph Massie
Christ Episcopal Parish
Norman Harsh
Shenandoah County
Harsh
Church of the Brethren
Christian Men's Fellowship
Christian Women’s Fellowship
Wakeman’s Grove
Lee C. Pierce
Lexington Theological Seminary
Lexington
Christian Youth Fellowship
Edinburg United
First Presbyterian Church
Cork St. Christian Church
Howard
Lynchburg
Boston University
Yale University
Boston
Mass
Shenandoah
Narrows
Bon Air Christian Church
Richmond
Virginia
Cork Street Christian Church
122Nd Valley District
District Republicans to Name New Chairman
The Seventh District GOP meets at 2 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Culpeper to elect a district chairman and officers. Wayne A. Whitham of Winchester is the sole announced candidate for chairman, with A. P. Joyner Jr. of Orange stepping down due to state election duties. The redistricting moves Fredericksburg and eight counties into the Seventh while the Shenandoah Valley southern end joins the Sixth.
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Republican Committee
Holiday Inn
Culpeper
GOP
Wayne A. Whitham
Winchester
J. Kenneth Robinson
Orange
State Board of Elections
General Assembly
Shenandoah Valley
Fredericksburg
Mild Rejection Not Serious in Transplant Case
In Los Angeles a 19 year old Salem Virginia youth shows a mild kidney rejection two weeks after receiving a donor kidney from his father Anthony Lanza 40 of Pomona California The father donor is reported to be fine The youth is expected to be discharged soon and return home to Salem with his mother and stepfather
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Los Angeles
University of California At
Joseph Lanza
Anthony Lanza
Pomona
Calif
Lanza
Salem
Ex Navy Officer Describes Viet War Horrors at Hearing
A 27 year old former Navy lieutenant testifies in Washington about Vietnam horrors, discusses Kerry and Calley, and condemns war policies. He says GI opposition grows, vows to search out and destroy the war's last vestige.
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John Kerry
Navy
Aew Group
Washington
Vietnam
Yale-taw Sales Bencathe
Verdes
Saat
Sen
Stuart Symington
Kerry
Army
Symington
Waltham
Mass
Congress
Whitehurst Backs Prayer Bid to Bring Amendment Floor
Rep. William Whitehurst joined Rep. Chalmers Wylie in supporting a petition to force a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in public buildings. The measure would move from the Judiciary Committee to a full House vote, needing 219 signatures to activate.
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Washington
William Whitehurst
Chalmers Wylie
Ohio
Judiciary Committee
House
Whitehurst
Destruction of James City County Records in Civil War
Colonial records of Virginia's James City County were destroyed during the Civil War, erasing archival material about early governance and settlement. The loss affected probate, land grants, and county governance documents dating to the colonial era.
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Virginia
James City County
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