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Seated side by side in the House Education and Labor Committee room were New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in his spare time, and West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, who preaches the gospel pretty much according to John L, Lewis. Under discussion was the $1.6 billion school-construction program and Powell's attempt to amend it so as to bar funds to any school district that practices segregation...
Latest crusader for the Marilyke look is the Rev. Charles Varga, 27, pastor of St. John the Apostle Church in Linden, N.J. No retailer in Father Varga's parish has so far turned the tagging committee away, though many have managed to keep their enthusiasm within bounds. "Of course we let them tag the dresses," said one Linden shopkeeper. "What are we going to do - commit business suicide? This is a 65% Catholic community." But one buyer in a large Manhattan department store declared that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them...
...Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un-Christian." Pastor Shirey and six others had signed a minority report charging that the assembly erred in asking its 3,776 local churches to accept Negroes...
...temper of the assembly had already become evident, and it was not in tune with the temper of Pastor Shirey. On opening night it elected as its new moderator Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of racially integrated Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and an outspoken antisegregationist. In a series of parliamentary moves it had blocked consideration of the minority report, had defeated anti-segregationists' efforts to delay a vote. Two hours after Shirey's plea, it reaffirmed, by a vote of 293 to 109, its year-old stand against racial segregation (last year's vote...
...meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years there. "I shook hands with 800 people last Sunday at a reception," he said last week. "And one after another, I met people who had been in trouble, had some problem or other, and whom I had helped...