Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last April, 20 of the 220-member congregation asked the Orange County Presbytery, to set up a second Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill. Pastor Jones calmly agreed. "I fully realize," he said, "that my preaching isn't along the needs of many persons here." A ten-man board, set up by the alarmed presbytery, began to investigate the Chapel Hill church, with the power to remove both pastor and officers if necessary. Pastor Jones took a year's leave-doing social work in Tennessee with a philanthropic foundation. But he comes back to Chapel Hill to preach every...
...Unitarian. In November the commissioners turned in their report. Pastor Jones, they found, was a force for good in the community. But he had evidently strayed far from the church's doctrines. Furthermore, his church officers, many of them university faculty members, were "generally uninformed" about Presbyterianism. At least one of them "evidently did not believe in a personal God"; another was a declared Unitarian. The philosophy of Pastor Jones's church, as they saw it: "That doctrine is of less importance than whether an individual shall be free to worship God as he pleases...
Last week the presbytery commissioners demanded that Charles Jones resign or be removed. Pastor Jones, quiet but adamant ("The fundamentals of Christianity are not complicated"), indicated that he would do no such thing...
...week each, the girls were on daily call to sing everything from hillbilly tunes to a soporific midnight show called Moon River. Then one day Bandleader Tony Pastor came through Cincinnati on the lookout for a new singer. The Clooney Sisters, swimming in a local pool when the summons came, rushed out and sang an audition with hair plastered down around their faces, but their voices landed them...
...socials, college proms, barn dances in tobacco warehouses until 2 a.m. Afterward they would pile into their bus and ride through the night to the next stop. The girls were chaperoned by their Uncle George Guilfoyle. He would hold the second seat in the bus for the girls (Bandleader Pastor would have the front one), and Uncle George would guard protectively from the third...