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Bible Preaching Co-Ed Suspended
By John Schmidt
April 1, 1969, North America
An 18-year-old Flowing Wells High School senior recently has had a heavy cross to bear.
Less than three months before her graduation in June, Patricia Rodriguez was told by her principal, Victor Meneley, that she would no longer be able to attend school if she continued being a disruptive influence on her classmates.
Patricia brought a Bible to school each day and when opportunities presented themselves, she preached the word of God to anyone who would listen.
Meneley said the whole thing started in March when social studies teacher Len Skrobel arranged for the “Revolutionaries for Christ” group to visit and lecture his classes. Skrobel invites representatives of many groups to sp0eak. Recently prisoners, dope addicts and politicians, extremists from the left and right have shared their views with the youngsters.
Later, when a teenage counterpart of the “Revolutionaries for “Christ” came to town, two Flowing Wells girls joined them. …
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Teens Convicted!
By Arthur R. Vinsel, Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
April 1, 1969, North America
Trials are over but tribulations continue today, after 14 Teens for Christ crusaders were convicted by two juries of violations during a recent Costa Mesa School demonstration against “Godless modern society.”
[Prosecutors] rested their cases on Maundy Thursday in Harbor District Judicial Court and firm but gentle juries returned guilty verdicts.
The Rev. Dave Berg and his flock headquartered at the Gospel Light Club, 110 Main St., Huntington Beach, plans to leave for Arizona soon, fearing the storied California doomsday earthquake.
They will reverse their exodus temporarily if the state whose people judged them Thursday in two separate courtrooms, based on degree of charges lodged, remains intact.
“We’ll be back to court if California is still here,” Miss Donnelly said today.
“I knew in my mind they’d say guilty, but I knew in my heart we were still innocent,” Miss Donnelly said today with a hint of forgiveness for 10 …
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
Tucson Daily Citizen, Arizona
March 7, 1969, North America
Scores of hippies are flocking to Tucson, and with them has come a small band of reformed hippies carrying Bibles, whose mission, they say, is the conversion of their bearded brothers to that “old-time religion.”
Most of the new arrivals are here to escape the “great earthquake,” which they contend will cause most or all of California to slide into the ocean by the middle of April.
Dozens are here now and they say that as many as 500 are expected here within two months.
Befriended by an artist-missionary on Tucson’s South Side, the small, but energetic little band began collecting its flock of would-be converts just last week. Invited to Tucson from Phoenix by the Rev. Edward “Ted” Ware, pastor of the “Fellowship Church,” at 2570 Menor Strav., the six-member team moved into the pretty little white church—and things haven’t been quite the same there since.
First, they removed …
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