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Teens for Christ Buck School Law
By Terry Coville, Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
January 23, 1969, North America
The young, determined Teens for Christ today appear on a collision course with the California Education Code, and neither educators nor teens appear willing to step off the track.
The Huntington Beach based hippie-style Christians’ latest problem involves two teenage girls in trouble with Marina High School authorities for distributing Bible tracts on school grounds.
Cheryl Pierce, 17, a senior at Marina has been suspended from school for a week for what she calls “Christian witnessing.”
Barbara Kaliber, 14, a Marina freshman, claims she had to sign a handwritten agreement stating she knew the California Education Code’s provisions for passing out literature on school grounds.
Tuesday afternoon, the Teens for Christ picketed the school to protest the actions, as has been their custom in past similar instances.
The California Education Code, sections 8453 and 8454, is always the reason given for suspension of Teens for Christ followers who have been …
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Members of Christ Teens Picket at Church in Grove!
The Daily Pilot, California
January 16, 1969, North America
Members of the Teens for “Christ in Huntington Beach picketed Garden Grove Community Church Sunday morning, scene of a prior encounter in which the hippie-appearing band was asked to either sit in the pews or move outside.
Dressed in long, flowing clothes, sandals and beads and with hair of both sexes falling over shoulders, about 50 of the church-hopping band paraded in front of the Garden Grove church carrying signs.
About a half-dozen of the group attended the services, but one of the youths said he was refused admittance by an usher who allegedly told him that a tie and coat were needed for church services.
David Berg adviser to the group of religious zealots who operate from the Light Club on Main Street near Coast Highway, said that he had not been happy with the attitude of those who attend the Garden Grove church.
He said that for the …
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Teens for Christ Battle with Huntington School!
By Terry Coville, Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
January 16, 1969, North America
Teens for Christ carried their battle for Jesus to the front of Huntington Beach High School Tuesday afternoon and continued it on to the evening meeting of the Huntington Beach Union High.
Protesting what they term “education’s muzzle on religion,” about 15 or 20 hippie-clad Teens for Christ picketed the high school from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., carrying signs calling for a return to Christ and passing out religious tracts to students leaving classes.
The picketing was brought on by a warning from school officials to Mike Wallis, 15, a Huntington Beach High sophomore who was told not to pass out religious tracts on the school grounds.
The same evening the Christian revolutionaries returned to the school area to picket the Board of Trustees’ meeting at district offices, across Main Street from the Huntington Beach High School campus.
“Uncle” Dave Berg, leader of the group spoke to the trustees, …
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