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Arrest of Evangelist Protested by Pickets
source unknown, a California newspaper
January 7, 1969, North America
Five persons protesting the arrest of two self-styled evangelists picketed the Public Safety Building for about an hour and a half Sunday, changing “Jesus Christ Saves.”
The pickets—all were young persons—were demanding the release from jail of Arnold Theodore Dietrich, 27, and Robert Francis McDonald, 21, who were arrested on disturbing the peace charges at Sears, Roebuck & Co. store, 450 Long Beach Blvd., Saturday night.
Police said the pair were in custody in lieu of $125 bail each after “telling the people about Jesus” by shouting “Jesus Christ saves” and “You’re all going to hell” at department store customers and [employees].
The incident began when 12 persons from the religious group entered the store. They were asked to leave after customers began complaining.
The group left, but Dietrich, who told officers he was on leave from the Ft. Dix, N.J., Army base, and McDonald, who gave his address as …
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Teens for Christ Quit Huntington, Go Home for Yule
By James McNabb, Jr., Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
December 23, 1968, North America
The marching Teens for Christ are marching out of Huntington beach, “Uncle” Dave Berg, 49, founder of the militant sect reported today. The exodus, however, is only temporary.
“They’re going home for Christmas,” he explained.
The hippie-appearing teens Sunday capped of two months of march-ins into county churches with a visit by invitation to the First Methodist Church of Fountain Valley followed by Christmas dinner and football in Lake Park in downtown Huntington Beach.
Robed in their biblical garb, about 30 of the sect marched into the sanctuary at 18225 Bushard St. before the 11 a.m. service taking their customary seats at the front of the church.
The Rev. Ken McMillian said he made the last minute invitation when he learned the group had received no invitations to attend Christmas Sunday worship services.
Our people responded very well. They were a little bit up-tight about the suddenness but the overall …
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2 Hippie Church Coeds Sent Home From School
By James McNabb, Jr., Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
December 19, 1968, North America
Two pretty girls affiliated with the church-hopping Teens for Christ Thursday were sent home from a Huntington Beach High School, one with a five-day suspension slip and the other with orders to slip out of her Biblical gown into something less comfortable but more modern.
Assistant Principal Owen Miller said one girl, a junior, appeared on the campus at 15871 Springdale St. robed in illegal Biblical dress.
She was reportedly discovered talking about Jesus to another student and was handed the five-day suspension when she refused to obey orders to halt her preaching.
Miller said the other girl’s suspension came in conjunction with truancy charges, but the petite, brown-eyed senior denied the suspension Thursday was connected with alleged skipping of classes.
She stated it was her fourth suspension since the term began but insisted only the first two were for truancy. The third was three days for passing out gospel …
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