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Teens for Christ Brave Winds to Picket at GW
By James McNabb, Jr., Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
April 21, 1968, North America
Eighteen picketing Teens for Christ battled blustery winter winds Tuesday as they picketed Golden West College in Huntington Beach and promised to return today.
Led by former professional picketer turned Teen for Christ Daniel Anderson, the band of robed young people marched for about three hours in a large oval on the heavily trafficked Edinger side of the junior college campus.
The self-styled “Christian revolutionaries” said they are protesting the Dec., 6 trespassing arrest of six of their brethren found distributing religious tracts on campus.
Spiritual adviser to the band, “Uncle” Dave 49, watched the procession from his car parked on the south side of Edinger.
He accused Miller of circulating a “partisaned bulletin prejudiced against the arrested teens.” added he was “going to pray about pressing charges against the college administrator for his alleged violation of a section of the state education code by passing out the memorandum.”
Miller …
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Hippies 'See the Light'
Huntington Ceremony 'As Good as Marriage'
By Pamela Powell of the Daily Pilot Staff
March 16, 1968, North America
“Education is the greatest enemy today of the true civilization. It only takes you two years to talk, it takes you the rest of a lifetime to keep your mouth shut.”
So said David Berg, founder and promoter of the Light Club in Huntington Beach, preaching to the hippie congregation in the aftermath of the first local double betrothal ceremony.
“The Bible calls it betrothal, it’s just as good as getting married. You make the vows and everything. I guess it’s like an engagement, but stronger,” said his 17-year-old daughter, Faith.
The purpose of the club at 116 Main St., is to help young people find the way through Christ. “This is the ultimate eternal trip. I found the real peace, joy and satisfaction. I talked to everyone and they didn’t have an answer,” Miss Berg said.
“Jesus said ‘I am the way, the truth and the light,’ either he’s …
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Hippies Suffer Sermon for Feed-in
By Thomas Edwards, Staff Writer at the Huntington Beach Haven
March 15, 1968, North America
Desperate pleas from parents of runaway youths are tacked to a small bulletin board leaning against the inside of the storefront window.
Above the announcements, a tiny sign echoing a distant plea of optimism reads “You can help change the world.”
Lingering near the entrance, a few bearded, beaded and sandled youths look guardedly toward the rear of the room for signs of the nightly feed-in—trays laden with sandwiches.
THE SCENE—Huntington Beach’s newest hippie haven—a gathering place that has become a center of controversy for the city’s residents and the visitors who frequent it.
The Orange County Light Club, located unobtrusively on Main Street a few steps from the Huntington Pier, is the temple for the crusading evangelists of “Teens for Christ” and the visitor can expect pressure salesmanship for Christ to accompany the menu.
The interior is a facsimile of a Japanese teahouse resting on a large patchwork …