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The St Charles Post 4SC September 8, 1980 XLp Kir. Mi a.m. each Sunday. Pastor of Robert R. McGruther.

Robert C. Holt Jr.St. Charles Post the congregation is the Rev. This is the St. Charles Presbyterian Church, Gamble and Sibley streets, St.

Charles, where worship services are held at 1 0:30 Numerous activities, in both service and family entertainment, have been scheduled (or the coming weeks by Williams Memorial United Methodist Church of O'Fallon. The annual picnic will be held at the church at 307 West Pitman Street from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 14. Each family attending should bring table service, casserole and dessert dish.

Beverages will be provided. A dessert auction will be held. Proceeds will go to the building fund. The church golf league will wind up its season with a nine-hole tournament at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lake Saint Louis Golf Course, 100 Cognac Court.

Prizes will be awarded. There is a $5 registration fee. Registration may be made by calling Ed Marion or Gerald Dowler. The Fisherman's Club sponsored by the work area in evangelism will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Fellowship Hall.

The meeting will open with a dinner, and then members of the group will go out visiting. To join this group, call the Wards at 272-5676 or the church office at 272-3443. The Drama Club is inviting interested persons to join and attend a planning meeting in the Fellowship Hall at 7:30 p.m. Monday. An intergenerational celebration of the 200th birthday anniversary of the Sunday School will be at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday in the Fellowship Hall. There will be a dedication of church school teachers at the 11 a.m. worship service and a presentation of Bibles to those who will be entering third grade in the fall. The Singles Group will hold a party at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the parsonage, 410 Woodlawn Avenue.

Everyone is asked to bring a favorite finger food. Beverages will be provided. The Youth Group of Trinity Episcopal Church, 318 South Duchesne Drive in St. Charles, will hold a paper drive in the church parking lot tomorrow and Sunday. Members of the group will be on hand Saturday morning to help.

Only newspapers will be accepted and they should be bundled with string or in paper sacks. To have newspapers picked up, call Carolyn Quarterman at 925-2006 or Becky Edens at 724-8854. Singles for Christ sponsored by First Baptist Church of Harvester, 4075 Missouri Highway 94 South, will hold a planning meeting at the home of June Deckers at 7:30 p.m. Monday. For directions call 447-3278.

A New Converts Class at 9 a.m. Sundays will begin this week at O'Fallon Christian Church, 915 Highway K. The book to be used for the class is "Study Course for Wednesday. For further information, call Mrs. Schuldt at 723-8137.

Sunday School Rally Day will be celebrated at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Sixth and Jefferson streets in St. Charles, Sunday. The new fall term will begin with the annual balloon ascension at 10:30 a.m. on the church parking lot. In honor of the 200th anniversary of the Sunday School, Immanuel will give special recognition to the Sunday School staff in the 8 a.m.

worship service. The Lutheran Youth League of the church will meet at the home of the Rev. A. Randy Rahmoller at 7 p.m. Sunday All high school youths are invited.

Sunday will be Rally Day at Hope Lutheran Church, 1975 Missouri Highway 94 South in St. Charles. There will be one service only that day at 10:45 a.m. Following the service there will be a brief ceremony opening the Sunday Church School. A potluck picnic will follow.

Those attending should bring a meat dish, a dish to pass and dinnerware. The Joy Circle, a women's organization of the church will meet from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the home of Helen Pfaff, 4001 Emerald Drive in St. Charles. The Evening Circle will meet from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the home of Lynn Pios, 8 Mill Bridge in St. Charles. For more information, call Mary Ann Morton at 447-4151 or Connie Wisner at 946-5187. The Youth Group will hold its annual business meeting from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

13. The meeting will include a hotdog supper. The cost will be $1.50. Sunday School will resume at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 503 Missouri Highway 175 in O'Fallon, Sunday. This day will be observed as Rally Day with special services in both the Sunday School and St.

Charles Mayor Douglas Boschert has proclaimed Sept. 7-13 as Sisters of St. Mary Week in honor of the order's 100th anniversary. The Sisters of St. Mary own and operate St.

Joseph Hospital in St. Charles and 14 other hospitals. Those attending the proclamation presentation were (from left, top row) Sisters Ann Marie Buys, Robert Marie Manthey and Rose Mary Dowling; (second row, from left) Sisters Inex Kennedy, Agnes Charles May and Doring Wittenbrink; (front row, from left) Robert Coleman, St. Joseph Hospital executive director, and Sisters Kathleen Bucheit, Regina Marie Pingel and Miriam Brotan, Boschert and Sister Elizabeth Ruppert. and Church First Christian Church, 280 East Mexico Road in St.

Peters, will hold a "Back to Church" celebration starting with games at 3 p.m. Sunday. There will be some special events for father-son and mother-daughter teams. A "pitch-In" supper will be held at 3 p.m. and services will be at 6 p.m.

The United Methodist Women of Faith United Methodist Church, 2950 Droste Road, St. Charles, will meet for a potluck supper in the Fellowship Hall at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Nadine Circle will furnish drinks, bread and butter. Janet Woodburn of Bridgeway Counseling will give an update on the Women's Crisis Center, and Margaret Evans and Betty Rogers will present a program on "Simpler Life Styles." Methusiam and Good News Singers, youth choirs at First United Methodist Church, 801 First Capitol Drive in St.

Charles, will hold their first meetings of the season at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. All interested youths are invited to attend. Choir officers will be elected and plans for the year will be outlined. The new Sunday School year will begin at First Assembly of God Church, 301 Missouri Highway 175 in O'Fallon, Sunday.

A new class will be added. The "Campus and Careers" class for singles and seniors will be taught by Paul and Donna Free. The new teachers in the Christian Day School at Zion Lutheran Church, 3866 Missouri Highway 94 South in St. Charles, will be installed in the 8 a.m. service Sunday.

Following the service the congregation will assemble on the parking lot in front of the new building for its dedication. After the dedication a reception for the new teachers will be hosted by the Parent Teacher League in the church basement. Meetings of the Lutheran Youth League of Zion Lutheran Church, have a new time, 6:30 p.m. Sundays, beginning this week. All high school youths are invited.

The Sunday School of Our Savior Lutheran Church, 2800 West Elm Street in St. Charles, will celebrate the beginning of the school year Sunday. Children will be promoted, attendance awards given and helium-filled message balloons released. New teachers will be presented. The celebration will be from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m.

A new Evening Bible Class for members of Our Savior Lutheran Church will be organized at the home of Lois Schuldt, 135 Diva Drive in St. Charles. The first meeting will be from 7 to 9 p.m. responsibility for the disturbances lies with gangs of whites, blacks and Hispanics frustrated by a lack of jobs and recreational activities. Residents of the area's tenement apartments and cold-water flats aren't sure what began the violence.

But they're concerned about where it will end. "It's going to go to killing next. Either they're going to shoot some of us, or they're going to shoot some cops," said Gerard Mercer, 60, a retired factory worker and area resident for 12 years. Police Chief Harold F. Skelton says the problems in Holyoke, where 25 percent of the citizens are black or Hispanic, are mirrored in cities nationwide.

"Chattanooga, Orlando, Miami, the cries are all the same," said Skelton, a Holyoke native and 27-year veteran of the Police Department. "High rate of unemployment, lack of recreational activities, social and economic problems." New Converts Members." will be chicken, pork steaks and salads. Proceeds will go toward paving the church parking lot. For information call 946-1171. Steven Anderson, a partner in the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick Mitchell 870 Olive Street, will be the featured speaker and soloist at the St.

Peters Prayer Breakfast at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at Darato's restaurant in the St. Peters Civic Center. Cost is $3 and $2.75 for older adults. Reservations may be made by calling 278-4171, 278-4310 or 441-5156.

Featured soloists are Leslie Bell, Jeff Donaldson, Kay Hamlin and Karen Porter. Cast in the dramatic part of the musical is Tom Hamlin Jr. as John, Jo Laws as Martha, Gail Barger as the Sinful Woman, Jeff Donaldson as the Leper and Karen Porter as the Explainer. Jeff Hamlin is the accompanist and Bill Newland the minister of music and education. The First Pentecostal Church of God, Fourth and Emmons streets in St.

Charles, will hold a fcarbecue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Available worship services. Sunday School will start at 9 a.m. Confirmation classes will begin at 6:15 p.m.

Tuesday. First-year students will be taught by Delia Kunz; second-year students by Mark Schuler; and third-year students by the Rev. Donald A. Christiansen, pastor. The Ladies Guild will meet at 10 a.m.

Thursday. The Altar Guild will have a special work night at 7:30 p.m. Monday to work on the Advent banner. All ladies of the congregation are invited. A series of basic instructions in the Catholic faith will be given at St.

Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, 1424 Harvester Road in St. Charles, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and continuing each Thursday into December. Catholics who would like a refresher course in the faith are invited along with any non-Catholics who are interested in learning more about the Catholic faith or who wish to become a Catholic. Frledens United Church of Christ, 1703 Missouri Highway 94 South in St.

Charles, will resume its regular worship and Church School schedule Sunday. Worship will be at 9 and 10:30 a.m. and Church School at 9 a.m. The First Baptist Church of St. Charles will observe Singles Celebration at 12:45 p.m.

Sunday with a potluck luncheon at the church fellowship hall. All interested single adults are invited to attend and bring a dish. For more information, call 723-3828 or 9254134. The Youth Choir of the First Baptist Church of St. Peters, 315 Circle Drive, will perform "Bright New Wings" by Beryl Red and Cynthia Clawson at the Northside Baptist Church on Sunday.

go to work at night," said Carmelo Morales, 28, whose family stays in a small apartment next to Mercer's. He thought a curfew might help. Rene Beauchemin, 33, owner and manager of Langelier's Bakery, said 15 windows in his new shop have been smashed since the violence began. Beauchemin said that when he was growing up in the Flats, it was a quiet, well-kept area where French, Polish and Italian families lived together in harmony. Many store owners in the area have been there for years.

The Police Department has tried to recruit minority members, but since 1978, only one Hispanic officer has agreed to take a job on police force, Skelton said. He said, "I had them tell me 'I don't want to be a cop. I can't deal with my If they can't deal with them, how do they expect us to? "I would hate to see someone seriously injured or wounded or killed, but the possibility is there," Skelton said. More Enrolling At Universities WASHINGTON (UPI) It's back- At C0L0RTYME TV RENTAL Gang Violence Rules At Night In Tenements Skelton denied recent accusations of police brutality made by some gang members, but said police have increased their patrols. "I think this is the biggest challenge of my law enforcement career," Skelton said.

"I hope when they hang out the laundry, el chiefo de policio will come out smelling like a rose." Some neighborhood residents say the problems will not be solved nor the gangs halted simply by more jobs or greater police activity. "The cops arrest them (gang members). The judge slaps them on the hand. They go out and do worse," Mercer said. "They stand in front of the cops and say, 'Go ahead, shoot Many residents in the city with the largest number of elderly persons in any community in Massachusetts sit watch at night to protect themselves, locked into a situation from which they feel they can't escape.

"I'm afraid to live in here, but it's hard to find an apartment. I'm afraid to rfrtfi tiffed m0r HOLYOKE, Mass. (UPI) Days are quiet in Holyoke's lower wards. Neighbors talk on tenement stoops while children play nearby. But nights erupt violently with disturbances many residents say won't end until someone is killed.

Since Aug. 13, when police interrupted a dice game on a city street, gangs have firebombed buildings, burned cars, smashed windows and fired guns in South Holyoke and "The Flats," predominantly Hispanic areas of deteriorating brick buildings and streets in this industrial city of 47,000. Riot-equipped police have cordoned off large sections of the western Massachusetts city whenever violence has flared. So far, about 40 people have been arrested. Five officers have been hurt.

An apartment block has been gutted and 24 persons left homeless by a suspicious blaze. Police and city officials say the Fair Play "li STEREO FREEZERS DISHWASHERS RANGES MICROWAVES COLOR TV's WASHERS or DRYERS REFRIGERATORS to-school time for a record number of students attending colleges and graduate schools this fall, but elementary and high school enrollments continue to decline, U.S. Education Department the has reported. In all, about 57.8 million students return to classrooms this term, down 1.3 percent from last year, department said in an annual report. Here Are Just A Few Advantages: No credit check No repair bills Rent to own Return your Item Immediate Delivery Anytime Total enrollment from kindergarten through college will be about 3.5 million less than the high of 61.3 million set in the fall of 1975, it said.

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