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Signs of the Times
Together
Reprinted from the article "A Chance to Make It" by Herman B. Teeter, Together, December, 1968.
The Job Corps is a program of human renewal run by the federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and designed to educate and teach marketable skills to disadvantaged young people who want to reenter the mainstream of American life as jobholders and useful citizens. ... "Such youngsters—and there are some 1,200 coming out of Job Corps training each week—do need help to get started on the right way of life," says B. J. Roberts, JACS [Joint Action in Community Service] executive director. ...
In Atlanta, a leading attorney takes time off from his busy law practice to counsel returning corpsmen. Ministers, businessmen, social workers, college students, government employees, housewives, retired executives—these and many others are among an increasing number of JACS volunteers on call "at the drop of a hat" to assist corpsmen in taking full advantage of their training. ... JACS, a nonprofit organization, was conceived in 1967 through the mutual concern of Job Corps officials and the Inter-Religious Committee against Poverty, composed of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant leaders. Each of the seven regional JACS offices maintains a list of local volunteers ready to reach out a helping hand. JACS limits its work to male Job Corps graduates, but a similar, unrelated program, Women in Community Service (WICS), provides help for girls. ...
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September 27, 1969 issue
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Seeking Rightly Can Bring Peace
GORDON V. COMER
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What May We Expect?
MILLIS CAVERLY
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"The Love that casts out fear"
HARRY DE LASAUX
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Man Is Satisfied
CORA SLAUGHTER
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Have a Good Time
BARBARA-JEAN STINSON
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An Interview: about the physical sciences
with contributions from F. Karl Willenbrock
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Christian Science versus Lawlessness
Helen Wood Bauman
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Body and Soul
William Milford Correll
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I am humbly grateful for the liberation that comes to us through...
Gertrude P. Fogel
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At one time I was serving as cook in a Christian Science House
Lucy Marion Bennett
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A statement by Mrs. Eddy inscribed on the wall of a Church of Christ, Scientist,...
Mildred F. Newton
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I would like to express my gratitude for Christian Science, a...
Alida De Boer-Sibie
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In gratitude for Christian Science I relate the following healing
Clarissa Nancy Lomas
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RADIO PROGRAM NO. 390 - What Does Education Mean to You?
The speaker is Harvey Wood. The questioner is David McAlary.
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Signs of the Times
Herman B. Teeter