Baptists Report Record Year of Gains and Giving
The Southern Baptist Convention posts a record 6,761,265 members for 1949, with 334,862 conversions and 22,563 churches reporting at least one conversion. Sun day school enrollment reaches 4,643,650. Woman’s Missionary Union up 10 percent to 943,135. total church property value exceeds 548.3 million dollars. Texas churches surpass 100 million in property. overall gifts total 178.5 million dollars with missions outside the local church receiving 32.3 million.
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Fort Worth
Southern Baptist Convention
Porter Routh
Nashville
Tenn
Southern Baptist Statistician
Routh
Southern Baptist
Woman’s Missionary Union
Brotherhoods
Southern Baptist Churches
Texas Baptist Churches
Southern Baptist Church Memry
Lincoln Day Dinner Brings Panhandle Republicans to Amarillo
Panhandle and South Plains Republicans will attend the Lincoln Day dinner at 7 p.m. Friday in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel. Reservations are urged by tomorrow afternoon. Tickets cost 2.50 and are available from Miss Ruthelle Bacon or Bob Lyons. Main speaker is Sen. Harry P. Cain of Washington. An organizational meeting for a Panhandle Republican Women's Club follows at 2:30 p.m. in Room 202, led by Mrs. Carl G. Jearns.
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Lincoln
Harry P. Cain
Washington
Panhandle
Carl G. Jearns
Houston
Republican State Executive Committee
Sure Thing Bet Case Sparks Fine in Strabane
James T. Kelly, fined $20 in Strabane, Northern Ireland, for attempting to steal $175 by placing a $20 bet on a horse five minutes after it won. He admitted visiting a bookmaker, noting the win, then betting with a non member of the Bookmakers' Association to gain quicker results. Magistrate G C Lynn commented that it seemed the easiest way to win.
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James T. Kelly
Strabane
Northern Ireland
Kelly
Bookmakers’ Association
G. C. Lynn
Ellwood Park to Host Free Summer Square Dances in Amarillo
Curtis Bell, newly elected president of the Amarillo Square Dance Council, announced that the council will sponsor free square dancing at Ellwood Park each Saturday night during June July and August. Funds come from a city jamboree planned for spring to cover orchestra and public address system costs. The Amarillo jamboree is set for after the district event tentatively April 29 at Shamrock. New officers include N. V. Moss vice president Earl Meade secretary D. W. Godsey treasurer and Mrs H Grady Wilson public relations chair. The council coordinates local square dance clubs and each club may have two members on the ASDC board.
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Curtis Bell
Amarillo Square
Co op Officers Re elected At Dallas Convention
At the Consumers Co-Operatives Associated annual convention in Dallas on February 8, officers were re elected. R B Gist Canyon was named president H H Hogue Dalhart vice president G M Cooper Perryton secretary Leonard F Cowden Amarillo executive vice president and treasurer Harold A Hansen Danevang was re elected to the board of directors New directors named were Claude Wells Tohoka and C E Cantrell Blue Ridge
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Dallas
Consumers Co-Operatives Associated
R. B. Gist
Canyon
H. H. Hogue
Dalhart
G. M. Cooper
Perryton
Leonard F. Cowden
Amarillo
Harold A. Hansen
Danevang
Claude Wells
Tohoka
C. E. Cantrell
Blue Ridge
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Baptists
Ellwood Park Square
Borden
Cathey-Fullingim Hardware Co
Polk Street
Pampa Furniture CO
Pampa Lindsey Furniture CO
Borger
The
Borden Co
Ownes
Amarillo Exchange
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Freeman Insurance
Royce Gant
C. R. Haynie Ins
Agey
Holt-Ferguson
Hugo H. Loewenstern
Upshaw Insurance Agey
White & Whitehead Agcy
Howard Williams Agey
Williams-Boyce Agey
SEARS
Harmony House
Woolcrest Rugs
Sualing
Home Beauty
Monty
Froor
Sears, Rogbuck Amd CO
Polk
Tex
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