Praise the Lord Drilling Co Founder Builds Oil Empire
Tom Brightman and his wife Mae, devout in faith, built Praise the Lord Drilling Co from a 1968 $5,000 well into an $18 million firm. Brightman began as a roughneck in 1940 and rose to president, crediting divine guidance for this rags-to-riches religious success story.
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Graham
Texas
Tom Brightman
Brightman
Breckenridge
Praise the Lord Drilling Co
Mae
Praise the Lord Drilling
Leon Hooten
Wichita Falls
Times and Record News
Duncan, Okla
Morning Eagle
Cedar Rapids Emergency Numbers List
A list of Cedar Rapids emergency numbers includes Ambulance 366 7654 and Highway Patrol 364 5171 with after hours 396 4414. Also listed are Medical Society 365 2527, Foundation In 362 2174, and Alcohol-Drug Counseling 377 1585.
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FBR
Foundation
Sweden born teen to star as Santa Lucia girl
Brigitta Sundstrom, 18, a Marion High School exchange student from Västerås Sweden, will be the Santa Lucia girl at a 7 p.m. Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center program in Minneapolis. She will wear Swedish dress as traditional songs are offered by Capt. and Mrs. Mel James. Sundstrom has previously played the role in Sweden and prepared a crown from her home, with a backup crown arranged. She is sponsored by the Marion East Cedar Rapids Rotary Club and stays with the Gregory Hapgood family.
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Sweden
Santa Lucia
Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center
First Ave
Brigitta Sundstorm
Vasterstal
Salvation Army
Mel James
Moline
Ill
Marion High School
Miss Sundstrom
Gregory Hapgood
Marion
East Cedar Rapids
Rotary Club
Leave the body count to God says Lutheran scholar
Rev Carl S Dudley of McCormick Seminary urged Lutheran Church in America leaders to value ministry quality over membership numbers. He warned against believing God depends on institutional numerical success, noting the church cannot survive without members yet should not tie divine favor to counts.
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Philadelphia
Carl S. Dudley
Chi
Cago
McCormick Theological Seminary
Lutheran Church In America
House settles 1824 presidential tie outcome
On this date in 1824 the House of Representatives intervened to decide the presidential result amid a four way deadlock between John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson William Harris Crawford and Henry Clay.
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House of Representatives
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
William Crawford
Henry Clay
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Texas Oilman
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Cedar Rapids
Christ
Edwin Seger
2Nd Ave
Denith
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