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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1955
Page
2
A missionary report from Seoul describes 16 widows in a lean to shelter sewing on three cotton machines. They live in a crowded sun warmed room with 74 children, fighting poverty and malnutrition on about 30 cents a day. The account notes 400 Presbyterian pastors martyred and 300,000 widows sheltered by Christian aid in Korea.
Rev Charles Banfield of the Rural Bible Mission will be the guest speaker at the Dover Tabernacle this Sunday February 6. Boys and girls will enjoy Banfield’s presentation of Bible stories.
Thud Metzger, executive secretary of Heifer Projects Inc, reports that in 1954 shipments of livestock were made to fourteen countries including Turkey, Iraq, Thailand, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Formosa, Puerto Rico, Egypt, Germany, Korea, Austria, Haiti, Cuba and France. Animals shipped totaled 643 cattle, 712 goats, 4 640 chicks, 8 pigs, 720 hatching eggs, 546 rabbits, 48 sheep, 300 turkey poults, 2 jacks, and 200 packages of honey bees. For 1955 there will be shipments to Austria, the Caribbean, Germany, Greece, Central America, the Middle East, and Turkey.
Officials from the World Council of Churches in Geneva appeal to American churchgoers to sponsor European refugees. They note 9,000 people moved in 1954 and 1,122 refugees aided by the WCC, as the Refugee Relief Act aims to grant 209,000 visas by 1957 across a dozen areas.
Marilyn Davis spent Tuesday and Wednesday night with cousins in Beaverton. Many Brush College residents visited relatives and hosted family gatherings including the Coats, Newman and Davis families. Birthday congratulations go to Perry and Charles Davis, Gary Coats, and Jack Newman of Lansing.
One of medicine finest honors the American Medical Association awarded its Distinguished Service Award to Dr William Wayne Babcock of Philadelphia for outstanding contributions to medicine and humanity.
Rev Parry A Temple Michigan field representative for the Bible Meditation League will present a guest talk and show a colored film of Korea at Dover Tabernacle on Wednesday February 9 at 8 00 p m The league conducts a worldwide ministry distributing Christian literature in 86 nations and many languages Arthur Cunningham Dover Tabernacle pastor invites public attendance.
A Silver Tea drive benefiting the March of Dimes was held on Wednesday January 26 at the Swiss Inn. The organizing committee included Mrs. Villa Walker Mrs Magdalene Tolgon Mrs Dorothy Baker Mrs Jean Seitz Mrs Margaret Ryckman and Mrs Alice Holmes.
Mrs Harry Moyer returned home from Detroit where she was ill for several weeks. The polio drive has been extended for two more weeks. Howard Ryckman and family visited his brother Clarence Ryckman who is very ill in Kalkaska. R Q Seitz Dale Brown Al Molnes and others helped Russell Cooncele celebrate his birthday. Maude Brady spent time in Lansing visiting relatives. Ryckmans spent Wednesday evening in Ovid with the Penatan family. William Cox and others are listed in town notices.
At the Texas State Fair in 1953 attendance reached 2,382,712, a figure near Philadelphia's population. The event sold 3,200,000 cold drinks and received three freight-car loads of potatoes for French fries.
The Temple Rod and Gun Club will meet at the Swiss Inn on Friday February 4 at 8:00. Conservation officer Don Bell will present deer herd control movies and answer questions.
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