World relief call and Navajo school needs
Dr Geoffrey Fisher urges United Nations action to end famine and hunger worldwide. The Navajo Nation requests urgent Interior Department help to build schools for 15 000 school age children amid shortages and rationing as urban migration strains public education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Canterbury
National Fellowship of Indian Workers
Secretary of the Interior
Arizona
New Mexico
Christians Convene in Des Moines 1947 International Meeting
Des Moines hosts the 21st International Convention on Christian Education from July 23 to 27 1947. Sponsored by the International Council of Religious Education the event aims to gather about 10000 volunteer Sunday school teachers ministers and officials from around the world to emphasize Christian education’s central role in modern culture. Also notes a France produced commentary on the First Epistle of Peter by Rev Roland de Pury written in prison during the Nazi era and remarks on moral rebuilding in China and U S economic policy debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
International Council of Religious Education
Harold E. Stassen
Roy G. Ross
France
Peter
Roland de Pury
Lyons
Rehabilitation of blinded veterans aid study in three-state district
Helen C. Walker supervisor for rehabilitation of blind veterans of the Veterans Administration branch Area No. 10 visited San Antonio with Marvin A. Harlan regional manager and local officials to review programs for seriously handicapped cases across the three-state district. Walker outlined aims to place disabled veterans in occupations and noted progress from VA training for the blind with veterans entering business industry agriculture and professional fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen C. Walker
San Antonio
Marvin A. Harlan
E. R. Fenton
Legion
Walker
Tennessee
Tennessee State Commission For the Blind
Veterans Administration
Dallas
Catholics and pilots debate luck charms in wartime
A bomber crew recalls St Christopher medals and lucky shirts while arguing that true help comes from God not talismans. The writer urges reliance on prayer and saints, noting the medal is blessed but survival rests with divine providence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Christopher
Baldy
Keith
Quotations and Odds and Ends From a Historical Page
A collage of quotations on work and value followed by wartime era anecdotes and jokes. The snippets reference industry, pay scales for a master sergeant, a breakfast poultry joke, and a window calling out a time joke with an iceman and a dentist quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sgt. Ramos
Mr. Iceman
Iceman
Harper's Churches Extend A Cordial Welcome This Sunday
Church notices invite parishioners to attend Masses at 9 30 and 8 and 10 on September 8 and 22 with a dinner bazaar on the 22nd. From September 29 the winter schedule 830 and 10 or 10 only begins under a seminary priest from San Antonio. Local families visited Rev Gitter and each other over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s
St. Ann’s Society
San Antonio
Church Schedule and Local Visits in Harper
Sunday services listed for St James Lutheran First Baptist and Methodist churches in Harper with times. Social notes mention guests Mr and Mrs Shorty Beard of San Angelo and families from Miles Kerrville Fredericksburg Seguin and Fredericksburg visiting local homes and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Shorty Beard
San Angelo
Glen Hopf
M. R. Duderstadt
Maxie Baumann
Kerrville
Arthur Baumann
Arwin Tatsch
Harper
Arnold Markwortt
Mrs. Morris Ed. Duderstadt
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SY O.w.reib
George Peck
China
Martin Yang
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. C
Hubbard
Moradabad
Donald Ebright
United Provinces
India
United States
DeWitt Emery
National
Small Business Men's Association
America
House
Senate
Congress
Con
Ida Sageblels
Otto Rahe
Papa
Catholic Information
Henry Ward Beecher
Charles M. Schwab
Happy
Emerson
Mary Baker Eddy
Wilberforce
Sir Henry Taylor
the Herald
ST. Anthony's Church
A. A. Gitter
James L. Daly
Leo Klein
Henry Jenschke
Wm. Kaiser
Alfred Lehne
Alfred Roeder
Mason Sunday
Oswald Feller
ST. James Lutheran Church
M. C. Hoermann
Luther Gan
Miles
Texas
Floyd Boatright
Dayton Rahe
Victor Harper
First Baptist Church
A. R. Allen
Methodist Church
B. E. Breihan
A. J. Arnold
S. S. Stewart
Doc
Jack Smith
Mrs. Smith
Seguin
Ida Smith
Sam Ezell
Buick
Selma Granville
Gene Stover
G. I
U. S. Army
Dad
S. S. Post Office
Fredericksburg, Texas
the Vogue
Hill Country
Peggy
Nina Jean
Vogue Beauty Salon
Lillian
Dess
Minnie
Bill
Bill Kaiser
Ranch Supplies
Victoria Cross
Knopp
Metzger
Fredericksburg
Louis’ Place
San Antoio
Baroauway
Louis O'Bryant, Owne
Kerrvile, Texas
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