Peace Sunday marks Hiroshima anniversary across nations
Across thousands of churches worldwide and in Japan and Europe Peace Sunday will observe the Hiroshima bombing five years later. Observances will center on prayer sermons for peace and world governance via the United Nations. The drive is led in Japan by Kagawa Matsumoto Tanimoto and others, with Western promotion by the Campaign for World Government.
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Nation weighs Korea war footing amid new threats
The President and Congress push for higher war readiness as about 100,000 more troops may be needed to counter North Korea. Soviet tanks, fresh weapons, and CIA warnings shape debate while past troop withdrawals are reassessed amid broader peacetime preparedness.
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Medals and belief in safety in Catholic practice
A column discusses Catholic medals as symbols not amulets, noting bullets rarely stop and stressing the Virgin Mary as a heroic ideal. It contrasts MacArthur buttons as patriotic symbols with medals’ spiritual meaning, while explaining the purpose is faith not talismanic protection. The piece ties preparedness to peace and reflects on wartime anxieties.
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World Council of Churches Work Camps Reach 800 Youth
Ninety young American church members aged 18 to 30 join 800 youth in World Council of Churches sponsored work camps across Europe Asia and the USA this summer. Most will perform manual labor building and clearing sites while other sites focus on educational religious health ministry projects in France Germany Italy Belgium England Japan the Philippines and the United States at East Harlem Protestant Parish Newark City. The American participants come from fourteen denominations across 27 states and Hawaii and include university students and active church workers.
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Philipine Islands
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Oxnam Urges Public Funds For Public Education
Bishop G Bromley Oxnam warns that draining public education to support private and parochial schools weakens the public system. He notes the President's Commission on Higher Education urged using public funds only for publicly controlled institutions.
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Commission On Higher Education
Lightning Kills Texas Child in West Texas Storms
Severe thunderstorms lashed West Texas the South Plains area, spawning a small tornado that damaged Popesville near Lubbock. Six year old Judit Beth Hamilton was killed by a lightning strike while playing on a farm near Quitaque, as her mother tended the field. Nearby residents Fritzie Baumann and family joined others visiting relatives over the weekend in Kerrville.
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Quitaque
Raymond Hamilton
Church Announcements Harper's welcomes parishioners
Sunday services listed for July 30 at Presbyterian Church led by Arthur L Spellmann include 10 a m church school 11 a m worship and 3 p m Westminster Fellowship at Hochheim. Several local visitors and a birth announced with cordial invitation to worship.
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Card of Thanks for sympathy and floral support
The family expresses deep appreciation for flowers and kind deeds during the illness of their sister Mrs. J. L. Farris. Gratitude goes to the Ladies Legion Auxiliary pallbearers choir and to Rev. Minter Hargrove and Hoffmann for comforting words from the brothers and sisters.
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Ladies Legion Auxiliary
Minter
Hargrove
Hofffmann
Saint Anthonys Church Holy Hour and August meetings
Rev A A Gitter outlines Tonight Holy Hour at 8 with Catholic Action Councils meeting on Friday Readings note Mass at 9 30 on Sunday July 30 with Sunday School following Next week August starts with First Friday and First Saturday Special Ladies meeting on August 6 to discuss bazaar plans Mr and Mrs Oran Parker and Mrs Belmore Roberts attended Joe Lanes funeral in Christoval Sunday. Lane was their uncle.
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For Sale 400 Acre Farm With Improvements Near Spring Creek
Auction note items list a 400 acre farm with 75 acres in cultivation black land a five room house barn outbuildings good well a large tank and contact Edmund Reed on Spring Creek call 2824 818 also available are registered and non registered Suffolks Rambouillet Corriedale Delaine crosses listed under Bucks for sale Victor Marshall Harper Texas 8 4 notice well developed White Leghorn and Austin White pullets for sale write phone or visit open Sundays Comfort Hatchery Comfort Texas
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Kerrville Bakery seeks custom baking and services
Local bakery in Kerrville advertises specialization in fine cakes pastries and bread and offers custom baking. Also seeks side work including baling raking and mowing with pick up baler. Herbert Wahrmund Rt 2 Fredericksburg contact 2532.
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Herbert Wahrmund
Rt. 2
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