Television Sways Evening Church Attendance in Survey
A 25 pastor survey from Roanoke Rapids to Asheville notes mixed effects of television on Sunday night worship. Eleven report declines averaging 17 percent, eleven see no change, three report gains. Most blame weak service quality and call for better preaching and more singing. Apple region Shenandoah Valley noted.
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Charity and Children
the Baptist Orphanage
Roanoke Rapids
Asheville
Anyother
New Type Truck Designed To Haul Larger Cargoes
A new truck with a neutral engine rated at 163 horsepower is designed to haul large cargoes. It features engineered gear ratios for furniture and paper box transport and will be assembled at the Mickey plant on ana Street.
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Mickey
Ana Street
Man wastes fortune to dodge alimony claim
Stewart Davis, earning four pounds a week, testified in Sheffield court that he spent seven thousand pounds in seven months to prevent his divorced wife from collecting alimony. He said his motive was to thwart her alimony ambitions, insisting she was no Rita Hayworth.
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Sheffield
England
Stewart Davis
National Farm Safety Week Designated
President Eisenhower designated the week of July 19 as National Farm Safety Week in a proclamation from Augusta Georgia. He cited that accidents injured more than 10 million farm residents last year and urged all organizations and individuals involved in farm life to join a campaign to prevent accidents on farms highways and in homes.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
America
POWs Had Beer For Breakfast in Red Radio Claims
Peiping radio dupe claimed Allied sick and wounded prisoners were fed beer for breakfast and readied for Panmunjom exchange Monday. Meanwhile Pusan reports Chinese Red prisoners tearing up clothes to spite photographers as they near Panmunjom.
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San Francisco
Red China
Peiping
Panmunjom
Pusan
Korea
Associated Press
Kaesong
Court Upholds Priest Conviction in Sermon Propaganda
In Venice an appeals court upheld a 15 day suspended prison sentence for Don Mario Paccagnan a Treviso parish priest convicted of political propaganda in a May 27 1951 sermon praising the Christian Democratic party of Premier Alcide De Gasperi. He must pay 40 000 lire to reimburse the complainant Giorgio Della Valle.
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Venice
Italy
Mario Paccagnan
Treviso
Christian Democratic Party
Adlde de Gasperi
Giorgio Della Valle
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