Convention Opens Second Day in Tryon Epist Meeting
Western North Carolina Epist held its second day in Tryon as delegates prepared to adopt a budget and elect 12 Provincial Senate delegates, eight to the standing committee, two to the executive council, a delegate to the Anglican Congress, and directors for three Episcopal schools. Bishop C Alfred Cole urged larger charitable giving, noting less than one percent of income goes to charities. Officers named included Asheville treasurer W Jordan Brown and trustee William M Red wood, with Rev James M Hindle serving as secretary.
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Tryon
N.C
North Carolina
Epist
Executive Council
Anglican Congress
Minneapolis
Appalachian
Penland
Patterson
Ledgerwood
Valle Crucis
Episcopal
Diocese Elects Officers at East Carolina Convention
The Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina elected officers in Fayetteville North Carolina with Bishop Thomas H Wright and Francis B Sayre speaking on Asia and law. Junius D Grimes was named chancellor Peter B Ruffin chair of dispatch of business and Rev Robert Snell convention secretary. A resolution urged a missions study on improvements of Negro churches.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Episcopal Diocese of
East Carolina
Francis B. Sayre
Thomas H. Wright
D.D
Sayre
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Japan
Asia
Wright
Junius D. Grimes
Washington
Peter B. Ruffin
Wilmington
Robert Snell
Lumberton
Department of Missions
Tar Heel peach crop forecasts dip in 1954 harvest
Federal Crop Reporting Service projects a 1954 Tar Heel peach harvest of 1,050,000 bushels, down 11 percent from 1953 and 64 percent of the 10 year average. Sandhills crops look poor to fair, Mount Airy areas show better prospects, and early Irish potato output may fall 17 percent. May 1 yield expected at 3,075,000 bushels with per acre average around 205. Harvest should start in late May, possibly a week earlier in Carteret County.
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Raleigh
Federal
Sandhills
Mount Airy
Carteret County
Diocese of North Carolina approves largest budget to date
In Tarboro North Carolina the Episcopal Diocese approved a record 235428 budget for the year and set a 500000 capital improvements goal after Bishop Penick urged 300000 by 1960. The convention backed a fall 1955 training mission and studied church supported schools.
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Tarboro
N.C
Episcopal Diocese of
North Carolina
Edwin A. Penick
Raleigh
Penick
Episcopal Mission
St. James of
Kannapolis
Christ's Church, Charlotte
What Makes It Fly Papasan Explores Army Helicopter
An elderly Korean man known as Papasan sits in the cockpit during Armed Forces Day in Uijongbu. He examines the many instruments and controls, offering a dignified, civilian lens on the machines that lift soldiers.
Two Farmers Deny Charges of Slavery
In a four day federal peonage trial in Birmingham Alabama Fred and Oscar Dial of Sumter County denied owning enslaved workers or beating farmhands. Defense testimony concluded with rebuttals and closing arguments as witnesses described reputations for rough treatment and a wife’s account of a single strike. Evidence included photos of a laborer with injuries. officials argued the man died from beating while Grubbs attributed death to pneumonia. The government alleged the Dials fined and transferred enslaved workers between Alabama and Mississippi jails.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Fred
Oscar Dial
Sumter County
J. W. Boyd
Livingston
Fred Dial
Coy
Lee Tankersly
Hubert
Monk) Thompson
Nelson Grubbs
Thompson
Grubbs
Dials
Mississippi
Dewey Urges Milk Over Coffee Stirring International Debate
New York Governor Thomas E Dewey urged Americans to drink a glass of milk daily to absorb a coffee surplus. South American diplomats called the move a challenge to hemispheric solidarity and warned it could harm U S coffee trade while the National Coffee Association voiced fears of job losses if coffee demand declines.
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New York
Thomas
E. Dewey
Dewey
Tech
Joao Carlos Muniz
Brazil
United States
U. S
James M. O'Connor
National Coffee Assn
L.A
O'Connor
Stover Receives Suspended Three-Year Manslaughter Sentence
Captain Obie W. Stover Jr., 31, was sentenced to three years with two years probation after a federal jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the June shooting of his wife Frances at their Cherry Point Marine Base apartment.
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Wilson
Obie W. Stover Jr
Fao
Don Gilliam
Federal District Court
Stover
Frances
Cherry Point Marine Air Base
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