Dr Shirkey Bids Farewell at Travis Park Church
Dr Albert Shirkey, 44, delivers his farewell sermon at 10:45 a m in the municipal auditorium after ten years at Travis Park Methodist Church. He moves to St Pauls Methodist in Houston where he will lead a growing church noted for interdenominational work and 530 members. His tenure saw growth from 3 300 to 5 30 members, staff from 6 to 30, and a budget rise from 18 000 to 140 000 with a 565 600 building fund and new youth and adult centers. He has three sons and four bishops have origins in Travis Park. Also Houston hosts the first annual University of Houston speech festival February 5 21.
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Susany
Municipal Auditorium
Shirkey
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Houston
Avis Bark Church
Navarro St
Travis St
San Antonio
Travis Park
John M. Moore
Edwin D. Mauzon
Arthur 3. Moore
Paul B. Kern
Dr. Shirkey
Francis Asbury
Washington
Senators split on plan to ease housing shortage
In Washington on February 5 the Senate and a government expert debated the nation needs a "good home" to ease the housing shortage but failed to agree on a path. The Senate banking committee failed to concur with Raymond M. Foley head of the housing administration on how to proceed during subcommittee hearings on slum clearance farm housing and more than 1 000 000 low rent public housing units.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Raymond M. Foley
Home and Housing Administration
Oklahoma to Admit First Negro Coed at OU
Ophelita Eugenia Daniels, 35, won admission to the University of Oklahoma graduate school of social work after a federal court order requiring state colleges to open if no negro programs exist. She becomes one of two Negro students among 12,000 whites, and the first negro woman at a White college in Oklahoma with official sanction. The attorney general denied two other negro applications due to lack of time to establish classes.
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Oklshoma City
University of Oklahoma
Ing
Ophelita Eugenia Daniels
Daniels
GW. McLaurin
Oklahoma
I Mae Q
Williamson
Roosevelt daughter calls stroke claims untrue
Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger refutes Dr. Karl Wold’s assertion that Franklin D. Roosevelt had three strokes before the fatal cerebral hemorrhage of April 12, 1955. She says her father had no stroke prior to the final brain bleed and dismisses the doctor’s 1938 and 1953 stroke statements.
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Roosevelt
Arina Roosevelt Boettiger
Karl C. Wold
St. Paul
Look Magazine
Wold
Roose
Welt
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