Revitalized country churches drive small town revival
Rural churches across Kentucky Tennessee and nearby areas are expanding their mission beyond salvation to include social and economic development. Presbyterians and Methodists lead community plans in Blue Springs Big Lick Wooton Alpine Frakes Morris Fork and Sevierville with health education soil conservation and farm loans empowering dozens of families and forming cooperative efforts.
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Presbyterian
Kentucky
Tennessee
Morris Fork
Wooton
Alpine
Big Lick
Tenn
Frakes
Sevierville
Blue Springs
Methodists
Disciples of Christ
Presbyterians
Paul A. Doran
Eugene Smathers
Big’ Lick
Benton Denton
Bernard M. Taylor
Taylor
Morris
Fork
Presbyterian Church
Blind Girl Becomes Expert Knitter in Le Sueur
Elaine Heintz, nearly blind since childhood, knits sweaters scarves and mittens at shop quality. With help from sister Kathrine she found markets for Christmas selling 200 items to Le Sueur residents. She learned knitting at Minnesota Braille and Sight Saving School in Faribault starting at age seven.
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LE Sueur
Minn
Elaine Heintz
Miss Heintz
Katherine
Minnesota Braille
Faribault
Wife Swipes His Teeth Sparks Legal Action
In Cleveland Frank Zahiler 31 seeks a summons from Police Prosecutor Vatro Grill after his wife locked him out of the house five times in three months and hid his false teeth. He complains the act crossed a line and requests disclosure of the teeth’s whereabouts.
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Cleveland
Frank Zahiler
Vatro Grill
Alpine Climbing Toll Rises in 1947 Swiss Season
Unofficial tallies show 64 climbers died in the 1947 Swiss Alps season including 52 Swiss, 8 English, 2 French, 1 Scot, and a American. Injuries reached about 30 as Briton Edward Whymper’s era of small numbers ends amid record tourist ascent of the Matterhorn and new routes on the Homensturm and Eiger north wall.
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Rosenlani
Switzerland
Swiss Alps
Mont Blanc
France
Matterhorn
Edward Whymper
Jakob Hefti
Alfons Voit
Robert Ceechet
Homensturm
Braunwald
Lionel Terray
Louis Lachenal
Eiger
Boy Admits Slaying Sister Because She Nagged Him
LAS ANIMAL COLORADO Jimmy Melton 12 told police he was sorry inside for killing sister Phyllis Marie 16 who he said nagged him. He admitted firing five shots with his father's .22 rifle as she wrapped presents in the living room. If convicted he faces life imprisonment as Colorado law bars the death penalty for under 18. His father James H. Melton Sr. 51 visited the jailed boy and asked why he did it. Jimmy replied I don't know.
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LAS Animal
Colo
Jimmy Melton
Phyllis Marie
L. E. Brookshire
M. L.cline
Young Melton
Colorado
James H. Melton Sr
Jimmy
Tear Gas Used After Taxicab Driver Protest in Chicago
John McNeal a 22 year old Chicago taxicab driver confronted a motorist who had blocked his path at an intersection. The driver fired a fountain pen tear gas gun into McNeal s face blinding him briefly. McNeal received hospital treatment and the car fled.
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Chicago
John McNeal
McNeal
Chinese Fishing Boat Sinks Off Tsingtao With 19 Drowned
An overloaded fishing vessel sank ten miles off Tsingtao injuring 19 soldiers and the owner. The incident followed a commandeered 17 ton boat loaded with munitions. After loading, more than 60 soldiers boarded with gear and forced the master to sail.
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Tsingtao
China
Rover
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Earle Hitch
Country Church
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Big Lick, Tenn
Natad Os Ince
Tupelo, Miss
Tupelo
United Nations Appeal For Children
Lewis Douglas
U.S
Great Britain
Congress
America
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Bexar
Mediterranean
Clifton B. Cates
Marine Corps
US Brill
United States
Turkey
San Francisco Naval Ship Yard
U. S. Navy
John Thomas Taylor
The
American Legion
House
Walter G. Andrews
Rep
N. Y
Stalin III
Mario Pimentel Brandao
Moscow
Brazil
Russia
Stalin
Wendy Roy Stocking
Wallace Graham
White House
Senate
Law
Scott
Foley
Corr
Comroune
Soretone Liniment
3Rd St. San Francisco
Save-the- Redwoods
Lee Foresting Illustrated
Leades Aubrey Drury
Save-The-Redwoods League
Sansome St
San Francisco
California
Lydia x Pinkham
Pinkham
Lidia E. Pinkmann
Station A
Gardena
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