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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-30
Sensible Change
Fairbanks Daily News-Minep

(FaNDankS Ddlly NeWS-WNneIJ The starting date for taking the decennial census in Alaska has been set for April to conform with the start of census taking in the United States The nouncement made by Gene Harris the l1th area supervisor of the Bureau of the Census in Seattle changes an earlier date of February which had been
 designated for the start of the tabulation in the Terri tory.
 Under the plan, the population of Alaska will be counted it is being counted throughout the rest of the nation This makes lot more sense than the previous arrangement.
 A large proportion of the Territorial population is seasonal and migratory. The early months of the year are in the period when many Alaskans visit the United States on business for vacations.
 Had the census in the Territory been started two months earlier than the United States the prospect was that many individuals would not be counted at all Population gains and other information which the cen sus designed to yield could not have been reeceeo accurately under those circumstances.
 In making his decision, Area Supervisor Harris evidently found himself perched on the horns ot a dilemma from which he managed to extrlcate nlnsen not without difficulty The announcement setting the earlier date cited the Terrorys vastness the so-caed travel difficulties which would confront census em- orators and the ebb and flow of seasonal workers.
 Then the census supervisor reversed himself an- nouncing that the enumeration would start Apfl l. after all because travel conditions for census workers would be bad in February and March while many Alaskans who should be counted in the Territory would be in the United States during those months
 The result seems to be that Alaska will get the tyne of census which it entitled to ana one WHICH ,ui1, contain the full information compatible with similar facts gathered from the rest of the nation This is as it should be- The importance of the Terri tory to the United States is frequently emphasized these days and certainly there is no excuse TOT the taking of a distorted sip-shod population count among northern inhabitants.
 As to travel conditions and other alleged ohn- entities faced by enumerators, there are scores of
 aces in the Missouri Ozarks and the Tennessee nls which present problems far more insurmountaoe than any involved reaching Alaskas farthest settle ment.
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T THESE DAY $
 - B Y-- GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
THE HALF-CENTURY YEARLY

In 1900, the social center of Am- erican life was the church. The American people were religious deeply attached to their various sects, reading the Bible not only in church but even at home. Pray CT at table or in the parlor was not unusual. Many American Chris tian sects were "fundamentalist, that is, they accepted literally every word in the Old and New Testa- ments as revealed truth. The larg est number of church-goers among the Protestants were Methodists.
 A great religious revival had oc- cured in the Nineties, under the leadership of Dwight L. Moody with whom was associated Ira D. San key. Moody was an Evangelical or ator; Sankey was a hymn-singer. It is impossible in 1850 even to estimate the force that these men released in their generation. Their style of religious preachment was followed by many others who trav- eled over the country and some of them to other countries. The most interesting in the early years of the century was Billy Sunday with his song leader, Homer Rode beaver, whose trombone is liv- ing memory to anyone who ever heard it.
 Of course, there were rationalists, agnostics, atheists, socialists and anarchists who conducted steady attack on religion. Undoubtedly the greatest orator in American life in the later decades of the 18th Century was Robert Ingersoll, the nationalist, out of Peoria, Illinois, the same city that gave America Monsignor Fulton Sheen, the great
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-30
Wincheu Starts Something

Shortly after Acheson returned from Europe, Walter Winchell broadcast an item that Washington in 1850 would not be big enough for both Acheson and Johnson.
 Acheson didn't know anything about the broadcast-until am. next day, when he got phone call from Johnson asking if he could come over to see him right away. Acheson agreed; and John son, arriving few minutes later, asked
 Did you hear what Walter Win chell said last night?"
 Acheson hadn't, but thought It was interesting that the Secretary of Defense should go to so much trouble to say that he had nothing to do with inspiring the broadcast.
 As a matter of fact, Ii either of the men departs, it will probably be Johnson-not because he isn't doing a good job; he is. But he has occasionally stepped on Truman's toes.
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DEMOCRACY

When former President Herbert Hoover says Let's make democracy work" and couples the statement with plea for retrenchment in Federal spending, he hews to the Of the difference between de- mocracy as spelled with small Id" and Democracy as capitalized
 The word with the small I'd" means government of by and for the people. It means polltical pat tern of life in which the rights of the ndVoua are not submerged but are exalted It means 'reeoonh for human dignity freedom for private enterprise freedom for ambition thrift and energy.
 Democracy with a capital "D' is a partisan woro referring to the Democratic Party. President lru- man and his predecessor have been busiy engaged ln making that kind of Democracy work Indeed, they seem to shave found magic formula in the opening up of the apparently limtess credit of the Feoera Treasury to every block and clique unescralheo spending and unchecked waste seem to De eoou partisan politics. They make Democracy work put
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special White House plane to fly to the Big Three Foreign Ministers Conference last November
 s4Acheson wanted the "Dew-Drop, the de luxxe liner which the Ar Force had built for President Dewey. But Johnson refused on the ground that the President S special plane, the Independence was enroute to Iran to bring back the Shah, and that MT. Truman wanted the "Dew-Drop" kept in the United States in case of emer- .gency. Johnson offered his Cabinet col league the Presidents onetime plane, the Sacred Cow" but the Sacred Cow does not make as much speed as the Independence or the Dew-Drop. So, without arguing any further with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary Of State quietly rented a special plane from American AirlineS.
 This cost the taxpayer around sl2,O00 and was the first time a Cabinet member has rented a spec ial plane, since Air Force planes are available at considerably less cost.
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JohnsOn's Double Job

Johnson is doing one Of the most difficult jobs ever tackled by any acknowledgements the military budget and at the same time putting across unifica- tion. Cracking Army-Navy heads together is difficult enough and contributed to the death of his predecessor. But simultaneously cutting the budget is bound to make any Cabinet Secretary of Defense unpopular inside the gov erment
 However, Johnson, in his zeal to get things done, doesn't always clear his appointments with either the Democratic National Commit tee or the White House Se>4 etar- fat. On major appointments, he clears with the President himself, but he goes over the heads of the men around Truman to do this, and they don't like 1t.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-30
20 YEARS AGO TIT fME EMPIRE
DECEMBER 30, 1929


 The Capt Ramsauer arrived wesoound and w sprigade all Seattle, Osborn from Wrange gone to ordova Charles Foy and Pete for Seward
 hands with old santa Claus at the
 annual Christmas Gastneau Channel children invited to De guests at the where featured in he Canyon of AdVe tme' party
 oober was born early December 29 St. Anns osa Mr. Taku River The family was well known Channel
 Tom ans underwent appendecom and Freo also had entered Hospital for Able to return t their homes after hospiaaion Mrs O. J. Wite Mrs Eva Robinson Foden
 Company was que that on the Another was Deputy Col
 Customs Maurice outside to spend the holidays with family.
 Friends here had Hida Nystrom and MT N Hardy former Juneau married in Seattle in NoVe The bridegroom had of the Territory as warden for of Fisheries
 After pleasant with her parents MT ana M Oe oN d Dopas Miss Lucille planned return the Moran to he ntion in Tacoma the U S Internal Revenue oice Mice ana Aalto government Hoonah arrived in Douglas visit
 38 low, 34; ralr
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est orator of the Roman Catholic
 Church today
 Such rationalists as Emma Gold man, the brilliant anarchist, trav- eled the country attacking God and the Bible. as the Evangelists spoke
 Gods word.
 Only a nation deeply religious could have devoted itself pro and con to this debate, which headed up in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, over evolution, the contestants being William Jen-
 nings Bryan, often Democratic candidate for President, and Clar-
 ence Darrow, the lawyer. It was conflict between Fundamentalism and Modernism, between religious faith and the current version of science. The entire country was stirred by this trial, the newspap- CTS covering it plentifully and of-
 ten heaping great ridicule on the
 State of Tennessee which forbade
 the teaching of evolution.
 Young intellectuals, even among the clergy, at the beginning ol this century, were influenced by a European literature, hardly read in 1950 Ibsen, Brieux, George Ser nard Shaw, Tolstoy, Matthew Ar old and host of others were de- youred. They were reading Thomas Huxley's lectures and among the clergy, the higher criticism, eman- ating from Germany, deeply influ- enced by Schleiermacher, produced profound impression.
 Protestant Christianity swcrved in many places from a religion oI the Bible to an ethical system which while accepting Jesus as among the great moral teachers oI the human race, devoted itself more to social service. Many clergymen ceased to preach with texts rom the Bible; they turned rather, to discussions of plays, books, politics, The sermon became the sole at- traction of their services. The church was kept engaged during every day of the week, but as much as a social center as religious institution.
 At the same time, the tremen-
 dous emphasis on science, paru-
 cularly the biologic sciences, broke down the authority of the Bible
 among young people in the early decades of this century. During prohibition, especially as re- suit of the moral horrors of the Jazz age, with it's bathtub gin ana
 the unbelievably careless conduct
 of parents in the presence of thelr
 children, social restraints so es- sential in an orderly society were lessened. Divorce increased almost to it's recognition as an mstltu- tion. The mores of the nation seemed no longer to frown on ll-
 licit sex relations, newspapers and
 radio devoting considerable space
 to normal news reports of such re-
 lationships among persons whose fame was not a result of achieve
 ment but of "glamor.'
 1 As 1850 is approached, moral problems attract renewed atten- ton. There is an extraordinary re- vival of interest in religion. Church
 attendance has increased and the
 Bible has regained it's popularity.
 '~,+ tho least significant factor in
 this resurrection of interest is the
 radio performance of "The Great - -.-., -,er lJold," the work of
 Fulton Oursler, a layman converted | to Roman Catholicism. M
 But the greatest factor of all
 was the war and it's aftermath and
 the horrors of Marxian materialiSm
 as evidenced in Soviet Russia and it's satellites.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

When giving number to elevator operator shoulo one always say please? sf
 Yes Say five please" please" or thank you are snaA ,oes that cost nothing the well-bred person.
 Is it necessary hostess always to have new ock the table?
 The bridge hostess fresh decks of cards on eacn table. ..o.o haro When party people occupying box at the theaUe " hould host sit?
 behind his wife
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-30
Kind of Glove 10 Pick Up Sound Is
 New Aid 10 Deaf
(By Associated Press)

A marvellous new invention for he deaf has been announced at he New York meeting of the Association for the advancement of science.
 It is still under development, but it is likely to end up as a kind of glove that picks speech out of the air and transforms sound into a series of tiny electrical shocks hat carry on to the brain.
 Dr. Norbert Weiner of the Mas ,achusetts Institute of Technology says even a blind deaf-mute learn ,d to speak with the device, using his fingers as ears.
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. l1 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month M in Scottish Rite Temple @ N beginning at 7::30 p. m. WW GLENN O. ABRAHAM, w Worshipful Master;
 JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary.
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DEEP SEA DIVER HERE

Bob Logan, Cordova deep sea diver, stopped overnight at the Baranof Hotel before going to Se- attle today.
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profigacy doesn't make the other kind of democracy work In time it will smother it, just surely Roman freedom suffocated under bread and circuses
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Result has been a steady trlckle of well-placed anti-Johnson venom in the Presidents ear. This, plus perhaps the fact that Truman may see A 1852 Presidential rival in the dynamic Secretary of Defense, ex- plains why he dropped the re- mark to intimates that someday he's going to "get rid of that so- and-so"
 Truman, however, has been known to fly off the handle and then forget about it.
 Meanwhile, Johnson is doing one of the best jobs in the Cabinet, and would not be easy to replace. So also is Acheson. And as of the present moment they seem to have climbed out of each others hair and put aside their differences.
 Mail Bag
 Correction: A recent column may have been unfair to Stephen Down. ey of Sacramento in linking him with his brother, Sen. Sheridan Downey of California. The fact is that Stephen Downey is an able Liberal; and, unlike his Senatorial brother, fights for his convictions Just received from Sidney Hyman, Washington, D. C., let ter which reads: I've just read your column about toys for the kids of Europe, including the Ger man children. I have no love for Gheir parents. Some of them wip- ed out every member of my own amily in Europe; others among them were on the other side of the line when I was at the Kasserine Pass, at CaSsina and Anzio. But l agree wholeheartedly with the thesis you advance in your col umn and am grateful that some thing remains of your backsliding Quaker conscience so that you still can advance such a thesis. Since I have no children of my own, and thus will have no opportunity to salvage toys from any after-Christ- mas shambles, I am enclosing this check to buy new ones. Would you be so good as to attach any name to the gift you think wise. You might simply say, America"
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LOOK and LEARN zsy. c. GORDON

Who is reputed to originated the gold standard?
 railroad steamship company that carries passengers and goods for hire?
 What the Barney Stone supposed to conr upon one?
 What English popular article Of food on picnic table? g. Who was singer of Israel"?
 ANSWERS: l. The Roma emporer Augustus g. carrier B. The ability to get wants by cajoey of Sandwich David.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-30

Pumpkin Center and Pumpkin Chapel are two Kentucky postof- fices.
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Politics isn't the only thing that makes strange bedfelows There's that thing called love-
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sCHWINN BIKES AT MADsEN'S.
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The Washington t.errY-Go-Round
ry DREW PEARSON

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PIONEERS ATTENTION

Regular meeting snd Christmas party Friday Dec. 30. pm. Bring rifts for exchange.-adv. 87-3t
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daughter early the morning o Decemper zs Ill ,;to1 t Mir and Mrs Jack Koby River The family nown on Castineau Channel
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Tom Haines of Tee Harbor underwent appendectomy, also had entered Ann Hospital for surgery Able to their homes after hosptalzaon were Mrs O. Wtse Robinson and Mrs. Pete Foden
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-12-15
Broadway Community Church

Everett Scarberry, pastor
Sunday School-10 a. m. Don
VanAtta, superintendent.
Morning worship-ll a. m.
Sermon by pastor.
Evening worship-7:30 p. m.
Christmas program.
This will be Christmas ObSer-
vance Sunday in the church and
Sunday School. All present will
participate in the Christmas
treat during the Sunday School
hour. A fine Christmas program
will be the feature of the eve
ming service. A cordial welcome
is extended to all the community.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
MarYsville

Rev. E. j. Goedeking, pastor
Sunday School-9:3O a. m
Frank Rupprecht, superintend-
ent.
Morning worship-l0:30 a. m.
Reception of Adult members, and
Holy Communion. why Did Je-
sus Gomez"
intermediate and Junior de-
partmentS rehearsal for Christ
mas program-2 p. m. Sunday.
Sunday School Christmas pro-
gram for the beginners and pri-
mary departments-7:3O p. m.
Dec. l8 in the church.
79ers"-7 p. m. will meet in
Parish House to 60 carolling,
returning to Parish House for
Christmas party.
Christmas program for Christ
ian and Kindergarten-7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Dec. 20 in Luther Hall.
Following the program the child
rem will be entertained in the
church parlors, by the Christian
Education Association.
Senior Choir rehearsal-8 p. m.
Wednesday.
Junior and intermediate De-
partment Christmas program re-
hearSal-7:3O p. m. Thursday in
the church.
Christmas program by Junior
and intermediate departments
7:45 p. m. Dec. "a.
Christmas musical program
z p. m. Christmas Eve. As min
ute program, presented by Miss
Irene Hegenderfer, on Trinity's
organ.
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Magnetic Springs -Pharisburg
Methodist

Rev. Lorin Heacock, pastor
Magnetic Springs
Sunday School-l0 a. m. Omer
Doty, superintendent.
Morning worship-ll a. m.
Sunday School Christmas pro-
gram-7:30 p. m. Sunday, Dec. 10.
Pharisburq-
Morning worship-l0 a. m.
Sunday School-1l a. m. Mere
dith Hall, superintendent.
Sunday School Christmas pro-
gram-E30 p. m. Friday evening,
Dec. %.
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vnited Presbyterian Church
New California

vnited Presbyterian Church
New California
aev. john S. Vance, pastor
Sunday Scnool-l0 a. IN. Mrs.
4dlu Doherty, superintendent.
'lasses for all ages.
xorning worship-lI a. m. Ser
ON by the pastor.
West Mansfield York
Evangelical U. B. Parish
Rev. Francis ]. McCracken,
pastor
York
Sunday School-l0 a. m. James
Sherman, superintendent.
Young Peoples Meeting-7:30
p. m.
Worship service-8 p. m.
Prayer meetings p. m. Tues
day.
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Raymond Church of Christ
in Christian Union

N. c. Hinkle, pastor
Kermit Bushong, First Elder
Sunday School-10 a. m. Car
roll ". burroughs, Superintend-
at.
Morning worship-11 a. m.
Young Peoples Service-7:30 p.
m. Eileen Riggs, president.
Evening worship-8 p. m.
Prayer meetings p. m. We'd
nesday.
Missionary service, second
Sunday night of each month.
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First English Lutheran
Marysville

Rev. George W. Dittmar, pastor
Sunday School-10 a. m. Fred
Schelderer, superintendent.
Morning worship-ll a. m.
Sunday School Christmas ser
vice practice p. m. Sunday.
Sunday School Cabinet-7:30
p. m. Wednesday.
Sunday School Christmas Ser
vice-7:30 p. m. Friday Dec. %,
"The Christmas Story.
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Pharisburq-
New Dover Methodist Church

Rev. Robert Versteeg, pastor
Sunday School-l0 a. m. And
rev Anthony, superintendent.
Morning worShip-ll a. m.
Choir practice-Friday p. m,
hostesSeS, Mr.. and Mrs. Rolla
Graham,
Christmas programs p. m.
Sunday, Dec Is.
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Central Methodist Church
Redwood

Rev. j. c. Stitzel, pastor
Sunday School-9:45 a. m.
Morning worship-10:50 a. m.
Evening services-7:30 p. m.
Mid-week prayer service-7:30
}. m. Wednesday.
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ST. Pauls Lutheran Church
Chuckery. Junction Rts. SO & l6l

Carl E. Zehner, pastor
English Service-l0:30 a. m.
Bible Class-l0 a. m.
Sunday School-l0 a. m.
Junior and Senior Walther
Leagues Christmas parties-8 p.
m. Monday.
Junior Choir rehearsal--7:30 p.
m. Saturday.
Senior Choir rehearsal-8:30 p.
m. Saturday.
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DECEMBER is. ls4s ---
This Sunday,
MCHURCH !
NIB A nnO UnCfmtnTs|
Lunda Church of Christ

Lunda Church of Christ
Charles N. Thomas, minister
Bible study-10 a. m.
Worship service-l0:45 a. m.
Subject, Believing Lie.
Evening services-7:45 p. m.
Subject, Faith, Hope, and Love-.
RaYmond-Pottersburg
Methodist Church
ev. Edwin Finlinson, pastor
IT,. mond-
Sunday School-10 a. m, L. B.
Rhoads, superintendent.
Morning worship-ll a. m,
Methodist Youth Fellowship
7:30 p. IN. Monday.
Choir practices p. IN. We'd
neSday.
Petersburg
Sunday School-10 a. m.
Kenneth Blake, superintendent.
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Milford Center
Methodist CHARGE

Sev. J. M. Gambill, pastor
~1Iford Center
tnday School-9:l5 a. m.
narles Brake, superintendent.
forming worship-10:10 a. m.
swim
xorning Worship-9:30 a. m.
sunday School-10 a. IN.
vnionville Center
Sunday School-10:l5 d. m.
Morning worShip-11:15 a. m.
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Church of Christ
in Christian Union
Milford Center

Rev. Atlanta Bushong, pastor
Sunday School-10 a. m. Mrs.
Ralph Wood, superintendent.
Morning worship-l1 a. m.
Young Peoples meeting-7:30
p. m.
Evening services p, m.
Prayer meetings p. m. We'd
neSday.
Cottage prayer meetings. p.
m. Friday.
Missionary Service-first Sun
day evening, of each month 8 p.
m.
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Peoria MT. Zion
Evangelical u. B. Parish

Evangelical u. B. Parish
Claude J. ForSythe, pastor
Peoria
Sunday School-l0 a. m. Ada
Shirk, superintendent.
Morning Worship-1l a. m.
Prayer service-8 p. m. Thurs
day.
Mt. Zion
Sunday School-10 a. m. Frank
Crabbe superintendent.
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Church of Christ
Marysyille

Bible Study-l0 a. IN. Second
chapter of James.
Morning serviceS-10:30 a. m.
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Allen Center Baptist

kI1Ci NSAItSI DdPIISI
Rev Claude j. Forsythe, pastor
Sunday School-10 a. m. Ches-
ter Cline, superintendent.
Youth Fellowship-7:30 p. m.
Evening worship-8 p. m.
Prayer service-8 p. m. We'd
neSday.
Judson Glass; p. m. Friday,
hostesses, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
LeMaSter.
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Sprinqdale Baptist Church
Rev. George c. Reed, pastor
Sunday School-l0 a. /
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Dec. l6, hostesses, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Philo.
Springdale Christmas program
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Raymond Petersburg
Methodist Church
Jerome Methoaist Church

Rey. H. H. Hutson. pastor
sunday School-10 a. m.
Morning Worship-1l a. m.
Iouth Fellowship-8 p. m.
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Dwight Lowry, superintendent.
Morning worShip-ll a. m.
Christmas programs p. m.
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Prayer meeting and Bible
Study-8 p. m. Wednesday.
True Blue Class-Frday p. m.