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finals Of the 400-meter relay.
The time was new meet record
Of 40.7 seconds. clipping FIVE
tenths seconds off the old rec
ord set in 1854. Their team
mates were Pfc. Earl Glaze OF
Houston. Tex. and Pvt. Charles
Pratt. Railway, N. j.
Pratt won two individual
events, taking the ll0-meter
hurdles in IA seconds fiat and
the 200-meter dash in Oil.
Other winners for the United
States team were Pfc. Al Griffith,
Boston. WITH All in the 400
meter run. Spl3 Mel higgins in
the high Jump with 6-3; Pvt.
Martin Engel, New York, with a
toss Of 1876 feet 1924 inches in the
hammer throw; Pvt. Tom Court
ney. former Fordhdm ace. with
l:54.l in the 800-meter run; Pvt.
Josh Culbreath. Quantico Ma
irines. IN the 400-meter hurdles
in Sill; 1t. Anthony Cantello.
Quantico Marines. with a toss
OF 234 feet 8s inches in the
javelin. and 1t. Francis Zellers,
/ Tobinsport. Ind. with a 3:54.4
clocking in the l.500-meter run.
The United States also wor
the l.600-meter relay in 3:l22.
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Husband and Wife
Win $50, $40 in Pool
At Aqua CuIiente

Aqua CALlENTE. Mexico,
Aug. s lPl.--The 5-10 horse rae
ing pool paid a record S30,6l0.80
on a SEA bet yesterday to Mr..
and Mrs. j, E. Flowers. who for
merry ran a restaurant IN Hot
Springs. Ark
The Flowers had all six vim
ners In the fifth through tenth
races on their s64 multiple ticket.
They collected the entire pool,
less the tracks 10 per cent.
Flowers. who said he was a
confirmed horse player. moved 10
San Ysidro. Just inside the Cali
fornla border. a month ago to
live while trying his luck at Call
iente.
Previous 5-lO high was 500
1920. paid July Is to Mrs Vir-
elnia Peace Of san Diego, who
had picked Ave Of six winners on
one Of her sSfhn So tickets.
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Calhoun Favored
In TV Bout Toniqht

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (Pl.-All-
conquering Rory Calhoun, the
latest young whiz of the middle
weight ranks, is a 2-to-1 favorite
to beat experienced Charley
king Cotton tonight and
stretch his victory streak to 30.
The two clash in a television
hereunder tWT'TG, Channel 5,
Washington at st. Nicholas
Arena at 10 pm.
Calhoun, 81. has won six fights
this year and has a 800 record,
including ~ knockouts. Son of
an Atlanta preacher. he now
fights out of White Plains. N. Y
Cotton is no pushoveI. The
26-year-old ex-Marine from
Toledo has an unbeaten streak
OF four He stopped Lester FELTON,,
outpointed formidable Joey Giar-
dello twice and drew with Franz
Szuzina on June 10. His record
is 4l-9-l with % kayos.
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only by the % in 1853 and 81 in
1851.
On the basis of 10 starters. the
gross value of the race will be
in the neighborhood of $4,000
the third richest since the event
was inaugurated in 1926. It'll be
split on a four-way basis with so
per cent to the winner, Is to Sec
ond, 10 to third and S to fourth.
Rated second to Egyptian Prin-
cess in the pre-race calculations
is Saboteur from the Arden
Homestead Stable of E. Roland
Hartman and E., T. Gerry.
Harry PoWnall, who won in l945
with Saboteur's Sire, Titan Han
over, will handle the reinS of the
Arden colt.
Also we'll liked is Mrs. d. R.
JohnstOn'S Valiant Hanover of
Charlotte. N. c., and LullWater
Victory, owned by Walter T.
Gambler of Decatur, Ga. Del Mil
Ter, winner in 1850 with Lusty
Son. will be up behind Lullwatel
Victory.
This is the first Hambletonian
to be raced at Goshen without
Bill Cane in charge. Cane, who
built the race into one of national
interest, died last winter.
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off to a 20 lead. American
complacency was Jared Satur-
day when Llamas and Contreras
teamed to win flve-set doubles
marathon from the Yankee
Kids" Giammalva, %, and
Barry Mackay, 20.
Il am not sorry we took this
gamble" Talbert said. I'VE have
to give these boys experience.
The result merely emphasized for
us that We must develop a new
and more potent doubles team.
These boys aren't ready"
The Italians will be much
tougher than the Mexicans.
That's the reason Talbert is I'M
likely to take any chances with
inexperienced talent against the
European winners.
The Italians likely will play a
two-man team-Nicola Pietran-
geli and Orlando Sirola, a couple
Iof Latins who have proved they
can beat the best on occasions.
In doubles they are particu-
larry tough. At Wimbledon this
year they whipped Seixas and
Richardson,
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Shonty Seattle Victor
As Only Two Boots Finish

Force Base in California as a
business and drives speedboats
for fun, crashed into the lead at
the start and never was headed
Chasing him were two home
owned boats. the old Slo-Mo-
Shun w and the Miss Seattle
formerly the Slo-Mo V. But the
Nv made it race for only a lap
Her motor backflred and she lost
Roadway Driver Joe Taggart
got her purring again but Schleeh
and the Shanty we're half a lap
ahead and beyond reach.
Slo-Mo. three times holder of
the Gold Cup, finished second
Miss Seattle. never in contention
was third.
Shanty'S owner, Bill Waggoner
of Vernon, Tex, and Seattle, mad
still another laurel to flaunt be-
fore the other owners. The boat
set course record of 1899 miles
per hour in the 30-mile final heat
topping by 6 m.p.h. the old mark
held by the Slo-Mo ".
And Shanty's first blazing lap
at 116 m.p.h. in the final heat
was dozen miles per hour faster
than Miss Seattle'S standard OF
l04 set in 1854 when she was
Slo-Mo v.
Waggoner got $1,000 as tor
prize in this first big-boat race
to be run for a large purse
Slo-Mo took home $4,000 and
Miss Seattle $4,000.
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I'd Club All Set
To Honor Griffith

Everything is ready for the
Touchdown Clubs lunche O n
honoring the late Clark Griffith
at 1890 pm. Wednesday.
Among the special guests will
be Nick Altrock. member of
the Washington baseball organi-
cation for As years, and Bobo
Newsom, who served five terms
on the Washington pitching staff
during q years of playing.
Altrock, who will be 80 on
September IS. and NewSom will
join two other former Washing
ton players, Ossie Bluege and Joe
Judge, in honoring Griffith. Joe
Engel, president of the Senator's
Chattanooga farm team, will be
the guest speaker.
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Rain Postpones
Eastern Tennis

SOUTH ORANGE, N. j.. Aug.
6 (P.-The start of the Eastern
Grass Courts tennis champion
ship-first big tournament of
the Season-was postponed "a
hours today because of rain.
Oficials said they expected to
move up several preliminary
matches in order to complete
the competition by Sunday, as
scheduled.
Meanwhile, Roy Emerson, a
comparatively unknown l9-year-
old, was the center of attraction
as many of the top amateurs
arrived for the opening of the
championships.
Young Emerson. who ranks no
better than eighth in Australia.
won the Southampton invitation
tournament yesterday with a
Ga, 6-l, As, 8--6 victory
over Grant Golden of Chicago
and this week moves into the
big time.
The Southampton field was
not as strong as the one here
at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club
and it remains to be seen
whether Emerson can get past
the likes of Ken Rosewall of
Australia and Vic SeixaS.
Seixas is seeded No. l in the
domestic rankings here and
RoSewall No. l in the foreign
contingent. The only player of
note who is missing is Rosewall'S
partner. Lew Hoad, who ge-
manned in Europe after winning
the Wimbledon and French
titles.
In the absence of Hoad. Rose
wall rates as the favorite.
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ARGUMENT FUTILE,
EVEN BY UMPIRE

ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 6
P.-You can't win an argu-
ment with an umpire-even
if you're another umpire
Carson st. Clair found out
yesterday.
st. Clair was calling the
bases and Walker Bolt was
umpiring behind the plate
in an amateur league game
at Fincastle. near here.
When a Hollins base run
ner crashed into a Castle
club inf1elder in the fourth
inning, st. Clair ruled the
runner out for leaving the
base path. Bolt overruled
him, charging that the in
fielder interfered.
After a heated verbal bat
tie, Bolt threw the ball into
the crowd and stalked off
the diamond. The Hollins
team went home, too.
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Futher-Son Tennis
Enters SemifinuIs

Gregory and Ted Prince are
scheduled to play Walter and
Pierce Gardner at $50 pm,
today at Edgemoor Club for the
right to meet Hugh Lynch. jr.,
and Hugh Lynch III tomorrow
in the finals of the Middle At
lantic Patterson tennis tourna-
ment.
The Prince team advanced to
the semifinals by defeating John
and Tony Thompson. GO. 6-3
late yesterday. The Lynches
won two matches-6-0. &c
over Henry Megill, ST., and jr.
and Go. 6-1 over William and
Bud Miller.
In the event of rain, the re-
naming matches will be post
poned one day.
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WoodIuwn Victor
In DeMoIoy LEAGUE

Woodlawn Chapter is the new
champion of the DeMolay Soft
ball League with an unbeaten
record in seven games.
Woodlawn clinched the title
yesterday with a ga victory over
Brookland- Woodbridge, paced by
Glenn Smith, who batted in four
runs with home run and single.
William Mason Saunders beat
Seat Pleasant, Us. and Robert
LeBruce downed James E. SipeS,
lila. in other games on the
monument lots. Anacostia for
feited to George Fleming Moore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-06

SEATTLE. Aug. 6 (P9.--
Shanty came screaming out OF
the final turn all by herself
yesterday, with an Air Force
lieutenant colonel floor boarding
the throttle and her Texas cattle
man-owner roofing her home to
victory in the $4,000 Seafair
Trophy race for unlimited speed
boats.
Shanty I, a saucer-Shaped
package Of leaping power, took
the title of National Unlimited
Hydroplane Champion" as part
of the loot for beating the best
of the Nations hydroS before a
crowd estimated as high as half
a million people. Out of the field
of IL that started, only two still
were roaring defiance at the end
of q long day of racing.
-Four qualifying heats cut the
field to six boats for the fifth
and final 30-mile chase. One
Detroiter Joe Schoenith's Gale
VI-had gear box trouble and
couldn't answer the gun for the
payoff scramble.
Another Detroiter, George
Simon's Miss U. S. II. conked out
at the start of the second lap,
and an instant later Miss Wahoo.
owned by Bill Boeing. jr., of
Seattle. sputtered and quit.
1t. Col, Russell Schleeh, who
pilots Jet planes at Castle All
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U.S.. Davis Cup Veterans
Curb Youth Movement

RYE, N. Y, Aug. 6 (P.-Uncle
Sam is about ready to shelve his
youth movement" in tennis and
turn over full Davis Cup chores
to a pair of experienced hands
Vic Seixas and Ham Richardson
Victorious over Mexico, Al, in
the American Zone final. Cap
tain Billy Talbert's Cuppers now
await the inter-zone test with
1taly's European champions at
Forest Hills, N. Y, September
1890.
"We'll pick our team on the
basis of performances in the
coming grass court tournaments
Orange, Newport, Brookline
and the Nationals" Talbert said
today, "but right now you have
to say Seixas and Richardson
have the upper hand"
The 32-year-old Seixas, max
ing his sixth Davis Cup cam
paign, and the 22-year-old
Richardson, in the midst of his
fifth, turned in the singles VIC
tories which clinched the de-
fcision over Mexico at the West
chester Country Club over the
week end.
Richardson won two matches,
as he did against Canada at
Victoria, beating Mario Llamas,
'Mexico's No. l player, yesterday
in the decisive match of the zone
finals. 6-3. 6-3, 6-1. Sam
Giammalva of Houston won the
fourth point. beating Estaban
Reyes, 49, year old Mexican,
Ga, 81. 6-3.
Richardson beat Francisco
Contreras in straight sets on
Friday when Seixas also scored
over Llamas to send the Yanks
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Old Timer Avery Driving
Hombletonion Foyorite

GOSHEN. N. Y, Aug, 6 (P.-
The Both renewal of the Hamble-
tonian over Good Time Parks
triangular course Wednesday
shapes as a throwback to trot-
ting's by-gone days with a o.
year-old reinsman driving the
favorite.
In these days of comparatively
young men dominating the sport,
it is unusual, indeed, for a man
the age of Earle Avery to be the
moSt-talked- about driver as the
entries were made today for the
trotting classic.
Avery, a Canadian veteran of
81 years in the sulky. will drive
Egyptian Princess from the
Clearview Stable of Fred and
Norman Woolworth of Winthrop,
Me. Older men have won this
sulky race Ri Shively was over
10 when he scored with Sharp
Note in 1852. But the last three
years it has been the younger
generation which has carried off
the big money.
If victorious in the best-of :
three mile heats, Egyptian Prin-
cess will be the 10th filly to win
the classic, raced at Goshen since
1880. The last was Helicopter in
1853. The first heat is scheduled
for 3 pm. Wednesday.
Avery, rated driver with keen
evesight and ability to keep out
of trouble in large fields, sent the
daughter of Victory Song over
the Hambletonian course in
2:D24s and 2:0l25 in her finaI
tests last Wednesday. The record
is 2 minutes fiat by Hoot Mon in
1887 and Scott Frost did a zoos
mile in winning last year.
The names Of 'l8 three-year-
old trotters were expected to be
dropped into the entry box today
TO form a field exceeded in size
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Little Leagues Start
Alexandra Pluyoff

The Alexandria Little Major
League has scheduled the first
round of its championship play
offs tonight at Alexandria
Municipal Stadium.
Landrith e. Huddleston plays
AB&W at 7:45 tonight and Vir-
ginia Concrete will oppose Simp-
sons at about $3.50. The winners
play tomorrow night at 7:45 for
the title.
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Junior Nef Title
Won by Aussie

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Aug. 8
j(R.-Red-haired Rod LAYER. II.
has added his name to the list
of Australians who snatch major
tennis crowns from American
stars.
The Brisbane southpaw won
the Junior singles championship
lin the National Junior and Boys
tennis tournament here yester-
day. He was the first Australian
Ito compete for the United States
I18-and-under title.
The agile LAYER took just one
hour and 10 minutes to defeat
Chris Crawford of Piedmont.
Calf, in straight sets, 6-3. 6-3.
g.. LAYER gained the finals
Saturday by upsetting second
seeded Donald Dell of Bethes-
Ida. Md.
Second-seeded Ray Senkowski
Iof Hamtramck became the first
Michigan player to win a ma
Itional tennis championship. He
defeated fifth-ranked Charles
Mckinley of st, Ann. Mo-, rs.
g., to win the boys 15-and-
under crown.
Crawford's defeat by LAYER.
Itop-seeded foreign player, took
the junior title out of the United
States for the second straight
year. Esteban Reyes, jr., of
Mexico City last year became
the first foreign player to cap
ture the championship.
The young Australian teamed
with Jimmy Shaffer, st. Peters
burg. Fla, to win the junior
doubles. They upset the top
seeded combination of Ed Atkin-
son and Bob Delgado, both of
Los Angeles, 40, 6-3, As,
6-3, So.
Mckinley and Marty Riessen.
Hinsdale. H.. the third-seeded
team, won the boys doubles with
"a 6-l, e. victory over fifth
ranked Mike Nicely, Atlanta. Ga,
and Don Cation, Pensacola, Fla.
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Reds Introduce
Sports Writers
Ito Iron Curtain

MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (P0. - The
Russians, in the middle of the
Spartakiad, their unofficial
Olympic trials at Lenin Stadium,
have proved one thing already
Before they can bid seriously for
the Olympic Games, they must
do some more looSening up in
the Iron Curtain.
First, they must liberalize their
censorship and be willing to alb
serb ideas on high-speed news
production and transmission. AT
Lenin Stadium, where 10000
athletes are involved in the
trials, they installed a telephone
telegraph center. This is the
rarest of raritieS here.
They also played several rec
ords during the mass caliSthenics
which Communists love dearly
Trouble was the records were
tapped from Western programs
and sounded horrible. They
weren't even in cadence with the
calisthenics.
Also, they made a few other
slips yesterday, one of which in
volved Western newsmen. Some
comrade nailed up the door on
the press box, atop the 73-tier
Lenin Stadium. and the reporters
had to break it down to get out,
Still, these are all matters
which can be taken care OF by
proper attitude. The truth lies
in the fact that Moscow no longer
is aiming for the Games in 1868
The city wants them in 1864.
And other cities of the world
which are bidding for them. in
Guiding Detroit, Brussels, Phila-
delphia, Lausanne. Budapest and
Los Angeles. will have to perk up
MoScOw'S present facilities in
clude a main stadium seating
100000; right next door one seat
ing $4,000 for volley ball. basket
ball and tennis; around the
corner a 10,000-Seat swimming
stadium and a big indoor palace.
The rowing events could be held
on the Moscow River a couple of
hundred feet down the line.
Moscow University has sleep
ing space for $4,000 athletes.
about 10000 more than would
participate in the games.
In yesterdays trials, blonde
Vladimir Kucs fell short of his
announced goal. a new world
record for the 10000 meter run.
With the Communist party
bosses. Niklolai Bulganin and
Nikita Khrushchev. and other
high-ranking Soviet officials in
the opening crowd of 100000,
Kucs won the event in 28:578.
The world mark of 23:42.8 was
set by Sandhor Iharos of
Hungary.
An 800-meter relay team set
a national record in the only
mark-bettering display Of the
rain-Splashed program.
The Soviet national team was
timed in l:247. Seven-tenths of
a second off the world mark set
by quartet from the University
of Southern California in 1919.
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Noren Hopes to Reioin
Yankees by Sept. |

ARCADIA, Calf, Aug. 6 (P)
Yankee outfielder Try Noren is
hoping his injured left knee will
be well in time for him to re-
join the team September /.
Noren underwent surgery on
both knees last winter but the
left one still gives him trouble
and he is home for treatment OF
it. DR.. Dan Levinthal, who ex-
amined the knee last week, ex-
pressed hope Noren will be able
to rejoin the Yankees shortly.
He was placed on the 30-day
disabled list last month. He
could be reinstated August %.
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Harrisburg Polo Team
Coils OFF Squires Match

The polo team from Harris
burg. Pa. was prevented from
playing its match with the
Washington Squires yesterday
because of storm at home, so
the regulars of this area chose
up sides at Barnsley Field.
A team headed by Don Brad
ley, made up mostly of Squires,
defeated a team composed mostly
of Maryland Polo Club men,
berS, So.
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Two D. c. Shippers
Score in Regatta
On Miles River

ST. MICHAELS, Nd, Aug. 6
(P.-Two shippers from the
Potomac River Sailing Associa-
ton are among the champions
in the 35th annual Miles River
Yacht Club regatta, which wound
up yesterday with a rain-swept
program.
Ed Cotter of Potomac scored
an easy victory in the Penguins
class by sailing his Pam to first
place finishes in two races and
a third IN the other.
The other Potomac skipper,
Ralph Farrant, edged Bob Duff
of Raritan IN. j. Yacht Club
by one point for the Thistle
championship. Farrant sailed his
Petronella to 1928 finishes,
while Duff finished 2-1-4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-06
Riding Schools Horse
Wins in Vienna Show

Farris. a jumper owned by
Tatty's Riding School, won the
grand championship of the
Vienna (Va.l Junior Horse Show
late Saturday.
Ridden by Robin Ruffner,
Farris won the first and last
classes on an 18-event program
to edge Thumbs Up by one point.
Farris scored % points and
Thumbs Up, owned and ridden
by Norma Gerstenfeld, gathered
81 for reserve.
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Throttle Twisters Set

The d. C. Throttle Twisters
Club will take over Vista Park
Speedway next Sunday for an
eight-race motorcycle racing
program. Vista was host to the
midget cars yesterday, and Bill
Shockley of Greenville. S. c.,
won the 2O-lap feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-06

Bill Reinhart OF George Wash
ington University is among a
group OF college coaches con-
Quoting the 10th annual Virginia
High School Football League
cliRie today al william g. Mary
irsSS' williamsburg. Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-06
D. c. CycIist Fifth

TATCHIN. Mass. Aug. 6
Special Gerald Teeuwen Of
the Washington ID. c. Cycle
Club finished 18th in field Of
SIS competitors Saturday night
in a 44-mile international BIZ
cycle race in this Boston suburb.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05

Get out OF here right now o.
I'll throw you QUIT" ! wish Il
make public statement that sh,
WAS talking to our dog anC
not to me.
Glenn Ford portrayS a rcdi-
cally different role in his lat
rSt movie so the studio is bill
ing him as: introducing the
u,w 1857 FORD" When my
wife served her huge turkey TO
an invited list OF 10 relatives.
! never saw so much flashing
blade work since The Three
NuskCtcCrS' last movie.
Howcum now. howcum? II
carly Ia bed. early to rise.
makes a man healthy wealthy
and wise, SO howcum don't
wake up rIcr? Bccbopper's
definition Of a vegetarian: "A
man who digs figs" Not
one Of the Budapest String
Quartet has ever been in BUD
apcSt.
Sign on a Valley shop: Since
1918. When the 4l-year-old
was challenged: 1T can't be
why you only went into bust
ness two years ago." he repli-
ed: ITS the truth. Since 1915.
That's the year l was born"
Our cat is so spoiled, she's
been putting on the dog
Most unpopular TV program
with husbands. KTLA'S Mi.
lady which Is showing furst-
for {. ris;maS Sign on a
il>h market. "Porgy and Bass"
Sign on the gate of a subur-
ban home: "Psychottagc"
~ this very moment. Gary
Cooper and Paulcttc Goddard
are attending the Blooming
dale N. j. public school. Hes
IN me third grade and she's in
me sixth Joe F. Lewis said
II; Il don't drink anything
stronger than pop and pop will
drink anything"
Amt it the truth - when
turns a mans head. he
winds up looking in the
"iolg direction If you're
continued On Page s.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-05
Editorials . . i.

Convention), S42.17; NJ e h dist,
$37.53 and Disciples of Christ, $34.77.
If you really want to help your
church financially, pledge for the
year. Your pastor will appreciate
knowing he can count on certain
sum from you.
II you don't go to church very of.
ten, there is even more reason for
you to make a firm pledge for the
whole year. Your church cannot func-
ton on mere token support And you
expect the church to be operating
when you go.
If you already use envelopes, you
might give thought to q substantial
increase.
Pay on time, too. Remember church
expenses take no vacation.
A church that has to fight to get
ahead usually is live church. But
don't let this thought comfort YOU too
much. Most people, say church
leaders, could double their contribu-
lions without straining their pocket
books and with considerable bene-
flclal effect on the church. The ques-
tlon Is, the editors ask, Could you?