Milford chronicle., 1958-02-07
Protestants Send
Needy Abroad Aid
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America and the Caribbean.
This contribution of people in
the United States through their
churches to those in need abroad
exceeded by more than $3.50 the
1856 shipments of 196,795,618 lbs.
of similar materials for the pro-
grams of the churches.
Announcement of the 1857 Church
World Service shipments was made
by DR.. R. Norris Wilson, executive
director, at Church World Service
offices, 215 Fourth Avenue, New
York City. Church World Service,
a major department of the Nation
al Council of Churches, is the CO.
operative overseas relief agency
through which 35 leading Protes-
tant denominations carry on joint
overseas ministries.
A major item of the increase in
shipments, DR.. Wilson said, was a
vastly stepped-up overall program
of distribution of U. S. surplus
foods to people in overseas hunger
areas.
The material relief program, DR..
Wilson said, was made possible by
contributions in response to the
"One Great Hour of Sharing" and
similar appeals within denomina-
tional structures, from the Share
Our-Surplus appeal and from COM
modify collections of the Christian
Rural Overseas Program (CROP)
of Church World Service, and
through other contributed clothing
and commodity efforts of Church
World Service and its constituent
denominations.
A major. item of the increase. in
shipments, DR.. Wilson said, was a
vastly stepped-up overall program
of distribution of U. S. surplus
foods to people in overseas hunger
areas.
Total shipments of foods includ-
ed 359,072,SS2 lbs. of surplus COM
modities-mainly milk, wheat and
wheat -four, corn and cornmeal-
with a value of $30,033,450 and l.
183,894 lbs. of food contributed in
agricultural areas through the
Christian Rural Overseas Program
CROP of Church World Service
and valued at $135,7S5.
/
grams, Dr. Wilson said, established
new low records per dollar of ex-
.pense. Costs of surplus commodi-
ties averaged less than one dollar
for 800 lbs, with other distribu-
tion-those of CROP and other in
dividually contributed foods
clothing, medicines, etc.-being
achieved at slightly less than one
dollar per hundred pounds.
All of the costs, the Church
4 World Service executive said, COW
cred all expenditures including
those of administration, promotion
etc, as well as actual cost of su-
pervision and distribution abroad
Relief materials other than sur
plus foods shipped overseas by the
churches through Church World
Service during 1857 totaled s6,-
949,127, conservatively valued al
$5,48S,932, representing an increase
of approximately 209o.
Of the total amount of distribu.
ton, 16S,17S lbs. were purchased
at cost of s118,2S3.
OF the totals shipped throughout
; the world through Church World
Service in 1857. slightly more thar
245 million pounds were sent tC
eleven countries in Europe, witt
116 millions of pounds TO IL areas
in Asia and Africa and million:
to Z countries in Latin and SOutf
America and the Caribbean.
Specific areas to which relic
materials were sent included AL
geria, Austria, Belgium, England
France, Germany, Greece. Hungary
I Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Egypt
: Formosa, GAIA, Hong Kong, India
Indonesia, Japan, Jordon, Keyna
4 Korea, Lebanon. Liberia, Malaga
Nigeria, Okinawa, Pakistan, Wet
nam, Brazil, Chile, British Hon
: duras, San Salvador, Haiti, Jamaci
and Puerto Rico.