GOVERNOR
SMILING PROUDLY, Governor James "Kissing Jim" Folsom of Alabama
gets his first look at his infant son, held-by his wife in a Montgomery
hospital. The Governor is the father of James Jr, 1, by his present wife,
2 daughters by hit first wife, who died. (International Soundphoto)
BAPTIST CONVERT ANCIENT
FORT INTO ASSEMBLY GROUND
Southport, N. C. — North Caro
lina Baptists, 700.000 strong, have
converted a fort that has served
through four wars into a summer
8easide Assembly Ground.
With accommodations of 1,000
guests ijn refurbished barracks,
cottages, and a building that for
merly was a hospital but is now a
hotel, the Fort Caswell Baptist
Seaside Assembly opened June 12
with a program of conferences and
meetings extending into Septem
ber.
Ft>rt Caswell was constructed
in 1825. It saw its first action in
the Civil War, guarding the
month of the Cape Fear River us
ed by Confederate "blockade run
ners based at Wilmington. This
was known as the "lifeline of the
Confederacy." The Fort was
manned again in the Spanish-Am
erican War and in both World
Wars for coastal defense.
Of massive masonry, the Fort
had emplacements for nine batter
ies. Atop one of these now is a
warm water outdoor swimming
pool. The water is pumped from
the earth at a temperature that
varies little from 90 degrees, sum
mer or winter.
Between World Wars, the Fort
became a summer resort, but ad
joining Fort Caswell Beach has
now been merged with Long
Beach, to form an unbroken
strand of 13 miles south to Look
woods Folly Inlet.
Richard K. Redwine of South
port is director of the Baptist Sea
and yacht basin as well as beach
side Assembly, which has a pier
and warm water swimming pool.
It is distinctly a religious retreat,
and although guests are welcome,
they must abide by the rules
which prohibit informal beach at
tire except on the beach and at
play, and bar swimming and fish
ing on Sunday, and alcoholic bev
erages at all times.
Five Persons Injured
In Surry Accident
Elkin, June 15 — Five were in
jured, none critically, in a col
lision last night near Brooks
Crossroads in which a 1949 car
and a 1949 pick-up truck were
demolished.
Solomon C- Royall, 4 0, of Hamp
tonville Community, Herman Bur
gess, 29, and Dewey Burgess, 6,
were passengers In the truck which
was in collision with a car oc
cupied by Dewey Cheek, 19, of
Cycle and his brother, Frank
Cheek, 16,
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Women In The
Church
American church women in
thousands of communities will ob
serve World Community Day, on
Friday, November 3, with special
programs and projects based on
the theme, "Love thy neighbor.''
This annual observance is spon
sored by the United Council of
Church Women, which represents
Protestant women of m re than 80
denominations in state and local
councils across the country. Says
the Council: "Whether your neigh
bor lives next door and you like
her, or down in shanty-town and
you do not know her, or across
the world in a primitive wilder
ness beset by superstitious fears,
loving her means that you wish
good for her and actively do what
you can help the good come true."
One of the main projects church
women will undertake for neigh
bors "across the world" is to help
provide "assurances" for refugee
families.
Mrs. Josephine Cowin, nation
al chairman for World Commun
ity Day, cites the work of the
Council of Chnrch Women in
Greenwich, Conn. They called to
gether the social and welfare
agencies of the community to ini
tiate a program that found jobs
and homes for a group of displac
ed persons ranging from a farm
for a family of five to a home
and portrait commissions for a
Latvian artist and his wife. Also
cited is the Council in Oberlin,
Ohio, which started a community
program that found a shop for a
D. P. tailor and Jobs and hordes
for seven other refugees. In addi
tion, Mrs. Cowln says, church wo
men will be asked to help new
neighbors, who come as D. P.'s,
to becomes part of the American
communities In which they settle.
Some concrete suggestions include
help in learning English; invita
tions to churches and other com
munity activities; and making sure
that our children make theirs wel
come at school and on the play
For World Community Day,
one garment — a scarf, sweater,
church women are asked to knit
socks or mittens — for aged refu
gees overseas, and to put aside
pennies for shipping the knitted
gifts to the nearest Church World
Service,center. The day's offering
is to be divided between aiding
work of the churches among the
millions of refugees in Europe and
the Near and Far East, and help
ing meet the cost of the work
for peace of the United Council's
Christian Social Relations De
partment.
o
I To guard against the entry of
such devasting diseases as Asiatic
or European Newcastle disease
and fowl pleague, the U. S. De
partment of .Apiculture is adding
poultry to the list Of imported ani
mals which must go through a
period of observation under quar
antine before entry is permitted.
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