Jehovah Witnesses
Protest
Soviet Ungodliness
Charging that Soviet official'
"may perhaps be found fighters
actually against God, "a strongly
worded letter of protest from of
ficial* of the Watch Tower Bibl
and Tract Society, legal govern
ing body of Jehovah's Witnesses,
' has been sent to Premier A. Bul
ganin of the U. S. S. R.
Henry Lyons, presiding minister
of the' Murphy congregation of Je
hovah's Witnesses, in announcing
the contents of the letter, cited the
wholesale arrests and mass move
ments of Jehovah's Witnesses to
slave labor camps in Siberia.
"For many years now, Mr. Lyons
quoted the letter as saying, Je
hovah's Witnesses within the Sov
iet Union have 'endured great dif
ficulties and heavy persecution.
They have constituted committees
and delegations from among their
own ministers for the purpose of
registering their religious organi
zation according to the statutes in
force, but on each occasion they
have been rebuffed and instead of
being allowed to register their
Christian organization they have
had ministers in the delegations
arrested."
The letter was written to accom
pany a composite petition that had
been adopted over a period of nine
months by a total of 462,936 of Je
hovah's Witnesses,, meeting in 199
assemblies throughout the world.
It called attention to the 7,000 Je
hovah's Witnesses known to be in
slave camps in the Soviet Union
and,, requesting their release, pro
posed that a delegation be permit
ted to proceed from the Society's
headquarters in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
to Moscow to fully acquaint the
Soviet government with the true
aims and purposes of Jehovah's
Witnesses.
"We have acted only in good
faith," Mr. Lyons said. "Follow
ing the petition's adoption at each
assembly, copies were sent by re
gistered mail direct to Moscow and
a copy for the Russian Embassy in
each country was delivered in per
son. Most of the ambassadors
would not see us, "Mr. Lyons re
ported, "but we were able to talk
to some Soviet diplomatic officials.
"Furthermore, when a copy was
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upon re-enlisting for three more years of service. The son of Mr*.
Margie Hopkins of Route 1, Middlesex, N. C., was also presented
the flood Conduct Medal at the time of his re -enlistment. The medal
Is awarded to those who maintain* a creditable level of conduct and
performance o? duty during a three-year period of active service
In the Marine Corps.
offfered to the embassies many of
the Russian officials refused to ac
cept it, not even wanting to touch
it, as if it were dynamite. Others
insisted that many lies had been
circulated about Russia and open
ly scoffed at the mention of the
name of Jehovah God and claimed
that the law of Russia was higher
than the law of Jehovah and that
it had to be obeyed in Russia."
In spite of all these deliberate re
buffs, the Watch Tower Society's
letter assured Premier Bulganin
that Jehovah's Witnesses still stand
ready to send their delegaton to
Moscow for the discussion proposed
in the petition.
"Maybe their hearts will be herd
ened against us just as Pharaoh's
was many centuries ago when Mos
es was sent to Egypt to demand
the freedom of Jehovah's chosen
people so that they could worship
Him without interference," Mr.
Lyons said. "But even if the Com
munists continue to arrest our
ministers, as they are doing in the
U. S. S. R. and most of the Satel
life countries, Jehovah's Witnesses
must-and will, with the help of Je
hovah God continue to live Christ
ian lives and worship the Most
High
Asserting their purpose was to in
form the world of the bitter Chris
tian persecution that still rages be
hind the Iron Curtain, revealed, "A
full report is being published B
the April 15 issue of the Watch
tower, official magazine of Jehov
ah's Witnesses. This issue will
have a stepped-up world circula
tion of 10,000,000 copies in 45 lang
uages, which is three times normal
circulation. Plans are being made
by the Murphy congregation of Je
hovah's Witnesses to call at every
house in Cherokee County with this
significant report."
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One registrant was forwarded for
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Speeders Top List
For Traffic
Offense In March
Speeders took away the lead
from the drunk drivers in March
the Motor Vehicles Department
said today in summarizing license
revokable traffic offenses for the
month.
Ordinarily drunk driving offenses
top the regular list, but in March
speeders surrendered 1166 driver
licenses, most of them for speed
ing over 70 mph ih an auto. Such
violations call for a mandatory 30
day suspension of driving privil
eges, the agency said.
Drunk drivers came to 11488 for
the same period. They suffered
similar punishment, surrender of
their driver's license for a period
of one year. Repeaters rate addi
tional penalties, with permanent
withdrawal of license prescribed
for the third drunk driving con
viction.
After adding miscellaneous of
fenses, the agency announced totals
of 1311 suspensions and 1698 revo
cations for March.
Sales of tobacco make up 57 per
cent of the cash receipts from sales
of farm products in North Caro
lina.
Miss Ruth Davidson
Wins Scholarship
At L E University
Mis* Ruth Davidson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. Emory David
son of Murphy, was among the
sixteen women students of Lincoln
Memorial University chosen by
a secret ballot from the faculy for
the special Mary Mildred Sullivan
Scholarship Awards of $100 each
for the school year.
The students were chosen on
the basis of their character, person
ality, loyalty, cooperative attitude,
moral and spiritual qualities,
scholastic promise, and financial
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Marine Pvt. James H. McCombs
son of Mrs. Frank Ferguson of
Murphy, N. C. is enroute to Vie
dues, Puerto Rico, to participate in
a Battalion Training Evercise.
Supported by units of tanks, the
Battalion boarder ship at More
head City, N. C., on Apr. 6, for the
two-month field training exercise.
need.
Miss Davidson is a freshman at
L. M. U. and is an honor student;
belongs to the Student Christian
Association, and her ultimate plan
is to go into the teaching profess
ion.
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