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UJomen N Thl 4 Thousands of Protestant churches across America are ob serving the week of May 1 to 8 —culumlnating In Mother's Day —as National Family Week, when emphasis will be given to "the spiritual values of family life." In many communities, Cath olics and Jews will also observe the day. The International Coun cil of Religious Education and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ are among the major bodies asking the week's observance. Partly 11 comes from a desire to get away from the commercialization of Mother's Day; partly it oomes from a realization that the whole family must work together to make the home a more vital in stitution in the life of young Americans. According to figures compiled by the International Missionary Council, there are more than 6, 000 womeif missionaries from churches In the United States serving in overseas missions to day. About half of these women are the wives of missionaries, but also missionaries in their own right; and half ai-e unmarried women. A large number are or dained or licenced ministers, or do the evangelistic -work of min isters without ordination; while others are teachers, nurses, doc tors, evangelists xo women or specialists in other fields. Most Protestant denominations are now enlarging their overseas mis sion staffs—adding both men and women. The American Cancer Society, through Mrs. Harold V. Mulligan, well-known Protestant Episcopal church leader, has arranged with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish rellgiouB bodies to promote the observance of April 24 as "Can cer Sunday." Mrs. Mulligan urges ministers and rabbis to "weigh the spiritual values of this cru sade against disease." She de clares that volunteer worfcers in the fight "must seek beyond hu man resources for inspiration and strength to go forward." Miss Eva Deane Kemp, of Dix on, Ky., has been named by the Methodist Church's Board of Missions and Board tkf Education, to head its "Crusade Scholar ship Fund," which plans to ex pend $250,000 per year for the next four years in bringing stu dents from foreign mission fields for study in American colleges and universities. To date 350 students have been aided; they come from some 40 countries and attend more than 60 different schools. "The direct Influence of wor-1 shipping congregations upon the problems of society Is very great when these congregations Include people .from many social groups," says Mrs. J. D. Bragg, Methodist Church leader of St. Louis, Mo. "If the church can overcome the national and social harriers which now divide It, it can help society to overcome those bar riers. This is especially clear in the case of racial difficulties. It is here that the church hkg fail ed most lamentably, where it has reflected and by its practices then sanctified the racial preju dice that is rampantTji the world. And yet it is here today its guid ance concerning what God wills for it is especially clear. It knows that it must call society ayay from the racial prejudice and from the practices of discrimina tion and segregation as denials of justice and human dignity. In the missionary advance in the United States it is urged that steps be taken by the church to eliminate these practices from the Chris tian community because they con tradict all that it believes about God's l°ve 'or all his children.'' Under the leadership of Miss Jean Fraser, of. England, director of the youth department of the World Council of Churches, ten "work camps,'' enrolling some 600 young men and young wom en, will be held this summer in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Finland. Miss Fraser de scribes a work camp 'as "a small group of young people, drawn from different countries and churches, living and working to gether on some project of Chris tian significance." One in Ger many, for example,, will be the transformation of a former mu nitions dump into a resettlement center; another, in (France, will be an educational program for a whole town. Forty boys and girls, orphaned by World War II in Latvia, and evacuated to Germany in 1944 from the Riga State Children's Home, have now been brought to the United States by the Division of Welfare of the National Lu theran Council. These children, under the age of twelve, are be ing sent by Miss Mary Winston, the Council's consultant, to ac credited Lutheran welfare agen cies in New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Illi nois, Iowa and Nprth Dakota, and will eventually be placed in pri vate homes. Lutherans expect to bring several hundred other or phans from Europe under the Displaced Persons Act of Con [grees. r r SAND »d STONE Fine and Coarse Sand-Stone For Concrete, Driveways and Roads Delivered Anywhere < or sold at the Pit. We will load your truck or pickup. We Do All Types of Tractor Work Pit Located 1-2 Mile Above North Wilkesboro Pumping Station. C.C.CAUDILL Your Reliable Sandman 'D' Street Phone 571-R Globe-Girdling Engine For Plones Reported New York.—A new airplane engine has been perfected which will make It possible for a bomb 3r to fly around the world with 3ut refueling, the Curtlss-Wrlght Corporation said last night. Curtlss-Wrlght said the first deliveries of the new gasoline en gines, known as the "turbo-cy clone 18," will be made to the navy in the middle of this year. It said production orders for $30,000,000 of the new engines had been placed. The new engines, which har ness the power of the exhaust gasses, will ibe used first in ad vance models of the Lockheed ^2V, a twin-engined nary pa trol bomber. Girl 10, In Delaware ives Birth To Baby! Wilmington, Del. — Memorial hospital officials have revealed tl lat a 10-year-old girl had given b rth to a daughter last Sunday n ight. The hospital disclosed that the baby weighedseven-pounds and| fire ounces. Both the mother and iifant were reported doing well. The mother, a negro, was ad mitted to the hospital from the Kruse Industrial School for Olrls where she had been living since last September. The green peach aphid (plant louse) was not regarded as a to bacco pest until 1949, when It caused servere loss to ehade grown tobacco In Florida, sou thern Georgia, and one field In South Carolina. By the next year It had spread to both the Caro Unas, Maryland, and Connecticut, and In 1948 damage was exten sive throughout the tobaeeo-pro dudng area. o During the World War II, farmers reduced their total Inde btedness by 20 per cent.
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