Women In The
» Church
By MART POWIJBR
The "Mother Hughes Maternity
Hospital" is being planned for
erection next year in Mutambara,
Southern Rhodesia, Africa, in hon
or of the late Mrs. E. D. Hughes,
of Wichita, Kan., missionary ben
efactress who died In 1949 at the
age of 92 years. "Mother Hughes,"
as she was affectionately known
in Methodist Church circles in
Kansas and in Southern Rhodesia,
had earlier established a "Mother
Hughes Room" in Wesley Hospi
tal, Wichita, and a maternity sec
tion of a Methodist dispensary in
Mutambara. Now the Central Kan
sas Conference of the Methodist
Church, as a part of its "Advance
for Christ and His Church" move
ment, is raising $15,000 for the
proposed hospital in Mutambara.
It is expected that it will be possi
ble to lay the cornerstone early in
1951 when Bishop Dana Dawson,
of Topeka, makes an official visit
to Africa. The Rev. George A.
Roberts, of Marathon, Iowa, is the
missionary in Mutambara.
The thousands of employed wo
men who are members of the
"Wesleyan Service Guild" of the
Methodist Church — adjunct to its
^Homan's Society of Christian
{Service, have an ambitious pro
gram for the coming year or two:
each Guild member to "exert her
Christian influence and convic
tions concerning alcohol under all
circumstances'' and "use her
vote wherever possible against the
liquor traffic;" each member con
sider whether or not she can be
come a missionary, and each
search for others who may be en
listed as missionaries: each study
the Human Rights program of
Christianity and endeavor to ap
ply it individually an'd in groups;
and each member to enroll, study
the issues of local, state, and na
tional election, and vote them in
the light of Christian belief, and
also endeavor to have other church
women vote on all matters be
fore the electorate. And the
members, before their adjourn
ment, voted as their mission "to
help build a world of brother
hood by bringing into the Guild
fellowship many more gainfully
employed women and by helping
all Guild members to carry into
their everyday living the attitudes
and teachings of Jesus."
Toward the rebuilding of the
Hokuriku Jo Gakko Christian
Girls School, at Kanazawa, Japan,
the women of the Presbyterian
church in the U.S.A. a"re contri
buting $20,000; the remainder
is being raised locally by the
school. When the cornerstone of
the new chapel takes place, the
names of all donors will be placed
within it on a "Friendship Scroll."
A new main building is also be
ing erected, and the school will
go on a filll senior high program.
The institution was almost com
pletely destroyed during the war.
fc Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, noted
^Japanese Christian evangelist
and social worker, will be a fea
tured speaker when the United
Council of Church Women meet
in annual session in Cincinnati,
Ohio, on November 15.' He will
be on a speaking tour of the
United States and Canada from
July 15 to the end of the year.
Medical Doctor Lora G. Dyer,
Englander and Congregation
U.S. REFORMS LINES BELOW TAEJON
AS DkANMNO FORCES abandoned Taejon (1), South Korean key defuse
city, an Army spokesman in Washington said the Americans would
hold another line at a point (2), about 40 miles south of the city. The
main Communist drive stemmed from the Chochiwon area, 20 miles
north of Taejon, where some 20,000 Red troops were reported involved.
At Yongdok (3), South Koreans pushed back enemy. (Central Press)
alist from Plainfield, Mass., was
not content to rest from her labor
reaching the Biblical age of three
score years and ten. When that
age came, she was senior woman
physician on the staff of interde
nominational Pierce Memorial
Hospital in Foochow, China, and
she had gone through bombings,
near-famine, and the Japanese in
vasion. So, after a brief furlough
in the United States, Dr. Dyer is
back again in medical service, this
time a physician in the Brookshire
Memorial Hospital Davao, Min
danao, Philippine Islands. There
she will serve for at least two
years under the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Mis
sions (Congregational).
"General Blomquist" is the
name which President William V.
S. Tubman of the Republic of Li
beria, has conferred upon Miss
Norma Bloomquist, American Lu
theran missionary, who has been
named to coordinate and direct
the work of teaching the natives
of the country to read and write
— a task in which the government
and the Christian missions are
engaged jointly. She has been
working with Dr. Frank C. Lau
bach, missionary literacy expert,
and with Liberia's Secretary of
Public Instruction, in producing
th materials for teaching by ^he
phonetic-picture method and in
enlisting thousands of literate cit
izens to volunteer to "each one
teach one."
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Mississippi, with 49.4, has the j
highest percentage of Negroes of
any State in the Union. ,
Forty per cent of all gasoline
consumed by motor vehicles is
used by trucks and buses.
Milk Marketing
Bulletin Distributed
By College Station
A new bulletin entitled "Milk
Marketing Problems in North
Carolina'' has just been publish
ed by the North Carolina Experi
ment Station, according to R. w.
Cummings, associated director.
The new publication is the re
port of surveys conducted by W.
P. Cotton, agricultural economist
covering the three post-war years.
1947 through 1949..Cotton's stud
ies were concerned with the prob
lems of an uneven supply of
milk the year-round period and
methods of determining prices to
be paid farmers.
One survey showed that under
the present pattern oj production
time of calving is one main rea
son for high production in the
summer and low production in
the winter.
Farmers with a high summer
production of milk reported that
25 per cent of their cows calved
I in 'the fall. Farmers with a uni
j form pattern of production re
I ported that 42 per cent Of their
cows calved in the fall. Among
the high summer production
group 57 per cent of the cows
calved from November to April,
while in the uniform* production
group only ' 36 per cent calved
during these months.
In dealing with price plans,
Cotton exposes the problem, des
cribes several pricing systems and
discusses the merit of each. He
then suggests how these systems
might be adopted to North Caro
lina conditions.
"Milk Marketing Problems in
North Carolina" is the title of
the publication and its number is
370. Copies are available with
out charge. Persons interested
should contact their county agents
for a copy or write to the Agricul
tural Editor, State College, toa
leigh. ' .*'
A central building for the new
Poultry "Research Plant of the
North Carolina Experiment Sta
tion is expected to be completed
by August 1, according to 8. S.
Dearstyrie, head of the Poultry
Department. The new plant is
located near State College, Ra
leigh.