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Vol. 26—No. 103 TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 1953
Religious Conference Here
Has Record Attendance
The 128th annual session of the
North Carolina and Virginia Con
ference of Congregational Chris
tian Churches opened in the Tryon
Congregational Church Tuesday
afternoon with a full house. Ap
proximately 250 people were in at
tendance including 35 ministers !
and special guests, representing j
43 churches in the. west-centrftl j
parts of the two States. Delegates ;
traveling the fartherest. came 275 j
miles from Liberty Church in |
Nathalia, Virginia. j
Special guest9 included Miss j
Alice M. Huggins, missionary to |
China; Miss Jenny Dodge, new I
Associate Secretary of the Mis- j
sions Council, with headquarters j
in Boston, Mass. j
During the afternoon and din- i
ner sessions reports were heard j
from various committees, officers j
and organizations of the confer- j
ence and talks were given by Miss
Alice M. Huggins Martin T. Gar- i
ren and Mrs. William T. Scotty
Miss Pattie Lee Coghill of Elon, 1
College, presided at the dinner j
meeting. i
The Rev. Orville H. Wh’te, was
in charge of the evening worship \
seiMce and Dr. William T. Scott j
gave an address on the importance
of the church extending its work I
throughout America. Fred T. i
Wrenn, student at Elon and pas- j
tor of Zion Church, was licensed
to preach; being presented by the
Rev. John R. Lackey,, and licensed
bv the Rev. W. W. Snyder, re
tiring president of the conference.
New officers of the conference
were elected at the afternoon
session as follows:
President. Rev. Mark W. Andes,
Virgilina, Va.; vice president, Dr.
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FOREST LANDS CLOSED
“Gov. Umstead Tuesday order
ed forest lands closed in 29 Wes
tern North Carolina counties.
“The order was issued at 4:3,0
p. m., as 75 men were battling
a blaze raging on Snowbird Moun
tain in northwestern Cherokee
County. The fire was reported
headed off early last night. How
ever,- one end was still free, this
was going downslope, and the
burning was proceeding slowly.
“The blaze was expected to be
brought under control by noon to
day. Up to early last night, it had
burned about 700 acres o'f timber
land, substantially more than had
been feared earlier in the day.
“The order will become effective
at 4:30 p. m. today, 24 hours after
the _ time it _ was issued. It bans
fishing, hunting and trapping; and
the building of camp fires, or
burning of trash within 600 feet
of woodland in state-owned or pri
vate forests.
“Generally it forbids entry of
private woodland to anyone with
out a permit, except the owner
or his tenants.
“The order was necessitated by
the critical fire danger brought to
the forests by the prolonged dry
weather. This was the same cause
that produced Mondays U. S-.
Forest Service order closing the
Western North Carolina lands of
the North Carolina National For-,
ests to everything .but throujgh
traffic on main highways and to
logging operations.
“Orders similar to Gov. Um
stead’s have been issued in Ala
bama, Georgia and Tennessee.”—
Tnn Asheville Citizen.
Ffdk County Forester Joe Rit
chejf of Columbus is urging all
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