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Without any formal newspaper
I raining, she started her life's work
in 1914, writing for the church
; press.
The idea for a church news vr
, no came to her four years later
While working with Dr. Elmer
T Clark on publicity for the fnrlh
eoining 1918 Centenary of Metlm
,list missions, she realized that the
, lunches were paying in adver
tising for what actually vvys
,lraight news.
At the time she was in charge
,,t the church press - writing lor
eligious publications. The Metliu
ilists also had a section on "secu
;;ir " press relations, dealing with
I he regular daily and weekly news
papers and magazines.
Church "news" as published in
the dailies and weeklies, consisted'
largely of sermons delivered by
local ministers. When a church
o i (iip wanted to have an impor
tant announcement published, it
bought space and advertised, like
.lores and theaters.
Acting on her idea, Mrs. Turpin
M.il questionaires to hundreds of
new simpers in her area.
The newspaper editors' replies
were enthusiastic. They wanted
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church news.
Armed Willi this information, she
received the endorsements of the
Methodist church boards which
had their headquarters in Nash
ville. In lilJli. she was the onls woman
in the nation to be occupied in
the gathering and distribution of
religious news.
In the I nilicat ion of 1940. her
headquarters became the Nash
ville blanch of the far-flung
Methodist Information Service.
In her work, her objective is
simply lo have her religious news
stones competing for a spot on
tbi' front page with tires, presiden
tial elections, and the other "big"
stories
"1 don't like in see my stories
on the church page,' she said,
summing up her campaign bricfh
Her first summer as publicity
director at Lake Junaluska produc
ed an acid test of her crusade for
news space for church events.
It was during the church's so
called "heresy ' era. A minister
from Canada, who had been in
vited to make a public address at
the Assembly expressed ideas
which many (hutch leaders at the
time regarded as heretical.
Now these ideas arc generally
pted without feeling.
acci
the
minister's speech i
of controversy
news And. though she's never
worked on a newspaper staff, she's
accepted as a member of the fam
ily in newspaper offices all over
the east
"1 can walk into the Associated
Press oil ice in Atlanta." she said,
with a hidden note of pride, "and
no one will take their feet oil their
desk or put out their cigarettes
for me."
Someone will simply smile and
ask: "Would you like to use a
typewriter, Mrs. Turpin'.'"
This mute affection for her is the
result of her untiring efforts to
ease the difficulties of newspaper
men who come to cover an impor
tant church conference.
During the war, one of these
sessions was scheduled for Atlanta
Mrs. Turpin's job was to set up
a press room for the wire service
and daily newspaper correspon
dents assigned to the conference.
! Typewriters wore hard to get
then. Consequently, when she
heard that 12 were being deliver
i ed to the press room, she was
! elated.
Hut reporters chocking the room
I nn the eve of the conference turn
j ed to her and said sadly: "We can't
i use these typewriters"
, Ninety-nine percent of news
! n.ipermen use the "hunt-aud-peck"
Bethel Church Holds
Membership Sunday
Seven children, young people
and adults were baptized last Sun
day as the Bethel Methodist church
observed Membership Sunday
The Hev Clyde Collins, the min
ister, reported that 18 people join
ed the church as new members eith
er by transfer of letter, profession
of failh, or by reinstatement
Several others, unable to attend
last Sunday's services, will be re
ceived into the church later
The pastor called the roll of the
church, and each member present
received a membership card
Christian Educator Says Roots Of
Social Action Should Be In Bible
after
several
At the I inn
provoked a storm
at the Asscmblv
Mrs. Turpin was on the spot.
Olficinls hoped thai the speech
would pin lie reported in the news
papers. It was her debut as the
press agent.
Bui that was her job. The min
ister had made his statements be
fore a public gathering.
She made her decision
period of agony.
The storv appeared in
daily newspapers.
Hut Mrs. Turpin went on the
spot again. Assembly officials
took heart in the thought that the
newspapers hail garbled her ver
sion With considerable apprehension,
.lie showed the ollicials copies of
I he story she had sent In the pap-
II was a good thing in the long
run." she said, reflecting on the
incident .
The result was cxellent from
even angle. Among the Assembly
and church ollicials. it established
her reputation as an accurate,
holiest reporter.
Tin' newspaper editors recogniz
ed her as a "press agent" who
could he counted on to give them
accural1, compicic mm o..o
events at the Assembly not just
Hie siories that glorified the insti-
lut ion
Since then, there have been
stories that would bring pain to
the publicist. No institution likes
see Ms tragedies on a front page
Mrs. Turp" early found the wis
,i,,, ,,i i,.le;ising the facts from
I he institution's olficial source..
During one season many years ago. I
, h,,v drowned ill the Assembly j
lake. She immediately
all the facts and phoned
newspaper.
Tins was one of the cases
aave both the Assembly and Mrs
Turpin a reputation among news
paper editors of straightforward
ness in handling the news.
Her allilude has won her
.illcclion and respect of the
iw-u-sn.-iivrmcn on the
than -400 daily newspapers and
scores of weeklies that publish her
tremendous volume
obtained
it to the
which
system of typing.
Mrs. Turpin realized that the
12 typewriters had only blank
keys -since they had been borrow
ed from a school for the blind
While she was walking dejected
ly down the street, she was struck
by a solution to her problem when
she saw a corner drug store
vv-ilkiiur in. she bought several
rolls of white adhesive tape.
All that nighl she worked, pul-
tins little strips of tape on each
of the keys of each of the type
writers, and marking them with
, their proper letters and figures.
! At 4 a in., the job was finished,
land the press room was in perfect
order for the horde of newspaper-
men who would be swarming in a
! few hours later.
I At another important conference.
I she s;iw a voting reporter, who was
ill. doze oil' in the middle of a
significant discussion by high
church officials.
Mrs. Turpin knew that the boy s
paper wanted thai storv and
would fire bmi if 1"' hl"'' "
Calmlv. she went to work, took
detailed notes as the newsman
slept
When the session
lapped him genu.v
Th,- ri'Dorled was
,. n.,o In- realie.d hi
msin.i.
slept through the important meet
ing Hut then he brightened ini
mcdiatelv when Mrs Turpin hand-
rl him a full, (leiaiieo i.-"".
Thev've done tin
loo.
Competition between
...- in i In- same city is U
tn:on And when one report
intensely loyal lo his own
:m event, then gives
his story lo the opposing paper,
he's making the supreme sacrifice
Yet that's what happened during
another church conference
Mrs Turpin had agreed to cov-
for the aner-
ended. she
stricken
w ith
had
same for her.
newspap
adil ionally
said
The matter was settled, lie made
a copy of his own story and sent
it for Mrs. Turpin to the compet
ing newspaper.
Her tireless devotion to Un
church is in her blood.
She is a direct descendant of
Kdward Dromgoole. one of the
members of the conference that
formed the Methodist C liurch in
America in 1784. Alter he was
converted in Ireland by John Wes
ley, founder of Methodism, he
came to Virginia and founded Hie
church the.e in Brunswick County
Her husband. Cyrus W Turpin.
who was connected with the Meth
odist publishing house, operated
the Hook Store at Lake Junaluska
many summers unlil his death in
mas.
Their son, Hubert M. Turpin. is
a successful attorney in Midland.
Texas, and their daughter, is now
Mrs James 11. Hurke of Knoxville.
Tenn , where Mrs. Turpin lives
during the winter in what she calls
the "mother-in-law wing" of the
Hurke home.
The veteran reporter, though
confining herself lo news of Metho
dism, has found herself on contact
j with good "straight" news stories
While working at a conference
in Wichita, Kansas, she wenl out
late one night for her pie-heclt inie
"coke" Her objective was a store
she knew stayed open late evcrv
night.
I Hut when she arrived she found
jibe place apparently closed. As
she Iried the door, a man dressed
I in w hat looked like a uniform told
her rudely: "The store's closed for
the night "
The next morning, a front page
story made her realize thai she
had come to the store while it was
being robbed At the time she
'was living the door, the operator
!was being tied up by friends ol
the man outside. The newspaper
told her the place had been looted
of its drugs.
I Invaluable in her work is her
j keen sense of news values
j And these have been supported
1 mutely in the way editois ol ies-
ponsihle publications have handled
Hie same subjects in which she
herself saw news value
For instance, last month she was
scanning through a copy of Dr.
Klmer Clark's new hook, "Small
Sects In America." a survey of
the many religious denominations
in the United Slates
i She immediately wrote a concise.
; pithy review of the book and sent
lit to The Mountaineer and oilier
j newspapers.
Thai week-end. detailed reviews
of Dr. Clark's book were carried
by two national news magazines.
Hy her personal creeds. I he pub
lic relations director should re
main anonymous.
"He should play his subject up.
not his own personality." she says.
But, though unsought, recog
nition has persistently sought her
Fines Creek Church
To Have Homecoming
This Sunday will be Homecoming
and Decoration day at the Hiram
Kogers Baptist Church in Fines
Creek community.
The members will decorate the
church from 10 A. M. to 11 A. M ,
when the morning worship services
will start.
Preaching the sermon will be
Hev P. C. Hicks of Canton
Following the picnic dinner at
noon, there will be singing by
quartets and other groups, starting
at 1 P M.
The principal speaker will he the
Hev. M I,. Lewis, pastor of the
llazelwood Baptist Church
out
I.asl year. Bishop '".arber called
her before the huge group of dele
gates at a Methodist Conference in
Columbia, praised her work, and
asked her to say a "few words."
To the spectators who had risen
in a body to their feet and applaud
ed vigorously, she smiled:
"I've stood up for the Methodists
many times, but this is the first
I line the Methodists stood up for
me."
Methodists stood up for her
again only a few weeks ago.
It happened during I he Sunday
services at the Lake Junaluska
auditorium the morning after her
pageant on the history of the As
sembly bad been presented to a
capacity audience.
And il came as a distinct sur
priee. Dr. l.ove casually referred to
the pageant, then asked Her Ishee,
of High Point . who directed It.
to come forward.
Then he starlet! In praise Mrs.
Turpin for her part in Hie pageant,
cave Mr. Isliee a bouquet of roses,
and asked him to present them to
her.
As the congregation stood and
applauded, "she came forward to
receive her award.
Sam Burgess, a young Univer
sity of Georgia graduate, was ap
pointed to (ill bur place as manager
of the MIS Nashville branch
And judging from the size of
the letter which came today from
the Lake Junaluska Assembly
News Service, he's going to need
all his energy lo match the work
of his predecessor.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Turpin says
she's not planning - not rigid now,
anyway to return as publicity di
rector of the Assembly next sum
mer. "I've discovered," she mused,
"that cooking is really a creative
art."
In her "retirement" also, she is
I hulking about doing some fiction
wril ing.
But. she believes, it's going to
be somewhat difficult to turn from
writing about what did or will
happen lo what could have hap
pened. "I am retired," she said again,
and then added, somewhat hope
fully, "Hut I am on call."
The Rev. M Leo Hippy, of Nash- j
ville, Tennessee, expert in the field
of Christian education for adult
Sunday School classes, will be the 1
featured speaker on the Lake
Junaluska Assembly platform to-1
night, under the auspices of a'
southwide Leadership School for
Christian Workers in session here
until Tuesday.
In a discussion this morning, he
said: ""When the Bible has its
rightful place in a program of
Christian education, those who are
caught up in a program will be
interested in bringing people into
Ihe Christian fellowship.
"A continuous, comprehensive
program of evangelism has its
roots in the kind of teaching that
ought to be a part of the program
of Christian education in every
church. If men and women are
studying the Bible as they should,
they will be Interested in the
preaching services of the church;
they will give to the causes of
the church because of their con
cern for men and women in the
community and throughout the
world.
"Out of this concern will flow
those missionary interests that
make it possible for each and
every Methodist lo have a part
Revival Set For
First Methodist
Church Hero
Itevival services will be held next
week at the First Methodist Church
of Wav nesville. starting Sunday
morning
Alter the Hev Hussell Young,
the pastor, preai lies the sermon at
the Sunday morning services. Bis
hop Paul Kern of Nashville, Tenn..
will address the congregation at 8
P. M
Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Atlanta.
Ca ., will preach services Monday
through Friday.
His first sermon will he at 8 P.
M Monday, and be will be in the
pulpit for services twice daily
thereafter, at It) A. M and at B P.
M.
In a worldwide venture in extend
ing the Kingdom of God
"A program of social action in
a Methodist church is no more an
elective than is prayer.
"If a church guides its people
In the Christian way of life, they
will face the issues that confront
them in their communities. They
will not be able to live the Chris
tian way of life and not try to do
something about the political
situation and the problems creat
ed by alcoholism, health hazards
: and other issues that confront them
in their communities,
j "A program of social action
j should have its roots in the teach
ing of the Bible that is going on
in the local church.
1 'Whom shall we teach'.' The
j answer is all peonle. Through a
j study ol God's Word and through
I Ihe guidance that comes from
leaching in the local church, we
will discover how to make it pos
sible for His (lower to channel in
and through our lives."
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the meetings, she was informed
II,,,, there was a serious illness in
her lamilv.
reporter for the opposing
paper stepped in and resolved the
i otinici.
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