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SATURDAY* MARCH W, 19C0
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WITH BILLY SMKJtM II IlFtICt
b) TOM McMAHJN Religion Editor, TM Stitt. Criumbii, S. C.
VICTORIA FALLS, South Rho-
desia-—It took David Livingstone
fourteen^ days to trek two hundred
miles from his advance base to this
beauty spot which the great mis¬
sionary explorer called the most
wonderful sight he witnessed in
all Afi ica.
This week Billy Graham made
a longer trip in a powerful little
monoplane in a little over three
hours. The far traveled evangelist
said the flight, which featured
spectacular views of wild game,
was the most exciting he has ever
experienced.
When he left Salisbury, South
Rhodesia, the South African pilpt
said that most of the game in the
region had been killed off because
of the tsetse fly. So the veteran
pilot felt safe in promising to eat
anything they would see, horna and
all, as they went down the river.
If the three Graham teamsters
and this reporter had held him to
his promise, the pilot would have
consumed no less than four herds
of elephants, (the largest contain-
ii\g up to two hundred pachy-
«Aous Rirns), three herds of the dang-
black buffalo, two herds each
of zebra and antelbpe and two hip¬
popotami.
Billy Graham and his close as¬
sociate, Cliff Barrows, shouted
“Whew”! with boyish exuberance
as the skilled pilot took the plane
down for a closer look at the herds
which thundered off as the strange
roaring bird approached.
The evangelist is here for a
three-day rest to break the pace of
this ‘‘Safari for Souls” which has
taken him through 3 West Afri¬
can countries and will yet take
him to five more nations which
are vastly different; up the cen¬
tral and eastern parts of the con¬
tinent across which the winds of
change Are blowing so swiftly.
The Graham party arrived at
the Victoria Falls Hotel, from
which the roar of cataracts can be
heard, the same afternoon as the
Monckton Commission, a fact-find¬
ing body charged with laying the
groundwork for an important con¬
stitutional conference for Rho¬
desia’s Myasaland. The Commis¬
sion will be here all week. Here
Giahani will rest and seek to
absorb some of the spirit of Liv¬
ingstone for whom the nearby city
is named, and whose statue over¬
looks the falls which he was the
first to describe scientifically.
Here, also, the evangelist will
review the West African tour
which exceeded all expectations, as
over three hundred thousand people
turned out for the great rallies at
race courses and stadiums; fifteen
thousand of whom remained quiet¬
ly after the meetings to seek the
Lord.
The closing meeting of the first
half of the tour was at Jos,
Nigeria, a mining center on the
great plateau of northern Nigeria,
where some of the most primitive
tribes of ail Africa live within
walking distance of the modern
commercial city. Nearly ten thou¬
sand heard Graham there, includ¬
ing a large proportion of the Eu¬
ropean population in one of the
world’s greatest areas for mining
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Get caught in a suddea
downpour or blizzard without
your overshoes? Take thos*
wet shoes off your feet at
soon as possible and towel dry
your tootsies.
To prevent your shoes from
curling up, work crumpled
Kleenex tissues into the toe of
each shoe and set shoes aside
to dry thoroughly, awsy from
heating unit. The tissues will
soak up any moisture,___
tin and columbite
Jos is also a great missionary
center where one can find many
stories of heroic and sacrificial
service among the pagans and
Moslems. One group of seven hun-
dred people crowded into six rail¬
road cars for the seventy mile trip
from Kagora to hear Graham.
Kagorans used to be feared as
“tailed head hunters” who tied tails
onto themselves and regarded col¬
lecting the heads of their enemies
as the mark of manhood. The
Chief of Kagora, a Christian since
boyhood, now the lending Nigerian
governmental figure, and owner of
a new Pontiac, led the evening
prayer at Graham’s meeting. Many
others, some of them former pagan
tribesmen, walked fifteen miles to
the Jqs meeting, retracing their
steps at night on a path infested
with snakes, scorpions and baboons.
The nearly three thousand mile
trip from Jos to Salisbury was fas¬
cinating and varied. We flew a
chartered British Heron to Tico,
the border city of the Nigerian re¬
lated Southern Cameroon^. We
then transferred to a motor launch
for a three-hour river ride to
Douala, in French Cameroons. In
order to reach the launch, we rode
a tiny open railroad car along the
docks where men were peeling
giant logs.
At Douala where rebel activity
is current, some of us were almost
stranded on the waterfront because
the taxis stop running at six
o’clock in preparation for the tight
nine o’clock curfew. The French
hotel was comfortable and we saw
no signs of conflict except for bar¬
bed wire barricades and soldiers
patrolling with fixed bayonets.
From Douala we flew nonstop
to Brazzaville in a wonderful super
constellation, stopping,overnight in
that capital of the Republic of the
Congo, formerly French Equatori-
al Africa. It wasn’t practical to
cross the river t!o beautiful, mod¬
ern Leopoldville where independ,-
ence was just promised for the
sprawling, sparsely settled Belgian
Congo with its tremendous wealth
of uranium and other strategic ma¬
terials. Many Leopoidviliians join¬
ed hundreds of Brazzaville people
at the meeting addressed by Billy
Graham in the old Swedish mission,
winch was a refugee point during
last year’s rioting that cost scores;
of lives.
The next morning we flew non¬
stop to Salisbury in a DC 0-B,
which Graham regards as perhaps
the world’s safest plane. At the
airport, the evangelist was greet¬
ed by some five hundred people
who crowded the terminal balcony
and sang “To God Be the Glory,
Great Things He Hath Done.”
Two of Graham’s associates are
preaching this week in principal
European cities of Southern Rho-
desia, a tension filled country with
fewer than three hundrd thousand
whites and over two million Afri¬
cans. He will climax these cam¬
paigns with two addresses at Bul¬
awayo and one at Salisbury, then
head for Northern Rhodesia,
Kenya, Tanganyika; RUandn-
Urundi and Ethiopia.
FBB Senior Choir
The Senior Choir of FBB
church met at the home of Mrs.
Mary Washington with the
Vice President, Mrs.
Elia Manor, p r e s i d i n g.
Those assisting Mrs. Washing-
ton in serving were Mrs. Anna
N. Williams, Mrs. Beulah Allen
and Miss Sadie O. Legree. A
get-to-gether will be on March
17, St. Patrick’s day, at the
home of Mrs. N. M. Gregory,
1319 Richards street, 7.30 p. m.
Mrs. Sallie Freeman is presi¬
dent and Mrs. Naomi Gregory,
reporter, ., J :j
Hy Niigliliors
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CHURCHES
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Connor’.? > Temple
The services Connor’s
I Temple were inspiring anc i
J attended on last Sunday- Sun-
day School was conduct*. 3 by
! Sunt. Hunter. The offering a. n
! attendance banners were won b>'
j the Boyd, Intermediate instructor. class, The Mrs. mes- Bes-
sie
j sages were delivered by Rev. W.
| w. Whitehead, pastor. The sub¬
ject of the communjon message
was “A Sick Church, A Heal¬
ing Christ.” One joined the
church. The 33rd anniversary
of the church is being held this
week .March 7-14. The follow-
ing churches are participating: (
Jerusalem Baptist church, Good-
will Baptist church, Pilgrim Bap- |
ti.vt church, First AB church,
Bethlehem Baptist church, Fri- j |
day night; Tremont Temple
Baptist church, Monday night.
Youth day will-be observed on
next Sunday morning at 11:30
o’clock, Miss Leomia s Pinkney
will be the speaker.
Friendship Bapt. Church
The services at Friendship
Baptist church, Rev. D. 15. Hen¬
derson, pastor were well attend¬
ed. Sunday School was conduct¬
ed by the superintendent, Mrs.
D. Williams. The subject was
“God’s Protecting Providence,”
At 5 o’clock the Sisterhood met
and made plans for a pew
rally on March 20. The Senior
choir will meet Tuesday night
and rehearsal will he Friday
night. A chicken supper will
be given at the home of Mrs.
L. Benjamin, 1218 Augusta Ave„
Saturday, March 12.
2nd St. John Bapt. Church
Second St. John Baptist
church, Golden [street, West Sa¬
vannah was well attended on
Sunday in its communion ser¬
vice. The pastor, Rev. T. J.
Wright spoke from the theme
‘ "The Need For Brotherhood.”
On Sunday March 13,
Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.
with Supt. W. C. Rbss; at 6
p. m., Mission; BTU with Mrs.!
Annie L. Ross, president, at I
7 p. m.; at 8 p. m, preaching |
by the pastor with the Senior'
the music. '
choir rendering
Women’s _ St.
| Day At
Paul Baptist Cluirch
st. p au ] Baptist church will
J observe annual
; Day on Sunday. March 20. The
women of this church antici-
npte an eventful day. The
program will include a variety
0 f talented participants. The
public is cordially invited.
1st K". Bethel Ba?t.
The pastor. Rev. R. Scott de¬
livered an inspiring sermon on
Sunday at First iMt. Bethel Bap-
list church, The,morning ser-
vice was largely attended and
No. 3 choir and usher s served..
BTU meets every Thursday at
5 p. m. Sunday, March a
2.30 p. m. cdmmunlon sefEces
will be held
1st Friendship Bapt.
At First Friendship Baptist
church, Rev. G. R. Conner, Sr.,
minister, services were excellent
Sunday. The church school
was well attended with Mrs.
Marie D. Green in charge.
Charles Brown brought high¬
lights on the lesson followed by
Joe Wyne and Pastor Connor.
Two Inspiring messages were
delivered by the pastor.
The church and pastor’s an¬
niversary will be celebrated be¬
ginning March 14 through the
18th. The rally will terminate
at that time.
A musical program will be
sponsored on Friday night.
Charles Robinson, the Bolton St.
Gospel Chorus, the Rose Buds,
Stars of Harmony, the Conner
Singers and others will parti¬
cipate on the program.
Shiloh Bapt. Church
Rev, G. W. Carter, pastor of
Shiloh B^ntist church announ¬
ces that ReV, George Dingle and
the members fit Second Arnold
Baptist church worship at
Shiloh Monday nigbv, March 14,
On Tuesday night, gospel
at 8 o’clock the Triumph
Singers will render a progT&J 11
The church is located on the
corner of Broughton and Ran-
dolph street?. Communjpn
services are held each 4th Sun-
day.
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South Golf Tournament, just com-
here. to right are Joe
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champion for the fourth straight
St. Mary’s A. M. E.
A.t. Mary's AME church will
have* a "circular program,” and
a weight rally combined for the
benefit the church building
fund on Sunday, March 20 at
4 o'clock at First African Bap¬
tist church .In East Savannah.
Rev. Charlie Fogle is pastor.
Tremont t emple
At Tremont Ten: pie BaptLst
church, Rev. J. M. Benton, pas¬
tor, Sunday services were in¬
spiring including cormnunion.
Sunday Sfchool was conducted
by Clifford Riles. The pastor’s
morning message subject was
"Making Personal Contact With
Jesus.” 4 p. m. his subject was
"Measuring Up To The Bless¬
ings of God.”
61st Annual Statement
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in presenting our Sixty-FIrrt Annual Statement to V®u 6vr policyholders, or» behalf of who the directors, contributed officers, and
other employees of the company, I do so with a deep sense of gratitude to everyone has In any
way to the organization, growth and development of the company down through the years.
Today, the company has acknltted assets of $64,574,792.33 and Insurance In force of $264,440,033.00, and paid
to policyholders during the past year $5,816,438.63 and has paid since organization $74,581,949,13.
During 1959, mortgage loans in excess of $2,900,000.00 were made to assist policyholders In the purchase of homes,
financing of businesses, building of churches, and acqulrrtg and/or financing other properties.
The company Is giving dignified employment to nearly 1200 high calibre, well trained, loyal and dedicated easployees
In more than 50 different )ob categories. Its affairs ore In good condition; Its asset* are sound; Its finan'ftigl con¬
dition is strong; Its management is capable, and Its corporate Image Is good. t ■ -v ~
We enter the “soaring sixties' 1 with high expectations and utmost confidence. ' ,
'ASA FAITHFULLY T. SPAULDINIJ YOURS,
1 PRESIDENT
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1959
' NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
ASSETS LIABILITIES, CONTINGENCY RESERVE
Real Estate: t»tin /AND SURPLUS
Home Branch Office Offices . . .Tfk * Y~' ■ ■ $520,013.90 519.760 11 , ftatutory Policy Reserves ....... $50,096,711 It
Other Properties I ....Vorllite, 75,648.27 f 1,115,420 68 policy Claims Not Reported >
V and Incomplete................ 476,452 37
,
Mortgages: ^ Dividends to Policyholders 1,217,125.80
City-Insured by FHA and Other Policy and Contract )
VA Guaranteed ......... 8,680,340.56 , ...............!..^r
v Other City Mortgages ......8,065,284.32 t Liabilities 909,437.81
Farm Mortgages .....,.hi»»G |0Q.f)18 4O 16,846,243.29 Interest, Rent and Premiums
Policy Loans ........ 1572,246.61 [ Paid In Advance............. 171,719 88
Bonds: Taxes and Accrued Expenses
United States Government ... 2,957,738.40 Payable In I960 ................’ 695,629 48
Foreign Governments ........ 125,530.92 Croup Annuity—Employee Past
State and Municipal, U. S. Service Reserve 261,126.66
and Canada ............ 8,155,171.78 ...............
Railroads, United States...... 8,713,290.22 Mandatory Security Valuation
Public Utilities, .................17,188,227.80 U. S. Reserve 1,068,852 01
and Canada .......................
Industrial and Miscellaneous, Reserve for Workmen's Compen- te
United States ............... 9,409,464.48 88,549.423.35 satlon and Fluctuation In
i Morbidity
Preferred and Common Stockt Mortality and ...... 500,000 00
Common—U. S. Insured All Other Liabilities............. 207,470.86
t — 175,000.00
by FSLIC ..............*«••« \ LIABILITIES'.....,,’!,
Preferred, United States 89,214.44 TOTAL $55,094,525 98
Common, U. S. Including 4 2,195,310.82 1,429,525.26
State Supervised Corp....... Contingency and Surplus:
Reserve
Cash and Bank Deposits ..... 9 1,145,230 49 Reserve for Contingencies ....$3,980,266.35
Interest and Other Investment \ Asset Fluctuation Fund 500,000 00
Income Due and Accrued 493,440.78 ......
.. -
Premiums in Course of Collection Unassigned Surplus .......... 5,000,000 00 9,480,206 31
and Deferred .................. . 1,187,646.08 TOTAL LIABILITIES,
All Other Admitted Asset*....... „ 235,018.78 CONTINGENCY RESERVE
l SURPLUS............ $64,574,792
P TOTAL ADMITTED ASSETS 664,574.792.38 AND 33
,
« INSURANCE IN FORCE $264,440,033.00
year; Mytrice Mclver of Dayton,
Ohio, ladies victor and Pete Brown
of Jackson, Miss., who triumphed
in the pro division.
—Miami Metro News Bureau
Photo.
Last Rites
Held for
Mr. Alford
(Continued from Page one)
and delivered the eulogy. Rev.
J. S. Bryan and Rev. E. P.
Quarterman assisted. The de¬
ceased was a member of St.
Phillip A. M. E. church.
Interment was in the Nation¬
al cemetery at Beaufort, S. C„
with the Parris Island Marines
conducting the burial services.
Steele’s Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Mr. Alford’s employment at
the local U. S. Postoffice began
on December 22. 1919. He was
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College Grads. Tax Fight
Inspire House of Prayer
By ELDER JAMES LONG
Secretary, General Council House of Prayer.
Third in a aeries of article* on
the Holme of Prayer for All Peo¬
ple since the passing of Bishop C,
M. timidn (Imre,
We have a church within s
church and our young people com¬
prise it. They have their own
choirs, pastors, hands, orchestras
and the usual church organizations.
All young House of Prayer min¬
isters train within our churcih.
Some of our younger elders are
graduates of America’s leading cud-
leges and universities, many nre
still enrolled. Some colleges rep¬
resented are Howard, Lincoln,
Shaw, Morris Brown, Paine, t Sliey-
ney State, Minor Teachers.
Our young people will lead the
church one di\y. We know it and
we are grooming them for it. They
will assume one of the largest
church and property responsibili¬
ties in this country. Then comes
the talk about delinquency. Our
young people are so busy in the
church that they have little time
for the type of outside activity
which would lead to trouble.
Presently America is watching
the attempts by the Federal Gov¬
ernment to tax the property of the
House of Prayer as dirrjot connec¬
tions with the persons.! holdings
of our deceased leader and found¬
the first parcel postman to use
a motor vehicle. He was of¬
ficially retired on March 30,
1958.
At one time Mr. Alford was
an active musician, playing
the Trombone. He serv¬
ed as president of the Knights
of Columbus band and was a
PAGE THREE
er, Bishop C. M. Grace. Pointedly,
the church’s property belonged to
the church, the Bishop’s property
belonged to him. We will not con¬
test. tax on the properties inherit¬
ed from Daddy, but we will seek
to hold on to the Church's posses¬
sions. It was our founders’ policy
never to fight the Government, so
we will not fight.
As soon as the tax matter is
settled, we will begin our building
program mentioned earlier in this
series. If the delay is too long,
then we will build without settle¬
ment.
It is unheard of and strange
that the United States Government
would attach church properties in
this manner.
If any readers wonder why I am
writing this series on Bishop C. M.
(Daddy) Grace, it is because I
was personally helped by God
through Daddy Grace. In my youth
a slab of plate glass destroyed my
sight. Through faith in God my
sight was restored at a House of
Prayer service one night. Later I
served in the United States Army
during World War II without any
trouble at all.
(Next week: Why the member¬
ship in the House of Prayer dou¬
bled after Daddy’s passing.)
member of the Elks band.
Survivors Include his wife,
Mrs. Mabel Robinson Alford;
two slsters-ln-law, Mrs. Albert
Johnson of Washington, D. C.,
and Mrs. Maud Roberts of Phil¬
adelphia, and two cousins, Mrs.
Sarah Johnson and Mrs. Violet
Johnson of Waycross.