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i VOLUME 3I—NO 28 THE OKEMAH (OKLA) DAILY LEADER SUNDAY JANUARY 1 1056 PRICE FIVE CENTS '
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VefLUME 3I—NO 28
iltint coumijKivianis Club
BY jACIC STMNG I To Insfall flew
Good News
It seems holidays are flying thick
and fast '
Only last week we proffered our
wishes for a Merry Christmas and
already we must greet you with a
"Happy New Year!"
During 1956 we resolve to print
lots of good news that Is if the
circumstances and elements will
cooperate
As our big story of 1956 we
choose for a banner headline: "In-
' dustry Locates in Okemah" We'd
even be happy to make the first
' word of that headline p 1 ur a I
'') There's one thing we know—the
chamber of commerce industrial
committee will continue to work
constantly to make this story pos-
sible Another story we hope to write
would carry this caption: "Agri-
cultural Production High for Cotm-
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cmake the proper kind of forecasts
to make this head valid Our late
Fall and Winter weather has been
great for resorts but mighty poor
for greenery
These headlines would make
pleasant reading in 1956 too: "Re-
tail Sales Break All Records"
"School Enrollment Clinbs" and
"New Housing Development Under-
way" Now we're not predicting that
these stories will find their way
into print in '56 But we're hoping
—and we feel that the best way to
face a new year is with hope and
optimism
Endorsement
To make life somewhat simpler
around here in 1956 we want to
endorse a suggestion for traffic
lights on Broadway
The installation of traffic lights
at Broadway's four major intersec-
tions was suggested by an Oke
mahn to relieve traffic congestion
i and make it possible to cross
1 Broadway at Fifth Fourth Third
1 and Second streets
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1' It would not be necessary to have
PI these- traffic lights working at all
times Primarily they would need
to be functioning on Saturdays and
during periods of peak traffic loads
on other days
After all this isn't a "one-horse"
town anymore—we have hundreds
during periods of peak traffic loads
on other days
After all this isn't a "one-horse"
town anymore—we have hundreds
of automobiles!
Rants esimA
Santa Came
Santa must have made his sched-
uled appearance here last week to
Judge from the new shirt Bill Low-
rimore is wearing Kay Stand-
ley's new cowboy boots the
new tie around the neck of Thomas
Fox Lloyd Hibler's new car
and many other items of
finery being displayed around town
ays ays
Beauty Title
"Mister Five-by-Five" denotes a
gentleman of rotund proportions
but "Miss Thirty-by-Thirty" will
cop the title of any junior beauty
contest
Those are the dimensions of pe-
tite Susan Hanley daughter of Mr
and Mrs R E Hanky and grand-
daughter of Okfuskee county's gra-
cious superintendent Mrs Leona
Abshier Susan is exactly 30 inches
tall and weighs a neat 30 pounds
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' Practical Giving
Among the gifts Santa left Mrs
Oran Coale was a kitchen stool
"A place to sit down in the kit-
chen that's irony isn't it? she
queried with a smile
Mrs Wayne Pritchett is the proud
owner of a new roaster oven which
she plans to use on fishing trips
The beauty of the thing she ex-
plained is that it will automatical-
ly cook the meals allowing her
more fishing time
Six-Foot Plus
Word from former Leader news-
hound Dick Smith indicates that he
will soon be home sA ard bound from
Germany where he has been serv-
ing in a tank batallion
You may recall that some two
years ago Dick left the Leader to
enter the army We've always been
puzzled how he could fold that six-
foot plus frame of his into the
turret of a tank
JUST STICK AROUND
Okemah's official thermometer
showed a wide temperature range
Saturday soaring to 53 at noontime
from an overnight low of 22
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Kiwanis club officers for 1956 will
be installed here Tuesday night at
the regular weekly meeting in the
Pioneer room
- Dr L L Mincks retiring presi-
dent win preside and open the
meeting
Cecil Oakes who has just com-
pleted a term as Division Gover-
nor Kiwanis Division 21 will into-
duce his successor Randy Wil-
liams Seminole who will then con-
duct the installation ceremony
Officers for the coming year are
Alton Rhea president John Lacy
first vice-president Ray B Jones
second vice-president Don Ross
secretary and V K Chowning
treasurer
The Board of Directors for the
coming year was announced by
Alton Rhea as consisting of Jack
Smyth George McKown Leffel
Hill Harry Scoufos Jr Phillip Mc-
Mahan Harry Cannon Jack Mayo
and Richard Jeffers
Several out-of-town guests will be
present also said Rhea
Thaw-Out Will
Usher in Year
By the Associated Press
Partly cloudy skies and slowly
rising temperatures were forecast
for New Year's weekend in Okla-
homa bringing a let-up in the latest
cold wave
The mercury dropped to an over-
night low of 17 degrees at McAles-
ter last night with other lows in
the 20s Minimums over the state
included 20 degrees at Tulsa 22 at
Ponca City and Ardmore 24 at
Hobart and Oklahoma City 26 at
Guymon and Ft Sill 27 at Gage
and Enid and 28 at Altus Highs
yesterday ranged from 40 degrees
at Ponca City McAlester and Enid
to 47 at Guymon
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OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 31 (Al—
Ray O Weems veteran state of-
ficial died at his home here this
morning after a long illness He
was 69 years old
Weems resigned recently from
the State Corporation Commission
on which he had served since 1939
He had been vice chairman and
chairman of the commission
Previously he had served as State
Treasurer member of the Tax
Commission financial manager of
the Federal Housing Administra-
tion at Oklahoma City and warden
of the State Game and Fish depart-
ment The veteran official was a news-
paper publisher and banker at Sal-
lisaw before entering state office
RUGGED TITIEF
MADISON Wis (—Madison po-
lice are looking for a burglar who
is very rugged or else has a broken
leg
A thief entered a Madison gro-
cery store in the nighttime through
a high window and then dropped
16 feet down a stairwell When he
hit he broke off a bottom stair
But the burglar still was in good
enough shape to make off through
another window with 6189 in cash
Galbraith Murders Desegregation and End
Blackwell Torn
By Saul Feldman
OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 31 IB—
A tornado which wrecked part of
Blackwell causing 20 deaths and
more than 250 injuries tonight was
announced by Associated Press
editors as Oklahoma's biggest story
of 1955
However the voting was close
on three stories for the No 1 spot
with just a shade separating the
rankings
Here is the way Oklahoma Al'
editors voted the 10 top stories
of the year:
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It's time
to rest Old Year
Let- Us Take the Baby
It's time to rest Old Year
:We'll take the Baby for you
He'll be raised on—
FAITH—faith in all the tomorrows
He'll be nurtured on— -
HOPE—hope that we've profited from the yesterdays
He'll be brought up in the hope of—
CHARITY—charity from you when we err
Please trust us with the little New Year
We'll do our best with the Baby
Flood Damages Home of Ex-Okemah
Airforce Couple Living in Yuba City
y Jaen w strong
I Two messages from t he Yuba
I City Calif flood area received
here Friday and Saturday told of
the total loss of household goods of
one former Okemahn while other
former area residents sustained no
damage
Mr and Mrs D P Dick of Oke-
mah received a telephone call Fri-
day night from their son Air Force
M-Sgt Delbert Dick who with his
wife resides in Yuba City
Sgt Dick told his parents that
there was a four foot high water
mark inside their home and that
all their household goods were de-
stroyed The Dicks had just pur-
chased new furniture
Here for Christmas with his par-
ents Sgt and Mrs Dick saved
from the flood only the clothing
which they had with them and
their car He was here on a 30-day
furlough but returned to California
T uesday in an attempt to save
some o f t he family b elongings
They had arrived here shortly be-
fore Christmas leaving California
before the flooding began
"We're awfully sorry they lost
all their things "Mrs Dick said
Saturday "but we're thankful they
were here at the time of the flood
Others lost so much more"
A post card from Live Oak a
small community 10 miles north
of Yuba City indicates that resi-
dents of that city did not suffer
from the flood although they were
in danger
Several former residents of the I
Pleasant Valley community in Ok-
fuskee county are now residing
wife and three children
3 Desegregation begins
4 Drought ends
5 Democratic committeeman
feud
6 Husband poisoner Nannie
Doss sentenced to life
7 Oklahoma City labor dispute
8 Highway Patrol political fuss
9 Lloyd Stanley murder
10 Hurbie Fairris gets Ilth hour
reprieve
A tornado hit Blackwell's north-
east corner the night of May 25
with fatalities reaching 20 The
death toll would have been much
higher except for the few seconds
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OKEMAH (OKLA) DAILY LEADER
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at Live Oak according to Mrs
Leslie Hodge of Okemah
Mrs Hodge received a card Sat-
urday from her sister-in-law Mrs
Marvin Barber a Live Oak resi-
dent Mrs Barber said the flood
was terrible but indicated that no
damage was sustained at Live Oak
which is about two miles north of
the flooding Feather river
Among the former area residents
who moved to the Live Oak com-
munity are Mr and Mrs Birdie
Mitchell Mr and Mrs Liege Rut-
ledge Mr and Mrs Otis Carpenter
and Mr and Mrs Walter Keller
J E Barber the father of Mrs
Hodge also lives at Live Oak
Ike Calm on Eve
Of Decisive Year
KEY WEST Fla Dec 31 (RI--
President Eisenhower closes out
an eventful and never-to-be-forgotten
1955 today hopeful the new
year will bring restoration of his
health
No special plans for his obser-
vance of New Year's Eve have
been announced It is likely he will
have a quiet dinner with staff mem-
bers He probably will be in bed
tonight well before 1956 arrives
in line with his program of getting
plenty of rest while recovering
from his Sept 24 heart attack
Ahead of him is a new year
which will bring his decision on
whether to seek a second term
His heart attack was the big
news of this year
of Drought Also Tops
warning given by the sound of the
giant twister which went on to
wreck Udall Kan
Millions of dollars worth of dam-
age was caused and the tornado
was Oklahoma's worst in the num-
ber of fatalities since Woodward
was hit in 1947
The sensational murder story of
Galbraith a prominent McAlester
heart specialist drew national at-
tention in May The physician's
home was found in flames with his
socially prominent wife and three
children dead
At first it was believed it was
an accident but later investigation
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SUNDAY JANUARY 1
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'Anion Slepka
Pioneer Local
Residenf Dies
Anton (Pop) Selpka 78 promi-
nent pioneer Okemah and State
!resident and owner of the city's
two movie houses died at his home
l at 11:14 am Saturday following a
recent serious illness of about two
weeks Mr Slepka suffered a heart
attack about eight years ago and
had been seriously ill on a number
of occasions since that time
- Services Will be at 10:30 am
Monday at t he First Christian
church with Rev J A Bradshaw
pastor officiating He will be as-
sisted by Rev John Gingerich
Arrangements are being made
by Barry Funeral Home
Mr Slepka was born on October
28 1877 in Iowa and came to Okla-
homa in the run of 1889 He first
settled near Hobart where he was
married on July 19 1904 The
1 Slepkas lived near Gotebo on a
farm and later moved to the Keifer-
! Mounds area
1 It was in July last year that Mr
and Mrs Slepka observed their
golden wedding a nniversary In
September of the same year the
Okemah theaters celebrated their
35th anniversdries in the Selpka
family
Both theaters were closed on
Saturday and will remain clos-
ed at least through Monday
Mr Slepka purchased the Jewel
theater here in 1919 and in 1931 ex-
panded with the purchase of the
Crystal He still farmed after the
purchase of the Jewel but due to
the resignation of the manager
he was forced to move to Okemah
and operate the movie house
Mr Slepka saw the great pro-
gress in the movie field from the
silent film to the most modern in-
novations His operation here has
kept Okemah abreast of the latest
inventions and gave the city two of
the best movie houses for this size
or town or larger in Oklahoma In
recent years management of the
theaters was turned over to his
son Bill Slepka:
Before his semi-retirement Mr
Slepka was active in civic and
business affairs in Okemah He
was well known by all local resi-
dents and from many parts of Okla-
homa On many occasions when the
Christmas basket program for the
needy was sponsored here Mr
Slepka contributed generously to
the project yet wish his work to
remain anonymous
Survivoa:s include his widow of
the home at 215 North Second one
son Bill Selpka South Fifth one
daughter Mrs Clay Porter West
Broadway Also four grandchildren 1
Carole Kay Bob and Bill Slepka
and Pat Porter
A list of bearers was not avail
able this afternoon t
Second Inj
ury
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I A suit for $3000 reimbursement
I for personal injuries to his wife
was on file here in the court clerk's
office Saturday listing Burral Gro-
ves as petitioner versus Safeway
Stores Inc
Groves' wife Martha filed a
damage suit last Thursday asking
the same amount She charged she
slipped' and fell in the store here
causing injuries to the left side of
her body her arms neck should-
ers and back
The alleged incident occurred Dec-
ember 29 1953 The suits were
filed some hours before the two-
year statute of limitations expired
est
disclosed foul play and Galbraith
was arrested He admitted the
slayings and was t ried lo r the
death of h is wife Although plead-
ing innocent by reason of insanity
he was found guilty and sentenced
to life
Breaking down of segregation
barriers in Oklahoma especially in
public schools and schools of high
er education made the No 3 story
On June 6 the U S Supreme
Court ended segregation in schools
of higher education Many of the
colleges and universities immediat
ely opened their doors without
reservation for summer sessions
Okfuskee County Residents
1956
New Year Traffic Toll
Lower Thus Far Than
Record Yule Deaths
Plans Completed for Annual
March of Dimes Drive Here
With advance gifts In excess of
$700 already in the kitty the Ok-
fuskee county chapter of the Na-
tional Foundation for Infantile Pa-
ralysis prepared Saturday to launch
it's annual March of Dimes drive
next Tuesday
Again this year the Odd Fellows
and Rebekah lodges will spear-
head the kickoff by holding their
annual Blue Crutch Day sale
The small blue plastic crutches
explained county campaign direc-
tor Alton Rhea are symbolic of the
polio scourage which the founda-
tion is attempting to eradicate
Although there is no specified
price for the crutch pins a con-
tribution of 10 cents or more is
the customary one
Following the Blue Crutch phase
of the drive a road-block contribu-
tion operation is scheduled next
Saturday January 7 with National
Guardsmen of the 180th Infantry
Battalion manning the stations
In uniform the Guards will be
assisted by Okemah highschool
girls in making the vehicle passen-
ger collections
Also slated during the month-
long campaign are two collection-
kettle days next Saturday and
again on the lith Manning the
I Okemah Cowgirl
Is Sweetheart
10f Rodeo Assn
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Jane Mayo 18 daughter of Mr
and Mrs W H Mayo 801 N 4th
was notified recently that she has
been selected as Sweetheart of the
American Junior Rodeo Associa-
tion and will reign as such on
Sunday January 29 at the South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show in Fort Worth
An accomplished 'horsewoman
Miss Mayo also received an invi-
tation to compete in the Ranch
Girls Cloverleaf Barrel race in the
rodeo activities of the exposition
As one of 36 contestants both
amateur and professional she will
barticipate in the elimination con-
test which includes four go-rounds
ewligthhtnlienaedcthogmpgeitriltsionwsuilntheaecnhcoThme-
pete in the finals
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Sorry Sergeant
I No Purple Heart
Marine Sgt Jens (Jimmy) Ole-
son 21 home on leave for the
holidays accidentally shot himself
in the foot Friday with a 22 cal
automatic
His mother Okemah schoolteach-
er Kathryn C Olesen said the
wound was not serious She said
Sgt Olesen was reloading the wea-
pon and his hand slipped The bul-
let struck him in the toe
The sergeant is stationed at
Twenty-Nine Palms Calif
Idaho
The rest and public schools in all
sections of the state began a pro-
gram of integration in the fall
term Other barriers began to fall
gradually in public places and in
the use of public facilities Appar-
ently Oklahoma was taking the
desegregation in stride with few
incidences reported
The capricious Oklahoma weath-
er continued to play tricks on the
state during 1955 The drought car-
rying on from 1954 cut Oklaho-
ma's wheat crop to just under 24
million bushels one 'of the worst
in history However heavy rains
started falling in the late spring
Sobering Effect of
11 I I or Annual Christmas Credited
The Associated Press
s Dri By ve Here The rate of traffic deaths
his new year's weekend
Okemah's service clubs the Kiwan- 7or the Christmas holidays
kettles will be members of two of was lower today than that
is and the Lions when a record toll of 609
Later in the month a peanut sale
was counted
will be conducted by the Key club Traffic had killed 46 persons
a highschool service organization from 6 pm (local time) Friday
modeled after the local Kiwanis to 1 pm EST today The over-
Don Ross Okemah attorney is
all accident toll was 53 including
the Okemah Chairman for the coun-
6 deaths in fires and 1 miscellan- '
ty chapter's drive and J M Ras- eous mishap
berry will serve in a like capacity At the same hour last week the
in Weleetka traffic toll had reached 114
Ray White county athletic chair- 407 Slated to Die
' man for the drive has made tenta- The National Safety Council has
five plans for several basketball estimated that at the end of the
games and possibly a tourney wits long holiday weekend—midnight
the proceeds going to the fund
Monday-407 set during the four-
Advance Gifts drive was handled I
day New Year holiday at the end
' this year by the Rebekahs and Odd of 1952 and the start of 1953
Fellows lodges Their service net- Police were alerted for emergen-
mah reported chairman Joe R the
ted a total of $51211 here in Oke-1 cy atrcatiffonic atoimlledDraatsthicoltdrianfgficdolwawn
Day and approximately $200 in 1 enforcement was ordered by of
Weleetka Complete tabulations are ficials after the record breaking
not in yet he said holiday traffic toll of 609 over the
' Other county communities have !Christmas weekend
pledged co-operation in the drive' Guardsmen Used
! said campaign director Rhea With 1 Four states Illinois Wisconsin -
pie-suppers and other fund-raising l
i Michigan and Arizona ordered Na-
activities the smaller communities ! tional Guardsmen to help patrol
I will make their contributions I highways Planes were being used
1 "We had good crops this year" 1 in Illinois and Louisiana to scout
commented Rhea "and are con- above highways Extra police were
ifident that our people will respond I ordered on duty in many cities
I with typical local generosity" Generally dry weather appeared
in prospect over the long holiday
for most areas W et and
foggy
1 Vacationer's Team
!weather made driving conditions
Of Independents i hazardous in many sections of the
fr'" —' country last weekend
1 i In Roundban war ! T
Vacationer's Team
Of Independents
In Roundball Arai"
Guerilla warfare is being waged
here in basketball during the holi-
day layoff of highschool teams An
independent Okemah team (the
Tigers) has romped during the
past week subduing Nuyaka Ex-
celsior and another Okemah group
At Nuyaka Thursday the Tigers
composed mostly of post-grads
(highschool) and college students
home for the holidays clobbered
l the independent Nuyakans 51-39
I Coached by Okemah highschool
junior Buddy Cruce the Tigers
came from behind in the second
half to register the win High
point men were Nolan Coker with
16 and Mac Thompson with 13
1 Bobby Walker was high for Nu-
yaka with an even dozen markers
The Tigers swept a doubleheader
on the day before squeezing past
another Okemah group 40-37 then I
turning the tables on Excelsior
27-23
Mac Thompson registered the
most hoop-ringers in t he first
game sinking 18 C T Story
sparked the losers with a total of
16 points
Coker carried off scoring honors
against Excelsior dunking 16 tabu- I
lators
HOSPITAL NEWS i
Okfuskee Memorial records Sat-
urday showed the a dmission of I
Mrs James Cheatwo od George
Dowdy Myron Dowdy Lloyd Um-
berger and Mrs Otis Combs I
Dismissed were Russell Ott and
Miss Valta Nichols
lois I Pleading guilty to a charge of
— I reckless driving Johnny F Stokes
27 Weleetka was fined $25 and
costs Saturday by County Judge
Raymond W Jenkins -
Stokes was apprehended Friday
tDecember 23 by Patrol troopers
0 r uWallace s 6 iSnt rtahneg c iatnydli mB ii itis 01 Ifi l ol koen
ma h
a
suddenly changed the drought pic-
ture Reservoirs were filled in short
order and stock poinds replenished
The moisture gave Oklahoma
bumper cotton crop of 450000 bales
However state farmers suffered
a 50 million dollar loss compared
with the previous year
A feud in the ranks of the Dem-
ocratic Party broke out when Gov
Raymond Gary tried to replace
national party committeeman W
C Doenges with Rep Jim Arring-
ton Stillwater
Twice the state executive corn-
(Continued on Page Two)
The Weather
Little change in temperature to-
day lows tonight 25-30 high today
in the 50s further outlook part-
ly cloudy and mild tonight and
Monday :
PRICE FIVE CENTS
rill -I
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t of
lited
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deaths
veekend
an that
-Iolidays -
of 609
5 persons
a) Friday
The over-
including miscellan- '
-
week the -
lit
)uncil has '
ad of the ' 0
-midnight I
the four- 4
t the end -
1953
down
raffle laW
d by of-
breaking 1
over the
i
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Visconsin 1
dered Na- 1
Ip patrol
eing used
to scout
1
)lice were t
cities
appeared
g holiday
nd foggy i
conditions
-ms of the
I
uncil says
as heavy
at Christ
he end of 1
at Christ-
n at New ' ill
1
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' Irst
ity k -4-
ss
rirst high-
wT Year s
4-year-old l'
of W L
1
Irs E W
lied when
!shield of
as riding
litch on a
iew The
car Don
iver was i
an Enid I
s in the
Tson Jun
wart Boy
over the '
i
tised the 1
tility toll i
)
ared with i
ast year
I
Ing 11'1
can ' i
harge of i
r Stokes
$25 and
ty Judge
1
i Friday i
troopers ' 1
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s of Oke-
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the sight 1
i lift you
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in this I '
tter than
rant us t
ves less t
more of
may "be i '
'Clearer Weather 8c
The National Safety Council says
the traffic volume is not as heavy
over the New Year as at Christ
mas Each year since the end ot
World War II the toll at Christ-
mas has been higher than at New
Year's
EnidYouth First
Traffic Fatality
By the Associated Press
Oklahoma counted its first high-
way death of the New Year
we ekend Saturday—a 14-year-old
Enid boy
Bogert Stewart son of W L
Stewart of Fairview and Mrs E W
Williams of Enid was killed when
thrown through the windshield of
the car in which he was riding
w hen it ran into a deep ditch on a
county road near Fairview The
only other person in the car Don
Robinson of Enid the driver was
injured Be was taken to an Enid
hospital
Both boys are students in the
ninth grade at Enid's Emerson Jun-
ior high school The Stewart Boy
was visiting his father over the
holidays
' The youth's death raised the
1955 highway accident fatility toll
in Oklahoma to 591 compared with
579 at the same time last year
Reckless Driving
Costs Weleetka"1
The PRIMER
FOR TODAY FROM V 3
Cbe Hppr Rm
Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord and he shall lift you
up (James 4:10)
PRAYER: Our Father in this
new year help us to do better than
we have In the past Grant us
grace to concern ourselves less
with ourselves and to think more of
others We pray that we may
better do better he more gentle
and loving" Amen
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