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the tribune stouffville ont thursday september 11 1947 j l stauffer is moderater of menn0n1te conference irm oscar iturkholdi boy helccted vear tefin iil stouffville executive mi wooster ohio aug 23 the 25th annua memywiite general confereno here ended this noon a- new i fficers conferred on church business for the next two year- bishop j 1 stauffer president of the eastern mennonite school harrisonburg va was elected moderator of the mennonite gen eral conference at the thursday august 29 session election results were announced jate last night including bishop stauffer four new administrators were elected to high church offices bishop h r shertz metamore 111 will be assistant molerator of the merinonite church george r brunk denbigh va is assistant secretary c b shoemaker scott- dale ia was reelected to the office of treasurer additional members of the execu tive committee are oscar burk- holder breslau ont canada re elected for a six year term and milo kauffman hesston kansas elected for a four year term new officers of the church will serve a twoyear term ending with the 1949 general conference bishop stauffer who succeeds bishop allen h erb of la junta colo as moderator is the older brother of the rev rudy stauffer minister of the wooster merinonite mission church gives gripping address most gripping short address of the entire fourday general confer ence was made thursday night by peter dyck russianborn men- nonite who has been serving abroad under the mennonite central com mittee for the past six years mr dycks work had more than one moment of heartbreak and terrible fear particularly when his statf tangled with the russians a strange group only 33 of them somehow got out of russia and made their way on foot to southern holland they were mem bers of our own mennonite church which has been established in russia for 150 years that is where our story begins in holland we received permission from the dutch to issue men nopasses which would permit others of the 35000 who surged out of russia after stalingrad to cross into hol- l laimkl to be moh faces serious charge following a complaint from a suburban richmond hill housewife i ma i 1 that man claiming to be the medical fr vineand a l fretz sel- ari jes martin waterloo western canada milo stulz- relationsmilton r good hitch- health officer for vaughan town- erer historical committee s f s had examined her for polio- coffman vineand j c fretz myelitis york county police kitchener christian education arrested charles h knox of tor- rov knock st jacobs ont onto 53 on a charge of indecent assault aoaoe 30c30c 10e30i i0e30 tjrtttt d holden sons phone 18401 stouffville twentyfour years ago the communications department of the canadian pacific railway more or less as an experiment installed a new type of tele graph pole along 31 miles of track of the algoma district in northern ontario the poles were made from the lowly jack pine long considered the com paratively useless poor relation of the canadian forest treated with creosote the first instal lation of any consequence in canada in order to provide increased clearances for new automatic block signal wires 195 of the poles in this section are to be replaced with longer poles this year but so successful was the experiment of 1923 that many of the shorter poles are to be used elsewhere on the system and not a single pole has had to be replaced since that time due to rotting in the top picture some of the poles can be seen still as good as new along a stretch of the main line west of ram sey ont with a standing jack pine snow break effective and economical on the right hand side of the track at the lower left canadian pacific officials test two of the poles to discover the penetration of creosote as forestry experts look on and the outer rings on the pole sec tions in the third picture show the 100ti penetration of the creosote land but the russians and also the j out of the russian zone and onto a communists in holland pressed the paraguaybound refugee ship dutch government with these in the midst of mine enemies questions who is letting them in where are they now staying when are we getting these our soviet citizens back only 112 of the 5000 menno passes were used the russians demanded that every one of these people be repatriated and although they held 12000 dutchmen as prisoners the dutch never let them have one of our people it was sad and horrible and gruesome these people lived in fear fear of being returned forcibly to russia or siberia let it be to everlasting credit of the little netherlands that she did not sur render one of these refugees tolls of stranded 150 mr dyck then turned to the plight of 150 other russian men- nonites stranded in berlin and living black food and supplies sent by the mennonite central committee twice weekly in dutch red cross ambu lances kept these refugees alive until the final miracle getting alfalfa hay wanted best price for good quality sample reesors marmill limited markham phone 96 thou prepares a table before me was never more dramatically illus trated mr dyck said some 10100 refugees in germany were reached through the relief commission and of these some 1000 were set with passports and pas sage on a chartered refugee ship then word came from general clay that those in berlin might not go nothing could happen in berlin without agreement of all four pow ers and russia would never never agree to letting me leave when i had to face those people and toll them they just sat there quietly and did not move if this is the will of the lord they said we will go east instead of west my wife and i wept and they said we are so sorry for you iray for miracle then they prayed for a miracle while i went on to bremerhaven general clay said he could do nothing washington not pre pared to go to war with russia saidno then a few hours be fore the ship left general clays office phoned to hold the ship that the refugees were coming after all this was not human effort this time that was not enough this time the lord opened the way god in the 20th century has wrought another miracle aftermath of the terrible days of suffering in europe is the happy resettlement of the refugees in paraguay they do not have much but they have two things faith in the providence of god and the admis sions of failings in their plea help us to be that which we want to be relief and service are not enough there must be salvation mr dyck concluded among those from canada appointed to positions on the vari ous committees were peace problems committee s f 30e30e 10c30e loeaoe lonac stouffville motors andy forson stouffville ontario ringwood ontario art staley goodwood ontario noi 10e30i 10e30x aocaox xoe3i certified dry cleaning give your garments that fresh look by letting us clean and press them right here in stouffville phone 343 stouffville ontario open tuesday saturday evenings closed wednesday at noon cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville 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