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...delegates met with John Paul in an ornate sitting room at the home of James Holderman, president of the University of South Carolina. For more than an hour the leaders discussed what one observer called the "expansion of spiritual commitment and their common grounds of baptism, the Lord's Prayer, the divinity of Christ and common communion." Bishop Philip Cousin of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and also president of the National Council of Churches, told John Paul that a "sense of religious strength" among Americans offered the possibility of unique advances in ecumenism. For his part, the Pope replied...
...Jerry Holderman...
Died. Carl Holderman, 65, longtime (1918-54) New Jersey union organizer, once described as "the movie idea of a genial Texas oilman"; of a heart attack; in Newark. Holderman was an early C.I.O. organizer, later headed the New Jersey C.I.O., was appointed state commissioner of labor and industry in 1954 by Governor Robert B. Meyner, cleaned house at the scandal-ridden labor department...
...year U.S. farmers seeded 90% of their corn acreage with hybrid corn, got a total yield of 3.4 billion bu.-750 million bu. higher than they could have produced with regular corn. The wonders of hybrid corn are still surprising the scientists. For example, last year Illinois Farmer James Holderman decided to try a new type of hybrid corn, even though the experts warned him it was not suitable for his land. He doubled the amount of fertilizer, planted the rows closer together, and his yield jumped to 175 bu. an acre, compared to an average 70 bu. The corn...
...Allaire Crozer du Pont stayed up 5 min., won her "C" (soaring) license. Few days later she went up again, stayed more than 5 hr.. would have set a women's record had she carried a barograph. Official credit for a record went to Mrs. Dorothy Currier Holderman of Leroy. N. Y., who soared 4 hr. 28 min. and had a barograph to prove...