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...legislate the immediate elimination of the Central Jurisdiction," said the report, "would be harmful to the church and especially disastrous to Negro Methodists." Attorney Charles C. Parlin, a vice president of the National Council of Churches, who headed the commission, believes that integration now would turn Methodist Negroes into "a hopeless minority." But he added: "Eventually, the Central Jurisdiction is doomed. It will go one way or another. It's the trend of the times...
Looking ahead, many a company saw a race to keep up with expanding markets. Commonwealth Edison Co. announced a five-year $600 million construction program. Hercules Powder planned a $10 million plant at Parlin, N.J., to be completed next year, for production of a new type of polyethylene; this will be the company's first move into plastics production. But money for expansion was getting more expensive. For the second time in three months, Manhattan's big banks boosted interest rates on prime business loans, from 3¼% to 3½%, the highest rate in 25 years...
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...Tribal God. But when Dr. Tittle's Committee on State of the Church tried to have this pacifist declaration reaffirmed last week, 17 of the 74 committee members balked. Led by a layman and World War I veteran, Lawyer Charles C. Parlin, of Englewood, N.J., the dissidents drew up a minority report, placing the Church squarely behind the war, took their report to the Conference floor for a showdown...
Minority Leader Parlin called the majority report "a direct statement of pacifism," declared it "offers to our brothers in China no message except to lay down their arms and surrender to Japan...