A Baptist clergyman in this town has completed a one-man campaign among his co-religionists for contributions for the Hebrew Union College and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Rev. J. Harold Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who undertook the collection as a gesture of good will and to further understanding among religious groups, presented a check to Rabbi M. F. Mann of the United Hebrew Congregations, for transmission.
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