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• DAIVVILLE REGISTER Danviille, Virginia January 10, 1960 .: TOBACCO BUILDS CYIUSCHES WASHINGTON UA - Tobacco is helping build churches in the Bib1R Belt. . Tobacco News, publication of• the Tobacco Institute, says mem- bers of 16Tanson Methodist Church n e a r McKinney, Va., planted. tended and harvested leaf grown on donated plots, earning er.ough money to start a new church building. +Members of the Union Baptist ~hurch at Cycle, N. C., are using lie same method to finance a iew church building, the mag- izine said. NEWS Indianapolis, Indiana January 9, 1960 Lord's Acre WASHINGTON (AP) - To.. bacco is helping build churches in the Bible Belt'. Tobacco News, publication of the Tobacco Institute, says members of Manson Mcthodi+G Church near McKinney, Va., planted, tended and harvested ~ leaf grown on donated plots, .` earning enough money to start a new church building. SENTINEL Wj;nston-Sa1em, North Carolina Februa,ry 11, 1960 Tobacco Still Bif.ilds Churches The early Colonial practice of financing church buildings through levies on leaf tobacco has a mod- ern counterpart. Today, the Tobacco Institute re- ports, new buildings are being constructed and old ones repaired with profits from tobacco. In Wilkes County, -members of Union Baptist Church near Cycle worked after hours last year to raise $2,660 for an education building. And in Din- widdie County, Va., members cultivated donated land #ive years to raise money to begin a new Methodist church last September. At Croom, Md., near Washington, members of an Episcopal church use match books to tell the story of how their church was built in 1732 with money from levies on tobacco. The match covers are passed out by members. The rect'oi~ at the Croom church says plans for a modern, tobacco-growing project to finance church im- provements are now being considered. tobacco Crop Helps build New Churches WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-(AP) = " Tobacco Is helping build t?churches in the Bible Belt. Tobacco News, publication of the Tq, ~&.,:..?nstitute, says members of Manson Methodist Church near McKinney, Va., 7. planted, tended and harvested leaf grown on donated plots, ~+ earning enough money to start ~ a a new church building. Members of the Union Baptist Church at Cycle, N. C., are using the same method to & nance a new church building, the magazine said. THE NEW YORK T3MES New York, New York January 11, 1960 'TOBACCO CHURCHES' Parishioners Raise Crops to Pay 'or New Buildings Churches being built with funds from sales of home-grown tobacco •are continuing an his- toric colonial tradition, accord- ing to the Tobacco News, pub- lished by Tobacco In,itittlte, Inc. The typical church projects are under way at the Union Baptist Ciiurch at' Cycle, N. C., and the Manscn Methodist Church near McKenney, Va. At the Manson churchi tobac- co was grown for five years on small plots donated by church members. Business men, house- wives and even children planted;, tended, and harvested the crop on week-ends and in their spare time. By September, 1959, the tobacco fund- had grown suffi- ciently to start the new church which is rising near the site where there has been a Manson church since 1815. An even older "tobacco, church" i's St. Thomas Episco- pal at Croom, Md. Still in~ use today, it was constructed in 1732 with funds from a levy of tobacco leaff imposed by parish- ioners upon themselves to "con- sbrucL~ a chapel of ease."