SHORTAGE OF CLERGY
LONDON, March 2. The Bishop of Chichester (Dr. George Bell) to-day warned that the decline in the number of Church of England clergy was likely to become catastrophic. In a pastoral letter, Dr. Bell stated that the 20,000 English parish clergy in England in 1914 had been reduced to 15,000 by 1951. Assistant curates,who numbered 4554 in 1938, had fallen to 2189 in 1948.
Brothers Born on February 29. Mrs Myron Palm, wife of a Washington restaurant owner, gave birth to a boy on February 29, 1948. On Friday She had another boy. Doctors said that they estimated the chances of two Leap Year day births in one family were one in I,ooo,ooo.—Washington, March 2.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26671, 4 March 1952, Page 7
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