minutes and then the code began coming through again. . . two of us, missionaries. Plane crashed. Buddy wounded badly, need immediate help. Posi tion uncertain . . . fork of rivers Tigre and Ucayali in Peru. I re peat — position somewhere. . . Tom sat electrified and yet his mind was working quickly. The static cut in so badly that it was impossible for him to receive the message over again. He reached for his ham directory and looked up the call letters of an operator in Iquitos, Peru. “ . . . OA4CI — calling 0A4CI, come in 0A4CI. . . .” He repeated the call over and over but there was no reply. Final ly he tried something else. CQ — OA would simply mean “ calling Pen P a ls Benjamin O. Bernard, House 143/12, Old Market St., Ninnebah, Ghana; 14; collects post cards and magazines. Violet Ann Bristol, 6113 N. Rosemead Blvd., Temple City, Calif.; 10; singing, playing games, writing letters, Girl Scouts. Would like to correspond with person in South America, Hawaii or New York. Lorraine Bynum, Box 85, Scio, Ore.; 1114; cooking, sewing, reading, writing, stamp collecting. Helen Harrison, Rt. 5, Box 516, Everett, Wash.; 13; sewing, cooking, skating, working in the library. Linda Harrison, Rt. 5, Box 516, Everett, Wash.; 9; horseback riding, skating, play ing piano. Blue Birds. Linda Iseley, 8810 Boydton St., Rosemead, Calif.; 10; swimming, reading, working with little children. Larry Oates, 857 Rebecca Lane, Decatur, Ga.; 11; camping, swimming, baseball and bike riding. Bill Wiest, Dalmatia, Pa.; football, bas ketball, roller skating and music. Any boys and girls interested in joining our pen pal club write Pen Pal Editor, The King's Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17, Calif. Include age and interests. — ED. anyone in Peru.” After perhaps 25 minutes he received an answer. Someone in Lima had picked up his call. Patiently he tapped out the message and asked the operator to contact the government officials immediately. Within an hour Tom received word that helicopters had been dis patched to try to locate the missing plane. But it was in the early morn ing hours before the same operator
THEOLD STORY for the NEW AFRICAN FROM CAPETOWN TO DURBAN
Help save the new African — the great grandchildren of the Africans o f Living stone’s day. They are civilized Africans. They live in cities instead o f mud-hut villages. They work in factories and mines. They wear European clothes. But millions o f them have souls as pagan, hearts as dark as those o f their primitive forefathers. There is a greater need for God’s Word in Africa today than ever before. FROM CAPETOWN TO DURBAN on Africa’s Southeast coast the Pocket Testa ment League is now conducting a mass evangelization and Scripture distribu tion campaign among African urbanites. Your prayer support for the teams as they evangelize the cities from Capetown to Durban, South Africa, is urgently needed. Alfred A. Kunz. International Director The Pocket Testament/ League i 4 9 H O N E C K ST., ENGLEWOOD, N. J. * *
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