# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S674
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674. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS:

[1014]
New District for South Idaho and Utah

To be included under Section V after [520]

Wuereas, The congregations of South Idaho and Utah wish, 4

to form their own synodical District; and

Wuereas, The Northwest District in convention at Snohomish,
. Wash., June 15—18, 1948, adopted the following resolution: iif

“It was voted overwhelmingly to grant a peaceful dismissal :
to the congregations of Circuit 4 (south of Salmon River in Idaho.
and east of the Pacific Time Zone in Oregon, requesting the privi- .
lege of establishing the Utah and Idaho District of Synod, pending 4
the approval of the General Convention in 1950. Our District 4
Board of Directors and Praesidium are to render every possible.
assistance to these congregations in their action to establish this 7
new District and to work in harmony with the officials of the |
. Colorado District (to which the Utah congregations now belong)”; 3

therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; “in 4
convention assembled at Milwaukee, Wis., June 1950, grant the r

privilege of the formation of the Utah-Idaho District.

Tue Nortuwest District
Victor A. Scuuuze, Secretary

[1015]
Report of Board of Missions for the Blind

To be included under Section IV after [410]

Until the time of the Chicago Convention in 1947 the work q

of our Church among the visually handicapped was directed by
our Board for the Deaf and the Blind. Because this work was
of a very individual nature and often did not fit under the scope
of the Board for the Deaf, and needed more. individualized atten-
tion, Synod was memorialized to. divide the work and assign

the work among the. Blind to a new Board. This was dgne by #
resolution of the Chicago Convention, and a new Board, consisting #
of Pastors Martin Strasen, Arthur Oswald, and Victor Selle, all 4
of Milwaukee, and Messrs. Victor Miller, of Milwaukee, and Theo- j;

dore Lay, of New: York, was elected. To expedite the work of this

Board, Synod also authorized the calling of an Executive Secretary. |
in this Department. Since all but one of the Board members were ‘5
from the Milwatkee ‘area; Mr. Theodore Lay requested to be 4
relieved of his appoiritment, in view of the distance that he lived
from Milwaukee, and also the inconvenience this would entail ‘
in attending Board meetings. This request was granted and 4