# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1310
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834 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

production of the telecasts, including a catalog of visual and me.
chanical aids.

4. Build up an extensive library of religious radio Scripts
transcriptions, and recordings for service in the field by pastors,
teachers, and others. ,

5. Promote the establishment of more radio stations like KFuo
in the United States and develop them into a Lutheran network
and also establish radio stations in other countries.

6. Obtain more free time for our Synod on the radio networks,

7. Conduct annual radio and _ television conferences and
workshops.

All this work has been approved for action by the First and
Second Lutheran Radio and Television Conferences, which were
held in 1948 and 1949 in St. Louis under the auspices of the Synod-
ical Radio Committee.

The Synodical Radio Committee herewith also submits a tenta-
tive budget for the office of Synodical Radio Director:

Salary of Director ($400) and synodical Pension payment _$ 4,992
Salary of Secretary ($150) and synodical Pension payment 1,908

Office expense, telephone, telegraph, Postage, printing __.. 700
Traveling and sundries 20! 2,400
Total in 1951 20 ._—--..----.- $10,000

This figure is to be increased in 1952 to $12,500 and in 1953 to
$15,000 because of the development of the work.

1951 $10,000
1952 __.

1953

Total for three years

For the same reason the sum of $5,000 which the Synodical
Radio Committee is asking for in its report to Synod (see Memo-
rial 1006) ought to be increased in 1952 to $6,500, and to $8,000
in 1953. The total budget, therefore, for each of the three years,
would be

4951 a $15,000
1952 _. arnt tenet eee ee 19,000
1953 88000

Total for three years $57,000

We, of course, also endorse Memorial 531, to change the name
of the Synodical Radio Committee to: The Synodical Radio and
Television Committee.

In the name of the Synodical Radio Committee,
Georce V. Scuicx, Secretary

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 835

ACTION
Regarding these memorials, Committee 14 submitted the fol-

2fowing resolutions, which were adopted:

~ Resolution 2

I
Wuereas, God has blessed the work of Synod’s Radio Com-

“mittee in its ever-increasing scope of activity, as evidenced espe-
~¢ially in the two Lutheran Radio and Television Conferences; be
“jt therefore

Resolved, That Synod gratefully recognize and endorse the

recent work of this committee and encourage it to continue and
-expand its efforts in this important work; and be it further

Resolved, That Synod appropriate the sum of $5,000 in 1951;

-$6,500 in 1952; and $8,000 in 1953 for this committee, subject to

the approval of the Fiscal Conference; and

Ir

Wuereas, The need of a full-time Director of Radio and Tele-
vision is becoming more and more apparent; therefore be it

Resolved, That the office of Director of Radio and Television
be created, with duties as outlined by the Synodical Radio Com-
mittee, as printed in the above overture; and be it further

Resolved, That Synod appropriate $37,500 during the next
triennium for this office according to the scale suggested by the
Synodical Radio Committee, subject to the approval of the Fiscal
Conference.

Report of the Synodical Centennial Committee .
(Memorial 1008) .

Under instructions of the 1944 and 1947 conventions the synodi-
cal Centennial Committee has arranged and supervised publication
of the following works: A Century of Grace, a history of Synod by
Prof. W. A. Baepler; My Church, a history of Synod for young
people by Dr. H. O. A. Keinath; The Devotional Bible, Volumes
I and I, meditations on the Four Gospels for family use by Pastor
A. Doerffler, Drs. M. F. Kretzmann and Th. Hoyer, and the Rev.
H. W. Gockel; The Abiding Word, Volumes I and II, a collection of
doctrinal essays delivered to the 1945 and 1946 District conventions
on subjects suggested by the Committee, edited by Dr. Th. Laetsch;
a translation of Dr. Francis Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics, Vol-
ume I; homiletical materials for Synod’s centennial by Dr. R. C.
Neitzel; The Missouri Synod Schools at the Threshold of the
Second Century, an essay for teachers’ conferences by Mr. A. H.