# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S730
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

730 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

Families chosen out of this tremendous number, upon the;
free agreement, were assigned to each of our 530 assurances

country during April, May, and June of 1952.
These 259 families were assigned to sponsors in 32 States.

experienced serious difficulty.

The Board of Directors of Synod had appropriated the sum
of $30,600 for this work. However, by March 1, 1953, only $16,943.87
of this sum had been used. It is estimated that, in the final analysis,
it will have cost us less than $18.00 per person to resettle these
people. This is approximately one quarter of the per-capita amount
spent by other agencies operating in the same field.

a very considerable portion are ‘Lutherans,
Considerable effort was made by interested organizations and