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settled. In the future,
the church will send it's members quarterly financial
statements, and there will be a year-end review of the
church's records.HIM AFTER CROWD
Speaking to those who voted for the audit, the minister
says: "Lets work together and end our difficultiess"J it '
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The reverend Homer Ritchie, pastor of Ft Worth's First
Baptist Church, has b en given another vote of confi-
dence, and apparently, the conflict within the church
is just about over. Six members who went to court, in
an effort to have the church's books examined, have
since been expelled, and the suit has been dismissed.
The reverend Mister Ritchie asks the congregation if
an audit isin needed, and about 70 members say yes.
But the overwhelming majority votes against an audit,
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Ritchie], item, September 15, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc982242/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.