Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

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1. 1946 The Gospel Baptist Tabernacle is organized Willie Thompson, S. E. Elmore and W. J. Johnson organized the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle and built a 250-seat church the same year, with Elmore as first pastor. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 302
2. April 3, 1956 Pastor asks the commissioners to stop Sunday jalopy races at a new track The Rev. W. I. Conway of the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle asked the county commissioners to block Sunday jalopy races at a new half-mile track just finished off the Orange Grove road, half a mile from his church, calling them a danger to his congregation. The commissioners asked the county attorney and sheriff to study legal remedies; the paper backed him in an editorial. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Odell H. Clayton The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1956, p. 1
3. May 5, 1956 Opponents of auto racing form the Orange County Anti-Racing Association About 100 people at a mass meeting at the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle on Orange Grove Road organized the association, the outgrowth of a campaign the Rev. W. I. Conway began when a jalopy race track was built near his church; the track drew an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people to its first race the next day. On May 7 Conway and the Rev. Charles E. Maddry took the matter to the county commissioners, who were told by County Attorney Paul Ransom that they could not tax, limit or ban the races without special legislation. People: Charles Edward Maddry The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1956, p. 8

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