News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. August 9, 1965 [XXXIV-19]
ARMED FORCES ASSISTANT NAMED
Presiding Bishop Hines has named Commander Cyril Best, Chaplains Corps, U.S. Navy, to the post of executive assistant to the Suffragan Bishop for the Church's ministry to the Armed Forces.
After 23 years of service in the United States Navy, Chaplain Best will assume his new position Sept. 1. He has been stationed at the Naval Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan.
Before joining the Navy in 1942, Chaplain Best was curate of Grace Church, New Orleans, and curate of All Saints' Church, Atlanta, Ga. He was educated at the University of the South and St. Luke's Seminary, Sewanee, Tenn.
CANADIAN FIRM TO HANDLE SEABURY BOOKS
The Seabury Press has contracted with the G. R. Welch Co., Ltd. of Toronto to be their Canadian distributors for all publications.
In an agreement effective July 1, Welch, who sell direct to general and religious bookstores, department stores, public libraries, and educational institutions in Canada, will handle the sale of Seabury adult trade and children's books as well as church school curriculum, and other Christian education short discount publications.
The Harper and Row religious sales force sells the Seabury Press line to the trade throughout the United States.