1949
GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI
13
groups into Lodges is extended to Right Worshipful Brother Cecil R. Bruce, District Deputy Grand Master of the Sixteenth Administrative District. Approved petition for dispensation to group of Brethren to form Lilbourn Lodge U. D. and also approved petition to group of Brethren to form \Vardell Lodge U. D. My sincere thanks for the work involved in forming these two Lodges goes to Right Worshipful Brother J. C. Montgomery, District Deputy Grand Master of the Nineteenth Administrative District. HEALING Due to lack of knowledge of our laws on the part of Roosevelt Lodge, Gary, Indiana, and of F. C. Brother John Yonko Buha, I declared John Y onko Buha a Master Mason and a member of Pomegranate Lodge No. 95 in good standing under date of September 10, 1949. DECISIONS DECISION No.1 Re--Traffic Safety Program Centralia Lodge No. 59: "I therefore rule and advise that the members of Centralia Lodge No. 59, as individuals, be encouraged to participate in this Traffic Safety Program, but not as a Masonic Lodge." DECISION No.2 Re--Woodlawn Public Foundation, Inc., 51l-10th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.: "I therefore rule that the members of Troy Lodge No. 34 as individuals may, if they so desire, participate in this patriotic enterprise, but not as a Masonic Lodge. ,. DECISION No. 3 Sec. 45-Election of Officers: , 'I therefore rule that all elective officers must, under the above mentioned section, be elected by secret paper ballot, and that the election on December 2, 1948, of the Treasurer and Secretary of Portageville Lodge No. 166 A. F. & A. M., by acclamation is void." DECISION No.4 To. Ex. Sec 'y., M. S. A.: , 'The Grand Lodge of Missouri does not sanction a written Ritual and therefore it will be necessary for you to make your survey without the aid of any Missouri Master Mason." DECISION No. 5 Brookfield Lodge No. 86: See. 219. "If a Brother gets a permit to sell package liquor, can a lodge suspend him T" Answer-" A lodge can~ot suspend him or expel him without a Masonic Trial."