Local Churches Start DP Drive

Eight Protestant congregations is the Square area will be asked Sunday to help Protestant displaced persons coming to Cambridge, as the first step in DP drive by the Harvard Square Council of Churches.

The Catholic and Jewish Churches already have nationwide organizations working on the problem, but Protestants have been slow getting started Rev. Gardner Day, president of the Council declared last night in announcing the program. "It's getting so I'll feel it's a handicap to be a Protestant Day added.

The Council is trying to get each individual parishioner to "sponsor" a DP. The sponsors' main job will be to find jobs and houses which, according to law, DP's must have waiting for the before they can leave their homclam for the United States.