moral strength All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong: he who doubts is weak. ? Clarke. Hwitt KEEP YOUR TOWN CLEAN Be a good citizen and help keep >our town clean. Do not throw any trash, paper or rubbish on the streets or others property. Also, beautify with flowers, shrubs, and VOLUME 60 ? NUMBER 1 MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDA1 it LY .1 1MI Three crack North Carolina school bands will represent Lions o!' the State at the International Lions Convention in New York City. July 17 to 21. Accompanied by hundreds of members from the 175 c!ub> of the state, they will appear in the parade and other features of the convention. The band shown at top is Boyden High School. Salisbury, directed by R. E. Southwick. Center is the Mooresville School Band. Mooresville, di voc-ted by R. O. Klepfer while the bottom , is the Cannon School Band, of Kannapolis. The bands will be under the general supervision of international Counsellor. James A. Glover. , of Nashville, who will act a> co-ordinator of the bands activities while in N. Y. Saturday Service Planned At Tent Revival In Murphy L And M Drivers Renew Licenses In This Period Drivers' License Examiner R. W. Rector announces that he is now giving examinations to motor I vehicle operators whose last names j begin with the letters L and M. for new drivers' licenses. He urges people in this category to get their licenses now before the last minute rush at the end of the year. He says. We are not able to take care of all the last group because so many of them Put it off until the last few days. If you wait until the last day we j will have the same crowded condi- J tions. If you can't read or write, we especially urge you to come in now while we can take the time to read the questions to you and help you. If you wait until the last days of the year we "will not be t able to take as much time as wej would like with you." Mr. Rector is in Murphy every | Monday and Tuesday. BOXSCORE ON N.C.HI GHWAYS Killed July 16 through July IS Injured July 16 through July 18 96 Killed to Date Killed to Date In 1948 352 Injured to Date ?,?6# '?lured to Date In l?48 i V* ^ Dr. J. C. Canipe. secretary of Evangelism of the Baptist State Convention, has only five more sermons to preach at the tent re vival that is being sponsored in Murphy by the Western North Carolina Baptist Association. For these services he lias announced the following sermon topics. I Thursday evening. "The Christian I Home"; Friday evening. "Nothing I But the Blood Saturday morning. | "Freedom": Saturday evening, j "Life's Greates: Choice"; an>i I Sunday evening. "Jesus Saves", j The only day services of the revival have been at 10 o'clock Saturday mornin > The minister urges a large attendance at the Saturday morning service this week. Last Saturday some places I of business closed during the hour, allowing employees to attend. Q. L. Frye of Hickory is leading the singing, and Miss Moselle Moore is pianist The choir is composed of singers from various churches. Ministers of participat ing churches have presided at the services. Sunday morning at 1 1 o'clock D?\ Canipe will preach at First Baptist Church in Murphy. There will be no evening preaching ser vice at the church, but members I will attend the closing service of the tent revival. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davidson. 1 Jr., and daughter. Diane, return ed to their home in Chicago < Saturday, after a two weeks' visit I here with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. i Davidson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil S. Raper and J son, David, of Elizabeth City, i i were guests otf Miss Addie Mae 1 Cooke a few days tlhis week. Rev. C. M, Shuler To Preach Sunday Church school at First Metho dist Church will be held at 9:45 op. Sunday mornin i. At the 11 o'clock hour the Rev. Claude M. Shuler. divinity student in Candler School of Theology. Emory Uni versity. Atlanta. Ga.. will preach, since the pastor, the Rev. W. B Penny, will be out of town Mr. Shuler is a native of Holly Hill. ; S. C . and this summer is assisting the Rev. Alfred Smith in the work ol Murphy Circuit. The Methodist Youth Fellowship will have a snack supper at 7 o' clock on Sunday evening. This will be followed by the regular evening worship service for youth. There will be no regular service at 8 o'clock, announces the pastor. Mr. Fenny says that the service uill not be held in order that the numbers of the church may attend the Ba>ptist associational-wide re- , vival which is being held in the j tent next to First Baptist Church. Notla Farm's Mollyanna Leads Milk Production For Month Of June Notla Farm's Mollyanna Lady. 1 1 a registered Guernsey belonging to Randolph Shields, led the Chero- j kee Clay Dairy Herd Inspection j Association in milk production and was second in fat production this past month. Her record was 1, 380 pounds of milk and 55.2 pounds of fat. Franklin Smith's Dimple's Beauty [>f Rose Wood Farm produced 62.7 pounds of fat and 1,335 pounds of ; milk for first place in fat and second place in milk production. Monroe Wilson had the highest ? average production of milk per cow i and the second highest fat produc tion per cow with 807 pounds of : (Continued on pare 4) To Discuss Road Problems With Interested Citizens On Tuesday July 26. 10 A. M Dale Thrash. State Highway Com- j mi??ioner; Z. V. Stewart. Division , Engineer; and W. M Corkill. Asst. , Division Engineer will be in Bry To each health depart ment 40-cents per pupil based on Average Daily Membership for the year 1946-47. $175,000 for Veneral Dis ease to be distributed by formula I as at present. ? c> A per capita amount of 8- j cents distributed according to the 1940 census population. The Cherokee - Clay - Graham Health Department will receive a total of $17,374 according to the allocation, for which the follow i ins? amounts have been computed: | School health. $2,838: veneral disease. $2 506; $3,000 per county. SO. 000; dental program. $500: and He per capita. $2,530. 4 The State Board of Health holds firmly to the conviction that the increase in the State appropria tion for local health work was for the sole purpose of improving and increasing the health service t?? the people of the State. The Board is therefore of the opinion that any decrease in the amount of local funds below the amount ap propriated for the current fiscal year would require the Board to decrease the allocation of State and also Federal Funds in an amount equal to the decrease in local funds Mt'ST KEEP FAITII In other words, these alloca tions are intended to supplement and not to take the place of local funds. In order to secure the ap propriation making these funds possible, t he State Board of Health pledged the Legislature an expand ed and accelerated local Public Health program in North Carolina, including additional expenditures (Continued on pane 4) INSTALLS SOX? Dr. John Hall I retired minister of Newton, who will have part in the services in- ! stalling his son. the Rev. W. E Hall, as pastor of Andrews Luther an Church Sunday. SPEAKS SUNDAY? Dr. F. L , Conrad, president of the Unitei Evangelical Lutheran Synod t?l North Carolina. .iio will assist in installing the Rev. \V. E. Hall a^ pastor of the Lutheran Church in Andrews Sundav Bishop Henry To Speak Sunday Bishop M. George Henry of the Diocese of Western North Carolina will speak in the Episcopal Church of the Messiah here and celebrate the Holy Communion at 11 o' clock Sunday morning. At 4 p. m . he will be at Will Scott Chapel Bishop Henry also will speak in the Presbyterian Church at An drews Sunday The service will begin at 8 p m. Mr. and Mi's Glenn Crisp re turned Wednesday to their home in Akron. Ohio, after a visit with Mrs. Crisp's father. W. H. Sud derth at Peachtree Ancient Tools Found In Old Spanish Mine RELICS OF SPANISH MINE? Shown above is T. W. Spaugh ol Marble, Route I, and some items that he recently found in an old Spanish mine near Tomotla Pictured are an ax made from hematite ron on a white oak handle, a frow( a stave bender, and some small l?ieces of iron used on some kind of tool. Mr. Spaugh believes that these are the first such tool? made in America. I Discoveries made at an old | Spanish mine on Turkey Toe ' Ridge near Tomotla have given T. \Y . Spaugh. who has been drilling . for gold and silver there since ! 1946. the hope that he has almost reached the gold and silver that ; was left by the Spandiards in 1567 In 1941 Mr. Spaugh. whose home is on Route 2. Winston-Salem ! and who is now living at the site j of his work, heard about the \ Spanish mining works on Turk<*y Toe Ridge and that the Spandiards had left hidden there all the ore they had mined He heard that it was enough to make ten men rich. In 1946 he seci ed a lease from H E. Dickey of Murphy and sar.k a shaft near one of the old Spanish shafts, to a depth of 127 feet. He found rock of the color and appearance of a cow's hoof. This carried some gold, silver and platinum. Encouraged