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
<o n City, at the Community Build- 1
ing to discuss road problems with '
any one who wishes to attend.
Mr. Thrash is anxious for all
County Commissioners in each of
the six eounities in this district to
attend.
District Health Department
To Get $17,374 From State
The State Board of Health hast
adopted a plan for the alloeation
of the $800,000 in new money pro
vided by 'the Legislature, each
year of the coming biennium. for
the improvement of local health
work in the State.
| The North Carolina State Board
of Health is allocating funds for
J tiie fiscal year beginning Ju'y 1.
on the following basis:
1 To each county, regardless as
to whether it is a part of a dis
trict health department or has a
separate county health department.
?he State Board of Health will
allocate $3,000 per annum. In
counties where there are separate
city health departments $1,000 of
the county's allocation will be
given to the city health depart
ment.
2. To each county and to each
| city unit the sum of $250 per
annum for a 10 weeks Oral Hy
giene Program or $500 per annum
| for a 20 weeks Oral Hygiene Pro
I gram.
3 The remaining available State
Funds as follows:
(a> To each health depart
ment 40-cents per pupil based on
Average Daily Membership for
the year 1946-47.
<b> $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 <by these findings.
Mr Spaugh says he talked with
the Rev. Sibbald Smith who lives
at the Cherokee Indian reserva
tion, and heard the following story:
? Continued on pare 8)
Rev. W. E. Hall
To Be Installed
As New Pastor
ANDREWS ? The Rev. William
E 11 ill will be installed as pastor
oi St. Andrews' Lutheran Church,
A win at the 11 o'clock sen-ice
on Sunday July 24. Officiating
at the service will be Dr. !? L.
Conrad. President ol' the United
Evargeliial Lutheran Synod of
North Carolina, assisted by Dr.
John Hall, father of the pastor.
Dr. Conrad assumed the duties
of the presidency of Synod with
headquarters in Salisbury. Dt.
Hall ha* resided at Newton since
his retirement as Chaplain in the
United States Army.
Special music will be rendered
by the choir under the direction
of Miss Margaret Fisher. A num
ber of out-of-town guests and local
visitors are expected, and the pub
lic is invited to attend.
Pastor Hall began his work in
Andrews on June 8. having just
been graduated from the Lutheran
Theological Seminary in Philadel
phia. Prior to that time he serv
ed two years with the United
States Navy He has accepted the
call to St. Andrews Lutheran
Church for a period of at least
three years.
Superintendents
Meet August 17-19
At Mars Hill
MARS H1L.. ? 'i\ie annual con
ference of public school superin
tendents for North Carolina will
be held August 17-19 at Mars Hill
College
The three-day conference will
open Wednesday evening with a
general meeting at which Dr.
Clyde H. Erwin will preside, fol
lowed by a reception in the par
lor of Huffman dormitory. The
program as announced by J. E.
Miller, assistant in the division of
Instructional Service. Raleigh, will
include group discussions on the
following subjects: "The Super
intendent's Role in Developing In
Service Education." "The Super
intendent's Role in Coordinating
Community and Lay Leadership
for a Better Community School."
"The Superintendent's Role in
Evaluating and Surveying His
\dministrative Unit." "The Super
intendent's Role in the Selection
and Utilization of Instructional
Materials." "The Superintendent's
Role in Securing and Maintaining
an Adequate Supply of Properly
Qualified Classroom Teachers."
State, county, and city school
administrators and other educa
tional leaders will participate in
the conference. A varied recrea
tional program is being arranged
for the families and guests of
those attending the conference,
including swimming and other
sports, parties, nature study, and
mountain trips. According to Miss
Frances Snelson. who is in charge
of local arrangements. 184 have
registered for the conference al
ready.
Theft Bureau
Recovers 44 Cars
The Theft Bureau of the North
Carolina Department of Motor Ve
hicles assisted in the recovery of
44 stolen automobiles during
June and launched investigations
into the theft of 39 more, the
Department announced today.
In addition the bureau collected
$51,635 93 in penalties and addi
tional license fees for trucks
caught overloaded. Of this amount
$11.932 39 was taken in for addi
tional license fees and $9,498 in
penalties for privately-owned ve
hicles. Additional fees on com
mercial vehicles amounted to
$18,22501 and penalties were
$111,979.63 Total penalties were
$21, 477.63.