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McNally makes a convincing argument in Universal-International's
"City Across the River. ' The victim is Joseph Turkel. while the
on-lookors are members of the "Dukes." a gang of Juvenile hood
lums Starting tomorrow at the Strnd Theatre.
BOOM DATS MAY BE NEAR
FOK TOWBSTONK. ARIZ.
TUMBSTONK. Ariz L P Boom
day: iiiav be just around the cor
ner fee Tombstone, the "town too
tough to die "
Fabulous silver and lead mines
made this community one of the
wildest settlements between El
Paso and the Pacific Coast in the
188bf
'Ufiti-e are indieaioiis the mines
in., be revived, but not the law
lessness. f wo large companies have taken
out options on the long-dormant
properties and are planning to ex
plore lor possible new mining.
Tlibv are Hie American Smelting
and Hefining Company and the
Anaconda Copper Company. A
third concern plans to heein opera
tion .shoii.
POSTMAN'S LIFE NOT HAPPV
SALEM. N. H. 'LP1 Mural let
ter carriers of southern New Hamp
shire have something new to com
bat beside the traditional rain,
sleet and snow. Carriers complain
ed that swarming hornets have
nested in the letter boxes and drive
them oil when they try to deliver
the mail They asked residents to
spray poison in their boxes.
LOYALTY PAR.1KS PROPOSE!!
SALEM. Ore 'UP' Oregon
Knights of Columbus are advocat
ing nation-wide "loyalty parades '
on tie first Sunday each May to
"offset May Day dctnoiisl rat ions ol
Communist groups " The Oregon
group, at its annual stale conven
tion lure, voted to present such',!
resolufion to the national Knights
of Columbus convention to be held
in Portland. Ore., in August.
PARK THEATRE
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COtfGAR TOO HUNG1TT
DALLAS, Ore. (UP A six-foot
mountain lion kilted a milk goat
on a farm near here. The goat was
so tasty the cougar cowldn't quit
stuffing. It ate te the point of
stupor and went to sleep. Dogs
came and the big catwas barely
able, sluggishly, to, climb a.tree.
There the farmer. Albert Cook,
kilted it with ease. He collected $60
bounty.
Bistmrn Rarity Shown
SAN DIEGO iUPi The first Nel
son bighorn ram to be born In
captivity has been put on exhibit
at the San Diego zoo. Zoo officials
said the extremely rare Nelson big
horn sheep were brought to the
zoo here in 1947 by the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife service. The parents
have been named Elmer and I'rma.
hut as yet no name has been given
the youngster.
Bishop Sneaks Out
SPRINGFIELD. Mass iUPi
William Appleton Lawrence of the
western Massachusetts Episcopal
Diocese figured out his church
members contribute less than three
cents weekly to religious services.
TrouWe is. the bishop said, "many
are unconvinced Christians luke
warm, half-hearted with a com
pletely casual ami irresponsible at
tilude towards the obligations they
have assumed."
SLOGAN MADE GOOD
MEMPHIS, Tenn. i U P i A dump
truck with the slogan "we move
the earth" printed on its side
caused a small earth tremor when
it crashed into a concrete mixer
and !),000 ixiunds of concrete Oozed
into the street.
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I Airplanes Into Furniture
Revises Biblical Saying
HUTCHINSON. Kan IT' The
old saying aboiu beatum swords
into plowshare has been modern
ized. i When the war ended, the Cessna
Aircraft Company converted its
Hutchinson plant to the manufac
ture of "prairie modern" fuiniiLire
Now "prairie modern" is on sale
in the major stores across the
country. Cessna . 'akes furni
ture with precision m.'st ruction
Each piece is finished and assem
bled, engineered for stahilit and
with a baked finish impervious to
boiling water, stains and fingernail
polish.
Bees Lay Siege
WINTHHOP. Mass. 'LP' A
swarm of 23.000 bees threw an iron
eurtain in front of Joseph J. Mac
key's house, the bees settle in a
front yard tree and forced the;
Mackey family to use the rear en
trance until a beekeeper captured
the swarm.
Ptag Pulled
WEST GLOC ESTER. R. I. 'CP1
John Fagan. caretaker of Casi
mir Pulaski Memorial Forest, re
ported to work to find the 30-acre
Peck's Pond had disappeared. In
vestigation revealed someone had
pulled the plug by sawing oil' a
padlocked chain on a dam valve
and let the water run out.
Meharil Is Scientific
SAN DIEGO iUPi Young Pilch
ard Szakacs has designed a soap
box racer of revolutionary shape
and is building the car to enter in
the 1949 soap box derby. Richard
has eontructed a miniature wind
tunnel to try out different design
j to lest wind resistance and now
1 has completed his plans and smil
ed construction of the racer ilsell
EMERGENCY MET
MEMPHIS, Tenn. LTi The'
bride and bridegroom showed up
in plenty of time but the maid of
honor was in fears. She had a run '
in a stocking. A guest quickly
slipped off her stockings ,md do
nated them.
BUND ST I'DENT TUH MPIIS
HANOVER. N. II 'L P' - Edward
L. Glaser. a 19-yoat '-old blind
soirtiomore at Dartmouth College,
won a top analytical geometry and
calculus prize. Aided by his "phe
nomenal memory." his professors
said the Glcncoo, III., youth look
the prize in compel it ion with nor
mal students. Glaser told a proctor
what to write after questions were
read to him.
SCOn'S SCRAP BOOK
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MATINEE DAILY AT 3 P. M.
Box Office Opens at 2:30
LAST TIMES TODAY
'THE PRIDE of the YANKEES'
With Gary Cooper :-: Teresa Wrlpht
TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY, July 12 - 13
Shock-Drama of Today's Wayward Youth!
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A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
ADDED rtJN: Color Cartoon "Jake Box Jamboree"
PLUS ; La tec World Eet'
THE WAYNESVTLLE
Hospital Group Begins
Conferences At Lake
At Conference
BISHOP W. T. W ATKINS is
taking a leading role at Lake
Junaluska. in the current pro-
gra ms.
Education Goes Fishy
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NORMAN. Okla Students at
' the Cniversity of Oklahoma will
pet college credits for going fish
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A course in techniques and meth
ods in fishery biology will be given
Ibis summer by the university on
Lake Texoma in southeastern Okla
homa. Students will live on a barge 60
feet long and 20 feet wide and will
spend most of their time fishing.
MICE GET TOASTED
GREAT LAKES, III. 'L'Pi
, (nidi. J. B. Stanard. Jr.. fiscal con
trol officer at the naval training
center here, wondered why his
electric toaster wouldn't work.
When he took it apart, he found
a mother mouse and three baby
mice inside, all dead.
TO DIE FOR SCIENCE
CHICAGO 'CPi The current
issue of the Journal of the Ameri
can Veterinary Medical Association
reports that 5.000 cattle must be
slaughtered to obtain 1,000.000
doses of foot-and-mouth disease
vaccine being manufactured in
Mexico.
first Hying time between Miami
and Buenos Aires was 11 days. To-
day it is less than 22 hours.
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MOUNTAINEER
The annual meeting of the Board
of Hospitals and Homes ol the
Southeastern Jurisdiction of the
Methodist church, has brought to
Lake Junaluska Assembly out
standing .leaders who are connect
ed in a supervisory or administra
tive capacity with the thirty insti
tutions located in nine southern
states which comprise part ol the
nation-wide system of hospitals
and homes for the aged and ior
children. In addition, practically
a unanimous attendance of the
membership of the Southeastern
Board of Hospitals an dHome is
present to attend the annual meet
ing of the board, scheduled for
four o'eloek Tuesday afternoon,
under the presidency of Judge Mar
cus C. Redwine, of Winchester, Ky.
Judge Redwine convened the
body at 10 o'clock this morning.
Devotions were conducted by the
Rev. Walter A. Smith, of Greene
ville. Tenn., Superintendent of the
Holston Orphanage at that place.
Bishop Watkins will preside over
the first public meeting tonight,
while Rev. J. A. Smith, administra
tor, Superanuate Homes. Macon.
Ga., will give the devotions and ad
dresses will be made, by Dr. W. F.
Quillian, of Atlanta, head of the
Southeastern Jurisdictional Coun
cil and Dr. John G. Benson, admin
istrator of the Methodist Hospital
at Indinapolis.
There are ten Methodist owned
and operated hospitals in the juris
diction with a bed capacity of 2.-
I 28 1 . employing a full lime person-
! nel of 3,025 and giving an esti
mated free patient service of
$921,832. The apprased value ol
the hospitals, according to .lodge
Redwine. is $18,085,708.
The members are: I he Rev.
! Rufus Wicker. Atlanta.. Ga.: the
: Rev. T. C. Prewilt. icksburg.
1 Miss.; the Rev. Faustino (.'anion.
I Havana Cuba; the Rev. W. C.
! Franks, Campbellsville. Ky.
j The Rev. L. E. Ledbetter. Waller-
boro. S. C; the Rev. A. S. Tnilock.
Macon, Ga.: the Rev. Dean Stroud,
Nashville. Tennessee.
The Rev. T. M. Swann. Staunton.
Va ; Mrs. E. L. Hillman. Wilming
ton; E. L. Malone, Pensacola. l-'la.:
George H. Smith. Knoxville. Tenn.;
Mrs. Homer Talum. Memphis.
Tenn.
C. N. Carraway. Birmingham,
Ala.; Miss Ethel Harps! , Cedartown,
Georgia; E. A. Tanner. Indianola.
Mississippi; Mrs. Ned Camp, South
Carolina; Robert T. Amos. High
Point.
In addition to Judge Redwine.
presiding officers include: Bishop
William T. Watkins. Louisville.
tary!
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T-SHIRTS
NCPA President
1 hlUMttint'K J
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R. E. PRICE i above!, editor
and publisher of the Rutherford
County News, is the new presi
dent of the North Carolina Press
Association. He was elected at
the recent meeting in Nags Head.
He has long been a church and
civic leader in Rutherfordton.
Mule Loses Job
SOMERVILLE. Tenn. iU.P.1 A
farmer who has been operating an
old-fashioned sorghum mill decid
ed it was cheaper to buy tractor
oil than oats. So he hooked his
shiny, green tractor to replace the
mule on the end of the long pole
which made the mill go around.
Dry Reception
CHICAGO (U.P.i Henry Kurlh
looked forward happily to the wed
ding of his daughter. Marilyn, 20.
and began to save whiskey for the
reception. A month before the
wedding burglars broke into
Kuith's home and took the whis
key, valued at $200. They also took
$25 of his savings.
Loafing Made Easy
WAVERLY. Tenn. (UP) "Sons
of rest" have things nice at the
county court house. There is a
concrete bench all around the
court house grounds. At intervals
there also are flat-topped posts
with a checkerboard painted on
each.
Ky.; Dr. Wicker, Dr. Prewitt and
Dr. A. L. Gunter, Sumter, S. C.
InliiDriry!
TO BALENTINES BIG
Slashed!
Forgotten!
Yes, we've decided to quit! We're get
ting out of the business . . . and this is
a bona-fide GOING OUT OF BUSI
NESS SALE! Everything in the store
is now on sale . . . we're holding noth
ing back.
Hurry in today and select the things
you need. You won't find bargains
like these anywhere else in town.
Most Of
Our Stock
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Sunday
Junaluska Audience Told TiT
'World AdyanJ
oiiemmcaiiv Tk
Spiritually,' j0J
The Rev. Dr. G. Ray j1(U
outstanding mnmter and educji,,,
who holds a chair at Emory l
versity school of religion w,
Sunday morning preat lu-r ;,i .,.
Junaluska Assembly. spe.ikinM llu
the platform of the outdoor au,'","
orium.
Declaring that both uu. ,
of history and the life i,t cj,,., ,
shed enough light to ei,;,ni,. ,','la
to avoid disasters that Uu,.
civilization. I Jr. .Ionian
(hat western civilization,
traveler so fiir .Micnliln.il
materially thai "our soul i,
caught up with us" Hi.
topic was "Light Emni'.'h
based his thesis on tin- s,
from John 8:12. "I am Uu 1
the World."
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"There is light enough -lu-d In
the records of the pasi." .;,u nu.
speaner. ior us lo s(l. v.i:,
In
avoid and where to walk in ih,.
present. When we haw a cliancc
to choose the higher value in
character or in statesman - h i j ai:d
we choose the lower, we u-r m,
er and may lose life PhIi 'n,n
a tested truth.
"We are often confused almni
the meaning of life: but I lici t- i
light enough to see that n ti,j.
principal is true there must h,
Person lo give it the ent'nn i m ; i
of reality. God is more than v.
(eur
think, but any man who Hunks
uf
l
long enough can see the evil in the
world is too great for an :n:n: to
handle alone. God is not a luxury
but a necessity. When we venture
forth in industrial, social and polit
ical relationships, to act like vm
thought the God of Christ were ;i
reality, we become convinced tln-i,.
is a supporting Power to ma ke
right triumph.
DOCTOR HOOKED
EVERETT. Mass. 'CP' L sually
it's the patient who pays the doc
tor but not always. A local phy
sician treated a palienl who ul
fered a $10 check in payment fur
a S3 fee. The doctor gavi- I he pat:
ent S7 cash in return The doctor
later discovered it had cosl lum
$1 a stitch to remove seven st itches
from the patient's arm. The check
was no good.
All the planes ordered this year
by the armed forces represent li
than two weeks' output of I he air
craft industry at peak war capa
city. i f fWrnii it -
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