Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-09-14

eAAS PdPSAS dtC uoi1yp NOV. SoAo-
finch says a weeks supply will
hardly compare with the numb
er of pages in one issue of a
weekly newspaper in this sec
ton.
This capital city, the size of
Columbia, S. c., has no running
water. Business streets are paw
ed but suburban areas have no
streets at all. Many instances
bitches many feet deep, caused
by erosion, run where streets
should be.
Very Few Roads
The entire country of Para
quay has only about As miles of
hardSurfaced roads and some
500 miles of graded roads of 4
sort. Yet Rev. Goldfinch says
there are a number of good,
modern automobiles in the CO.
untry. Import charges in Para
quay are not as excessive as
Argentina but still any manu-
featured article is expensive. A
car Of any kind that will run
costs at least $1,000. And the
missionary recalls a friend of
his who had a 1854 Ford that
cost him $4,000. Most ordinary
cars are priced from $4,000 to
$4,000. Yet most workers make
about Sl.00 per day. Clothes is
higher than in the United States
but on good houses is about the
same as the price here. The two
primary cities in Paraguay are
Just now being joined by high
way. Heretofore you could not
travel from one TO the other by
automobile.
The most frequently used We
hicle Is oNcart and donkeys are
used a great deal by women to
transport their merchandise
from the country to the city.
Further up the river from the
capital in what is known as
Green He'll, there still exists
Indian tribes that are totally
savage. They exist and make
their own living without contact
with the outside world. Rev.
Goldfinch says that today eff
'orts are being made to do mis-
sion work among these Indian
tribes. Civilization is creeping
up on them" Rev Goldfinch
says.
Also up the river from the
heavier populated regions. tour
81 who dare 10 make the trip
IAN still buy native tiger skins
md snake hides from The ma
ItiveS.
Pioneered Mission Work
When the Goldfinch family
cached Paraguay, they found
hat they were pioneering that
COUNTRY for the Baptist. They
we're the first Baptist mission
lrieS to enter Paraguay. The
catholics were there as were
he Disciples OF Christ or Christ
an Church as they are called.
The Free Methodist and a group
'inown as Free Brethren are all
% doing mission work in the
area at this time.
The Free Brethren IS an Aus
ralian and Canadian groups
argcly and they have been &C
i've in the up river communities
where they show picture slides
md carry on the evangelistic
work.
They have public school
system in Paraguay but the con-
!itiOnS are so crowded that edu-
alton is poor. Rev. Goldfinch
saws the Catholics had the best
,chool, in .Asuncion when he ar
rived there and they are still
doing noteworthy work in
education.
My main objective as a Bap-
.rst missionary is to see that
hurchcs are established with
'raincd local leadership to carry
lon the work of religion and edu-
alton" Rev. GoldfinCh says.
The Baptist have established
e good hospital in Asuncion
with three missionary doctors
md four missionary nurses. An
ether missionary nurse from
, charlotte, n. c. is now in Costa
RIGA studying the language, and
ne will be sent to the ASuncion
hospital.
The hospital conducts the
.Irst and only real training
-chool for nurses in the country.
The big outlay of money in Par
1guay by the Baptist is for the
-uDport Of the hospital. A small
charge Is made to patients but
. r is generally only fraction of
. .nC cost.
The hospital raises the peo-
pies concept of just what
Christianity means. Says the
missionary.
The director Of the hospital is
Or. Franklin Fowler. a graduate
Of Vanderbilt. DR.. William Skin
rcr. a graduate Of the Medical
I { oilCgc of Charleston, is On the