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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
8
Loom-Tex Corporation, a Tex firm, ended a quarter shutdown and resumed Monday with a three-shift, five-day schedule. At shutdown it listed 268 employees, and operations restarted with a ten percent wage-rate cut to reduce costs.
Graveside rites were held for 34 day old Joe Lee Davis son of Mr and Mrs T C Davis of 210 Parker street at Oakland cemetery Ganttney SC Dr R A Dyer conducted the rites The infant died Sunday at 7 15 at Presbyterian hospital Charlotte Surviving besides his parents a sister Jean Ellen Davis
Kings Mountain postal receipts show a July increase to 3414.55 from 2977.91 a year earlier, with George Hord noting higher mall volume and rate changes. For January–July 1952 total receipts reach 27188.09 as district officials plan Davidson Negro Elementary construction and await state board actions.
Routebased patients admitted or discharged during the week include Daisy Bohele Bobby Collier Charlie Farris Ruth Haile Judith Logan Sybil Camp Thomas Whitesides R B Dixon Elvin Anthony Mrs S P Green Lloyd Franklin Putnam Ester Queen Harrison Mrs W P Bumgardner Ethel Patterson Sara Blanton Brenda Byers Tracy Hamm Sara Dean Thornburg Virgie Hutchins Boyce Kiser Eula Anderson and others with dates July to August. The schedule also lists visiting hours daily from 10 to 1 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 pm.
Saturday morning accident near the rail underpass involved a 1939 Ford driven by Violet Barrett Yates and a 1952 Dodge driven by John J. Lentz of Spartanburg. Lentz skidded 25 feet after Yates pulled in front. a small girl in the Yates car sustained a slight forehead bump. Patrolman W D Sawyer reported no serious injuries.
Dr Laura Plonk announces Mademoiselle Therese Collet of Paris will teach dalcrote eurythmics and advanced piano forte at the Plonk School during the 1952 1953 winter season. Collet holds a Professeur de Rythmique diploma and studied at the Conservatoire International de Musique Paris.
Annual reunion of the McGills Of Gaston will be held at Bethel church arbor off Cherryville Road on Wednesday the 20th. Anne Iy Mrs. Betty Keeton Kirkpatrick president of the program is sche duled for a picnic dinner to follow. All clan members urged to attend. State Line Service Station on the York highway was entered and robbed Monday night. Thief or thieves entered despite iron bars, broke four pinball machines, and stole several cases of beer. The article also mentions local firms and a late note about John W Gladben Pung.
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