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Big Held Is Expected Fof Amateur Stock Car Race At Speedway SundayMatthews' Brother Dies Of LeukemiaSome 30-35 hopped - up stock cars are expected Sunday for /he strictly * amateur racing event at Kings Mountain Speedway, The ijace is to get underway at 2 p, in., with time trials starting at 1 a'clock.Winford Marteen. track manager, said yesterday that some 20 South Carolina drivers have already entered, along with the 10 previously announced entrants.It will be a bigger and betterGeorge Preston Matthews. 56, brother of Eugene Matthews, Herald mechanical superintendent, died at Duke hospital last Friday nlgh^ at 10:20, Death was attributed to leukemia.He had been 111 for the past ten weeks.Mr. Matthews, born in Sted-man, had lived In Attmore. Ala.,rape than the track opener here .T ‘n AUmore- Ata-ber concern.urge everyone to go to the church of his choice on Sunday morning and come to the races in the afternoon,'* he added.Surviving, in addition to hisbrother here, are his wife, a dau-„ , ghter, two grandchildren a broth-Manager Marteen said that hot er and sister.dogs, coffee and cold drinks will be available at the track, which has a 1,000-seat grandstand, and is a one-half mile clay track, steeply bnked.Funeral details had not Ween learned here, but were probably held dn Attmore Tuesdayon hand tor the track opener, veeter that pirlS tom.t«; »'ZrA -J I I . . . a fkltl f t n 41. — itAdmission to the race is two dollars and Promoter Clyde Hull-ender has announced that children under 12 will be admitted free tif charge. icent faster than the average pickers. ■ \IMPERIAL
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Kings Mountain Herald
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, US
Thu, Nov 25, 1954
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