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VA To Drop 2,700 Werkeis Veterans Administration an nounced that approximately 2. 700 admiustratlve employees will be dropped from Its payroll by May 31, 1952, to get down to the limitation contained in the hud get for fiscal year 1953, as sub mitted to the Congress, The amount requested of the Congress for fiscal year 1953 was less than tha tappropriated for fiscal year 1952 because of expec tatlon that workloads in certain programs, such as GI Bill educa tion and training, wouid be as great. The reduction will be nation wide approximately 2,500 In field offices and about 200 in the VA central office in Washington, D. C. Excluded from the cut are employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery? who staff VA's 154 hospitals. Separation notices have been Is sued, with the actual separation becoming effective' May 31, 1952. The reduction In force will be car 'tled out In accordance with the U. S. Civil Service Commission re tention preference regulations. Although the number of Jobs affected by the cut is 2,700, it is anticipated that the number of persons who actually will be sep arated by May 31 should be some, what less l>ecauso of normal attri tion between now and the final ?eparatlon date. At the peak of lis employment In February, 1!M7, VA had 226,131 persons on the payroll. As of March 31, 1952, the latest date for which complete figures are avail The Intermediate Girl Scout troop of Grace church met Mon day with 20 girls present. We had three new members. On Friday night we Scouts sold hot dogs to help buy uniforms for the new members. Our report showed we cleared $21. We played games and sang our goodnight song. Patsy Peterson, Scribe. World corn production in 1951 52 is estimated at 53 billion bush els. This is 175 million bushels larger than the 1950-51 total and 570 million above the prewar average. %' V; Many states do not produce enough beef to supply the needs of their populations. Others do not produce enough pork or lamb to take care of the normal de mand. able, the payroll was down to 176,817 persons, ? including the 128,491 in the Department of Med icine and Surgery who are not affected by the current reduction in force. -.y . ? ?: V gift | IDEAS 1 1 IDEASl for mother from phifer hardware Waffle Irons Electric Irons Nut Cracker and Bowl Ice Crushers Hand & Electric Ice Cream Freezers Pressure Cookers Electric Mixers Deep Fryers Percolators Waste Cans ? V Aluminum Pitchers Pop Up Toasters ; Cold Pack Canners Pyrex Covered Dishes Bread Boxes Cannister Sets Fruit & Vegetable Press Stove Top Mats , Household Scales Kitchen Stools Plastic Crown Freeze Tainer Diaper Cans Pinking Shears Phifer Hardware Battleground Ave. Phone 46 Harrill Hears 14 Cases Monday Two more fornication and adul tery cases were tried In City Re corder's court Monday afternoon. Judge EL A. Harrill presided. Mrs. Myrtle Rippy was charged with fornication and adultery and received a 30-day suspended sentence on the payment of costs., Mrs. Rippy also paid a $25 line and costs in an "illegal possession of non tax-paid whiskey" charge. Darwin William Farrts, also charged with fornication and adultery, was sentenced to 30 days suspended upon the pay ment of costs and the condition that he not be caught in the com pany of Mrs. Rippy for a period of two years. Defense attorney in both forni cation and adultery cases was John J. Mahoney of Shelby. Testi mony in the cases consumed quite a bit, of the court time. Mrs. Marjorle Faye Dover paid the costs of court after being con victed of assault on a female. Mr. Mahoney served as private prose cutor for Mrs. Louise Stevens. Fred Hinson, charged with as sault on a female, paid the costs of court. A1 charge of failure to comply with the school attqpdance law against Rufus Wood was nolle prossed. William Moore, Negro, paid the costs of court after being convict ed af assault on a female. Seven defendants were found guilty of public drunkenness and were taxed with the costs of court. " . . Bill Mitchem, charged with pub lic drunkenness and vagrancy, re ceived a 60-day sentence suspend ed upon the payment of costs and the condition that h<? go live with his sister, Mrs. Fannie Jackson, and that he stay off the business streets of Kings Mountain for a period of two- years. 1 School Paper Wins Award The Mountaineer, Kings Moun tain high school newspaper, won an honor award at the 23rd an nual Southern Interseholastic Press association contest held this past weekend at Washington and Lee University. The four page newspaper is published monthly under the di rection of Miss Hazel Armstrong. The staff includes: editor-in-chief, Cornelia Ware: business mana ger, Jack Still; assistant business manager. Bill Ruth; Photograph en-, Jean Owens; Joyce Biser, Anne Dilling, Linda Baity, Ben Hudson, Jerry King, A. B. Sum mitt, Dick McMackin, Sonny Me Daniel, Bonnie Ledbetter Walker, Joann Wall Costner, Sue Bridges, Dorothy Goforth. Geneve Allen and Betty Gladden Roper. The- paper features news stories, student activities, local advertising, feature stories, and the latest gossip of .the high school. The. paper is printed at Herald Publishing House. M V E It .S" Dress Shop's $ $ $ $ SPECIALS COTTON HOUSE DBESSES Regularly $3.29 and S3.4S $ Days S2.47 BIG GROUP HANDBAGS S2.98 and $4.95 Values S Days $1.98 & $2.95 ALL BLOUSES S Days 10% OH S ONE GROUP EARLY SUMMER DBESSES S Days 1/3 Oil ALL Housecoats S Days 1/4 Of! My ers Kinft Mountain MertKanti Allocation MEM9ER mi DRESS SHOP Second Floor MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR RONE HERBERT SWANSSON Swedish Native Made Home Here By Dot Ham ''Where you make a living is the best part of America", stated Rune Herbert Swansson, a native of Sweden, when asked which part of America he liked best, Mr, Swansson c?fme to Ameri ca for the first time in 1927 to visit his brother who was al ready here but later returned to Sweden only to come back in 1933. He began his greenhouse work in his father's greenhouses in Jonkoping. Sweden where he worked in his spare time. This was the beginning of the much loved florist work In which he has done for many years. Since returning to America in 1933, Mr. Swansson has worked in the northern states of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio before com-, lng to North Carolina to start work with Patterson's Flowers in Shelby. He began as a grower at Patterson's in 1941 but decided to build his own greenhouses, which are located on the Pixon school road in 1944. Mr. Swansson was born in 1906 in* Jonkoping. Sweden, one of nine children and the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Axel Swansson. He attended elementary, high school and college in Sweden. . "I suppose 1 really came to America to work", he said, "When in Sweden I spent the first twenty years of my life hav ing a good time." "I didn't find the English language so diffi cult," he stated, "I had studied it in college in Sweden to get the background, the only thing I had to learn was the American slang." After working for eight years in florist work in several differ ent northern states, he came to Work for Patterson's Flowers where he met his wife, the form er Miss Mary Dean Allen, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs, Will Allen of route 2. Mrs. Swansson was work lng at Patterson's when Mr. Swansson came to work, She stat ed she had been teased a great deal but ha-i thought nothing about it. although a little over a year later they were married. i Get Your I Porch Furniture NOW METAL SLAT STEEL Glider Chairs FOR PARLOR or LAWN ? Leathergreen. yellow, white. $12?> each 2 for S24.50 Solid Bottom Metal LAWN and PORCH CHAIRS S5.95 R?a<iy to us? 2 ior $10.50 I Rainwater Furniture Co. No Carrying Charges ? Easy Terms ? Phone 726 ? ' f : pi')1 rfo "When I applied lor the marri age license In Shtflby, the people told me they were out and would have to get some printed", Mr. Swansson stated, "And upon ask ing how long it would take to get them printed, 1 was told it would take some time. I became pro voked and lost my patience, I went back to the flower shop and told Mr. Patterson of the inci dent, he immediately called Shel by and I got my marriage li cense." Mr. Swansson received his citi zenship papers in the spring of 1943 after his marriage in 1942. The Swansson stated they had very little time for recreation sinces the greenhouses took most ol their time caring lor the flow ers and seeing that everything had enough water. Mrs. Swansson stated that her husband lived with his flowers and was a great family man. They have two children, James Herbert, age 8, and Margaret Eli zabeth, age 6. They are members of Macedonia Baptist church. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express oar appre elation to our many friends and neighbors for the acts of lore and kindness shown to us at the death of our dear husband and father. May God's richest Bless* ings toe with each of you. Mrs. C. C. Lynn and Family ; m-8 \ Bessemer City Rings Mountain Z/leefMe S caff A/fSfdnt 55? Cleansing TImum (2 Boxes of 200? 29c) Scotties . . . . 2 Extra-Heavy Waxed-Th rough Wax Paper Cut-Rite ..... ".JT 25? 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