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Merry Christmas
From Both OfUsl
There were Santas a-plenty, with sunglasses and without, at the
Boiling Springs Christmas parade last Thursday. About 65 units
marched down Main Street led by Grand Marshall Dr. S. L.
Lamm, Mayor Jimmy Greene, and the Cleveland County
commissioners. Pictured below are some of the riders, of all
ages and all means of locomotion.
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Fred Simmons, a Shelby architect, serves lunch Monday
to Jeff Castles one of 25 BoUing Springs Elementary School
chUdren treated at the annual Christmas party given for
the students by the Boiling Springs Rotary Club.
Area News
Hie Boiling Springs area surpassed its goal of $2,250
by contributing $3,702 to the recently ended and suc
cessful Cleveland County United Way drive. Dale Jordan
was campaign director tor the county.
"athryn Hamrick, division chairman tor Boiling Springs,
reports that $226 was received from individual contribut
ors and $3476 from 29 area businesses. These businesses
include: Crawley Memorial Hospital, Duke Power of Moores-
boro, Catawba Timber, Francis Brothers Used Cars, First
Federal Savings & Loan, Humphries Quick Stop, Cleveland
Memorial Park, Hamrick Concrete, Ladd Hamrick Fuel
Service, G.T. MeSwain’s, Dr. William Weathers, Shutord’s
Home Si Gardne, Hamrick Brothers, Bob’s Seafood, GaHand
Davis Studio, Charles Mack Accounting, CJ. Hamrick
Si Sons, Bell Stores, Cleveland Sandwich Co., Roy’s Groc
ery, College Gulf, Swainsville Kwik Mart, Hamrick In
surance, Boiling Springs Snack Shop, Martin Milling, Boll
ing Springs Drug, Campus Cubbard, Old Soil’d Ham &
, Biscuit Co., and Don Gettys Barber Shop.
Hie following volunteers assisted Mrs. Hamrick in our
area United Way Drive: Bill Elliott, Richard Greene,
Frederick Hamrick, Jane B. Hamrick, T.W, Martin, Rodney
Nolen, Johnnie Male Ware, J.B. Williams and John Washburn.
The deadline for the book, “Heritage of Cleveland County’’
which the Cleveland County Historical Association/Museum
is compiling on the families of Cleveland County is being
extended ninety days, until April 1, 1982. The reason for
extending the deadline is that approximately 300 of the
500 family histories needed for the book have been re
ceived. Persons who are presently writing or planning
Ml writing an article are urged to continue to complete
their histories as there is limited space.
For more information concerning the Heritage Book,
please call the museum at 482-8186 or drop by and see
a sample of the proposed book and reserve a place for
your family and / or organizatbn.
For the first time in this area, Esperanto will be taught
at Cleveland Technical College beginning Jan. 11. The
course will be taught by Dr. Stanley Drake, a retired
college president and professor who teaches part time at
Cleveland Tech. The class will meet every Monday from
6:30 to 9:30 p.m, tor eleven weeks. The class will be
taught in room 217 on Tech’s campus and the cost of the
course will be $8.00 registration fee plus $2.00 for textbook
and materials. Persons 65 and older may register free.
V'A $143,060 grant from the Kate B. Reynold’s
Health Care Trust in Winston-Salem has been
awarded to Gardner-Webb College for the
establishment of a Bachelor of Science Degree in
Nursing.
This announcement was made Monday morning by
Dr. Craven E. Williams, president of Gardner-Webb
College. After a year long feasibility study the need
for the Baccalaureate Program was firmly establish
ed. Presently, there is no ADN/RN/BSN program in
North Carolina. This program will result in the first
full professional school for Gardner-Webb.
Gardner-Webb College’s nursing program currently
offers an Associate Degree in Nursing. The new
program will continue the two-year ADN plus a
two-year continuation program leading to a BSN.
“Most of the inquiries have come from registered
nurses within a 50-mile radius of the college. They
either hold diplomas in nursing or associate degrees
and want the BSN,’’ said Shirley Toney, director of
the nursing program at Gardner-Webb. She
continued, “By 1985, a four year degree may be a
requirement for entry into professional nursing.
Along with an interest in furthering their education,
students are looking for increased salaries, more
opportunities for employment, increased skills, and
preparation for graduate study. With the ‘ ‘two plus
two” program, registered nurses and other students
will be able to obtain a basic education in nursing
with an option to continue for the baccalaureate
degree. We feel confident that the strong academic
program of the College, and the excellent clinical
facilities in the area will contribute to a quality
baccalaureate curriculum. ’'
A phenomenon which has received much attention
is the nursing shortage. In the Southern region, there
are only 450 registered nurses per 100,000 population
while the national ratio is 550 per 100,000.
“The shortage of RN’s has come about by openings
of various work opportunities as the military, doctor’s
offices and industrial nursing that nurses have only
been able to. (xplore in the last few years,”
commented Paul Ellison, director of Cleveland
Memorial Hospital.
Ellison said thal many RN’s are seeking to upgrade
their clinical and administrative skills because of
increasing demands on their roles to be involved
more with bidgets, personnel management,
government laws and rules and the accredition of
hospital standarcs.
He cited that Gardner-Webb College’s (two plus
two) program will provide a re-entry level for nurses
2who want to obtain a four-year degree.
As more hospitals utilize the team nursing anc
primary nursing methods of patient care, it will be
important to have RN’s in ieadership roles who can
plan and imnlemgnt comprehensive care for the
patient. Several area hospital directors expressed a
desire for their head nurses and supervisory
personnel to obtain baccalaureate preparation and
stated that the BSN would likely be an important
qualification for RN’s who they hire for administra
tive duties.
The Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Trust was
created in 1946 through provisions in the will of Mrs.
William N. Reynolds for the purpose of improving
health care to the people of North Carolina. The
trusts awards approximately $1.5 million annually in
grants to non-profit organizations throughout the
state. Its current program interest areas are access to
primary health care, alternative delivery systems
which offer improved health care and/or economy,
and illness prevention/health promotion.
Gardner-Webb is a liberal arts College, affiliated
with the Baptist State Convention of N.C. offering
Associate, Bachelor, and Master’s degrees. The
College is noted for its independence of federal
funding and promotion of the free enterprise system.
Police Recover
Stolen Goods
Boiling Springs police, along with South Caroling,
law officers, last Wednesday recovered property at a
trailer in Cherokee County that had been reported
stolen in Boiling Springs.
Bikes, room heaters, snow sleds and a stereo
cabinet reported stolen from G.T. MeSwain’s were
taken from the trailer. A Gaffney man was arrested
in the theft.
In other action, three arrests were made Monday
following a report of damaged and stolen street
signs. Officer Dan Ledbetter is continuing an
investigation.