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December Drop By Drop
Human Face Of
Economic Hardtimes
20 Miles To Drive Foster
ButIt’sAJob
Business activity to
North Carolina improv
ed only modestly in Oc
tober according to a
survey of manufactur
ing and sales completed
by Wachovia Bank,
while county unemploy
ment rose to 16.6 per
cent during the same
month, a 1.7 lump from
September’s 14.9 rate.
Overall statewide
unemployment for
North Carolina was up
in October to a rate of
10.4 percent.
Car sales also declin
ed 15.5 percent during
the month, while truck
sales were slightly
below last year’s levels.
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Christmas may be
white but December
began damp across the
Piedmont as steady
drizzle fell across
Cleveland County the
last three days.
Although damp, little
rain actually fell, as the
above photograph
shows and the statistics
from the National
Weather Service bear
out: total rainfall in
November was 2.93,
leaving a deficit com
pared to November of
last year of 1.78.
In other leafy mat
ters, prices for hard
wood are just a phone
call away in a new ser
vice offered through the
agricultural extension
service. The prices are
based on information
supplied by a private
reporting service and
quote prices for pine,
poplar and other soft
hardwoods, as well as
oak and mixed hard
woods.
Prices vary, the ex
tension service says,
because of location and
such factors as grade,
distance to mill, and
competition; in short,
the service says, don’t
expect to always be
quoted top price.
The timber price toll-
free number is 1-800-662-
7301.
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Despite a jump in
county unemployment
for November, about 60
workers were offered
jobs at the L&K mill in
Shelby this month — but
only because their
employer has tem
porarily shut down the
South Carolina mill
where they formerly
worked.
Henry Lewkowitz,
president of L&K Inc. of
Shelby, said this month
that he is closing down
the firm’s Gaftan
Sportswear plant in
Gafney, S.C., until or
ders improve. The 50 to
60 South Carolina em
ployees have been of
fered jobs at the Shelby
plant, Lewkowitz said.
About 400 people
worked at the L&K mill
before the Gaftan
closing.
“It’s a very difficult
decision to make,”
Lewkowitz said. He said
he will reopen the plant
when economic con
ditions improve; until
that time, he said, “we
are combining our two
plants into one for ef
ficiency.”
Gaftan began
operations in South
Carolina in 1970 and
manufactured skirts,
suits, and dresses.
If the South Carolina
workers choose to take
jobs at the L&K mill, it
will mean about a 20-
mile drive to their jobs
and a loss of tax revenue
to Cherokee County,
S.C., site of the Gaftan
plant.
Care
Down
By Ken Holcombe
Special to the View
Anorexia: When Too Much Is Not Enough
By Lou Ann Poston
View Staff
Anorexia — a disease
of self starvation —
received unaccustomed
headlines this month
when Princess Diana
was reported by British
tabloids — wrongly — to
be afflicted by the
illness. But according to
Clarence Allen of the
Cleveland County
Mental Health Clinic,
about one person in ten
does suffer to a degree
from anorexia nervosa,
or abnormal weight
loss.
“The hardest is giving
up that first foster
child,” recalls Logan
Carson, a professor of
religion at Gardner-
Webb College.
Carson and his wife
Glenwood can between
them recall a lot of
parenting; after suc
cessfully raising their
first foster child, the
couple has provided
foster homes to four
other children. To in
crease interest in the
foster parents program,
the Carsons were
among the foster
parents invited to speak
Monday night to about
12 interested couples by
the county Department
of Social Services
(DDS).
The causes of the
disease are unknown,
although depression
appears to play a part.
It is most common
among adolescent
women, but it is also
prevalent in certain
groups of men, such as
athletes, who place a
high premium on weight
control.
For either sex the
result is the same — an
extreme weight loss
induced by eating only
lettuce or another, low-
calorie food, or by in
ducing vomiting after
overeating.
The anorexia victim
sees himself or herself
as overweight no matter
how drastic the loss.
Allen said that in
Cleveland County in the
past three years there
have been only two
cases of anorexia
diagnosed.
The center treats
anorexia cases by
forced feeding, Allen
said, although persons
suffering from anorexia
by induced vomiting are
harder to treat. They
are reluctant to give up
a weight control that
allows them to eat all
they want.
Untreated, anorexia
can result in damage to
the intestines or
esophagus, endocrine
imbalance, damaged
gums, or loss of teeth.
About 3000 deaths a year
are attributed to the
disease, according to an
anorexia researcher at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Guidance counselors
at Crest and Shelby high
schools said that they
knew of no students
missing school because
of the disease.
Some adolescent girls
are close to being
anorexic without
realizing their condition
and the potential
danger, according to
Brenda McBride, a
nursing instructor at
Gardner-Webb College.
Such borderline
anorexia cases may be
dissatisified with their
self-image, Mrs. Mc
Bride said, or be af
fected by depression or
family conflicts.
when the child blames
herself for the parents’
inattention.
For such children, the
parents appear to be
giving less love than to
other family members;
the extreme weight loss
therefore becomes a
form of achievement to
win parents’ affection or
a form of punishment
McBride sees
anorexia as forced and-
or volunteered
malnutrition as a result
of an inaccurate self
image.
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“A gal’s view of
herself — the way she
sees herself — is not
real,” McBride said.
Hear Holliday Music
Next Week AtG-W
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The deaf choir at
Gardner-Webb College
will participate in this
year’s Christmas music
program scheduled for
Tuesday morning,
December 7 at 9:15.
The Lutz-Yelton Con
vocation Center on the
G-W campus will be the
setting for the music
program and will
feature deaf students,
hearing students, all
from G-W, and pre
school deaf students
from the North Carolina
School for the Deaf
Satellite Program in
Shelby.
Those choirs will join
together to present a
memorable morning of
holiday music to
students and the general
public as well.
In other college, the
Fine Arts Department
at Gardner-Webb Col
lege is sponsoring a
senior recital, Tuesday,
December 7, on cam
pus.
The 8 p.m. recital will
be held in the 0. Max
Gardner Recital Hall
and is open to the public,
free of charge.
Daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. O. B. Elmore of
Gaffney, S.C., Ms.
Elmore will perform a
program of music in
cluding numbers from
composers such as Fer
nando Sor, Cesare Negri
and Ferdinando Carulli.
She will present selec
tions from Matteo Car-
cassi, including Estudio
Number 3 in A Major
and Estudio Number 7
in A Minor, and Fran
cisco Tarrega, including
Adelita and Andante.
In addition to her
music studies at G-W,
she is a member of the
G-W College Chorus and
the Music Educators
National Convention.
Registration for the
1983 spring semester for
new and returning
graduate students at
Gardner-Webb College
will be conducted, Mon
day, January 12,1983.
Students will begin
registration at 6 p.m. in
Dover Chapel on the G-
W campus.
Application files for
the graduate program
must be completed 30
days prior to the
registration date.
Several areas of
graduate study are
available to G-W
students. The early
childhood education and
middle school education
programs are especially
designed for the public
school teachers living
within commuting
distance of G-W.
Middle school majors
are required to concen
trate in one subject area
including language arts,
science-math or health
and physical education.
After an individual
successfully completes
the early childhood or
middle school program
or either programs in
the reading or health
and physical education
program, . the student
will be recommended by
the North Carolina
Department of Educa
tion for a class G
teaching certificate.
Brooks
Services
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Services were held
Wednesday at Lat-
timore Baptist Church
for Shirley Patsy
Brooks, who died Mon-
day at Cleveland
Memorial Hospital.
She was 46.
A native of Cleveland
County, she was the
daughter of Curtiss and
Mildred Wellmon
Brooks of Lattimore.
Surviving, in addition
to her parents, are two
brothers, D.L. Brooks of
Gastonia and Charles
(Buck) Brooks of
Shelby.
She was a member of
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Nancy Vaughn of Boiling Springs (left) and her mother, Mrs. Dorothy
C. Vaughn 0(120 WoodhlU Dr. (middle) and Nancy’s sister Mrs
ninoa Campbell of Mooresville (right) spent the weekend.
Lattimore! See that
community’s news on
page four of today’s
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Foster care is down in
Cleveland County,
perhaps as a result of
the economic hard
times. Last year in
September there were
42 licensed foster homes
caring for 85 children;
in September,
homes cared
children.
“We have thought
there might be some
correlation between the
recession” and the
decline of couples’
becoming foster parents
said Evelyn Jackson, an
adoption worker for the
DSS.
Monday’s meeting
was an attempt to
reverse that trend. “We
had one couple take an
application and com
plete it on the spot”
after the meeting, said
Ms. Jackson.
She estimated three to
four other couples took
applications home with
them.
“It’s a lot like getting
married,” said foster
parent Mike Davis, who
attended the meeting
with his wife, Linda.
“You wonder why
you’re going through
with it, but after the
long haul you know it
was worth it.”
Adoption of children
was also explained.
According to the DSS,
there is a special need
for the adoption of
children with physical
or emotional handicaps,
biracial children, or
children above the age
of ten.
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