School Absence Seasons Given American children lost an av erage of 8.4 days from school as a result if illness or injury dur ing the 12 months ending June 30, 1SB8, according to a new report from the U. S. .National Health Survey, Director Joseph R. Nor wood of the Census Bureau’s of fice at Charlotte said today. The Census Bureau conducts the field work for the household interview part of the Health Sur vey for the U. S. Public Health Service. National Health Survey information is collected from a representative group of local families several times a year by Mrs. Margaret K. White of Char lotte, N. C. This information is combined with that collected in 500 other areas of the country to provide national statistics. City children lost nine days from school, on the average, as a result of illness or injury during the period covered toy the survey. Rural non-farm children lost 7.8 days during this period and farm children lost 7.30 days. However, farm children 15 to 16 years of age lost about ten days from school as compared to 6.5 days lost toy urban children of these ages. Illness or injury resulted in a total of 291.5 million school-less days during the year covered in flie survey. A school-loss days de fined in the survey as being a day when a child would have been going to school tout instead miss ed the whole of the school day because of an illness or injury. IN BASIC TRAINING — Pvt. Charles D. Yelton. son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Yelton, and Pvt. Ernest Valentine, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Valentine, are at Fort Jackson, S. C., for eight weeks of basic com bat training. Yelton has been assigned to Company A of the 9th Battalion, Second Training Regiment. Valentine has been assigned to Company B of the 6th Battalion. Second Training Regiment. Both Kings Mountain men will receive training in rifle marksmanship under the Army’s new Trainfire program. (US Army Photos). Dress Blues Are Explained Mr. Average Citizen is fairly well informed about the Marine Corps being America’s force-in readiness, but according (to Mar ine Sergeant C. A. McCullough, local Marine recruiter, much my stery surrounds the fanned “Dress Blue” uniform. “Although attracting attention wherever seen, the Marine Corps Dress uniform doesn’t conform to conventional, modern styles be cause lit is so steeped in tradi tion,” said Sgt. McCullough. The sergeant pointed out that the red itrouser-ftripe, worn only by officers and non-coms, com memorates the blood of commis sioned and non-commissioned officers who lost their lives in the battle of Chapuletpec in the Mexican War of 1848. He also said the high collar, which looks uncomfortable, but actually isn’t, is a holdover from sword fighting days. “‘When Marines were fighting hand-to-hand on the decks of sailing vessels,” related the Ser geant, “the high collar was a hard, heavy leather, padded for comfort, and served to ward off fatal sword thrusts at the jugu lar vein. It was from this leather collar hat Marines earned the title of ‘Leatherneck’. Sergeant McCullough conclud ed, “we are proud of the Marine Dress (Blues and wouldn’t chan ge them for the world.” WWHAT !ARE YOU, OUTOF'i Colds and other seasoned ills often strike suddenly—and it is wise to be prepared to ren der the prompt treatment that brings fast relief. Check your medicine chest today — then come to Kings Mountain Drug Company for the tried and # proven home remedies you're % “out off." 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Department of Com merce in a survey beginning in the week of October 19, 1959, Which will include a sample of land segments of Cleveland-Gas ton counties, Director Joseph R. Norwood of the Census Bureau’s regional office at Charlotte, N. C., announced today. The survey is known as the Componets of Change and Resi dential Financing program, ab breviated for convenience to the SCARF program. It will be sim ilar in procedures to the 1956 Na tional Housing Inventory, and will be part of the 1950 Census of Housing. Objectives of the Components of Change portion of the survey will be to obtain new data on changes in the housing inventory, such as additions due to new con struction and conversions, and losses from mergers, demolitions and the like. For the Residential Financing portion, information will be collected on mortgage sta tus, amount of outstanding mort gage debt, and the manner in which acquisition of owner-occu pied arid rental properties was financed. The SCARF program will cover a national sample in some 650 counties and a separate sample in 17 Standard Metropolitan Sta tistical Areas, nine of which were included in the 1956 National Housing Inventory. The eight ad ditional areas are those in which the 1950 population exceeded one million persons. In the week of October 19, enumerators conducting a- can vass will obtain information on components of change in the Uni ted States and 17 Standard Metro politain Statistical Areas that will provide new data for com parison with 1950 and 1956. Be ginning in November, question naires designed to collect data on the financial aspects of the dwel ling units enumerated will be mailed to property owners and mortgage lenders. Information will be collected by Mrs. Frances C. Hedden. Final Rites Held For Heafner Child Final rites for Randy Dean Heafner, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. !Lee Heafner of (Jrover, were iheld Saturday at 4 p. m. from Mulls Chapel Baptist chur ch, interment following in the church cemetery. The child died of leukemia Wednesday at Bowman Gray hos pital in Winston Salem. Other survivors include a bro ther, Steve, a sister, Diane, both of home, and the maternal grand mother, Mrs. G. C. Hond, of Gro ver. ' Officiating ministers were Rev. Coleman Watkins, Rev. Cedi Ballard, Rev. N. G. Hardin, and Rev. Henry Bright. Wholesale neglect of a good vaccination program invites hog cholera. North Carolina has three coun ties with Rural Development programs. They are Anson, Ber tie, and Watauga. HE HAS A FREE GIFT FOR YOU! PAUL W. MEREDITH bos O free transparent Bain Bonnet lor the ladies of your family. So tiny it fits neatly into the smallest pocketbook . - ■ yet gives hats and hair-dos reed protection. PAUL W. 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