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VOLUME 95, NUMBER 28 qu side eI i Bu gy we > Sat aif Fe ASIC No Kot yr ap ep ab vg THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1982 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NOI shut S=00'1 Aaunen © CC UANW Td 9808¢ saAY FUOWP 19-year-old Kings Mountain man who had his right arm literally twisted off when he caught it in a wrapping machine June 8 at Carmet Industries, considers himself lucky. The accident, of course, was unfortunate, but Jackson said he’s lucky to be alive and lucky to have his arm re-planted and in the healing process. Jackson returned home over the July Fourth weekend after a month’s stay at Duke Medical Center, where he has already had eight operations. The surgery to re-plant the arm following the accident took 12 hours and 10 minutes. Jackson, who faces at least two more years of periodic trips to Duke for treatment and fur- ‘ther surgery, recalled the acci- .dent and the past four weeks Monday while resting at the home of his parents, Stoney and Peggy Jackson. He had just returned to work from a lunch break on Tues, A Miracle! Jack Jackson’s Severed Arm Mending glove he was wearing on his right hand somehow was caught by an Allen bolt and jerked into the machine. He couldn’t reach the switch to shut down the machine, so he wrapped his legs around a bar on the lower part of the machine to keep it from pulling his entire body in. A man who was working with him attempted to turn the machine off, but he slipped and was slightly injured. Another man working nearby saw what had happened and hurried over and turned the machine off. Luckily, Jackson was running the machine at its slowest speed. “I had it in first gear,” he recall- ed. “If it had been in second or third gear, it would have jerked me all the way up in it and killed me.” The machine caught Jackson’s arm just below the elbow and in its wrapping motion was literally twisting his arm off. Luckily, his shirt acted as a tourniquet and rescue personnel, physicians and nurses and the help of a good friend who loaned the family a helicoptor and pilot--saved Jackson’s arm. Kings Mountain Rescue Squad personnel quickly came to the scene and cut Jackson out of the machine. From the time of the accident until the time he was rescued was 45 minutes. Jackson, who remained con- scious throughout the ordeal, could see that his arm was barely hanging by some skin. “The first thing I told the man from the rescue squad when he came in was that I was going to lose my arm,” he recalled. He was rushed to Kings Mountain Hospital, where Dr. George Plonk finished taking the arm off and stopped the bleeding. In addition to having his arm twisted off, he also suf- fered severe breaks in the shoulder’ area and had every muscle and leader damaged from the shoulder down. By GARY STEWART June 8 when he reached above kept him from bleeding to death. Dr. Plonk also contacted Editor the spindle wrapping machine to What transpired afterward— Duke Hospital and got instruc- Sherrill “Jack” Jackson, a get a hammer. The welding good timing and fast action of tions on how to package the arm for transport there. Meanwhile, Carl DeVane of - Kings Mountain, who works for Reeves Brothers, offered the use of his company’s helicoptor to fly Jackson to Durham. Jackson left Kings Mountain at 3 p.m., met the helicoptor in Gastonia and was in Durham at 4:15. He went into surgery at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday and returned from © surgery at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday. “To me, the doctors at Duke, the good time that the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad made, and Carl DeVane and the pilot ‘by getting him up there, are go- ing to make the difference in whether or not his arm is saved,” Stoney Jackson said. One of the rear seats in the four-seat helicoptor was remov- ed so the stretcher could be plac- ed. Vickie Putnam, a nurse at Kings Mountain Hospital, was instructed by Dr. Plonk to make Turn To Page 6-A AzexdqTI TeTAOWSNW Jack Jackson (1 lamps py. GARY STEWART Editor Down On Late Payments But, she said, she has a baby which Suffered brain damage at NT A mm AHO : because people move away _ without paying their utility bills. ing power restored. The $10 fee is a penalty which the city charges to cover the 15th are put on the power “cut- off” list and are subject to having their power disconnected. ‘Before “The only thing we want to do is to keep the cash flow going » J hy that she had made a mistake and the city had a legal ‘allowing Kings When Melva Huffstetler of right to disconnect her power, was upset that she wasn’t con- tacted personally beforehand and that, after going to city hall and paying the $111.32 bill, she had to return home and get $10 more and go back to city hall and pay that money before hav- Citizens For KM BY CATHY McDANIEL A public hearing was con- ducted Wednesday, June 30, in the Commissioner’s Chambers of City Hall for the purpose of Mountain citizens the opportunity to ex- press their opinions on how Community Development Block Grant funds the City has applied for should be spent. Mayor John Henry Moss read the four categories under which the City is considering spending the funds to an empty Coun- cilroom, however, as no citizens attended the noon hearing. The four categories being con- sidered by the City and examples of eligible projects under each of them are as follows: Community Revitalization ojects, designed to improve, erve or develop residential eas. Examples of activities be- under this costs of two tripssto/d dis nnect recor 2 did not return the calls until 5 AX Thursday temo: GN kkk Mayor Moss, strictly enforce its policy. City utility bills are mailed on . the last day of the month and received by customers on the first day of the month, McDaniel explained. All payments, as specified on the bill, are due by the 15th. McDaniel said all persons who have not paid their bills by the and’ "City Say Treasurer Joe McDaniel said late payment of utility bills is an old th problem i in the city, and because ~ of demands of early payment from its power suppliers-Duke 3 t Power and Transcontinental i Gas Pipeline-it has become necessary for the city to more dsgomected 2 Gi X Last on’ cutoff Hstwhich was for power consumed in May-contained 40 82 by 11” pages of names with bills amoun- ting to $260,000. Bills for the month came to $700,398.22. “I'd say 80 or 85 percent of our customers pay on time,” McDaniel said. “But if everybody wanted to wait until: the 25th to pay, we’d never be able to make payroll.” McDaniel estimated the city loses $7,000 to $9,000 a quarter Don’t Appear Public Hearing Economic Development Pro- jects, designed to promote the creation of jobs, enhance income levels, provide opportunities for local ownership or support economic services essential to the vitality of the community. Examples of activities being considered under this category include provision of public facilities for employment, train- ing, and business development; financing working capital, machinery or buildings for profit-making businesses to create new jobs; and captializing a local development corporation to help expand existing businesses. Development Planning Pro- jects, designed to help develop projects that can be considered for future funding through CDBG. Examples of this include economic development and energy conservation. Urgent Needs, designed to meet certain community € pment ds that have a - $127,673. Grants given under this category must: meet needs that demonstrate unusual or pressing needs not addressed in other categories or that demonstrate creative approaches to com- munity development needs that can serve as a model for other North Carolina communities. In a budget-amending action also taken up at the hearing, the Board voted unanimously to distribute $330,283 from debt service fund to the following ac- counts in the utility fund: gas bond principal $10,000, gas bond interest $2,610; water and sewer principal $189,000 and water and sewer bond interest Interest income of $1,000 was also transfered. An additional public hearing will be held July 12 at 7:30 p.m. in order to accomodate those citizens unable to attend the June 30 hearing. Mayor Moss expressed his hopes that citizens will attend this hearing, and add- ed that he is willing to discuss Ar cutoff Ii your door is ticketed, you are. subject to having your power. A $2,300 is currently operating in the customers on fhe. The business which owes the chapter 11 of bankruptcy, and the city cannot collect that bill until the courts act. All power the company consumes since the date of bankruptcy is payable, they said. Another business with a bill of $1,239.46 is being allowed to pay some each month until the debt is paid, through an arrange- ment with Mayor. Moss. McDaniel said he is willing to work with any individual or company facing a hardship, but in matters where someone “simply doesn’t want to pay his bills, I send him back here to the mayor.” FOURTH FUN—A group of area youngsters Pictured above competed in a hollering con- “Basically, I think most people have been “carried” for several ‘months, ‘but with good reason, McDaniel and Moss said. Businesses had late bills totalling from as little as $50 to more than $2,300. check--having their power cutoff, the city can only apologize. “It’s possible our man for some reason did not ticket their door, or for some reason it was ticketed and was lost before they got it,” McDaniel said. « I wish I could say ‘don’t ticket this house, because they're good people’, but it doesn’t work that way. If we concentrated on one area of town or didn’t ticket some peo- ple because they’re good people, we’d really be in for problems.” Mrs. Huffstetler said if this had happened a year ago, she probably would have paid the bill and penalty and not said a word. Nx v ofor 7 persons like the 4 Huffstetlers—who McDaniel call- ed good customers who just hap- ‘pened to forget to mail their office when Mrs. Huffstetler came in to air her complaint and 4 pay her bill, was contacted later by Mr. Huffstetler, who explain- ed the situation. “I offered right then to have the power restored, but by that time Mrs. Huffstetler had already made the payment and the power was back on. “This is one of the most unpleasant jobs on God’s earth,” he went on. “Believe me, we don’t like to turn people’s power off. If everyone paid on time, we’d have the easiest job in the world.” Mayor Moss said the city’s policy of hanging tags and giving a four-day cutoff notice is a good one. “But we've learned: that some people just aren’t going to pay until you hang the tag. Turn To Page 4-A Photo By Gary Stewart tion Saturday at the Community Center. More photos are on page 10-A. w that we live in a town that ~ would be this heartless.” ign McDaniel, who was out of the
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