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VOL. 94, NO. 23
WES., MARCH 24, 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C.
Photo by Ronnie Hawkins
SECOND PRIZE — Charlie Hanna, left, owner of the Gastonio
Bicycle Shop, and Pete Peterson, a Kings Mountain fireman,
poee with a 20" motor cross bike which will be the second prise
in Saturday's St. Jude's Wheels for Life bike-a-thon.
Bike-A-Thon
Set Saturday
The Wheels For Life bike-a-
thon for St. Jude's Children’s
Research Hospital will be held
Saturday at 9:30.
The event will begin at Kings
Mountain High School and wind
through the Kings Mountiiin
state and national park areas.
Riders raising at least $25 in
donations will be eligible for
prizes furnished by St. Jude’s
and area businesses. Hamburgers
asd cokes will be supplied by
McDonald's.
The rider raising the most
money will receive a 10-speed
Western Flyer bike donated by
Kings Mountain Knit and
Western Auto. The second
highest fund-raiser will receive a
20” motor cross bike donated by
the Gastonia Bicycle Shop.
Other merchants donating
prizes include Western Auto,
camping equipment; TG&Y,
radio; Willie’s Jewelry, watch;
Rippy’s Jewelry, ID bracelet;
McGinnis Department Store,
gift certificate; Revco Drug,
radio; Eckerd’s, dental hygiene
kit; and Center Service, cleaning
equipment.
The bike-a-thon two years ago
raised over $4,000 for St. Jude’s,
but last year’s event was
hampered because of cold
weather.
Riders interested in par
ticipating may secure entry
forms at the Fire Department,
Kings Mountain Junior High,
Kings Mountain Senior High
and Mauney Memorfal Library.
Further information may be ob
tained by calling the Fire
Department at 739-2552. Riders
age nine and under must be ac
companied by an adult.
Chairmen of the various com
mittees are Robert Dodge, route;
Rick Witherspoon and Rodney
Gordon, recruitment; Ronnie
Hawkins, publicity and promo
tion; Charles Peterson, prizes;
Charles Ware, food; Joe Left-
wich, bike repairs; and Bruce
Canipe, bike repairs.
First aid and break stops will
be stationed all along the route
and lunch will be served at the
Kings Mountain State Park.
Expanded KM Hospital To Be
One Of Nicest In Southeast
Kings Mountain Hospital
broke ground for its $5.5 million
expansion and renovation pro
ject Friday afternoon.
Administrator Grady
Howard, L.E. (Josh) Hinnant,
president of the Board of
Trustees; David Ramseur of
Odell Associates; Kings Moun
tain Mayor John Henry Moss
and Jack Palmer, chairman of
the Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, made brief
remarks to the crowd of almost
100 attending the 30-minute
ceremony.
Construction is expected to
begin immediately and the pro
ject is scheduled for completion
in 28 months.
The expansion includes a
39,000 square feet two-story pa
tient wing adjacent to the pre
sent building. The first floor will
house the business offices,
radiology department and ex
panded emergency department,
and the second floor will include
35 private rooms and a six-bed
coronary and surgical intensive
care unit.
Hospital and community
leaders predict the improved
facility will be one of the most
modern hospitals in the south.
“1 challenge the staff to con
tinue its fine service,” remarked
Hinnant, “and their efforts will
result in one of the most modern
hospitals in the south. Hopeful
ly, in 28 months' we (!dh conne
back and take a tour and be
quite proud of the facility.”
Mayor Moss called Friday
“another important day in the
growth of Kings Mountain
Hosi2|tal and the community.”
Moss pointed out that KMH
admitted its first patient on April
1, 1951, grew by 12 beds in
1953,25 in 1955,25 in 1960 and
30 in 1970.
“Kings Mountain Hospital
has continued to grow along
with the city and area,” he said.
“It also represents another step
in the hospital’s efforts to pro
vide the latest in technology and
quality of health care.”
Commissioner Palmer offered
his congratulations to the city
KM Eye Clinic To Open
Dr. David R. McDaniel of
Maiden, native of Gastonia, will
open Kings Mountain Eye Clinic
May 1st in Professional Park on
W. King Street.
A joint announcement was
made Friday by Dr. McDaniel
and Mrs. Ruby M. Alexander,
who presented keys to the new
building which is being designed
to meet the optometrist’s
specifications and which will in
clude spacious rooms for ex
aminations, pre-testing,
laboratory, a contact lens
workroom and dispensary for
frames and which will house
some of the most sophisticated
and modem equipment for eye
care.
“We are highly pleased that
Dr. McDaniel has chosen Kings
Mountain as the site for his new
clinic and welcome him to Kings
Mountain'’, said Mrs. Alex
ander. Mrs. Alexander, and her
husband, Charles L. Alexander,
former Kings Mountain
postmaster, recently opened
Kings Mountain Professional
Park which also houses offices
for Dr. John Brooks, allergy
specialist, and for Alexander
Realty. Mrs. Alexander confirm
ed that a pediatrician is also
looking at the offices with an eye
toward locating in Kings Moun
tain.
Dr. McDaniel, 27, has been
associated with his brother,
James McDaniel, Jr., in the
operation of Maiden Eye Clinic
. since June 1979. Their father.
James McDaniel of Gastonia, is
formerly of Kings Mountain and
was associated with Durham
Life insurance Co. in this area
for many years. “We have many
roots in this area”, said Dr.
McDaniel,” and look forward to
making Kings Mountain our
home.”
Dr. McDaniel was graduated
from Gastonia’s Ashbrook High
and completed his
undergraduate work at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and took his op
tometry training at Southern
California College of Optometry.
He is married to the former
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GROUNDBREAKING — Kings Mountain
Mayor John Moss, left, and L.E. Hiimant, presi-
dont of tho Kings Mountain Hospital Board of
Trustoos, brook the ground Friday for the $5.5
million expansion of Kings Mountain
Hospitol. County Commissioner lack Palmer,
Hospital Administrator Grady Howard ond
other members of the Board of Trustees look
on in the background.
and hospital for “having the for
titude to do what you are doing.
The addition will help Cleveland
County have one of the best
medical facilities in North
Carolina.”
Plans call for all newly-
constructed buildings to be com
pleted first and renovation of the
existing facility to come later.
Much of the east parking lot will
be lost and the main entrance to
the grounds will eventually be
from Sims Street.
I Renovations include conver-
Kelli Harry
Out Of Coma
The breathing tubes in Kelli
Harry’s throat prevent her from
speaking but she mouthed
‘Mama” and Maria Harry says
her young daughter is out of the
13 and one-half week coma in
which she has been near death in
Charlotte Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Harry said that Kelli has
responded well to treatment over
the past several days. “We’re
very excited and we have a long
way to go and, of course, it will
be a day or two before Kelli is
able to speak to us but we’re
very encouraged.”
Philip Harry, Kelli’s father,
was sharing the good news to
Grover relatives, including his
mother, Mrs. B.A. Harry, and
Maria Harry called Grover
School Monday morning about
10:30 to relate the progress
report.
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ting first floor areas to private
rooms with toilet and shower
facilities, a modernized obstetrics
department with two private
labor rooms, an expanded
recovery room and renovation
of many departments in the ex
isting building.
General contractor is L.P.
Cox of Concord. Electrical con
tractor is Port City Electric of
Mooresville, mechanical con
tractor is Sanders Brothers of
Gaffney and plumbing contrac
tor is D&B Constructors of
Photo by Gory Stewart
Morganton. Architect is Odell
Associates of Charlotte and con
sultant is James Hamilton of
Greenville.
Members of the Board of
Trustees are Hinn^, president;
John L. McGill, vice president;
J.C. Bridges, secretary and Fain
Hambright, Eoline Hord, Joseph
L. Lee 111, Carl F. Mauney, N.F.
McGill Jr., Margaret Meeks,
Marilyn Neisler, William Orr
and Thomas A. Tate.
Services Held Sunday
For Mike Ledford, 40
Funeral services for Michael
Theodore Ledford, 40, of Route
2, who died suddenly Friday
afternoon at 5:30 p.m. of an ap
parent heart attack, were con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 3
p.m. from Central United
Methodist Church of which he
was a member.
His pastor. Rev. Ivan
Stephens, officiated at the rites,
assisted by Rev. Clyde Bearden,
pastor of First Baptist Church,
and interment was in Bethlehem
Baptist Church Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Tom
Gilbert, Joseph Greene, Bob
Byers, Philip Wright, Jeff
Gilbert and Paul Dover.
A Kings Mountain native,
Ledford was son of William
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MICHAEL T. LEDFORD
Funeral Services Held
For Emmett Ross, 67
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proMnts koys to th* now Kings Mountain Eyo
Clinic to Dr. Dorid R. McDoniol ol Maidon
Photo by Lib Stowort
who plcms to opon oiitcM in Proiouionol Pork
May 1.
Funeral services for Emmett
Edison Ross, 67, of Route 1,
who died Wednesday afternoon
in Gaston Memorial Hospital at
Gastonia, were conducted Fri
day afternoon at 3 p.m. from
Linden Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church of which
he was a member, interment
following in Kings Mountain’s
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Dr. W. Harris Blair, assisted
by Rev. Clyde Bearden, of
ficiated at the final rites.
Mr. Ross was a native of
Gaston County, son of the late
Francis and Mary Green Ross.
He was a retired textile
employee and was married to the
former Mabic Smith. A Chapter
Dad for Kings Mountain Order
of Demolay for 20 years, he was
a past patron of Kings Mountain
Chapter 123, Order of the
Eastern Star, and had been ac
tive in Fairview Masonic Lodge
in Kings Mountain for 31 years.
He retired from Sadie Cotton
mills, Inc. with 44 years of ser
vice with the last 20 years in
supervision. He was a deacon in
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EMMETT ROSS