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Tech Grad F > MIKE KII Allman Says < Almost Over I "My gardening for the year is almost over." stated J.E. "Bootsie" Allman. as he examined some okra growing in his garden on Jackson Street. "Gardening isn't just a hobby with me." he emphasized. "It's the way we help keep the cost of groceries down," he added with a smile. "I do the work, and my wife Josephine, a Plant No. 2 Loom Falling Supplier, does the gathering and the canning." "Bootsie" enjoys gardening just as he enjoys his work. "I used to live in Fountain Inn. but I left and went to the Army for four years. When I got my discharge, I came to work at Clinton Mills. That was almost 30 years ago," he added proudly. "I never returned to rountain Inn to live again." r? Br HL Y 9 Bl ' - M DR. STEJIIENS inds Lydia Kt^ydtV l^K^r, ^Pf - I l^jj fcj SARD Gardening For Year "You can see we've had a great deal of peas, butterbeans, okra, tomatoes, and onions, but most if it has just about "played out". Anyway, we've filled our freezer, and this will give us plenty of "good eating" this winter." Allman pointed out that the big fig tree in the family backyard belongs almost entirely to Josephine. "I keep it pruned, and she gathers and preserves the figs. When we have preserved all we want, we share the rest with our friends." he added. "We usually have a lots of pears, but this year the wind blew most of the pears off the tree. But that goes along with fruit trees some years there is just more fruit than others." he noted as he inspected the remaining fruit on the trees. Provide Clinto accide - / motor is the fatal < will b _ ^ H J \ _ ? ? turn* a sm ones pres< Job Inte "I'm well satisfied with my job," stated Mike Kinard, Lydia Maintenance Department Machinist Trainee, as he adjusted the Lydia welding machine he was using to perform his welding duties. Mike has been employed at Lydia since June 16, 1975, and is a 1975 graduate of Piedmont Technical College's Machinist Technician's Course. *T Lnrtrt AiiAci A/I in i iui vr uruu unci c^icu 111 machine shop work several years," said Mike. "Clinton High School offered an excel lent course in Machine Shop and I enrolled in it. Then, after graduation in 1973, I decided to attend Tech anc get some additional training s< I could get a good job with ar area company." Mike is already operating the milling machine, lathe, ant also welding at Lydia. " picked up 90% of my welding know how from working oi my race car. This gave mi something to practice on am also saved me some money." L ^ * EVER] Valuable War n Mills Sc jr Hyperte iVhatf kills the most Americans e hts? Crime? Drugs? Cancer?" It might surprise you to know tha much more common killer hypert jre." says Dr. lx>uis Stephens, a V .'hile the National Safety Council' vehicle accidents as the cause of . time, high blood pressure is blai Association as the primary cause Also, though it rarely appears on underlying cause of hundreds t liseases. For example, the AHA s e the major contributor to heart d timated 600.000 Americans in 197J Jowadays. however, there is mc n with high blood pressure can at that is why Clinton Mills has tension screening program for all Stephens noted that a person ure certainly should be made aw: in follow a treatment program cian. rhe blood pressure screening pr ?d up employees who have high hi all number who did not suspect it w ho stand to benefit the most froi sure screening program. resting He races at the Lavonia, Ga. Stock car race track every Saturday night, and even though he doesn't always win, he enjoys the competitive sportsmanship in racing. "I've been racing a little over two years. Right now, I've been going to a lots of races just to learn different lecnmques irom me more experienced drivers," he added. > "You just have to keep on I trying to improve yourself i until you become a regular winner." > When Mike isn't racing or working at Lydia, you'll likely I find him at Eddie Nabor's 1 Texaco station pumping gas or > doing mechanical work. i "This is an easy way to pick up a little extra money. BeJ sides, I've been working here 1 since I was in high school, and I I enjoy the work and also ? meeting the public," continued i the 20-year-old trainee. ? Mike's mother, Mrs. Bernice ^ Kinard, is a Lydia Cloth Room employee. jaaOl ETTE ALLMAN nlng 1N reens msion very year: Highway ,t it is none of these, .ension, or high blood ocal physician. s latest figures show of 55.800 deaths in a ned by the American of 60.000 deaths per death certificates, it >f thousands of other ays that hypertension iseases which will kill j. re and more that a id should do about it. been conducting its riiipiu^yrcs una vrai . who has high blood ire of it in order that as prescribed by his ogram at Clinton has ood pressure including earlier. These are the i\ the company's blood