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11280
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O. F. Stafford is president of Pilot Life Insurance Company of Greensboro. He has been with the company for forty-five years, and Paysour describes his rise through the ranks to become company president.
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12700
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McCurry & Byrd Hosiery Mill of Lincolntown is a successful, if not unorthodox, operation whose ability to make products from salvaged material has given them a reputation as \"buzzards.\" Making men's socks from the inexpensive left-over yarn from other hosiery mills, McCurry and Byrd found a way to weave a quality product at a reduced price.
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12665
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John Foard, president of Kluttz rings of Gastonia, likely knows more about 12-pound Gun-Howitzers than many Confederate and Union soldiers who used them during the Civil War. An old artilleryman himself, Foard has specialized in the study of weapons used during the Civil War. Foard's research included trips to battlefields, as well as obtaining information on the gun from French archives.
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13448
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James A. Hendley of Stanley is an inventor and manufacturer, holding 40 patents, including those on a machine gun belt and armored vest used during World War II. Beginning his career at 14 years old as a textile worker in Connecticut, Hedley moved to the textile firm Talon in Stanley in the 1950s.
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12798
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First suggested after a bank robber escaped from the Guilford County Jail and held up four teenagers at gunpoint, use of dogs within the police force became a recurrent topic. Further initiated by Mayor George Roach, bloodhounds were procured for Greensboro and immediately put to use, successfully tracking two burglars and an automobile thief shortly after their arrival. A progressive move for Greensboro, police dogs will increase the capacity for tracking lost or kidnapped children, disoriented elderly persons, as well as fleeing offenders.
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12942
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North Carolina workers are changing the way they handle patients with mental disabilities. In addition to the four mental hospitals and the three training schools established for mentally defective children, the state has augmented the corresponding budget as well as abolished hospital waiting lists for afflicted patients.
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