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11001
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Garza Baldwin, Jr., group vice-president of Olin Corporation's Fine Paper and Film Group located in Pisgah Forest in Transylvania County, is featured in this month's We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News. The plant, which employs over 3,000, makes a substantial share of all the country's cigarette paper, cellophane, lens tissues, high-quality lightweight printing paper, one-time carbonizing tissue and a variety of other specialty and fine paper products.
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11002
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William B. Umstead is the only Governor of North Carolina to die in office in the 20th-century. He passed away November 7, 1954 and was succeeded by Lt. Gov. Luther H. Hodges.
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11003
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Earle C. Hubbard, Assistant Director of the North Carolina Department of Water and Air Resources, discusses water quality and pollution in the state's waterways. He has worked thirty-five years in health and sanitation work and is considered one of the state's pioneers in the field of stream sanitation and water pollution control.
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11004
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There are hundreds of holes across the state left by sand and gravel mining operations. Many are unsightly and many are dangerous. Few are of any use after the mining is finished, and they also constitute a liability. This articles presents information on applying the techniques of good land use to holes in the ground.
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11005
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This article describes what the U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc. plant, located on the Pigeon River at Canton in Haywood County, has done and is doing to remove its pollution byproducts from the environment. The plant opened in 1908 and is one of the nation's oldest and largest paper mills.
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11006
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Roy G. Sowers, Jr. is Director of the Department of Conservation and Development. He discusses industrial development and the environment and industrial pollution.
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11007
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Aeroglide Corporation, with home office and plant located near Raleigh, is observing its thirtieth year as a designer and manufacturer of machinery for processing, preservation, and storage of foodstuffs. Recently the company received a prestigious award, a \"Big E\" flag, which is a Presidential award presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce to a business that has made outstanding and profitable progress in expanding its foreign marketplaces.
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11008
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Each year in the spring and the fall, the pros of the furniture industry including manufacturing, retailing, design, supply, advertising, public relations and merchandising come to High Point for the Southern Furniture Exhibition. Here over three hundred furniture and accessory manufacturers show their new styles and fashions to merchants from every state and many foreign countries.
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11013
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In 1897, George W. Vanderbilt traveled to the English Isle of Jersey to collect a choice herd of Jersey cattle intended for family use. Today there are 1,500 Jerseys in the herd at Biltmore Dairy Farms, one of the largest and finest dairy herds in the world.
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11014
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North Carolina has a reputation of being the brick-making capital of the world. Pine Hall Brick and Pipe Company, which originated in Pine Hall in Stokes County in 1922, has opened a new, fully-automated plant near Madison. In a seven and one-half hour day, the plant can turn out 100,000 of Pine Hall's famous red-burned shale bricks. Over a year this would represent half of the company production of 100-million bricks.
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11015
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Package Products Company, Inc., located in Charlotte, has been one of North Carolina's ten largest industries for the past thirty-eight years. The company produces a varied line, from roll and cut labels, box wraps, folding cartons, strung tags and trading stamps to flexible packaging such as bags, envelopes, sheets, and pouches.
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11016
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The Bank of Granite is a home-owned bank with headquarters in Granite Falls. John A. Forlines Jr., president of the bank, took over the bank's management in 1954. Total bank resources at that time were just over $1 million. Today's the bank's capital account totals almost $2 million with resources almost $17 million.
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11017
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Waccamaw Bank, with headquarters in Whiteville, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1966. The bank now operates thirty offices in twenty-one communities in eight counties.
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11018
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Carl A. Rudisell and a group of Cherryville businessmen and civic leaders founded Carlton Yarn Mills in 1922. The company is known as a producer of quality sales yarn. In 1964, the company expanded into the sewing thread business through the purchase of the Delta Thread Company.
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11019
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This article traces the development of the Howell Steel Service in Weldon.
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