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10979
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In December 1970, a project of court reform that has taken fifteen years to complete will be fully implemented. For example, in the seventeen Piedmont and western counties that lie within six judicial districts, there will no longer be recorders courts, mayor's courts, justice of the peace courts, or other similar types. Six District Courts will replace them, each with uniform rules of procedure, court costs, and other standardized methods of dispensing justice.
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10980
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Since the summer of 1948, Wyatt and Lillian Taylor of Raleigh have been directing activities at Camp Sea Gull (boys) and Camp Seafarer (girls). The YMCA of Raleigh owns the camps, located three miles apart on the Neuse River in Pamlico County. The Taylors spend their summers supervising the activities of around 2,000 children ages 7-16.
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10984
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The first Kemper Open in North Carolina was played in 1968 at the Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte. This article recounts how the Kemper Insurance Company decided to choose Charlotte as the new home for the tournament.
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10985
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The Bryan brothers, Sampson County natives, are highly successful businessmen in eastern North Carolina. William (Jacksonville) is in banking; Raymond (Goldsboro) construction; Robert (Goldsboro) oil jobberships; Norwood (Fayetteville) automobile dealership; and Bryon (Mount Olive) lumber and wood products.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 28 Issue 7, July 1970,
p11-12, 14, 102-103, por
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10987
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Bessie B. Ballentine, who is retiring at the end of 1970, has been the Executive Secretary of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association since its founding in 1935. At that time she was the only employee; today the association has a staff of twenty. Starting with 160 members, the association's membership currently approaches 1,000. It is known as one of the most successful and effective trade organizations in the state, with much of the credit going to Mrs. Ballentine.
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10988
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Malcolm McLean of Robeson County founded the McLean Trucking Company. In 1956, he created containerized shipping, an approach that revolutionized the world of shipping. His idea was to build a tractor-trailer truck in which the trailer part could be lifted onto a ship or onto railroad cars, without anyone touching the contents, and transported to a particular destination, where it was loaded back onto a truck and delivered to the customers. In 1969, the company, Sea-Land Service, Inc., merged with another North Carolina company, RJ Reynolds.
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10989
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The Thompson-Arthur Paving Company of Greensboro incorporated in 1951. Today it is one of the state's major paving companies. The company's largest project, and one of the largest ever done by one of the state's paving contractors, was paving Interstate 85 from Durham to High Point during the 1950s and early 1960s. The project covered some eighty miles.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 28 Issue 7, July 1970,
p79-80, 123-124, il, por
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10990
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In 1933, C. Grier Beam bought a second-hand truck and began hauling produce and fruit from Florida. In 1937, he purchased Mauney Transfer, merged it with his company, and Carolina Freight Carriers was born. Today the company has grown from one truck to more than 3,000 pieces of equipment and is among the largest trucking firms in the country. Predictions for gross revenues in 1970 are around $60 million.
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10991
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Carolina Tractor and Equipment Company, headquartered in Salisbury, is the dealer of Caterpillar earth moving equipment for western North Carolina. Formed in December 1926, the firm is one of the oldest Caterpillar dealerships in the nation.
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10994
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The G.F. Company, owned by Hugh Morton, his sister Mrs. Agnes Mayer, and John H. Williams, is developing the lower slopes of Grandfather Mountain into a golf and country club. The master plan calls for a ski lodge, with slopes and more residential structures.
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10995
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Valdese, in Burke County, was settled by Waldenses, French-speaking Protestants who came to the area in 1893. Land brought them to North Carolina. For generations farms were divided as children grew to adulthood, but by the late 1800s, the farms were too small for further division. While some continued to farm, others worked to turn the town into a thriving industrial one. Every year their story is retold in the outdoor drama \"From This Day Forward,\" the nation's fourth oldest outdoor drama.
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10996
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In 1957, Robert P. Holding, Sr., who had guided a Smithfield bank, First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company, through three decades of growth, died at age 59. His sons, Frank B., Robert P., Jr., and Lewis R., took over the bank's operations. There were those who doubted the sons were up to the task; however, starting in 1957, with resources of $220 million and 45 branches in 31 communities, the bank, over the next thirteen years, grew to have resources exceeding $650 million and 144 branches in 60 cities and towns.
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10998
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This article provides a brief description of each of the six institutions that make up the University of North Carolina System.
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10999
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This article provides information on how medical services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Center became airborne. A fleet of three airplanes is now available to fly staff members of the Division of Community Medicine from Chapel Hill to any point in the state.
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C. C. Cameron, president and board chairman of First Union National Bank and holder of the same offices in the parent company, First Union National Barcorp, Inc., is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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