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12171
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Charles E. Zeigler is President/Chairman and CEO of Public Service Company of North Carolina. The company supplies natural gas to about 160,000 industrial, commercial, and residential customers in eighty-one communities around the state. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in the Businessman in the News section.
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12172
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Major conventions and business meetings generate over $17 billion into the economies of cities and towns across the country. In North Carolina similar meetings pump over $100 million a year into the state's economy. This article provides brief profiles of eighteen towns that have resources to support conventions and meetings, including Asheboro, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Hickory, and High Point.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 41 Issue 8, Aug 1983,
p16-19, 22-23, 39-40, il
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12173
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About two hundred organizations in North Carolina operate as advertising agencies. They range in size from Raleigh's McKinney Silver & Rockett, Inc., with seventy-one employees and annual billings of $34 million, to small specialized ones with one or two employees and billings of a few thousand dollars a year. The article includes a listing of agencies with annual billings in excess of $1 million.
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At the request of a group of Raleigh orthopedic surgeons, William Wendt relocated his company from Macon, Georgia to North Carolina. Orthopedic Services and Van Products Company has been in business since 1954, specializing in products that help the handicapped in reclaiming some mobility in their lives.
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12175
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We the People of North Carolina magazine features John M. Belk of Belk Stores Services, Inc. in the Businessman in the News section. He is the son of William Henry Belk, the company's founder. In addition to his duties with the company, Belk has served four terms as Charlotte mayor, besides performing other civic activities.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 41 Issue 9, Sept 1983,
p11-12, 14, 57-58, por
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12176
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This article presents information from a statewide survey of business programs offered at North Carolina's public and private colleges. Forty-three of the state's forty-six senior colleges offer undergraduate business degrees. Only Duke, the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and Davidson College do not have undergraduate degrees in business.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 41 Issue 9, Sept 1983,
p16-18, 20-23, 59-60, il
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12177
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Located in Raleigh, WCPE-FM is North Carolina's only 24-hour classical music public radio station. In 1973, five college students, seeing a need for this type of programming, began the work necessary to bring the station into being. Five years later, on July 18, 1978, WCPE-FM broadcast its first program. Donations from its listeners support the station.
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North Carolina's most notorious woman was a pirate named Anne Bonney who was as blood-thirsty and cruel as any corsair who ravaged the coast of North America in the early days of the 18th-century. Bonney, who hailed from Cork, Ireland, came to North Carolina with her parents while still a child. Anne Bonney is known for her vicious disposition and impetuous spirit, casting off suitors for a life of piracy.
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In an effort to make service life as attractive as possible to reduce turnover, non-commissioned officers of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg are providing themselves with a million dollar N.C.O club. The Department of the Army has granted a $500,000 loan to finance the project to be paid back in quarterly installments from operating proceeds. Aside from the club with dance floor, lounge, and restaurant, the facility will include a pool, tennis court, nursery, and guest motel units.
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12193
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November of next year will mark the 100th year since the birth of Charles B. Aycock; and if all goes well, it will mark the opening of a new and historic attraction for North Carolinians in the form of his restored birthplace. The architect's drawings of the restored house of North Carolina's great educational governor bring the restoration one step closer to completion. Funds for this project were provided by the General assembly and by a public subscription drive.
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12195
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North Carolina newspaperman Bob Brown crashed the barrier to the national syndicate field with his new cartoon panel entitled \"Science for You.\" The panel capitalizes on the current interest in science, illustrating easy experiments which can be conducted at home. The feature is sold on a once per week basis.
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12199
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The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, February 27, 1776, was a complete victory for the Patriots, contributing to the Revolutionary cause in the South, with the Colony remaining in the Patriot's possession until British invasion in 1780. Some elements among settlers had not been amalgamated by the general population in 1775, chief of these was a large number of Scottish Highlanders, largely from clans MacDonald (Isles) and McLeod. These clans settled in the central part of the Colony between 1765 and 1775.
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The General Assembly of North Carolina ruled that banker ponies, as well as any other wild live stock on Core Bank, must be removed due to beach erosion directly related to the animal's presence. On a similar note, previous bans on cultivation of the indigenous plant, the Venus fly trap, have been lifted. Although still illegal to harvest wild specimens, the Assembly ruled that nurseries and individuals may cultivate the plant on their property for commercial sales.
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Drawing in thousands of tourists to Greensboro, North Carolina's Brick Industry Research House is open for interested spectators. Completely evolved from research and fundamentally new in concept, the medium-priced home adorned with expensive comforts is marketed toward the middle class. Low in maintenance and operating costs, the brick concept house encompasses 1,500 square feet. Plans are available from Brick & Tile Service, Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Founded in 1908 and opened in 1909, East Carolina's Teachers' College, currently known as East Carolina University, opened its doors to the public. By 1921, East Carolina began offering four year degrees and by 1929, the Master of Arts degree was added to the curriculum. The fourth-largest full-fledged college within the state, East Carolina encompasses some 130 acres and continues to attract students nation-wide.
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