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This article details the industrial and agricultural changes happening in Stokes County, adjacent to the Virginia border in western North Carolina. Stokes County is known for growing corn and tobacco and enjoying a thriving lumber industry.
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Combination of harvest festival, county fair, and homely university is the annual Braswell Plantation barbecue which is the main spoke in a unique experiment in farm owner-tenant relations.
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P. H. Rose started out with nothing. Today, he and his associates control a chain of stores that are located in several states and are doing a tremendous business.
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More than 200,000 pounds of fish were caught in a single net off Bogue Banks - the greatest catch in the history of fishing off the North Carolina coast.
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Fox hunting is a sport in which every detail has to be exactly correct, and if it isn't the Master of Hounds proceeds to lay down the law in no uncertain terms.
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In normal times 100,000 dozen pairs a week is the output of Adams-Millis Corporation in High Point. They are the largest manufacturers of medium-priced hosiery in the world.
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At Fairchild Field people gathered to watch the state's first war plane fly over, however they got more than advertised. A squadron of paratroopers led by Lt. J. P. Foley jumped from three planes and descended on the field. Following their landing, the troops proceeded to enact a battle scene, shooting blanks from machine guns and charging the hangars with fictitious hand grenades. The event showcased Burlington's new aviation manufacturing plant which just finished the plane Gunner, highlighted during this event.
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North Carolina's Tomlinson Furniture, is a well-known furniture manufacturing enterprise that stands for a Quaker family that for five generations has lent its strength and integrity to the company's industrial and civic developments.
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For the past several weeks, hundreds of men have been enjoying the duck and goose hunting along the coast, considered some of the best in the country, especially in the Currituck Sound region and at Lake Mattamuskeet.
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A Jacksonville native received great fanfare not only for his stature in the local community but his physical stature as well. He was a successful man; publisher of the Jacksonville News and Views, an active member in Kiwanis Club, Mason, and Elk Lodge, and legislator for Onslow County. All of these accomplishments noteworthy, but he received greater publicity for being only 41 inches tall.
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In early July 1943, Major General Edwin P. Parker demanded the men of his 78th (\"Lightning\") division test their skills at Camp Butner. Major General Simpson supervised the exercises relevant to real-battle scenarios. The men comprised the Twelfth Corps and traveled from Fort Jackson in South Carolina to Camp Butner. The activities lasted three days and tested everything from loading artillery to emergency medical procedures.
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Chatham County's industrial growth was centered in its two largest cities, Siler City and Pittsboro. Siler City boasted: a hosiery mill, feed mill, Hadley-Peoples Manufacturing produced yarn, Oval Oak Manufacturing was the largest producer of washboards, lumber companies, and furniture manufacturers. In Pittsboro the established industries were: Odell Manufacturing Company spun cotton yarn and Chatham Manufacturing Company made labels sewn into clothes.
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One of Orange County's more historical towns, Hillsborough, also nurtured industrial growth just outside its city limits. There were three large cotton mills located near Hillsboro, Belle-Vue, Eno, and Walker Brothers. Kennedy Lumber Company operated four miles north of Hillsboro in Yanceyville. Lumber company owner G. C. Kennedy also ran a nearby meat packing plant called Piedmont Packing Company. Another town near Hillsboro, Efland, claimed two industrial endeavors; Efland Milling Company produced flour and animal feed and an excelsior plant.
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J.A. Jones Construction Company of Charlotte, North Carolina has built military camps, including buildings, roads, sewers, railroad side-tracks, churches, recreation halls, barracks, electric lighting, and more all over the state.
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Raleigh-Durham businessmen decided a larger airport was necessary and founded the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority. In 1942, with the impending war, the Government took control of the airport's construction dissolving the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority and routing service aircraft flying over to other stops. In 1943, 40 officers were stationed there headed by Captain James P. Schick.
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