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Dr. Arthur Palmer Hudson retired after 26 years as secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Folklore Society. Hudson wrote several books, including the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, and spent many years working as a folklorist.
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Dr. Richard Walser has completed a new biography on George Moses Horton who was known as the slave poet when he lived in Chapel Hill during the 1820s. Horton published three books of poems, POETICAL WORKS, THE HOPE OF LIBERTY, and NAKED GENIUS.
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Lance Inc., of Charlotte faces an increase in prices as the manufacturer makes millions in revenue. Owner George McCormick created the nickel-priced snack packs that are sold throughout the state, such as Choc-o-Lunch, Nip-Chee, and Toestee-Chee. The rise in basic food products such as wheat, sugar, and oil have reduced the profit margin for the nickel packs, though company sales have increased by 12 percent in 1967.
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Cape Lookout Lighthouse is a national tourist attraction in Carteret County and is accessible by sail boat ferry from Harkers Island. The 100-year old tower underwent reconstruction after the Civil War and operates as a visual warning for ships along the dangerous Lookout Shoals.
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Lowes Hardware Inc. has expanded again. The franchise opened in North Wilkesboro in 1946 under Carl Buchan. There are currently 31 outlets in eight states, including a new one that just opened in Belpre, Ohio. The store has plans to open a dozen more outlets in the next two years and to expand further throughout the southeast.
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James Vivian Whitfield, who laid the foundation for an effective program to end pollution of the state's waterways, is The State Magazine's North Carolinian of 1968. His work on behalf of the state was not as a paid employee or professional politician but as a dedicated private citizen. The award was made posthumously.
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Few visitors to the Cape Lookout National Seashore realize that, without the interruption of World War I, the Cape would have become a great commercial harbor. Many, however, may notice the massive breakwater which impounds a vast harbor behind the hook of the Cape and wonder why it was ever built. It was part of a grand scheme by Senator Furnifold M. Simmons to make Cape Lookout a harbor of refuge from both storms and wars, a project that received approval and federal funding, pending an agreement with a railroad company that would ensure transport of supplies, such as coal for fueling vessels, and inland transport of goods that would be shipped into the port. After the war, the reorganized Norfolk Southern Railway refused to renew its promise to build a line to the natural harbor, the Army Engineers refused to resume work based on this decision, and there the matter rests, with only the partially completed great stone breakwater to prove that the National Seashore almost became a great port.
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North Carolina's next to newest lighthouse is Frying Pan Light, which in 1964 replaced the lightship stationed at the end of Frying Pan Shoals. While its location 34 miles offshore from Southport will render it invisible to most vacationers, it is already a familiar sight to the legion if sport fishermen who take charter boats to these fishing grounds. The new light, called a \"Texas tower\" because it is patterned after off-shore oil rigs, is built in 46 feet of water, constructed of steel girders on pilings, and is topped with living quarters, a helipad, and the \"business\" part of the structure including lights, horns, and other equipment aimed at the maintenance of safe passage in the surrounding waters.
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In April 1962, Robert Fowler of Monroe launched a new magazine, CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED, which was a new version of his 1957 publication CIVIL WAR TIMES. Against all odds the magazine succeeded. Its circulation is between 17,000 and 19,000, and it is distributed in every state and most foreign countries. In 1966, Fowler launched another successful magazine, AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED.
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Scattered around the state in public libraries are sets of an unusual work, THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. It was first published in 1901, and for nearly a quarter century the periodical fulfilled its goal of presenting \"Great Events in North Carolina History.\" At the time it was founded by the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, the State Historical Society had not been established, and there was no media responsible for the regular and systematic publication of North Carolina historical material.
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Mrs. Fred W. Morrison, (born Emma Neal McQueen), of Kill Devil Hills and Washington, D.C. is the North Carolinian of 1967. The panel of judges selected her because of her outstanding leadership of the Roanoke Island Historical Association for the past six years.
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The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill. Few people attended the wedding, and eventually Atkins and his bride disgustedly returned to Illinois. The people of the state never forgave Swain and eventually the University closed.
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Sharpe provides an overview of Greene County, discussing such topics as plantation life, Indians, pioneer days, religion, education, and some of the towns.
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Nettie Ruth Floyd of Fairmont is one of the town's most energetic and successful business leaders. She is also blind and is the first North Carolina woman to have a seeing-eye dog. Not many people in the state had seen a dog of this kind, and Nettie and her dog Jill opened the door for other individuals to utilize this service.
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Harry Davis is the director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural History. Davis is a Cape Hatteras native and a UNC graduate. Hired to work for Director H. H. Brimley at the then State Museum, Davis's love for all things interesting led him to include more than just geological information in the exhibits. Davis has helped expand the museum staff from two to nine workers and to create new displays for the 200,000 yearly visitors.
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