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14051
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Park grew up on a farm near Dobson in Surry County and graduated from North Carolina State University in 1930. After holding several different jobs, he began building a communications consortium in 1961. By 1977 he reached the FCC's then twenty-one station limit. He was also buying up newspapers. Today he owns twenty-four dailies, forty-seven weekly, semi-weekly and \"shopper\" papers. Circulation for all the papers is over 600,000.
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35201
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John Byrd’s examination of ceramic assemblage from the Davenport site, located in Bertie County along the Pamlico River, proposed possible similarities between those ceramics and three others gathered in Northeastern NC. Temporal patterns in paste temper and surface were used to determine similarities. From his assessment of the Davenport data, which uncovered a ceramic series deposited earlier than expected, Byrd proposed that the cultural-historical framework standard for these ceramic series needed to be refined.
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24411
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The face of manufacture in Winston-Salem is changing, especially since most of the business in the city is based on the tobacco industry. This article discusses how businessmen helped the city’s growth potential by making improvements to the Super Block.